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Occupy Louisville protests NDAA by Occupying Mitch McConnell [Opinion: The Arena]
Occupy Louisville protested Senator Mitch McConnell's support of the National Defense Authorization Act [NDAA] today outside the Gene Snyder Federal Courthouse on West Broadway with a demonstration they called "Occupy Mitch McConnell". Senator McConnell earned Occupy's undivided attention because both of Louisville's other two federal representatives, Senator Rand Paul and Congressman John Yarmuth, voted against the bill because of controversial provisions that many believe could lead to egregious civil rights abuses.
Kentucky senators respond to president’s SOTU speech [Opinion: The Arena]
On Tuesday, before President Obama gave his third State of the Union address, Kentucky’s senior senator, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell accurately predicted that the president would present a “blueprint for the economy.” “What he fails to mention,” said McConnell, “is that we’ve been working off the President’s blueprint for three years.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul detained by TSA at Nashville airport [Opinion: The Arena]
Kentucky’s junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, was detained at the Nashville airport this morning by agents of the Transportation Security Agency, and it was all over the news. Many were describing it as a show-down between a libertarian senator and the Obama police state.
Rand Paul promises to fight against internet censorship [Opinion: The Arena]
Kentucky’s junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, threw down his gauntlet in the SOPA and PIPA battle today, promising to “…oppose, filibuster and do everything in my power to stop government censorship of the Internet." SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," pending in the House of Representatives, and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act" ("IP" stands for "intellectual property"), pending in the Senate.
Rand Paul for vice president? [Opinion: The Arena]
Unlike our local newspaper, the internet is virtually exploding with suggestions that Kentucky’s junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, would make an ideal vice-presidential candidate for Republican front-runner Gov. Mitt Romney in this year’s presidential race. In fact, if you Google “Rand Paul Vice President,” you’ll get a reference to almost 24 million hits.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul returns $500,000 from his Senate office fund [Opinion: The Arena]
Rand Paul announced today that his office will return $500,000 of the $3 million allotment he received to fund his official business in 2011 to the US Treasury.
Mitch McConnell kicks the Tea Party to the curb [Opinion: The Arena]
Mitch McConnell didn't like the Tea Party from the get go. He is a strategist -- a chess player. You could tell from the start that the Senate minority leader saw no upside whatsoever in having the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan represented by idiots like Christine O'Donnell, borderline personalities like Sharron Angle, or know-nothings like Rand Paul. But, ever being that strategist, he also realized that the Tea Party was poised to have a good run for a couple years.
Don’t expect a ‘Merry Christmas’ from your congressman [Opinion: The Arena]
We received the following message from Kentucky’s junior senator, Republican Rand Paul:
"Kelley and I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best wishes to you and your family during this holiday season. Merry Christmas, Kentucky."
A Holiday Message From Sen. Rand Paul and Kelley Paul
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul cuts his own hair [Opinion: The Arena]
We expect that some readers will not consider this a monumentally important political news story, but we were simply fascinated to learn that Kentucky’s junior senator, Republican Rand Paul, cuts his own hair.
The Paul family's partial truth about the Federal Reserve [Opinion: The Arena]
The father and son Paul duo, Ron and Rand, have been pointing to the Federal Reserve's low interest rates, primarily under the Bush administration, as the primary factor in creating the housing bubble. If we do some root cause analysis on this, we find that the Fed's low interest rates were a contributing factor, but they were not the only contributing factor, and they were also not even the primary factor.
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