Rand Paul

The Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce/AT&T Public Policy event with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed to Sept. 1. The times and location for the event remain unchanged: 11-45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Danville Country Club. Those who already made reservations for the event and cannot make the rescheduled date are asked to call the chamber at (859) 236-2361 as soon as possible so a refund can be issued. Additional reservations for the event are still available.

I attended the recent Danville/Boyle County Chamber of Commerce luncheon at which Rand Paul spoke. I appreciate the chamber for presenting the forum and my son for the invitation to attend with him that day. The event was well-planned and helpful. Questions were on point and respectful. Sen. Paul is the most thought-provoking politician in our state from either party. He does not retreat into the safety of “political-speak,” saying a lot of words but always using them in a manner intended more to be unoffensive than enlightening.

Thanks are due to the Boyle County Chamber of Commerce for bringing our junior Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, to its Chamber/AT&T Public Policy Series last Wednesday, and to Sen. Paul for working Boyle County into his tight schedule.   During the question and answer session after the talk, I asked Paul about the recently released World Health Organization figures on infant mortality rates around the world. The U.S. has fallen to 41st, behind all other developed countries. We are now tied with Qatar and Croatia.

HARRODSBURG - Rand Paul didn't make the meal - Dunn's BBQ did - but the upstart U.S. senator certainly had folks eating out of his hands Thursday at a Mercer County Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Unlike when he visited Danville last year, where he was met by protestors, Paul received a standing ovation when he was introduced and another one when he finished his 15-minute presentation where he bashed Big Government, President Obama and Democrats in general. “I enjoyed listening to him,” said Sage Cutler, who voted for Paul but had never seen him in person.

Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul made a stop in Nicholasville on Friday. He met with a group of about 50 supporters at the Jessamine County Republican Headquarters around 3 p.m

Few political figures incite more interest than U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his appearance Thursday in Danville didn't fail to draw crowds of both supporters and detractors. Paul was the featured speaker at the Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce Public Policy Series luncheon at the Danville Country Club. He drew easily the largest crowd yet - well over 100 people -   as well as the first throng of protestors to show up for one of the events. Paul, a figurehead for the insurgent Tea Party movement that carried him and other candidates into office last fall, gave a speech packed with his ideas on issues ranging from entitlement reform to what Paul sees as the onerous effects of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Hands off of Social Security Dear Editor, Every voter should demand the government pay back the money they owe to the Social Security Fund. This reveals why Washington says Social Security is in trouble. If it is not paid back, it would mean a default by the U.S. government. There are a lot of people who didn't know that our leaders raided the Social Security Fund to the tune of $2.6 trillion and have tried to keep it hush-hush. Also, I feel this is stealing. They should be charged with a felony.

Truth be told, if Dr. Rand Paul had not won his race for the United States Senate against all odds, I probably wouldn’t have read his book or written this column about it. But he is a leader in one of the most fascinating political dramas of the last decade, and when I saw “The Tea Party Goes to Washington” at Barnes & Noble two weeks ago, I couldn’t resist buying a copy and devouring it. One has to respect the abilities of...

This editorial almost didn't get written, that is until Monday's U.S. Senate debate over text inserted  in the 2012 Defense Authorization Act by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) giving the Executive Branch unasked for authority to use military force anywhere in the world to detain persons suspected of terrorism. There was enough ambiguity in Section 1031 that one could argue that it didn't apply to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, but McCain's defense of the authority (which he tried to keep secret)

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 statutory contract between Kentucky and its pensioners really is “inviolable.” There must be new state legislative districts before the 2014 elections. The current ones are way out of balance because of population changes since the last redistricting more than a decade ago. As a result, some parts of Kentucky are getting more representation than they should and others far less.

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 from the attention. A comical clown corps of Democratic “activists” managed to do what previously seemed impossible. Their illegal recording of a private McConnell campaign strategy session made him into a sympathetic victim. The three stooges reportedly involved in perpetrating, witnessing, and publicizing the privacy invasion are no strangers to controversy, and worse.

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. After failing to get clear assurances from the Obama administration that it would not use drones to target Americans on U.S. soil without due process or a trial, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the United States Senate at 11:47 a.m. and did not yield it back until after midnight.

LIBERTY - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul opened his visit to Casey County Friday by delivering some breaking news from Washington. "I don't know if you've heard this yet, but I heard reports about it all the way here - the Federal Reserve has been robbed," Paul told the crowd of about 100 gathering in the Pork Producers building at the Ag/Expo Center, and then he paused for affect. "The robbers were confused. They didn't know what to do with (negative) $16 trillion. " That bit of deficit humor was the only time Paul made light of an issue he considers the most serious the country faces.

I spent most of Martin Luther King Jr. Day watching the inauguration ceremonies. When I look at our president, I see a superbly educated, intelligent and capable man who inherited an economy that was in ruins, an auto industry that was near bankruptcy, and two wars being fought on a credit card. On the night of his inauguration in 2009, the leaders of the Republican Party met in secret to plot their strategy, which was not to cooperate with the president in any way on any issue.

One of Kentucky's best known elected officials weighed in recently on how the state should prevent massacres like the one in Newtown, Conn. Sen. Rand Paul's ideas were characteristically bold, but also off the mark.  Paul told a group of Oldham County business leaders last week he believes teachers and principals who obtain licenses to carry concealed firearms should be allowed to do so on the job. It's not surprising that Paul, a patron saint...

HARRODSBURG - Rand Paul didn't make the meal - Dunn's BBQ did - but the upstart U.S. senator certainly had folks eating out of his hands Thursday at a Mercer County Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Unlike when he visited Danville last year, where he was met by protestors, Paul received a standing ovation when he was introduced and another one when he finished his 15-minute presentation where he bashed Big Government, President Obama and Democrats in general. “I enjoyed listening to him,” said Sage Cutler, who voted for Paul but had never seen him in person.

This editorial almost didn't get written, that is until Monday's U.S. Senate debate over text inserted  in the 2012 Defense Authorization Act by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) giving the Executive Branch unasked for authority to use military force anywhere in the world to detain persons suspected of terrorism. There was enough ambiguity in Section 1031 that one could argue that it didn't apply to U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, but McCain's defense of the authority (which he tried to keep secret)

Hands off of Social Security Dear Editor, Every voter should demand the government pay back the money they owe to the Social Security Fund. This reveals why Washington says Social Security is in trouble. If it is not paid back, it would mean a default by the U.S. government. There are a lot of people who didn't know that our leaders raided the Social Security Fund to the tune of $2.6 trillion and have tried to keep it hush-hush. Also, I feel this is stealing. They should be charged with a felony.

I attended the recent Danville/Boyle County Chamber of Commerce luncheon at which Rand Paul spoke. I appreciate the chamber for presenting the forum and my son for the invitation to attend with him that day. The event was well-planned and helpful. Questions were on point and respectful. Sen. Paul is the most thought-provoking politician in our state from either party. He does not retreat into the safety of “political-speak,” saying a lot of words but always using them in a manner intended more to be unoffensive than enlightening.