by Donald Teel | Aug 13, 2021
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
by Donald Teel | Oct 9, 2019
Let’s start off with a credit-where-credit-is-due. On a random Google search, I found RoadSnacks, a website specializing in consumer friendly state and city information. Apparently, RoadSnacks likes to create practical lists utilizing “recent data from the...
by Donald Teel | Sep 17, 2019
Deciphering the myriad and complex media messages is both a science and an art. To say the media misleads the public is a misnomer. The media does mislead us, by lying to us constantly. If you’re one who naively accepts copy and image as dispensed by the major...
by Todd McKinley | Sep 10, 2019
A Bit of Background In my 2018 Congressional Campaign in Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District, I always said: “A nation that fails to protect its borders, is a nation that’s failing to protect its people and a nation who fails to protect its people, isn’t a nation.”...
by Mike Maharrey | Sep 10, 2019
The surveillance state constantly expands. That thing that seems like no big deal today can suddenly become a big deal as technology evolves. Take the proliferation of surveillance cameras. We’ve come to accept electronic eyes recording our every move like a normal...
by Joe Wolverton, II | Sep 10, 2019
The Anglo-American protection of a person’s right to have the legitimacy of accusations made against him determined by a jury of his peers is of ancient origin, so ancient in fact, that the date of its first appearance in English law may be hidden in the fog of...