If I were a college football coach, I would not want to take a 6-6 team to a bowl game. Any team that’s good enough to win only half its games meets the definition of mediocrity, and I don’t believe mediocrity should be rewarded. Somehow I believe that Mr. Paul “Bear” Bryant, Mr. Knute Rockne, […]

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Nobody asked me, but…
I HAVE a wonderful idea to deal with Kentucky’s revenue shortfall: Add one per cent to the sales tax on all fast-food. It should be an easy sell to the General Assembly if we used the same convoluted logic that’s being used to promote an increase in the cigarette tax.
The medical […]

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VMI is an old private military school that prides itself on the leaders it prepares for both the military and the business world. Its most famous graduate is Gen. George Marshall, author of the “Marshall Plan” that rebuilt Europe after World War II. It has about 1,200 students, give or take a few future lieutenants.
Vanderbilt […]

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Ever since I got into the journalism dodge almost 50 years ago, I’ve tried to judge coaches by more than their won-lost records. I’ve tried to applaud coaches who play by the rules and deplore those who don’t. I’ve always believed what I learned from coaches such as S.T. Roach, C.M. Newton, and Bob Knight […]

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At 6:20 a.m. on the day the world changed, it was so dark in the parking lot of the suburban church that you could make out the signs, “Vote Here,” only when they loomed in the headlights. The voter was surprised to find the lot so full of cars that he needed a few moments […]

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This year’s Presidential election is more important than most because never in our nation’s history has our government strayed as far from our fundamental American values as it has in the eight-year reign of George W. Bush and his Machiavellian Vice-President, Dick Cheney.
From President Bill Clinton they inherited a federal government that was at peace […]

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