In a ‘best of us’ moment, Tom Cotton shows the worst of us
On the anniversary of MKL’s assassination, and even at Justice Brown was being confirmed, Tom Cotton decided to instead take the slime road.
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
A sailor finally comes home
Hal Jake Allison left Paducah for the Navy in 1939. He’s coming home Friday for burial in the city’s Maplelawn Park Cemetery.
The ethnic entrepreneurs of today’s GOP
“Ethnic entrepreneur” might sound like a successful minority businessperson. But It’s not; it means “instigators of racial conflict.” And some of the GOP are taking up the practice.
The GOP's social Darwinist juggernaut keeps rolling with HB 4
The GOP in Frankfort: “If we cut benefits, and make it harder to get them, it will make those lazy people get back to work -- even at the low wages we pay.”
Jenkins: HB 9 is a Republican donor pleaser
“The GOP majority had to change the House rules to ram through a charter school bill and appease their special interest donors from outside the Commonwealth.”
Sending missionaries to MAGAs
Brian Clardy, devout Democrat, proposes that the Kentucky Democratic party dispatch missionaries to the land of the white folks in the red MAGA hats.
Straub: It’s not the economy any more
“There are two issues in Kentucky: gun control and abortion,” said veteran journalist Bill Straub. “Economic issues aren’t going to get it done [for Democrats] in Kentucky.”
Labor steps up to the plate to help communities
Think “solidarity,” that old union byword, is just an empty phrase these days? Think again.
Twenty-two years later, antisemitism still lives in the legislature
Twenty-two years ago, a state rep was “seriously lacking in understanding any faith other than Christianity.” Apparently, things haven’t changed much.
GOP antisemitism in Frankfort
Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head again, this time in a debate about abortion. Berry Craig says its time for those GOPers to get their facts straight – including about Giftgaz.
State AFL-CIO backs Booker, McGarvey
The Kentucky State AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed former state representative Charles Booker for the U.S. Senate and state Senate Minority Leader Morgan McGarvey for Congress in the Third District.
Vlad the Invader and Trump the Chump
If you’re Putin, why attack Ukraine during Trump’s term, when Trump is doing all he can to pave the way for a future invasiion?
Reactions to passage of “Teaching American Principles Act”
Numerous individuals and organizations spoke out against SB 138, the “Teaching American Principles Act,” after it was passed on Thursday by the Kentucky Senate. Here are some of those reactions.
Senate passes “curriculum guidance” bill
The Kentucky Senate has approved one of four controversial Republican-sponsored bills that are aimed at limiting discussion of systemic racism in schools.
Sorry, Repubs – the bills are still a load of whitewash
Sen. Wise made some changes to his SB 138 bill, hoping to make it more palatable. Berry Craig says it is still trying to whitewash our shared history.
Dear Vlad – better read your history books
Before he goes all-out against Ukraine, wannabe Czar Vladimir I might crack a Russian history book about Nicholas II, the last czar.
