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  • Colonel Harland Sanders

    09/08/2025 5:25:15 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 93 replies
    Biography ^ | 4/24/25 | Biography
    Who Was Colonel Harland Sanders? At the age of 40, Harland Sanders was running a popular Kentucky service station that also served food—so popular, in fact, that the governor of Kentucky designated him a Kentucky colonel. Eventually, Sanders focused on franchising his fried chicken business around the country, collecting a payment for each chicken sold. The company went on to become the world's largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sanders died in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 16, 1980.
  • Rand Paul Slams Trump Administration Over Strike on Venezuelan Drug Boats: “Are We the World’s Policemen?”

    09/04/2025 7:15:40 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 119 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jim Hoft
    Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has once again raised eyebrows by publicly questioning President Trump’s latest show of military force, this time over a Venezuelan drug vessel blown to pieces in the Caribbean. The Gateway Pundit reported in August that Trump ‘secretly’ signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to start using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels. The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels. This means that US troops could find themselves in countries like Mexico battling the Sinaloa Cartel, for example. As TGP readers...
  • Former Sheriff’s Wife and Daughter Deny Any Contact With Judge He Allegedly Murdered

    09/04/2025 9:55:29 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    DNYUZ ^ | September 4, 2025
    A Kentucky judge who was allegedly killed by a local sheriff didn’t have a relationship with the county’s top cop’s daughter, according to new grand jury testimony. Former Letcher County, Kentucky Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines allegedly shot and killed former Kentucky 47th Judicial District Judge Kevin Mullins on Sept. 19, 2024. The shooting happened following a lunch outing that included Mullins and Stines, officials said. Video earlier obtained by Fox News Digital shows Stines entering Mullins’ chambers, where he asked everyone else to leave the room so he could speak with the judge privately. The pair talked for around seven...
  • Records show ex-Kentucky sheriff charged in judge’s killing fought jail staff after shooting

    09/04/2025 6:08:35 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 20 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Sep. 3, 2025 | Associated Press
    A former Kentucky sheriff charged with killing a county judge remained in an “active state of psychosis” days after the shooting and battled with jail staff, who had to use pepper spray on him, according to recently filed court documents. Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines is charged with killing District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers nearly a year ago, shocking the small eastern Kentucky community that twice elected Stines as sheriff. Widely viewed security camera footage from Mullins’ chambers shows a man police identified as Stines pointing a gun and firing at Mullins. The ex-sheriff has pleaded...
  • Student Gave Birth, Stuffed Baby in a Trash Bag and Hid Bag in the Closet

    09/02/2025 9:06:02 PM PDT · by Morgana · 28 replies
    Life News ^ | September 2, 2025 | Steven Ertelt
    A 21-year-old University of Kentucky student and self-styled beauty queen, Laken Snelling, faces serious charges after admitting to concealing her dead newborn’s body in a closet, raising concerns among pro-life advocates about the sanctity of life and the circumstances surrounding the infant’s death. Snelling, a senior studying interdisciplinary disability studies and a member of the university’s competitive cheerleading squad, was arrested on Aug. 27, following the discovery of her deceased newborn. Lexington police responded to a call on Park Avenue regarding an unresponsive infant, where they found the baby “wrapped in a towel inside of a trash bag” in a...
  • Kentucky beauty queen, 21, is arrested for hiding her dead newborn in a closet

    A beauty queen and cheerleader at the University of Kentucky was arrested after giving birth and hiding her newborn's body in a closet. Laken Snelling, 21, was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. Officers with the Lexington Police Department were called to a home on the 400 block of Park Avenue for a report of an unresponsive infant on Wednesday morning, LEX 18 reported.
  • Beshear to appear on Vogue cover as 2028 speculation heats up

    07/21/2025 12:08:07 PM PDT · by DFG · 47 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/21/2025 | Dominick Mastrangelo
    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) will appear on the cover of Vogue as speculation about his political future and potential run for president heat up. Beshear “is the most popular Democratic governor in the country—and he’s achieved this in a state that has become a GOP stronghold,” the news and culture magazine said in an Instagram post promoting its September cover story focusing on the politician. “His elections have all been close, but in each the margin has widened and he continues to win without turning away from the values and priorities of the left,” it added. “Head to the...
  • Laura Loomer: Kentucky US Senate candidate Nate Morris is lying in a new fundraising email, saying he is “Trump endorsed”.

