Rand Paul sat in the office of his Bowling Green ophthalmology practice just before lunch on a Friday last month. He was on the phone, talking about his opposition to the cap-and-trade legislation that was defeated earlier this year in the U.S. Congress. Talk of the Environmental Protection Agency overreaching its authority peppered the conversation. [...]
The Kentucky State Fair is in full swing this week, and Rand Paul has more support in evidence than can be believed. There has been almost constant traffic at the booth for the past week, and thousands of “Rand fans” and bumper stickers have been distributed, along with hundreds of buttons, [...]