The recent emergence of Kentuckian Nate Morris as a potential replacement for Mitch McConnell in the US Senate is like watching a classic political scam unfold in real time. If you are like most people in Kentucky, you would have never heard of Morris, at least not before his name started popping up in early…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,…

The historian Yuval Noah Harari has written a thought-provoking book called “Sapiens” which makes certain assumptions about the early history of humanity as a biological species. The central defining feature of our species Sapiens, says Harari, is that we are not only capable of inventing and believing fiction, but that the entire life and history…

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…