Posted: 8:29 PM Last week I posted a week long series of articles from the Heritage Foundation discussing President Obama’s health care plan. I received several comments regarding those articles. At least one viewer questioned whether WYMT was biased.
Posted: 10:07 AM Secretary of State Trey Grayson is my guest Monday October 26th on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition. Grayson is seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. What would you like to ask the Trey Grayson? I’ll use some of you questions when I sit down with the Secretary of State to tape the show Tuesday morning.
Posted: 9:54 PM Texas Congressman Kevin Brady says the American public is buying the President’s “myths” when it comes to health care and economic recovery. Brady says,"Government interference drives costs up, not down." Watch the address here.
Updated: 9:50 PM President Barack Obama has his sights set on the health insurance industry as he makes another pitch for his overhaul. Watch his weekly address here.
Updated: 2:31 PM Here is the fifth and final part in a week long series from the Heritage Foundation focusing on President Obama’s health care plan.
I’ve already received several comments regarding the series. I’ll post all of those opinions next week.
Updated: 11:18 AM The head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the Climate Bill will result in job losses for people working in industries that rely on fossil fuels like coal.
Posted: 6:41 PM The House voted today to allow suspected terrorist at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to U.S. soil to stand trial. Congressman Rogers isued some blistering comments on the House floor. You can watch his speech here.
Updated: 6:14 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to hammer away at the Democrat’s health care plans. Watch his Senate floor speech here.
Posted: 6:50 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the health care plan approved today in committee is “not what the vast majority of Americans would consider reform.” Listen to his Senate floor speech here.
Updated: 5:40 PM Yesterday I posted a link to a week long series on Heritage discussing President Obama’s health care plan. Here is part two. I would like to hear your thoughts.
Posted: 1:55 PM Republican Senator Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill. Snowe is breaking with her party on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priority. .
Updated: 11:19 AM State Attorney General Jack Conway is my guest Monday, October 19th on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition. The Louisville attorney is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. What would you like to ask the Jack Conway? I’ll use some of you questions when I sit down with the Attorney General to tape the show later this week.
Posted: 5:56 PM A new report suggests the Senate’s health care legislation will cost American families thousands of dollars more each year. The study commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans projects the average family of four will pay $1,700 a year more beginning in 2013. Premiums for a single person will go up $600.
Updated: 6:47 PM A Senate Republican says taking $500 billion from the Medicare program to help cover the cost of health care reform is unfair to senior citizens. Watch the GOP week address here.
Posted: 6:10 PM President Obama says he’s seeing an “unprecedented consensus” building to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Watch his weekly address her.
Posted: 10:07 PM The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a 10-year, $829 billion dollar health care plan. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell pedicts it will "never see the light of day."
Posted: 7:40 PM President Barack Obama says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems. Meanwhile others are asking, "He won, for what?"
Posted: 1:45 PM Christmas is still more than two months away but the debate over the “true” meaning of the holiday is already heating up.
Check out this latest Stoplight video from Focus on the Family’s Stuart Shepard.
Updated: 11:55 AM Harlan is the only county in the state without a major four-lane highway. Leaders in my hometown want the project to start with widening the road from Harlan to Pineville. A move most will agree is vital to the county’s economic future.
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- The Metro-North commuter rail line says crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals damaged in a derailment and crash in Connecticut.
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- The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.
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- Russian NTV television is reporting that the U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying and ordered to leave the country has flown out of Moscow.
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- South Korea has deployed dozens of Israeli-made precision guided missiles on islands near a western sea boundary disputed by North Korea.
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- The Kentucky State Police have confirmed that one man is dead and another remains at UK hospital after shots were fired in Owsley County Saturday night.
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- A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news."
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- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June.