Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
For over a year, we have heard repeatedly that deciding to not be vaccinated against COVID is a "personal choice." Now all those "personal choices" are having real and deadly consequences, not just for the person refusing to be vaccinated, but for people all around them. Rachel Maddow has more.
Here's a video from some leading scientists that calls out a real problem in our country: so-called "alternate facts." It's about 25 minutes long, but worth your time.
The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu, based on the official death count from COVID-19 compared to the estimated fatalities from the 1918 pandemic.
Some thoughts from the Open Government Coalition on the recent article about AG Cameron's attack on open records
Charles Booker and Sen. Rand Paul are practicing what they preach about COVID 19. By word and deed, Booker's for social responsibility. Paul's a Covidiot.
If you call out someone on their obvious use of debunked claims, and they say "I did my own research; you do yours!" then here is a meme you can send them in response.
Dr. Josh Douglas of UK's law school weighs in on the Trump lawyers, and concludes they should be disbarred.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and the Supreme Court is a dispassionate nonpartisan branch of government free of bias — this is the Orwellian fable that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is now asking Americans to believe.
In an act combining cowardice, petulance, and ignorance, the Republican members of the General Assembly abandoned their responsibilities as elected officials and passed the buck for our children's safety to anyone else willing to take it.
An overwhelming majority of Americans are sick of being held hostage by an ignorant, belligerent, anti-science minority. And that loudmouth minority are about to find out what the majority really thinks of them.
We are required in Social Studies to include Kentucky connections to units we teach. It has left me wondering how we will teach several important events, places, and people from Kentucky if we are not able to discuss race as a historical factor.
My father used this expression whenever there appeared some situation that appeared insolvable. However, unbeknownst to you and I at the moment, there may be a solution in the future.
Whose pictures would go on our Wall of Shame? All those leges who voted to put our children's lives at risk.
Bill Straub says the General Assembly is gambling with children's lives, sending them back to school without protection.
Al Cross talks about "gutless wonders" and the actions of the KY legislature in the special session.
The first bill in the special session in the KY Senate is to get rid of masks in schools. Here's what is going to happen if that bill passes as it is now.
