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Commentary
Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
Fat pitches from Cameron
In honor of the baseball playoffs, Berry Craig points out some of Daniel Cameron’s fattest pitches – including one just waiting to be smacked back at him.
Daily Beast follows the money: Daniel Cameron’s $42 million bet on psychedelic drug ibogaine
The Lexington Times looks at the Daily Beast investigation of Cameron allocating money for ibogaine treatment.
Voting straight D is the only sensible choice this election
Some elections are complex and multi-faceted. This one is not.
Prevention is conspicuously absent from Louisville Republicans’ ‘Safer Kentucky’ plan
Our lawmakers work hard at protecting guns – but ignore protecting us.
Putin’s war on Ukraine bears alarming historical parallels
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Santayana
Candidates try to have it both ways on abortion
Cameron shows some sympathy for the exception in order to attract moderates, but not so much that he turns off voters like the woman at Wickliffe. Beshear stays vague on a big issue while rightly depicting Cameron as a would-be governor who won’t advance the position held by most voters.
Daniel Cameron, you're no Ed Morrow
Can someone run a strong campaign for governor without stooping to demagoguery? Republican “Howdy Ed” Morrow did. Daniel Cameron needs to learn from Morrow’s example.
MAGA Republicans and Neville Chamberlain
“Appeasement didn’t work then. It won’t work now.”
Republican incompetence sets the stage for a Sunday government shutdown
We don’t know how long the shutdown will last or how badly it will damage the nation, but we do know who will be responsible.
STATEMENT: Another impeachment talking point blows up in James Comer’s face
Former Ukrainian president Poroshenko says Comer is wrong about President Biden’s involvement in Ukraine.
Republicans are embracing anti-vaccine disinformation. So what happens next?
Conservatism has become anti-science, which means they are anti-vax as well. How do we protect ourselves?
Brereton Jones leaves lessons for reformist politicians
Kentucky never had a governor quite like Brereton Jones, who died Monday, and it may never again. His legacy is one of reform, with lessons for reformers.
The shutdown is the Two Santa Clauses SCAM rearing its ugly head again
Hopefully this time Democratic politicians and our media will, finally, call the GOP out on Wanniski’s and Reagan’s Two Santa Clauses scam and put an end to it once and for all…
Vile
The virus of hate, made worse by Donald Trump, is infecting our society and threatening our democracy. What will we do about it?
We have some dysfunctional county parties. Is yours one of them?
We’ve got a problem. Dysfunction, and even disease, is causing some of our local Democratic parties to be struggling. Let’s name it, and fix it.
