From Dee Newman:
Republican Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee said of the stimulus bill, “This is spending, not stimulus.” The Senator voted against the stimulus bill because “it was too much spending and too much debt for too little benefit to the economy.”
Recently, Senator Alexander in a letter to Secretary [...]
Jeff Woods catches Rep. Hill in an attempt to get some government love for his pop!
Rep. Matthew Hill, R-Pleistocene Epoch, is an Obama birther and far-right Christian zealot par excellence. But don’t make the mistake of thinking this lawmaker is completely out to lunch. No, this is one crazy ideologue [...]
Note to self: mod_rewrite and mod_alias are nowhere near as easy as they look.
Also, order matters.
[...]From a TFA Email Alert:
Nashville Chapter is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Meeting time is 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm
Guest: Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey. Ron Ramsey was in the House of Representatives when I first started “spending” time at the Legislature as a grassroots activist and unpaid/uncompensated/volunteer [...]
We quote our friend Joe Cortright, Portland, OR, economist and thinker, on this blog frequently.
As a result, we invite you to watch this video of him speaking to University Park Alliance in Akron, Ohio, on a subject near and dear to us but also a subject that should be on [...]
Jeff Woods on a withdrawn bill sponsored by Rep. Matthew Hill:
Behold House Bill 2683 sponsored by Hill this session. Our shrewd hero would transfer all commercial vehicle inspection and enforcement duties from the Safety Department to the Tennessee Regulatory Authority. Not coincidentally, we think, Hill’s father Kenneth is a [...]
The latest action item from the Campaign for Liberty:From the Plumline:
According to aides familiar with the discussion, Boehner made the case that long-term concern over Dem policies — health care, cap and trade — was leading to uncertainty in the private sector, damaging job creation efforts. Boehner said the only way to get the economy moving again [...]
Dr. Ron Kirkland, a Jackson physician challenging presumed GOP frontrunner Stephen Fincher in this summer’s primary, announced last week that he has raised more than $365,000 in his first month of campaigning.
As his campaign notes in the press release, Kirkland didn’t enter the race until January, so he [...]
I was just talking to Left Wing Cracker offline about how I am not fan of Valentine’s Day and he is a fan of the Anti-Valentine’s Day events which I find to be very groovy. My sis, Homer, and I also decided this morning as we drank coffee looking [...]
A warning to politicians attempting to capture the tea party movement:
The lesson: Just when politicians think they have the perfect pitch to appeal to Tea Partiers, someone comes along and moves the populist stakes on them. The people attending Tea Party events like it that way, because so far [...]
From Michael Pento:
Sarah Palin is missing the nucleus of what the Tea Party activists are all about. They are not looking for another John McCain or George Bush. While I sympathize with much of Palin’s platform, she misses the entire isolationist sentiment of the movement.
Tea party activists want a [...]
The Tennessee House Employee Affairs Subcommittee is set to met tomorrow for discussion on the Equal Pay Equal Work bill.
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Turner, the bill seeks to increase penalties for not giving everyone the same rate of pay based on gender.
…and why Wave may not.
When I was watching the presentation for Google Buzz, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the functionality was duplicated in Wave. So why could Buzz catch on where Wave hasn’t?
Because it’s not something “new”. It’s just something in addition to [...]
Better group management than Facebook
Share photos and videos inline from Picasa and Flickr
Reduction of noise of posts you don’t care about (interested to see this one in action)
Comments at your inbox instead of going to a site.
Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions.
Oh, and instant indexing of your Buzz’s–VERY [...] Tracking Your Taxes: Park Pork?
Two weeks ago, on a near party line vote, a huge Democratic majority in the House agreed to spend $50 million to buy the former cotton plantation on the island of St. Croix.
(…)
The mixture of dry forest and rangeland offers picturesque views of the [...]
1. Will Tea Party seniors support reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits and increases to the retirement age?
2. Will Tea Party farmers support elimination of farm and ethanol subsidies?
3. Will Tea Party members from Long Beach, Calif., support canceling the C-17 aircraft program?
4. Will Tea Party members [...]
Via Mary Mancini:
So the same folks who want to require a birth certificate to register to vote also want to remove the birth certificate requirement to apply for or renew a handgun carry permit.
[...]Ken Whitehouse with the news:
A pair of bills introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly could literally shut down historic bars like Tootsie’s in Nashville and most every bar on Beale Street in Memphis. The shots fired to stop the shot glasses come from none other than one [...]
