by Staff | Sep 20, 2024 | Blog
The 2025 College Free Speech Rankings were just released, and the most prestigious universities in the country—like Harvard and Columbia—rank dead last. How can our nation’s best universities be the worst at fostering a free exchange of ideas? Conservative students...
by Staff | Sep 19, 2024 | Blog
Voters in over 100 Kentucky counties and cities will decide in November whether they want to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in their communities. Who knew there was this much interest in growing and selling cannabis across the commonwealth? Kentucky will only...
by Staff | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog
Daniel Wilson of Louisville was sentenced to 5 years in prison for participating in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Wilson was one of over 1,000 people who’ve been charged with breaking into the Capitol building that day and trying to disrupt the electoral...
by Staff | Sep 17, 2024 | Blog
A recent survey of professors in the American South found that 70% are concerned with the politicization of higher ed, especially protections for academic freedom and tenure. Legislators in conservative states like Kentucky have taken action to fight divisive...
by Staff | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to Congress that officials from the Biden Administration pressured Facebook to censor content about COVID. He also admitted that Facebook should not have censored content about Hunter Biden before the 2020...
by Staff | Sep 13, 2024 | Blog
Kamala Harris announced that she wants to oversee the building of three million new homes during her first term if she is elected President. She’s also proposing that the federal government distribute up to $25,000 to first time home buyers. She’s doing this because...
by Staff | Sep 12, 2024 | Blog
Lexington’s Mary E. Britton Middle School, which is now under construction, will have gender-neutral bathrooms which boys and girls will share. However, Superintendent Demetrus Liggins told the Kentucky legislature’s Interim Joint Committee on Education...
by Staff | Sep 11, 2024 | Blog
Kentucky’s Amendment 2 would empower parents and give families more options for the best education fit for their children. Now, the vote is getting attention from a prominent national newspaper. The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board is encouraging Kentuckians to...
by Staff | Sep 10, 2024 | Blog
Kentucky Right to Life announced that it will sponsor posters in high schools across the state that list the baby box hotline number. This is in response to House Bill 272. The bill passed unanimously earlier this year and it requires that the number be displayed in...
by Staff | Sep 9, 2024 | Blog
School choice critic John Schaaf recently wrote a column criticizing the Amendment 2 initiative, which empowers parents with more education options for their children. He implied that the amendment would unjustly give vouchers for religious schools. However, Amendment...
by Staff | Sep 6, 2024 | Blog
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, addressed the Democratic National Convention. In her speech, she accused Republicans of “gutting funding for public schools.” This was a veiled reference to school choice efforts like Kentucky’s...
by Staff | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog
A news article from the Kentucky Lantern recently showed that increased utility costs are hurting Kentucky’s poor. Kentucky Power’s president also acknowledged that electricity bills are higher for those who are least likely to afford them. This is in light of a...
by Staff | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog
Kentucky met certain benchmarks in order for us to move towards eliminating the state income tax. It will be dropped 0.5% or a half percentage point beginning in 2026, that’s if it’s approved in the upcoming legislative session. This shows that the...
by Staff | Sep 3, 2024 | Blog
Too many Americans have a low view of work today. 16% of prime working age men between ages of 25-54 have dropped out of the workforce. Work is demeaned as a means to an end so one can simply consume, and a way to get money in order to retire, hopefully at an early...
by Staff | Sep 2, 2024 | Blog
Today marks the unofficial end of summer. It’s Labor Day, which became a federal holiday in 1894 after the labor movement fought for safer work places, an 8 hour work day, fair wages, and the end to child labor. Those goals were eventually realized. But Labor Day also...
by Staff | Aug 30, 2024 | Blog
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Biden’s Administration’s Title IX rules, which would overturn policies to protect women’s sports and female-only spaces in public schools. The Court upheld common sense laws in 26 states, including Kentucky, that...
by Staff | Aug 29, 2024 | Blog
The Sutter Family Residency Medical Program in California has made assisted suicide training part of its curriculum. The residents “evaluate patients for Medical Assistance in Dying, write prescriptions for aid-in-dying medications, and attend the planned deaths of...
by Staff | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog
The University of Kentucky is closing its Office of Institutional Diversity. Earlier this year, the General Assembly investigated DEI practices and proposed legislation to nix DEI programs. UK will end mandatory diversity training and diversity statements for new...
by Staff | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog
A federal judge ordered UCLA officials to put an end to Jew-Free zones on campus. Pro-Palestinian activists barricaded parts of campus and wouldn’t allow Jewish students to pass unless they disavowed support for Israel. This kept several Jewish students from...
by Staff | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog
The 2024 Democratic National Committee wrapped up on Thursday, and abortion rights was a central issue throughout. A special segment on day two featured two Kentuckians on the main stage: Hadley Duvall and Gov. Andy Beshear. Duvall introduced Beshear, and Beshear...
