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Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell shows contempt for his own voters with cavalier response to Medicaid cuts

June 27, 2025June 26, 20250

Sen. Mitch McConnell, heading for the last round-up in his seemingly endless upper chamber tenure, is showing his true colors….

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Big Beautiful Bill does not improve care for 1.3M Kyians on Medicaid

June 20, 2025June 20, 20250

The Kentucky Hospital Association, insists it is “dedicated to sustaining and improving the health status of the citizens of Kentucky.”…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s use of National Guard, Marines in LA is far from ‘American exceptionalism’

June 13, 2025June 12, 20250

WASHINGTON – From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Santa Monica, the Marine Corp is now fighting President-cum-Dictator…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Thomas Massie, Rand Paul prove strange bedfellows in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ row

June 6, 2025June 5, 20250

With apologies to the late, great James Agee, let us now praise infamous men. There’s nothing much for Kentuckians to…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will do anything but ‘Make America Great Again’

May 30, 2025May 29, 20250

Rep. Andy Barr has, predictably, gone all Sponge Bob Square Pants happy, happy joy, joy over House passage of the…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Amid cuts to FEMA, it remains to be seen if Trump will walk his talk on disaster aid

May 23, 2025May 22, 20250

Kentucky, destined by its geographic positioning and global climate change — a verboten subject owing to the Commonwealth’s unyielding devotion…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: New book explores Biden’s decline, suggesting a look in the mirror

May 16, 2025May 15, 20250

The legendary Jerry Garcia, founder and lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, had a side project during his tenure with…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Like a lemming to the sea, Andy Barr blindly follows Trump off trade war cliff

May 9, 2025May 8, 20250

Plummeting cargo shipments, empty ports, declining trucking volumes, major retailers warning about empty shelves. All that and much more is…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Do Rand Paul’s forays outside D.C. mean Oval Office aspirations? Time will tell…

May 2, 2025May 1, 20250

WASHINGTON – Whither Rand Paul. The Republican senator from Bowling Green has attracted considerable attention recently for his objections to…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Andy Barr — in a surprise to no one — enters senate race by pandering to Trump

April 25, 2025April 24, 20250

Rep. Andy Barr possesses a political attribute so remarkable he hopes to parlay it into a seat in the U.S….

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Opinion – Bill Straub: ‘Nascent climatologist’ Robert Stivers all-in on Trump’s embrace of king coal

April 18, 2025April 18, 20251

WASHINGTON – Meet Robert Stivers, attorney, president of the Kentucky State Senate and nascent climatologist. Stivers, a Republican from Manchester,…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s ‘perfect strategy’ for the country is America, 1984 version

April 11, 2025April 10, 20250

President-cum-Dictator Donald Trump sent the American economy – more accurately, the world economy – into a tailspin last week by…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Tariffs are taxes — and Trump’s hefty ones are fueling fears of recession

April 4, 2025April 3, 20250

In a weird sort of way, President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump operates like a jazz musician – he keeps making things…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr, Comer avoid tough questions, turn tail and run from own constituents

March 28, 2025March 27, 20251

Congressmen Andy Barr and Jamie Comer are pissed off… at their constituents. The lawmakers, Barr, R-Lexington, and Comer, R-TheFrankfortLoop, are…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: DEI is about a level playing field — and is a lost cause worth fighting for

March 21, 2025March 20, 20253

It was the great defense attorney Clarence Darrow who was credited with positing that lost causes are the only ones…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Thomas Massie, brushing aside Trump’s threats, stands ground in true ‘Massie’ fashion

March 14, 2025March 13, 20250

Rep. Thomas Massie is the sort of guy who drives the wrong way down a one-way street simply because he…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Wannabes lining up to replace McConnell and advance American un-exceptionalism

March 7, 2025March 7, 20250

As Sen. Mitch McConnell bids adieu to a national scene he has managed to muck up over the past 40…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Guthrie’s dilemma — finding national health care system that serves everyone

February 28, 2025February 27, 20251

Rep. Brett Guthrie is on the spot. As the newly installed chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell is stepping down, leaving mixed legacy — and a sad one

February 21, 2025February 20, 20250

Mitch McConnell is hanging it up. Thursday, on the occasion of his 83rd birthday, McConnell, R-Louisville, took to the floor…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: It didn’t take long to get on path to American unexceptionalism

February 14, 2025February 13, 20254

It didn’t take long, a couple days, really, before President Donald J. Trump and his core of lickspittle worshipers entered…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell may be a sneaky, amoral fraud… but he’s our sneaky, amoral fraud

February 7, 2025February 6, 20250

Sen. Mitch McConnell obviously is not a robust fellow at the age of 82 and recent incidents at least suggest…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Enter Kentucky’s Andy Barr, being ambitious and currying favor with Lord of Mar-a-lago

January 31, 2025January 30, 20252

Sycophancy runs as wild in Washington DC as the wildfires in Los Angeles and the time-honored practice is being pursued…

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