Bill Straub: McConnell’s refusal to even consider judicial nominee an indefensible position
WASHINGTON – The time has come, sadly, for the voters of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to acknowledge that they have,…
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Bill Straub: Kentucky legislators, governor repeating tired, predictable efforts to limit women’s rights
WASHINGTON – For the record, I’ve never had an abortion. If history is any indication it’s unlikely I will have…
Bill Straub: Brokered convention appears to be the likeliest outcome for the GOP Presidential race
WASHINGTON – By now you’re sick to death — and who wouldn’t be — of hearing about the results of…
Bill Straub: McConnell may have won the politics, but not when it came to blocking Obama’s agenda
WASHINGTON – The second session of the 114th Congress just underway presents the American public with a final look –…
Bill Straub: It’s not just hard to find a path to the White House for Sen. Rand Paul – it’s impossible
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, the man who would be president, is not handling the alienation of affections from Republican…
Bill Straub: McConnell, Paul stubbornly ignore facts while pushing ahead efforts to dismantle Obamacare
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul often seem to possess a sense of humor that…
Bill Straub: Disregarding the facts, Republicans still unwilling to address gun violence seriously
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday of this week, President Obama signed a modest set of executive orders designed to reduce gun…
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…
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…