by Richard Nelson | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” is like a song you can’t get out of your head. The more you try, the more places you hear it. I wonder, though, if the slogan is accomplishing its intended goals? On a recent...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Can a public school forbid a female from using the boys’ restroom? That may sound like a common sense question, but in 2017 it will be an issue in front of the Supreme Court. The Court recently agreed to hear the case of a transgender boy, born female, who sued...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
Today is October 31 otherwise known as Halloween—a day of when kids traditionally don masks and go door to door trick or treating. But what might be scarier than a goblin at your doorstep is the political season filled with high pitched rhetoric that has invaded...
by Richard Nelson | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
Halloween is here and scarier than any goblin at your doorstep is a bitter political season filled with high pitched rhetoric that has invaded too many homes and induced a ghoulish mood within the electorate. Political operatives stir the pot of vitriol with a...
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...
