Topic: Nashville
Does this mean the new Republican legislature will chart a somewhat more moderate course than many expected? Will the Tea Party exact its avowed revenge? Nashville Republican Beth Harwell defeated the tea party-backed candidate, Glen Casada, to win her party's nomination as ...
George W. Bush is simply not a mean or devious character. The second point is that, in the public/pundit battle to define Bush's legacy, it's largely been forgotten that quite a lot of what Bush did as president was not terribly controversial, ...
The Nashville Grass Roots Tea Party held its convention several months ago and 600 tickets sold, and others standing in line for hours to bea part of the group. Sarah Palin, Saturdaynight?s speaker gave a rousing speech where she stated ?America is ...
You don't often count on "Blondie" for astute political humor, but man, today's comic hits close to home. If you just replace the yellow-shirted dude with the TNDP and Dagwood and Blondie with the people of north Nashville, you have the truth. ...
Tenn. tea party event won't drop speaker denounced by national Muslim group over Islam viewsTea party organizers will not drop a speaker from a Tennessee convention this weekend despite calls from a national Muslim rights group that considers her anti-Islamic.The Council on ...
If you haven't read Adam Gold's cover story this week in the Scene, it's a peach: a warm, rowdy and very funny account of a low-budget father-son wrestling circuit that's drawing a mixed audience of gawking hipsters and riled-up regulars to East ...
By implementing $11 million in strictures -- including outsourcing 600-plus custodians' jobs and cutting bus drivers' hours -- Jesse Register's hotly debated schools budget narrowly gets thumbs up from the Metro school board. Looks like more people favor the Obama health-care proposal ...
Consumer confidence still declining as Middle Tennesseans grow even more pessimistic about the economy, MTSU survey says. Tennessee's Gannett and Scripps papers team up on Twitter. That's worth a tweet! ... After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention ...
The Tea Party Convention in Nashville was another expression of what the founders had in mind when they wrote our Constitution, " They don't like being told to shut-up until election day and then to vote only for those the elites have ...
click to enlarge The tea party convention is under way at the Opryland Hotel and drawing scads of media attention. ... Break-out sessions include "5 easy fixes to the high cost of mass immigration" and a discussion on "correlations between the current ...