DNC Platform
Today is the first day of the Democratic National Convention where Hillary Clinton will be confirmed as the party's candidate for president. Part of the convention is to approve the party platform and the 2016 Democratic Party platform is unlike anything your...
Socially Conservative Values Pushed to Backseat in GOP Convention
Watching the Republican National Convention as a social conservative was like a trip to a bad Chinese buffet. I had low expectations going in, but the egg roll was worse than I imagined. Consider how socially conservative values took a backseat this week, even...
Compromising the Rule of Law
There's been much talk about the rule of law lately. Part of this idea is that nobody is above the law. However, an outcry ensued when FBI Director James Comey announced earlier this month that he is not pursuing charges against Hillary Clinton for violating...
Doping by Russian’s Bears Heavy Cost
As the world gets ready to watch the summer Olympics in Rio, one country’s path to the games has become controversial. Russia faces a possible ban from this year’s Olympics after a World Anti-Doping Agency report found evidence of a state-sponsored...
The Rule of Law and Racial Reconciliation
The latest murder of three Baton Rouge police officers has rattled our already fragile sense of safety and reminds us—as if we needed reminding—that we live in an age of hatred, a hatred that fuels terror and ends in murder. And the nearly daily dish of...
Racial Reconciliation and Hope
The latest murder of three Baton Rouge police officers has rattled our already fragile sense of safety and reminds us—as if we needed reminding—that we live in an age of hatred, a hatred that fuels terror and ends in murder. And the nearly daily dish of...
RNC Kicks Off in Cleveland
Today, Republicans from across the country will meet in Cleveland as the 2016 Republican National Convention begins. Nearly 5000 delegates and alternate delegates will attend from all 50 states and it looks very possibly to be a contentious week with protests both...
Schools Warned Against Ark Park
The Ark Park opened in Northern Kentucky last week and seems to be a hit with everyone. Everyone that is, except the militant atheist group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They're apparently intimidated by the life-size replica of Noah's Ark and...
Reflections on Racial Tensions, Violence, and Reconciliation
The week of July 4, 2016 will go down in American history as a somber and tragic week. It started with the deaths of two African-American men, who lost their lives in videotaped encounters with police. The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille were widely...
All Suffer from Racial Divide
Two black men—Alton Sterling and Philando Castille — were murdered by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. In response to the outrage, a sniper attack in Dallas took the lives of five officers. Our country has been rattled… Numb and in...
