Opinion – Bill Straub: ‘Another fine mess’ with more to come as a government shutdown looms
Well, voters of America, congratulations. You wanted chaos? You got it. In spades. And the game hasn’t even started yet….
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Opinion – Al Cross: When McConnell leaves, who will slice the bacon for us?
Mitch McConnell is on his way out – first as Senate Republican leader, at the end of this year, then…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Tone down the rhetoric indeed — moderating rants should apply as well
That old sourpuss, Sen. Rand Paul, is bellyaching that the foes of America’s very own Prince Charming, Republican presidential candidate…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Rand Paul is the same ol’ — always against and never for
Sen. Rand Paul is yet again going about the task that he isn’t particularly easy to get along with. The…
Opinion – Bill Straub: Spreading misinformation is form of cheating; setting record straight isn’t censorship
If Sen. Rand Paul gets his way, Lord help us all, the nation may find itself expanding the Bill of…
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: 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…
Op-Ed – Rand Paul: Say ‘No’ to attack on Kentucky school archery and hunting programs
I know I’m preaching to the choir when I say that the Biden Administration is waging an unprecedented war on…
Election ’22: Rand Paul wants to ‘continue his efforts on your behalf’ in the U.S. Senate
As I travel across Kentucky, I’m often asked if Congress is as angry a place as the media depicts. The…
Bill Straub: Flipping off science, Sen. Rand Paul prattles on, ever defiant and woefully ill-informed
After having witnessed Sen. Rand Paul in action over these past 11 years, listened to his unsettling attempts at oratory…
Bill Straub: McConnell urges vaccinations against COVID, is ‘perplexed’ they are falling below expectations
Mitch McConnell admits to being “perplexed.” Let’s see if we can straighten things out for him. The Senate Republican leader…
Bill Straub: If you wonder what’s up, it’s that Mitch McConnell, GOP are ready to ‘Defend White People’
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is notorious for playing things close to the vest. This is the man who, after…
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul touch on impeachment issue in speeches to Federalist Society in Frankfort
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Both of Kentucky’s U.S. Senators weighed in on the impeachment inquiry involving President Donald Trump…
Bill Straub: Rand Paul’s excuse for voting against 9/11 victim’s compensation bill was deficit. Really?
Sen. Rand Paul wants it both ways. That, as you likely realize, is par for the course with politicians who…
Bill Straub: Lear on Twitter and other things we are witnessing in the wake of the Mueller report
John Leroy Maxwell authored a poem, later set to music, about a drunken degenerate who passes out in the gutter….
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: Think of all the great acts. Give big round of applause for McConnell, Paul and Trump?
In the past, we’ve had Laurel and Hardy, Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello. Now we have McConnell and Trump….
Bill Straub: Mitch McConnell is in an uncomfortable spot (and he did vote to impeach Clinton)
Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell said a lot the other day by saying nothing. Asked by a reporter at…
Bill Straub: Trump Derangement Syndrome aside, there are plenty of legitimate questions about Putin
To Sen. Rand Paul, it can all be chalked up to Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). The Republican lawmaker from Bowling…
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: The ‘lone wolf’ joins the pack, as Rand Paul hands committee green light to Mike Pompeo
WASHINGTON – Back a little more than five years ago, Sen. Rand Paul marched onto the floor of the upper…
Bill Straub: How does Rand really feel? He was for it before he was against it — is that right?
Harken back for just a moment to the 2004 political season when John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, rather clumsily…
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