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Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell endorses the Rapist; can’t help but wonder what’s gone wrong

March 8, 2024March 8, 20240

It’s finally official – the heralded and brilliant Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell thinks The Rapist should be elected president…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell’s period of reign most ‘consequential’ in recent Senate history

March 1, 2024February 29, 20240

The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution lasted less than a year. Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader,…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: GOP’s foreign aid and border debacles lay bare polarity between Paul, McConnell

February 16, 2024February 16, 20240

WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, who has proved over the years to be as useless as a fishnet handkerchief, has…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Unable to guide ‘increasingly sneering’ GOP, McConnell stumbles yet again

February 9, 2024February 9, 20241

For a certified political genius who knows all the levers to pull and bells to ring, the master of the…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Don’t KY’s AG, House have enough to do other than to intrude on border issues?

February 2, 2024February 5, 20240

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and members of the state House of Representatives apparently don’t have their hands full addressing…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot; question is can he hold on to power?

January 26, 2024January 25, 20240

After 17 years finagling and conniving as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell finds himself on the…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell have their difference; try to count the ways

January 19, 2024January 18, 20240

Sen. Rand Paul, that sentinel of good sense and comity, hopped aboard the Never Nikki express running through the Republican…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: This is a circus, dear readers, and Gomer Comer lies and flirts with pornography

January 12, 2024January 11, 20240

Besides the fact that they are both proud sons of the old Commonwealth sod, what do Rep. Jamie Comer, wherever…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: Daniel Cameron to the rescue, tilting at ‘woke’ windmill to save the ‘American Way’

January 5, 2024January 4, 20241

Apparently unable to find honest employment after his Failed with a capital F gubernatorial campaign, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel…

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Opinion – Bill Straub: KY’s delegation contributed to broken 118th Congress; more of it isn’t looking great

December 29, 2023December 28, 20231

Let’s face it, you’d have to be a few tics below the IQ level of Mortimer Snerd to dispute the…

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Commentary: Bill Straub: Andy Barr enthusiastically endorses Trump; question is, what’s he up to?

December 22, 2023December 21, 20231

On May 9 of this year, a New York jury held the once and possibly future president of the United…

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OP-Ed – Bill Straub: House advances impeachment as Comer’s own questionable dealings come to light

December 15, 2023December 14, 20230

If Diogenes the Cynic, lamp in hand, enters the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives today looking for an…

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Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Here we are again, after thinking it couldn’t get worse; Comer going for Dweeb of Year

December 1, 2023November 30, 20230

I swear, by all that’s holy, I’m so sick of writing about the Tompkinsville Twit that I could just spit….

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Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell will celebrate 39th anniversary in Senate and should consider his legacy

November 24, 2023November 25, 20230

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, at 81, will celebrate his 39th anniversary as a member of the Senate come January….

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Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Comer’s unrelenting quest to undo Biden curtailed by one pesky detail — the facts

November 17, 2023November 16, 20230

It’s quite simple, really. Given his ongoing craven attempt to impeach President Biden with nothing to back him up, any…

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Op-Ed – Bill Straub: Now starts the speculation about what Andy Beshear might do in the future

November 10, 2023November 10, 20230

Now that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vanquished Republican Daniel Cameron in his bid for re-election in the fire engine…

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Op-Ed – Bill Straub: McConnell’s ‘maleable political values’ serve to deliver the power he so desires

November 3, 2023November 2, 20230

The Rosetta Stone required to determine just what it is that makes Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tick can only…

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Bill Straub: Jamie Comer keeps making promises about ‘evidence’ — and keeps failing to provide it

October 27, 2023October 26, 20230

More and more it seems our boy, Tail-Gunner Jamie Comer, is morphing from the congressman most likely to be mistaken…

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Bill Straub: A story of different kind of clash between two state titans, Sen. McConnell and Sen. Paul

October 20, 2023October 19, 20230

While wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and other hot spots around this weary globe, a clash of a different, lower…

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Bill Straub: Whiz kid Massie up to his old tricks as Republicans muddle toward leadership disaster

October 13, 2023October 12, 20231

Wonder Boy Thomas Massie is at it again. Massie, the Republican congressman from SomewhereorotherLewisCounty with a fancy degree from MIT…

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Bill Straub: Here’s a Plato(un)like idea — James Comer, U.S. Speaker of House; makes crazy sense

October 6, 2023October 5, 20230

In Animal House — a classic film about an anarchic and rebellious college fraternity that closely tracks the current-day House…

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Bill Straub: What’s going on? Too much nonsense, hot air, phony-baloney games, but no democracy

September 29, 2023September 28, 20230

This from a Mr. M. Gaye, formerly of Washington DC with paternal roots in Lexington, who asks the eternal question,…

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