Who’s Afraid of Rand Paul?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 19, 2010 Tuesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side.Count me as one lefty liberal who is not the least bit unhappy with the victory by Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pick a Number Between One and Six

Staff / Truthdig Apr 10, 2010 "Between one and six." That's the number of nuclear weapons that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes North Korea to have, a rare public utterance on the estimated number of such weapons the Hermit Kingdom may possess. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Blame Bunning

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 3, 2010 How convenient that seemingly everyone in the liberal blogosphere, and even at many points to the right, got to use Jim Bunning as a scapegoat. The venom of the attacks suggests that the maverick Republican senator from Kentucky provided a welcome alternative to the real villains: bankers much closer to the centers of power. How convenient that seemingly everyone in the liberal blogosphere, and even at many points to the right, got to use Jim Bunning as a scapegoat. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Daily Show’: Jim Bunning Feels Jim Bunning’s Pain

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2010 Objection-raising robot Sen. Jim Bunning sure had his day, and his night, on Friday, what with his single-handed stymieing of the proposed extension of health care and unemployment benefits for out-of-work Americans. But, as he pointed out near the end of Friday's jousting session on the Senate floor, it's not as if he wasn't inconvenienced himself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sen. Bunning Stalls Jobless Benefits Bill

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2010 Sen. Jim Bunning was not a popular man among his Democratic colleagues this week. The Kentucky Republican, apparently so concerned about the federal budget deficit that he thought it unwise to allow the passage of legislation extending unemployment and health care help to jobless Americans, enacted a "one-man filibuster," as the Los Angeles Times put it, and didn't budge on Friday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Split in Kentucky, Oregon Primaries

Staff / Truthdig May 21, 2008 As predicted, Hillary Clinton won Tuesday's Kentucky primary by a huge margin while Barack Obama took the contest in Oregon with a substantial lead. Although Clinton scored another impressive victory, the Obama campaign says it now has a majority of the pledged delegates at stake, hinting that the race is effectively over. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Huckabee’s Major Misfire

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2008 Good thing Mike Huckabee isn't in the running for the presidency anymore -- he'd be hard-pressed to spin his way out of the truly horrific crack he made Friday at an NRA event in Louisville, Ky. That's hardly important, considering the troubling implications of his failed joke, which called up the image of Democratic candidate Barack Obama being targeted by a gun-wielding assailant. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Democrats’ Lump of Coal

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2008 Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agree on many issues, but it's a bit surprising to see two candidates who've talked so much about the climate crisis and a new green economy tout their love of coal. Obama has an ad up in Kentucky that claims "Barack understands" the plight of the coal industry, while Clinton has promised voters in the state she would put more money into coal programs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Congressman Apologizes to Obama

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2008 U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis of Kentucky has asked Barack Obama's forgiveness for a racially charged comment about the candidate's readiness to handle national security. Davis told a group of fellow Republicans Saturday, "That boy's finger does not need to be on the button." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Disneyland for Creationists

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2007 Welcome to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where vegetarian dinosaurs play with human children and 60 million years in their evolutionary age just disappears. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )