By Dr. Richard Grant Are you worried about your portfolio allocations? Are you worried about the value of your home? Then you should worry about the value of your home’s home. If you live near me, that means the USA.It seems fairly easy to teach people how to handle their portfolios. But many still...

By Drew Johnson I hate to say it, but we told you so. Three years ago, Governor Phil Bredesen zealously pushed to expand Tennessee’s existing government pre-kindergarten program. The Governor hoped to turn a program serving a limited pool of low income, at-risk children, into a full-scale universal...

By Shaka Mitchell On August 13, for the second time in 10 years, a task force convened by Nashville’s Mayor proposed a plan for providing a better education to Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools’ special needs students. The study council suggested 10 recommendations that, while noble, miss the...

Justin Owen discusses the problematic “crack tax” imposed by the Tennessee Department of Revenue. This article originally appeared in the Federalist Society’s State Court Docket Watch. Tennessee’s Unauthorized Substances Tax is currently facing its first major constitutional challenge....

When Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was gearing up for his 2004 presidential run, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat, blamed his party’s loss in 2000 on Nader’s third party candidacy. “Nader cost us the White House last time, and he could again,” Richardson said. The Republicans...

By Michael Lumley President Bush’s decision to sign the sub-prime mortgage bailout last Wednesday is more evidence that big government compassion has trumped common sense as a legislative goal. The $42 billion scheme costs taxpayers roughly the same amount as the gross domestic products of Jamaica,...

Drew Johnson “All state, county and municipal records … shall at all times, during business hours, be open for personal inspection by any citizen of Tennessee, and those in charge of such records shall not refuse such right of inspection to any citizen, unless otherwise provided by state law.” Those...

By Drew Johnson After years of sunny skies and easy sailing, Tennessee’s economy stands on the precipice of an economic downturn. Simultaneously, the state government faces a budget shortfall likely to exceed a half-billion dollars. Gov. Phil Bredesen and many state lawmakers seem quick to blame the...

By Drew Johnson Today marks the beginning of Cover the Uninsured Week. Tennessee bureaucrats plan to celebrate with a “Cover Tennessee Call-In For Coverage,” a taxpayer-funded advertising effort to increase participation in state-run healthcare schemes including CoverTN. Unfortunately, there is no...