Ever wonder what it means to be a conservative? If you believe the caricature of their opponents, they are miserly and greedy—kind of like a miserable Ebenezer Scrooge who thinks only of himself and measures success by the size of his bank account. But...

Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” is like a song you can’t get out of your head.  The more you try, the more places you hear it.  I wonder, though, if the slogan is accomplishing its intended goals?  On a recent...

Can a public school forbid a female from using the boys’ restroom? That may sound like a common sense question, but in 2017 it will be an issue in front of the Supreme Court. The Court recently agreed to hear the case of a transgender boy, born female, who sued...

Halloween is here and scarier than any goblin at your doorstep is a bitter political season filled with high pitched rhetoric that has invaded too many homes and induced a ghoulish mood within the electorate. Political operatives stir the pot of vitriol with a...

Today is October 31 otherwise known as Halloween—a day of when kids traditionally don masks and go door to door trick or treating. But what might be scarier than a goblin at your doorstep is the political season filled with high pitched rhetoric that has invaded...

Hillary Clinton may not have faced an indictment from the FBI over using an unsecured emails. But that doesn’t mean she's escaped public controversy. Recently the whistleblower site Wikileaks released hundreds of emails from Secretary Clinton's campaign....

Hillary Clinton may not have faced an indictment from the FBI over her unsecured emails. But that doesn’t mean she has escaped public controversy. Over the past couple weeks, the whistleblower site Wikileaks has released hundreds of emails from Secretary...

Murray State will become the first Kentucky university to provide insurance coverage for sex-change operations. The school recently announced that beginning on Jan. 1, 2017 their insurance policies will cover gender transition therapy and surgeries—actually they...

There are many changes happening in the health insurance industry: premiums are increasing, options are decreasing and health insurance providers are pulling out of many markets. Some say that Obamacare is imploding. If this is the case, the seeds of its destruction...

The headline of the Kentucky New Era said: Kneeling students won't be punished. No, these students weren't praying. They kneeled during the national anthem at a recent sporting event in Todd County —purportedly to protest injustice. Many parents...