Opinion – Bill Straub: As nation’s public health system crumbles, Kennedy, Paul spew nonsense
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top public health agency, is crumbling like the walls of Jericho…
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Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr’s embrace of birthright citizenship vendetta unveils newfound fealty to Trump
President-cum-Dictator Donald J. Trump’s self-appointed handmaiden, Rep. Andy Barr, being perennially sensitive to the whims of his master, has officially…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Trump’s use of National Guard, Marines in LA is far from ‘American exceptionalism’
WASHINGTON – From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Santa Monica, the Marine Corp is now fighting President-cum-Dictator…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Thomas Massie, Rand Paul prove strange bedfellows in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ row
With apologies to the late, great James Agee, let us now praise infamous men. There’s nothing much for Kentuckians to…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Amid cuts to FEMA, it remains to be seen if Trump will walk his talk on disaster aid
Kentucky, destined by its geographic positioning and global climate change — a verboten subject owing to the Commonwealth’s unyielding devotion…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Andy Barr — in a surprise to no one — enters senate race by pandering to Trump
Rep. Andy Barr possesses a political attribute so remarkable he hopes to parlay it into a seat in the U.S….
Opinion – Bill Straub: Barr, Comer avoid tough questions, turn tail and run from own constituents
Congressmen Andy Barr and Jamie Comer are pissed off… at their constituents. The lawmakers, Barr, R-Lexington, and Comer, R-TheFrankfortLoop, are…
Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president of the United States, says ‘Golden Age of America’ has begun
By Jennifer Shutt and Shauneen Miranda States Newsroom Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office for the second time…
Opinion – Bill Straub: On presidential appointments, Gaetz is out; ‘interim appointments’ for others not assured
Like Nipper, the terrier depicted in the old RCA Victor logo, Mitch McConnell, the soon to be displaced Senate Republican…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell and Trump, odd cohorts indeed; will the real fascist please stand up?
Throughout his 17-year tenure leading the Senate Republican caucus, Mitch McConnell cultivated the image of a dour, serious, power-player who…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell is no fan of Trump’s (his comments prove it) so why the ‘endorsement’?
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, you may recall, endorsed Donald John Trump for president of these United States a few…
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…
Bill Straub: That loud noise you are hearing from McConnell about Trump is the ‘Sound of Silence’
That’s not Simon &Garfunkel you hear singing “Sounds of Silence” somewhere back in the echoes of your mind, that’s Senate…
Bill Straub: On the way to discovering who we really are and want our country to be, stumble onto Nov. 3
The time has come to give the devil his due. President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka…
Bill Straub: A pox on the Republic, rest in peace RBG, but word and honor don’t count in this game
Okay, let’s agree that President Donald J. Trump, aka President Extremely Stable Genius, aka President Great and Unmatched Wisdom, has…
Al Cross: McConnell should get Trump to stop contradicting science — that’s bad for public health
When I was a child growing up in one of the poorest counties in the nation, with one of the…
Bill Straub: Who to believe? New stimulus package (choose one: does, does not) look promising
It was Sen. George Aiken, a Republican from Vermont, who suggested in the fall of 1966 that the United States…
Bill Straub: Overseeing destruction of the planet, president declares he is great environmentalist
With all the attention being afforded his derisive comments aimed at military personnel, his abject failure to address the COVID-19…
‘Unofficial’ primary election results: Trump, Biden; McConnell, McGrath; Massie, Owensby
With almost all precincts reporting statewide, Donald J. Trump has won Kentucky Republican primary for president and Joseph Biden has…
Bill Straub: Despite terrific failures, Trump’s possible re-election cannot really be underestimated
To quote the late, great Marvin Gaye, “What’s going on?” Before us is the president of the United States, one…
Bill Straub: Which side are you on? Who you going to believe? Sounds like the start of a sad song
There’s an old labor song emanating out of the Harlan County Wars of the 1930s, popularized by the great Pete…
Bill Straub: Argue the facts when you have them; when you don’t, pound the table. And so they do
There’s an old bromide often circulated among lawyers in just about any courthouse you might happen upon in any part…