Annette Bening defends Sarah Palin’s right to be taken seriously:
Bening is adamant that even though she disagrees with Palin’s political views, the Alaskan governor doesn’t deserve to be treated so harshly.
American Beauty star Bening tells Fox News: “We really want to hear her views … She’s obviously a very [...]
Matthew Yglesias discusses the danger of guilt by association politics for John McCain.
Bruce Barry comments on his role as moderator of a third party Presidential debate tonight in Nashville:
“So I’m probably less interested in finding out, like with the major candidates, at what tax bracket do you want to start taxing people versus giving them tax breaks, and I am much [...]
Our weekly vlog/podcast on illegal immigration and border security.
This week’s edition is a 3-part interview with Peter Brimelow. Jake had the chance to sit down with the Alien Nation author and editor of V-DARE in Chicago last week.
Peter was in town for a debate against open borders fan [...]
Obama sought HUD grant for donor’s project
Sen. Barack Obama, who vows to change Washington by trimming wasteful spending and disclosing special-interest requests, wrote the Bush administration last year to seek a multimillion-dollar federal grant for a Chicago housing project that is behind schedule and whose development team includes a [...]
So, when does the straight talk actually start?
Of course, this comes from a supporter of Mr. Sound Bite.
[...]Reminder: today is the deadline to register to vote in the November general election. Tennessee voter registration forms must be postmarked no later than October 6. Take a couple minutes to submit one if you are not registered.
Veep candidate doesn’t understand why there isn’t more chatter about Obama’s connections to his now former pastor:
“Those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don’t know, a [...]
Other prices include $2.99 and $3. Here's Knoxville gas prices, which has $3.29 as the lowest in the city. Here's Tennessee gas prices, which also shows a low of $2.99.
Also, Gulf Coast damage from hurricanes nearly a month ago has subsided, but consumers almost a thousand [...]
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the [...]
Dan Calabrese is making sense in his response to this.
[...]Howard Gentry gives John McCain some advice in the lead up to the townhall debate tomorrow at Belmont:
“I would suggest that Obama doesn’t talk too much about McCain’s age and McCain shouldn’t wink, lick his lips or smile too much,” Gentry said.
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From Georgiana Vines:
Gayle Alley, president of the Boyd Cloud Democratic Club in Knoxville, urged members on Saturday to support state Sen. Mike Williams of Maynardville for re-election.
Williams was elected as a Republican but is running for re-election to represent the 4th District as an Independent. He faces Republican Mike [...]
Karl Rove says Obama is playing a lot of away games and that is bad news for John McCain:
“Obama has forced this more on to the Republican turf and off of the Democratic turf, and that’s where you’d like to be at this point,” Rove said. According to state [...]
…which is not much. Tom Humphrey on some constituent calls our state legislators have been getting recently:
several legislators said last week they have been inundated by calls and e-mail messages from constituents concerned about the financial bailout bill in Congress. Some constituents, it seems, often confuse congressmen with state [...]
Encouraging news about newspapers on this warm Fall day. Not. Folks don’t need their heads in the sand either. The Recovering Journalist breaks the deadwood business down.
Hastened by the economic and credit crisis, we are moving ever closer to a moment of catastrophe for one or more major daily [...]
A Kurita supporter who caused a bit of a ruckus at the Democratic Executive committee meeting which declared the Senator’s election “incurably uncertain” attempts to set the record straight:
Second, I want to correct David Luciano’s account of my behavior. He accurately recounted that when one of the few Democratic [...]
