Today, the Tennessee Nation blog hosts a guest writer for the first time. Her name is Sara Hill and lives in Alabama. Chemistry & Physics My favorite professor in college was a chemistry teacher who wore a big, fat cigar in the corner of his mouth like women wear jewelry. When he lectured, ...Read More...

Documentation of the ineptitude and duplicity of the Empire sometimes comes from the strangest sources. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could hardly be called a friend of liberty as defined by Southerners, but he does make a telling point with this sketch from his show. Here is a link to the video. While ...Read More...

“Self-sufficiency or individual responsibility is a prerequisite to being free and enjoying the benefits of liberty.”  So say Ronald and Donald Kennedy in their new book Nullifying Tyranny. With the subtitle, Creating Moral Communities in an Immoral Society, the Kennedy brothers ...Read More...

Just saw this and could not pass on sharing it with y'all. The notion that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed is a foundational principle of the American experiment. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters ...Read More...

In their latest book, Nullifying Tyranny (Pelican Publishing, 2010), the brothers Ronald and Donald Kennedy present a list of principles of government. Their Principle number 8 is, "Elected leaders in a political system of minimum government will be universally acknowledged as statesmen." The ...Read More...

The demagogues of multiculturalism are at it again!  On Monday afternoon, the Nashville Scene’s website reported on a law signed by Governor Bredesen.   “Were talking about legislation that basically requires anyone who talks or looks like a foreigner to carry documentation ...Read More...

Just havin' wistful feelin's today.  What would it be like if the South had won?   From Solitude, David O Jones  ...Read More...

This December marks one hundred fifty years since South Carolina led the way out of the Union by seceding.  Most people (especially politicians) will laugh about the possibility of secession today.  We have been taught in government schools and in private and Christian schools as well that ...Read More...

Who allowed the Left to rename Criminal Profiling as Racial Profiling?  Replacing the word criminal with racial obviously blurs the intent of the profile and gives the impression that policing agencies are only intending to harass certain racial groups rather than arrest criminals. A year or two ...Read More...

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We must realign out thinking, we must think locally.  As long as we view national elections as the priority, we have lost our freedom.  This is the fatal flaw in the Tea Party movement – they think by electing the right Congressman, Senator, or President that everything will be all right.  ...Read More...

Illegal immigration into these united States has become pandemic.  The recent administrations (both Republican and Democratic) in Washington have chosen to turn a blind eye toward the situation, so localities are beginning to take their own action. This past week, Arizona’s governor Jan ...Read More...

It does not take much intelligence to read about the conflict which the thirteen colonies had with Great Britain and relate their situation to ours. It does take a desire to govern and lead with dignity and within the limits of a respect for unalienable, God-given rights of the individual. To relate ...Read More...

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Perhaps we should begin to discuss some of the issues which demand a separation from the Columbian Empire. Most people start their argument with the Declaration of Independence, but I wish to start with a document penned a year earlier on 6 July 1775. Called the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity ...Read More...

I arrived early last evening at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville to attend an “Economic Forum with the Fed. While waiting for the doors to open, I read a few pages of Bastiat’s “The Law.” You say: “There are persons who have no money,” and you turn ...Read More...

Dear Mrs. Congressman Blackburn: It may be time for you stop appearing on all the fancy national network news shows and come back to Tennessee and live with the common folk for awhile.  You have become infected with that most deadly of diseases, Potomac Fever. The Fever is distinguished by a ...Read More...

Most people today think of government exclusively within the civil realm. In reality, there are a multitude of “governments” which influence our everyday lives. The most common governments beside the state are those of the family and church. Some other examples are local clubs such as the ...Read More...

The center of the Columbian Empire (Washington, D.C.) is entering its fourth day of being closed for business. Snowed in! I sense this wonderful euphoria sweeping the hills and hollers. Don't y'all feel safer knowing that all the mindless bureaucrats and duplicitous elected officials and self-serving ...Read More...

Let’s all boycott the airlines until they decide to tell the FEDs to “butt out!” After everyone had to start taking their shoes off because some idiot, would-be martyr tried to ignite his shoes, I had decided that flying any commercial airline was just too much trouble. Now, everyone ...Read More...