In our blog, read about the political and cultural issues affecting Tennesseans written from a conservative perspective. Commentaries are typically written by David Fowler, an attorney who served in the Tennessee state Senate for 12 years before joining FACT as President.
An Open Letter to the Governor and Legislature on Mental Health and the Special Session
Aug 31, 2023 by David Fowler
The legislative session that adjourned this week was an understandable reaction to a woman who thought she was a man going to the Covenant School in Nashville—a school she had previously attended— and murdering several children and adults...
Viewing the Special Session Through New Eyes
Aug 25, 2023 by David Fowler
Viewing the Special Session Through New Eyes
This week we’ve observed voices being marshalled and directed to the members of the legislature for and against what is going on with the special session. I’ve watched with the p...
Looking to the Special Legislative Session for What?
Aug 15, 2023 by David Fowler
The Governor’s call last week for a special legislative session in response to the great pain experienced by so many Tennesseans because of the murder of children at Nashville’s Covenant School is understandable. It is also understandable...
USTA Exposes the New One World Order You May Have Missed
Aug 11, 2023 by David Fowler
Many Christians, and perhaps some political conservatives, are concerned about a push for a new “one world order.” Some– many of influence– unabashedly push for that, particularly in areas of economics and trade. But s...
What’s Going on with Tennessee’s ‘transgender law’ in the 6th Circuit?
Aug 3, 2023 by David Fowler
While eyes are focused on the upcoming special session on guns, the Biden family, Republican candidates for president, and the like, the biggest battle of them all is on trial in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. This is not hyperbole:...
Will Tennessee’s Governor and Legislature Stand Up for the Constitution or Bow to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Jul 28, 2023 by David Fowler
Yesterday morning I sent an open letter to Governor Lee and our state’s legislators about the anticipated special session implicating the “right to keep and bear arms.” In sum, the issue before them is whether they will stand up for...
What Are You Most Scared About and Why?
Jul 20, 2023 by David Fowler
The great G.K. Chesterton, who influenced persons like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, once remarked that the only thing worth fighting over is words. I made a poor choice of words in last week’s commentary about “climate change” rel...
Proof of a “Climate Change” We’ve Failed to Consider and Its Terrible Consequences
Jul 12, 2023 by David Fowler
Proof of a “Climate Change” We’ve Failed to Consider and Its Terrible Consequences
I read a legal brief by a Christian policy organization last week that was, for me, incontrovertible proof of “climate change”--...
National Independence for the Sake of What Kind of Liberty?
Jul 6, 2023 by David Fowler
William Blackstone, in his famous U.S. Supreme Court “sanctioned” Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765), wrote that “the English is the only nation in the world where political or civil liberty is the direct end of its constitu...
Why Christian Legal Concepts Get Used Against Christians
Jun 29, 2023 by David Fowler
Six weeks ago, I wrote a commentary about how a major Christian legal advocacy organization’s understanding of law was killing real parental rights in the name of defending parental rights. In less than a week, federal district court judges in ...
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