The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

Last week I wrote about the plight of Nashville’s Joy Ford, the country’s latest victim of Eminent Domain abuse by government. Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) has begun legal proceedings under Eminent Domain to condemn and seize Joy’s business. It has prospered at the head of Music Row for almost 30 […]

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What Circle? 23 Music Circle East - Nashville, TN to be precise. And broken may be the kindest way to describe what the owner of the business at that address faces. Shattered, decimated, mercilessly hounded into oblivion all come to mind to describe what Joy Ford, owner of Country International Records (CIR), […]

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Remember Nancy Pelosi’s comments as the Democrats took back the House in 2006? She said,
‘”The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.”
The emphasis needs to be placed on the word “intend”. At […]

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Those who remember almost any recent election will likely stop to read that headline again. After all, isn’t it the Democrats who have been making the claim every other year that their voters have been disenfranchised? Isn’t it the other guys that do that sort of thing? The answers are yes and […]

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I’ve been looking around trying to find out what happened yesterday with HB 2795. No one had anything on it regardless of what search parameters I entered. Finally, I realized that I was missing the boat looking in search engines. Tennessee is blessed to have one of the finest Education investigators and […]

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All over the news today is the story of an 18 year old accused of fondling and sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl on a school bus in Murfreesboro. While he is not accused of actually having intercourse with the young girl, his actions are serious enough to earn him a charge of […]

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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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Cross-posted from The Roundtable 
Thanks to Representative Hardaway, our wonderful Tennessee government is trying to pass a bill that would require mandatory paternity testing.  It would be required for ALL babies, regardless of the relationship between the child’s parents.  You can see the bill HERE (PDF).  Here is an excerpt:

( ) Regardless of the relationship between […]

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A friend recently wrote me a lovely recommendation in which he described me as one-in-a-million. It was, of course, very gratifying to hear that he held such a high opinion of me. The idea, of course, is that out of a million people, I rank at or very near the top when applying […]

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Given the furor over billions in earmarks loaded into the Omnibus bill passed by Congress, it’s nice to know not all federal legislators are unconcerned about the matter. Congressman Jack Kingston (GA-01) released a statement yesterday that highlighted legislation he crafted along with fellow members of the Republican Conference Frank Wolf (VA-10) and Tennessee’s […]

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