This essay first appeared as a column in the Daily Times, on March 6, 2023 (here). For my birthday last year, my wife took me to Colonial Williamsburg, a superb recreation of Virginia’s capital from 1699 until 1780, when it was moved to Richmond. For a history buff, exploring Colonial Williamsb…

In the August 2022 primary, I ran unopposed as a write-in candidate for a seat on District 2 of the Tennessee Republican Party’s State Executive Committee, and won, with 302 write-in votes. The Tennessee Secretary of State certified me as the winner. Based on behind-the-scenes machinations …

Thanks–as always–to the Tennessee Conservative News (here), The Pamphleteer (here), and Breitbart (here). In a recent post, entitled East Tennessee’s Rainbow Mafia, I commented on the LGBTQ community’s tendency to vilify critics of “all ages” drag shows, using …

By Mark Pulliam Thanks to Tennessee Conservative News (here), The Pamphleteer (here), and Breitbart (here)! The LGBTQ community likes to portray itself as the powerless victim of oppression by an intolerant society, but in reality it is an aggressive—even militant—challenger of the Judeo-Chri…

Like some other famous Texans, Sam Houston was first a famous Tennessean. This essay first appeared in the Daily Times on January 6, 2023 (here). Sam Houston is a revered statesman in Texas, where I lived before moving to Tennessee a few years ago. He is the namesake of the largest city in the Lo…

This begins what I hope is a regular series of columns for my local paper, the Maryville Daily Times. This column appeared on December 8, 2022 (here). Some readers may be surprised to see my name in a byline on this page, as opposed to as the signature on a missive directed to the editor. Over th…

Some people wonder why my wife and I started the Blount County Conservative Coalition (BCCC) 18 months ago. Since the saga relates to the nullification of my election to the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee (SEC), the cancellation of Gary Humble, and the expulsion of Heather F…

Thanks to Tennessee Conservative News (here) and the Ace of Spades blog (here)! The unexpected election of President Donald Trump in 2016—and the electrifying GOP primary campaign leading up to his nomination—revealed the gulf between the longstanding Republican establishment and the conserva…

Isn’t the Republican Party supposed to stand for election integrity? Thanks to Real Clear Policy (here), the Tennessee Conservative News (here), and Power Line! Groucho Marx is reputed to have said that he did not want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. I have the opposi…

How does the local Republican Party in a county that voted for President Trump by a 71% to 27% margin fail to field a candidate for the Tennessee GOP State Executive Committee? Thanks, as always, to the Tennessee Conservative News (here), The Pamphleteer podcast (here), and the Tennessee Star Rep…