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Matt Towery: Inappropriate portrayals of Michelle Obama benefit no one
In early March, the head of the Tennessee and Greater Nashville hospitality associations sent an e-mail to a dozen or so people that compared First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. As word lea...
March 20, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michelle Malkin: The Deem-o-crats' towering deception
If you cannot trust government’s numbers, you cannot trust government’s words. This is the lesson of the House Democrats’ desperate promotion of a phony-baloney Congressional Bud...
March 20, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Charles Krauthammer: The Biden Incident
Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Ministry of a housing expansion ...
March 19, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Census
The Founding Fathers thought the census important enough to mention high up in the Constitution, the fifth paragraph. They commanded an “actual Enumeration,” a term that literalists in...
March 19, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: 'You'll be en-TIRE-ly spoiled'
Cynthia Henderson was listening to an Atlanta Braves game on Radio Station WLJA when an advertisement came on that got her attention. It was a jingle and she knew the girls who were talking. One...
March 19, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Juanita Hughes Juanita Hughes: Census numbers will reveal Cherokee's growth
As I usually say around this time of year, the first day of spring and the first spring day seldom occur simultaneously. I stole the thought from Henry Van Dyke who was somewhat more direct. ̶...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Matt Towery: Florida
I knew that I must have been off pretty badly when I casually wrote in this national column that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would be a good example of a Republican that voters in critical swing st...
March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough Dick Yarbrough: If Michelle O. can have a garden, why can't we have a goat?
Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) is my favorite legislator. Rep. Franklin goes where few dare to tread. If memory serves me correctly, it was Bobby Franklin who tried to get red clay declared Geor...
March 13, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: Mollie Worley is a good example of a well-lived life
It was Joyce Poole who first told me about Mollie Wood Worley. She thought I might want to meet Miss Mollie. Joyce was right. Tommy Worley was having a birthday party for his mother. The invitati...
March 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marguerite Cline: Never say 'My child wouldn't do that'
There was a time when it was not unusual to hear someone say, “My child wouldn’t do that.” Rarely do you hear that said now. Too many children have done things their parents neve...
March 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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