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Coming to Kentucky: Creationism Theme Park

Complete with 500-foot Noah's Ark replica

(Newser) - Disneyland, pshaw. Soon the new hot amusement park will be located in Kentucky, and called ... Ark Encounter. The Christian theme park will include, among other attractions, a 500-foot-long Noah's Ark complete with live animals, a Tower of Babel replica, and a re-created first-century Middle Eastern village. "Make no mistake...

Note to Rand: How Do You Spell C-o-m-p-r-o-m-i-s-e?

Battle for Tea Party soul will pit extremists against pragmatists in DC

(Newser) - Eyeglass-doctor-turned-Kentucky-senator Rand Paul faces a massive learning curve in a complicated arena where compromise and strategy is the name of the game, note the Christian Science Monitor . Paul is perhaps the Tea Party's most fervent idealog of any of last night's victors. He doesn't have much of a chance of...

Democrats Keep Senate; Harry Reid Beats Angle

Barbara Boxer, Rand Paul win; Christine O'Donnell, Linda McMahon lose

(Newser) - They may have lost the House, but Democrats will keep control of the Senate, barely. In big blue victories to help seal it, Harry Reid held off Sharron Angle in Nevada, while Joe Manchin won in West Virginia and Barbara Boxer in California. Earlier, Rand Paul (Kentucky), Marco Rubio (Florida),...

'Rand Paul Stomp' Stars in First Ad

So 'scary' it's running after 10pm, say Dems

(Newser) - Smile, Rand Paul bruisers, you're on TV—again! The takedown and head-stompin' of a protester by Paul supporters is starring in its first political ad. But bizarrely, the Democratic Party finds it so "scary" for kids that it's only running after 10 pm, a spokesman tells the Washington Post...

Another Paul Protester Says He Was Manhandled

Jack Conway advertises story to media

(Newser) - Jack Conway’s campaign set up a conference call today, so that one of his supporters could regale reporters with a story about how he, too, was mistreated by Rand Paul supporters outside Monday’s debate. Michael Grossman, 60, claims that while Lauren Valle was being stomped in the head,...

Rand Paul Backer Stomps on Woman's Head

Lauren Valle has 'bit of a headache'

(Newser) - Things are getting ugly out there. A woman protesting against Rand Paul at last night's Senate candidate debate was shoved to the ground where a sneaker-wearing backer of the Kentucky Senate candidate stomped on her head. Lauren Valle, a volunteer for the liberal group MoveOn, is fine, though she did...

State Politics: Hotbed of Sleaze, Booze, Scandal

ABC investigation finds no shortage of sleaze at state level

(Newser) - You hear a lot more about the sleaze in Congress and governors' mansions than the sleaze at the state legislator level, but that's not because of a lack of low-down behavior, an ABC News investigation finds. Five grad students sent to cover a national convention of state legislators in Louisville,...

Rand Paul, Jack Conway Brawl Over 'Aqua Buddha'

Paul calls Conway a 'disgrace,' won't shake his hand

(Newser) - The words “ugly” and “new low” are being tossed around a lot in reports of last night’s Kentucky Senate debate, in which Rand Paul and Jack Conway sparred over a new Conway ad bashing Paul for his alleged “Aqua Buddha” shenanigans. (Background available here and here...

Gunman Killed 5 Over Cold Eggs

Stanley Neace had become increasingly hostile, snapped

(Newser) - The gunman who killed five people and himself in a shooting rampage at a Kentucky trailer park was allegedly set off by the way his wife cooked eggs. Witnesses say that 47-year-old Stanley Neace stormed across lawns in his pajamas, firing repeatedly. "He chased his wife around that Jeep...

Rand Paul Didn't Kidnap Me: Ex-Classmate

It was more like college hazing, she says

(Newser) - The woman whose recounting of a bizarre college experience landed Tea Partier Rand Paul in a heap of controversy is seeking to clarify her story: Paul never kidnapped her or forced her to do drugs. "The whole thing has been blown out of proportion," the woman, who wishes...

