Apr
30
Tennessee’s jihad against homeschoolers
April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
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The State of Tennessee’s jihad against homeschoolers continues.
It began in late 2007 and continued into 2008. An employee of the Department of Education, nominally in charge of the office of non-public schooling was criss-crossing the state making a presentation in which she declared that the diplomas issued by Tennessee’s church-related, category IV schools “were not [...]
Apr
27
Coming SOON
April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I am in the process of getting things together for a call in show. This will be a live internet stream only with a local Tri-Cities number. I think its time to take it up a notch!
Apr
23
Redflex Scamera Protest/Rally
April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
To the Students of American Liberty,
We will be holding a protest against the Red Light Scameras in Jonesborough. (We will have setup in the morning and the event will start at 10:00 am)
We will have a petition to sign to deliver to the Mayor and Alderman, an opportunity for you to take out your frustrations [...]
Apr
18
Kingsport Tea Party
April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
“They use taxes to control our behavior, steer our choices and change the way we live our lives,” David Davis
The Tea Party was great, with alot of support across all isles. My only complaint is why Rep Roe sent someone. Its hard to talk about how bad you think taxes are when you pass a [...]
Apr
7
Tea Party
April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
April 15th, from 3pm to 5pm
Memorial Park (across from Dobyns-Bennett High School)
1650 Ft. Henry Drive
Kingsport, Tennessee
Spread The Word!
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas [...]
Mar
25
Good law by a Democrat
March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Proposed legislation co-sponsored by Rep. John Litz and Sen. Steve Southerland involving red-light cameras has pitted the state legislators against the Morristown engineering department.
HB 0541 by *Litz ( SB 0768 by *Southerland)
(A) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(8)(B), whenever in this state three-light traffic-control signals are used displaying successively green, yellow, and red lights for [...]
Mar
10
VOLuntarilyConservative:More Signs of Trouble for the East Tennessee Economy
March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Tri-Cities are a prime example. Each has its own major economic driver. Johnson City has East Tennessee State University. Bristol has Bristol Motor Speedway. Kingsport has Eastman Chemical. Over a decade ago, I wrote a piece speaking to the vulnerability of each of the Tri-Cities due to this phenomenon. At the time, King Pharmaceuticals [...]
Feb
26
The Majority of Tennessee State Lawmakers Refuse to Release Public Records
February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
From Tennessee Center for Policy research
Seventy-Two of the 132 members of the General Assembly fail to comply with open records requests
NASHVILLE – More than half of the members of the Tennessee General Assembly failed to comply with a recent open records request, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
In an open records request sent [...]
Feb
26
Mountain Dew History
February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
Pics and info here
A Breif History of All Things Dew
1940’s Two brothers, Ally and Barney Hartman, were bottling a lithiated-lemon (”7-up” flavor) drink as a personal mixer for hard-liquor. They jokingly called the drink “Mountain Dew” after Tennessee Mountain Moonshine.
1948 The Hartman Brothers filed for and received a trademark on the now famous label – [...]
Feb
23
HJR 108 State Sovereignty by State Representative Susan Lynn
February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
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State sovereignty is a big deal to state legislators and it should be to you too. It is what keeps the federal government from over stepping its constitutional bounds.
The history of the formation of our federal government is long and complex but what the framers sought was a government that protected man#8217;s natural rights; [...]