Campaign Season:

Another Terrorist Endorses Obama, May 8, 2008
...And Obama's response is to attack John McCain for mentioning it. But seriously, it is unsurprising that Hamas would prefer Barack Obama. He, after all, has a foreign policy advisor - Robert Malley - whose enthusiasm for Hamas and disdain...

Obama Wins For Losing, May 6, 2008
Regarding Tuesday's Democrat primaries in North Carolina and Indiana: Barack Obama won another state in which he has virtually chance to defeat John McCain to win in November, while Hilary Clinton wins another swing state. North Carolina was won twice...

Nigerian Terrorists Toast Obama, May 6, 2008
A group of murdering terrorists in Nigeria hold Barack Obama "in high esteem," reports Reuters:Rebels who have stepped up attacks on Nigeria's oil industry in the last month said on Sunday they were considering a ceasefire appeal by U.S. presidential...

Is Barack Bigger Than Wright's Bite?, April 29, 2008
Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says criticism of Wright for his fiery rhetoric is an attack on "the black church." It's rather presumptious of Rev. Wright to claim to speak for the entire African-American Christian community in America, but...

Wright and Wrong, April 29, 2008
Glenn Reynolds has all the good links on the still-unfolding disaster for Barack Obama that is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright....

Tennessee Dem's Front-Runner for Governor Supports Income Tax, April 28, 2008
The current Democratic front-runner for governor in 2010, ex-House Majority Leader Kim McMillan - supports creation of a state income tax. That's one reason, no doubt, that she already has House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh's endorsement - a reward for being...

The Ad, April 26, 2008
The New York Times says this ad is race-baiting. Ann Althouse disagrees. Given that the ad doesn't mention race at all, the NYT apparently thinks it is "race-baiting" to show a picture of an African-American man in a campaign ad...

There's Nothing Wrong With Kansas, April 19, 2008
Mark Steyn explains why God and guns make America better, not bitter....

Small Change, April 18, 2008
Tuke the Grifter? Perhaps. But if so, not a very good one - in the first quarter Tuke raised for a statewide race what Republican Monty Lankford raised for his race in the fourth Congressional district....

Hamas Hearts Obama, April 17, 2008
The terrorist group Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama. The Obama campaign responds - sort of. Hamas' endorsement of Obama is no shock - one of his foreign policy advisers, Robert Malley, has urged the U.S. government negotiate with Hamas. (Ed...

Bitter Bomber, April 17, 2008
And so, last night, finally, in the 21st debate in which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have participated, the news media finally got around to asking Obama about his close friendship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist. Obama's response is enlightening...

Sustain the Brand, April 16, 2008
Colorado state House candidate Joshua Sharf on why Republican candidates ought to sign no-tax pledges:This morning, I signed both the Americans for Tax Reform Tax Pledge, and the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Pledge. I'm not big on too many of...

The Audacity of Hope, April 15, 2008
John McCain explains Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope:"They're going to raise your taxes by thousands of dollars per year, and they have the audacity to hope you don't mind."That's what I call a direct hit. Update: Some April 15th condolences....

The Natural Order of Things, April 15, 2008
Barack Obama needs to remember who is the boss....

Obama Fundraiser a Friend of Terrorists, April 14, 2008
Human Events blows the cover of the terrorist sympathizer who is raising big bucks for Barack Obama's campaign. And World Net Daily finds photo proof of the same fund-raiser's coziness with Hugo Chavez, the anti-American dictator of Venezuela....

Blasting Barack, April 14, 2008
The website of the Tennessee Republican Party appears to have suffered some kind of attack which has rendered much of it inoperable. While the IT folks work on it, I thought I'd post here the text of the press release...

Marx Brother, April 14, 2008
William Kristol spots the latent Marxism in Barack Obama's claim that small-town Americans only "cling to ... religion" because of economic hardship....

Bitter Fruit, April 14, 2008
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will have a hard time winning Tennessee in the fall - and that either of them as the nominee may also hurt Democrats down the...

What Obama's "Bitter" Bigotry Says About The Modern Democratic Party, April 13, 2008
Politico senior writer David Paul Kuhn's piece on why Barack Obama's "bitter" bigotry matters - and why it shows, yet again, how the Democrat Party is out of touch with middle America - is a must-read. Also, here's an interesting...

Barack's Bigotry Begets Blowback, April 12, 2008
Jonathan Martin at The Politico assays the self-inflicted damage of Barack Obama's breathtakingly bigoted slap at churchgoing, gun-owning folks in Pennsylvania....

Losing Pennsylvania, April 12, 2008
Being from Pennsylvania and understanding Pennsylvanians a whole lot better than Barack Obama and his campaign brain trust do, I never believed Obama had much of a chance to win that state's Democratic primary. He'll do okay in Philly and...

The Face of Deceit, April 8, 2008
The Today Show unmasks a liar....

Return Fire, April 3, 2008
The Tennessee Department of Safety has issued more than 339,000 handgun carry permits since October 1996. Yesterday, state House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, using his usual thuggish tactics, killed legislation that would have safeguarded the personal information of those carry permits,...

Not-So-Open-Records Update, April 2, 2008
Here's the latest update in the ongoing saga of the Bredesen administration violating the state's open records laws regarding my request to make a copy of the state's video of blasting at the governor's mansion construction site: 1. Administration spokesperson...

Hey, Big Spenders, April 2, 2008
Citizens Against Government Waste has released this year's edition of their annual Congressional Pig Book, and it provides an interesting contrast between Republican President Nominee Sen. John McCain and Democrat President Wannabees Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Sen. Clinton...

Bredesen's Choice, April 2, 2008
If you've been paying attention to Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's national media appearances in support of his proposal for an early mini-convention of Democrat super-delegates to decide whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama gets the party's presidential nomination, you will...

The Annoyance of Meddling Voters, April 1, 2008
There's funny stuff in the USA Today today....

What Must a President Believe About America?, March 28, 2008
Here's John McCain's new ad. I think it's very effective. It's got Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean talking. And what did Dean say about a certain war-hero senator running for president not too long ago? He said this:...

Setting the Record Straight, March 24, 2008
Michael Reagan on Barack Obama:He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Marxist snake oil.Read the...

Support for Iraq War Rises Sharply, March 13, 2008
The Politico reports:According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans - a slim majority - now believe "the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals" in...

The Hart of the Matter, March 13, 2008
The Tennessean, and probably other newspapers across the state, are carrying this AP story today: White separatist had run as Paul delegate in Tenn.. The story is about a Ron Paul supporter whose white separatist views were not widely known...

Half True?, March 12, 2008
Nathan Moore looks at some Harris Poll data and calculates that about half of voters read political blogs on a daily basis....

When Democrats Attack ... Each Other, March 12, 2008
Rand Simberg comments on the Eliot Spitzer mess, and on how the Democratic Party's presidential candidates and their surrogates are treating each other the way they used to treat Republicans....

Gore: Count Every Vote - And Mine 10 Times, March 10, 2008
Al Gore is set to make a bundle off the IPO of Current Media, owner of the tiny cable network CurrnentTV that hardly anybody watches. He's already been pulling down a rather large salary as "executive chairman" of the company,...

Recessionary Politics, March 8, 2008
James Pethokoukis examines the role of the economy in the presidential election. If the Democratic nominee tries to sell big tax increases as the medicine to heal the economy, I predict he or she will lose big. Most Americans understand...

The Man in the Arena, March 7, 2008
More information - and a fund-raising pitch - here...

A Friendly Audience: Tuke Talks Gay Adoption, March 6, 2008
From Out & About, Nashville's gay newspaper:ACLU of Tennessee to host panel discussion on adoption by O&AN Staff Reports Posted 02/21/2008 The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, Human Rights Campaign, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, Vanderbilt Child and...

Quote of The Day, Democrat Division, March 4, 2008
"I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say. He's never been the president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama...

"I have not yet begun to fight.", March 3, 2008
Whenever I hear a Democrat talk about how tough the Iraq war has been, and how it is time to bring the troops home whatever hell may come to Iraq, I think back to one of my favorite heros of...

The Real Barry O, March 1, 2008
ABC News on the trials of Barry O's buddy:With the corruption trial of one of Sen. Barack Obama's longtime friends and supporters set to begin Monday in Chicago, Ill., reform watchdogs say it will reveal the "cesspool" of Illinois politics...

District 2 Voters Get a Real Choice, March 1, 2008
Republican Tony Shipley has launched his campaign to unseat Democrat state Rep. Nathan Vaughn. The Kingsport Times-News tells the tale. Vaughn was recently in the news for complaining that he was unable to sign on as a co-sponsor of a...

A Middle Name, February 29, 2008
I received the following from one of my most eloquent readers, who often emails me fantastic and wonderfully-written pieces only to ask me not to publish them. This one arrived under the subject line Appalling ignorance in the MSM!, and...

Too Green, February 29, 2008
Hillary Clinton has launched a devastating new ad, titled "Children," suggesting - rightly - that Barack Obama is simply too green to handle a major international crisis. Though polls show that, even more than Sen. Clinton, it is John McCain...