I was dorking around on Facebook this morning and saw this photo from one of my uncle’s classmates. I’ve honestly been closer to family members who have moved away due to Facebook then I ever was, so I see that as a huge blessing.
This is my mother. She’s the blonde [...]
The Baltimore Sun editorializes:
Tea partiers should have at least flinched when Mr. Tancredo started out by attacking President Barack Obama by invoking his middle name of Hussein – that shopworn technique of not-so-subtly suggesting some nefarious Iraqi connection. Or perhaps when he blustered that “people who could not even [...]
Well, she never uses the word “privatize” — but that’s the jist of it:
Blackburn never used the word “privatize.” But her idea to change the entitlement programs so people have separate accounts with their money is privatization.
“We need to make sure that individuals get the money out that they [...]
Former Air America CEO Danny Goldberg talks about why Air America did not survive and the difference between progressive talk and its funders and right-wing talk and its funders.
I think the New York Times got it exactly wrong on Monday in declaring that “the enduring legacy of Air America’s failure [...]
The photo above is of a "Bush" billboard in Minnesota which has the Internet abuzz today. The Bush billboard has a picture of former President George W. Bush and the caption, "Miss me yet?"
I finally got around to perusing the local fish wrap from last week, and came across a very interesting, and irritating article. As usual, there is no link on the site for the article, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
No [...]
I finally got around to perusing the local fish wrap from last week, and came across a very interesting, and irritating article. As usual, there is no link on the site for the article, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
No [...]
The tea party movement loses ground:
The poll found that 36% of voters would support a Democratic candidate on a generic ballot, 25% would back the Republican and 17% would go for the Tea Party pick. Twenty-three percent of respondents are undecided.
In early December, the same poll showed the Tea [...]
The presser:
Club for Growth PAC announced two endorsements today in open-seat races for the U.S. House of Representatives – Wichita businessman Mike Pompeo in Kansas’s 4th district and former state Republican Party Chairman Robin Smith in Tennessee’s 3rd district.
“Mike Pompeo and Robin Smith are exactly what Washington and America [...]
Diane Caves, an Oak Ridge native, gave her life while helping those in need. God bless her!
UPDATE: ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal officials have confirmed the death of a 31-year-old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worker who had been missing in Haiti since a devastating earthquake hit the [...]
William Murchinson on the anger of the people and Sarah Palin’s exploitation of it:
“Let’s take our country back,” cried the Divine Sarah (allow me to borrow the great Bernhardt’s nickname) at the Perry rally in Texas. Back from whom? How? When did they get it? Never mind. Point is, [...]
R. Neal again asking a question that should have an answer.
Yesterday, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called for Anthem Blue Cross to publicly justify raising premiums for its California customers by as much as 39 percent. She also wants the company to disclose how much [...]
Marc Ambinder on the team she is putting together:
[S]he is not worried about fundraising right now. Pam Pryor, a former RNC senior adviser, leads Palin’s political action committee and is orchestrating her outreach to social conservatives. Randy Scheunenmann remains her policy maestro, with informal assistance from his Orion Strategies [...]
Snow Slows Obama’s Second Stimulus
The Foundry
The snowstorms that have already dumped over two feet of snow on the nation’s Capitol and that are threatening to dump another 12 to 16 inches, have grounded the legislative process to a halt. But that might not be such a [...]
The Commercial Appeal’s reporter Tom Charlier and photographer Alan Spearman are in Haiti are traveling with Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center’s team that has been sent there to help with medical assistance after last month’s devastating earthquake left tens of thousands dead and a country in ruins.
It’s taken more [...]
The Tennessee Hospital Association voted to recommend a bed tax to help fund TennCare.
The tax, which the association is calling a “coverage fee,” could range from 1 percent to 2 percent of a hospital’s annual gross receipts. The idea is that the state would use the revenue from the [...]
Is it because he is still campaigning?
Pundits, Democratic lawmakers and opinion pollsters offer a smorgasbord of reasons - from Mr Obama’s decision to devote his first year in office to healthcare reform, to the president’s inability to convince voters he can “feel their [economic] pain”, to the apparent ungovernability [...]
The Last Days Of The Republic?
by J. D. Longstreet
Call it a “Constitutional Republic,” or a “Representative Republic,” the fact is – America, as a “republic,” is done for.
