by Richard Nelson | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
Hillary Clinton may not have faced an indictment from the FBI over using an unsecured emails. But that doesn’t mean she's escaped public controversy. Recently the whistleblower site Wikileaks released hundreds of emails from Secretary Clinton's campaign....
by Richard Nelson | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
Hillary Clinton may not have faced an indictment from the FBI over her unsecured emails. But that doesn’t mean she has escaped public controversy. Over the past couple weeks, the whistleblower site Wikileaks has released hundreds of emails from Secretary...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog
Murray State will become the first Kentucky university to provide insurance coverage for sex-change operations. The school recently announced that beginning on Jan. 1, 2017 their insurance policies will cover gender transition therapy and surgeries—actually they...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 22, 2016 | Blog
There are many changes happening in the health insurance industry: premiums are increasing, options are decreasing and health insurance providers are pulling out of many markets. Some say that Obamacare is imploding. If this is the case, the seeds of its destruction...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
The headline of the Kentucky New Era said: Kneeling students won't be punished. No, these students weren't praying. They kneeled during the national anthem at a recent sporting event in Todd County —purportedly to protest injustice. Many parents...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog
Last weekend, Planned Parenthood and its allies celebrated the organization’s 100th birthday. President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other abortion defenders publicly praised Planned Parenthood for its work and commemorated its milestone. For pro-choice...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 17, 2016 | Blog
Should pastors get political? That's a question many are asking. When it comes to speaking to moral and social issues from a biblical perspective, it's a pastors duty. It's unreasonable to expect ministers to piece together lives of shattered people...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 15, 2016 | Blog
The presidential debate represents a coarsened public discourse that has been going on for years. Much of today's political dialogue involves painting the opposition as anti-American as possible. People with sincerely held beliefs are casually dismissed as...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were famously opposed to each other in their political views. Adams found Jefferson’s radicalism dangerous; Jefferson believed Adams’ federalism tended toward tyranny. But despite their differences, the second and...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
A longtime Democratic operative pled guilty to a kickback scandal last week. Political consultant Larry O’Bryan confessed that he acted as the middleman in an illegal scheme with Tim Longmeyer, Governor Beshear's former Personnel Cabinet...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
Kentucky has some of the strongest laws in the country protecting religious freedom. Article 5 in Kentucky's Bill of Rights prohibits any preferential treatment of one religion over another. The Constitution restricts the state from favoring any creed or mode of...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
You know the common campaign slogan about cutting "waste, fraud and abuse"? Well, there's a new auditor in Frankfort who's been following through with that promise. State Auditor Mike Harmon released his audit of the Department of Criminal Justice...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 8, 2016 | Blog
So what is a political party to do when one of their candidates posts racist and derogatory comments on social media sites? They ask them to drop out of the race. Such is the case with Republican candidate Dan Johnson who is running for Kentucky's 49th House seat....
by Richard Nelson | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog
The two topics to avoid in polite company are religion and politics, and pastors shouldn't speak about the latter. At least that's what we're told. So when the Associated Press (AP) got a hold of a leaked video of Gov. Bevin encouraging a group of pastors...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog
The two topics to avoid in polite company are religion and politics. At least that's what we're told. So when the AP got a hold of a leaked video of Gov. Bevin speaking to a group of pastors and encouraging them to boldly speak to the social issues of the day...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 5, 2016 | Blog
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned prior to becoming Pope Benedict, “we are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and .. has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
The Kentucky State Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Matt Bevin didn't have the authority to make unilateral cuts to Kentucky Universities. The high court overturned a lower court ruling that ruled in his favor. There are four other lawsuits involving the...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog
A team of American scientists reported the birth of a child with the DNA from three biological parents. This is a world first, but controversy is surrounding the news. Scientists intended to produce a healthy child for a mother who had a rare genetic abnormality, so...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 30, 2016 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2016 Commonwealth Policy Center Hosts State Conference on Religious Freedom Contact: Richard Nelson (270) 271-2713 The freedom for pastors to teach Biblical truth and churches to govern themselves accordingly is under attack...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
The University of Kentucky just announced that Coke is no longer considered "local food" in its cafeterias. Now it doesn't take a graduate student to figure that out. Of course, UK has been fighting bigger battles, like the the abrupt departure of an...