Polls, February 28, 2008
Some conservatives ain't happy with John McCain as the likely Republican presidential nominee, and Barry O's campaign is trumpeting "Obama Republicans" who plan to vote for him rather than McCain. Yeah, okay, but the polls right now show that Johnny...

What's In A Name?, February 27, 2008
The Tennessee capital press corps has apparently just discovered a Tennessee Republican Party press release that they previously ignored when it was issued two days ago. Apparently, using Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is a no-no. The TN GOP received...

The Vision Thing, February 27, 2008
With Democrat candidates running around making promises to usher in the era of government-subsidized "universal healthcare," it's an open question whether they truly understand basic economics. For example, why is the cost of Lasik corrective eye surgery coming down while...

Barack, Hillary and "Minister Farrakhan", February 27, 2008
Did Barack Obama blow his "Sister Souljah" moment in last night's debate with Sen. Clinton? Did Clinton then blow her chance to make him pay for it? Fans of debate tactics and language may be debating that question for a...

Dirty Money, February 26, 2008
My post earlier today regarding former Tennessee Democrat Party chairman Bob Tuke entering the race for the U.S. Senate prompted a reader to remind me of a story involving Tuke, the TDP and dirty money. Back in 2006 the Tennessee...

Tuke & Tinker, February 26, 2008
Here's a picture of former Tennessee Democrat Party chairman Bob Tuke posing with the cowboy hat-wearing Nikki Tinker at the 2004 Democrat National Convention. Tinker currently is running for the 9th District congressional seat in Tennessee, against incumbent Democrat...

Questions, February 26, 2008
As former Tennessee Democrat Party chairman Bob Tuke prepares to announce that he's going to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held, firmly, by Lamar Alexander, I'm reminded of a strange incident from 2004 where Tuke, on a radio...

The Discovery Network, February 25, 2008
Ever wonder, when you're reading a news story about the presidential race, who some of those folks are who are advising Obama and Clinton? Ever wondered about their history, their connections and their paper trail? Wonder no more - know...

Tuke vs. Alexander, February 24, 2008
In a story about former Tennessee Democrat Party chairman Bob Tuke running for the U.S. Senate against Republican Lamar Alexander, Tennessean writer Bonna Johnson says Tuke hopes "to ride a wave of Obama-mentum and an electorate fed up with a...

Smearing McCain, February 23, 2008
This was entirely predictable. Conservatives have disagreements with John McCain, but they loathe the The New York Times. So when the NYT publishes a smear piece written to the journalistic standards of the worst supermarket tabloids, a surge in support...

Hope and Change, February 21, 2008
Regarding Barack Obama's mantra of "Change" and "Hope" : "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." - American novelist Ellen Glasgow "But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least...

The Obama Tax, February 20, 2008
If Barack Obama manages to get elected president, American taxpayers can look forward to paying a trillion dollars in additional taxes in the next decade to fund a huge increase in foreign aid, writes James Pethokoukis at U.S. News....

TN Dems Quote Famous Republican, February 20, 2008
That's right, a very famous Republican....

Hankerin' For Mr. Cooper's Seat, February 18, 2008
Lynn Sebourn has launched his website, SebournForSenate.com, for his run for the Republican nomination for state Senate http://www.sebournforsenate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/sd14.jpg">district 14. The seat is currently held by a Democrat appointed by the Warren County Commission to complete the final year the term...

Worshipping a False God, February 16, 2008
Ed Morrissey slams a speech from Michelle Obama::It's the notion that only Barack Obama can save our souls that is the most offensive part of the speech, by far. Government doesn't exist to save souls; it exists to ensure domestic...

Primary Colors, February 15, 2008
Duncan Mansfield's AP wrap-up on the Republican presidential primary in Tennessee looks at the role of religion, race, gender and regional roots in voters' choices....

The Munday Message, February 13, 2008
This is "Mike." Mike showed up at a kickoff event at the Campbell County Courthouse for Ken Yager, the Republican former Roane County Executive who is running for the 12th District state Senate seat being vacated by Democrat state...

A Long, Long Time Ago..., February 13, 2008
State Rep. Frank Buck, D-Dowelltown, is retiring after 18 terms in the state legislature - which means that, for the first time since 1972, the year Buck was elected, the voters in the 40th House District won't have an incumbent...

The Happy Party, February 12, 2008
A story in last Saturday's Washington Post explores an interesting phenomenon: On average, Republicans are happier than Democrats.A 2006 Pew Research poll found that 45 percent of Republicans describe themselves as “very happy,” compared with only 30 percent of Democrats...

The Great Divide, February 11, 2008
Susan Estrich - the former Mike Dukakis campaign strategist - looks at latent racism in the Democratic Party and the effect it is having on Barack Obama's campaign results....

Tennessee Dems Racially Split?, February 6, 2008
Bob Krumm has some data showing just how fractured the Tennessee Democrat party is along racial lines. Analyzing the county-by-county results in the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Tennessee, Krumm notes that Clinton lost Tennessee's urban counties...

We've Been Here Before, February 6, 2008
Ken Whitehouse at NashvillePost.com writes today that Mike Huckabee's win in the Tennessee Republican presidential primary shows that "there is an enormous fracture in the structure of the Tennessee Republican party," with the establishment backing John McCain and Mitt Romney...

Open Season, February 4, 2008
Originally posted Feb. 3, bumped to top A number of my readers have inquired as to who I plan to vote for on Tuesday. Being that I'm an employee of the Tennessee Republican Party, I can't tell you - lest...

News Travels Slow in Some Parts of the World, February 3, 2008
The Sunday Tennessean story previewing the Super Tuesday Republican Primary in Tennessee contains this odd sentence:Republicans also are suffering through a season of discontent, brought on by bad news from the war front and even worse news from the economy.I...

On Al Jazeerah, February 1, 2008
James Bays (pictured) is a British correspondent for Al Jazeerah English. He was in Nashville today working on a story previewing Super Tuesday and what issues are important to Nashvillians and Tennesseans as the Feb. 5 primary approaches. He interviewed...

Calling All McCainiacs, February 1, 2008
Christina Russo, producer at WNYC radio, the NPR affiliate in New York City, called me looking for a few McCain supporters to interview them in advance of Super Tuesday. She says they already have some Romney supporters. If you are...

Vote Fraud?, February 1, 2008
NewsChannel5 has uncovered a clearcut case of vote fraud, in which a severally mentally disabled woman somehow is recorded as voting in recent elections in Davidson County. NewsChannel5 doesn't say it, but I've confirmed that whoever registered and voted using...

Lamar's Popularity is Bipartisan, January 17, 2008
You want to know why the Tennessee Democratic Party can't seem to find a top-tier challenger to take on U.S. Lamar Alexander? Because some of the state's most prominent Democrats are lining up to support Alexander. The press release isn't...

He Needed a Fact-Checker, January 15, 2008
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-North South Dakota, speaking in Nashville Tuesday night said this:"(Issues and politics) are more transparent. The electronic media brings it into the living room. Internet and bloggers are another element. There are no editors on...

Fred Rising?, January 14, 2008
Instapundit thinks maybe so. He may be right. The Thompson campaign had to beg online and shake the bus cushions for spare change to raise about $250,000 to run commercial in Iowa, but in the last seven days - since...

The Campaign Game, January 10, 2008
Here's a fun, free online game for political junkies. Warning: This will cause your work productivity to decline....

I Always Thought The Noise Was Coming From The Other End, January 10, 2008
Welcome to the fray. That's the last nice thing I'll say about you....

Very Few Voters Lack Photo ID, January 10, 2008
Based on a random sample of registered voters in Indiana, Mississippi and Maryland, a new study by American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM) finds, surprisingly, that only 1.2 percent of registered voters lack a government-issued photo ID,...

The Opposition Proves The Point, January 9, 2008
Next time some Democrat tells you that a voter photo ID law is a bad idea, send them this story:Voter cited by opponents of Indiana's ID law registered in two states. Update: Supreme Court appears likely to back voter ID...

Not an Endorsement..., January 9, 2008
This is not an endorsement of John McCain, but I thought the Arizona Senator's victory speech upon winning the New Hampshire Republican Primary was brilliant and pitch-perfect. You can read it in the extended portion of this blog entry......

Hillary vs. Obama: Fallout, January 9, 2008
Open Question #1: What will the coming destruction of Barack Obama by the resurgent Hillary Clinton do to the historically tight bond between the Democratic Party and the African-American community? Discuss in the comments....

Taking On the Establishment, January 7, 2008
Another East Nashville attorney is lining up to run against state Rep. Rob Briley, the Nashville Democrat convicted of drunk driving after leading police on a dangerous high-speed chase across two counties after leaving the scene of an accident where...

Running Scared: House Democrat Caucus Reveals It Will Back Briley in '08 Election, January 5, 2008
An interesting email forwarded to me yesterday that originated with Addison Pate, Press Secretary for the House Democratic Caucus in the Tennessee Legislature. Pate sent the email to state Rep. Mike Turner, D-Nashville, and his staff person Carol Roberts. She...

Hillary's Burden, January 5, 2008
He ran with Al Gore, She's running with Al Batross....

