edited by: Kate,
Tennessee Editor
Armstrong just pushed this out via Twitter.
I know mountain climbs pretty well. What President Obama and others are encouraging in the United States with healthcare is a tough climb – no doubt. To Senator Kennedy's point, though, we have a chance right now to initiate a major shift [...]
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If you listen carefully to what Todd asks, it's basically a slickly packaged "gotcha" question to make Obama give up his ideas of sacrifice. It was obviously a segue into hitting Obama hard for the [...]
A secret program within the CIA was kept from Congressional oversight as ordered by Dick Cheney, according to AP sources.
Whoa. Correct if wrong, but that is a crime.
From within the article:
"Exactly what the counterterrorism program was meant to do remains a mystery. The former intelligence official said it" [...]
I've been thinking a lot about the common interests that people seem to have everywhere concerning good governance and proper access to people in political power. I am currently in Slovenia for some fieldwork and I am going to write a bit over the next couple of' [...]
I didn't post this when it came out about a month ago, but with the developments of the past few days in Iran, it seems appropriate now.
Guess who profits from [internet blocking] in Iran and Saudi Arabia? Rick Scott, former Columbia/HCA crook, who is spending his own money' [...]
Charlotte's mayor includes Knoxville in a brief list of cities that have never seemed to get it. It's important to note that Charlotte's progress mainly occurred during Knoxville's regress AKA The Ashe Years.
I've heard some rather smart folks who don't bandy rumors say that Victor will probably try to [...]
Charlotte's mayor includes Knoxville in a brief list of cities that have never seemed to get it. It's important to note that Charlotte's progress mainly occurred during Knoxville's regress AKA The Ashe Years.
I've heard some rather smart folks who don't bandy rumors say that Victor will probably try to [...]
Sotomayor is a "reverse" racist, says The Chief John of the Dominican Republic.
OK, dummy. If you are going to make an accusation of "racism," then do it as part of a more learned perspective, i.e "Sotomayor is a racist," because saying she is a "reverse racist," and that [...]
This is an interesting take on US development with a particular spin on the "Underdeveloped core." Basically, it is comparison of US states ranking on the Human Development Index interposed with other countries. The methodology is a little flawed in that it misses "edge effects," in that there is [...]
I am not as good at snark as I am at outright derision, so I will leave the subtle art to LVG and SnM. Basically, I just wanted to point out that my favorite faux outrage of the short Obama tenure has been the "dijon mustard on his hamburger" shrieks [...]
From our pals at Facing South:
As it turns out, there's a more direct connection between the current swine flu outbreak and North Carolina: Scientists working to understand the genetic makeup of the H1N1 virus that causes the disease have linked it to a virus behind a 1998 swine' [...]
Guess what the GOP fought hard to strip out of the stimulus package?
After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness. "I have no doubt that the president is willing to negotiate in good faith, that he" [...]
I just finished Mark Danner's The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means . If one-tenth of what he has exposed by releasing and reporting on this document is true, then Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice need to be frog walked most quickly. This is what we knew had to' [...]
Stacey X has decided that, in order to control spiraling costs for Tennessee college students, he is going to go after college professors who write textbooks. His central claims are that college professors who write these books are receiving "kickbacks" from textbook companies. I will address that claim in [...]
Mount Redoubt^H^H^H^H^H^H^HJindal in Alaska has blown sending ash 60000 feet into the atmosphere. Great. That's nature in action. But remember, monitoring something like this, which is having a direct impact on the US economy,* is a waste of money. Maybe Governor Jindal should fly up to Alaska and warm [...]
Videos here. Be prepared to wait.
I am not a big proponent of the "THE INTERNET MAKES EVERYONE EQUAL" meme, especially in terms of intellect, but it does help blunt the charlatan's advantage: special knowledge. One of the ways that Wall Street works is that people there possess special knowledge [...]
A large tent city is growing outside Sacramento, California in almost the same location as the Hooverville that housed Tennesseeans during the Great Depression. Call it like you see it: Bushville.
Just when it can't get any more ugly.
Televisions, X-Boxes, alcohol, Internet software and tuition.
Inspector General auditors say those are just some of the questionable purchases made by Tennessee Valley Authority employees on their government charge cards.
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*I Apologize In Advance For the News-Sentinel Comments Section
OH. GOOD. GRIEF. I know it says "may," but this beyond dumb. Does our Democrat governor let right-wing talk radio dullards set his state's fiscal policy? Conveniently, the aftershocks of having no money available when the unemployment rolls start filling up will be the next governor's problem. It is [...]
Can't touch this.
A Republican lawmaker in Tennessee is asking a judge to dismiss a $750,000 libel lawsuit on the basis that his blog is covered by legislative immunity.
The lawsuit filed by Roger Byrge, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the state House last year, alleges that Rep. Stacey Campfield of' [...]
The ironic thing is that the destruction of the Republican Party was a two-part process. Their president, George W. Bush, did most of the work by making virtually every mistake possible in his two terms, reducing the mightiest economy on Earth to the status of a beggar-debtor nation [...]
Is it just me or is Sarah Palin "East Tennessee Cock Fighting" writ at the national scale? Consider this:
"She has to pace herself," suggested veteran Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman. "She wants a career made in a Crock-Pot, not a microwave."
You know what? I don't want political leaders who have [...]
-- Schools. “My degree’s in education (from the University of Tennessee). Both my parents were career educators. The best people to run the schools are teachers and parents. That’s the basics.”
-- Safe streets. “If the sheriff’s department does not have proper funding, crimes will occur.”
-- Low taxes. [...]
One of the ironies of this whole automaker bailout drama, is the utter complicity of everyone -- and I mean every single consumer of US autos, CEO of US autos, congressperson representing US autos, and the employees of US autos -- the utter complicity of so many in this mess. [...]
The Republicans are now a 'regional' party.
The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it “is becoming distinctly less important,” said Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University. “The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in [...]
