Summary: In anticipation of Rev. Barry Lynn’s appearance in Nashville tonight (6:30 pm, Scarritt Bennett Center, info), here is the interview we did with him yesterday morning. He does a fantastic job of explaining why the Religious Right, with their ideology-based social agenda - including the push to pass “marriage amendments” that ban same-sex unions […]

UPDATE: Rev. Lynn will be on Open Forum with Rev. TJ Graham on The Mighty 147, WVOL 1470 today at 2pm.
Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will be speaking and signing his book at Scarritt Bennett Center (Harambee Auditorium) TONIGHT, Tuesday, November 14 at 6:30 pm. Rev. […]

Why wait until 2 months before an election to begin registering voters? Why not start now? That’s the question some local activists are asking as they spearhead a voter registration drive that will continue even though the 2006 election has passed. Building the movement begins with copying this paragraph and leaving it on certain cars […]

Summary: First, the Democrats won a major victory at the polls on Tuesday. Then Donald Rumsfeld resigned. Now, Ken Mehlman has announced his plans to leave the RNC and Jon Stewart advised us, “You can’t run from gay.” Isn’t this the best week ever?!? Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day so we take a moment to […]

Must Reads
9 Nov 2006
“Democrats Turned War into an Ally”, by Adam Nagourney (New York Times)
Adam Nagourney turns in one of the best summaries out there of the
election in terms of strategy, environment, and color commentary.
10 Nov 2006
“Veterans Day Observed”, By Dan Froomkin (Special to WashingtonPost.com)
Froomkin posts an essay written by Sgt Sharon D. Allen in […]

Summary: Oh, yes indeedy we got our vote on. And Mary saw some frustrations, but nothing like what David Briley saw. Unfortunately, Tennessee was a lowlight in the 2006 mid-term landscape. Young Hal lost to “Stay the” Corker, and Tennesseans decided that, constitutionally, one man can marry one woman in Tennessee. We wonder who the […]

But on a national level, I was stunned. One of the best and most manipulative number crunching strategists American politics has ever known was beat at his own game by the voters he has cynically taken for a ride for the past 6 years. And I’m left looking to 2008 with a significant amount of optimism. Even though Tennessee was unable to elect a black senator, the day after this election, I feel that if a man named Barack Obama threw his hat into the ring in 2008, he could win.

“Tomorrow you’re all going to wake up in a Brave New World, a world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where Tax and Spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and […]

…they pull us back in. Rumsfeld resigns.

Besides the obvious Harold Ford, Jr. loss and the “Vote No on 1″ rout, why do some of us feel apprehensive instead of excited about the Democratic victories and the takeover of the House?
Is it because we fear that yesterday’s results will be accompanied by the continued erosion of civil discourse as the 2008 presidential […]