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The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dropped a bombshell indictment last Thursday involving a gambling scheme to fix college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) games. The indictment alleged that 39 NCAA basketball players were involved in a point-shaving scheme going back to the ’23-’24 season.

Kentucky’s 2026 Legislative Session began earlier this month and several bills are already drawing controversy. One of them is Senate Bill 26 (SB26), filed by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield.

Sports gambling has gone mainstream, sweeping the country. Today, 39 states have legalized it, including Kentucky. Unlike most states, Kentucky allows 18-year-olds to gamble on sporting events (32 of the 39 states set the minimum age at 21). Perhaps the state legislature overlooked this detail when mainstreaming sports gambling in 2023. But considering the vulnerabilities of young people, Kentucky should reconsider raising the minimum age this legislative session. 

I was on a Zoom call yesterday where I was asked what are the three biggest problems facing us today. My first response was that as a whole those who say they are Christians do not live Christianly. Too many of us live in ignorance of what the Lord requires of us (Micah 6:8), or allow ourselves to be unduly influenced by the culture as to how we do life. The Christian ethos that has shaped our nation is no longer being lived out. Interestingly, later that day I met with the leader of a prominent Christian organization and asked this same question and his response was essentially the same!

On December 2nd the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin—a high stakes case involving a pro-life nonprofit and New Jersey’s Attorney General. The dispute began in November of 2023 when Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin (D) issued a subpoena (a legally binding order) demanding that First Choice produce ten years’ worth of documents detailing its donors’ names, addresses, and phone numbers as well as the organization’s statements on issues like abortion pill reversal.

When I used to go into classes and speak about our government and being a legislator, I would tell kids, “Know what you’re not willing to compromise on and what you’re willing to compromise on, and you will always negotiate from a position of strength.”

The last few years have seen a stark increase in political violence. Most recently, the conservative activist and speaker Charlie Kirk was publicly assassinated at Utah Valley University. Multiple assassination attempts have been made on President Trump as well—most memorably in Butler, Pennsylvania last year. Even state-level politics have seen such horrific events, with two Minnesota lawmakers being attacked in their homes earlier in June. 

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is facing criticism for its partnership with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), granting Scott County law enforcement officers “the authority to perform certain immigration enforcement functions.”

The brouhaha over books on public library shelves in Daviess County has apparently reached a boiling point. One side in the debate warns of a censorship regime bent on banning books in the young adult (YA) section of the Daviess County Public Library. The other side says certain books are inappropriate, some downright pornographic, and do not belong within eyeshot and easy reach of children. It’s a microcosm of a debate over sexual content made accessible to minors in libraries that’s playing out in communities across the nation.

On October 7, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in Chiles v. Salazar. The case involves a 2019 Colorado ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors—defined as any effort to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender or to “reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.” In essence, the law forbids any non-LGBTQ-affirming counseling for minors.

Earlier this month, Charlie Kirk was tragically assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. Since then, thousands have come together in prayer and support for Charlie’s family and to promote his legacy. Countless prayer vigils sprung up all across the country, videos honoring his memory garnered tens of millions of views online, and his funeral is reported to have drawn over 200,000 attendees.

Charlie Kirk is dead. The bullet launched from an assassin’s high-powered rifle some 200 yards away pierced his neck, splattering blood and slumping him into an unconsciousness that he’d never recover from. His voice was permanently silenced after a questioner asked if he knew how “many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”