Ex Classmate: Rand Paul Kidnapped Me to Do Bong Hits

He was member of 'lewd, sacrilegious' club at Baylor

(Newser) - It turns out US Senate candidate Rand Paul wasn't always a squeaky clean conservative, and once kidnapped a female college schoolmate to pressure her to take pot bong hits, according to the woman. Paul and a pal "blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car,"...

Jeb Bush on 2012: 'I Am Not Running'
 Jeb Bush on 2012: 
 'I Am Not Running' 
HE'S NO 45
Jul 28, 2010 6:57 AM CDT

Jeb Bush on 2012: 'I Am Not Running'

Gives Obama some rare praise on education reform

(Newser) - Jeb Bush was asked about his 2012 ambitions yesterday, and he replied in the starkest possible terms. “I am not running for president,” he told a reporter for WHAS11 in Kentucky. The remark seems pretty offhand, but it’s getting national attention, because of recent chatter about a...

Missing Teen Feared With Man Who Grabbed Her Before

Brittney Kustes was to testify against him, says mom

(Newser) - Police fear a missing teenager is being held by the same sex offender who held her against her will over a year ago. Brittney Kustes, 19, was last seen at her grandparents' pool in Kentucky. She was to testify against Roy Vernon Elwell, 34, next week, according to her mom....

Coal Miners Mock Topless Ashley Judd

Self-described 'hillbilly' actress angers her home state

(Newser) - Kentucky native Ashley Judd irked miners when she spoke out against mountaintop coal mining last month, and now they’re using a topless photo taken for a magazine against her. “Ashley Judd makes a living removing her top, why can’t coal miners?” says the poster, displayed at a...

Rand Paul Pitches Electric Underground Border Fence

Proposal baffles fellow Republicans

(Newser) - Border fence proposals are a dime a dozen among Republican candidates, but Rand Paul's is different: it's underground, and it's electrified. "My plans include an underground electric fence, with helicopter stations to respond quickly to breaches of the border," state the Kentucky senatorial hopeful's website—although Republican officials...

Tax Worker Saves Kentucky Man's Life

Worker calls 911 after man has heart attack during phone call

(Newser) - Few people welcome phone calls from government bean-counters, but for one 60-year-old Kentucky man, that call turned out to be a lifesaver. Department of Revenue employee Natalie Brown, who had called Earl Phillips with a question about his income tax bill, verified his address and called 911 after noticing that...

Rand Paul Not a Certified Doctor, Board Says

Senate candidate says he quit eye doctor organization in protest

(Newser) - Rand Paul, who touts his career as a Kentucky eye doctor as part of his outsider credentials in his campaign for US Senate, isn't certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, his profession's leading group. The Louisville Courier-Journal broke the news Sunday, in what Paul calls "a personal assault...

Rand Paul Opposes Citizenship for Illegals' Babies

He's interviewed by Russian TV

(Newser) - Rand Paul is stirring up controversy again, this time by saying he opposes citizenship for children born in the US to parents who are illegal immigrants. Paul told a Russian TV station in a clip circulating on political websites today that he wants to block citizenship to those children. "...

Rand Paul Bails on Meet the Press

He cancels appearance amid civil rights fallout

(Newser) - Rand Paul's team has found one sure way to make sure he avoids any more trouble in nationally televised interviews: avoid them entirely. Rand has backed out of an interview on tomorrow's Meet the Press, reports the Washington Post's Right Now blog . The move comes after his Rachel Maddow interview...

GOP Must Throw Rand Paul Under the Bus
GOP Must Throw Rand Paul
Under the Bus
OPINION
May 21, 2010 12:02 PM CDT

GOP Must Throw Rand Paul Under the Bus

Civil Rights Act comments could hurt libertarians everywhere

(Newser) - If Republicans are smart, they'll kick Rand Paul to the curb so fast he won't know what hit him. Paul's statements opposing the public accommodations provision of the Civil Rights Act make him absolutely radioactive, argues David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix . “I think that Dr. Paul truly does...

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