None of the Above, January 5, 2008
Two laptop computers containing 337,000 Nashville voters' Social Security numbers were stolen as the building's security guard listened to Christmas music, ordered food and visited the break room, failing to make his hourly rounds, reports The Tennessean. Not only that,...

Failing Barack, January 4, 2008
Stephen Bainbridge gives Barack Obama a failing grade....

Thins You Shouldn't Say, January 4, 2008
In today's Washington Post story looking ahead to the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire:[Huckabee's] aides are wary of New Hampshire. "It's all no tax, no government there," said Bob Wickers, a top strategist. "It's not ideal." But they believe...

Kicking Ass, January 3, 2008
The Republican National Committee and the Democrat National Committee both released final fundraising numbers for 2007 yesterday. The RNC pummeled the DNC. The RNC raised $83 million, while the DNC pulled in just $51 million....

Fred Not Dead, January 3, 2008
Contrary to published reports, Fred Thompson is NOT about to drop out of the presidential race....

57 Channels and Nothing On, January 3, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson today questioned whether political reporters covering the race for the White House have enough ambition for the job. Well, okay, not really - it's a ScrappleFace satire. But the main point is oh-so-true....

The Working Man Blues, January 2, 2008
Mr. Turnbow has posted a brilliant essay on why he rarely votes for Democrats even though he grew up in a Yellow Dog Democrat kind of family. It's a powerful essay that exposes a simple truth about the soul-destroying nature...

Study: Requiring Voter Photo ID Does NOT Depress Turnout, January 2, 2008
Requiring voters to show a photo ID before voting does not reduce turnout among poor, elderly and minority voters, yet another new study has found. The AP reports that the study, by a professor at the University of Missouri, indicates...

Voter Photo ID Unfair?, December 31, 2007
Nathan More comments on the suggestion of requiring Tennessee voters to have a photo-ID voter registration card in order to be allowed to vote:The argument advanced by some here in Tennessee is that such a vote will "depress turnout". And...

Not Your Typical Campaign Ad, December 31, 2007
If you've ever despaired of the shallow sound-bite, attack-ad style of campaigning that's come to dominate election campaigns from the presidential race on down, you just have to love Fred Thompson's latest ad aimed at the good people of Iowa,...

Time for a Media African Safari, December 29, 2007
Barack Obama claims foreign policy experience because his grandmother "lives in a tiny hut in Africa." Now, one of two things is true. Either Obama, a multi-millionaire, is a miserly jerk who hasn't bothered to help his grandmother get into...

Theft of Nashville Election Commission Laptops Highlights Need for Voter Photo ID Law, December 29, 2007
The Tennessean reports on a new state law effective New Year's Day designed to make it harder for criminals to snatch Social Security numbers.The law bans companies, nonprofit groups and even government agencies in most cases from sending mailings containing...

Cross Your Fingers, December 28, 2007
I know no details about this photo other than it's one of the most hysterically funny pictures to find its way into my email in-box in months. All I have to say to the soldier is, we feel your...

Bob Likes Fred, December 27, 2007
Bob Krumm explains why he's for Fred Thompson....

Who Is Jim Gilmore?, December 27, 2007
Glenn Reynolds says he doesn't "know much about ... Jim Gilmore, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, in a post re-promoting Reynolds' podcast with Mark Warner, the Democratic candidate for the same seat. Reynolds links to Gilmore's...

Compare and Contrast, December 27, 2007
Given that the Democratic Party is on the verge of asking America to replace President George. W. Bush with Hillary Clinton, it's worth comparing who Bush pardons with who Clinton's husband Bill pardoned when the pair occupied the White House...

Iowa Forecast, December 26, 2007
Dean Barnett predicts the results of the Iowa Caucuses, now less than two weeks away......

Heading Into 2008..., December 20, 2007
Don Surber: "The Surge worked. The Democratic Congress did not. Voters may notice that." Read the whole thing. What else is working well? The Bush economy: "Gross domestic product rose at an unrevised 4.9% annual rate July through September, quicker...

Unbelievable, December 14, 2007
Various Republican presidential candidates have expressed their views on reforming the federal tax code. Some are for a flat tax, or at least a "flatter" tax; others express admiration for the FAIR Tax. I'm for either one - just so...

When Democrats Attack, December 14, 2007
NewsChannel5 reporter Phil Williams comments on a recent attack by the Tennessee Democratic Party on state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin:The Tennessee Democratic Party's latest "Munday Message" passes along a column written by Sumner County Democrat Leonard Assante, "charging that state...

An Interview With Huckabee's Campaign Chairman, December 13, 2007
Business Tennessee magazine has a thoroughly interesting interview with Chip Saltsman, the former chairman of my current employer and current chairman of the Mike Huckabee presidential campaign....

Wanna Blog the GOP Convention?, December 10, 2007
The Republican National Committee has announced its credentialling process for bloggers wanting to cover the Republican National Convention Sept. 1-4, 2008, in Minneapolis....

Byrd Hunting, December 10, 2007
There's word of a new possible Democratic challenger to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., in the 2008 election - Nashville venture capitalist Andrew W. Byrd. Byrd, the story goes, may be willing to use a chunk of his personal wealth...

Fred on Charlie Rose, December 5, 2007
Want to see a candidate discussing issues instead of polls? PBS's Charlie Rose is interviewing presidential candidates at-length, and he is asking better questions than the ones CNN featured last week on the CNN/YouTube. Here's Rose's interview with Fred Thompson....

Mitt's Mormon Moment, December 3, 2007
Just finished speaking with WWTN radio talk host Michael Delgiorno (on 99.7 FM in Nashville) about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's upcoming speech on his Mormon faith, and how it compares to John F. Kennedy's speech on his Catholic faith...

The Reagan Revolution is Alive and Well, December 2, 2007
Massachusetts voters may get another chance to vote to abolish that state's income tax. A similar proposal came close to passing a few years ago. If it passes in traditional high-tax Massachusetts, I predict you'll see people in other states...

Democrat Wants a Do-Over, December 1, 2007
A Democrat state legislator in East Tennessee, Rep. Nathan Vaughn, failed to follow the rules or meet the deadline for the state's Community Enhancement Grants program, costing worthy would-be grantees in his district $100,000 in state funding. Does he take...

More Demo Plants, November 30, 2007
More of the people whose questions CNN featured on the CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate are turning out to have connections to various Democrat campaigns. John Fund at the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com writes:Last week, CNN's Anderson Cooper quipped in an...

More CNN/YouTube Debate Plants, November 29, 2007
Michelle Malkin is exposing more of the planted Democrat questioners in the CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate. The questioner who asked about abortion is a declared supporter of Democrat John Edwards. The "Log Cabin Republican" questioner is, it turns out, not...

Did Hillary Plant Another Debate Question?, November 29, 2007
CNN - the C doesn't stand for Credibility - may have let the Hillary Clinton campaign plant a question in the CNN-YouTube Republican Debate. Wizbang has the details....

Security Issues, November 26, 2007
Can gun rights be a winning wedge issue for Republicans at the national level in '08? Jeff Soyer considers the question... I wrote 10 days ago about immigration as a wedge issue that helps Republicans. The illegal immigration crisis and...

Face Time, November 23, 2007
The Tennessee Republican Party gets a mention in the newspaper. The Toronto Globe & Mail newspaper....

A Simple Deduction, November 21, 2007
Here's a link to WKRN reporter Chris Bundgaard's story that sprang from this TN GOP press release and related press conference today regarding the very real possibility that the Democrat-controlled Congress will let the law expire that made state sales...

No Debate, November 19, 2007
Congratulations to Belmont University for landing one of the three presidential debates in 2008. It's a huge deal for the university and the city of Nashville and I was thrilled to be sitting on the front row today at the...

Fredroots Aim for Ron Paul-Style Moneybomb, November 16, 2007
Here's an interesting grassroots attempt to use viral marketing to raise big bucks for Fred Thompson. Could they top Ron Paul's astounding $4 million day? Well, yes they could. Fred's received donations from more than 100,000 people so far in...

Did Crutchfield Vote Illegally?, November 13, 2007
Did former state Sen. Ward Crutchfield, one of three Democrat state senators convicted for taking bribes in the Tennessee Waltz investigation, cast a vote illegally in the special state senate election in the 10th district to pick his replacement? Felons...

Trumpeting a Worthless Poll, November 9, 2007
The Tennessean trumpets the MTSU poll showing Fred Thompson leading Hillary Clinton by eight points in Tennessee, 50-42, and stresses that the race is "a statistical dead heat" because of the poll's four-point margin of error. The poll is worthless,...

Playbook, November 8, 2007
Chris Adamo has written a great piece about what the Republican Party should learn from Bobby Jindal's victory in the Louisiana governor's race. Here's a part of it......

32 Minutes of Jeb, November 7, 2007
The Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson has a very good - and deep - interview with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. It's the latest installment in the irregular series Uncommon Knowledge.Bush is a Republican who won election and reelection by...

Slick Hillary, November 2, 2007
The Republican National Committee has produced a video summary of Hillary Clinton's recent debate debacle in which she - shades of John Kerry - was both for and against giving driver licenses to illegal immigrants, all within the space of...

