by Richard Nelson | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog
Sometimes answers to current problems can be found by looking to the past. Bias, fake news, and an antagonistic spirit plague the modern American news media…known as the media elite. Journalists would be wise to look to the past for help. Walter Cronkite...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
The U.S. Constitution pursues “a more perfect union”. On July 5, 1852, former slave Frederick Douglass spoke to an anti-slavery group in Rochester, New York. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 5, 2017 | Blog
California recently added Kentucky to its list of states off-limits to state workers for nonessential travel. The move is in response to what it considers "discriminatory legislation" toward the LGBT community. At issue is Kentucky's enactment of SB 17,...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog
Today is the nation’s birthday. The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1776. From that meeting, five men were chosen committee to draft a document that would declare the independence of a new nation. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog
What would Thomas Jefferson say if he were on a TV interview show today? Jefferson is well known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. According to Monticello.org, Jefferson once told an interviewer, “I saw my job as trying to bring together...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
Public discourse is breaking down today and it needs to be restored. We used to be able to dialogue and debate ideas without getting ugly. We can disagree on ideas. but what we cannot disagree upon is that each person is valuable, that each person has inherent...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
Have you ever been made to feel like you're the enemy? Well, I recently experienced this firsthand after sharing my concerns with the Shelby County Human Rights Commission over a proposed LGBT ordinance. Another person responded and said that law enforcement was...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Members of the U.S. Army recently attended "transgender soldiers training," which prepared enlisted men and women to accept soldiers who are transitioning from one gender to another. Women were told that they should be prepared for biological men who...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Most of Kentucky's college-bound students are going to be shelling out more for tuition this year. That's because all but two of Kentucky's public universities increased tuition rates. This brings the average cost of a four-year degree in Kentucky to...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog
U of L basketball coach Rick Pitino was suspended for five games this season as punishment for the scandal involving his basketball recruits. One of Pitino's assistant's hired strippers and prostitutes to lure new recruits to play for U of L. Pitino also...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
Judicial activism happens on both sides aisle. Case in point was a recent ruling by a federal judge who struck down Kentucky's legislative ethics law. It prevented lobbyists from donating to a candidates campaign. In fact, they couldn't even buy them lunch. It...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog
Kentucky is being sued over its ban on medical marijuana. The plaintiffs claim that their privacy rights are being violated and that they should be free of what they say is the "arbitrary power” of the state over their “lives, liberty and...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 21, 2017 | Blog
The New York Public Theater is finding itself in hot water over its modernized version of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." This play opened to the public last week and it depicts Pres. Donald Trump as Caesar. But instead of a Roman robe, he's wearing a...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
Remember when the U of L Foundation board was reorganized last year? They were accused of operating under a cloud of secrecy, making risky and questionable investments and giving lavish pay to administrators and coaches. Well, a recently released audit reported in the...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog
Washington DC was rocked by a sniper attack on a group of Republicans practicing for an annual baseball game. Congressman Steve Scalise was wounded along with several others in the attack. How have we gotten to the point where political differences turn into violence?...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog
Civility is on life support. But the body politic was sick long before James T. Hodgkinson assaulted GOP Congressmen at a baseball practice, critically wounding Con. Steve Scalise and wounding four others after asking whether the men on the field were Republicans or...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
Summer break may mean vacation and lazy days for most kids, but not for a group of students in South Central Kentucky. More than 250 middle and high school students put their faith into action across Barren, Hart and Metcalfe counties during the first week of...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
Gov. Bevin recently called on pastors to engage their communities and address the issue of violence. And his proposal caught much in the media by surprise. He told nearly 800 pastors who gathered at a public school in the West End of Louisville to pray and to...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog
It flies above our public buildings. School Children put their hands over their hearts and pledge allegiance to it. It's lowered at half-staff in honor of someone's death. I'm talking about the American Flag, that's because it's flag day...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
I recently debated two leading gay-rights activists over whether judges should be forced to place children in same-sex parented households. They believed that all that kids need are two adults who love them. Truth is, kids needed more than that—they need mothers...
