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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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Bill Straub: Where should the public invest its faith? Trust has always been the American way

May 21, 2020May 20, 20202

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

May 14, 2020May 13, 20204

It’s no secret that Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has long looked upon former President Barack Obama with the…

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Bill Straub: Despite terrific failures, Trump’s possible re-election cannot really be underestimated

May 7, 2020May 6, 20202

To quote the late, great Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?” Before us is the president of the United States, one…

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Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell, known for putting party before country, does it again over ‘blue state bailouts’

April 30, 2020April 29, 20200

In 1975, facing an excruciating financial crisis, the City of New York under Democratic Mayor Abraham Beame, looking bankruptcy squarely…

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Bill Straub: Kentuckians excel at picking racehorses and UK ballgame spreads, not so much DC reps

April 23, 2020April 22, 20204

Kentuckians over the decades have exhibited a great knack for picking the exacta at Keeneland and coming down on the…

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Bill Straub: Some judges shouldn’t be considered for quick advancement, and Justin Walker is one

April 16, 2020April 15, 20201

What, Pigmeat Markham wasn’t available? Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell, fulfilling his primary duty as consigliere to an addled…

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Bill Straub: The jig is up and nearly everyone can see president’s coronavirus failure except Trump himself

April 9, 2020April 8, 20206

The time has arrived, as W.C. Fields once sagely noted, to grab the bull by the tail and face the…

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Bill Straub: Saying whatever is necessary to assure their legends for a place in history; it’s all in the spin

April 2, 2020April 1, 20201

Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has dished out some doozies during his time in the District of Columbia and…

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Bill Straub: A very good case can be made for mail-in ballots, but not everyone wants more voter turnout

March 26, 2020March 25, 20202

When he hasn’t been fulminating over governmental overreach in addressing the coronavirus crisis or gnashing his teeth into dust over…

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Bill Straub: There’s cringe-worthy and there’s cringe-worthy; in fact, these amazing actions are a pandemic

March 19, 2020March 18, 20200

One of the most cringe-inducing moments amidst the chaos surrounding the coronavirus pandemic came last week when, during a meeting…

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Bill Straub: Good ideas come and go — but for the Equal Rights Amendment, it’s an idea long past due

March 12, 2020March 11, 20201

It was Victor Hugo who claimed “nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come,’’ yet here we…

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Bill Straub: When enough is really enough, whenever that may be, there’s always the November ballot box

March 5, 2020March 11, 20201

When is enough, finally, enough. That essentially is the question that will be posed to voters of Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional…

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Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell has been called out, however gently; the permanent stain is failure

February 27, 2020February 26, 20201

Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has spent 36 long years in the nation’s capital splitting asunder a once great…

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Bill Straub: A look at Kentucky’s presidential primary May 19; R choice sure; D in the air, picking Sanders

February 20, 2020February 19, 20202

As usual, this year’s presidential primary in Kentucky could be another case of closing the corral gate after the horse…

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Bill Straub: Does the Trump cult even remember when they first sold out? Does Rob Portman?

February 13, 2020February 19, 20200

This is a column written more in sorrow than anger, stealing a reference from Shakespeare, about a man who once…

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Bill Straub: Something isn’t exactly clear; layers of wrongdoing were peeled back, facts didn’t matter

February 6, 2020February 5, 20202

When Stephen Stills penned the lyrics to “For What It’s Worth,’’ declaring, “There’s something happening here but what it is…

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Bill Straub: Which side are you on? Who you going to believe? Sounds like the start of a sad song

January 30, 2020January 29, 20200

There’s an old labor song emanating out of the Harlan County Wars of the 1930s, popularized by the great Pete…

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Bill Straub: Making a hash of impeachment hearings — and of country; thanks McConnell, Barr and Paul

January 23, 2020January 22, 20200

It’s no secret that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has made a hash of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald…

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Bill Straub: The whole world is watching the ‘dive,’ but that’s the way it goes in McConnell’s world

January 16, 2020January 15, 20200

America hasn’t witnessed a dive like this since Sonny Liston kissed the canvas after that infamous “phantom punch’’ from a…

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