In Your Facebook, November 1, 2007
There are more politically conservative Nashvillians registered on Facebook.com than there are liberals, according to a search tool provided by Facebook for placing advertisements on the highly popular social networking site. According to that search tool, there are approximately 9,480...

Old Testament Republicans, October 30, 2007
Jane Whitson, a/k/a the Webutante, has a thoroughly enjoyable and informative report on the Pajamas Media site about former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer's visit with the new Republican Jewish Coalition of Nashville last week....

MSM Blogs Alter Campaign Coverage, October 27, 2007
Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz says the mushrooming number of political blogs on newspaper and magazine web sites "has altered the terrain of the 2008 election."Campaign officials have learned to feed the bottomless pit of these constantly updated compilations,...

Lamar Leads Not-Ned-Ray, Bigtime, October 25, 2007
The City Paper's "Political Animals" blog reports on some interesting new polling numbers that suggest 2008 could be a very good year for Tennessee Republicans. Specifically, incumbent U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander has a commanding lead in his re-elect race over...

Info Gap, October 24, 2007
Patrick Ruffini explains the difference between upstream and downstream media - and what the conservative blogosphere lacks in the media war with the Left....

Live-Blogging the GOP Presidential Debate, October 21, 2007
Fred08.com live-blogged the Florida Republican Presidential Debate Sunday night - in english y en espanol. Jon Henke with New Media Strategies and the Fred Thompson campaign is pretty sure it's the first time a presidential campaign ever live-blogged a debate...

Your 2016 GOP Presidential Nominee?, October 21, 2007
After running Louisiana competently for the next eight years - something Democrats have never actually managed to do in recent memory - Bobby Jindal will make a great Republican presidential nominee in 2016....

Compassionate Conservatism Indeed, October 18, 2007
Jeff Cornwall comments on some research into the relationship between entrepreneurship and charitable giving, and exposes some myths, in the wake of an appearance on campus by Dr. Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University, author of the new book Who Really...

Google Rejects Anti-MoveOn.org Ads, October 12, 2007
Google is refusing to run ads critical of MoveOn.org from the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Lance Dutson has the details....

Debating Fred, October 10, 2007
I didn't watch yesterday's Republican presidential debate, but VolunteerVoters.com has a good list of links to various media and blog commentary on it, especially focused on the performance of Fred Thompson....

10th District Senate Race: Berke Is Part of the Problems He Says He Wants to Help Solve, October 9, 2007
Chattanooga trial lawyer Andy Berke, the Democratic nominee to replace convicted bribe-taker and fellow Democrat Ward Crutchfield in the Tennessee state Senate, is part of an industry whose very impact on the Tennessee economy creates many of the problems he...

Brock Offers Entrepreneurial and Financial Background For State Senate Seat, October 9, 2007
Chattanooga businessman Oscar H. Brock, son of former U.S. Sen. Bill Brock, is the Republican nominee for the state Senate seat vacated by Democrat Ward Crutchfield, who resigned because of his conviction on federal bribery charges. The general election is...

Sandy Burgler's New Job, October 8, 2007
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Washington Examiner has the details. But, really, do you need details?...

Cigarettes, Beer and Freedom, October 8, 2007
Hihger taxes equals less freedom - it's a bit of political math on full display right now in Tennessee, where if you want to go across the border into a neighboring state to save a few dollars on cigarettes you...

Shock the Left, October 5, 2007
Republican Jim Ogonowski is within a few points of upsetting Democrat Niki Tsongas in the special election to fill the District 5 U.S. House seat in Massachussetts. It's a Democrat-leaning district, but Ogonowski has a real shot at it. The...

Talking Fred On XM Radio, October 5, 2007
PJM Political is a new weekly presidential campaign talk show from Pajamas Media that runs Thursday evenings on XM Satellite Radio's Channel 130. This week's edition features me discussing Fred Thompson and other things with host Austin Bay. If you...

Tiny Kos, October 5, 2007
Dean Barnett takes a look at the recent revelations that The Daily Kos - Bible of the leftwing blogosphere - gets far less traffic than its founder claims, and wonders why so many Democratic candidates kowtow to what is, essentially,...

Phony Outrage, October 2, 2007
Good stuff over at Hot Air: 41 Democrats boldly condemn Rush for saying something he didn't say. Hah!...

Fred 44, October 2, 2007
J. Peter Mulhern explains why Fred Thompson is going to be the 44th President of the United States....

Blog of Newt, September 25, 2007
Potential Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich guest-blogged on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign website as part of the Huckabee campaign's "Vertical Day" initiative. Wired has the details. What is Vertical Day? The Huckabee campaign calls it an "historic...

Fred's Speech, September 21, 2007
Here's video of Fred Thompson's complete speech last Saturday night in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. The video Fred refers to twice in his speech is here at the Fred Thompson page on Blip.tv....

Stomping Hsu, September 20, 2007
Prominent Democratic Party fund-raiser Norman Hsu - who lavished large sums on the Tennessee Democratic Party - may have gotten the money through a massive Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors in New York say. (And if there's anything Tennessee Democrats know...

Fred Ahead, September 20, 2007
Bill Quick says, "This race is between Giuliani and Thompson, and Giuliani is losing." Is that true? Well, consider the latest poll in Wisconsin: Rudy Giuliani leads at 28 percent. Thompson is in second place at 24 percent and, as...

Fred Blasts Hillary on "Hillarycare", September 19, 2007
Fred Thompson wonders aloud why liberals think the best way to help people is to punish them. He's talking about Hillary Clinton's latest healthcare plan. Of course, Hillary's most famous healthcare plan - the one she created back when Bill...

Gregory Fires Back, September 17, 2007
The Kingsport Times News reports that major Republican campaign donor John Gregory "is going on offense in an attempt to clear up his professional record and counter future attacks by Democrats" tied to his financial support for the Tennessee Republican...

Fred Eats a Pastry, September 17, 2007

Huge Rally Greets Fred in Lawrenceburg, September 16, 2007
Lawrenceburg, TN - Driving from Nashville to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, feels at times like driving backward in time as you leave behind the 21st century modernity of the state capital and find yourself in a town that in many ways looks...

Fred in Lawrenceburg, September 12, 2007
This Saturday evening at 7pm, Fred Thompson will be returning to his hometown of Lawrenceburg , Tennessee for a celebration and speech to mark the beginning of his presidential campaign. I received an email from the campaign especially inviting Tennessee...

The Hunt for A Fred November, September 12, 2007

Fred on the Road, September 11, 2007
Here's some video of Fred Thompson on the campaign trail. His campaign ought to release a lot of videos like this - and I predict they will. Fred can't run for president by driving a red pickup truck across the...

Who is Jeri Thompson?, September 9, 2007
The Tennessean answers the question "Who is Jeri Thompson?" with a nice and rather revealing profile of Fred Thompson's wife. And - guess what - the portrayal of Jeri Thompson by the New York Times and other elite national media...

In the Mail: The Strategy of Campaigning, September 7, 2007
Just off the UPS truck, actually, a review copy of The Strategy of Campaigning, a book from University of Michigan Press that explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial...

My New Fred Book On Sale Now, September 6, 2007
My new book, Who is Fred Thompson? Tennessee Bloggers Debate the Candidate's Conservative Credentials, is now on sale for $4 from New Pamphleteer Press. You get both a copy sent to you in the mail, and an e-book you can...

Fred Thompson Makes It Official, September 6, 2007
Fred Thompson has made it official: He's running for President of the United States. Thompson announced his candidacy on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and simultaneously via this 15-minute announcement uploaded to his campaign website, Fred08.com, and to YouTube....

Tennessee GOP: Hsu, Gregory Not the Same, September 5, 2007
The Tennessee Republican Party has issued a press release regarding the widening scandal involving the Tennessee Democratic Party, national Democrats and convicted-felon fund-raiser Norman Hsu - and the attempts by the Tennessee Democratic Party and allied bloggers to deflect attention...

Stokes, Hsu, and the Tennessee Democrats' Addiction to Dirty Money, September 5, 2007
The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports on the Tennessee Democratic Party's refusal to give up the $58,000 it received from convicted felon Norman Hsu, even as national Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are giving up the dirty money.NASHVILLE -...

Republican Party Urges Dems to Do the Right Thing, Give Up The Dirty Money, September 4, 2007
The Tennessee Republican Party has called on the Tennessee Democratic Party and former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., D-Memphis, to give up the $72,700 dollars in campaign donations they received in recent years from Norman Hsu, a 15-year fugitive and a...

Tennessee Democrats to Keep Hsu's Dirty Money, September 4, 2007
The Tennessee Democratic Party has no plans to give back the money it got from big-time Democratic Party fund-raiser Norman Hsu now that it has been disclosed that Hsu was a fugitive on a felony fraud conviction related to a...

Round 2, September 4, 2007
Here we go again. The Seattle Times reports that some regulatory types in Washington state are thinking about regulating political blogs in some fashion:The rapid growth of political blogs and Web sites has attracted the attention of [Washington] state elections...

Happy to Be Number 3, September 3, 2007
Patrick Ruffini - the webmaster for the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign - drops some names of some people I ought to get to know as I move toward my new gig - and notes that I'm the third blogger to be...

