The best thing that can be said about both these, ah, contests is that all the money will be kept in the state.

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Although he shied away from the tag of being a “pioneer,” that’s what McAnulty was. His friends crossed racial, social, and economic lines. After his appointment to the Supreme Court, Bill conceded that he hoped African-American lawyers who aspired to be judges “will understand that the door is open and they are able, like any other judge or lawyer, to enter.”

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He stopped eating and his once strong body wasted away. Everybody gave up on him except his wife, Katie.

And, of course, his God.

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The lesson – the Fletcherites apparently were absent the day it was taught in school — was that instead of trying to eliminate the alcohol industry, the government was better off legalizing it, taxing it, and regulating it. It’s the same, of course, with tobacco and gambling.

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But, typically, when the Fletcherites can’t win in the arena of ideas, they resort to the gutter of gossip, innuendo, and character assassination.

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Beshear said he will implore current office-holders to post his Commandments immediately. He personally will present a copy to Governor Fletcher and read them to him at a news conference in the Rotunda, the same site where Fletcher pardoned 15 members of his administration who were implicated in the state merit-system hiring scandal.

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Judging by the scorn they heaped on Fletcher and the other wooden figures who sat on the Republican side of the state, the people are tired of having their intelligence insulted. They are more enlightened than Fletcher and his consorts seem to believe. Their message, loud and clear, was this: Fear and ignorance don’t live here anymore.

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