The jaw-dropping, high-tech opening to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing - held as the event continues to be wrapped in political controversy and...

Defiant David Davis tells Kingsport reporter Hank Hayes that "if" he lost his bid to return to Congress in yesterday's electi...

Republican voters say "No" to a second term for Congressman David Davis, as challenger Phil Roe takes the party's nomination f...

The last few weeks sure have been ugly in the political landscape of Tennessee. It was bad enough watching the residents of Polk County and ...

It's being called "Operation Immortality", an attempt to launch a saving throw for humanity into outer space. The truth is muc...

Dude -- I mean, Senator McCain -- got totally burned, owned and then idly dismissed by the one celebrity he thought was too dumb to boil wat...

One thing few folks are talking about here in this corner of the 1st Congressional District - that's the primary on Thursday. But of cou...

Sometime in 1974, I was lugging around this gigantic book with the weird name of "The Gulag Archipelago". Fortunately, living in a...

A CNN story about residents of Polk County, TN shows a small but vocal group of seemingly intelligent folks who prefer fictions about Sen. O...

Consider this as follow-up to yesterday's post.

I've heard some goofy campaign ideas - but for the John McCain presidential campaign to promote this idea that his opponent is the ...

I marvel at the discussions about reading, writing and every other thing on the Internet which aim to study just what good it does us, or if...

UPDATE : Potent video from the aftermath of the shooting at the Knoxville church via Knox News Sentinel reporter Frank Munger. ---- UPDATE 2...

Swimming naked and chasing a dollar bill on a fish hook is one way to fame. NPR covered the story of the wee lad on the cover of Nirvana...

A neighborhood is in lockdown, no one is allowed to enter without police checking their IDs and all seeking entry must prove they either liv...

I'll confess it right here and now. I am an addict. My addiction is food. I started eating at a very early age and have continued to ea...

For reasons unexplained in news accounts , high level security measures have been adopted during city council meetings in Morristown. "...

It's just a year shy of the 40th anniversary, but as each July rolls past I still marvel at what some bold and brave and ingenious folks...

Here's the latest roundup via TennViews of the best in blogging from Tennessee writers/readers/bloggers. • 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera ...

The nerd which owns much of my heart and what little remains of my pop culture-infested brain has been constantly promoting the most unusual...