Tennessee Democratic Party Got Dirty Money from Hsu, Too, September 3, 2007
Tennessee media: If you're looking to "localize" one of the hottest national stories from the presidential campaign this year, well, here ya go: Big-time Democratic fund-raiser and, it turns out, fugitive fraud felon Norman Hsu, a big money-pal of Hillary...

The Big Announcement, September 1, 2007
It is with great excitement that I announce that I will be joining the headquarters staff of the Tennessee Republican Party in late October to serve as the party's communications director. Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, notified...

Big Fred, Big News, August 31, 2007
My new book, Who Is Fred Thompson?, a compilation of Tennessee bloggers' perspectives on Fred, goes on sale Sept. 5, the day before Fred Thompson makes his presidential candidacy official. What timing. I'll have information soon on where you can...

Um... No, August 29, 2007
My post at Newsbusters today: FEC Slaps Soros Group for Campaign Finance Abuses; Will Media Care?...

Nutroots Takes Aim At Cooper, August 22, 2007
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, is targeted for defeat - or reeducation - the left wing of his own party....

Abortion: It's For the Children, August 15, 2007
Clair Celsi: Abortion protects children. That's right. Not content to just claim that every tax increase and new government program is "for the children," now the Left wants to claim that abortion is "for the children." Well, the non-dead ones,...

Huckabee Rising, August 14, 2007
At ElephantBiz.com today: How The Fair Tax - and Homeschoolers - Helped Huckabee Win the Ames Straw Poll. Also, Huckabee's Main Street populism, Barack Obama's latest gaffe, and Fred Thompson tackles illegal immigration and the "sanctuary city" movement. See it...

Faulk Runs, August 14, 2007
East Tennessee lawyer and erstwhile blogger Mike Faulk is running for the state senate, aiming to replace the turncoat ex-Republican Sen. Micheal "I don't even spell my name right" Williams, who stabbed his East Tennessee Republican constituents in the back...

Thompson and Huckabee, August 13, 2007
Sixteen years after Bill Clinton defied conventional wisdom and won the White House with a ticket that paired an Arkansas governor and a Tennessee senator, might history be about to repeat itself with a slight twist? Could the GOP be...

Book It, August 6, 2007
As a newspaper writer, journalist and blogger I have always had respect for people who author books, but never more so than I do now, having recently completed a manuscript for a forthcoming short book on Fred Thompson. The publisher...

"The legacy of excellence and a majority will be our goals. ", August 5, 2007
The Tennessee Republican Party has a new chairman, former Hamilton County Republican Party chairman Robin Smith, who replaces Bob Davis, who left the state party job to work for Fred Thompson's presidential campaign....

John McCain Interview Live Webcast, August 1, 2007
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will be interviewed live on the web today by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson, whose Uncommon Knowledge video interview series I've been promoting lately. The live webcast begins at 7 p.m. eastern time (that's 6...

First Amendment, The YouTube Debate, And Fred..., July 25, 2007
Thoughts on where the presidential candidates stand on First Amendment issues, on CNN's YouTube Debate, and on misleading reports of disarray in Fred Thompson's campaign, today at ElephantBiz.com....

The Nothing Story, July 19, 2007
The "Fred Thompson Was a Pro-Choice Lobbyist!" story fizzles to a dispiriting end (for Democrats) as his billing records back up Thompson's version of the story. Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters has the details......

Big Fred, June 26, 2007
How big is the Fred Thompson buzz? This 15-minute interview of Sen. Thompson by Peter Robinson, a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has been viewed on Google Video more than 23,500 times in the last two weeks....

15 Minutes of Fred, June 13, 2007
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has just posted a 15-minute interview with Republican presidential almost-candidate Fred Thompson by Peter Robinson, a Fellow at the Hoover Institution, on Google Video. It's a nice serious counterpoint to Thompson's appearance on The...

Mitt Said What?, June 3, 2007
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke in Nashville last night. Except for one joke, the story doesn't tell you what he said. But apparently folks in the audience liked it. UPDATE: Rob Huddleston was there and gives a recap of...

Festival of Fred, May 30, 2007
174 blog posts about Fred Thompson, at ElephantBiz.com....

Politics 2.0, May 30, 2007
Two complementary posts at ElephantBiz.com on how liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, use the Internet and the new "social media," featuring similar views from dissimilar sources - Andrew Breitbart and Ad Age magazine. See: Left Versus Right: Two Views...

Blackburn Endorses Thompson, May 25, 2007
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, has endorsed Fred Thompson for president, dropping her previous endorsement of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The official unofficial Draft Fred Thompson 2008 Committee made the announcement......

Growing the "Red" Blogosphere, May 22, 2007
"Growing the 'Red' Blogosphere" - now posted at TechRepublican.com....

Driving Fred, May 15, 2007
The Tennessean profiles an East Tennessee Chevy dealer who, it says, "fueled [the] early draft-Fred drive" that has former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson on the verge of running for president. Not to claim that I did anything to prompt Thompson...

Libertarians are Terrorists?, May 10, 2007
Alabama blogger Chris Brunner says the Alabama Department of Homeland Security thinks libertarians are terrorists, judging from the content on the department's "domestic terrorism" web page. If you review Brunner's blog post and the state of Alabama's web page on...

McCain Leads GOP Field in the Blogosphere, May 8, 2007
If the 2008 presidential election were judged by activity in the blogosphere, the race would currently be a dead heat between John McCain and Barack Obama, reports Chris Wilson at U.S. News' "News Desk" blog, citing data from Blogpulse.com, a...

Population Shift, May 8, 2007
Michael Barone's latest article at OpinionJournal.com has some eye-opening data on America's internal population shifts and urban demographics, and what it might mean for elections and distribution of seats in the House of Representatives......

Surging Support for "Anybody but Giuliani, Romney or McCain", May 7, 2007
The latest CNN poll is out and it is adisaster for GOP "front-runner" Rudy Giuliani....

Government at the Brink, May 7, 2007
Take a look at Fred Thompson's research into federal government waste and mismanagement, courtesy of ElephantBiz.com. It's six-year-old research, but I doubt any of the serious problems have actually been addressed since Thompson, as chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs...

The West Moves Rightward, May 6, 2007
Mexico recently elected a conservative government. Canada recently elected a conservative government. Germany recently elected a conservative government. Now, France has elected a conservative government. That's four big countries with significant American ties whose people have chosen conservative governments in...

Fred TV, May 5, 2007
"I've never casually run for anything." - Fred Thompson in a 12-minute interview with Breitbart TV. Details at ElephantBiz.com....

The Political Power of Google, May 5, 2007
The Google Interview is yet another piece of evidence of the growing power of Google in the political process, which influences political donations, media coverage and what individuals learn about candidates as they do their political research online. And Google...

The YouTube Impact, May 3, 2007
Advertising Age magazine looks at the possible impact of YouTube on the 2008 presidential election. They're also running a poll on the same topic. Details at ElephantBiz.com....

Trunk Show, May 2, 2007
I've put eighteen new posts up at ElephantBiz.com in the last two days, featuring Rudy, Mitt, Fred and the gang with special guest appearances by Barack "In Your Face(Book)" Obama, Harry "Surrender" Reid and Michael "Facts Don't Matter" Moore. California...

Is Fred Thompson Pro-Life?, April 24, 2007
A video of Fred Thompson answering a question about abortion policy during a televised debate during his 1992 Senate campaign has surfaced on YouTube and is being portrayed as proof that Thompson once was "pro-choice" on abortion, but those who...

Who Lost the Web?, April 24, 2007
Robert Cox says the American Right is losing the web. I think he's right about the Wikipedia angle, but wrong about the online fundraising angle. Read the whole thing....

Gore for President?, April 22, 2007
Is Al Gore getting ready to run for president? The London Sunday Telegraph thinks so. [Hat tip: Joe Gandelman.]...

Definitive Fred, April 14, 2007
Stephen F. Hayes of The Weekly Standard spent four hours with Fred Thompson and wrote what may well be the definitive piece on the possible presidential candidate.By the end of the conversation, two unexpected realities had emerged. If he joins...

Fred Thompson Cancer Update, April 11, 2007
Fred Thompson announced today he was diagnosed more than two years ago with indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. What's that mean? It means he's running for president. Details at ElephantBiz.com....

Political Segregation, April 9, 2007
I heard the following story promo on NPR this morning: "African-American women who are Democrats face a dilemma in the presidential race: Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama." Now, on the plus side, NPR, one of the anchors of the liberal...

Moving Day, March 20, 2007
Tennessee Republican Party chairman Bob Davis, a former Fred Thompson staffer, says that moving Tennessee's presidential primary to Feb. 5, a week earlier that normal, to join the large number of states that are voting that day, might boost Thompson's...

Fred's 300, March 19, 2007
Here's more evidence that Fred Thompson is running for president - and running as the straight-shooter who will tell it like it is....

Thompson Eyes Internet For Big Campaign Role, March 18, 2007
Former Tennessee Sen. Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but it is the Republican who took his place in the United States Senate who apparently is considering harnessing the 'Net to run a very different kind of presidential campaign....

