The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

Education is supposed to be about learning and knowledge. Today’s education seems to be about far more than that, however. From participating in the “Who gets a seat in the Lifeboat?” scenario to curricula dealing with homosexuality, moral issues are taking up more time in schools. Unfortunately, educators often come down on […]

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Many of us have wondered what it would take to do enough to earn a Silver Star or be considered for our nation’s highest military award for valor, The Congressional Medal of Honor. In each conflict our country engages in, there are a handful of men who find out. We may catch their […]

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Hat tip to Chuck Muth at Muth’s Truths for the following snippets … I’d encourage you to “Enjoy!” but that would be sadistic …

MASSIVE TAX HIKES AROUND THE BEND
“House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing […]

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I’m in Chicago on business for a couple of days. But The Much Younger Trophy Wife is home. I mentioned in my comments on Jay’s original post that, as a home schooling family, we’d be weighing in on the issue. The Much Younger Trophy Wife has done the heavy lifting in this […]

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What do you call a small group of watchdog types that are committed to getting the word out on the comings and goings in one of Tennessee’s fastest growing small cities? Why you call them ‘Radio Free Mt. Juliet‘, of course. And you call them the newest member of the ConserVOLiance.
These guys may […]

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Please join me in welcoming the newest ConseVOLiance member, Whitehorse! He blogs at Whitehorse Musings. I ran across him via a couple of comments he left in the local blogosphere and his work over at RedState. He spends a lot of time setting the folks at The Tennessean straight as well. […]

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This post is several days overdue as the blogger meet-up in question took place on Sunday night. Have I mentioned that I’ve been busy?
Anyway, Sunday night a little over 20 of us (including the odd child) gathered at the Hickory Hollow Olive Garden for a bit of networking and to visit with some special […]

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I can’t believe I forgot this. Today is my 1st blogiversary! At 3:30 PM, on February 1st, 2007 I put my first post up at Blue Collar Muse! Since then it’s been a wild ride and doors have opened up that I could only dream of a year ago!
295 posts and 961 […]

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Welcome to our newest member, Media Lizzy! Elizabeth Blackney has seen and done a little bit of pretty much everything. Some of it twice! She’s my kinda gal - at home sipping a Bud with a friend in a trailer and just as at ease in the White House sipping wine older […]

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Just how fluid is the situation in Iowa? I discuss a phone call I had yesterday with two people on the ground in Iowa:
Just when it appears the chips are down for Fred Thompson, Team Fred has sent the Tennessee Volunteer Army into Iowa. Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey has been there, along with an armada […]

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