by Richard Nelson | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog
Does your teenager spend too much time on electronic devices? How about you? Jean Twenge is a Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and she says that teenagers who spend too much time on their digital devices are in danger of depression and...
by Richard Nelson | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog
According to a Pew Forum Survey a few years ago 76 percent of Kentuckians identify as Christians. Roughly half (49 percent) identify as evangelical. One of the challenges for many Kentuckians is how their personal faith relates to the culture around them. There's...
by Richard Nelson | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog
The University of South Dakota shut down the showing of a film titled “Honor Diaries" which documented the honor killing of women in Islamic culture. Critics called the film anti-Muslim bigotry and pressured the university to cancel the event out...
by Richard Nelson | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog
Our First Amendment freedom of speech–the right to speak on political, social, and religious issues without fear of reprisal–is a freedom that we sometimes take for granted, especially younger generations. According to a recent survey by the Foundation for...
by Richard Nelson | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog
Pres. Trump didn't collude with the Russians to win the 2016 election. That's according to the long-awaited report by special counsel Robert Mueller. The investigation lasted two years and involved more than 500 search warrants, 2,800 subpoenas, and interviews...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog
The group Media Matters is demanding that Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson be fired for comments he made several years ago. According to its website, Media Matters says its mission is to "make sure that the American people get the facts. We meticulously...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog
The state of Ohio banned public funds from going to Planned Parenthood which sued to have the law overturned. However, a recent ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Planned Parenthood doesn't have a right to those public funds. The court also...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog
The Kentucky legislature passed four pro-life bills into law in recent weeks. Two of the bills are already facing lawsuits by the ACLU. One of the bills banned abortion based on sex, ethnicity, and disability. The other protected life in the womb once a heartbeat is...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 26, 2019 | Blog
The Kentucky legislature considered hundreds of bills this last session and many of them had to do with the breakdown of the family. One bill would have reduced bail for low-level offenses for parents that have children in the home. As it is, Kentucky has one of the...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog
Jefferson County Public School system shut down six times in recent weeks due to teacher "sickouts" so they could protest in Frankfort. Now Kentucky's Commissioner of Education Wayne Lewis is asking the state's largest school district to produce...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog
Voters in Toledo, Ohio passed a law recognizing Lake Erie as an entity with rights. Voters in the special election approved the idea that Lake Erie has “the right to exist, flourish and naturally evolve.” Practically the measure allows any resident of...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog
The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) released its annual report on the state of higher education in America. Their report, called Comedy and Tragedy, “document[s] the intellectual abuse and flat-out indoctrination happening by way of the appalling...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 20, 2019 | Blog
China has more males than females. In fact, 34 million more males. This has created a problem for men who want to marry. So an organization built a database to that is registering women and their availability to men. Nearly two million women are registered in the...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog
The number of Kentucky kids who are smoking cigarettes is decreasing according to a recent report. However, more kids are vaping, which is just as addictive and dangerous. In fact, one vaping packet contains as much nicotine as a full pack of cigarettes! State...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog
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by Richard Nelson | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog
The idea that people can switch their gender got a hearing on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives when two Democrat congresswomen read the pro-transgender children’s book called I Am Jazz. Transgenderism has been going mainstream for years...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 14, 2019 | Blog
Fresno State Students for Life group promoted their cause with chalk messages on university sidewalks but not everyone appreciated those messages including Professor Greg Thatcher. So Thatcher took some of his students and wiped them away. Professor Thatcher...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog
The Trump administration changed Title X regulations regarding which organizations can receive federal family planning funds. Under the new rules any facility that performs abortions or counsels women to receive abortions cannot receive any federal funds. This means...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog
Google is in the middle of a class-action lawsuit alleging that it underpays women for performing the same job as men. However, Google's annual pay equity analysis for 2018, found something nobody expected. Google was actually underpaying men for doing the same...
by Richard Nelson | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
The Kentucky legislature is considering a bill that modifies the teacher retirement board by including a broader group of board members. Another bill would create a tax credit for businesses that want to donate to scholarship funds for underprivileged kids trapped in...
