From someone I know who is at the Tea Party who tweeted this:Like I said, Corker’s not working for our great middle class. He’s on the wrong team. Great find from Memphis Daily:
Former George W. Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gives Tennessee’s junior senator, Bob Corker, a few brief but positive mentions in the secretary’s memoir “On the Brink” published [...]
Asked if he is for sure that Senator Barack Obama is a citizen, Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey responds that he doesn’t know for sure. Now that’s an honest answer that I can appreciate. We really don’t know for sure, do we?
When is the lapdog media going [...]
Here are several great examples of what’s wrong with government running the show. Not only was our tax money stolen or misused in these cases, but then our tax dollars finance the investigation, the prosecution, etc.
First, from a mecca of corruption, the state of Illinois:
AZTECA SUPPLY, ITS OWNER AND [...]
This week, the featured interview are two people who are working to fix problems in cities.
The City of Flint is no stranger to economic struggle, but Flint Mayor Dayne Walling is working to diversity the city’s economy and change its trajectory. Today, he offers his [...]
The Madison County Republican Party held its 2010 Reagan Day Dinner tonight at Union University. The gubernatorial straw poll results were as follows:
Wamp 225
Haslam 111
Ramsey 88
Gibbons 48
Jenci Spradlin took a picture of the results. In the contest for the eight congressional district Stephen Fincher bested Ron [...]
Mike Morrow reports that the gubernatorial candidate will hold a private “grip and grin” session with attendees at the National Tea Party Convention tomorrow:
Ramsey may be the only prominent Tennessee political figure to be at the convention site. Judson Phillips, organizer of the convention, and the figure of much [...]
That should be interesting:
Charlotte Bergmann, who’s running to be the GOP challenger to Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen in Tennessee’s 9th District, is one of the test cases of this strategy.
Bergmann, who drove to the convention from Memphis, is supported by Mark Skoda — the Memphis Tea Party chairman [...]
So says this guy:
The rural brain drain has become a catch phrase to describe the outmigration of high-achieving rural youth, but one rural columnist has a different take. “The rural brain drain is the collective expression of thousands of individuals pursuing their best economic-development strategy.,” freelance columnist Curtis Seltzer [...]
Jeri Thompson blasted Fox News host Chris Wallace on the Fred Thompson show today, calling his joke that he hoped Sarah Palin would sit on his lap during an interview with him “inappropriate” and “insipid,” and demanding “action from Fox.
[...]WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it on jokes and meandering observations about the citizenship of President Barack Obama.
[...]Size large, please.
And I'm not the only one, apparently.
h/t: Breitbart.
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"Any man who thinks he runs his house has a wife who needs to be in politics more then he does." [...] I am a bit behind the curve on this one, but for those reactionary nitwits out there who are getting their panties in a twist over the NRA getting some time in front of the Supreme Court for the McDonald case, allow me to say two things.
First, yes, it [...]
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Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood comments at the Huffington Post about the anti-choice ad on the Super Bowl telecast this Sunday.
By now, you’ve probably heard all about the ad that Focus on the Family, the ultimate far-right political group, is spending millions to run during the game. It apparently will [...]
A Harold Ford Jr. video in which he gets his pro-gun on disappears from YouTube.
[...]It sure is not we the people
We the people would not recognize Michael Jackson and waste no COMPLETELY WASTE TAX payer MONEY.
NASHVILLE — A resolution to honor the late pop superstar Michael Jackson has passed the Tennessee House with only one vote to spare.
The resolution sponsored by Democratic Rep. G. [...]
Let's set the record straight on George Tiller's murder and the reaction of the pro-life movement to it. I contend that the pro-life movement is overwhelmingly peaceful and composed mostly of peace-loving, life-loving, non-violent members who wouldn't even consider using violence to spread their message and' [...] First Read interviews an African-American at the Tea Party Convention:
This reporter saw and interviewed just one African American, a Southern preacher — friendly with controversial former Southern Baptist preacher Rick Scarborough. Scarborough, now head of a group called Vision America, led the convention in prayer yesterday and headed a [...]
John Branston gives interesting info on the state of blogging and newspapers at the Flyer’s Media Notes column:
Blogs are fading. Newspapers are dying. Or they’re not dying. Or there is renewed hope for them.
The news about blogs comes from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, via the Associated Press. [...]
From The Hill:
There are many legitimate grassroots members of the Tea Party movement. Some of them have much in common with populist progressives who share opposition to rampant greed and Wall Street excess. But then there are the phonies, exploiters and charlatans.
Tom Paine was a populist who gave his [...]
From WPLN:
Convention organizer Judson Phillips says the Tea Party doesn’t back candidates, which is why the PAC is an offshoot of the organization.
Memphis Tea Party organizer Mark Skoda says he will form both a non-profit and a political action committee. In this year’s elections, he wants to focus on [...]
After some hesitation, convention founder Judson Phillips finally agreed to allow the Tennessee media brief access to Tea Party grounds. A dozen or so statewide reporters and camera crews genuflected and were ushered into the main convention lobby around noon.
There we joined the credentialed media [...]
Is Jimmy Kelly’s. From Ed Cromer:
If the gubernatorial candidates’ financial reports are any indication, Jimmy Kelly’s Steakhouse is prospering in the political season. In the second half of 2009, the Nashville restaurant took in a total of $8,624 from the Bill Haslam campaign, which used the restaurant on [...]
This is pure people-driven politics facilitated by the Internet. This is an ideological mix of libertarianism and conservatism with the common denominator being lower spending and smaller government. This is a loose collection of citizen groups with no leader but many voices. And this is the product of long-simmering [...]
But that’s where the consensus ends among the diverse groups of frustrated Americans who count themselves part of this fledgling coalition.
