Les Jones takes the Commercial Appeal to task for their assertion that privacy concerns of carry permit holders are not important.

Mike emails this bit from the Commercial Appeal’s Wendi C. Thomas. It’s pretty ripe with your typical PSH but this stuck out: For every 10 people in America, there are nine guns. Well, one in ten people are slacking Some of these guns are in the possession of police and the military, but the majority […]

The Commercial Appeal has a blog set up to deal with the issue of bad dog owners. No, that’s a lie. They have a blog set up to deal with the issue of pit bulls. Despite the blog’s title (Menace Unleashed) and the scary graphics, the content isn’t completely hysterical. The major factor in dog […]

The Commercial Appeal: A Piperton police officer with a previous felony conviction has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of illegally possessing a firearm. Patrolman Robert Schmidt of Memphis had worked one day in Piperton before he was indicted, said Piperton Police Chief Carl Hendricks. U.S. Atty. David Kustoff announced the charge […]

Mike wants to be a columnist for the Commercial Appeal. He has a banner and everythng.

Bob Krumm is all over it and notes it looks like a money laundering organization. And he crunches some numbers: One of the items mentioned in the Tenenssean (sic) report was that the Black Caucus “might be exempt from filing if it raises less than $30,000 annually.” Today’s Commercial Appeal reports that the Black Caucus […]

With “bagman” Barry Myers taking a guilty plea, the prospects for other indicted Tennessee Waltz politicians has just gone down.

Radley rounds up cities pouncing on the Kelo decision and snatching up the primo property. Of note: Memphis, Tenn. — The Riverfront Development Corp. is planning a massive, 5-mile development effort, including the use of eminent domain to claim a four-block section from the current owners for a mixed-use development. “[Kelo] definitely gives the city […]

Tennessee political veteran John Jay Hooker asks US Representative Harold Ford, Jr. to step down as a candidate for Bill Frist’s Senate seat.

Shelby County Democratic Party Chair Kathryn Bowers resigns her position. I look at that and the media coverage.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal finally gets around to asking State Senator Kathryn Bowers to resign. But the paper is timid and incomplete in its editorial.

As more reports look at who is involved in the Tennessee Waltz scandal, what strikes me is just how interconnected all these folks are.