by Richard Nelson | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog
Have you ever gotten the feeling that Christmas has become something that it was never meant to be? I mean the push to buy more and more, bigger and better, and competition to out give others? We now have special days that revolve around buying: Black Friday,...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 7, 2017 | Blog
The media is smitten with news about the royal engagement between Britain's Prince Harry and American movie star Meghan Markle. The two announced they'll marry in the spring. But marriage isn't just good for movie stars and royal families. It's good...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog
We hardly go a week without an update on a never-ending news story from Frankfort. I'm talking about the state pension crisis where the state has some $40 billion in future obligations to state retirees. The pension crisis has been years in the making and is a...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog
I recently had a chance to interview First District Congressman James Comer about the tax cuts that Congress is considering. He told me that the bill would help most people in his district but if you read many of the reports in the mainstream press, you'd...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Have you ever heard somebody say, "if it's not hurting me, then why should I care?" There are a number of ways to justify personally destructive choices and a number of reasons why not to get involved with somebody's bad decisions. But we're...
by Richard Nelson | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog
The Supreme Court is taking up two important cases that affect our most basic liberties. The first case involves a Colorado baker who is in trouble for refusing to provide a cake for a gay wedding. Jack Phillips isn't against serving homosexual customers,...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
As transgenderism pushes its way into the mainstream, people are being forced to ask what pronouns to use. Should someone born male who now identifies as female be called she or he? This is a real question, one that teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd introduced to...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
Robert Mugabe resigned as president of Zimbabwe. The populist got into power by opposing British colonial rule. But by promising to right the wrongs, the dictator perpetrated even greater pain upon what used to be one of the richest African nations. Mugabe was in...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
The number of high-profile and powerful men charged with sexual harassment is staggering. The latest include Minnesota Senator Al Franken and TV host Charlie Rose. In Kentucky, Gov. Bevin has renewed calls for the resignation of legislators in his own party who've...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 27, 2017 | Blog
According the Center for Immigration Studies, Louisville is a sanctuary city. This means that it has policies in place "that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (ICE). Police in sanctuary...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 24, 2017 | Blog
One in four Kentucky children live in poverty according to the latest report by Kentucky Youth Advocates. And nearly half of Kentucky's children live in low-income homes or 200 percent of the poverty level. So in an age of abundance and economic opportunity,...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 23, 2017 | Blog
We live in the freest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth. Yet if you scroll through Facebook or other social media posts, it doesn't take long to find a complaint or gripe: Poor service at a restaurant or complaints about slow drivers. These...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog
The Kentucky Baptist Convention passed a resolution at their annual meeting condemning gambling expansion recently proposed in Frankfort. They make several good points beginning with the idea that gambling violates the principle of loving your neighbor. They go on to...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog
Kentucky Education Association President Stephanie Winkler said the Republican proposal to fix the broken state pension fund “will devastate public education in Kentucky.” This drew criticism from State Rep. Bam Carney, a former public school teacher who...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
Sexual harassment by political leaders and celebrities is disappointing. So how do we respond? For starters, we should be empathetic toward the women who've come out of the shadows to share their stories. It takes courage for women to openly share ...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
What do you do when you're put in a position where you're forced to violate your conscience? This question isn't theoretical anymore. More and more people who try to live and work according to their conscience are put in difficult positions. This was the...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog
The first openly transgender candidate got elected in Virginia last week. Danica Roem is a man who now identifies as a woman and that's how he campaigned. Nearly 55 percent of the voters had no problem voting for Roem so they sent him to serve in the Virginia...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
Remember the Kentucky Court Clerk who went to jail for refusing to grant a marriage license to a homosexual couple? Well, the Associated Press and major news media across the country hasn't. That's why they made much over her filing for re-election for Rowan...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog
Senator Rand Paul was attacked while mowing his lawn last week. Of all people, he was attacked by his neighbor. It's unclear as to the motivation of the attack but some have suggested it’s over political disagreements. Paul suffered six broken ribs and...
by Richard Nelson | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
The latest mass shooting took the lives of 26 people worshipping in a small Texas church. Now, people are asking what was the caused it? Was it mental illness? Lax gun laws? Was it what some call America's "gun culture?" Alexander Solzhenitsyn reminds us...
