* Last year, they told us they couldn’t find a way to cut $14.5 million from the Shelby County budget. This year, Mayor Wharton has proposed $18.5 million in budget cuts. Draw your own conclusion. * Leftists writing at the Commercial Appeal, Smart City Memphis, Polar Donkey, Mediaverse and els...

When Skeptical Brotha regular Zeitgiest9000 posted yesterday that the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder is reporting that the Obama Administration is vetting Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen for Secretary of Health and Human Services, my head exploded. I damn near stroked out, y’all. A diehard Hillarycra...

Bah. This is the reason I despise and ignore (for the most part) Tennessee politics. There’s absolute no Tennessee politico that, since I moved here, you can point to as an all-around, respectable, standout sort of person. But you sure can point out the freaks..Al Gore, Bill Boner, Ned Ray McWhert...

When I told some people about the TN Speaker vote this afternoon, in which a RINO was backed by 49 minority Democrats and himself to snatch victory from the majority Republicans, a coworker of mine invoked an increasingly popular cliche, “the truth lies in the middle.” Since Kent William...

Former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and America’s favorite Negro Corporate Whore, was on “Meet the Press� yesterday in his paid capacity as a “political analyst.� He announced that he and Snowflake, the white fiancé he hid better than St...

It took 47 days, but I finally got an answer. Back in early March, when I was researching Rep. Curry Todd and considering challenging him in the Republican primary, I noticed that he had sponsored a resolution honoring political activist Angelo Cobrasci. At the time, I knew there was some bad blood ...

Memphis Flyer Senior Editor Jackson Baker notes what might have been: When conservative blogger Mick Wright last week withdrew from the Republican primary race in state House of Representatives District 95, he thereby aborted a possible showdown with incumbent Curry Todd, against whom Wright has all...