A Disgruntled Republican

• The Party and Matt on the ousting of Matt Collins

  Comments from Chairman Starnes:
  
  The removal of Matt Collins from his position as First Vice Chair and as a member of the Davidson County Republican Party’s Executive Committee on November 24th, 2009 was not easy, nor one we took lightly.
  
  However, DCRP Board members must be able [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  

• On the ousting of Matt Collins

  Last night the Executive Committee of the Davidson County Republican Party voted to remove Matt Collins from the Committee. I attended the meeting not knowing the Committee would go into executive session and require everyone except voting members to leave the room. In addition to my wife and I there [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:37pm EST
  

• Another cancer drug too dear for Britain: Bowel cancer victims denied life-prolonging care.

  By Jenny Hope, Daily Mail U.K., Mail Online, updated at 9:13 AM on 24th November 2009
  
  Bowel cancer sufferers are to be denied a life-prolonging drug on the NHS which is available to patients across Europe and beyond.
  
  Trials show Avastin can extend life by almost two years.
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• Presidents and Kings

  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:15am EST
  

• Is Global Warming a Hoax?

  Wow! This is hard to believe.
  
  Is it possible that the scientific consensus about global warming may actually be a conspiracy? Is the science of global warming all a hoax? If it is, it is one of the world’s biggest hoaxes. If global warming is a hoax, I am [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:23pm EST
  

• GOP Donelson/Hermitage “Bacon and Eggs” summit huge success

  On Saturday, the Davidson County Republican Party had its first meeting of the Davidson County GOP Donelson/Hermitage Group. About thirty people attended the breakfast at the Donelson Pike Shoney’s. The purpose of the meeting was for local conservative-minded residents of the Donelson and Hermitage areas to meet one another [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:39pm EST
  

• Senate health bill includes budget tricks

  November 21, 2009, Gannett News Service: Analysis, By BILL THEOBALD
  
  WASHINGTON -You could hear the sighs of relief last week from Senate Democratic leaders when the Congressional Budget Office reported that their health care bill wouldn't increase the federal deficit.
  
  The nonpartisan CBO said the legislation would reduce' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

• The $100 Million Health Care Vote?

  ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports, November 19, 2009 3:03 PM
  
  What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
  
  Here’s a case study.
  
  On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:48pm EST
  

• Frank has really been into the wine this time.

  In this week's wine review column in The Tennesseean, Frank Sutherland and his wine tasting panel were reviewing Pinot Noir and Gamay Beaujolais wines to pair with the Thanksgiving meal. Among the aromas and taste they detected from the various wines were rhubarb, cola, Grenadine, campfire scents, and beef [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:31am EST
  

• Liberty on the Rocks this Wednesday

  Host: Nashville Liberty on the Rocks
  Type: Party - Mixer
  Network: Global
  Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
  Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
  Location: Mafioza's (Oh how we love this place!)
  Street: 2400 12th Avenue South
  City/Town: Nashville, TN
  
  A splendid mix of grass roots activism, [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:35pm EST
  

• Fake Boobs for Jesus

  In a shocking new development in a scandal that has continued to plague 22-year-old beauty queen Carrie Pejune whose defense of traditional marriage led to a national controversy and conflict with pageant organizers, seven new sex tapes have allegedly surfaced, although the claim is [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:40am EST
  

• AFF Presents Former TennCare Director to Discuss Healthcare Reform

  
  

  Join America’s Future Foundation as Brian Lapps, a former TennCare director, shares his perspective on national healthcare reform.
  

  
  

  Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  Time: Cocktail hour at 6:30 pm , Brian Lapps speaks at 7:30 pm with Q&A immediately following
  Place: Hampton [...]

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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:15pm EST
  

• Dither on, Mr. President

  In fund raising appeals and in editorials, President Obama is being criticized for delays in making a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan. I don’t criticize him on this front.
  
  My more cynical self tells me that the President’s delay in reaching a decision on Afghanistan is tied [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:07pm EST
  

• An important health care reform question

  
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:15am EST
  

• Jim Cooper: Talking right and voting wrong.

  
  Jim Cooper, Tennessee's 5th District Congressman, spoke before The Senate Budget Committee Hearing on Bipartisan Process Proposals for Long-Term Fiscal Stability yesterday. He told the Committee, "I believe that the greatest threat to our nation’s economic security is our long-term fiscal'" [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:28am EST
  

• Veterans Day

  
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:48am EST
  

• The Berlin Wall: Twenty Years Later

  November 9, 2009, The Independent Institute
  
  The fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago today, was not inevitable. Nor was the collapse of the Soviet Union. The failure of central economic planning does not explain those remarkable events because if it did, communist policies would [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  

• Berlin Wall Anniversary: Remembering the Victims of Communism

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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

• The Berlin Wall: The Real History of the Fall

  Monday November 9, 2009, The Wisdom of Dave
  
  Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down. As a young adult I remember watching the coverage as the first opening at the Brandenburg Gate in the wall that had long separated the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:08am EST
  

• Obama skips Berlin Wall event.

  Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary
  
  Fox News, Oct. 9, 2009
  
  President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:47am EST
  

• November 9th Should be a Worldwide Day of Celebration

  November 9th should be a National holiday. Or better yet, it should be a worldwide holiday. It should rival a combination of New Years’ Eve and the 4th of July. There should be concerts, dancing in the street, Champagne toast, ringing of church bells, and fire works.
  
  On November [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  

• 'Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall' on The History Channel

  It sprung up overnight in August, 1961--a makeshift blockade separating repressive, Soviet-controlled East Berlin from the Allied-run democracy to the west. Soon the barrier encircled all of West Berlin, sealing its two million citizens off from the rest of the world. As escape attempts escalated, deadlier obstacles were added. Eventually, [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:12pm EST
  

• $13.56 for each gallon of gas saved under Cash for Clunkers program

  An estimated 125,000 new cars were purchased under the Cash for Clunkers program that would not have otherwise been purchased.
  
  The average difference in gas mileage between the clunker that was traded in and the new car was 2 mpg.
  
  The average driver drives 15,000 miles per [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:16am EST
  

• Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car

  By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com senior writer, Oct.29, 2009
  
  A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:48am EST
  

• 'Cash for Clunkers' proves a real clunker.

  Cash for clunkers could have hardly been a worse joke. Most often people traded their clunker for cars that only got a 1 to 3 MPG improvement over the clunker they traded in. A typical deal was trading a Ford 150 for a Ford 150s. In numerous cases people traded [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  

• Commemorating 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  Reagan Foundation and Library and Heritage Foundation to Offer Live Internet Stream of Entire Conference Commemorating 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 6, 2009
  
  
  WHAT: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library and The Heritage Foundation will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:30am EST
  

• Paying for Praying in Health Care Bill

  The Senate version of the health care bill contains a provision that would prohibit insurers from discriminating against "religious and spiritual health care." (link) This provision in the bill was designed to put Christian Science "prayer treatment" on the same footing as clinical medicine. While it may have been [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:37am EST
  

• Democrats push plan to cut the deficit

  By JACKIE CALMES and CARL HULSE,The New York Times, October 31, 2009
  
  WASHINGTON — Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• 1st Tuesday Meetup: Zach Wamp to be guest.

  
  1st Tuesday is on 1st Monday but only for November!
  
  Location: Waller Lansden, 511 Union St, Floor 27, Nashville
  1st Tuesday is a always a great event. Hear interesting speakers in a room with a view, have a nice meal for a reasonable [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:08am EST