Rand Paul

There is a good chance that three political issues will soon become legal issues. Look for courts to decide the constitutionality of state legislative redistricting, if Rand Paul can be on the 2016 ballot for both President and Senator, and whether the...

It's a television scene familiar to most of us over 20 years old: Wile E. Coyote buys himself an ACME catapult and assembles it, aiming a huge, red rock to land on a black "X" where he anticipates the elusive Roadrunner will pass by. As Coyote lies in...

In 1796, after heroic military service and two presidential terms, George Washington announced his retirement from public service. His farewell address may be the most underappreciated document in America’s political canon.  Washington did not...

Last week was a good one for Kentucky’s U. S. Senators. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul dominated the news. Despite hostile media’s best efforts to portray recent events as somehow damaging to the ubiquitous Republican duo, both men benefitted...

What began as a simple, straightforward question on Wednesday concerning the White House’s secret drone program eventually turned into the boldest stance taken by any lawmaker — whether from Washington or Frankfort — in a long time....

FRANKFORT — It may be a difficult road toward getting Kentucky legislators to approve a legal framework that would repeal the ban on industrial hemp production, but Agriculture Commissioner James Comer is not giving up. The House Agriculture and...

Congressional leaders have not passed a federal budget in four years and have continued to kick the can down the road with continuing resolutions rather than solve America’s spending and debt problems. If major corporations operated in that manner,...

Less than 150 years ago, industrial hemp was big business in central Kentucky, and Clark County was at the center of the industry. It could return to the region as a cash crop, depending on what action the Kentucky General Assembly takes during its 30-...

One of the primary political experts on the MSNBC's stage at Centre College during coverage of Thursday's vice presidential debate was making a return trip to the state where his career in journalism got its start. Howard Fineman, editorial director of...

The Norton Center for the Arts supplanted the U.S. Capitol Building as the backdrop of choice for television interviews with Kentucky’s congressional delegation in the hours before Thursday’s vice presidential debate. The zingers were...

As Centre College prepares for tonight’s vice-presidential debate, media personalities from all over the world have begun arriving in Danville.  About 3,200 media personnel are expected to attend the event. For some, it will be their first time...

Two area men are among the thousands of political movers and shakers forced to wait out weather that forced the postponement of the first day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Dr. Naren James of Stanford and Garrard County Attorney Mark...