    08/29/2025 9:25:49 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 5 replies
    Laura Loomer on Twitter X ^ | August 29, 2025 | Laura Loomer
    Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Kentucky US Senate candidate @NateMorris is lying in a new fundraising email, saying he is “Trump endorsed”. President Trump has not endorsed a candidate in the Kentucky US Senate race, and this is incredibly deceptive. The email says “your contribution will benefit Morris for Senate”. How can voters in Kentucky trust a candidate if they lie about being endorsed by President Trump? Bad look!
  • Pro-abortion group launches abortion pill ad campaign at gas stations in two states

    08/29/2025 7:44:01 AM PDT · by Morgana · 21 replies
    Live Action News ^ | August 21, 2025 | Kelli Keane
    A pro-abortion “health education” group has launched an ad campaign this month in an attempt to reach women in rural West Virginia and Kentucky. Key Takeaways: * Mayday Health was formed in June 2022 in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Its founders are well-connected in the journalism and financial sectors. * Mayday places billboards and ads in areas where abortion is restricted, under the guise of providing “preventative reproductive health information.” * Its latest ad campaign targets rural women in Kentucky and West Virginia with a series of ads placed at gas stations. The Details: An article...
  • Kentucky judge killed by sheriff ran courthouse like ‘brothel’ — and traded sex for favors at twisted parties: victim

    08/20/2025 4:25:56 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 8/20/25 | Emily Crane
    The rural Kentucky judge gunned down in his own chambers last year ran a twisted sex ring in which young women were coaxed into performing sexual favors just to get out of trouble, one of the alleged victims claims. Tya Adams alleges she was among those caught up in Judge Kevin Mullins’ apparent sex-for-favors scheme that saw him and others in the tiny town of Whitesburg demand sex in exchange for cash, or to get offenders off the hook. Adams told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that Mullins — who was shot execution-style in his Letcher County chambers, allegedly by his longtime sheriff...
  • Nate Morris got his start in politics with Mitch McConnell (chat discussion)

    08/20/2025 3:30:15 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 1 replies
    Vanity / Discussion
    Nate Morris is a textbook "McConnell protégé." And this is not an attack on him for that - if you were an aspiring Republican in Kentucky that's where you went...and the only place to go for awhile - McConnell got the reversal of the Dem stranglehold in motion. Being a Republican was to be lost in the wilderness. McConnell and Nate Morris have been on first name terms over two decades now. His ties to McConnell are why he became a political force in Kentucky and his connections and networking may have helped him in his private sector career as...
  • A Bold Bluegrass Initiative. Kentucky’s HB 4 will restore meritocracy at public universities.

    08/18/2025 10:17:05 AM PDT · by karpov · 4 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 13, 2025 | Gary W. Houchens and Aaron Roberts
    Kentucky’s recent passage of House Bill 4, which eliminates “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs at public universities and colleges, represents a crucial step toward restoring meritocracy, academic freedom, and intellectual diversity to higher education in the Bluegrass State. The bill was passed in the 2025 legislative session over the veto of Democratic governor Andy Beshear, who predictably claimed that its supporters were motivated by “hate.” In fact, HB 4 provides a necessary corrective to years of institutional overreach that has discriminated against students, stifled open inquiry, and punished dissenting voices on campus. The case of Dr. Allan Josephson exemplifies this...
  • Nearly 2,000 Kentucky driver's licenses revoked amid fraud investigation

    08/17/2025 4:12:10 PM PDT · by TheDon · 22 replies
    LEX18 ^ | August 13, 2025 | Karolina Buczek
    Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed that almost 2,000 Kentucky driver's licenses have been revoked following allegations of a fraud scheme involving undocumented immigrants. The governor said 1,985 driver's licenses were discovered during routine reviews of credential applications and have since been revoked. The revoked credentials, if used, would not work at an airport and would be flagged if pulled over at a traffic stop," Beshear said on Wednesday. Beshear addressed the criminal investigation after a news report detailed a former clerk's allegations earlier this week. A former clerk told WDRB News that her co-workers were selling driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants...
  • Killer Drug ‘Designer Xanax’ Is Uncontrolled in Kentucky. Here’s How Officials Want to Change That

    08/15/2025 10:47:49 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    WHIO ^ | August 07, 2025
    Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is urging state leaders to ban bromazolam, an illicit drug linked to dozens of overdose deaths in the Commonwealth last year, according to our news partners at WCPO-TV. Bromazolam, known as ‘designer Xanax,’ is being sold as prescription pills and has proven to be highly potent and lethal, especially when combined with opioids or other depressants. Coleman credits Northern Kentucky law enforcement for alerting him to the threat, stating, ‘You had a very determined leader from your Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force who wanted to put this threat from this synthetic, this designer Xanax, on...
  • Collusion in Kentucky: Mitch McConnell’s Allies Plot to Take Out Trump-Aligned Trash Man Nate Morris

