by Richard Nelson | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
Keith Miller writes a very helpful piece for The Federalist, demonstrating that reports of evangelical support for Donald Trump don’t quite say what you might think. Among the 40 percent of GOP primary voters who say they are evangelical or born again,...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
The tenth video by the Center for Medical Progress doesn’t contain any jarring imagery of mangled infants or bloody petri dishes. But it may be one of the most damning yet. Most of the video contains dialogue from Planned Parenthood officials, as well as other...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog
Kentucky is facing a serious pension problem. According to The Courier Journal, the Kentucky Retirement Systems for public employees has reported unfunded liabilities of approximately $17 billion. The Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System has approximately $14...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
It has been relatively easy lately to be down on America. Between the plight of Kim Davis, the ongoing revelations concerning Planned Parenthood, and the millions of adulterers exposed by the Ashley Madison hack, there are plenty of reasons a person could choose to...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog
After spending several days abroad and purposely disconnected from any news, I was startled upon returning to learn of the jailing of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. I was aware of the possibility, but jail? Really? Perhaps my return flight landed me in the wrong...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog
On Thursday, September 3rd Federal District Judge David Bunning held Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in contempt of court for her refusal as County Clerk to issue any marriage license after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of redefined marriage. Citing her Christian...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog
If ever there were a sign that respect for the institution of marriage has dwindled and that our perception of sexuality is running amok, it is the sheer number of men whose names have now surfaced as adulterers thanks to the Ashley Madison hack. The impact of the...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog
The ongoing saga of Planned Parenting is enough to make a person dizzy. The organization is now claiming videos revealing its officials discussing harvesting organs from aborted children were heavily edited and deceptive. Never mind that a story trumpeting the...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog
Political Correctness—the emphasis of sensitivity over truth, and the sometimes watering down of straight talk to preserve people’s feeling, is in the news again thanks to the pugnacious and attention-grabbing GOP frontrunner who told a crowd in...
by Richard Nelson | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog
Open your Twitter account, follow any number of politicos, and you’ll see that Donald Trump is currently all the rage. His surge in the polls is one of the more fascinating political stories in decades. Even among evangelical voters, Trump has found a friend. If...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 28, 2015 | Blog
Image: Bill Kerr, Flickr, License CC 2.0 As a general rule, I don’t think conservatives should constantly harp about the bias of mainstream news. That’s not because I think the bias isn’t there (it absolutely is, as anyone who watches 1 hour of...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog
Glasgow Daily Times, August 21, 2015 publication Richard Nelson, founder and executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, told the group of people who came Thursday evening to hear him at Immanuel Baptist Church that our culture is in a moral freefall and in...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog
I wasn’t planning to write about the Ashley Madison hack. For one thing, the story is its own proverb: Secrets have a way of spilling. For another, it’s difficult to find a moral angle on the story that doesn’t make me either sympathethic to...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog
Just as the growth of internet gambling has grown through fantasy sports gambling, so also mobile gambling has grown. Technically the UGEIA of 2006 prohibits such gambling, but the Attorney General’s Office has chosen not to enforce the law, so mobile...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 24, 2015 | Blog
twitter.com/seanperron I asked my friend Sean Perron to write about Saturday’s Planned Parenthood protest. Sean works for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors. He blogs atUnspoken. By Sean Perron Friday night my wife and I shook up the car...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 23, 2015 | Blog
In 2007, former Kentucky attorney general and current Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo filed a suit against former Governor Ernie Fletcher over a “clear violation” of the law. The violation? The state's public university boards were becoming too...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 23, 2015 | Blog
There are not many things that a person cannot do these days through the internet. Bills can be paid, jobs can be applied for, and groceries can even be bought without ever leaving the comforts of home. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grendel Grimes would like to...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 19, 2015 | Blog
The newest video from the Center for Medical Progress is a horror beyond a nightmare. Holly O’Donnell, an ex-”procurement technician” who worked to “harvest” fetal parts for Planned Parenthood, testifies that she witnessed nearly-intact...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
“Conscience is the most sacred of all property,” said our fourth president James Madison. This proposition by the architect of the U.S. Constitution was cast aside by Federal District Judge David Bunning and dismissed by a Lexington Herald-Leader editorial...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
More than two years ago, the Bowling Green Daily News ran a story about the growing Muslim population in their city. Arriving from over 23 countries around the world, Bowling Green has one of the highest populations of Muslim refugees in the state. According to the...
