kim davis
A little over a year ago, a Kentucky county clerk decided that her bigoted beliefs were more important than a decision made by the Supreme Court of the United States. You know, the decision that made...
Part 1 of Liberal America's "Sunday Hero Series' Strong Women In History" features Louisville, Kentucky activist Anne Braden, a social justice leader who dedicated her life to creating change both in her state and nationally. Anne...
Mugshot of Kim Davis (courtesy Carter County Detention Center via NBC News)
Kim Davis seemed to be showing signs of coming to her senses when she was released from jail on Tuesday. After all, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk is taking the rest of the week off...
Parents charged with criminal abuse
Two parents, Kimberly Powell, 26, and Andrew Powell, 25, in Franklin County, Kentucky, were indicted Monday after their three children – ages 2, 4, and 6 – were found starving, living in horrible conditions with...
Wonder how those who are hell bent on defying the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage would feel if the shoe was on the other foot? What if they went to their county office and...
A picture of the Nauglers' cabin (from the Nauglers' Facebook)
In the last week, Joe and Nicole Naugler have made national news after their 10 children were removed from their homestead in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. The couple claims the kids were removed due to their...
Truth Apostolic in Madisonville, Kentucky is a small church, and now it is the focus of national attention after its pastor, Michael Orten, defended the rape of a 13-year-old girl by saying that the girl...
Kentucky state capitol
As if the Kim Davis story wasn't bad enough, we have more bad news out of Kentucky. The state legislature has a bill moving along to allow discrimination against interracial couples among other groups. Almost 50...
In July, a new theme park will open in the state of Kentucky. It's called the Ark Encounter Theme Park, and it will feature a 510-foot replica of Noah's Ark, which creationist and park founder...
Kentucky state representative Dan Johnson (image courtesy Kentucky Legislative Research Commission via Lexington Herald-Leader)
Last fall, a fundie pastor running as a Republican candidate for the Kentucky House of Representatives turned heads when he posted horribly racist caricatures of Barack and Michelle Obama to his Facebook page. That proved...
Idiot Creationist, and RWNJ Ken Ham has built a ridiculous "museum" in Kentucky. It is a supposedly life-size version of Noah's Ark from the Bible stories. Ham is a young Earth creationist (he thinks the...
You may recall that last week, when Kim Davis was released from jail after spending the weekend there on contempt charges, she dropped in on a rally Mike Huckabee organized in support of her. The...
Republicans are learning all about karma first-hand as they return to their districts and face angry constituents who are upset that they may soon be losing their health insurance and the fact that Donald Trump...
The king idiot of creationism is back once again with a big helping of stupid. This is the same idiot who is responsible for the gigantic waste of money "Noah's Ark" museum. It opened a...
Yesterday in Kentucky, the Bluegrass State took a giant leap backwards by electing Matt Bevin as their new governor. Just how extreme is Bevin?  Well, this Tea Party conservative ticked off Republicans after winning May’s GOP...
Ken Ham is responsible for the Creation Museum, and that was bad enough. One journalist went to the Creation Museum and found out some interesting "facts." The animals from around the world apparently used rafts...
coal
Recently, the Young Turks interviewed a young white millennial raised in the heart of America's coal country, and what he had to say is straight out of the Republican Party's worst nightmare. Nic Smith describes himself as...
Rand Paul Super PAC
The Republican primary hasn't been kind to Rand Paul. His place in the polls has been steadily declining, Rush asked him to stop using their songs, and now one of his Super PACs has stopped...
Teachers are not celebrities. They travel to classrooms all over America every day to put their sweat and tears into a mostly thankless job for students, many of whom do not want to be in school,...