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Taylor Swift has had an outsized influence on popular culture. With over twenty-six billion streams on Spotify in 2024, she is the most streamed artist in the world. Conservatives have long lamented the effect of her music embraced by young girls—which arguably promotes immodesty, sensual themes, and hook-up culture. But given her recent engagement to Kansas City Chief’s star Travis Kelce, many are hopeful that this marks a transition to settling down into a life of marital fidelity—both for Swift and for the millions of lives she influences.

Mr. President, I pray you make it to Heaven as well, but you won’t get there by good deeds, even if they are some fantastic accomplishments.

Of course, I’m referencing President Trump’s comments that he hopes his efforts in bringing peace to multiple countries and his hope that he can broker a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia might be just what is needed to get him into Heaven. He also goes on to acknowledge that he’s not doing well on the other side of the good/bad ledger and that he is at “the bottom of the totem pole.”

At the heart of every political debate are three questions: Are people flourishing? Are they safe? And do they have jobs where they’re able to provide for themselves and their loved ones? Also, not at the heart of every political debate is the question: what role do families play in a flourishing society? After all, family is too often taken for granted by our political leaders and its sociological implications are too often overlooked. Perhaps this is because postmodernism demoted marriage and family formation from its primacy.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas law that required age-verification in order for minors to access online porn sites. The June 27 ruling applies the same age-verification standards to internet websites as those for brick and mortar porn shops and strip clubs. But if you were to believe opponents like the ACLU and Free Speech Coalition, you’d think the First Amendment is teetering as a censorship regime threatens to undo us.

Higher education has dominated the headlines this year. From drastic funding cuts to threats of deaccreditation at some of America’s most prestigious universities, the status quo of higher ed is being disrupted by the federal government — sparking reactions left, right and center. Some of these actions may seem unprecedented and even reckless. But they raise a deeper question as to the efficiency of federal government involvement in higher education.

With the entry of Nate Morris into the 2026 Kentucky Senate Republican Primary race, the salvos back and forth between all the major candidates and their surrogates are in full force. The goal being to point out the wart on your opponent before someone sees the boil on your face.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation…..” So opens our nation’s founding political document signed 249 years ago this July 4. 

History was made earlier in June when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in United States v. Skrmetti. In a 6-3 majority, the Court upheld the constitutionality of a Tennessee law (SB 1) which banned untested and dangerous hormone therapy for gender dysphoric children. The decision also set a precedent that shields twenty-four similar state bans from Equal Protection challenges, including Kentucky’s SB 150. 

On the way home from my office the other day I was delighted to see several small American flags affixed atop a lengthy row of fence posts in our Bald Knob neighborhood. They caught me by surprise and a feeling of gratitude welled up. Our neighbors across from us were celebrating Flag Day. This patriotic holiday, stuck between Memorial Day and Independence Day, is often-overlooked. But it’s an important day nonetheless.

A few weeks ago, it was reported that the Executive Branch Ethics Commission was investigating former Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Mr. Cameron referred to the Commission as “Governor Beshear’s Commission” and there may be some validity to his comments. This report on an investigation of former AG Daniel Cameron by the Executive Branch Ethics Commission is disturbing on a couple of levels but perhaps not for what you think.

Andy Beshear rallies around Pride Month. What will you rally around?

Pres. Trump’s order says that if public dollars “fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage.” For years, conservatives have argued that political coverage has favored Democrats and hurt Republicans.