I continue to be grateful for the team we have at Forward Kentucky, and proud of the work they do. So it is with a great deal of pleasure that I can tell you that we have not one, but TWO new books on the way from two of our
The Right has a cottage industry of outrage over reparations to the descendants of slaves. (I know it’s hard to keep up these days, with so many themes emerging from the outrage machine.) It’s fallen a bit by the wayside lately, what with blaming Bill Gates — or George
If you’ve read Forward Kentucky for a while, you know that I try to avoid the “hair on fire” approach to our work. (And as long as my hair is right now, that approach would turn into a conflagration for sure.) However, there continue to be developments at all
I lived in central Illinois for 15 years, where I served as the senior pastor of a church in Peoria. In the early days of my ministry there, Native Americans were protesting the presence of Chief Illiniwek at the University of Illinois. There were hard feelings about this on both
When a county official wanted a Confederate flag raised on the courthouse lawn in Benton, Ky., he said he opted for the “Stars and Bars” to sidestep “the negativity associated with the ‘Battle Flag’ and its common ‘Southern Cross’ design.” Republican Marshall County Commissioner Justin Lamb said on Facebook that
I spent much of my adult life serving numerous churches as a minister of music and education. I don’t talk about it very often in this context, because it often raises more questions than it answers, and I find that many people automatically put you in a box if
There is a fast-moving proposal to send out checks to United States individuals to boost the economy and perhaps lessen the impact of the coronavirus recession/depression. House speaker Nancy Pelosi is talking about means-testing the process, so that persons with more income or resources would get less, or nothing
For decades, many conservatives and libertarians have insisted that “government is the problem” and “the government can’t do anything as well as the private sector.” Some have gone so far as to embrace a form of anarchism and the abolition of all or almost all government. And even those
Bernie Sanders’ campaign seems to be picking up momentum. Before I go on, let me say that Bernie isn’t my first choice among the Democrats, but I’m not scared of him like a lot of people are. Sanders is certainly a polarizing figure, even among Democrats and especially
If you’re looking for a well-reasoned and unbiased discussion on the House’s decision last week to advance legislation to legalize medical marijuana, you’ve come to the wrong place. That issue has been a personal one for me since my mom was dying from cancer in the summer
T he MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace worked for President George W. Bush, against whom I enthusiastically voted twice. Now a Never Trumper, Wallace said she gets “nauseous when I see Democrats fight amongst themselves.” Me, too. I feel like chugging Emetrol with Pepto Bismol chasers. But I’m as disgusted
Is Donald Trump a real-life Sen. “Buzz” Windrip, the phony populist-turned dictator in It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis’ cautionary novel for 1935 America? Wrote Lewis: “He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the
In December 2015, Enrique Iglesias performed for one hour at a McAllen, Texas holiday event sponsored by the city. Who cares, right? The answer is: Those who believe public officials are accountable, through their records, for the expenditure of public funds. :: For just over four years, the city of McAllen
Photos of three men posing with guns in the Kentucky State Capitol have raised questions about security protocol in Frankfort. Kentucky United, a gun rights group, held a rally outside the Capitol building Tuesday morning to protest several pieces of proposed gun control legislation in the Kentucky General Assembly, which
OK, there’s nothing in these pie charts which we didn’t already know, but it’s still something else to see the contrast. I’ve been pulling U.S. House of Representatives demographic data into a spreadsheet for my own purposes, and while I was at it I decided
Ironically, it’s the self-proclaimed “Grim Reaper,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — a man whose political strategy for the past several years has been to shroud House Democrats’ legislative priorities in the Republican-led Senate — who is calling for the country to “learn how to behave better and be able to
