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…
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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…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Immigration emerges as GOP’s ‘Rosetta Stone’ to reclaiming White House
The road to the November elections is growing shorter and MAGA Republicans are confidant they have uncovered the Rosetta Stone…
Opinion – Bill Straub: What’s “anti-American” about a surge in energy options and a focus on environment?
Rep. Brett Guthrie, who to this point has proven as exciting as a bowl of day-old oatmeal, has apparently decided…
Opinion – Bill Straub: By any other word these actions would still be the same — just call it racism
Let’s call this what it is – soft-core racism. Over the past several sessions the Kentucky General Assembly has attracted…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell endorses the Rapist; can’t help but wonder what’s gone wrong
It’s finally official – the heralded and brilliant Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell thinks The Rapist should be elected president…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell’s period of reign most ‘consequential’ in recent Senate history
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution lasted less than a year. Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader,…
Opinion – Bill Straub: GOP’s foreign aid and border debacles lay bare polarity between Paul, McConnell
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, who has proved over the years to be as useless as a fishnet handkerchief, has…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Unable to guide ‘increasingly sneering’ GOP, McConnell stumbles yet again
For a certified political genius who knows all the levers to pull and bells to ring, the master of the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Don’t KY’s AG, House have enough to do other than to intrude on border issues?
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and members of the state House of Representatives apparently don’t have their hands full addressing…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot; question is can he hold on to power?
After 17 years finagling and conniving as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell finds himself on the…