A spokesman for the Obama presidential campaign has confirmed that South Carolina will have paid staff members to establish offices and conduct voter registration programs. When the campaign previously stated intentions to compete in 12 traditionally Republican states, South Carolina was not on the list.

Nick Shapiro, a campaign spokesman...

The Georgia Democratic Party has asked the courts for a temporary restraining order against the state's highly partisan voter ID law. The action is intended to stop the state from requiring photo identification of voters in the primary election slated for July 15.

Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican,...

Karl Rove, Republican grand strategist and now news analyst, has been booked as the keynote speaker for the Tennessee Republican Party's annual Statesman's Dinner July 26 at the Nashville Convention Center. The fundraiser is one of the state party's main events of the year.

Rove, who is working with the...

I remember the movie The Candidate in which Robert Redford played a charming fellow who decided he was going to save the world. He started running for president and he had nothing to lose so he shot from the hip. He told it like it was and the people loved...

Former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, 54, has been named the director of The Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The announcement comes nine months after he left office and ends speculation on his run for governor of Tennessee. He will start his new job on September 1.

One of the principle reasons for the current high gas prices is the rampant speculation of high-end, unregulated, money people whose rampant greed is fueled by the Republican's willingness to look the other way and do nothing to get in the way of profiteering. The willingness of OPEC countries to...

It is an area where you see signs that say Honey Run Creek and Cherry Mound Baptist Church. Northern Tennessee and southern Kentucky meet on a rolling green landscape that has seen American society evolve from the days before the United States was even founded and named.

If you were...

John McCain has said Obama's approach to foreign relations is "naive" and "shows a lack of experience." By taking that approach he leaves any claims to centrism behind. He is speaking in chorus with George W. Bush, who loudly proclaimed that engaging in negotiations with enemies is engaging in "appeasement"...

Tennessee Republicans did not waste any time chiming in on the state Democratic Party gaffe reported today, where a member of the Party's Executive Committee commented that Barack Obama "may be terrorist connected."

Posted on the top of the front page of the GOP website is a story titled...

There was an op-ed in the Sunday edition of The Tennessean, Nashville's daily paper, trying to make the case that white evangelicals hold the key to Barack Obama's white house bid. It made me think of the religious right, which I define as a body of people who say they...

I grew up in Fresno, California, and joined the Army after my high school graduation at age 17. It was during my time in the service in Germany when I began to develop my writing skills because I figured sitting at a desk in an office was better duty than...

The 2008 Democratic Primary is over. Hip, hip, hooray!

Well, actually, it's been over for quite a while now. It's just been one melodramatic, anti-climactic and sniveling scene after another, while the media kept breathing life into the nostrils of the "competition." The appearance of Harold Ickes on Meet the...

From the "Hindsight is 20-20 Department": Natalie Maines was correct. In fact, we should be ashamed that George W. Bush is president of the United States, not just that he's from Texas.

It has been a while, of course, since the Dixie Chicks appeared in London at the Shepherd's...

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It doesn't get any more rural than this.

Allen County is a conservative community located at the mid-southern edge of Kentucky just a very few miles from the Tennessee state border. Not too far across the state line, at the outskirts of town, drivers get a...

I have written in the past about how determined Hillary Clinton is as a candidate for the presidency and the past few months of the primary campaign have done nothing to dissuade me from my original thinking. The people who are calling for her to drop out of the race...

The Iraq War coverage this past March was down to 5 percent of all stories in the media according to the Pew Research Center. I can think of exceptions but there are only a few.

While the mainstream media has been busy with the Democratic primary race,...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews scolded approximately 71,000 Republicans for wasting their vote. During the Indiana primary coverage on Tuesday night, Matthews called it a Keith Olbermann-type special comment and spoke directly to the people who had responded to Rush Limbaugh's call for people to go out and vote for Hillary Clinton...

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Voters in Indiana and North Carolina!

The Republicans are clamoring for you to vote for Hillary Clinton. Rush Limbaugh's infamous Operation Chaos, which he began in March, is in full swing. You, the voters in the next set of primaries, are...

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to endlessly repeat it.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and by extension its satellites; state committees, 527s and fat cat related interest groups which serve as tentacles for a multi-pronged strike; are doing a fine job at laying out multiple...

I remember Ronald Reagan talking about the "welfare queen." There wasn't a shred of truth in it but he seemed so charming as he told the story. It had to do with a mother on welfare who, according to Reagan, was symbolic of the abuses of America's social programs.