Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the joint session of Congress might have been one of the most important speeches in our day. It was monumental for a number of reasons. In plain-spoken terms, he challenged radical Islam in general and Iran in...

What exactly is goverment's role in reducing poverty among its citizens?  According to recently published statistics, it may just need to get out of the way more. The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal’s 2015 Index of Economic Freedom is showing...

Fairness Campaign director Chris Hartman called passage of SB 76 which maintains single-gender restrooms in Kentucky public schools "prioritizing discrimination.”  He’s right. Requiring girls to use the girls room and boys to use the boys room is...

The New Mexico legislature is considering a bill to allow lottery tickets to be purchased by credit card.  Fortunately, it is being opposed by Guy Clark of Stop Predatory Gambling New Mexico.  There is so much wrong about this bill it is hard to know where...

If you have ever doubted original sin, the idea that human nature is corrupted, the internet should have cured you by now.  The means of putting the world at your finger-tips has also brought us instant sadism, pornography, political sleaze, access to every weird...

Reason # 1.  If you gamble you lose money.   Reason # 2.  Gambling is not recreation.  Recreation restores.  Gambling depletes energy, resources, and induces guilt.   Reason # 3.  Gambling is addictive.  Depending upon where you...

Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker says he doesn’t know if President Obama is a Christian. I, for one, believe him. Why is it so hard for some to accept his answer? The President says he is a Christian. This is, as Ross Douthat points out,...

Earlier this week 21 Coptic Christians were kidnapped in Libya and beheaded because they refused to deny Christ. The message posted on the brutal videotape was clear: “A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross.” 2015 has been a terror-filled...

Carl Trueman has written several fine pieces lately on both the nature of and antidote to our cultural pornography addiction. His latest concerns the power of porn to reshape subconscious patterns of thought and, by extension, alter deeply held moral attitudes and...

Yet another devious means of increasing gambling is in the works here in Kentucky.  The Lottery has proposed a new game called EquiLottery which although opposed by The Family Foundation, sailed through Committee to the floor of the Senate where it passed on a...