Democrats should not be allowed to vote in Republican primaries, right?
Almost every year, there is a bill filed in the General Assembly that would close the primaries here in Tennessee. But every year, that bill fails. Let’s talk about why. In Tennessee, we have an open primary system. That means that when you register to vote, you do not declare a party. But when you […]
Abortion and the new 2024 Republican Platform
The new 2024 Republican Platform adopted in Milwaukee on July 8th now departs from a federal defense of life and a defense of biblical marriage. The former 58-page robust 2016 platform took a strong stance against the 2015 SCOTUS Obergefell ruling and sought to defend family values and marriage between one man and one woman. […]
Corruption and Marxism are not really all that different.
In listening to a podcast this morning on the roots of Marxism, it was stated that Marx saw organized religion itself as a tool of the owners (the bourgeoisie) as a method of control over the workers (the proletariat), a preoccupation of sorts. And this should be easily discernable by most, in that, Marxism is […]
We must stop playing the middle, before it’s too late.
It is no secret that establishment players in the GOP find me to be divisive. They believe that I have a goal to divide the party. “Can’t we all just get along,” is often their mantra. But the way I see it, we are in the fight of our lives. Am I wrong? The Chamber […]
The politics of personality are a detriment to liberty and constitutional order.
With great trepidation, I will wade into the waters of the upcoming Presidential primary, admittedly without picking a side. And you know why. Because if I did, at least half of you would stop following the work of Tennessee Stands. And that is precisely the problem that I would like to address here. Stop it. […]
A Republican-created medical monopoly in East Tennessee.
Republicans are supposed to be for a free and fair market – for capitalism, an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state, where competition and who is successful, is regulated and decided by consumers. But some Republicans in Tennessee […]