Political Campaigns

May 17th I don't feel obligated   I had a lovely dinner with a couple of friends recently.  The food was so so, the company was great.  When the checks arrived, we started talking about tips.  I mentioned that I tip before the tax.  My friend replied...

 HARRODSBURG — Beth Neal may never have run for office before, but her motto, “Experience Matters,” seemed to have resonated with the voters of Mercer County, who cast 60 percent of their 2,189 votes in her favor. She will serve as...

   Spend long enough in office, and your political opponents generally won't have trouble taking a swipe at your fiscal stewardship. Higher taxes? No doubt.    Higher salaries? Yep. Higher debt? Sure.    If it's all true, it's all fair game for a...

I enjoyed Ron Kaye’s column, “Making a true effort to connect,” in the May 22 edition of the News-Press & Leader. Kaye and I are the same age. We have lived through the same eras, and I know what he is saying and feeling about the...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver may be "terminating" their marriage. They announced that they are separating after 25 years of marriage and Maria moved out a couple of weeks ago. "After a great deal of thought, reflection, discussion and prayer,...

Alaskan Sen. Lisa Murkowski demands -- and gets -- an apology after member of opponent's campaign staff tweets an apparent slur about his rival....

The dramatic changes in the news media are having an effect on the way politics is practiced. It???s a profound change, said Jack Furnari of Boca Raton, a conservative activist who???s active in the Republican Party, serves as a political......

Every so often, a legendary Israeli institution falls from grace. In 1995, the Shin Bet failed to protect Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from assassination; in 1997, the Mossad loudly bungled an attempt to assassinate Khaled Meshaal in Jordan and more......

Rick Scott's victory speech focused on going after “Tallahassee insiders.” Those insiders — the folks running state government – are, like Scott, Republicans. If Scott should somehow beat Alex Sink in November, how on...