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Daniel Larison presents even more evidence that evangelical, the white ones anyway, are not going to be flocking en mass to Barack Obama:

John Rodgers reports that a war funding bill may help save workers in the Department of Children’s Services here in Tennessee:

Editor of the City Paper, Clint Brewer, has some advice for the House Republicans (after taking an out of place shot at "progressives") if they want to win control from Naifeh:

There are many of these kind, compassionate folks wandering our cities, lending a quiet helping hand to those who need it most.

Here is the template that Obama's religiously minded supporters will use to spin away from their Achilles heal issue of irreverence to God's foundations on marriage and abortion.

The Nashville English First website was down for a while today (or at least I couldn't access it), and it looks like the wait has paid off as they've updated it with their special patriotic July 4th edition (okay, it looks exactly the same as the pre-patriotic July 4th edition).

While news like this provides me with job security for some time to come, I'd gladly give up my job in a second if it meant the end to homelessness in our country.

NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - Organization Offers Help To Avoid Fore

To win the Presidential election, Barack Obama will not need to cut into John McCain’s base of Republicans or even independents. He needs only to coax to the polls those who do not usually vote:

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese proverb