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.
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 ...
Transgender Opposition: Thinning the difference between Christians and God-Scoffers
Jun 23, 2023 by David Fowler
King Solomon wrote, “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” A God-scoffer might say, “Solomon did not see educated people in positions of influence and ...
Gen Z’s View of Western Civilization from the Kingdom of Dumbledort
Jun 14, 2023 by David Fowler
Last week, Fox News reported that a Gen Z activist said, "We are witnessing the collapse of the Paris of the West and potentially the decline of Western civilization, with San Francisco being the first domino." I would call him an inattenti...
Not-So-Holy Cow: What a West TN Federal Judge Said about Evangelicals
Jun 9, 2023 by David Fowler
I suspect that when the Prophet Amos let loose on certain people in Israel by calling them “Cows of Basham,” he was excised a bit in spirit, and his description was ill-appreciated. That kind of spirit rose in me as I read the federal d...
Make Things Simple When Arguing With Those Engaged in Folly
Jun 1, 2023 by David Fowler
For years, two consecutive verses in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible did not make any sense to me as a trained lawyer and lawmaker. However, in recent years I came to understand the apparent contradiction between them. The wisdom those verses conta...
How Do You Picture Yourself and the World You Live in
May 25, 2023 by David Fowler
Last weekend I gave the commencement address for over 100 home-educated high school graduates in Chattanooga. I told them what I wished someone had told me when I was their age that has now revolutionized my life: How you can have the world by the ta...
How to Argue Against Madmen and Avoid Judicial Politics
May 16, 2023 by David Fowler
“Judicial politics” is the law of those who G.K. Chesterton would have called “madmen.” His description of madmen (below) is perfect! But what do you do when the world, including most of your Christian friends, think you are t...
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