by Richard Nelson | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog
Do you think churches should have to pay for abortion coverage for their employees? The state of California does. In 2014, the California Department of Managed Health Care ordered insurers to change their policies to remove limitations for abortion coverage. This...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Jack Phillips has been compared to a perpetrator of the holocaust by a government official. So what's Jack's offense? He declined to create a special order wedding cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony. In 2014, Colorado Civil Rights Commissioner Diann Rice...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog
College is back in session and unfortunately, so is continued hostility against conservative speakers. Last week conservative political scientist Charles Murray was unable to walk across Harvard Yard alone. He needed a police escort because of feared violence against...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
Kentucky's last remaining abortion facility is fighting for its life. That's because the EMW Women's Clinic refuses to abide by state law requiring medical centers to have ambulatory agreements with local hospitals. EMW attorney Donald L. Cox said...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 9, 2017 | Blog
If Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall doused the fiery political climate, then the images of rescue workers saving children have softened embittered hearts in our politically divisive age. One evocative photo depicts a disaster relief worker slogging through...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
The program called Radiolab aired a program on new technologies that can alter what people are saying. This goes beyond just cutting and pasting portions of a speech. This new technology can synchronize facial expressions and lip movement to create words out of thin...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
A report investigating wrongdoing by the University of Louisville Foundation found that it spent too much from its endowment, issued false reports as to how the money was spent and loaned $52 million to a group that will likely never pay back the loan. An estimated...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
Last week more than 100 Christian leaders signed a statement affirming Biblical teaching on human sexuality, gender, and marriage. Denny Burk said, “The spirit of our age does not delight in God’s good design of male and female. Consequently,...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
State pensions are back in the news after an independent group assessed the situation and made recommendations to the state legislature. Many are up in arms and upset about the recommended changes but what's the alternative? To let the system collapse? This...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog
Hurricane Harvey dropped rainfall in Texas and Louisiana in Biblical proportions. Over 50 inches have fallen east of Houston which makes it a record. The previous rainfall record in the lower 48 states was 48 inches. Now thousands are dealing with the aftermath and...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
As the long days of summer begin to fade, so do the headlines surrounding the story of Governor Matt Bevin’s new home in Louisville. Media outlets kept the story on the front page for nearly six months, alleging the Governor got a sweetheart deal from a...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
If you have teens, should you be concerned about the amount time your teenage spends on screen time? A recent essay in The Atlantic says yes. It's entitled Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? The author, Jean Twenge, interviewed a 13 year old girl in Houston,...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 30, 2017 | Blog
Kindergartners in a California charter school got a lesson that many of them weren't ready for and now parents are upset. A teacher at Rocklin Academy, led the class in celebrating the “transition” of a child from boy to girl by reading books...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 29, 2017 | Blog
CBS reported that Iceland has eliminated Downs Syndrome. This should be received as good news, but in order to understand how they've eliminated it, one must hear as Paul Harvey says "the rest of the story." Downs is a genetic abnormality that leads to...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
Since the rally around Robert E. Lee's statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, there's been a rise in vandalism to historic statues and monuments around the nation. A two century old statue of Christopher Columbus was smashed in Baltimore. The Lincoln Memorial in...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog
The IRS recently rehired 213 employees who were convicted of theft, falsified documents, or made unauthorized use of taxpayer data. Worse yet, a handful of these IRS employees failed to pay their own taxes! The Office of Treasury Inspector General released a report...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
Dan Dumas is Kentucky's adoption czar and he's working to find permanent homes for the 8000 kids in Kentucky's foster care system. Right now some 2000 kids are ready to be adopted and Dumas told Commonwealth Policy in a recent interview that he's...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 23, 2017 | Blog
I participated in a National Day of Prayer event where elected officials, pastors and residents gathered on the courthouse steps. Just a stone's throw from us stood a statue of a Confederate soldier. To me, it was an expression of the area's local history as...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 22, 2017 | Blog
The controversy stirs over Confederate monuments in public places. The tragedy in Charlottesville was sparked by an order to move a statue of General Lee. In Durham, NC, a mob dismantled a Confederate monument. But whitewashing our history and removing such monuments...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 21, 2017 | Blog
People usually want to be in the light, but today, they're flocking to Western Kentucky to be in the darkness. That's because for 2:40 there will be complete darkness and the city of Hopkinsville is the point of greatest eclipse in the entire country. The...
