Rest from your Labors
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 workplaces, an eight-hour workday, fair wages, and the end of child labor. Those goals were eventually realized, but Labor Day...
Court Protects Children, Conscience Rights
Healthcare workers concerned about being forced to participate in procedures and therapies that violate their conscience and sound medical practices got a reprieve from a federal court. The Federal Court for the Northern District in Texas ruled on behalf of health...
The Politics of Vaccines
Syndicated radio host Phil Valentine died from Covid. Valentine was a vaccine skeptic, but after he got Covid, he changed his tune. He asked his listeners to consider, "If [they] get this COVID thing, do [they] have a chance of dying from it?" Valentine was only 61....
Covid Wave Crippling Hospital Capacity
The Trigg County Hospital ER doctor said the hospital there is overwhelmed with Covid patients. The same is true for many hospitals across the commonwealth. Overall, over 100,000 people in the country have been hospitalized for the coronavirus. This is the highest...
Beshear may call special session
Gov. Andy Beshear’s recent mask mandate for children as young as two years old was slapped down by two courts. A federal judge in Northern Kentucky said Beshear had no authority to tell Catholic schools in Covington what to do. Just days after that ruling, the Ky...
Afghanistan Crumbling
Two suicide bombers at the Kabul Airport took the lives of 72 Afghans and 13 U.S. Troops. More than a hundred were wounded in a cowardly attack on those trying to flee the country. The attack was linked to ISIS. The abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan left...
Is Roe on the Ropes?
The pro-life movement received another victory as a Texas law was upheld in a recent Federal Court of Appeals case. The law banned a method called D&E, an abortion procedure commonly used in the second trimester. Doctors who violated this law would face up to two...
Boy Scouts Bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America have entered into a bankruptcy deal after many years of spiraling downward and facing near collapse amid its sexual abuse crisis. The deal includes an $850 million fund to compensate thousands of men who were sexually abused in the Scout...
Beshear’s School Mask Mandate Temporarily Blocked
Gov. Beshear’s latest mask mandate for all Kentucky schools was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The state legislature passed a law giving local school districts the authority to create their own policy on masking, but Beshear has thwarted the law, which is in...
Biden’s Eviction Moratorium
At the direction of President Biden, the Center for Disease Control has unilaterally extended the eviction moratorium. This means that if a tenant is struggling to pay rent, the landlord cannot evict them. Of course, this brings hardship to landlords who also have...
