Bill Straub: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose — but big loser Tuesday was definitely Donald Trump
WASHINGTON – The late Al Smith, my old mentor, and a renowned raconteur used to tell a story about Frank…
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OJ Oleka: Tour of KY campuses indicates private colleges change the lives of low-income students
Setting the benchmark of your first 100 days is a good measure for most leaders. It is in those first…
Bill Straub: Deja vu all over again — gun massacres, promise of controls, then nothing; repeat rapid fire
All right, let’s break this one down to its component parts. On the morning of Aug. 3, a gunman, 21-year-old…
Bill Straub: Bevin didn’t get a landslide, but don’t count him out; Beshear faces uphill battle
Landslide Matt Bevin, the incumbent, didn’t exactly set the world on fire in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary, garnering just 52…
Bill Straub: Character is indispensable, character matters, character first; did someone say ‘character’?
Apparently a person’s character doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in Sen. Rand Paul’s world. The Bowling Green Republican,…
Bill Straub: For want of a wall, for a temper tantrum, for dodging responsibility — is government lost?
For want of a wall, the government was lost, at least partially, and it doesn’t look like the darn thing…
Bill Straub: A new word to enhance your vocabulary; to describe ‘beyond shameless,’ try ‘mitchful’
Occasionally when following American politics you come upon a statement or claim that is so outrageous, so mind-boggling that characterizing…
Bill Straub: Reagan once said ‘there is no room for intolerance,’ but Trump didn’t get the message
WASHINGTON – I can’t say with absolute certainty that the filth that gushes from the mouth of President “Tiny’’ Trump-like…
Bill Straub: Humpty-Trumpty bullies way through NATO, insults May on home turf, loves Putin more. . .
President Trump’s (OMG!) recently concluded European excursion was, by all estimates, a disaster, not to mention a public humiliation that…
Bill Straub: No ‘Profiles in Courage’ found perusing political landscape in Trump-McConnell land
In February 1944, after seven years of guiding President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s agenda through the upper chamber, Senate Democratic Leader…
Bill Straub: ‘The hour of reckoning is coming,’ and it should, for the imposter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who grew up a stone’s throw from my New Jersey hometown and has broken with…
Mitch McConnell: Why fighting opioid epidemic is necessary, and why we must fight back
The pain of the opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities across the country – especially here in Kentucky. For years,…
KY’s Kelly Knight Craft, ‘proven advocate for national interests,’ named Ambassador to Canada
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kelly Knight Craft of Lexington to be Ambassador to Canada. She was nominated by Pres….
Jamie Vaught: Potential summer reading includes looks at Summitt, Reagan, 2016 presidential run
Summer vacation is just around the corner and most of us are planning relaxing trips to the mountains or beach….
Jamie Vaught: Books on Obama, 2016 Presidential race among recommended reading offerings
This is the second of a two-part series on recently-published nonfiction books. Spring is still more than a month away…
Gov. Bevin participates in National Prayer Breakfast; event includes more than 4,000 government leaders
Gov. Matt Bevin today joined President Donald Trump and federal, state and local government leaders from across the country in…
Commentary: Marches, Planned Parenthood and balanced reporting on what’s really significant
By Richard Nelson Special to NKyTribune It’s been a week of marches and protests and major policy shifts, but in…
Bill Straub: Bevin’s political future could be behind his late-blooming support of Trump
WASHINGTON – Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin sometimes comes across like Frank Burns in the old, long-running M*A*S*H* television show. He…
Billy Reed: Here’s hoping for a Trump epiphany, one that transforms him into gentleman, role model
In my imagination, I am conjuring up a conversation that could take place somewhere in the U.S. before the current…
Richard Nelson: Candidate Trump is a creature of the times — and has been in the making for years
Halloween is past and scarier than any goblin at your doorstep is a bitter political season filled with high pitched…
Commentary: Why Trump? The simplest answer: Primarily because he’s not Hillary
By Marcus Carey Special to NKyTribune There is a simple question being asked by many people, republicans and democrats alike,…
Col Owens: The case for Hillary Clinton for President; why Democrats should unite with eyes on November
It is not a state secret that I support Hillary Clinton for President. There are many reasons why. I first…