Opinion – Bill Straub: ICE, ICE and more ICE — when is enough enough?
Enough is enough. The United States Immigration and Enforcement Agency, better known as ICE, is out of control. It is…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: Kentucky has invested a lot in president/dictator Trump; doesn’t seem to be paying off
This coming Tuesday, Jan. 20, will mark the end of the first year of what is shaping up as the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: There’s much more to Trump’s Greenland obsession than national security
Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, to quote an old Moody Blues song, imagine a time when a United…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Thomas Massie is enjoying a surge of popularity, but beware
In a development that defies all logic — arriving during this strange period in American history that itself defies all…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Listen to the music; its beauty can persevere and perhaps sweep us to better times
Whenever I write this column, and most other times, I have music playing in the background. On this day it’s…
Opinion – Bill Straub: With Trump’s trademark lack of decency on display, his devotees toe the line
WASHINGTON – It would be a serious error to assume that the despicable comments issued by President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump…
Opinion – Bill Straub: It is honestly comedy gold, the hyprocrisy of Jamie Comer
Having thoroughly humiliated himself over the bogus and years long Biden Crime Family™ investigation, Rep. Jamie Comer has now established…
Opinion – Bill Straub: The inept Secretary of War just might be leading us into a war in Venezuela
In assessing the performance of Peter Hegseth, the insidious boob who insists on being addressed as the Secretary of War…
Opinion – Bill Straub: How much more of ‘ugly nation’ status can we possibly take?
To say that Rep. Thomas Harold Massie is exasperating is undisputable. He is the rare politician who actually seems to…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Hypocrisy, double-standards, and outright law-bending — measured in crypto
It’s fair to assume that very few folks in Ludlow or Silver Grove have ever heard of a cryptocurrency kingpin…
Up close, Martha Layne Collins’ challenges and successes as state’s first (and only) woman governor
By Bill Straub NKyTribune reporter WASHINGTON – Martha Layne Collins, Kentucky’s first and, thus far, only woman governor who died…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul shows backbone in recent efforts to kill Trump’s damaging tariff policy
The human farce, aka President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump, offers up the truth so infrequently that anything passing for accuracy from…
Opinion – Bill Straub: How can Americans stand with leader who considers many of them ‘the enemy’
On March 4, 1865, just 36 days before the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, effectively ending the Civil War he sought…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Johnson’s ‘sleight of hand’ in Medicaid funding fight just doesn’t hold muster
House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of those devout Christians who believes it’s okay to lie in service to President-cum-Dictator Donald…
Opinion – Bill Straub: As shutdown drags on, GOP refuses to let truth get in the way of good story
Let’s talk about lying of the political kind. Fabrications, if you’re being fancy, have long held a prominent role in…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Washington’s ‘blame game’ heats up with U.S. government ‘Closed ‘Til Further Notice’
Rep. Jamie Comer has a well-earned reputation for being a nitwit. Having embarrassed himself directing a never-ending series of worthless,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Never missing an opportunity to shake things up, Massie’s Epstein mission plods on
Whatever you might think of him, it’s indisputable that Rep. Thomas Massie possesses a unique talent for shaking things up….
Opinion – Bill Straub: Violence won’t solve our country’s differences, neither will silencing healthy debate
The term “waving the bloody shirt’’ has its origin in the tense, post-Civil War Reconstruction era, used to denounce the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire — a story already being written
Decades from now, an anonymous historian will dig through the rubble while researching his/her magnum opus, The Rise and Fall…
Opinion – Bill Straub: As nation’s public health system crumbles, Kennedy, Paul spew nonsense
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top public health agency, is crumbling like the walls of Jericho…
Opinion — Bill Straub: Is it really possible? Hal Rogers, 87, may face a real race for his long-held seat?
The race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell next year is understandably grabbing the headlines both statewide and nationally, but…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Erstwhile County Clerk Kim Davis may finally have bigoted prayers answered
Kim Davis, once again hiding behind the cloak of Jesus, is stepping up from the bush leagues of bigotry to…