Bill Straub: McConnell can site reasons to oppose Supreme Court nominee and can make up others
The odds of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell voting for any U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee offered by President Biden…
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Bill Straub: For Thomas Massie here’s a ‘no’ vote, there’s a ‘no’ vote, everywhere there’s a ‘no’ vote
Early Wednesday evening, in a 406-16 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Japanese-American World War II History Network…
Bill Straub: Railing and blaming, playing bait-and-switch, Republican game puts foot on the gas
By now it should be obvious that DC Republicans have mastered the craft of political bait-and-switch – like when they…
Bill Straub: Barr shows true partisan colors with criticism of Biden’s response to Russia invasion
An all-but-forgotten author from New Orleans named Maurice Switzer is generally credited with coining the adage, “It is better to…
Bill Straub: Wonder of wonders, but Mitch McConnell has taken a somewhat bipartisan bent lately
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell did something so unusual, so out of character, this week that you should excuse Kentucky…
Bill Straub: Thank goodness Rand wasn’t in charge: doesn’t like masks or wearing one, wants Fauci in jail
Sen. Rand Paul has been fortunate enough over the past 12 years to serve with comrades like Sen. Ted Cruz,…
Bill Straub: Kentucky congressional delegation not the dumbest or most repulsive, but still. . .
It’s fair to say the stupidest member of the 117th Congress doesn’t hail from the eight-member Kentucky delegation, nor will…
Bill Straub: Congratulations, Northern Kentucky, here are your choices for U.S. House of Representatives
Happy Happy Joy Joy, to quote Ren or Stimpy or whoever originally voiced this ecstatic cry, that national embarrassment wrapped…
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell seems a little confused about his civil rights record; one way to correct it
I honestly believe that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell fully realizes that African-American voters are as American as the 4th…
Bill Straub: And they’re off to the races for the dimmest bulb in protecting children from that CRT
An exciting new contest is quickly sweeping across the land as legislatures and governors compete for the honor of becoming…
Bill Straub: McConnell’s meandering principles reveal his game-playing; Larry Forgy will be missed
In his self-congratulatory treatise, The Long Game, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, of Louisville, goes on at some length explaining…
Bill Straub: Let us count the ways; just a question of where to start to name ways people don’t like Mitch
Chris Cillizza, an editor-at-large at CNN, penned a column recently in which he posed the question, “Why do so many…
Bill Straub: Let’s try to put our understanding around this — ‘legal’ voting is somehow a problem
Sen. Rand Paul is renowned for expressing some, well, shall we politely say, unorthodox views during his time on the…
Bill Straub: McConnell is joyful this holiday season, as he has Manchin to do all the work for him
‘Tis, indeed, the season of comfort and joy, but the approaching holiday isn’t the reason a smile has erupted on…
Bill Straub: As WKY suffers terrible tragedy, we’re reminded that we’re best when we come together
The challenge here is to appropriately praise the efforts of everyone involved in the revival of large fractions of God’s…
Bill Straub: Flip-flopper that Mitch McConnell is, he is not stupid; there is a long-term strategy at work
It isn’t news that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is changing horses in midstream – he historically flip-flops whenever he…
Bill Straub: Fair play isn’t James Comer’s idea of a good idea; shouldn’t we hold everyone accountable?
Congressional Republicans, disregarding the advice of the late Kenny Rogers, are counting their money at the table, smug and confident…
Bill Straub: Roads, bridges are socialism? Only one House member from KY votes for infrastructure bill
So, old Tom Jefferson was as red as Trotsky. Who’da thunk it? That, at least, is the only reasonable conclusion…
Bill Straub: Playing the cultural wedge to advantage, Republican Party has become White people’s party
It’s difficult, no, impossible, to extrapolate the results from this week’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey and determine how…
Bill Straub: It’s Santa Claus for the wealthy and Grinch for the kids, if McConnell has his way
Former Congressman Barney Frank, an acerbic Massachusetts Democrat, once chided the anti-abortion crowd for believing that “life begins at conception…
Bill Straub: Dear, dear Abby, is it really OK to lie just because you want to? Thomas Massie says it is
Dear Abby sadly departed this mortal coil some years back now and no one has stepped up to provide our…
Kyle Keeney: Here’s why Medicare price-setting isn’t the solution to fixing our healthcare problems
Earlier this month, the Northern Kentucky Tribune’s Bill Straub wrote a column supporting his belief that more government intervention in…