Bill Straub: Kentucky’s famous statesman Henry Clay preferred being right, Bevin just wants to be governor
It was one of Kentucky’s most celebrated statesmen, Henry Clay, who, way back in 1839, uttered the memorable phrase, “I’d…
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Bill Straub: Mocking Indiana Jones isn’t appropriate response to the real problem of climate change
The United Kingdom’s Met Office, which serves as that nation’s weather service, recently determined that the world’s oceans have warmed…
Bill Straub: Following the McConnell footsie game through Russia to an aluminum plant in Greenup
They don’t call him Moscow Mitch for nothing. Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell, of Louisville, has earned so many…
Bill Straub: ‘Moscow Mitch’ has a ring (of truth) to it, but what’s one more notch in McConnell’s belt?
One of the items on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s massive to-do list, before he left office in May, was to…
Bill Straub: Rand Paul’s excuse for voting against 9/11 victim’s compensation bill was deficit. Really?
Sen. Rand Paul wants it both ways. That, as you likely realize, is par for the course with politicians who…
Bill Straub: Trump doubles down on four congresswomen of color who ARE where they belong
“This country is a hellhole. We are going down fast.” — Donald J. Trump, Fox News, May 20, 2015 Enough….
Bill Straub: Enter fighter pilot Amy McGrath who will need big fire-power against Mitch McConnell
Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath is hoping that politics, like love in the old Sammy Cahn-Jimmy Van Heusen song, is…
Bill Straub: McConnell turning a blind eye to Russian interference in elections goes beyond party loyalty
His report passed on charging President Extremely Stable Genius with illicitly coordinating with Russia on the 2020 presidential election and…
Bill Straub: Who’s paying attention to what KY’s DC delegation is doing? Your reps deserve scrutiny
WASHINGTON – Back in early April members of the Kentucky congressional delegation, quite appropriately, sent a letter to President Extremely…
Bill Straub: True to his character, McConnell changes his stance on potential U.S. Supreme Court vacancy
WASHINGTON – Sometimes it seems Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell is bound and determined to prove to the world…
Bill Straub: Bevin didn’t get a landslide, but don’t count him out; Beshear faces uphill battle
Landslide Matt Bevin, the incumbent, didn’t exactly set the world on fire in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary, garnering just 52…
Bill Straub: With King Coal’s reign about over in the Commonwealth (and elsewhere) it’s on to natural gas
To paraphrase that great American intellectual, Sarah Palin, how is that beautiful, clean coal stuff working out for ya? Well,…
Bill Straub: In rear-guard action, McConnell declares ‘case closed,’ when plenty of questions remain
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell took to the chamber floor this week and did everything but croon the lyrics…
Bill Straub: There’s Trump and his ‘Mini-Me’ Bevin — but one of them benefits from distance
WASHINGTON – Unlike Superman and Clark Kent, President Trump (good golly!) and Kentucky Gov. Matt “Yosemite Sam’’ Bevin have been…
Bill Straub: Lear on Twitter and other things we are witnessing in the wake of the Mueller report
John Leroy Maxwell authored a poem, later set to music, about a drunken degenerate who passes out in the gutter….
Bill Straub: Since it’s baseball season, let’s bat some things around — oops, out of strikes already
It’s baseball season once again — thank the lord — so let’s toss it around-the-horn political style: First. Give Rep….
Bill Straub: About those votes against Violence Against Women Act; NRA saw it as gun control
The He-Man Woman Haters Club, created by Alfalfa, Spanky and other members of the Little Rascals back in the 1930s,…
Bill Straub: Here come the judges — and, thank the Constitution, they have important role in democracy
WASHINGTON – Gov. Matt “Yosemite Sam’’ Bevin appears to have a bit of a problem with the U.S. Constitution, at…
Bill Straub: What an incredible week it was for Mitch McConnell, as he set a record for bollixing things up
So what has Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch” McConnell done over the space of a single week in March to…
Bill Straub: Welcome to Tombstone (aka Kentucky) where the right to bear arms is truly unlimited
On March 11, a gentleman named Larry Walters got into an argument, subject unknown, with another patron at Uncle 7’s…
Bill Straub: Worth it or not, the time is coming for decisions to be made and it has to be right
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a bit of a stir in political circles this week when she told The Washington…
Bill Straub: Unavoidable to broach this subject again, but to clarify — it isn’t voter fraud, it’s election fraud
In a week where President Trump (Egads!) traveled to Vietnam — a country he assiduously sought to avoid some 50…