The Red Truck, March 18, 2007
Tennessean columnist Gail Kerr tracks down the red truck that Fred Thompson drove to victory in the 1994 U.S. Senate race. "With a package of Red Man chewing tobacco on the seat and country music blaring, Thompson drove from Mountain...

You Don't Forget What You Believe In, March 17, 2007
McCain: "I Have to Find Out What My Position Was"Let's reprise: McCain has been in public office for almost a quarter of a century. And he has to ask his aide to research what his position is on an issue...

The Daily Fred, March 15, 2007
ElephantBiz.com, a blog about the business of conservative/Republican politics, announces the creation of The Daily Fred, a regular roundup of news and commentary from the MSM and the blogosphere about former Sen. Fred Thompson and his possible presidential bid. ElephantBiz.com...

Thompson Renders AP Poll Obsolete, March 14, 2007
The Tennessee recycles a USA Today story about the presidential race, and also publishes an AP/Ipsos poll on the race which was taken March 5-7, before former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson announced he was giving serious thought to entering the...

NRO Considers Corker, March 13, 2007
National Review's Jennifer Rubin takes a look at how Bob Corker won his Senate race in a bad year for Republican Senate candidates - and how he's translating his business approach to working in the U.S. Senate. An interesting read....

Fun Fred Facts, March 13, 2007
Frank J. offers up some fun "facts" about Fred Thompson....

Fred Thompson, China and Ted Turner, March 12, 2007
During his appearance yesterday on Fox News, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson mentioned that, since leaving the Senate, he has stayed active in public policy work, including serving on the "China Commission." What is that? Neither Fox News nor the...

Fred Buzz, March 12, 2007
Fred Thompson buzz is certainly picking up in the blogosphere, according to Technorati. Also, here's the AP story on Fred's possible presidential run....

Fred Makes Folks Sit Up and Take Notice, March 12, 2007
After nearly a week of ignoring it, The Tennessean is all over the Fred Thompson story, following on the heels of Thompson's confirmation on Fox News that he's considering running for president. The paper reports on how Tennessee Republicans are...

Conservatives Love Fred, March 9, 2007
Free Republic polled its very conservative readers and found that Fred Thompson would easily defeat Rudy Giuliani in a primary involving only those two candidates. Of course, that's not the actual GOP field. Still, Giuliani's current high poll numbers are...

Huck Fun, March 9, 2007
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was in Nashville a couple weeks ago as part of his presidential campaign. In my blog report on the Feb. 24 reception I attended for Gov. Huckabee I mentioned I had some cellphone video. Finally,...

Huckablogging, February 26, 2007
Jay Bush posted a good report from the reception Saturday in Nashville for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination. Adam Groves also has a good report....

Huckabee in Nashville, February 25, 2007
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was in Nashville yesterday to speak to about 40,000 hunters gathered for the National Wild Turkey Federation convention. No coverage in today's Tennessean of Huckabee's speech. Huckabee, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination,...

Stampede, February 20, 2007
Nashville City Paper endorses the proposal to move Tennessee's 2008 presidential primary a week earlier, to Feb. 5, which will put Tennessee in a growing pack of numerous states with Feb. 5 primaries where it will be lost in the...

Romney in 'Nooga?, February 7, 2007
Phil Smartt emails from Chattanooga:The Hamilton County Republican Party has invited Gov. Mitt Romney to speak at their Lincoln Day Dinner anytime in March of 2007. [The campaign] is working on his schedule. If you could put in a good...

Some Folks Weren't Paying Attention, February 6, 2007
The Washington Post shows it is clueless about politics in Tennessee in its story today on the undermine-the-troops resolution being pushed by defeatist Democrats in the U.S. Senate. It says this about Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander:Alexander insisted that political considerations...

The Number One Problem With Political Consultants, January 31, 2007
Newt Gingrich at the National Review Institute's Conservative Summit last weekend had some great advice for Republican candidates:Always talk personally first, historically second, and politically last. This is the number one problem with the consultant class. They get up every...

Memo to the Media, January 29, 2007
Hey MSM: There's a conservative "netroots" too....

John Edwards' America, January 26, 2007
Mary Katherine Ham takes a look at one of John Edwards' "Two Americas." The one with the squash court...

Bringing the Heat, January 25, 2007
Rolling Stone is pumping Al Gore for President, saying, "If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they'd be hard-pressed to improve on Gore. ... He has the buzz to beat Obama, the...

20 Days Later, January 25, 2007
The Tennessean's politics blog has just reported that U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has signed on as an adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign - news that was on the AP wire on Jan. 5. Man, that Gannett bureau...

Net Losers, January 25, 2007
Republican presidential candidates are getting killed in the online campaign so far....

State of Reality, January 24, 2007
The editorial board at The Tennessean, predictably, didn't like President Bush's State of the Union speech, publishing an editorial with the headline State of reality lacking in union address. Ironically, it is the editorial itself that is at odds with...

Local Politics in a YouTube World, January 23, 2007
Mike Chapman at Blogabilities reports on how a small group of students at Texas State University in San Marcos used social media to upend the established political order in Hays County, Texas.The group's tactics included using MySpace and Facebook pages...

Congressional Bigotry, January 23, 2007
The Politico exposes rampant racism and bigotry in the halls of Congress as a racially exclusive club excludes a Jew....

Running Fred?, January 20, 2007
For a guy who says he's not running for political office, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson sure is raising his public political profile lately....

Online Political Activists Mostly Liberals, January 18, 2007
There are more than 14 million "online political activists" in America today - and more of them are liberals than conservative - says the latest survey report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which has been tracking Americans'...

All the Right Blogs, January 12, 2007
Over at ElephantBiz.com today: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Democratic presidential retread hopeful John Edwards have bought blog ads very early in the '08 election cycle. But are they advertising on all the right blogs?...

Using a Podcast to Respond to a YouTube Attack, January 11, 2007
It's all new media all the time for presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as the former Massachusetts governor goes on the Glenn and Helen Show podcast to respond to video from a 1994 debate with Sen. Ted Kennedy that surfaced on...

Romney Edges In, January 3, 2007
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has the proper paperwork with the Federal Election Commission announcing the formation of his presidential campaign exploratory committee, and launched a new campaign website at www.mittromney.com which includes such modern new-media bells and whistles as video...

Bumper Sticker Politics, January 1, 2007
The Federal Election Commission deals another blow to the First Amendment....

Romney, Bloggers and the Boston Globe, December 31, 2006
The Boston Globe front-pages a story about Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's efforts to reach out to bloggers as he runs for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Read it here....

A Half-Victory for Freedom of Speech, December 22, 2006
A federal court yesterday loosened restrictions on corporations, unions and other special interest groups that run political advertising in peak election season, ruling that such groups may mention candidates by name in commercials as long as they are trying to...

Romney Reaction, December 19, 2006
Jonathan Martin at NRO's The Corner has a very interesting analysis of the media motivations that may explain Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's recent foray to Nashville, which I attended and blogged both here and at ElephantBiz.com. Martin writes:What was more...

Repealing the First Amendment One Step at a Time, December 19, 2006
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is anti-First Amendment....

Romney in Tennessee, December 17, 2006
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made a stop in Tennessee Sunday at a gathering of Republicans at the Brentwood home of newly elected state Sen. Jack Johnson. I was lucky enough to score an invitation. Among the crowd: state Rep. Brian...

Trunk Show, December 8, 2006
Today's posts at ElephantBiz.com include a discussion of the presidential prospects of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a look at U.S. Sen. John McCain's pick to head his 2008 presidential campaign. Also over at the Trunk Show: Are political...

Swinging Libertarians, December 5, 2006
The Cato Institute says libertarians are the swing vote now....

Sharing What They Find, December 4, 2006
Interesting findings from E-Voter Institute's 2006 Research and Findings from the Fifth Annual Survey of Political and Advocacy Communication Leaders and the First Annual Survey of Voter Expectations: Finding 1: There is an increasing awareness that web-based tools are complementary...

Bredesen Versus Lamar?, December 2, 2006
A.C. Kleinheider notes some speculation on the Democratic side of Tennessee politics that Bob Tuke, the Nashville attorney who served as the Tennessee Democratic Party's chairman during the most recent election cycle, may run for the Democratic nomination to challenge...

Running Men, November 29, 2006
Retiring U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee announced today that he will not be a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008. As there is now an opening on the Republican slate for a candidate named "Bill," I would...

Marsha! Marsha!, November 16, 2006
Extreme Mortman thinks Marsha Blackburn can help the GOP solve the gender gap. Also, TownHall.com's Mary Katherine Ham provides a transcript of the conference call Rep. Blackburn had a few days ago with a group of bloggers....

Marsha's the Man, November 15, 2006
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, my congressman, is one of four candidates for House Republican Conference Chairman. She's running against four men. The last time Blackburn ran against a group of Republican men for something, she had a great bumper sticker...

How the GOP Went Buck Wild - And Lost the Election, November 13, 2006
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research welcomes Stephen Slivinski, author of Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government, to Nashville on Tuesday (Nov. 14). I'm looking forward to reading my no-doubt-forthcoming review copy......

After the Fall, Comes Winter, November 10, 2006
This photo I made last winter seems metaphorically appropriate right now. But remember... after winter, always comes spring....

