Articles Written by:    ROB SHEARER     

The State of Tennessee could buy GM with 25% of its stimulus check

A few numbers and comparisons that might help folks adjust to the new realities. Wrap your heads around those numbers. Maybe the State of Tennessee SHOULD buy GM. We could then either lease or sell the facility to Volkswagen and keep the workforce in ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  5 Mar 2009

The Gore effect - Proof that God has a sense of humor

NASA climatologist James Hansen has joined the call for civil disobedience at tomorrow’s Capitol Climate Action Demonstration - March 2nd 2009. The organizors are targeting the Capitol Power Plant, a coal-fired plant in DC which supplies heating and ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  1 Mar 2009
Related Topics: NASA,  James Hansen

Presidential approval ratings after 30 days

What seems to be lacking amongst the main-stream media’s love fest is a little historical perspective. Obama remains, at this point, neither the messiah nor the devil. The best adjectives to describe him are untested, little known, unproven. We will ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  25 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Bredesen to HHS? Governor Ramsey? Senator Mumpower?

Thinking ahead to the next moves on the chess board, this would make Ron Ramsey the new Governor of Tennessee. The Tennessee Senate would then have to elect a new Lieutenant Governor. There would also need to be a special election to fill Ramsey’s ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  6 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Ron Ramsey,  Jason Mumpower

Details of the corrupt bargain emerge

We now probably know most of the terms of the deal (aka, the corrupt bargain) that Kent Williams cut in order to make himself the Speaker of the House. The Democrats must have been desperate. They couldn’t get a Republican to break ranks and vote for ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

An inscribed copy of Dante’s Inferno for Rep. Kent Williams

In Dante’s Inferno, the great Italian poet arranges the geography of hell in the form of nine concentric, descending circles. As you descend from circle to circle the severity of the sins being punished increases as does the gruesomeness of the ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  14 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Julius Caesar

Ted Kennedy offered to conspire with the Soviets on the best way to outwit Ronald Reagan

The startling paragraph on Kennedy comes on page 197: “Six months after becoming general secretary of the CPSU [early 1983], Yuri Andropov received a highly confidential letter from his successor as KGB chief, Viktor Chebrikov. It was classified “Top ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  1 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Yuri Andropov,  Edward M. Kennedy

Homeschoolers save Tennessee taxpayers $300 million per year

I received a catalog of mailing lists available for rent this past week. I noted that there are three commercial homeschool mailing lists available for rent with 600k+ household names & addresses,Since we all know that homeschool families average 14.3 ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  24 Dec 2008

Homeschooling Goes Mainstream

The whole thing is worth reading, but three paragraphs stood out for me. One on the “hybrids” that are being created by homeschoolers, one on the explosion of innovation in high school, and the final paragraph suggesting that homeschooling innovations ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  19 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Peter Beinart

Online campaign to revoke Obama’s invitation to Rick Warren

“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans.” “We must never, never, nerver forget how Obama betrayed us.” “Take off your shoes, America, and get ready to hurl them hard!” “ ...

From ROB SHEARER, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance,  18 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Rick Warren

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