Rand Paul wants you to overpay for insulin. Can’t afford it? Tough.
Kentucky’s junior senator, who’s seeking a third term on Nov. 8, voted against a $35-per-month cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs for people not on Medicare.
Berry Craig
Berry Craig is a professor emeritus of history at West KY Community College, and an author of seven books and co-author of two more. (Read the rest on the Contributors page.)
Arlington, KY
‘They have no way to get out until the bridges are rebuilt’
An update on the trip to EKY by Jeff Wiggins and Jerald Adkins to see how unions can help.
Wiggins: Helping eastern Kentucky flood victims is more important than Fancy Farm
“It’s more important to help the people of eastern Kentucky who are hurting in the floods than to go to Fancy Farm and listen to anti-worker politicians bash other politicians who support working people,” Wiggins said.
Kansans say no to a “reproductive police state.” Will Kyians do the same?
The abortion amendment on this fall’s ballot is basically the same rejected last night in Kansas. Will the results be the same? And is the KY GOP worried?
I’m not going to Fancy Farm. Here’s why.
For years and years, I’ve gone to the famous political picnic at Fancy Farm, Kentucky. But not this year. Here’s why.
The proposal
I expected ample flora and fauna photo ops on our road trip to Alaska – and lots of knock-your-socks-off mountain scenery, to boot. I didn’t figure on photographing a marriage proposal.
Whose party has the Kentucky GOP _actually_ aligned with?
SOS Michael Adams was more than happy to proclaim “the birthplace of Lincoln has finally aligned with the party of Lincoln.” But an objective look at the facts puts the lie to Adams’s claim.
Our UAW-made Buick just took us, trouble free, the equivalent of three round trips by air from New York to London, with nearly 1,200 miles to spare
Need more proof – as it were needed – that UAW members make rugged, dependable, smooth-riding vehicles?
A perfect sign juxtaposition
Sometimes putting two signs next to each other points to the actual truth. Berry Craig shows why these two signs belong together.
Making the First Amendment a bird-cage bottom liner
Most people of faith believe that women should have sovereignty over their bodies, and that abortion is for a woman and her doctor to decide — not six reactionary Supreme Court justices joined by politicians who see opposing abortion as a sure-fire way to score points with their base.
The Puritans in black robes
Nobody would be more joyful over the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade than the Puritans of old, the religious bigots who dreamed of making America a conservative Christian theocracy in their image.
Democracy is on the line on November 8
If Repubs take the House and Senate this fall, authoritarianism will follow. If they take the White House in 2024, the American experiment will be finished.
Our national pandemic of 'sick individualism'
What the coronavirus has revealed is the power of America’s cult of selfishness.
Memorial Day: Remembering soldiers who gave all, came home in flag-draped coffins
Memorial Day is about more than barbecues and an extra day off. Berry Craig reminds us of the real meaning of the day.
There’s a feedback loop in rural America – and Democrats didn’t cause it
Are Dems guilty of abandoning rural America? Or is something else going on? A researcher shares some possible answers.
Paul and the rest of the GOP field: 'too dangerous, too craven, and too extreme'
Berry Craig took President Biden’s statement on the PA primary and modified it just a wee bit to fit Kentucky.
