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Bill Straub: Enter fighter pilot Amy McGrath who will need big fire-power against Mitch McConnell

July 11, 2019July 10, 20190

Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath is hoping that politics, like love in the old Sammy Cahn-Jimmy Van Heusen song, is…

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Bill Straub: McConnell turning a blind eye to Russian interference in elections goes beyond party loyalty

June 27, 2019June 27, 20194

His report passed on charging President Extremely Stable Genius with illicitly coordinating with Russia on the 2020 presidential election and…

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Bill Straub: Who’s paying attention to what KY’s DC delegation is doing? Your reps deserve scrutiny

June 6, 2019June 5, 20190

WASHINGTON – Back in early April members of the Kentucky congressional delegation, quite appropriately, sent a letter to President Extremely…

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Bill Straub: True to his character, McConnell changes his stance on potential U.S. Supreme Court vacancy

May 30, 2019May 29, 20190

WASHINGTON – Sometimes it seems Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell is bound and determined to prove to the world…

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Bill Straub: Bevin didn’t get a landslide, but don’t count him out; Beshear faces uphill battle

May 23, 2019November 7, 20192

Landslide Matt Bevin, the incumbent, didn’t exactly set the world on fire in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary, garnering just 52…

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Bill Straub: With King Coal’s reign about over in the Commonwealth (and elsewhere) it’s on to natural gas

May 16, 2019May 15, 20190

To paraphrase that great American intellectual, Sarah Palin, how is that beautiful, clean coal stuff working out for ya? Well,…

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Bill Straub: In rear-guard action, McConnell declares ‘case closed,’ when plenty of questions remain

May 9, 2019May 8, 20190

Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell took to the chamber floor this week and did everything but croon the lyrics…

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Bill Straub: There’s Trump and his ‘Mini-Me’ Bevin — but one of them benefits from distance

May 2, 2019May 1, 20190

WASHINGTON – Unlike Superman and Clark Kent, President Trump (good golly!) and Kentucky Gov. Matt “Yosemite Sam’’ Bevin have been…

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Bill Straub: Lear on Twitter and other things we are witnessing in the wake of the Mueller report

April 25, 2019April 24, 20190

John Leroy Maxwell authored a poem, later set to music, about a drunken degenerate who passes out in the gutter….

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Bill Straub: Since it’s baseball season, let’s bat some things around — oops, out of strikes already

April 18, 2019April 17, 20194

It’s baseball season once again — thank the lord — so let’s toss it around-the-horn political style: First. Give Rep….

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Bill Straub: About those votes against Violence Against Women Act; NRA saw it as gun control

April 11, 2019April 10, 20193

The He-Man Woman Haters Club, created by Alfalfa, Spanky and other members of the Little Rascals back in the 1930s,…

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Bill Straub: Here come the judges — and, thank the Constitution, they have important role in democracy

April 4, 2019April 10, 20191

WASHINGTON – Gov. Matt “Yosemite Sam’’ Bevin appears to have a bit of a problem with the U.S. Constitution, at…

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Bill Straub: What an incredible week it was for Mitch McConnell, as he set a record for bollixing things up

March 28, 2019March 27, 20194

So what has Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell done over the space of a single week in March to…

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Bill Straub: Welcome to Tombstone (aka Kentucky) where the right to bear arms is truly unlimited

March 21, 2019March 20, 201919

On March 11, a gentleman named Larry Walters got into an argument, subject unknown, with another patron at Uncle 7’s…

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Bill Straub: Worth it or not, the time is coming for decisions to be made and it has to be right

March 14, 2019March 14, 20193

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a bit of a stir in political circles this week when she told The Washington…

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Bill Straub: Unavoidable to broach this subject again, but to clarify — it isn’t voter fraud, it’s election fraud

February 28, 2019February 27, 20192

In a week where President Trump (Egads!) traveled to Vietnam — a country he assiduously sought to avoid some 50…

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Bill Straub: McConnell has abdicated his leadership of the U.S. Senate to President Donald Trump

February 21, 2019February 20, 20190

Well, the good news is Addison Mitchell McConnell has at long last abdicated his position as Republican leader of the…

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Bill Straub: McConnell will pass on serious climate change discussion, go right to Green New Deal vote

February 14, 2019February 13, 20190

WASHINGTON – Oh, that Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell, such a clever boy. Progressive lawmakers, growing increasingly concerned over the impact of…

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Bill Straub: Comity, progress gone, we must protect voting rights to hold on to democratic process

February 7, 2019February 13, 20190

If you’re black or brown or poor, it’s obvious now that Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell couldn’t care less…

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Bill Straub: Thomas ‘Wonderboy’ Massie, darling of far-right fringe, wants to undermine the government

January 31, 2019January 30, 20192

By Bill Straub WASHINGTON – It’s fair to say that Rep. Thomas “Wonder Boy’’ Massie has one of the, well,…

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Bill Straub: Character is indispensable, character matters, character first; did someone say ‘character’?

January 17, 2019January 16, 20190

Apparently a person’s character doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in Sen. Rand Paul’s world. The Bowling Green Republican,…

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Bill Straub: Even the ‘best bad idea’ won’t get the Republicans out the hole Trump has dug for them

January 10, 2019January 9, 20192

Some years ago, Steve Martin (yeah, the guy with the banjo), then an up-and-coming standup comic, introduced a routine and…

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