In 2010 the Supreme Court changed money in the political world with the Citizen United Decision. The Court decided in that decision that...

In March we had a post on this blog describing how our elections came to exist on a Tuesday in November. We have all experienced the...

When I taught History and the class discussed the Declaration of Independence I always emphasized Thomas Jefferson’s words “all men are...

President Biden and Speaker McCarthy have managed to hammer out a compromise on the debt ceiling. In the time we live in that is a major...

On August 8, 2008 a student of Central High School in Knoxville walked into the cafeteria before school had started and fatally shot a...

We have all grown up victims of book publishers, Hollywood and TV producers who created the myth of the Wild West. That myth is the...

President Franklin Roosevelt in his first term faced the one of the greatest economic challenges in our history, the Great Depression. ...

Gloria Johnson and I taught together in Knox County for several years. In those years we sat in many meetings, Gloria as a special...

Tennessee former governors Phil Bredesen and Jim Haslam started a podcast in 2022 titled You May Be Right. These two men from opposing...

This is the 21st Century, can we make voting easier? Could we declare Election Day a National Holiday? Could we move voting to the first...

There's a lot of discussion about raising the debt limit. Here's a presentation to help explain the difference between the deficit and debt.