I moved from Seattle to Chattanooga in 2021. My house in Seattle was less than a mile from the Microsoft campus. Whenever I went to an after-hours tech get-together or happy hour, everyone who attended worked at Google, Facebook, [...]

Dolly Parton was the greatest southern stateswoman of the 20th and 21st centuries. Forgive me a bit of hyperbole; the country star’s death at 80 has triggered an outpouring of grief and will no doubt be the source of [...]

On the eleventh and twelfth of August, a Boeing business jet registered A6-RJA left Abu Dhabi, crossed the Gulf, and set down briefly in Iran. Flight trackers logged it at Tehran’s Mehrabad and at Payam airfield near Karaj. It [...]

Sen. Rand Paul honors Crume Drug Store as U.S. Senate Small Business of the Week --- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul visited Crume Drug Store in Bardstown last Tuesday to recognize the longtime local pharmacy as his U.S. Senate Small Business of [...]

There is something about the public response to Lindsay Clancy that I cannot stop thinking about. It isn’t the question the jury is being asked to decide. I don’t know whether Clancy met the legal standard for criminal responsibility [...]

A sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln sent a message home that his family passed to Stars and Stripes anonymously, fearing retaliation. “Our mental health and physical health is in danger. We need help.” By the time that message [...]

Canada is one of our largest trading partners. The president imposed 50 percent tariffs on cars, wigs, and hockey sticks. --- Over the weekend, President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs against Canada went into effect as talks between the two [...]

Among the DC and Marvel movies that have hogged much of the attention in theaters this year, “Supergirl” and “Spider-Man” among them, my favorite superhero movie has flown under the radar. Filmmaker Michael Russell Gunn’s “The Brink of War” [...]

Fauci’s lawyers raise a legal war chest and Rand Paul isn’t buying it --- WASHINGTON, DC: Dr Anthony Fauci’s lawyers have created a legal defense fund to cover his mounting legal expenses, saying the retired former COVID-19 adviser is facing an [...]