by Staff | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought on panic. People are raiding grocery stores and hoarding toilet paper, medicines, and disinfectants, leaving shelves bare. It should go without saying that panic isn’t helpful in times of crisis....
by Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog
Civility has been stretched to its limits. Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca who supported a tweet that suggested opponents of Pres. Trump should attend Make America Great Again rallies and infect Trump supporters with the coronavirus. Ms. CdeBaca tweeted...
by Staff | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog
Asbury University, a conservative Christian college near Lexington, is under fire from news media outlets because it fired two LGBT-affirming professors. The political cartoon in the Lexington Herald-Leader had a rainbow leading to Asbury and it said: The end of the...
by Staff | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
The Kentucky state legislature is considering several hundred bills. One bill sets higher penalties for sexual assaults while traveling in a taxi. Another bill creates stiffer penalties for those who assault referees. Yet another bill increases penalties for adults...
by Staff | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
There’s been a big push to allow young children to determine their own gender these days. And if one California lawmaker has his way, he’d force stores that sell children’s items to remain gender-neutral. State Rep. Evan Low proposed a bill that...
by Staff | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog
Kentuckians’ approval of marijuana as medicine is at an all-time high. Ahem, no pun intended. According to a recently released poll by Kentucky Health Issues, 9 out of 10 Kentuckians favored legalizing medical marijuana. The strong poll numbers are fueled by...
by Staff | Mar 13, 2020 | Blog
California passed a law in 2013 prohibiting public school employees from informing parents of a child’s gender dysphoria or identity change, that is unless they have the child’s consent. A similar policy is in place in the Madison, Wisconsin school district but...
by Staff | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
The U.S. Department of Justice is coming to the assistance of a Louisville business owner who believers her First Amendment rights are threatened by a local ordinance that elevates LGBT identity to protected status. Chelsey Nelson is a photographer and is suing...
by Staff | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog
Joe Biden was the big winner in the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday. Interestingly, he did it with little money compared to his rivals. Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund billionaire, spent $253 million in the Democratic primaries first three contests and failed to win a...
by Staff | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
Pixar is known for classic animated movies like Finding Nemo and Cars. It’s a top-notch studio whose movies often have good messages. However, the latest movie called Onward misses the mark. It’s about two brothers, voiced by Chris Pratt and Tom Holland...
by Staff | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog
Senator Chuck Schumer threatened two Supreme Court Justices at a pro-abortion rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court building last week. Schumer said in a speech “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you...
by Staff | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
An American hero who overcame segregation and long odds to contribute to the U.S. Space program that put the first man on the moon passed away. Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician depicted in the movie ‘Hidden Figures,’ calculated the trajectory for...
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...
