By Adam Ghassemi Original Story CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Lori Kunesh is the kind of person who loves her dogs. That’s why when she let them out before jumping in the shower Thursday morning she never expected to hear frantic yelping. “He was barking like crazy. Barking, barking, barking,” she said Saturday. Kunesh threw on a robe and ran to the […]

Do you think they, our representatives, would ever have the courage and us the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of a progressive surtax and demand a return to a traditional proportionate taxation plan? John Ramsey McCulloch, said, “The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of exacting from all individuals the same proportion of their income or […]

Knoxnews.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday issued his strongest defense yet of a Muslim aide who has been criticized for once working in the field of Shariah compliant finance. The Republican governor was asked after a speech to a Nashville Republican group whether he was incorporating elements of Islamic law into state government. Such criticism emerged […]

(Editor’s Note: At least they show what the questions were. With questions phrased this way, they were sure to get the kind of answers they wanted. The sampling size was only 625 people in each state, so their results are highly misleading. ) Legislation would address the widespread abuse in Tennessee walking horse industry A new poll conducted by Mason-Dixon […]

Governor Haslam once again lobbied Congress yesterday for a national Internet sales tax… Gov. Bill Haslam and Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire have sent a letter to two U.S. Senate Finance Committee leaders urging action before the end of the year on legislation allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales. The bill is known as the “Marketplace Fairness Act.” […]

I received a letter Thursday and I wanted to share it with you because it is important to all of us to remember why our fathers, and their fathers as well as their fathers before them fought and died to defend this nation. You will hear a great deal of talk about how a few individuals are working toward the […]

    The Jackson-Madison County Library Board of Trustees meeting will be held on at 3:30 p.m. The meeting will be held in the board room of the Jackson-Madison County Library, 433 E. Lafayette St., Jackson, Tennessee. The tension is getting thicker as services are deplinished as opposed to contractual agreement…. at what point will the management team give up […]

A friend of mine reminded me that the August 5th elections include races for State Executive Committee Men and State Executive Committee Women for both the Republican and Democrat Parties. Both political parties in Tennessee Executive Committees are the governing bodies. Since the odds of me voting in the Democrat primary is unlikely, I must take my attentions to State […]

Proud to say that this last weekend was a hummer. My son Chris married Rachael Briley in Portland, Tennessee in a church ceremony. I was proud of both. Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” – Genesis 2:23 There is a miracle at hand. Let us pray that it be strong and devoted […]

Early this year, I interviewed with Congressman Wamp and I was not impressed SUMMARY: Zach Wamp voted FOR: War Authorization Against Iraq, Trade Promotion Authority,Homeland Security, Interior Department Appropriations, Prescription Drug Plan — Republican Alternative, National Science Foundation, Unemployment Benefits, Global AIDS Initiative, Special Education, Budget Resolution — Final Version, Fiscal 2003 Omnibus Appropriations, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, […]

Well, well, it is amazing what some people will say isn’t it? Art Linkletter used to have a program, “Kids say the darndest things”. It seems this week that ‘Democrats say the darndest things’. TN State Rep. Janis Sontany (D-Nashville) was certainly guilty of ‘open mouth–insert foot’ syndrome. Proverbs 23 says: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so it […]

Well let’s see if I can make sense of what happened….. SB3498-HB3433 was the original Health Freedom Act. SB 3498 by *Beavers , Tracy, Black, Crowe, Norris, Johnson, Watson, Ramsey, Faulk, Yager *HB 3433 by *Bell , Weaver, Harwell, Carr, Williams, Dunn, McDaniel, Matheny, Maggart, Dean, Lynn, Campfield, Rich, Shipley, Brooks K, Watson, Floyd, Rowland, McManus, Coley, Lollar, Lundberg, Hawk, […]

Tennergy has restarted the task of inticing other West Tennessee Utilities into there web in an attempt to enlarge its market and its influence. In March of last year Ripley Power & Light began petitioning the Board of Mayor & Aldermen to pass a resolution to form the Ripley Energy Authority. Their purpose as stated is to provide electric and […]

Quick Note from Tennessee Firearms Association Soon to be Ex-Governor Phil Bredesen brushed up his toes, and polished his resume for a possible future Washington appointment by showing how liberal, and devoid of respect for the Citizens of Tennessee he is by presenting a proxy veto today of SB 3012. He placed half this earth between himself and the wishes […]

Solicitor General Elena Kagan Republicans wasted little time this morning staking out turf for challenging President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Senate Minority Leader McConnell said Republicans would not “rush to judgment” and would question Kagan’s “brief litigation experience, as well as judgment and her career in academia.” If “academia” is code for questioning […]

The state of Tennessee did its job in executing Cecil Johnson at the Riverbend facility early this morning. May God have mercy on his soul. “He was convicted in the murders of 12-year-old Bob Bell, Jr., James Moore and Charles House during a robbery at Bob Bell’s Market in Nashville in 1980. Bob Bell witnessed his son’s murder and identified […]

In an article written by Tod Newcombe, Mr. Newcombe explains why Gov. Bredesen wants to bring Tennessee’s governmental operations up to a new scale. Bredesen said his goal is to modernize how state operations run – and that includes information technology. “My priorities have been twofold,” he told Government Technology magazine. “I want to leave behind better internal systems than the ones […]

April 16, 2006 A proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed Tennesseans a vote on state abortion law was killed by Democrats in a party line vote on Wednesday. Even though the bill has 50 sponsors in the 99-member House, it was routed through a subcommittee stacked with pro-abortion legislators. All three Republicans on the committee voted for the legislation. […]

It seems, that at least above the surface, Tennessee representatives are not rushing in to throw even more money at its failing golf courses. “Senators yesterday balked at a plan for the state to take over the operation of four struggling golf courses in state parks. The state Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee declined to approve the Department of […]

Tennessee Republican Rep. Zach Wamp this year is breaking a pledge he made in 1994 to seek no more than six terms, or 12 years, in the House. Wamp also is overwhelmingly favored to win a seventh term this November — a fact that speaks volumes about how much the issue of congressional term limits has faded in recent years. […]