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.
Assessing Governor Lee’s School Voucher Proposal
Dec 8, 2023 by David Fowler
Governor Lee wants to expand his education voucher or scholarship program to improve education. Opponents see it as a plan to destroy public education. When asked by a friend if I was following the issue, I said, “No, and I didn’t plan to...
Evangelical Prophets Come to America’s Rescue
Dec 1, 2023 by David Fowler
Last week an internationally known man along with a woman, both of whom are part of what I will refer to as the prophetic sector of the Christian communion within the United States, called Christian women to a fasting and prayer event next year at th...
Learning How to “Be” a Thankful Person Can Be Expensive
Nov 22, 2023 by David Fowler
Being a thankful person this Thanksgiving was challenging. My challenge was small and inconsequential compared to what many are facing right now. But it doesn’t change the fact that I have had to process what it means to be defined as a thankfu...
What I learned from almost thirty years of seeking to advocate for righteous laws
Nov 17, 2023 by David Fowler
It has been brewing in me for the last few years, and this week it came to a head. I concluded that I pursued my public policy work for the better part of twenty years under a worldview that could not have been framed better had I been a strict mater...
My Minority Report on the Hamas-Israeli War: Good News and Bad
Nov 10, 2023 by David Fowler
My Minority Report on the Hamas-Israeli War: Good News and Bad
The first war with the modern state of Israel that I remember was the Yom Kippur War in 1973. I was in the ninth grade. Standing in the school cafeteria line I overheard some cla...
Bill Maher, Welcome to the World of U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson
Nov 2, 2023 by David Fowler
Bill Maher, comedian, host of Real Time, and an old-fashioned sort of liberal who is increasingly quoted by Fox News for his complaints with radical progressives, took the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to task for his Christianity....
Tennessee Legislator’s Interesting Understanding of Truth and Its Implications
Oct 26, 2023 by David Fowler
One of Tennessee’s influential Christian legislators recently penned an article justifying the state’s new law protecting minors from “gender transition” surgeries and hormone therapies. I think the understanding of truth he e...
The U.S. Constitution: A Covenant with Life or with Death?
Oct 20, 2023 by David Fowler
The U.S. Constitution: A Covenant with Life or with Death?
In 1992, the United States Supreme Court described “our Constitution” as “a covenant.” We no longer think much about covenants. Yet society cannot function wi...
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Make Parental Rights Illusory?
Oct 12, 2023 by David Fowler
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held constitutional Tennessee’s new law on the administration of medical techniques and the provision of pharmaceuticals to minors that could render them sterile. For that, those who beli...
Is a Federal Ban on Abortion After 15 Weeks Gestation Even Constitutional?
Oct 6, 2023 by David Fowler
Controversy over a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks of gestation proposed by a national pro-life political action committee prompted Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, to tell Republican candidates to “talk about ...
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