The Fallout of Afghanistan

The fallout from Pres. Biden’s haphazard pullout of Afghanistan continues. As Afghan allies flee from the Taliban, many say the U.S. has a moral obligation to rescue them. One of them is Tim Morgan, a special ops helicopter pilot who has been deployed there several...

Nation’s Most Restrictive Abortion Law

A Texas law that recognizes and protects human life as soon as a heartbeat is found was allowed to stand by the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s considered the most pro-life law in the nation. Several other states, including Kentucky, have heartbeat laws that protect the...

Christianity and Culture Conference in Bowling Green

The clash of values between the church and culture is clear. This is because our culture has become secularized, and we’re losing a shared moral reference point. Often there’s fear and uncertainty inside the church. And those outside the church are often distrustful...

Special Session to Tackle Divisive Mask Issue

Gov. Andy Beshear is expected to call the Kentucky General Assembly into session as early as today. That’s because the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that he needs to abide by the state legislature’s laws that limit his emergency authority. Earlier this year, the...

Rest from your Labors

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 workplaces, an eight-hour workday, fair wages, and the end of child labor. Those goals were eventually realized, but Labor Day...

Court Protects Children, Conscience Rights

Healthcare workers concerned about being forced to participate in procedures and therapies that violate their conscience and sound medical practices got a reprieve from a federal court. The Federal Court for the Northern District in Texas ruled on behalf of health...

The Politics of Vaccines

Syndicated radio host Phil Valentine died from Covid. Valentine was a vaccine skeptic, but after he got Covid, he changed his tune. He asked his listeners to consider, “If [they] get this COVID thing, do [they] have a chance of dying from it?” Valentine...

Covid Wave Crippling Hospital Capacity

The Trigg County Hospital ER doctor said the hospital there is overwhelmed with Covid patients. The same is true for many hospitals across the commonwealth. Overall, over 100,000 people in the country have been hospitalized for the coronavirus. This is the highest...

Beshear may call special session

Gov. Andy Beshear’s recent mask mandate for children as young as two years old was slapped down by two courts. A federal judge in Northern Kentucky said Beshear had no authority to tell Catholic schools in Covington what to do. Just days after that ruling, the Ky...

Afghanistan Crumbling

Two suicide bombers at the Kabul Airport took the lives of 72 Afghans and 13 U.S. Troops. More than a hundred were wounded in a cowardly attack on those trying to flee the country. The attack was linked to ISIS. The abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan left...

Is Roe on the Ropes?

The pro-life movement received another victory as a Texas law was upheld in a recent Federal Court of Appeals case. The law banned a method called D&E, an abortion procedure commonly used in the second trimester. Doctors who violated this law would face up to two...

Boy Scouts Bankruptcy

The Boy Scouts of America have entered into a bankruptcy deal after many years of spiraling downward and facing near collapse amid its sexual abuse crisis. The deal includes an $850 million fund to compensate thousands of men who were sexually abused in the Scout...

Beshear’s School Mask Mandate Temporarily Blocked

Gov. Beshear’s latest mask mandate for all Kentucky schools was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The state legislature passed a law giving local school districts the authority to create their own policy on masking, but Beshear has thwarted the law, which is in...

Biden’s Eviction Moratorium

At the direction of President Biden, the Center for Disease Control has unilaterally extended the eviction moratorium. This means that if a tenant is struggling to pay rent, the landlord cannot evict them. Of course, this brings hardship to landlords who also have...

Afghanistan Has Fallen

Afghanistan has fallen. And it happened in lightning speed as the Taliban ran roughshod over the country and nearly walked into the capital of Kabul without serious resistance. The U.S. has been there for nearly 20 years and poured over a trillion dollars into...

Senate Committee Passes the addition of women in the draft

The United States military has been an all-volunteer force for many years and has not had to implement a draft since the Vietnam War. Yet, all men are still required to register for the draft when they turn 18 or face penalties. But if a provision in a defense bill...

Twitter suspends Erick Erickson and Allie Beth Stuckey

Did you ever expect a time in America when speaking the truth would be punished by social media companies? Two conservative figures, Erick Erickson and Allie Beth Stuckey, were recently suspended from Twitter for saying that a transgender Olympic athlete named Laurel...

Psychological results of masks for children

Governor Beshear’s controversial mask mandate is ruffling feathers. Critics say he’s defying the rule of law. This is because the Kentucky legislature passed a bill authorizing local school boards, not the governor, to make that decision. The mandate is...

Public Funding of Abortion Stopped

Ever hear of the Hyde Amendment? Unless you keep tabs on the abortion debate you probably haven’t. In short, the Hyde Amendment has been a federal law for decades and says that no federal funds can be used for abortions in the United States. It was sponsored by...

Mask Mandate Challenged by Cameron

Gov. Andy Beshear’s latest mask mandate for public schools hit a wall in the Kentucky state legislature. Beshear disregarded a state law that gave local school boards the authority to decide for themselves whether or not to mask up. Some legislators are now...