Would Amendment 2 Send Tax Dollars to Church Schools?

by | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog

School choice critic John Schaaf recently wrote a column criticizing the Amendment 2 initiative, which empowers parents with more education options for their children. He implied that the amendment would unjustly give vouchers for religious schools. However, Amendment...

Democrats Support Choice About Motherhood, Not Schools

by | Sep 6, 2024 | Blog

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, addressed the Democratic National Convention. In her speech, she accused Republicans of “gutting funding for public schools.” This was a veiled reference to school choice efforts like Kentucky’s...

Utility Prices Hurt Ky’s Poor

by | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

A news article from the Kentucky Lantern recently showed that increased utility costs are hurting Kentucky’s poor. Kentucky Power’s president also acknowledged that electricity bills are higher for those who are least likely to afford them. This is in light of a...

Ky Poised to Drop Income Tax Again

by | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog

Kentucky met certain benchmarks in order for us to move towards eliminating the state income tax. It will be dropped 0.5% or a half percentage point beginning in 2026, that’s if it’s  approved in the upcoming legislative session. This shows that the...

The Dignity of Work

by | Sep 3, 2024 | Blog

Too many Americans have a low view of work today. 16% of prime working age men between ages of 25-54 have dropped out of the workforce. Work is demeaned as a means to an end so one can simply consume,  and a way to get money in order to retire, hopefully at an early...

Labor Day 2024

by | Sep 2, 2024 | Blog

Today marks the unofficial end of summer. It’s Labor Day, which became a federal holiday in 1894 after the labor movement fought for safer work places, an 8 hour work day, fair wages, and the end to child labor. Those goals were eventually realized. But Labor Day also...

SCOTUS Blocks Biden Title IX Rules Enforcement

by | Aug 30, 2024 | Blog

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Biden’s Administration’s Title IX rules, which would overturn policies to protect women’s sports and female-only spaces in public schools. The Court upheld common sense laws in 26 states, including Kentucky, that...

Medical Association Pushes for Assisted Suicide Residencies

by | Aug 29, 2024 | Blog

The Sutter Family Residency Medical Program in California has made assisted suicide training part of its curriculum. The residents “evaluate patients for Medical Assistance in Dying, write prescriptions for aid-in-dying medications, and attend the planned deaths of...

UK Closes Office of Institutional Diversity

by | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog

The University of Kentucky is closing its Office of Institutional Diversity. Earlier this year, the General Assembly investigated DEI practices and proposed legislation to nix DEI programs. UK will end mandatory diversity training and diversity statements for new...

Federal Judge Orders to UCLA: Stop Jew-Free Zones on Campus

by | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog

A federal judge ordered UCLA officials to put an end to Jew-Free zones on campus. Pro-Palestinian activists barricaded parts of campus and wouldn’t allow Jewish students to pass unless they disavowed support for Israel. This kept several Jewish students from...