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Commentary

Gun advocacy has now become a parody

When I was growing up in the Cold War era, teachers instructed their pupils in the fine art ... Read more

Commentary

For the GOP, it’s defintley re-evaluation time

WASHINGTON — The morning after, at breakfast at the Republicans’ Capitol Hill Club, U.S. Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., ... Read more

Ministries

Grimes ‘broke promise’

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and his supporters say Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes broke her promise ... Read more

Commentary

The roar of Europe’s protest vote

WASHINGTON — When the dyspeptic poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who loathed Belgium even more than most things, was ... Read more

Commentary

Alison Grimes got her guy and it’s Barack Obama

Kentucky U. S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes was a proud Barack Obama delegate at the 2012 Democratic ... Read more

Our Opinion

Mr. Reid: Give McConnell’s coal legislation a read

Since taking the oath of office, Obama has made it clear he is no friend to the coal ... Read more

Commentary

To reform, Ukraine will need Western support

On meeting Ukraine’s president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, in Warsaw Wednesday, President Barack Obama said the United States was “absolutely ... Read more

Commentary

What’s the matter with Louisville?

There is simply no denying it. For far too long Louisville has been mismanaged and performed poorly in ... Read more

Commentary

Obama is failing to lead on foreign policy

Having just returned from Ukraine, I found it hard to recognize the world President Barack Obama described in ... Read more

Commentary

Showdown in Tar Heel country

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “Twenty-four times” is Thom Tillis’ answer, delivered with a faint flicker of a Cheshire Cat ... Read more