Raising Money in Politics
In 2010 the Supreme Court changed money in the political world with the Citizen United Decision. The Court decided in that decision that...
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Tom Heck
Jun 22, 20231 min read
Petition our State Government
In March we had a post on this blog describing how our elections came to exist on a Tuesday in November. We have all experienced the...
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Tom Heck
Jun 8, 20231 min read
A Woke History Lesson
When I taught History and the class discussed the Declaration of Independence I always emphasized Thomas Jefferson’s words “all men are...
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Tom Heck
May 31, 20231 min read
Compromise 2023
President Biden and Speaker McCarthy have managed to hammer out a compromise on the debt ceiling. In the time we live in that is a major...
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Tom Heck
May 2, 20231 min read
Gloria and Gun Legislation
On August 8, 2008 a student of Central High School in Knoxville walked into the cafeteria before school had started and fatally shot a...
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Tom Heck
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Gun Fight at the OK Corral
We have all grown up victims of book publishers, Hollywood and TV producers who created the myth of the Wild West. That myth is the...
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Tom Heck
Apr 27, 20231 min read
Social Security
President Franklin Roosevelt in his first term faced the one of the greatest economic challenges in our history, the Great Depression. ...
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Tom Heck
Apr 25, 20231 min read
You Go Gloria!
Gloria Johnson and I taught together in Knox County for several years. In those years we sat in many meetings, Gloria as a special...
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Tom Heck
Apr 18, 20233 min read
Congress in My Lifetime
Tennessee former governors Phil Bredesen and Jim Haslam started a podcast in 2022 titled You May Be Right. These two men from opposing...
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Tom Heck
Mar 27, 20231 min read
Why is Tuesday Election Day?
This is the 21st Century, can we make voting easier? Could we declare Election Day a National Holiday? Could we move voting to the first...
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Tom Heck
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Deficit vs Debt
There's a lot of discussion about raising the debt limit. Here's a presentation to help explain the difference between the deficit and debt.
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