by Richard Nelson | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
Kentucky has a high percentage of its kids living in poverty. In fact, it's close to 25 percent according to Kentucky Youth Advocates. Nearly half of Kentucky's children live in low-income homes or 200 percent of the poverty level. So in an age of...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
Is America a good idea? The idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? According to Dartmouth professor Mark Bray, the answer is no. Bray wrote an op-ed entitled "How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe." He said "The world...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog
Do you know that what you have is a gift? What I mean is that by being an American citizen you have a great gift and one that people come from all over the world to experience. Think about it, we have freedom of speech and the right to assemble. We can worship...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog
The elections are behind us and many of you are probably very glad since your no longer subjected to negative ads. Regardless of how your favored candidates did it's important to be reminded that election aren't everything. They're important, yes. Good...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
Today is the observance for Veteran's Day. It was originally known as Armistice Day which marked the silencing of the guns of WWI on November 11, 1918. Now we honor all our veterans who've ever served in our armed forces. National defense may be...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog
The Pakistani Supreme Court freed Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy. Protests erupted in the streets but the court found that the evidence wasn't sufficient. The court said Bibi "appears to be a person, in the...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
Recent acts of racially motivated violence has gripped us. Two black people were killed at a Louisville Kroger. And 11 worshipers were killed at The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Any act of violence is tragic. In response to racial violence CNN...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
The second largest lottery jackpot ticket in history was sold in South Carolina the other week. The winner of the $1.54 billion prize hasn't yet come forward. And why should they? They'll be hounded the rest of their lives. Prior to the drawing, ticket sales...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog
If you haven't heard, there's an election today! It's the mid-terms where every Congressman and one-third of the U.S. Senate are up for re-election. Traditionally, the party out of power in the White House picks up Congressional seat. Some see a blue wave...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 5, 2018 | Opinion Pieces
The robo-call I received the other day from Pres. Trump endorsing incumbent state House member Walker Thomas (R-Hopkinsville) confirmed that Kentucky's state House races have been nationalized. Similar calls went out in 29 state House districts last Wednesday and...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog
Eleven people were killed and several others injured after a gunman entered The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and shouted "all Jews must die!" The FBI is now investigating in what many are calling a hate crime. So how do we respond to such tragedy?...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog
Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife were harassed again at a Louisville restaurant. A man came up to his table and started yelling at him and then threw his take-out box on the ground. It's becoming common for protestors to publicly berate and harass political...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse just released a book called Them: Why we hate each other and how to heal. It's a fantastic book that diagnoses what ails us and how to restore our societal health. Sasse points out that we are more affluent than ever. We live in bigger...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog
Is the right to vote a universal human right? In other words, does it matter if you're a legal citizen to vote in an election? If you're in San Francisco, the answer is no. San Francisco is now allowing non-citizens to vote in school board races. That's...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog
Time Magazine recently asked: What Could Happen If the Federal Government Redefined Gender? It's an interesting question on a number of levels but it needs to be asked if anyone—including the government, can redefine something so concrete as gender. The...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog
The pictures on the nightly news are jarring: thousands of migrants from Central America pushing their way through Mexico, sometimes overwhelming police checkpoints in order to press on toward the United States. Some have likened it to a small army and an invasion....
by Richard Nelson | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog
The fierce battle over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gives us a snapshot of the political left's rage and the energy they'll take into the November election. They're on the outside of Washington's political power and they're doing all...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog
There's an effort to restore rights to victims of crime in Kentucky. It's called Marsy's law and it requires the courts to notify crime victims and their families of judicial proceedings and parole hearings. But Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog
The Hardin County School system is cracking down on religious messages. The teachers in the school system were recently told they couldn't have coffee cups with Scriptures on them inside their classrooms. If they're on Facebook and use phrases like...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog
Should public officials keep their religious beliefs hidden? Atlanta's fire chief Kelvin Cochran didn't think so. Cochran wrote a book about Biblical manhood and moral boundaries. Atlanta's mayor publicly denounced his religious beliefs and...
