
Bill Straub: Art and history, statues and reality — removing any offending art does not change the past
A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid to view Picasso’s Guernica,…
A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid to view Picasso’s Guernica,…
So, now that Amy McGrath has won the Democratic nomination to challenge Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell in the…
To the vast relief of a grateful but beleaguered nation, Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell, has made it clear…
Unless you’re a devotee of Turner Classic Movies – I plead guilty – you’ve probably never come across Judge Priest,…
The nation dodged a bullet, figuratively and, perhaps, literally, this week when President Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka…
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…
There was some strange fruit hanging from a tree on the grounds of the state Capitol in the hours before…
The late Jimmy Breslin, my hero, said it succinctly: “You’re supposed to be despised.” Breslin was, of course, referring to…
It’s no secret that Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has long looked upon former President Barack Obama with the…
To quote the late, great Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?” Before us is the president of the United States, one…
In 1975, facing an excruciating financial crisis, the City of New York under Democratic Mayor Abraham Beame, looking bankruptcy squarely…
Kentuckians over the decades have exhibited a great knack for picking the exacta at Keeneland and coming down on the…
What, Pigmeat Markham wasn’t available? Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell, fulfilling his primary duty as consigliere to an addled…
The time has arrived, as W.C. Fields once sagely noted, to grab the bull by the tail and face the…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell has dished out some doozies during his time in the District of Columbia and…
When he hasn’t been fulminating over governmental overreach in addressing the coronavirus crisis or gnashing his teeth into dust over…
One of the most cringe-inducing moments amidst the chaos surrounding the coronavirus pandemic came last week when, during a meeting…
It was Victor Hugo who claimed “nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come,’’ yet here we…
When is enough, finally, enough. That essentially is the question that will be posed to voters of Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell has spent 36 long years in the nation’s capital splitting asunder a once great…
As usual, this year’s presidential primary in Kentucky could be another case of closing the corral gate after the horse…
This is a column written more in sorrow than anger, stealing a reference from Shakespeare, about a man who once…