Bill Straub: A billion here, a billion there adds up, but even KY House tax plan doesn’t go far enough
Legend has it that Winston Churchill, trying to draw the United States into WWII, famously said you can always count…
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Bill Straub: McConnell has some explaining to do for inaction on knowledge about Russians and election
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has some explaining to do. And if he isn’t up front about the rationale regarding…
Bill Straub: The biblical world view as seen by certain folks may not square with Bible — or the rest of us
Even in these trying days of division and bitter partisanship most everyone can agree that God, who has been on…
Bill Straub: Guns are the problem; to say otherwise is ridiculous — as well as dangerous. Stop.
The Republican Party oftentimes appears to have been overtaken by zealots who have succumbed to what can only be described…
Bill Straub: How does Rand really feel? He was for it before he was against it — is that right?
Harken back for just a moment to the 2004 political season when John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, rather clumsily…
Bill Straub: The Napoleon of coal ( good, beautiful, clean) coal is just playing along and enjoying the joke
There are many good things that can be said about coal. For decades, even centuries, in the United States it…
Bill Straub: Count the ways Sen. Mitch McConnell can’t be trusted; another stopgap measure looms
The immediate, knee-jerk reaction many people have when asked if they have faith in someone on the opposite side of…
Bill Straub: You can look it up or take a stand, but words do speak for themselves. Figure it out.
You may have heard, it’s been in all the papers, that the president of these United States, one Donald J….
Bill Straub: ‘St. Matt the Divine’s’ jokes about Trump and global warming no laughing matter
WASHINGTON – St. Matt the Divine dropped his parson’s collar a few days back to engage in the one thing…
Bill Straub: With Ryan stuck on entitlements, is McConnell ready to work with Dems on infrastructure
WASHINGTON – One thing that can be said about Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root and Branch’’ McConnell, to paraphrase the…
Bill Straub: We have to hope ‘arc of moral universe’ bends toward justice, despite Trump nominees
WASHINGTON – It may be hard to believe in this age of hyper-partisanship but President Trump has somehow managed to…
Bill Straub: ‘The hour of reckoning is coming,’ and it should, for the imposter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who grew up a stone’s throw from my New Jersey hometown and has broken with…
Bill Straub: Focusing on a bad tax reform bill meant Congress had no time for kids, thus, no CHIP funding
The Republican Congress has proved so busy handing the keys of the kingdom over to its corporate bosses through its…
Bill Straub: Republicans are on verge of adopting bad tax cut measure; they’ll lie — and get away with it
Senate Republicans are on the verge of adopting a tax cut measure that will make the old Fresh Kills landfill…
Bill Straub: It’s about time to talk about sexual harassment; but not all instances are the same
WASHINGTON – I just informed my glorious wife that, with Thanksgiving upon us, I would rather suffer through a barium…
Bill Straub: So far, GOP has little to show for control, so killing health care bill may be best they can do
Once again we are sadly reminded that there isn’t anything so terrible in this world that Sen. Rand Paul and…
Bill Straub: Go figure (if you can) the double-talk that doesn’t want to add to deficit except for ‘tax cut’
Our old friend, the Wonder Boy, Rep. Thomas Massie, has built a well-earned reputation as a budget hawk, voting, for…
Bill Straub: Scott Pruitt and the EPA he leads are no longer protecting the environment for long term
Anyone clinging to the notion that Belle Brezing is the most notorious prostitute ever produced by Lexington isn’t paying attention…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell’s dilemma is simple pursue tax cuts and keep job — and worry later
Here comes Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root ‘n Branch’’ McConnell, riding into town in the lead wagon of the Snake…
Bill Straub: Disaster debate another example of how Kentucky lawmakers in D.C. have lost their way
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root ‘n Branch’’ McConnell took some time off last week to – quite appropriately…
Bill Straub: With Senate unable to get anything done, McConnell is facing opposition from all sides
It’s becoming obvious that Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root ‘n Branch’’ McConnell needs to embrace the advice of the late…
Bill Straub: In wake of deadly Las Vegas shooting, expect Congress to do absolutely nothing
WASHINGTON – It was Ethel Lina White in her novel The Wheel Spins who first maintained that “Lost causes are…