
Bill Straub: McConnell relents on ‘President-elect Biden’ but his Ky. Senate colleague cause problem
Is there a more appropriate cover boy for the modern Republican Party – that toxic conglomeration of fabulists, conspiracy mongers,…
Is there a more appropriate cover boy for the modern Republican Party – that toxic conglomeration of fabulists, conspiracy mongers,…
Sen. Rand Paul is laboring furiously these days to attract attention to his consistently curious views. The effort comes at…
Abbott and Costello – a grand remedy for the COVID-19 blues, by the way – used to perform a routine…
As if running up the score on an overfunded and overrated Democratic opponent wasn’t sufficient, supporters of Senate Majority Leader…
The world this year is justly celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. One of the pieces one is likely…
To quote former President Gerald Ford, “our long, national nightmare is over.” Well, almost. With the vote totals dwindling down…
It’s time, ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, to delve into the fascinating world of numbers, one digit…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has been playing the voters of the Commonwealth for suckers for most of the…
The most provocative, and therefore most interesting, moment in Monday’s televised debate pitting Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell against…
It’s fair to say, seven months in and counting, that the COVID-19 pandemic has not been at all kind to…
The time has come to give the devil his due. President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka…
Okay, let’s agree that President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom, has…
It was Sen. George Aiken, a Republican from Vermont, who suggested in the fall of 1966 that the United States…
With all the attention being afforded his derisive comments aimed at military personnel, his abject failure to address the COVID-19…
Kentucky has a problem. It’s a problem that devastates the entire nation, for sure, and the Bluegrass is no exception….
I was a 15-year-old high school student in 1968, the year often cited as the worst in modern history, if…
President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom, is notorious for anyone of…
After what seems like centuries masquerading as the grand wizard of the U.S. Senate, a man whose ingenious strategies and…
More than 30 million jobless workers – including about 140,000 in Kentucky – will soon find that their unemployment checks…
In The Sound of Music, that wholesome hash of low-brow entertainment produced on both stage and screen, a waddle of…
With the Covid-19 juggernaut sweeping across the nation, sidestepping the federal government’s thus-far paltry efforts to rein it in, you…
A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid to view Picasso’s Guernica,…