Mitch McConnell: Remarks on Senate floor as it returns to its work pre-inauguration
Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell delivered these remarks Monday on the Senate floor: President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Harris will be sworn in….
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Billy Reed: What a difference a week makes as we learn the depth of our intolerance for free speech
Last Monday, our nation was reeling as never before from the double whammy of a violent attack on our nation’s…
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…
The National Review: It was Mitch McConnell’s finest hour as he stood up for the Constitution
By The Editors The National Review Mitch McConnell has had a long and distinguished career, but he may well be…
Al Cross: McConnell’s speech was a turning point, at last, as he stands up for the truth
On one of the most dramatic days in American history, Kentucky’s senior senator saw he would lose control of the…
Events at Capitol: Mitch McConnell’s remarks to Senate before/after mob; Gov. Beshear’s remarks
A civics lesson U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks yesterday regarding the Electoral College certification…
Bill Straub: So it has come to mob rule, terrorism, vandalism of Capitol, encouraged by sitting President
A little more than 85 years ago, during an era of rising fascism in Europe, Sinclair Lewis, who authored such…
Bill Straub: Count reasons for McConnell’s disdain for $2,000 stimulus checks; maybe 30 million of them
There’s been considerable talk recently on the subject of Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell and how he has somehow…
Trump signs ‘bipartisan rescue package,’ provides relief payments, averts government shutdown
Staff report National news outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump has signed the $900 billion ‘pandemic relief’ bill, ending…
Bill Straub: Paul says money doesn’t grow on trees; so, McConnell, what do you think of El Presidente now?
Parsing the permutations of the COVID-19 relief bill is akin to fiddling with a Rubik’s cube while blindfolded in a…
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,…
Leroy Gessmann: Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act ignores small business backbone of the sport
By the time this op-ed goes to print, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) could very well be headed…
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: Mitch is in for another term and setting a record, but ‘lovable’ as a warm puppy he really isn’t
As if running up the score on an overfunded and overrated Democratic opponent wasn’t sufficient, supporters of Senate Majority Leader…
Al Cross: Mitch McConnell has the switch to turn off The Trump Show, but will he use it?
As far as we know, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t told President Trump to throw in the towel and…
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…
Ohio Valley Resource: Multiple false comments about election by Trump dismissed by many lawmakers
Ohio Valley Resource Polls had barely closed in the U.S. when President Donald Trump falsely alleged voter fraud and claimed…
Al Cross: Republicans cement Frankfort power; will they overreach?
Well, that was a whoopin’. Tuesday’s election was a political disaster for Kentucky Democrats, and it has the makings of…
Bill Straub: Disappointments enough in the election but a big bright spot — Trump will soon be gone
To quote former President Gerald Ford, “our long, national nightmare is over.” Well, almost. With the vote totals dwindling down…
Trump, McConnell, Massie claim victory in Kentucky, the first state to be called for the President
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cruised over challenger Amy McGrath to claim his seventh term early Tuesday. McConnell, 78,…
Mitch McConnell: Let’s keep our front row seat in the U.S. Senate
When I first went to the Senate, I was the lowest man on the totem pole with a desk in…