It is the Alabama Legislature’s fault that its reputation often equates to that of a street-corner madam. Backroom escapades happen. But do you want to dirty your hands with them? It is the Legislature of Sen. Scott Beason, the wily wiretap wearer now known as the state’s most prominent undercover snitch and expert on aboriginal [...]
Do House Speaker John Boehner and the rest of his party think we are so dumb as to not see that there’s no wizard behind the curtain? This proposed constitutional amendment to balance the budget is clearly designed to eliminate the programs the Republicans now in the House want to eliminate — programs related to [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 5–> Rubber stamp? House Speaker John Boehner’s leadership suffered significantly during the impasse after he failed to secure the necessary votes for an expected compromise and was forced to postpone the vote at the last minute because he didn’t have the support, particularly from some within the vocal group of Tea Party-backed [...]
Badly wounded in the last election, the Tennessee Democratic Party now fears outright decapitation. Republicans are privately debating whether to try to unseat key Democratic legislative leaders through reapportionment. Senate Democratic leader Jim Kyle of Memphis is likely to find his residence in someone else’s district when the Republicans redraw the state’s political map later [...]
As I read state Sen. Bill Ketron’s defense of the Voter ID law published in The DNJ on Aug. 3, I could not help but think my state senator must have blinders on or just be purposefully ignorant to the facts. This law claims to “solve” an insignificant problem while actually exacerbating a crisis in [...]
About 50 members of the Tea Party movement lined up outside the Murfreesboro office of U.S. Representative Diane Black yesterday, complaining they had been ignored when they tried to oppose raising the nation’s debt ceiling. “Bye Bye Black! Bye Bye Black! Bye Bye Black!” Tea Party members from Black’s sixth congressional district carried a multi-panel, [...]
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:32 There are 1,209 mosques all over the United States of America, in almost every state and every major metropolitan area. Most of the Muslims who worship at these mosques are law abiding Americans who do not wish harm on any innocent people. Unfortunately, studies show that 15 percent of Muslims [...]
Dear Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, Murfreesboro anti-mosque activist Laurie Cardoza-Moore and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain: We’ve been pretty hard on you in these pages and on our blogs, chastising you for your blatant Islamophobia and laughing at your absurd contention that Sharia law could be imposed in the U.S. in a matter of years. [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> MURFREESBORO — The Rutherford County Republican Party will hold the Carroll Uselton Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 3, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Indian Hills Golf Club. Three flights are planned with prizes awarded for the first three finishers in each flight. Prizes will also be awarded for hole-in-one, [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 4–> “They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist” opens the brief essay by Pastor Martin Niemoller in the decade following World War II. The pastor was reflecting on the failure of 20th century Germany to stand morally upright and take action in the [...]
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David A. B. Moore was already a war veteran in Newark by the time the Civil War began. He had enlisted in 1847 for the war with Mexico under Capt. John R. Duncan. Their 100-man unit was known as “Duncan’s Mounted Rangers,” and Moore was its first lieutenant. They rode from Newark to Cincinnati on [...]
Herman Cain/Facebook No. Perhaps I should backtrack. Last month, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain publicly apologized for a number of anti-Islam statements he had made on the campaign trail. After calling on authorities to block the expansion of an Islamic community center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; warning that Muslims were attempting to force a radical strain of Islamic Sharia law [...]
MURFREESBORO — The Rutherford County Democratic Party has accused the County Commission’s Steering, Legislative Governmental Committee of “bowing to political pressure by recommending a highly partisan and politically slanted redistricting committee.” “This is likely to result in unfair and partisan districts in the county, which could result in additional expensive lawsuits against the Election Commission [...]
Tennesseans are required to show photo identification for everything from making a purchase at the mall or boarding a plane to cashing a check, and we do it without complaint. So why shouldn’t we do the same for something as precious as the right to vote? The process of electing our leaders is one of [...]
