July 13, 2026
Opinion
Trump Accounts available
A new, tax-advantaged investment account, created under the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, pledges to build long-term financial security for millions of children in the United States. Popularly known as Trump Accounts, these custodial, tax-advantaged Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) are modeled after traditional IRAs with a few, key differences – the biggest being that any U.S. citizen born between 2025-2028 will receive a one-time $1,000 contribution from the United States Treasury to jumpstart their savings efforts!
Bullets flying left to right
The third assassination attempt on Trump in two years by a leftist, and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s grand jury indictment for paying the Klan and other remnants of race groups to stage what happened in Charlottesville, tell you all you need to know about the current Democrat Party. Reagan and Trump were shot at. Obama, Biden and Clinton went through no assassination attempts. Bullets are flying in one direction: left to right. None of these Democrats even had known threats, unless you count Hillary’s lamp throwing attempts on Bill Clinton.
Dear iPhone, I need a break
A friend of mine recently lost his iPhone. I’ll call him Jack, since that’s his name. (He doesn’t read my column, so we’re safe here.) For about 24 hours, Jack’s life was a mess. He couldn’t focus on anything except his missing phone. “My whole life is on that phone,” he said. “My money, my passwords, my pictures. I’m lost without it!”
Do you sing as often as you should?
I don’t remember my mother singing much to me and my brother during our formative years. (Technically, I’m still in my formative years -- if you count forming calluses, wrinkles, reasons to go to bed before nine…) Sure, Mom did a dutiful job of singing in church (while Dad hummed), but there wasn’t the oneon- one, “patty cake, patty cake” experience seen in some families. (SOMEWHERE I came up with the misheard “The Farmer in the Deal,” but I don’t think there was a maternal aspect to the transaction.)
Painting on the rock beyond bounds
I applaud the Tullahoma City Schools (TCS) administration and Board of Education (BOE) for revising Board Policy (BP) 4.400 for the Flag and Other Displays policy in Fall 2025. Section 1 of this policy allows only the USA or state of TN flags to be displayed in or on TCS buildings, including classrooms, with certain exceptions for other flags used solely for educational purposes. Section 2 of the policy prohibits political, cultural, or personal flags or other displays from being displayed in or on TCS buildings unless directly related to the curriculum or other schoolsanctioned event or program. This policy led to removal of an LGBTQ flag from a Tullahoma High School (THS) classroom.
What’s next for Tullahoma schools?
Congratulations Dr. Norris on becoming the new Director of Tullahoma Schools. Looking forward there are still questions that remain unanswered. We are fortunate to live near the largest aerospace testing complex in the world. The paper has an article on how a local company supported Artemis. We have an incredible local environment. With that, what is your plan to improve STEM education, especially in math and the hard sciences which are central to STEM degrees? What is your plan to increase vocational and technical education supporting STEM? What is your plan for improved gifted programs? Will we bring IB programs to TCS? What is our plan to lead the state in TCAP scores? How will you improve citizen access to school information, textbooks, and include citizen input as part of the vision for TCS schools?
Ron Hart gets it wrong
The April 22 opinion piece from Ron Hart demonstrates the sad decline of public discourse in America. He employs the full gamut of tactics to appeal to those who accept opinion as fact—as long as it confirms their own poorly informed bias.
Higher education at a high price
In America it has always been an article of faith that one should get a college degree. I have said for a decade that, due to liberal professors and a lack of competition or cost controls, traditional college no longer represents the value proposition it once did. Higher education charges tuition at twice the rate of inflation and is not responsible for the products it produces. Colleges are essentially a government monopoly. But since they are government, overseen by government, government lets them get away with little accountability.