Opinion – Bill Straub: ‘Round and ’round and ’round we go, as government shutdown looms
It’s that time of year in our nation’s capital again friends. The federal government is about to run out of…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul is the same ol’ — always against and never for
Sen. Rand Paul is yet again going about the task that he isn’t particularly easy to get along with. The…
Opinion – Bill Straub: With Biden out, Comer’s next nonsensical quest? Prove Walz a Communist spy
The original Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus sadly folded its tents back in 2017 but have no fear – as long…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr is wrong about Imane Khelif, Olympic boxer; diversity makes us better
In his never-ending, toadyrific endeavor to ingratiate himself to his Ming the Merciless-like master, King Donald of Mar-a-Lago, Rep. Andy…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr ready to release vitriolic smears to serve his political ambitions
Rep. Andy Barr, promoting himself these days as a Christian David Ben-Gurion, has wasted little time playing the antisemite card…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Why shouldn’t Supreme Court have a stricter, enforceable ethics code?
As he prepares to finally abandon his age-old role as Senate Republican leader after the November elections, Mitch McConnell looks…
Opinion – Bill Straub: With Biden’s exit from re-election, isn’t turn-about fair play?
Taxi, a sitcom about a NYC cab company that introduced Danny DeVito as Louie De Palma to an unsuspecting world,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Yes, we do need to learn to live together without violence; who’s first?
Any number of theories and critiques have emerged since the, thankfully, unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Comer’s Biden investigation debacle was always only about political positioning
It’s been 30 years since Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels appeared in the Farrelly Brothers’ comedy classic Dumb and Dumber,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Despite Reagan example, if Biden stays in race let’s hope he’s right
It’s been almost 40 years since President Ronald Reagan, seeking a second term, ventured to Louisville to engage in a…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Spreading misinformation is form of cheating; setting record straight isn’t censorship
If Sen. Rand Paul gets his way, Lord help us all, the nation may find itself expanding the Bill of…
Opinion — Bill Straub: Is Andy Beshear musing about possibilities ahead? The White House?
James Carville, who knows a little something about political talent (see Clinton, Bill) thinks he’s found a prospect ready for…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell’s finagling with courts has fueled real concerns about legitimacy of judiciary
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, that self-appointed guardian of a scandal-ridden Supreme Court he helped foist upon an unsuspecting nation,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Doing the right thing is just not on Barr’s agenda; he isn’t alone
Rep. Andy Barr is a hack. He is a busher incapable of hitting above the Mendoza line. He’s the three-year-old…
Opinion — Bill Straub: No vaccinations? When vaccines annually prevent six million deaths?
Ever hear of Typhoid Mary? How about Typhoid Tommy? Rep. Thomas Massie, R-SomewhereorotherLewisCounty, started a kerfuffle, as his attention-seeking-self often…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Endorsements show Trump influence continues to push Kentucky over the edge
Erstwhile President Donald John Trump is converting Kentucky into his own personal playground. If you want to frolic in the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Comer, losing his ‘impeach Biden’ spotlight, weighs in on Trump trial — really?
Obviously devastated that his moment in the sun — where he has made a boob of himself trying to impeach…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Israel is testing the bounds of friendship; don’t good friends say ‘you’re wrong’?
President Biden has managed to attract scorn from every conceivable side of the ongoing and bloody conflict in Gaza, from…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Massie’s war on bipartisanship advances to new front as he vows to fight ‘uniparty’
Almost 50 years ago, believe it or not, when punk rock was in its prime, the genre’s primary pervaders, the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Purported Comer book deal promises generous payday, sale of more cheap lies
Baseball legend Pete Rose (you know, the fellow who’s not in the MLB Hall of Fame) acknowledged some time back…
Opinion — Bill Straub: Massie cites three reasons for urging Speaker Johnson’s resignation; then what?
For a Whiz Kid with fancy-schmancy degrees from some snooty college in liberal Massachusetts who has more patents than Edison…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Fathoming the unfathomable is just incomprehensible, no matter how you look at it
I confess to having spent a preternatural amount of time over the past eight years trying to figure out the…