Thanks to a recent discussion of cinema and history by filmmaker Martin Scorsese , I learned that the gigantic presence of cat videos on t...

It's true, dear reader, I have been for some weeks now breathing non-digital air, treading non-digital paths, and been absent from this ...

For more than a decade now, too many lives and too many freedoms have been lost in a battle against terrorism. Policies and strategies creat...

"I will ask anyone who values liberty to stand with me.”. Sen. Rand Paul In March Sen. Paul took the Drama Award in the Senate for...

Today's "Memphis Flyer" editorial is a must read: " A single piece of progressive legislation, the lowering of the sale...

" As approved by the Senate, the bill (SB796) says that drones can only be used to search for a fugitive or a missing person, in monit...

Like so many in the nation and the world, I paused this week to mark the passing of film critic Roger Ebert. He was one of a few writers who...

The good thing is that a horrible plan by a state legislature is not from Tennessee. It's from North Carolina - a new bill seeks to est...

Since the Senate in Georgia is suing Tennessee to claim water and land, what battles will soon take shape? One writer lays out the likely ...

Talking with friends recently I was reminded again that I'm all alone when it comes to following the actions of the state legislators in...

Taking taxpayer funds from struggling schools and giving them as tuition fees to private schools seems a poorly thought idea. Republicans ...

Last year a spy movie franchise based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series hit movie watchers with a cornucopia of paranoia and high t...

Some faux drama brought out by Sen. Rand Paul wailing about the use of surveillance or armed drones ignored a basic fact - U.S. states want...

Taking Tennessee taxpayer funds away from public schools and giving those funds to private schools - whether you call it "vouchers...

Business owners in TN are facing new orders via the State - employees with handgun conceal permits are allowed to use their vehicles to stor...

A company called Apigee, which makes mobile apps and other APIs (application program interface), conducted a recent survey which boasts that...

For many years I have offered this joke about food - "Food is addictive. I started eating at a very young age and I still do it, someti...

A recent outrage du jour: the fiscal meltdown of the Senate haircut emporium, promoted by email and 'news' reports: "Sinc...

Valentine's Day tours of a sewage treatment plant were a massive hit with visitors last year, so romantics get more of the same this ye...

Someone hacked into local Emergency Broadcast Systems in Montana and Michigan to warn viewers that dead bodies were coming back to life as Z...