Al Cross: McConnell must give senators go-ahead to disavow election laws built on Donald Trump’s lies
This column has never dealt at length with Donald Trump because it’s about Kentucky politics. But now, Kentuckians and our…
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Bill Straub: Trump keeps popping out emails that repeat, repeat, repeat the Big Lie; do the hokey pokey
Ever since he was ceremoniously dumped from Twitter and Facebook for telling lies that would make Herodotus blanch, Le Grande…
Bill Straub: Hard to imagine a wackier contest with two candidates vying for who’s the biggest gun nut
Where else other than Kentucky can you witness a challenger in a congressional race toiling to out-crazy an incumbent who…
Bill Straub: Democracy. To believe or not to believe? That really is the question for Republicans
Senate Republicans have made it official – they don’t believe in democracy. The hints have been there for quite some…
Al Cross: Mitch McConnell’s silence makes him less worthy of leadership — at what price is power?
So, Liz is out. What about Mitch? Republican House members’ removal of Rep. Elizabeth Cheney from their leadership Wednesday made…
Al Cross: For our Derby visitors, real and remote, a scratch sheet on Kentucky politics
OK, we’re back to normal. Partly. The Kentucky Derby is back where it has been since the Great Depression, on…
Bill Straub: Go figure Mitch McConnell’s turnabout, forevermore putting party over country
Calling on any public figure to resign, retire, hit the road or however you might want to put it is…
Bill Straub: The Republican Party is trying to find itself — a ‘house divided against itself cannot stand’
It was Lincoln, the pre-eminent member of a political organization formerly known as the Republican Party, who cited the synoptic…
Bill Straub: Some things you can count on, and Rand Paul is proceeding in his true, maskless form
You can always count on the sun to rise in the east and set in the west. You can always…
Bill Straub: Leadership AWOL, ghost of Lincoln looms, future of Republican Party hangs in balance
Reports about the impending death of the Republican Party are, as Twain once remarked about his own alleged demise, an…
Al Cross: McConnell makes play to sideline Trump as he has chance to remake how he’ll be remembered
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. . ….
Bill Straub: Yes, the flag is still there — and church bells should ring from sea to shining sea
There came a poignant moment during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the United States of America, Joseph…
Bill Straub: Impeachment of Trump, as McConnell surprises with apparent approval and maneuvering
Now that President Donald J. Trump, aka Loser, has been impeached for an unprecedented second time – not the sort…
Trump impeached by House, 232-197; McConnell says Senate trial can’t be set before inauguration
Staff report Ten Republicans in the U.S. House sided with Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump 232-197 for inciting the…
After a ‘dark day’ in the nation’s Capitol, lawmakers and residents who were there take stock
By Jeff Young, Alana Watson, Liam Niemeyer and Corinne Boyer Ohio Valley Resource Owensboro, Kentucky, pastor Brian Gibson spoke at…
Paul Hill: An Open Letter to Donald Trump: I once admired you as ‘cool guy,’ you changed my mind
OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP Let me say that I admired you when I was in my twenty’s. I bought…
Jan Hillard: Realigning presidential election, a look at coalitions and focusing on biggest challenge
Voting coalitions represent groups of voters from demographic, economic, and social groups. In any Presidential election, specific coalitions come together…
Bill Straub: McConnell relents on ‘President-elect Biden’ but his Ky. Senate colleague cause problem
Is there a more appropriate cover boy for the modern Republican Party – that toxic conglomeration of fabulists, conspiracy mongers,…
Bill Straub: Rand Paul continues to attract attention with his curious — and potentially harmful — views
Sen. Rand Paul is laboring furiously these days to attract attention to his consistently curious views. The effort comes at…
Bill Straub: The Donny Show is a four-star laugh riot, and the funny thing is Republicans can’t count
Abbott and Costello – a grand remedy for the COVID-19 blues, by the way – used to perform a routine…
Bill Straub: Listen closely to Beethoven’s Eroica, Mitch; recall he ripped away dedication to Napoleon
The world this year is justly celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. One of the pieces one is likely…
Berry Craig: No more, no more, no more, no more; finally we are rid of our Sawdust Caesar
Nearly 75 million (and counting) of us have said no more to Donald Trump’s politics of hate, fear and division. No more to…