Tennessee Conservative
HB1214 Could Both Threaten The Best Current School Choice Options We Have And Introduce New, Worse Ones. Broadly Speaking, We Now Have Public, Private, Charter, And Homeschool Options In Tennessee. House Bill 1214 And Its Sister, Senate Bill 1194, Have The Potential To Alter Several Of These Choices.
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The Tennessee State GOP’s By-Laws Are An Incumbent Protection Racket, And Some County Party’s Good Ole Boy Networks Fit Nicely In With The Plan.
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Tennessee Should Remain Ever Vigilant In Her Finances. As There Is An Ever Increasing Push To Expand Government Services There Will Be An Attempt To Find Ways To Fund Them.
The State Property Tax Went Away In 1946 (Sort Of) But Not The Empowering Legislation That Makes It So Potentially Dangerous. With The Simple Stroke Of A Legislative Pen It Could Once Again Be Set Into Motion.
Unexpected, Anticipated, Deliberate, Accidental, Inevitable, Or Planned. Whichever Way We Choose To Define The Key To Unlock Death’s Door The Result Is The Same. The End Of Life As We Know It. Whether By Choice, Design, Or Happenstance To Fight The Battle. Death Is Always The Victor.
How We Choose To Deal With It Is What Defines Us. For Many The Weight Of Death And The Grief Or Guilt That Follows Creates Extremely Heavy Burdens To Bear. For Some, Numbness And Sometimes Denial Appear Stronger Than The Pain.
As I Grow Older, And The Inevitability Of My Own Demise Draws Nearer To Reality, I Have Begun To Reconsider My Personal View On Living.
If You Are Bothered By All This And A County Taxpayer, There Is No Time To Waste Because The Election For LCSWDC Officers Is This Thursday March 16, 6 PM At The County Courthouse Annex On Mulberry Street. Come To The Meeting And Make A Public Comment In Support Of Pat Hunter Remaining On The Commission And As Chair. At The Least, Please Contact Your County Commissioner And Tell Her Or Him That The LCSWDC Should Remain An Independent Entity With Pat Hunter As Chairman.
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I Could Be Dead Wrong. But, According To The Philosophy Of The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King The “Content Of A Person’s Character” Is Supposed To Trump Color Of Skin.
Are We Now Experiencing A Culture That Folks With White Or Kind Of Pale Skin Need Not Apply? Is There A Scale To Measure Skin Color? Who Controls That Scale Anyway? What About Ability Or Qualifications?
Progressives And Joe Biden Are Trying To Silence All Critics By Claiming They Are Spreading “Disinformation.” Their Goal Is To Turn Our Republic Into A Socialist Democratic State Controlled By The Far Left Democrats. The Socialist Manifesto Reads: Take Control Of Media And Education, Inflate The Currency And Divide The Classes.
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It Seems Self-Evident That Voters Should, In Good Faith, Cast Their Primary Ballot For The Candidate Who Best Represents Their Convictions. It Also Is Reasonable To Expect A Candidate’s Values Align With The Party Under Which They Run. Unfortunately, In Tennessee, That Is Not Always The Case Due To Our State’s Open Primaries.
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Speaking To The Anderson County Commission, A Colleague Evoked Shock And Awe Among The County Government Officials By Simply Displaying Some Vulgar Pictures From Library Books While Contrasting Those With The Nearly-Banned Books Of Our Beloved Dr. Seuss. While Most Commissioners And Some Citizens Spoke Passionately About How The Process Of Reconsideration Should Not Have Been Circumvented By Bringing The Issue Of Books To The Commission Meeting, Ironically Early The Next Morning The Commissioner Who Is Chairman Of The Library Board, Removed Some Of The Offending Books From The Library, Bypassing The Touted Reconsideration “Process” Himself.
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While The Suggestion Of A National Divorce Might Feel Good To Say Out Loud, The Necessary Actions Required To Do Such A Thing Make It Untenable. Redrawing Borders, Redoing The Tax Code, Managing National Defense…the List Is Endless And Worse, The Ramifications Of This Kind Of Split Would Mean A National Security Risk That None Of Us Would Likely Survive. In My Opinion, We Wouldn’t Even Survive The Planning Stage Of This Kind Of Hard Divorce. However, There *Are* Things We Can Do To Improve Our Lives As We Decouple Ourselves From People And Corporations That Have Led Us Down This Destructive Path.
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