Don't Just Talk the Talk, November 9, 2006
Mark Tapscott nails it:When Republicans worry more about staying in government than about limiting government, they get thrown out of government. That's the lesson of Nov. 7, 2006.Read the whole thing. Especially you, Senator-elect Bob Corker....

Election Notes, November 8, 2006
Odds and ends from the election... The Tennessean just noticed that Bob Krumm, candidate for the 21st district seat in the state Senate, has a blog. It turns out the woman who winks and says "Harold, call me," in the...

Nashvillians Gain Right to Vote on Property Tax Increases; Amendment Changes City Charter and Political Playing Field, November 8, 2006
Ben Cunningham and his merry band of tax-fighters scored a landslide victory with their proposed amendment to the Nashville city charter requiring property tax rate increases be submitted to voters in a referendum....

Popular, But Bredesen Had No Coattails, November 8, 2006
A few thoughts about Tuesday's election in Tennessee... First and foremost congratulations to Gov. Phil Bredesen, who won a second term by nearly 40 points. 40 points! Yet he seems to have had very short coattails. Bredesen endorsed, raised funds...

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Naifeh PAC Fights To Keep Boss's Job, November 7, 2006
Nashville City Paper reports that Tennessee state House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh's political action committee donated nearly $300,000 to the candidates of various Democratic candidates for the state legislature just in October....

Channeling Bonna de la Cruz..., November 6, 2006
State House vote seen as racial milepostCandidates say color not issue, but world watches Come Tuesday, Nashville voters may learn more than who their next U.S. senator will be: They may find out whether their city is ready to send...

It's Okay to Be a Single-Issue Voter, If It's the Right Issue, November 6, 2006
Before you vote tomorrow, ask yourself this question: What is the Democrats' plan to win the world war that is edging ever closer? It is the only issue that matters. Update: Donald Sensing has a must-read post on why the...

Vote for the Future, November 6, 2006
My first effort at creating a campaign ad......

"Political Reporters ... You Don't Control the Media Anymore", November 6, 2006
The Monday Memphis Commercial-Appeal has this story regarding political campaings and media in the era of blogs and YouTube, complete with a fascinating and dead-on accurate quote from Carol C. Darr, director of the George Washington University Institute for Politics,...

Parker, Tuke Launch Vicious Attack on Jack Johnson, November 4, 2006
On the heels of the revelation of the video of Democratic state Senate candidate Mary Parker whining in a Williamson County court room that her speeding ticket should have been dismissed because she's a lawyer, the Tennessee Democratic Party has...

Weekend at Henry's, November 4, 2006
Sen. Doug Henry's campaign booth at tailgating at the football game today between the Vanderbilt Commodores and the Florida Gators....

Tennessean Has Moore on Parker Speeding Ticket Video as Lawyers, Judges Say Parker's Claim Untrue, November 4, 2006
The Tennessean has published its expanded version of the story it first put online yesterday regarding the courtroom video of state Senate candidate Mary Parker claiming that Nashville judges routinely give lawyers like her a pass when they get speeding...

Bredesen Supporters Reportedly Chant "Income Tax! Income Tax!", November 3, 2006
I just received the following email from someone who attended the send-off this morning for Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson's 80-hour campaign bus trip......

Shelby County Wide Open For Vote Fraud, November 3, 2006
John Harvey's Voting in Memphis blog is ground-zero for the investigation into voter fraud in Memphis. Check it often. Harvey has for months been doing the investigative reporting that the mainstream media ought to have been doing....

Media Takes Note of Parker's Speeding Ticket Video, November 3, 2006
The Tennessean reports that state Senate candidate Mary Parker is trying to explain away her claim - captured on video four years ago - that Nashville judges give lawyers like her a pass when they get speeding tickets. In a...

Does Sen. Henry Secretly Support the Income Tax?, November 3, 2006
Interesting tidbit from former state Sen. Bob Rochelle's latest campaign finance disclosure: a $500 contribution in October from Mrs. Douglas Henry of 408 Wilsonia Boulevard in Nashville. That, of course, would be the wife of 36-year-incumbent state Sen. Doug Henry,...

Is Sen. Henry Worried?, November 3, 2006
State Sen. Doug Henry may be worried that he could lose his race for a tenth term representing the 21st District in the Tennessee state Senate. At least that's the implication of two line items in his final pre-election campaign...

Opposition Research, November 3, 2006
Both candidates running for the Tennessee state Senate 23rd district seat have filed their final pre-election campaign financial disclosures, and in reading over the donations and expenditures report from Mary Parker, the Democratic nominee for seat, a few things jumped...

Rochelle Violates Campaign Finance Law, November 3, 2006
Former state Sen. Bob Rochelle, the Lebanon Democrat campaigning to regain the 17th District seat he gave up four years ago after his push for a state income tax made him very unpopular, has violated state law by failing to...

Krumm Blogging, November 3, 2006
Bob Krumm, running for the Tennessee state Senate in the 21st district, finds new supporters on the hiking trail....

Krumm "More 21st Century in His Approach", November 2, 2006
Instapundit mentions a Tennessee election race that the Nashville news media has all-but ignored - the race between Bob Krumm and 36-year-incumbent state Sen. Doug Henry for the 21st District state Senate seat:It's worth noting that Tennessee blogger Bob Krumm...

Tennessean: Kerry Was Right, November 2, 2006
The Tennessean says there's nothing offensive about Sen. John Kerry's slap at the intelligence of U.S. troops....

Fast Candidate Caught On Tape?, November 2, 2006
Welcome to the latest episode in the first YouTube election: Nathan Moore linked to this video up on YouTube described as showing 23rd District Tennessee state Senate candidate Mary Parker trying to get out of at least one of multiple...

If A Tree Falls In A Forest..., October 31, 2006
The Tennessean has a political blog. It's a week before election day, and I didn't know that until today, which tells you The Tennessean needs to learn a lot more about how to market a blog....

Reprehensible, October 31, 2006
U.S. Sen. John Kerry is proof positive that marrying into money doesn't make you classy. Donald Sensing has the best response I've seen so far. Update: This is the video of Kerry's remarks: More reaction here. And don't miss William...

Rhymes With Yugo, October 30, 2006
The guy standing in the green shirt is Chris Lugo. Well, it's the wild, ponytailed-yet-unkempt hair on the back of Chris Lugo's head as he approached the microphone at the blogs-and-journalism panel discussion at BlogNashville in May 2005, where...

Lies, October 30, 2006
The Democrat running against state Rep. Stacey Campfield is running an automate phone-call campaign telling lies about Campfield, as he reports on his blog. The automated call says Campfield favors a state income tax - he doesn't, of course, but...

The 24-Minute News Cycle, October 29, 2006
The Sunday Tennessean has a good story on how cheap digital communications tools are changing the rules of the campaign game......

No Negativity, No News Coverage?, October 27, 2006
Friday's Tennessean has an interview with Vanderbilt University political science professor John Geer about negative campaign ads. This segment...What portion of campaign ads in presidential campaigns did you find were negative? Over the last 44 years there has been an...

Elect a Blogger to the Tennessee State Senate, October 26, 2006
If you can spare $20, $40, or more, please go help my friend Bob Krumm win a seat in the Tennessee state Senate. The 21st district and the state of Tennessee need the kind of forward-thinking, issue-oriented, interactive approach to...

In Touch With Real People, October 26, 2006
When Bob Krumm, the Republican nominee for the Tennessee state Senate from the 21st District, says he'll be a state senator who stays "in touch with real people," the existence of his blog proves he means it. If you...

Ford-Corker in the WSJ, October 26, 2006
Kimberly Strassel, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, summarizes the Ford-Corker race in a piece posted online at OpinionJournal.com. Ms. Strassel interviewed me at length by phone last week for background for the column - another example...

Sharp Pencils 2, October 26, 2006
Twelve years ago, The Tennessean accused future U.S. Sen. Bill Frist of racism because he asked his staffers to obtain imprinted pencils for him to distribute at a Memphis campaign stop, and requested unsharpened pencils, telling the aide, "I don't...

The Rise of the Blogs, October 24, 2006
Rob Huddleston:"The national media's inadequacy has been magnified by the rise of the blogs, for sure. That's why they interview bloggers, as a way of catching up on what has been going on in each race.He's right....

Bryson Promises to Get Tough on Illegal Immigration; Bredesen Still Tinkers Around the Edges, October 24, 2006
Tennessee Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson is out with a new campaign ad on illegal immigration. Also, watch this clip from a debate between Gov. Phil Bredesen and Bryson each responding to a question about illegal immigration. Bredesen's response...

Scary But True..., October 24, 2006

The National Race, October 23, 2006
As a service to my out-of-state readers, and in an effort to be bipartisan in my political coverage, the extended portion of this post has a list of links to articles about the Democrat running in some 45 different key...

Follow the Money, October 21, 2006
Here is a list of political contributions from 1Point Solutions CEO Barry Ray Stokes, currently facing a federal embezzlement indictment, and also political contributions from Stokes' 1Point PAC, and also from his wife Pamela Stokes, in recent years....