How did it happen? Well, those who would turn America into a Socialist Utopia used the very democratic process, in which [...]
Trace Sharp: My fascination with television from the 60s bring us this morning to Snopes, which focuses on the names of the castaways at Gilligan's Island. I knew the Skipper's name was Jonas Grumby, but I didn't know about Gilligan.
Yes, I do these things to occupy my very' [...]
From Glenn Thrush:
COHEN: He was my friend… He died because when he went in for gall bladder surgery his intestine was perforated and that should not have happened… It was, from my understanding, malpractice.
And somebody who loses their life because of medical fault should have a court [...]
Harold Ford Jr. on the passing of Rep. John Murtha:
“I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Rep. John Murtha. He was one of the greatest patriots ever to serve in Congress and a man of deep compassion, commitment and courage. Rep. Murtha’s powerful advocacy on behalf [...]
Jackson Barker reports on the fate of one of Memphis’ landmarks.
…the famous roller-coaster ride that tested the mettle of innumerable Memphians since 1923, when it first showed up at the Fairgrounds, won’t be preserved on its home grounds. Rather, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a town heretofore more famous for [...]
The airlines are just nickel and diming themselves to death. What's next? Twenty-five bucks for a safe landing?
[...]THA president Craig Becker said the fee would begin on July 1 [...]
I’m wondering when the lame stream media will snap out their collective stupor, and realize they are appearing as hypocritical jackasses to the thinking world? I had hopes there for a while, but when they start making an issue about a few words written on the palm of the [...]
Nate Silver tracks 25 issues, polls to see who more Americans agree with, the GOP or the Democrats? The answers may surprise you:
One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right — made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda [...]
Sen Bill Ketron is on it:
State Senator Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) has introduced legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly to make it easier for troops deployed overseas to vote in the next election. The bill, Senate bill 2681, comes as Tennessee’s largest National Guard unit is scheduled to deploy this [...]
My fascination with television from the 60s bring us this morning to Snopes, which focuses on the names of the castaways at Gilligan’s Island. I knew the Skipper’s name was Jonas Grumby, but I didn’t know about Gilligan.
Yes, I do these things to occupy my very crowded mind.
My childhood [...]
Jeff Woods on the latest in local enterprise journalism.
[...]Mary Perren on economic past and future:
Not so very long ago southerners in search of jobs could count on employment in any number of garment factories and hosiery mills, sewing everything from blue jeans to sheets.
Those jobs were easy to come by, especially in rural areas. They required a [...]
The Commercial Appeal reports on the growing need for the services of food pantries in the Mid-South.
A recent study by the Mid-South Food Bank and hunger-relief charity Feeding America found there has been a 26 percent increase in clients served by food bank agencies, such as St. Patrick, since [...]
A former Vandy chancellor shares some thoughts:
An Associated Press article published on the Web site Cleveland.com states that “Mr. Gee says the traditional formula that rewards publishing in scholarly journals over excellence in teaching and other contributions is outdated and too often favors the quantity of a professor’s output [...]
The Rev. James Lawson, an internationally acclaimed civil rights leader and religious scholar, will join a panel of civil rights pioneers to discuss local media coverage of the early civil rights movement in Nashville.
NAACP Nashville and the First Amendment Center are co-sponsoring the event to celebrate the [...]
Jack Lail talks about NiT going dark.
One of the sure bets of the digital age is nothing stays the same so, like Gilbert, I don’t mourn the change. The efforts that were ignited by broadcasting consultant Terry Heaton and Mike Sechrist, then general manager of the Nashville station, [...]
Jack Lail talks about NiT going dark.
One of the sure bets of the digital age is nothing stays the same so, like Gilbert, I don’t mourn the change. The efforts that were ignited by broadcasting consultant Terry Heaton and Mike Sechrist, then general manager of the Nashville station, [...]
Barack Obama in 2006: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance' [...]
From Volkswagen Group:
Volkswagen Group of America, Chattanooga Operations has hired the first group of production workers for its new manufacturing plant this week. Delivering on the promise of job growth for Chattanooga and Hamilton County, 100 percent of these employees are residents of Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The group, consisting of 22 [...]
Come Friday, it'll be Nashville Isn't Talking, part III.
Knoxnews' online guru Jack Lail pens a long post on the demise: I hope that spirit of innovation is not what is "going dark" at WKRN. It's quite a legacy, quaint as it may seem to some.
NiT hasn't [...]
