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January 30, 2009

Boycott The Super Bowl

NBC bans Super Bowl ad. #tcot

January 27, 2009

NASCAR: Roush Goes Green, Planet Saved

Roush Fenway racing goes green. We’re saved! #tcot

January 23, 2009

Ignorance Is Bliss (For The Anti-English Crowd)

Congratulations to the anti-English folks. They managed to sucker convince enough people that making English the official language of Metro Council was a bad idea to win the referendum yesterday. Amendment 1 failed by a margin of 14% (or so), while strangely enough, Amendment 2 failed by 26% (or so). While there might be a [...]

January 22, 2009

Jefferson Had It Right

For those of you who are Thomas Jefferson fans, here’s what he had to say about what makes a good government: “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – [...]

January 22, 2009

VOTE Today For English

Vote today FOR Nashville’s English only Charter Amendments.

January 21, 2009

Fawning Over The One

I tuned in to the services at the National Cathedral in Washington this morning as the first family attended. After listening to several ministers make note of the attendance of the first family, I was struck by the way they said the name Obama. It was the same way that I’ve heard ministers so many [...]

January 21, 2009

English Only Update

The anti-English folks are being disingenuous in their arguments against the English-only amendment.

January 20, 2009

Wait A Minute

Nothing’s changed yet.

January 19, 2009

Slavery is alive and well

I keep hearing the phrase “Free at last, free at last” being quoted this morning on the news, words spoken by Martin Luther King in his I Have A Dream speech. As I watch the Obama inauguration frenzy going on in Washington today, two things occur to me. One is that a lot of African-Americans [...]

January 19, 2009

An Historic Inauguration

The inauguration of the 44th President of the United States is an historic occasion. Fittingly, it’s getting a lot of coverage in the legacy press. But it’s getting a lot of coverage in other non-traditional outlets (e.g. ESPN), which got me to wondering why? The peaceful transfer of power in a country is always an [...]