by Todd McKinley | Jan 19, 2023
This article is based on a few thoughts I had on New Year’s Day, and goes with my Pale Blue Dot article I published on January 10th. iVoteTennessee | A Pale Blue Dot or A Speck of Dust Yeah, those Dinosaur fossils named Julius Caesar and Ben Franklin are long dead,...
by Todd McKinley | Jan 10, 2023
On September 5th, 1977, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a space probe called Voyager-1 from Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral. Its mission and that of its sister, Voyager-2, which launched on August 20th, 1977, according to...
by Todd McKinley | Dec 24, 2022
Census. Taxes. Refugees. That may sound like the beginnings of a news story from the last year, but it easily could have been a headline in the Bethlehem Tribune 2,000+ years ago. One doesn’t often attribute politics to the Christmas narrative, but surprisingly,...
by Donald Teel | Mar 22, 2022
Marsha Blackburn should be thanked by the people of Tennessee. She is not your typical GOP Senator who views her primary role as towing the Party line. Make no mistake, she is a dedicated conservative Republican and staunch supporter of the GOP. Case in point. When it...
by Donald Teel | Mar 22, 2022
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 | Mar 13, 2022
Choosing one’s friends is critical and typically based on mutual interests, common values, and compatibility. The China-Russia alliance on display in Ukraine fits my criteria for global comrades, aka, friends. China and Russia share a mutual interest in the...