    08/13/2025 7:07:45 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | August 13, 2025 | Matthew Boyle
    Allies of longtime former Senate Majority Leader and outgoing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have been caught colluding in a nefarious plot to take down businessman Nate Morris, the U.S. Senate candidate most aligned with President Donald Trump, in next year’s GOP primary to replace McConnell. There is a fierce multi-way primary going on to replace the retiring McConnell in Kentucky next year, and much to McConnell’s chagrin the race has turned into a referendum against his legacy. It’s so bad for McConnell that the Kentucky GOP, under serious pressure from Morris, abandoned a scheme this weekend to award McConnell the...
  • Video reveals moment $167.3M Powerball winner is tackled, tased after attacking Florida deputy

    08/13/2025 7:36:18 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 33 replies
    nypost.com ^ | August 12, 2025 | Ronny Reyes
    Newly released video captured the moment the winner of a $167.3 million Powerball jackpot got tackled and tased by Florida police after kicking a deputy in the head. Bodycam footage from the April 29 brawl caught James Farthing, 50, booting a Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputy in the head when police arrived at the TradeWinds Resort, in St. Pete Beach, after he allegedly punched a hotel guest in the face, WFLA reported. The deputy was holding another person to the ground when Farthing ran up and kicked him, with resort security rushing in to pin the suspect against the wall and...
  • Whistleblower FIRED After Exposing HUGE SCAM: Multiple Kentucky Driver’s License Branch Employees Secretly Sold Driver’s Licenses To Potentially Thousands of Illegal Aliens For Several Years [VIDEO]

    08/13/2025 6:22:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 34 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Aug. 13, 2025 | Patty McMurray
    Melissa Moorman worked at Louisville’s Nia Center Licensing Branch through Quantum Solutions, a staffing agency contracted by the state to help staff regional offices for 2 years and 3 months before she was fired. Moorman was fired after interviewing with an investigator following her brave testimony about co-workers allegedly secretly selling licenses to illegal aliens for $200 each. The brave whistleblower said the driver’s license scam was taking place between 4-5 times per day for at least two years. According to Moorman, the licenses for illegal aliens scam took place in multiple Kentucky licensing branches. Moorman stepped forward and blew...
  • A New Gold Rush Is Erupting in Wyoming — And It’s All About America’s Deadliest Weapons

    08/12/2025 12:31:55 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | August 12, 2025 | Melissa Ait Lounis
    In a groundbreaking development, the United States has initiated the opening of a new rare earths mine for the first time in over seven decades. This historic project, situated in Wyoming, has the potential to transform the U.S. economy and bolster its national defense. The discovery was documented in a recent economic viability study published by an independent source, which estimates that the Brook Mine holds up to 1.7 million tons of rare earths and critical minerals, with a vast untapped area still to be explored. The mine is poised to significantly reduce America’s reliance on foreign sources of these...
  • Trump Nemesis Is Bringing Epstein Victims to Capitol to Push for Files Release

    08/12/2025 8:45:48 AM PDT · by RandFan · 46 replies
    MSN / The Daily Beast ^ | Aug 12 | Ewan Palmer
    A rebel Republican congressman has invited multiple victims of Jeffrey Epstein to a press conference at the U.S. Capitol as part of a bipartisan push to force the release of legal files linked to the late pedophile. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a thorn in Donald Trump’s side for his frequent objections to the president’s spending bills and foreign policies, said that he and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna will be co-hosting the Sept. 3 conference. The event will feature survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, several of whom “will be speaking out for the first time,”...
  • James Comer Comment Suggests Biden Pardons Were Illegal - Evidence His Committee Is Gathering Could Overturn

    08/12/2025 6:30:19 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    Western Journal ^ | August 11, 2025 | Randy DeSoto
    House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, confirmed Friday that his committee’s review of Joe Biden’s pardons so far calls into question their legality. Biden granted more acts of clemency than any other president in U.S. history.. During just one term, he gave a total of 4,245, which included 4,165 commutations of sentences and 80 pardons. By comparison, Barack Obama issued 1,927 acts of clemency over two terms, and Donald Trump issued 238 during his first term. The vast majority of Biden’s pardons came during his final two months in office.. The pardon for his son,...