Well, the Ghostbuster for millionaire Republicans is Tom Ingram.

One-party rule means no-party rule.

Politico reported last week that the Congressional leadership is having secret talks about how to exempt Capitol Hill staffers from the insurance exchanges required under the Affordable Care Act—aka Obamacare.

When word hit news websites last week that the FBI had staged a shock-and-awe raid of the headquarters of Pilot Flying J, there was a common theme expressed in my round-robin of phone calls. Nothing this shocking has happened in ...

It finally occurred to the legislators that if you give parents in inner-city Memphis or Nashville a voucher, they may spend it at a Muslim school. They have so far been stumped: How do you allow tax money to flow ...

I found it disconcerting this winter to look out my back window at the snow-covered ground and see huge heads of lettuce, cabbage, and other greens shining.

When your health insurance premium goes up this year—and it will—you can thank Gov. Bill Haslam and his Republican majority in the Legislature. But you can take comfort in the fact that they showed President Obama who’s boss by rejecting ...

Since then, the Jefferson County Chamber has come forward to propose creating a megasite at another I-81 exit. It is rich farmland and the property owners are opposed to selling.

I don’t take medicine anymore. I take medications. The only difference I’ve noticed is that medications cost more.

Decades ago when many Tennesseans left the farm to move to the major cities, it left sparsely populated rural legislative districts intact and city districts did not grow. City residents were under-represented and rural legislators remained in control of state ...

All good conservatives believe that except when they don’t.

I think Washington pundits and the Obama administration may be surprised by Sen. Alexander’s votes. Alexander was a two-term governor, a cabinet secretary, a presidential candidate, and has served in the Senate. He’s accomplished all that because he is politically ...

It was a fascinating prospect, after a hundred years of Democratic dominance of the state Legislature, to watch it change to a Republican majority.

So if we can appoint people to office without an election, then why can’t we have the Legislature at least appoint the candidates for office?

You may have followed the controversy last week when a minister in St. Louis objected to a restaurant tacking on an 18 percent tip for a large dinner party. The bill had the tip crossed off and the minister customer ...