by Staff | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog
Is socialism good for the United States? Bernie Sanders, the leading Democratic candidate for president, thinks so. Socialism is the economic system where the government controls production and redistributes the wealth of citizens. Sanders is proposing free...
by Staff | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog
A bill considered in the Kentucky legislature makes clear that abortion is not a protected right. But if you’d read Kentucky’s biggest newspaper you get a different story. The Louisville Courier-Journal headline said: Kentucky Constitution would include no...
by Staff | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog
School safety has been a big concern to Kentucky lawmakers. That’s why a bill to require school resource officers (SROs) to carry firearms easily passed. That may not have been a surprise considering Republicans are in charge. However, it surprised some that...
by Staff | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
The group that used to be known as the Boy Scouts has filed for bankruptcy. Scouts USA has been mired in a sexual abuse scandal rivaling the Catholic church’s. According to court documents, 12,254 victims were prey to 7,819 suspected abusers over several...
by Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog
According to the 2019 Nielsen Total Audience Report, half of the average American adults’ day is spent on a screen. Nielsen says that adults spend nearly 11 hours per day on their phones, iPads, computers or televisions watching, listening to, or interacting with...
by Staff | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
The Kentucky state House passed a bill that would ban the paddling of students. Kentucky is one of 19 states that still allow corporal punishment of students. The House also passed a bill that would require school resource officers to carry a firearm to better protect...
by Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog
College student loan is $1.6 trillion dollars. And this debt is having a ripple effect on the economy. College students with a lot of debt often spend a good chunk of their income just paying back their loan which means most won’t be able to buy a new home. Many...
by Staff | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog
The Commonwealth Policy Center had the privilege of working on two of the pro-life pieces of legislation passed in the last legislative session. In 2020, CPC is going to monitor the following bills as we work alongside the Kentucky House and Senate: Pass the...
by Staff | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog
According to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 National Human Trafficking report, there are a staggering 24.9 million people trafficked in the world. Most cases involve women, often underage girls who are runaways and trafficked for sex. It’s disturbing to...
by Staff | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
Andrew Walker recently wrote an analysis piece breaking down why so many evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016. He explains it in terms of the progressive push that would trample religious freedom and further protect abortion. Walker says that “religious...
by Staff | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog
Political scientist Charles Murray has come to the conclusion that America needs a religious awakening. Murray is the author of the Bell Curve and other popular works assessing our culture. He said in a recent radio interview that “You cannot have a free society, a...
by Staff | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog
Planned Parenthood said in a recent press release that abortion is healthcare and a reproductive right. But is abortion really a reproductive right? Reproduction results in addition. But abortion results in the subtraction of another human being. Some call abortion...
by Staff | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog
Planned Parenthood is back in business in Kentucky. It recently opened its facility in Louisville and is now offering abortions. Gov. Andy Beshear gave the green light to the nation’s biggest abortion provider access to Kentucky—even though the group was...
by Staff | Feb 18, 2020 | Blog
Remember the huge security breach at Equifax a couple of years ago where 145 million Americans had their private information stolen? Well, the culprits were finally caught. Four Chinese military members have been charged with breaking into the Equifax network. They...
by Staff | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog
Today is President’s Day and at a time when confidence in political leadership may be at an all-time low, it’s good to celebrate the courage and conviction of leaders who’ve demonstrated statesmanship. Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, held the...
by Staff | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
Well men, if you haven’t gotten chocolates and flowers for your wife, there’s still time to do so. In case you forgot, it’s Valentines Day today. Did you know that this holiday is named after an actual person who was persecuted by the Roman Emperor...
by Staff | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog
The Kentucky legislature is in full swing. So far several hundred bills have been introduced. A few high profile bills include legalizing sports gambling and medical marijuana, a constitutional amendment on abortion, mandatory voter ID at the polls, and sanctuary...
by Staff | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog
Barry Black is the Chaplain to the U.S. Senate and most American’s may not have known about him or that the Senate even had a chaplain before the impeachment trial. Black led the Senate in prayer each day of the trial. He reverently appealed to God in each...
by Staff | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog
Iowa has been the epicenter of national politics for months as Democratic presidential candidates have campaigned and made their case to the voters. However, instead of a clear winner announced on election night, there was confusion. In fact, it was a fiasco. The app...
by Staff | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
President Donald Trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate. This was only the third impeachment in U.S. history. Critics will say that it was partisan, yet Congressional Democrats couldn’t get a single Republican to join their articles of...