“We’re afraid and we’re fed up and we’re angry,” says Donna Henton of Blair, Neb. “But where this is going to go, we just don’t know.”
If the people [...]
Not at Opryland. Well, the hotel anyway:
There aren’t many — if any — young activists here at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
But the Tea Party leaders here want to learn how to attract the youth enthusiasm that helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008.
Leaders from Young [...]
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People looking at maps employing the Mercator projection and expounding on how large Alaska is in comparison to the rest of the United States.
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According to CM Wilhoite's latest campaign finance document in her run for Juvenile Court Clerk, convention center lobbyist Dave Cooley gave her a donation. CM Wilhoite voted for the Music City Center budget package.From the Daily Caller:
The organizers of this weekend’s National Tea Party — who have been accused of trying to take a leadership role in the grassroots movement largely defined by its lack of centralized leadership — announced on Friday that they are forming a political action committee to “address [...]
Andy Sher reports:
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bill Haslam will begin broadcast TV advertising in at least the Chattanooga media market for a 16-day period beginning Feb. 12, the Chattanooga Times Free Press has learned.
“I know they have placed a buy for February and the Olympics are a big part of [...]
Joe Powell: I totally support government reform. Perhaps after this convention, I'll know what this group seeks to achieve. Other than make money, which I also support, but I tend to spend my time making it for me and not for The Alaskan. As for politics - it' [...]
Libertarians, big “Ls” and small, want no part of the festivities this weekend at Opryland.
The main objection is that Palin represents the wasteful big government programs the Tea Party movement was meant to counter. She is a part of the big political parties that have brought America into its [...]
Zogby crunches some numbers:
While people who are official members of Tea Party organizations and those who attend Tea Parties are relatively few, those who are generally sympathetic to their cause are many. In fact, taken together, these three groups comprise 47% of likely voters according to our latest survey. [...]
Sounds very Rockefeller Republican to me.
Our simple message to Washington about Wall Street - regulate banks and financial institutions but don’t tax them so much during this recession that unemployment increases and pressure on New York City and State budgets intensifies.
We need smarter and tougher financial regulations that, [...]
David Weigel reports from the “breakout” sessions:
Roy Beck, the executive director of Numbers USA, made the case that stopping illegal immigration was the key to solving most of America’s economic problems. “We imported the health care crisis!” said Beck. “Every year we import one to one and a half [...]
“Did he receive a bonus? Is it a taxpayer-backed bonus? I think it’s essential that he disclose this information, I think New Yorkers have a right to know,” Gillibrand said.
“My biggest concern is that his policy ideas are Reagan, excuse me, Bush-era trickle down economics. If you [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels Friday as a massive snowstorm blew into the Mid-Atlantic. Forecasters predicted a record 30 inches or more for the nation's capital, and authorities already were blaming the storm for the deaths of father-son Samaritans in' [...]
If you follow the ‘pro-life’ logic to its conclusion, a fertile woman is guilty of something equivalent to murder every time she refuses an offer of copulation.
[...]Chavez’s Socialist Worker Militias Swell to 150,000 in Venezuela
According to a Jan. 29 report in the Venezuelan El Universal newspaper — translated by BBC Worldwide Monitoring – the ranks of Chavez’s workers militias have swelled to around 150,000 members, most of whom work in “strategic” economic sectors, such [...]
Doug McFalls: Everyday chores that we take for granted in town take a lot more effort on LeConte. Electricity is very limited here. So no microwave popcorn! I purchased and sent up all my own food supplies and had them sent up in November. Cooking all my own [...]
Smoking Gun on Harold Ford Jr.’s demands for his speaking engagements:
According to his contract for an appearance Wednesday at a Missouri college, Ford demands that when his limo driver picks him up, the chauffeur must be carrying a sign reading “H.F..” Presumably, if the Democrat’s name was spelled out, [...]
Woods on the scene:
Then she advised tea partiers on how to avoid signing up Democrats. She said in her state of California, she’s required by law to give a voter registration form to anyone who asks, even a Democrat.
“However,” she added, “I’m not legally obligated to mail it in [...]
The higher the profile, the higher the speaking fee. And tell the limo driver it's "H.F." on the sign at the airport.
He introduces, sponsors, or votes for the "Ice Cream Truck Worker Registration Act."
You know, because making it harder to get a low-paying, menial job is a good thing in this economy. Mosey on over to that link and just read the bill. It's ridiculous. I'm sure they'll tout it [...]
Rednecks. White socks. Blue ribbon beer.
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AEC Independent Film Series: An Education
Adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), An Education is based on Lynn Barber's memoir of the same name. Watch the' [...]
Citizen Cosby..Fighting for Knox CountyFrom the Daily Caller:
Pat Hester of LaGrange, Ga., who with a small group of friends founded LaGrange Patriots, said she admires Palin, but isn’t sure “if she’s ready to be president.” Others echoed Hester, saying it’s just too early to know whether Palin will run.
Fred Everett of Marietta, Ga., [...]
1 : a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia)
2 : such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one [...]
It should surprise neither lay persons nor experts to learn that Tennessee exports were down in the third quarter. Foreign shipments fell by a billion dollars to $5.16 billion. Dr. Steven Livingston, editor of Global Commerce, a publication of MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center, says the good [...]
More on June Griffin’s independent candidacy for Tennessee governor:
“We must have a governor who will stand behind the sheriffs to keep us from said tyrannies and who dare not compromise the liberties which our veterans fought for,” she said.
Mrs. Griffin, a longtime Rhea County political activist, has been interviewed [...]
Josh Hammond is the president of the Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association. He says credit card processing fees can become as big an expense as rent or health care for a small business like his Memphis store, but he says they’re not optional.
“I could choose not [...]
