Bill Straub: Where should the public invest its faith? Trust has always been the American way
The late Jimmy Breslin, my hero, said it succinctly: “You’re supposed to be despised.” Breslin was, of course, referring to…
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Bill Straub: Ugliness joins with falsehoods to come out in open, revealing McConnell’s disdain for Obama
It’s no secret that Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has long looked upon former President Barack Obama with the…
Bill Straub: Despite terrific failures, Trump’s possible re-election cannot really be underestimated
To quote the late, great Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?” Before us is the president of the United States, one…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell, known for putting party before country, does it again over ‘blue state bailouts’
In 1975, facing an excruciating financial crisis, the City of New York under Democratic Mayor Abraham Beame, looking bankruptcy squarely…
Bill Straub: Kentuckians excel at picking racehorses and UK ballgame spreads, not so much DC reps
Kentuckians over the decades have exhibited a great knack for picking the exacta at Keeneland and coming down on the…
Bill Straub: Some judges shouldn’t be considered for quick advancement, and Justin Walker is one
What, Pigmeat Markham wasn’t available? Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell, fulfilling his primary duty as consigliere to an addled…
Bill Straub: The jig is up and nearly everyone can see president’s coronavirus failure except Trump himself
The time has arrived, as W.C. Fields once sagely noted, to grab the bull by the tail and face the…
Bill Straub: Saying whatever is necessary to assure their legends for a place in history; it’s all in the spin
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has dished out some doozies during his time in the District of Columbia and…
Bill Straub: A very good case can be made for mail-in ballots, but not everyone wants more voter turnout
When he hasn’t been fulminating over governmental overreach in addressing the coronavirus crisis or gnashing his teeth into dust over…
Bill Straub: There’s cringe-worthy and there’s cringe-worthy; in fact, these amazing actions are a pandemic
One of the most cringe-inducing moments amidst the chaos surrounding the coronavirus pandemic came last week when, during a meeting…
Bill Straub: Good ideas come and go — but for the Equal Rights Amendment, it’s an idea long past due
It was Victor Hugo who claimed “nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come,’’ yet here we…
Bill Straub: When enough is really enough, whenever that may be, there’s always the November ballot box
When is enough, finally, enough. That essentially is the question that will be posed to voters of Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell has been called out, however gently; the permanent stain is failure
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has spent 36 long years in the nation’s capital splitting asunder a once great…
Bill Straub: A look at Kentucky’s presidential primary May 19; R choice sure; D in the air, picking Sanders
As usual, this year’s presidential primary in Kentucky could be another case of closing the corral gate after the horse…
Bill Straub: Does the Trump cult even remember when they first sold out? Does Rob Portman?
This is a column written more in sorrow than anger, stealing a reference from Shakespeare, about a man who once…
Bill Straub: Something isn’t exactly clear; layers of wrongdoing were peeled back, facts didn’t matter
When Stephen Stills penned the lyrics to “For What It’s Worth,’’ declaring, “There’s something happening here but what it is…
Bill Straub: Which side are you on? Who you going to believe? Sounds like the start of a sad song
There’s an old labor song emanating out of the Harlan County Wars of the 1930s, popularized by the great Pete…
Bill Straub: Making a hash of impeachment hearings — and of country; thanks McConnell, Barr and Paul
It’s no secret that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has made a hash of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald…
Bill Straub: The whole world is watching the ‘dive,’ but that’s the way it goes in McConnell’s world
America hasn’t witnessed a dive like this since Sonny Liston kissed the canvas after that infamous “phantom punch’’ from a…
Bill Straub: Sanctuary Cities — now, is this really the No. 1 problem facing a state like Kentucky?
It’s no secret that Kentucky, sadly, has been a bottom feeder among the states for so long that it swims…
Bill Straub: ‘Spoils system’ on full display as judges with questionable qualifications get appointments
It was Sen. William L Marcy, assessing some of the questionable appointments rendered by President Andrew Jackson back in the…
Bill Straub: Prisons bursting at the seams, nonviolent prisoners deserve pardons; devil in the details
Let me put my cards on the table: I am one of those people who would rather see 100 guilty…