A Discussion of Election Integrity Issues, with Steve Knipper.

by Tom P. The spring 2022 legislative session has wrapped up. Kentuckians are beginning to wake up from an endless nightmare. Finally, the horrors of the past two years are beginning to fade away. After a long wait, are Kentuckians waking up to the blissful pre-pandemic world? Are the career politicians providing a blissful smoke…

On Monday, May 8, 2023, just 8 days from the primary election, Kentucky’s public television network KET put on a Soviet-style primetime softball interview of the incumbent Secretary of State Michael Adams. Most likely at Adams’ request, no debate invitation was offered to the other candidates running against Adams in the Republican primary. KET thus…

To kick off the new 2023 legislative session, we might expect the Republican “super-majority” to focus on core bread-and-butter Kentucky Republican issues. We’d all likely unify around lowering taxes, relieving some regulatory burdens on small businesses, or disentangling our schools from onerous ideologies. Many voters are concerned about election integrity, which is an obvious problem…

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”– Abraham Lincoln In part 1 of this series of articles, I focused on how core, traditional values of the USA are currently…

I am tired and slightly mortified by the trajectory that our country is taking. This is not the world that I want my children to inherit. How can we make meaningful changes? We can’t go straight to the head of the snake and chop it off. We start making changes from the ground up, hoping…

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine In Part 1 and Part 2 of…