Conservative blog roundup
This week, there's quite a bit to mention regarding Kentucky conservative blogs.
For starters, Conservative Friends, which is usually a preach-to-the-choir-type blog with strong opinions based on weak facts has two posts that give me confidence that DrewB is, deep down, a good person. While Drew had nothing nice to say about Cindy Sheehan, he became saddened and concerned when Sheehan's mother had a stroke, forcing Sheehan to end her "Camp Casey" protest. The comments left by Drew's readers, however, are less kind.
Conservative Edge, meanwhile, continues to play the "Democrats did it, too" game in regard to the Fletcher administration Merit System Hiring investigation. This by itself isn't so noteworthy, but since the Edge deleted a post by its own staff that was critical of this very practice, the repeated practice of it is saddening.
The Edge from August 12 (or at least, that's when I blogged it):
The Edge from August 22:
Doug Petch confides his inner hippie by mourning the loss of Dr. Moog; his inner animal rights advocate with a greyhound rescue post (aren't they great dogs?!); and his inner Hillary Clinton by praising the reformed VA hospital system as a model for civilian healthcare reform. I like Doug Petch.
Eric Wright is about to start his last year of law school. Good luck, Eric. And in continuation with the general centrist move of the Kentucky conservative bloggers this week, Eric kinda-sorta pretty much endorses New Mexico governor (and big-time Bill Clinton buddy) Bill Richardson for President.
For starters, Conservative Friends, which is usually a preach-to-the-choir-type blog with strong opinions based on weak facts has two posts that give me confidence that DrewB is, deep down, a good person. While Drew had nothing nice to say about Cindy Sheehan, he became saddened and concerned when Sheehan's mother had a stroke, forcing Sheehan to end her "Camp Casey" protest. The comments left by Drew's readers, however, are less kind.
Conservative Edge, meanwhile, continues to play the "Democrats did it, too" game in regard to the Fletcher administration Merit System Hiring investigation. This by itself isn't so noteworthy, but since the Edge deleted a post by its own staff that was critical of this very practice, the repeated practice of it is saddening.
The Edge from August 12 (or at least, that's when I blogged it):
But for the sake of the Governor, the Republican Party of Kentucky, and conservative thinkers everywhere, can we drop the arguement that democrats have been doing it for years?
The Edge from August 22:
Here is the complete ethics opinion from the Executive Branch Ethics Commission opinion on Governor Patton's Office of Constituent Services. The undelying investigation which lead to the opinion is not disclosed. But from the opinion, troubling questions have arisen. Least of which is: Why wasn't a grand jury convened to look into whether merit hiring laws were broken?
Doug Petch confides his inner hippie by mourning the loss of Dr. Moog; his inner animal rights advocate with a greyhound rescue post (aren't they great dogs?!); and his inner Hillary Clinton by praising the reformed VA hospital system as a model for civilian healthcare reform. I like Doug Petch.
Eric Wright is about to start his last year of law school. Good luck, Eric. And in continuation with the general centrist move of the Kentucky conservative bloggers this week, Eric kinda-sorta pretty much endorses New Mexico governor (and big-time Bill Clinton buddy) Bill Richardson for President.
posted by Jim Higdon at 1:53 PM
2 Comments:
Our comment on the Findings of the Executive Branch Ehtics Commission findings regarding Patton must be put into context with our story yesterday on the potential constitutional violations now occuring. It's not a "they did it too" defense. It's a 'they were not prosecuted so you are violating the U.S. and Kentuky constitutions by prosecuting us defense". as Justice Palmore put it "There are in fact two wrongs, on being a violation by appellees...the other being the violation of the Constitutions of this state and of the United States.....we find the constitutional right to be of greater importance.....
When reading our site, you shoudl remeber that I am an attorney, and that I present views from a legal perspective. Attorney General Stumbo's office may be engaging in serious violations of the state and federal constitutions. That's news isn't it?
Brian Goettl
Also, we haven't pulled the other story, it scrolled off of our front page and is in archives. We are working on the technical difficulty of letting our archives be accessed by the public.
Finally, you can e-mail us with questions before posting. It may be helpful. Please post a correction to your story.
Brian Goettl
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