Krumm Favors More Open Government; Henry Clams Up, October 21, 2006
Bob Krumm, the Republican nominee for the 21st District seat in the state Senate, has answered the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government's candidate survey, and posted his answers online along with all of his other questionnaires from various organizations here....

Ford Backfires, October 21, 2006
This is the best ad yet from the Corker campaign. Meanwhile, if you haven't seen Harold Ford Jr.'s little stunt yesterday where he crashed a Corker press conference, you can view it here. Ford miscalculated huge, and put the...

Rochelle Knows He's Losing. Again., October 20, 2006
Former state Sen. Bob Rochelle, the architect of the proposed and much-hated state income tax four years go who quit his reelection campaign four years ago after polling showed he was about to get his political tail kicked by a...

The Stakes, October 20, 2006
The war to protect America against Islamofacist terror is too important to be left to those who don't understand the stakes....

Kerry To Sail Again?, October 19, 2006
Friends of John Kerry looks to be staffing up, judging from some new job postings. Could he really be running again? The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,...

Krumm Kommercials, October 19, 2006
Here are a couple of commercials for Bob Krumm, Republican nominee for the Tennessee state Senate 21st District seat currently held by Sen. Doug Henry, who is refusing to debate and making only brief and perfunctory campaign appearances....

In the News, October 19, 2006
Ken Whitehouse at NashvillePost.com has a story today about the new Corker campaign ad featuring Ed Bryant. I'm quoted. If you aren't a NashvillePost.com subscriber - and if you want the city's best business coverage you should be - well,...

Democrats Still Keeping 1Point CEO's Tainted Money, October 19, 2006
Bob Tuke and the Tennessee Democratic Party have come up with a clever excuse for why they are keeping the tens of thousands of dollars given them by Bary Stokes, CEO of 1Point Solutions, the company caught up in a...

Election? What Election?, October 18, 2006
Has a major daily newspaper in a state capital city ever done less to cover a state legislative election than The Tennessean has this year? With the Republican Party edging close to taking over the state House for the first...

Tennessee's Election Coordinator Says Check of Voter Rolls For Fake SSI Numbers May Not Happen Before Election Day, October 17, 2006
Tennessee's statewide election coordinator, Brook Thompson, needs to be fired. Read this story in the Nashville City Paper and you'll understand why. Thompson refused for two months to run a check of the state's voter registration database to see if...

Pre-Election Coverage, October 17, 2006
The Tennessean is running more of its profiles of various state legislative races, including this profile of the race between incumbent state Rep. Mary Pruitt and Republican challenger Jim Boyd, and this profile of the race between state Rep. Ben...

Fletcher & Foley, October 16, 2006
One of Tennessee's best-known brass-knuckles political campaign advertising consultants on the Democratic side has threatened a Republican blogger with legal action after she wrote this blog entry questioning whether the consultant or his firm might have had any role in...

Why the National Media Ignores The 1Point Scandal, October 16, 2006
Patrick S. Poole explores the 1Point Solutions scandal and its extensive ties to the Tennessee Democratic Party - and how the pro-Democrat national media is ignoring it precisely because it doesn't involve Republicans, in a comprehensive article in Front Page...

Don't Fall For It, October 16, 2006
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee put out a press release claiming the national Republican Party is "pulling out" of Tennessee, abandoning the "flagging" Bob Corker campaign. Don't believe it. The press release is designed to demoralize the Corker campaign and...

Message to Hillwood: Henry Doesn't Care, October 14, 2006
The members of Nashville's Hillwood Neighborhood Association learned Thursday night which of the two men running for the 21st District State Senate seat actually care enough about their problems. And it isn't the incumbent. Or maybe Sen. Henry does care,...

Henry and the GOP, October 13, 2006
Jon Crisp, chairman of the Davidson County Republican Party, emailed about the situation involving Trey Rochford, a member of the DCRP's leadership committee, listed as a co-host along with his parents of a fund-raiser for a Democrat, incumbent state Sen....

Stolen Money Stays In Democrats' Campaign Funds, October 13, 2006
State Sen. Doug Jackson, D-Dickson, has released a copy of a letter he sent to Bob Tuke, chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, urging Tuke to return the $52,000 the party has received in donations from Barry Stokes, CEO of...

Is That Against the Bylaws?, October 12, 2006
If you are a member of the Davidson County Republican Party and have a copy of the organization's bylaws, please share them with me. I would like to know if is against the rules for a member of the DCRP's...

GOP Returns 1Point Donation; Dems Keep Stolen Funds, October 12, 2006
The Tennessee Republican Caucus has returned the $1,000 campaign donation it received from a PAC affiliated with 1Point Solutions, a company now accused of stealing millions of dollars from the pension and retirement funds it managed. The CEO of 1Point...

Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood, October 12, 2006
WSMV's Larry Brinton reports that noted Republican fundraiser Joe M. Rodgers is hosting a fundraiser for Democrat state Sen. Doug Henry later this month. That's not all that surprising - the Belle Meade blueblood elite Republicans have long supported Henry,...

Sen. Henry's Campaign Largely Funded by Special Interests, While Individual Donors Favor Challenger Krumm, October 11, 2006
Republican Bob Krumm, running against entrenched incumbent state Sen. Doug Henry in the 21st district, is raising more money from individual contributors while Henry, in the Senate since the disco era, is funded primarily by special interests, the two campaigns'...

Rochelle Repellent, October 11, 2006
The Republican State Leadership Committee is airing this hilarious ad reminding voters of Tennessee state Senate District 17 why they don't want Bob Rochelle back in the Tennessee state Senate. Little things like, he wants to create a state...

Slam Dunk, October 11, 2006
David Zucker, producer of the Scary Movie spoof films, has made a hysterically funny political ad the Republican Party has decided not to use. Which only means you get to watch it on YouTube instead of the tube. Enjoy......

Tennesseans Overwhelmingly View Illegal Immigration As Bad for the State, October 10, 2006
The latest statewide poll from the Middle Tennessee State University Survey Group finds that Tennesseans by landslide proportions believe illegal or "undocumented" immigrants make life worse for Tennesseans, even though a majority of Tennesseans believe immigration (the legal kind) is...

Bredesen to Campaign For Income Tax Architect Rochelle, October 10, 2006
The Nashville City Paper reports that Gov. Phil Bredesen so desperately wants Democrats to regain control of the state senate that he "is going to especially help Lebanon attorney Bob Rochelle," the architect of the push for a state income...

Where is Sen Henry?, October 9, 2006
State. Sen. Douglas Henry, the only incumbent Senate Democrat facing a challenger in the November election, is not only ducking debates with his Republican opponent, he's also skipping key campaign events. As A.C. Kleinheider notes at VolunteerVoters.com, Sen. Henry skipped...

Missing the Forest For the Trees, October 7, 2006
The Tennessean thinks 12 phony voter registration cards is front-page news, but hasn't mentioned the refusal of Tennessee Election Coordinator Brook Thompson to check the statewide voter registration database to count the number of registered voters who used non-legitimate Social...

Rinks Update: Help Us Get The Truth Out to the People of the District 71, October 6, 2006
Hardin County's Ted G. Cook reports that the Savannah Courier, one of the two main newspapers in Tennessee state House District 71, barely mentioned the swirl of ethics questions surrounding state Rep. Randy Rinks, D-Savannah, and his questionable uses of...

Tennessee Election Coordinator Refuses to Check Rolls for Fake Social Security Numbers, October 5, 2006
Tennessee's election coordinator is refusing to check voter rolls to make sure that no one who is registered has a Social Security number beginning with an 8,9 or zero - numbers that would indicate a fraudulent registration or registration by...

The Case for Campfield, October 4, 2006
East Tennessee blogger David Oatney has written an impassioned post endorsing state Rep. Stacey Campfield for re-election. It's so good that I'm going republish most of it here, and add my own comments at the end......

Bob Rochelle's Big Lies, October 4, 2006
Former state Sen. Bob Rochelle, the architect of the proposed state income tax who is running to regain his old senate seat so he can try again, has a new campaign ad accusing state Sen. Mae Beavers of various nefarious...

While Bredesen Talks Tough, Bryson Proposes "Strictest Immigration Laws in the Nation", October 4, 2006
While Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen talks tough on illegal immigration but takes little action beyond photo-ops and press conferences, his Republican rival in the governor's race has unveiled a tough but doable 10-point plan that would give Tennessee the toughest...

Wiggle Room, October 3, 2006
The Nashville City Paper previews tonight's first debate between Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson and incumbent Gov. Phil Bredesen, and says illegal immigration is likely to be a hot topic. The paper mentions Bredesen's new campaign ad claiming he's been...

Quack! Sen. Henry Ducks Opponent, Refuses to Debate, October 2, 2006
State Sen. Doug Henry is ducking a debate with his Republican opponent, denying voters of the 21st district a chance to hear both candidates address key issues facing the district and the state over the next four years. Republican challenger...

Bryson Camp Provides Documentation of Bredesen's Failures, September 27, 2006
The Bryson for Governor campaign has released source documentation for every claim made in its first campaign ad. Read it all here in a 5-page PDF file. It's good stuff and backs up the Bryson camp's portrayal of Bredesen as... <