By Z. E. Kendall 18 Feb. 2026 “I think it’s a very pressing issue,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said today at the Kentucky House Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments. Governor DeSantis spoke in favor of   House Concurrent Resolution 45  for a  balanced budget constitutional amendment in an Article 5 Convention of States. “We need the states to step up” if we want the fiscal situation for the government to go well. “I don’t think that Congress is going to fix its

What if proposed legislation, that conservatives would support for good, is opening the door for it to be used against us for bad? Have you heard of the Hegelian dialectic?   Problem / reaction / solution . Thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis. Create the problem, knowing how a certain demographic will respond. Then have the solution planned that would appease that demographic that is practically begging for a solution. What if the solution presented was preconceived of a bigger mo

By Z. E. Kendall In this legislative session, the Kentucky state legislature is crafting its two-year budget. Now, according to the Consensus Forecasting Group, Kentucky state government has a projected shortfall of $156 million in the mid-2025 to mid-2026 fiscal year out of its $16 billion state budget. In other words, Kentucky is on track to fall short of a balanced budget by 1%. This is a slight improvement versus the expected 2% ($305 million) shortfall. On KET, Gov. Andy

By Z. E. Kendall In recent years, the Kentucky state legislature has made efforts to enhance our election security. For example, back in 2024, there were two key election security bills. The first bill was a voter roll clean up bill, and the second was a bill to put an amendment on the ballot to ban non-citizens from voting in state and local elections. Both of those passed. Now, back in 2020, SB2 got passed which was marketed as a bill to help our election security. That law