by Richard Nelson | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
Murray State University can rest easy tonight knowing they have courageously stood on the right side of history with their….restrooms? Yes, apparently lavatories are now the artifacts of historic social progress. Murray State’s administration, following...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog
I join the editors of The Courier Journal in urging Senator Mitch McConnell and challenger Alison Grimes to “stop debating debates.” The Courier gets the right message out, even if the editorial obscures the unwillingness of Grimes to debate the Senate...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog
The American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) has released their 2014 state by state economic forecast. The report, called Rich States, Poor States, explains its methodology and philosophy thus: The Economic Outlook Ranking is a forecast based on a...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog
Will the real Steve Beshear please stand up? The Kentucky governor received commendation from commonwealth conservatives for arguing on behalf of Kentucky’s traditional definition of marriage. But since then it has become less clear just how committed the...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
When Judge John Heyburn struck down Kentucky’s constitutional law defining marriage on July 1, he did so on dubious grounds—appealing to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which essentially says that all citizens must be treated...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 28, 2014 | Blog
Dear editor Kentucky New Era, Last Saturday’s paper included two stories promoting homosexual literature to parents and children. One article entitled, “Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young,” states that “[t]he best thing parents...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 26, 2014 | Blog
On Monday, the Supreme Court will reveal its important ruling in the case of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood and the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. The President's healthcare legislation seeks to require all employers to include contraceptive care in...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month Google initiated a major blow for the internet pornography industry when it announced it would no longer accept advertising for sexually explicit material. While this decision won't make pornographic material inaccessible through Google's...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this week, President Obama announced an executive order prohibiting federal contract workers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The use of an executive order to enforce a policy that does not actually exist is...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost his bid for re-election in Virginia District 7’s Republican primary. His opponent, economics professor and Tea Party-backed David Brat, won a resounding victory that will be discussed for many, many days to come. I...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog
As a relevant follow up to Wednesday’s post covering the Atherton high school’s new transgender policy, this piece by Kevin Williamson at National Review is worth your time. Williamson’s words are brief but get to the heart of the transgender...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 5, 2014 | Blog
What do you say when a teenaged boy dressed like a girl insists upon using bathrooms of the opposite sex? Most would rather politely decline to comment, including yours truly. Yet the Atherton High School Site Based Decision Making Council (SBDM) codified their...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog
When two “rights” collide, who wins? For those who espouse moral relativism, the answer usually comes down to politics, utility, and cultural accommodation. Rather than principled debate, raw political power is wielded in order to learn who bests who. This...
by Richard Nelson | May 30, 2014 | Blog
Reports of the demise of GOP solidarity have been greatly exaggerated. True, pundits enjoyed fantasizing about a “civil war” within Republican ranks between the mainline candidates and the Tea Party wing. An example of that intramural rift was supposed to...
by Richard Nelson | May 23, 2014 | Blog
Dear editor, I’m writing in response to your story about Rep. David Watkins defeating James Buckmaster in the Democratic primary. Rep. Watkins was reported to be happy with the victory except with some of the mailers that went out. The Commonwealth Policy PAC...
by Richard Nelson | May 22, 2014 | Blog
Both Senator Mitch McConnell and senate candidate Allison Grimes enjoyed landslide victories in Tuesday’s primary elections. McConnell blew out Louisville businessman Matt Bevin and Grimes won almost 80% of the vote in the Democratic election, setting up a...
by Richard Nelson | May 21, 2014 | Blog
It’s been a bad month to be a voter, and an exciting month to be an activist judge. Two judges struck down state constitutional provisions in Oregon and Arkansas defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Both state’s constitutional language had been...
by Richard Nelson | May 20, 2014 | Blog
It is obvious to any who keep just a cursory awareness of national news that the traditional definition of marriage is under serious assault. Same sex marriage is now legal in several states and activist judges in other states are tearing down longstanding legislation...
