Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

The Killing of Alex Pretti Should Be the Breaking Point

Alex Pretti’s death shows what happens when armed federal agents are given political cover to operate above the law and the public is told to ignore what it can plainly see. When the state kills in public and lies about it afterward, neutrality is no longer an option.

Combat Veteran Signs Up to Talk About Trash at a Tennessee County Meeting… and Uses His Time to Torch ICE and Confederate Symbols

On January 15th, 2026, Afghanistan War veteran and Murfreesboro resident Adam House signed up to address the county commission about trash in the downtown area. And that’s exactly what he did. At a recent Rutherford County Commission meeting in Murfreesboro, the agenda moves along as expected. Budget items. Procedural motions. Public comment. Then the chair calls the next…

CopBlocking & Bill “Goebbels” O’Reilly (w/ Megyn Kelly)

I didn’t quite know where to begin with this piece, but I think watching the following video is as good a spot as any: Before we get into my own take on Cop Block, let’s dissect this not so pithy smear piece by the bloviating spin-master & company. BILL: “In The Kelly File segment tonight,…

Scopes Juror Monkeyshine

“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church.…

Rally For Your Rights

This is an internationally read blog and is meant for anyone to read, but this author is a resident of Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the viral YouTube video entitled “4th of July DUI Checkpoint – Drug Dogs, Searched Without Consent, While Innocent” was taken. For anyone who has not yet seen the video: http://youtu.be/w-WMn_zHCVo Much…

Sheriff Doesn’t Like Rights On Independence Day

Last year, Murfreesboro unmarked police stopped me illegally on Highland Ave. within a mile of my house and questioned me as to why I was driving in my own neighborhood. I called the station and went in person to complain, but was basically blown off by government employees who didn’t seem interested in taking a…

MEDICAL CANNABIS & INDUSTRIAL HEMP AWARENESS DAY

Recently, some grassroots Tennesseans began organizing a Medical Cannabis & Industrial Hemp Awareness Day for Tuesday, March 5th. An event has been created on facebook, hosted by Aaron Elijah Colyer. The description for the event reads as follows: “Tennesseans for Medical Cannabis NOW and TN NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) will be meeting up at…