by Richard Nelson | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog
David Frum has a superb piece today in The Atlantic about the effect that casinos have on cities and local economies. The short version: It’s not pretty. Frum begins by explaining a curious trend. The post-recession economy has lent to gaming floors fewer and...
by Richard Nelson | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog
"Always winter, never Christmas." That's how the characters in C.S. Lewis's classic fairy tale The Chronicles of Narnia described the frozen world they lived in. I'd like to adapt this, edit it somewhat and apply it to the McConnell-Grimes race:...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog
New York Times reporter Josh Barro put himself in the news last week by tweeting, “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly.” His violent rhetoric was the...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 29, 2014 | Blog
Last night Richard Nelson participated in a panel for a spirited discussion on KET’s Kentucky Tonight program. The topic was the recent Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. Nelson was joined by Amy Cubbage of the Kentucky ACLU; Samuel Marcosson, professor...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 26, 2014 | Blog
The “Growing Up Transgender" panel discussion hosted in Louisville earlier this month revealed something even more troubling about our culture and how we think than it does about the tortured souls who believe they are trapped in the bodies of the wrong...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
Murray State University can rest easy tonight knowing they have courageously stood on the right side of history with their….restrooms? Yes, apparently lavatories are now the artifacts of historic social progress. Murray State’s administration, following...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog
Murray State University can rest easy tonight knowing they have courageously stood on the right side of history with their….restrooms? Yes, apparently lavatories are now the artifacts of historic social progress. Murray State’s administration, following...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog
I join the editors of The Courier Journal in urging Senator Mitch McConnell and challenger Alison Grimes to “stop debating debates.” The Courier gets the right message out, even if the editorial obscures the unwillingness of Grimes to debate the Senate...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog
The American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) has released their 2014 state by state economic forecast. The report, called Rich States, Poor States, explains its methodology and philosophy thus: The Economic Outlook Ranking is a forecast based on a...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog
Will the real Steve Beshear please stand up? The Kentucky governor received commendation from commonwealth conservatives for arguing on behalf of Kentucky’s traditional definition of marriage. But since then it has become less clear just how committed the...
by Richard Nelson | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
When Judge John Heyburn struck down Kentucky’s constitutional law defining marriage on July 1, he did so on dubious grounds—appealing to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which essentially says that all citizens must be treated...
by Samuel James | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog
Last week the Supreme Court voted 5-4 that the Obama administration and the Affordable Care Act could not force “closely held companies” to violate religious conviction by furnishing abortifacient contraception in insurance plans. The case was not just a...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 28, 2014 | Blog
Dear editor Kentucky New Era, Last Saturday’s paper included two stories promoting homosexual literature to parents and children. One article entitled, “Writer David Levithan on LGBT books for the young,” states that “[t]he best thing parents...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 26, 2014 | Blog
On Monday, the Supreme Court will reveal its important ruling in the case of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood and the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. The President's healthcare legislation seeks to require all employers to include contraceptive care in...
by Samuel James | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog
Government scandal is nothing new for America. Yet we are seeing something uniquely sinister unfold as we speak: The increasing evidence of a sustained and concentrated attack on citizens via the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS admitted this week that it...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month Google initiated a major blow for the internet pornography industry when it announced it would no longer accept advertising for sexually explicit material. While this decision won't make pornographic material inaccessible through Google's...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this week, President Obama announced an executive order prohibiting federal contract workers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The use of an executive order to enforce a policy that does not actually exist is...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
by Richard Nelson | Jun 13, 2014 | Blog
Casey Mattox of Family Research Council has responded to Planned Parenthood’s “Clergy Advocacy Board Statement,” an open, “pastoral” letter encouraging people to not assume that “all religious clergy disapprove of abortion.”...
