Image Credit: Adobe Stock & the Tennessee Republican Party The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – Last week, a few days after Christmas, a decision was made by the Tennessee Republican Party (TRP) to allow candidates who were previously removed from the Republican Primary ballot for school board in districts 7 (Brentwood) and 9 […]
Image Credit: Alliance for Excellent Education / Allison Shelley – CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A pair of Tennessee lawmakers announced they introduced a bill to fund emergency body cameras and call buttons for school teachers with $300 in funding apiece. State Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, and State Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mount […]
Image Credit: Luigi’s Pizza North Clarksville / Facebook The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Three more counties were added to an emergency disaster declaration related to tornadoes that swept through Tennessee on Dec. 9. The Federal Emergency Management Agency added Cheatham, Gibson and Stewart counties to the Expedited Major Disaster Declaration originally approved Dec. […]
Image Credit: UnSplash The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Nashville spent nearly $700,000 out of pocket on four lawsuits challenging state laws this year along with 1,645 hours of the department’s time, according to a new report from The Tennessean. The $682,949 in out-of-pocket expenses included paying for outside counsel, expert witnesses, filing fees […]
Growing up, I learned very little history. I suspect this is a failing of the American education system. Even in college–I went to an elite private liberal arts college–I wasn’t required to study any history, and I was under the misimpression that history was learning the names and dates of various monarchs and the wars […]
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
Conservatives tend to get their news from traditional sources like TV, print, and conservative websites. Libs, Progressives, and others tend to like PBS, The Washington Post, and other, more liberal social media. The extremes on both sides find their happy places at whatever narrow outlets cater to their biases. Regardless of your news source, there […]
The film “Maestro” is certainly well made—there is striking imagery throughout, in both black-and-white and color—and well-acted, with Bradley Cooper (who also directed) carrying off a spot-on impersonation of Leonard Bernstein. But at its core is an emptiness that no mere artifice can fill. Writers for the movies, I have found, don’t seem to know […]
WINSTON Churchill once described Russia as ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’. It is this enigma that Hillsdale College, an independently minded academic institution in the US, decided to explore a year ago. To better, and indeed fully, understand Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and Russia’s role in the shifting balance of power in today’s […]
IN APRIL 2021 and July 2021 I had covid jabs (the first AstraZeneca, the second Pfizer) both of which left me severely injured and permanently changed my life. I was left feeling I had no life, no future and no sympathy, as I wrote here. A year later nothing has changed except for the added trauma of navigating a […]
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