by Staff | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is leading the charge to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. That’s more than double the current minimum wage which is $7.25 an hour. Now, many of Sander’s campaign staff are demanding that he...
by Staff | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog
The Kentucky General Assembly met in special last week and took a step to fix the broken pension system. They passed a bill to provide relief for regional universities, county health departments and many other quasi-governmental agencies faced with huge pension...
by Staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog
Mainstream news media seem quick to criticize conservatives for controversial comments. But the same news outlets appear reluctant when it comes to criticizing the left. Consider a recent tweet by a Yale University law professor who claimed that “Every single...
by Staff | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
Nine states have laws that protect illegal immigrants from federal authorities and are considered sanctuary states. Kentucky Republicans aren’t about to let that happen to the Commonwealth. State Sen. Danny Carroll and Rep. John Blanton—both Republicans,...
by Staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog
Fifty years ago this month, America landed a man on the moon. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 and onto the surface of the moon he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was a major feat and a...
by Staff | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog
Many in the mainstream press called President Trump a racist after he called out Congressmen who’ve been critical of America. The president sent a tweet directed at four far-left Democratic Congresswomen and said, “Why don’t they go back and fix the...
by Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
The Kentucky General Assembly is in special session today and they’re trying to fix the broken pension system. Well, at least they’re trying to fix part of it. The legislature is providing relief for regional universities, county health departments and...
by Staff | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour but that will change if Congress gets it way. They’re considering a proposal that will more than double the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It may sound good to minimum wage earners but what about the employees who’ve...
by Staff | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog
The American Psychological Association has launched the “Non-Monogamy Task Force.” The APA Division 44 Consensual Non-monogamy Task Force “promotes awareness and inclusivity about consensual non-monogamy and diverse expressions of intimate...
by Staff | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog
The U.S. Supreme Court said that the question of citizenship could not be included on the 2020 census. The Census counts the number of U.S. citizens and is used for determining Congressional districts, but the Court says that the Trump administration’s...
by Staff | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog
A federal judge blocked Ohio’s fetal heartbeat law from going into effect. The law said that a human life is present once a fetal heartbeat is detected and it banned abortions at that moment. However, Judge Michael Barrett blocked the law so he could consider...
by Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog
The National Education Association Representative Assembly recently voted to support a “fundamental right to abortion.” It’s ironic that the NEA is taking a pro-abortion position because as more moms choose abortion there will be less children in the classroom,...
by Staff | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog
The social media platform Twitter is under fire for restricting conservative speech on its platform. Earlier this year, journalist Meghan Murphy tweeted that “men are not women,” and for that she was banned from Twitter. Twitter police classified Murphy’s tweet...
by Staff | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog
Os Guiness said that true freedom is only possible within moral boundaries. He wrote in A Free People’s Suicide: “[freedom] rests on strong convictions about what is true and equally strong constraints against what is false. A culture with no claims on its...
by Staff | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
One of the most difficult issues to talk about in public yet most necessary for our survival is that of moral boundaries. We live in a highly individualized society where we’re averse to other people telling us how to live. Yet at a certain point, other...
by Staff | Jul 9, 2019 | Blog
The university watchdog newspaper Campus Reform reports that the University of Washington is conducting a study on pregnant mothers who use marijuana. The university received nearly $200,000 in grants to see how marijuana use over the course of a pregnancy affects...
by Staff | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
Should the government ask about citizenship status on the U.S. Census? The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t think so. They struck down the question that asked, “are you a legal U.S. citizen,” proposed by President Trump to be included in the 2020 Census....
by Staff | Jul 5, 2019 | Blog
Our public discourse has become dangerously hateful. We’ve gotten to the point where people are physically attacked for their views. This is because we’ve forgotten principles like respect and tolerance. Too often opponents are demonized. This leads to a...
by Staff | Jul 4, 2019 | Blog
243 years ago, our Founding Fathers crafted America’s first political document called the Declaration of Independence. They outlined the abuses of a tyrannical King who trampled their rights. So they appealed to the “Supreme Judge of the World” and...
by Staff | Jul 3, 2019 | Blog
Tomorrow we’ll celebrate our nation’s 243rd birthday. The founders threw off the chains of tyranny from King George and introduced the idea of the rule of law and self-government. And they appealed to God. As a result we have incredible political,...
