Bill Straub: Kentucky’s Gov. Bevin appears to be aiming to make lives of state’s poor more problematic
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin moved into his plush first floor office in the state capitol a bit less than a…
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Bill Straub: Although lagging in polls, there are reasons why the GOP wants Paul to stay in race
WASHINGTON – It’s reached a point where Sen. Rand Paul’s obscure presidential campaign is relying on the kindness of strangers….
Bill Straub: Light at the end of the bridge for Brent Spence, thanks to just about everyone but Massie
May I rise on a point of personal privilege to discuss, briefly, something I’ve been doing on-and-off for more than…
Bill Straub: Entertaining Republican presidential field gives us yet another reason to be thankful
WASHINGTON — As always there’s plenty to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day, even though the commercial interests have…
Bill Straub: Though the demagoguery continues on coal, the real truth is that there is no future for it
Those who managed to survive a viewing of the Republican presidential debate from Milwaukee on Tuesday evening – and a…
Bill Straub: Rand Paul is doubling down on crazy, hanging on to a hopeless presidential campaign
If you dig really, really deep, you may prove able to unearth some rationale or other for Sen. Rand Paul…
Bill Straub: The time has come to declare Kentucky’s Whiz Kid Thomas Massie an abysmal failure
Some years ago, too many to be perfectly frank, my old pal Big Al Suderley told me he had broken…
Bill Straub: With no real political principles, Mitch McConnell is simply focused on one thing — winning
WASHINGTON – Ya gotta love Mitch McConnell. Really. The Senate Republican Leader from Louisville has for decades been one of…
Bill Straub: Despite Kentucky’s erratic political history, that Bevin is even close is incomprehensible
WASHINGTON – It was the venerated Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who served as Speaker of the House for 17…
Bill Straub: Whiz-kid Thomas Massie just out of his element in Congress, is mainly good at whining
During its horrendous inaugural season in 1962, the New York Mets stumbled home with a 40-120 record, the worst in…
Bill Straub: Brokered convention is the only way Paul can end up anything other than a U..S. senator
Way back in 1934, the New York Giants baseball team (yes, children, the Jints used to play in the Polo…
Bill Straub: Kim of Morehead, her gaggle of users ‘don’t have the good sense to be embarrassed’
WASHINGTON – Move over Joan of Arc, here comes Kim Davis, the Maid of Morehead. Since we last visited, our…
Bill Straub: No one is asking Rowan County’s Kim Davis to violate her conscience, just to do her job
Only in Kentucky. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis doesn’t much like the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges,…
Bill Straub: To his credit, Rand Paul was one of first to raise important issue of criminal justice reform
By most accounts Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has all the sizzle of a wet rag. But the Kentucky Republican…
Bill Straub: It’s time for McConnell, Paul and others to stop playing politics with women’s health
Members of an anti-abortion organization, The Center for Medical Progress, played dress-up recently, posing as representatives of a biotech firm…
Bill Straub: It seems McConnell just can’t withstand the urge to poke Obama with a stick
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who hasn’t had an easy time of it lately – reference his fellow Kentuckian, Sen….
Bill Straub: McConnell finding out the hard way that Paul will put political interest first
WASHINGTON – Apparently Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is unfamiliar with the old story about the frog and the scorpion,…
Bill Straub: Ever-growing GOP presidential field doesn’t seem to have impact on Paul
WASHINGTON – Characterizing the 2016 Republican presidential primary as an ungainly mess, albeit at this early stage, is probably being…
Bill Straub: Give Paul a little credit for recognizing a crisis – and trying to do something about it
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul may not be the most liberal member of the Kentucky delegation in the nation’s capital…
Bill Straub: Sending out condolences to Hal Rogers, holder of the worst job in Washington
WASHINGTON – It’s long past time to extend condolences to U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, who holds perhaps the worst job…
Bill Straub: Paul’s arguments wrong on both the science and the law in vaccination controversy
WASHINGTON – In his relatively short time on the public stage, during which he has expended a great deal of…