Judge Awards $870 Million to Kentucky

Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate awarded $870 Million to the state against Amaya, Inc., the parent company of the website PokerStars, for illegal play from 2006 to 2011 in Kentucky.  The State sued the company claiming that more than 34,000...

Donald Trump and Religious Liberty

There are many reasons to not support Donald Trump’s bid for the Republican nomination. From his sketchy-at-best conservative credentials to his propensity for outlandish and inane commentary, Trump is an “outsider,” not to the Washington machine of...

Trump, Cruz and the Politics of Silence

The last few weeks have had GOP candidates wrestling for their position on the podium and in the polls. The current front-runner, Donald Trump, has been the singular candidate the rest of the field has sought to criticize with the hopes of distancing themselves from...

Women in Combat Roles

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced earlier this month that they were opening all combat positions to women, including those located at the most dangerous command posts. The move opens up over 200,000 new jobs to women that were previously unavailable. In...

Global Gambling Losses

In early September of 2015 The Economist published one of their “Graphic Detail” series.  It was a national comparison of several facts about gambling.  The article was entitled “Betting the House.”  There are four main graphics...

Christmas: A Time to Deliver us from Evil

In recent weeks, two communities were shattered and shaken to their core. First in Scottsville where  7-year-old Gabriella "Gabbi" Doolin was kidnapped while attending a Little League football game with her family.  Her brutalized body was found...

Prayer is much more than a policy proposal

Wednesday December 2, became another day in American history that is not tallied in a calendar sent out to place on your desk. It was not a date that people will ask themselves, “where were you on Wednesday, December 2?” It’s not a moment in history...

Can Prayer Help in San Bernadino?

Wednesday December 2nd became another day in American history that is not tallied in a calendar sent out to place on your desk. It was not a date that people will ask themselves, “where were you on Wednesday, December 2nd?” It’s not a moment in...

How Seriously Should You Take College Students?

I distinctly remember walking into my professor’s office and gently shutting the door. I had some questions for my teacher about some things he had been saying, some other things that I had been reading, and why a lot of what I was learning from the classroom...

Iowa, New Hampshire, and the Quest for a Nomination

With the election season in full swing, presidential candidates are racing across the country to stump their speeches, shake hands, and pontificate on why they should be the next president of the United States. While the Democratic nomination seems like a foregone...

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