by Donald Teel | Sep 13, 2021
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
by Donald Teel | Sep 17, 2019
Deciphering the myriad and complex media messages is both a science and an art. To say the media misleads the public is a misnomer. The media does mislead us, by lying to us constantly. If you’re one who naively accepts copy and image as dispensed by the major...
by Todd McKinley | Sep 10, 2019
A Bit of Background In my 2018 Congressional Campaign in Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District, I always said: “A nation that fails to protect its borders, is a nation that’s failing to protect its people and a nation who fails to protect its people, isn’t a nation.”...
by Mike Maharrey | Sep 10, 2019
The surveillance state constantly expands. That thing that seems like no big deal today can suddenly become a big deal as technology evolves. Take the proliferation of surveillance cameras. We’ve come to accept electronic eyes recording our every move like a normal...
by Joe Wolverton, II | Sep 10, 2019
The Anglo-American protection of a person’s right to have the legitimacy of accusations made against him determined by a jury of his peers is of ancient origin, so ancient in fact, that the date of its first appearance in English law may be hidden in the fog of...
by Todd McKinley | Aug 28, 2019
Values, First & Foremost During my 20-year (and 29 days) Army career, I lived by a set of values known as the 7 Army Values which are Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage and the acronym is LDRSHIP in other words...