Peep raid on Bin Laden Hideout, image courtesy Washington Post   A sure sign of a society of immense luxury - a society which creates ...

I'm calling it the Goldilocks Complex - governors are doing too little or too much but precious few are doing their jobs jes' ri...

Seems Gov. Bill Haslam does not know how government works. I sent him a letter encouraging him to not sign the anti-science bill whic...

Even at the age of 2 years old, he sure knows how to have a rockin' good time. The boy just owns the floor and the entire room...

An Open Letter to Gov. Haslam and the Tennessee Legislature: As a lifelong resident of the state of Tennessee, educated in public schoo...

Grade school and high school are the academic locations Tennesseee's politicians want to use to determine the value of science and th...

So very much of the talk from our leaders in government from the state to the federal level suffers a debilitating lack of vision. ...

East Tennessee state legislator David Hawk has been charged with domestic violence against his wife, who is also the head of Greene Count...

There are several powerful lessons to be learned from the recent retraction of a story reported on the radio program This American Life a...

In January of this year, I ran a post about conflicting reports on working conditions in Chinese factories where Apple (and many other ma...

The news for Americans isn't looking too good in a place where freedom and rights were first celebrated. "Pennsylvania, where...

What did Roane County have to do to land 45 jobs for a VW warehouse? Simple: remove property taxes on the now-for-free location, throw i...

This is the Third and final part of an experiment I made to live and work offline and write about my results via a sort of non LiveBlog.  ...

Resisting court orders is never a risky idea for government, and at the end of February, the city of Morristown had over $570,000 seized ...

Rush Limbaugh has been selling and slinging horseshit for decades, called it 'reasonable thinking', 'entertainment' and ...

I decided to do an experiment and shut off the internet for a while, eventually going 12 days with no email, texting, no connection wit...

Tennessee Republicans make it clear in the current presidential primary race with their support for Sen. Rick Santorum - they want Tennes...

I decided to do an experiment and shut off the internet for a while, eventually going 12 days with no email, texting, no connection with ...

Celebrations - but no ticker tape parades this time - are marking the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's flight into space as he became t...

All the romance offered by a sewage treatment plant can be yours! "Brooklyn, New York’s Newtown Creek sewage plant will be the ce...