Republicans are learning all about karma first-hand as they return to their districts and face angry constituents who are upset that they may soon be losing their health insurance and the fact that Donald Trump...
Mitch McConnell may not realize it just yet, but when he objected to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's reading of a letter written by Coretta Scott King, he may well have launched the presidential candidacy of...
Two abortion bills have been approved in Kentucky, with the fine print being unusually cruel. Thanks to Senate Bill 5, Kentucky women are now banned from abortions at or after 20 weeks of gestation unless...
Kentucky Senate president Robert Stivers meeting with local officials (image courtesy Stivers' Twitter)
The South was a killing field for the Democrats in 2016, but particularly so in Kentucky. The Republicans rode the wave of Donald Trump easily carrying the state to win complete control of state government...
A white woman went on a verbal tirade against Hispanic shoppers at the Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Kentucky, and as a result the racist windbag is now banned for life from the mall. The woman, seen in...
coal
Recently, the Young Turks interviewed a young white millennial raised in the heart of America's coal country, and what he had to say is straight out of the Republican Party's worst nightmare. Nic Smith describes himself as...
Rand Paul at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
We already knew that Donald Trump isn't going to get a free ride on Capitol Hill, even though the GOP has complete control of the federal government for only the second time in nine decades....
Ken Ham
Attendance must be slipping at evangelical ringmaster Ken Ham’s Creation “Museum.” The famous young earth creationist is nothing if not media savvy. He has a penchant for generating controversy when he needs an injection of...
Liars tell lies. It's what they do. And no one tells more lies than President-elect Donald Trump, who tells three lies for every breath of oxygen he takes. The latest blatant lie comes to us from...
kkk groups targeting in kentucky
A KKK group calling themselves the Traditionalist American Knights is reportedly targeting households in rural Kentucky with threatening flyers. The flyers warn those reading them that they are in 'KKK country' and to be 'Beware.' And...
kim davis
A little over a year ago, a Kentucky county clerk decided that her bigoted beliefs were more important than a decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States. You know, the decision that made...
How badly is Donald Trump harming the Republican Party which nominated him? So much that now even the deep red state of Kentucky--home state of Senate Majority Mitch McConnell--is now a toss up and Trump's...
Racist "bishop" Dan Johnson (image from Heart of Fire's Facebook page)
Last weekend, I told you about Dan Johnson, a Louisville-based pastor and self-proclaimed bishop who is running for the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Republican. Apparently he got the bright idea to plaster disgustingly...
Racist "bishop" Dan Johnson (image from Heart of Fire's Facebook page)
Just when you thought that the anti-Obama hate had finally died down, a pastor and state house candidate in Kentucky revealed just how nasty the hate still is. He plastered several blatantly racist memes on...
The United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch made a big announcement about marijuana. One of the most popular arguments against the legalization of marijuana is the false belief that marijuana is a "gateway drug." People think that...
Mark Bevin
There’s nothing quite like a Values Voters Summit to bring out the most unhinged of right wing crackpots and hypocrites. These “summits” are sponsored by RWNJ Tony Perkins and his Family Research Council (FRC). You...
Ark Encounter parking lot
Last month we wrote about Ken Ham’s abysmal Ark Encounter launch and how the economic boom he prophesied was not coming to fruition for many Kentuckians. Without validated attendance numbers it is difficult to truly tell...
Parents charged with criminal abuse
Two parents, Kimberly Powell, 26, and Andrew Powell, 25, in Franklin County, Kentucky, were indicted Monday after their three children – ages 2, 4, and 6 – were found starving, living in horrible conditions with...
The Kentucky Supreme Court issued an order Thursday that will keep the door shut at the state's only full-time abortion provider. The court's opinion agreed with virulently anti-choice state leaders that EMW Women’s Clinic in Lexington...
Ken Ham Ark Encounter
Earlier this summer, creationist Ken Ham opened the massive waste of lumber known as the Ark Encounter. The Ken Ham creation located in Williamstown, Kentucky, claims to be a life sized re-creation of Noah's ark from...