Opinion – Al Cross: Auditions on the national and Kentucky stages
Gov. Andy Beshear’s big audition didn’t get him a new role, but the continuing tryouts of people who might succeed…
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Briefs: McConnell gets Kristol Award, Dietz – Emerging Leaders, Beechwood RR crossing
McConnell to receive AEI’s Irving Kristol Award American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar announced that Senate Republican Leader Mitch…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell’s finagling with courts has fueled real concerns about legitimacy of judiciary
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, that self-appointed guardian of a scandal-ridden Supreme Court he helped foist upon an unsuspecting nation,…
Opinion – Al Cross: Kentucky Republicans help Trump tear down the system
When Mitch McConnell voted not to convict Donald Trump on impeachment for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, which he nevertheless…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Endorsements show Trump influence continues to push Kentucky over the edge
Erstwhile President Donald John Trump is converting Kentucky into his own personal playground. If you want to frolic in the…
Opinion – Sen. Mitch McConnell: Untimely death of president of Iran does not change regime’s threats
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Monday on the Senate floor regarding Iran: “Last night,…
KY Senator Mitch McConnell speaks out in support of legislation before U.S. Senate that would ban TikTok
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Last year the Kentucky General Assembly enacted legislation to prohibit the use of the video…
Opinion — Al Cross: Why is McConnell supporting Trump? It’s business.
Are you trying to understand why Mitch McConnell would endorse Donald Trump for president, after blaming Trump for provoking the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: McConnell endorses the Rapist; can’t help but wonder what’s gone wrong
It’s finally official – the heralded and brilliant Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell thinks The Rapist should be elected president…
Opinion – Al Cross: McConnell gives way to Trump, but will he still endorse him?
When Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that he would not run again for Senate Republican leader, he tacitly acknowledged that he…
Mitch McConnell’s legacy is current Supreme Court and a judiciary reshaped by his ‘calculated audacity’
By Al Cross University of Kentucky Mitch McConnell, who announced on Feb. 28, 2024, that he would step down as…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell’s period of reign most ‘consequential’ in recent Senate history
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution lasted less than a year. Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader,…
Opinion – Mitch McConnell: Stepping down; now is time for next generation of leadership in U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Wednesday on the Senate floor regarding his decision to…
Opinion – Mitch McConnell: Sobering lessons have been drawn from Russian aggression in Ukraine
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Tuesday on the Senate floor regarding the anniversary of…
Opinion – Mitch McConnell: National security bill is a major investment in American strength and credibility
This year marks four decades since President Reagan’s landslide reelection victory in 1984, and my first election to the U.S….
Opinion – Bill Straub: GOP’s foreign aid and border debacles lay bare polarity between Paul, McConnell
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul, who has proved over the years to be as useless as a fishnet handkerchief, has…
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…
Opinion – Al Cross: McConnell meets another legacy moment
When Mitch McConnell kept the Supreme Court from going liberal, then worked with Donald Trump to remake it and other…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell finds himself on the spot; question is can he hold on to power?
After 17 years finagling and conniving as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell finds himself on the…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell have their difference; try to count the ways
Sen. Rand Paul, that sentinel of good sense and comity, hopped aboard the Never Nikki express running through the Republican…
Opinion – Al Cross: Republicans, it’s time to stop sniveling about 2020 election, follow the right leaders
The tableau in the rotunda of the state Capitol on the year’s first day of business was, for a moment,…
Opinion – Mitch McConnell: The country’s growing national security challenges won’t solve themselves
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks Monday on the Senate floor regarding government funding and…