Stephen Yeargin

I took some time this afternoon to read and watch Sen. Barack Obama’s policy speech on race in America. With the events of the past few weeks it comes as no surprise that his campaign wanted to take a closer look at this issue, and based on the contents of the address, it was a [...]

As is often the case with a more Internet savvy generation of reporters, it does not take long for a controversial topic to find its way into the mainstream media channels. The case of a video purporting to show a United States Marine in Iraq tossing a puppy off a steep slope is no exception.
The [...]

There is a lunar eclipse going on right outside our door, but the apartment building is facing away from the moon. The United States Navy is shooting down a spy satellite too, although I think that will be impossible to see from any vantage point in Nashville. It is cold out, as I learned after [...]

With the “Super Tuesday” primary coming up, I am offering my endorsement to Barack Obama to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. My search for a candidate to support was not incredibly difficult, and I knew that Obama had the inside track since he announced his decision to seek the nomination. [...]

Like most machines, vehicles require a fair amount of preventative maintenance to stay in good working order. Some things should be checked more often than others, like tire pressure and oil level. This is amplified in older vehicles because there are often systems within that age unevenly, causing even the slightest shake or noise to [...]

Tonight, The History Channel premiered 1968 With Tom Brokaw, a two-hour synopsis of a year that upended the social and political landscape of the United States and arguably the world. From the Vietnam war, the student protests, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to the Apollo [...]

Tired of re-runs and mind numbing reality television? The Writer’s Guild of America is tired of thirteen-week contracts and half of its 12,000 members making less than the minimum to be eligible for health insurance. Meanwhile, six guys pin billions of dollars in profits on the entertainment divisions of their respective conglomerates.
So, if they want [...]

I have never been one to ignore current events.
In middle school this interest went largely unrewarded, with the exception of a 4-H public speaking ribbon in fifth grade for a piece on the merits of the NAFTA plan. I remember feeling a bit of satisfaction when it was ratified later on that year. Naturally, I [...]

On torture …
It is from perverted and sick minds that the methods of interrogation we hear about on the evening news were born. The goal of obtaining information takes a backseat to the sadistic desire to punish those that have harmed us. To make “an example” of the detained, seeing him or her as representative [...]

Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth picked up an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song Sunday night. Tuesday morning, our local metropolitan paper runs a report that the former Vice President’s house is hardly the green haven one would expect. I will leave you to read the story (the story pans over [...]