COVID-19 Relief Bill

by | Jan 7, 2021 | Blog

Congress passed another Covid relief bill. It’s supposed to help ailing businesses with another paycheck protection program, extended and enhanced unemployment benefits, and another round of $600 direct payments to U.S. taxpayers. But there’s also a lot of...

Controversial Comments by Chicago Teachers Union

by | Jan 6, 2021 | Blog

The Chicago Teachers Union recently tweeted, “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny.” Now is that true? The CDC recommended that schools remain open for the well-being of students. And unfortunately, black students have been most...

General Assembly Begins Today

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog

The 2021 Kentucky General Assembly session begins today. It’s a short session with only 30 working days to conduct the commonwealth’s legislative business. While hundreds of bills will be proposed, only a few priority bills will make it into law. Expect a...

Georgia Runoffs Will Determine U.S. Senate

by | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog

Georgia voters go to the polls tomorrow and vote in two U.S. Senate races. And today’s outcome will determine Washington’s political balance, at least until the mid-term elections. Incumbent Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are being...

Thoughts on a New Year

by | Jan 1, 2021 | Blog

The beginning of a New Year is a great time to take inventory on the last year and ask yourself how you can make the upcoming year even better, which doesn’t seem too hard to do considering 2020 was dominated by coronavirus—a year of sickness, death, and...

New Year’s Resolutions

by | Dec 31, 2020 | Blog

If you’re like nearly half of America you’ll make some kind of New Year resolution. Maybe you’ve resolved to eat better, exercise more, or spend more time with family. G.K. Chesterton, quipped that resolutions are “something that goes in one...

Civil Conversations in New Year

by | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog

Earlier this month former U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs rejected Pres. Trump’s claim that the election was rigged. Joe diGenova, one of Trump’s election lawyers said Krebs should be “drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot.”...

Politics isn’t Everything

by | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog

The Kentucky General Assembly begins next Tuesday and we’ll see a bunch of bills trying to fix things. But another law isn’t always the answer. French philosopher Jacques Ellul warned about making everything political. He called this the “political...

Between Christmas and New Year’s

by | Dec 28, 2020 | Blog

Now that Christmas is behind us we look forward to celebrating a new year. Many of us will make resolutions, gather with family and friends to usher in the new year, and hope for better things to come in 2021. We all long for an end to the deadly coronavirus and the...

Christmas Day

by | Dec 25, 2020 | Blog

Seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Isaiah told about the coming Messiah. In chapter 9 of the book of Isaiah, it says “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has...