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Bill Straub: Only one three-digit number matters when all is said and done, 270 Electoral College votes

October 29, 2020October 28, 20201

It’s time, ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages, to delve into the fascinating world of numbers, one digit…

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Bill Straub: Duplicity, duplicity, duplicity, thy name is Mitch — and all for party over country

October 22, 2020October 21, 20202

Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has been playing the voters of the Commonwealth for suckers for most of the…

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Bill Straub: McConnell was punched out in the debate with clear-winner McGrath; will it make a difference?

October 15, 2020October 14, 202010

The most provocative, and therefore most interesting, moment in Monday’s televised debate pitting Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell against…

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Bill Straub: Kentucky, like many other states, needs stimulus package from the Feds but it’s not in sight

October 8, 2020October 14, 20200

It’s fair to say, seven months in and counting, that the COVID-19 pandemic has not been at all kind to…

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Bill Straub: On the way to discovering who we really are and want our country to be, stumble onto Nov. 3

October 1, 2020September 30, 20202

The time has come to give the devil his due. President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka…

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Bill Straub: A pox on the Republic, rest in peace RBG, but word and honor don’t count in this game

September 24, 2020September 23, 20204

Okay, let’s agree that President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom,  has…

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Bill Straub: Who to believe? New stimulus package (choose one: does, does not) look promising

September 17, 2020September 16, 20204

It was Sen. George Aiken, a Republican from Vermont, who suggested in the fall of 1966 that the United States…

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Bill Straub: Overseeing destruction of the planet, president declares he is great environmentalist

September 10, 2020September 9, 20205

With all the attention being afforded his derisive comments aimed at military personnel, his abject failure to address the COVID-19…

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Bill Straub: ‘The time for change is now,’ and yes the fine young men of UK are talking about racism

September 3, 2020September 2, 20200

Kentucky has a problem. It’s a problem that devastates the entire nation, for sure, and the Bluegrass is no exception….

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Bill Straub: Don’t assume, don’t assume, don’t assume; presidential race undecided in very bad year

August 27, 2020August 26, 20206

I was a 15-year-old high school student in 1968, the year often cited as the worst in modern history, if…

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Bill Straub: Truth or lie? Well, it’s probably a lie if the President says it — and James Comer believes

August 20, 2020August 19, 20201

President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom, is notorious for anyone of…

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Bill Straub: Where is the Senate traditionalist now? Could he be the Emperor with no Clothes?

August 13, 2020August 12, 20203

After what seems like centuries masquerading as the grand wizard of the U.S. Senate, a man whose ingenious strategies and…

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Bill Straub: Jobless wait nervously while McConnell dawdles on the unemployment supplement they need

August 6, 2020August 8, 20206

More than 30 million jobless workers – including about 140,000 in Kentucky – will soon find that their unemployment checks…

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Bill Straub: Rand Paul objects to Trump’s Gestapo but then wants Dr. Fauci to be more optimistic

July 23, 2020July 22, 20201

In The Sound of Music, that wholesome hash of low-brow entertainment produced on both stage and screen, a waddle of…

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Bill Straub: Leave it to Mitch to make terrible situation unbearable, and welcome to McConnell World

July 16, 2020July 15, 20201

With the Covid-19 juggernaut sweeping across the nation, sidestepping the federal government’s thus-far paltry efforts to rein it in, you…

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Bill Straub: Art and history, statues and reality — removing any offending art does not change the past

July 9, 2020July 8, 20203

A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid to view Picasso’s Guernica,…

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Bill Straub: Amy McGrath has won nomination to challenge Mitch McConnell; what will she do with it?

July 2, 2020July 6, 20204

So, now that Amy McGrath has won the Democratic nomination to challenge Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell in the…

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Bill Straub: Will McConnell maintain majority leader status, even if he defeats his Democrat opponent?

June 25, 2020June 24, 20202

To the vast relief of a grateful but beleaguered nation, Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell, has made it clear…

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Bill Straub: Georgia Davis Powers represents all that should be celebrated by a statue in Capitol Rotunda

June 18, 2020June 19, 20204

Unless you’re a devotee of Turner Classic Movies – I plead guilty – you’ve probably never come across Judge Priest,…

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Bill Straub: It’s the autocratic way — using (or threatening) military force against U.S. citizens

June 11, 2020June 10, 20202

The nation dodged a bullet, figuratively and, perhaps, literally, this week when President Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka…

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Bill Straub: Quite a pair. As Trump disintegrates, McConnell just keeps digging grave for democracy

June 4, 2020June 3, 20202

America’s Il Duce, one Donald John Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom, in MacArthur-returns-to-the-Philippines…

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Bill Straub: Be prepared, ‘fanning the flames and condemning the fire’ has just gotten started

May 28, 2020May 27, 20200

There was some strange fruit hanging from a tree on the grounds of the state Capitol in the hours before…

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