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Superheroes

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Posted on June 18, 2008 - 2:30pm at Shlog
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Mr. Godin writes about the super among us…

Student selected to attend national law forum

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Posted on June 9, 2008 - 9:34am at Rena A. Capley
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Carolina Mejia wants to study law in college, and she plans on getting a head start in that pursuit this fall. Carolina, daughter of Carlos and Nolvia Mejia of Shelbyville, will be a senior this year...

Taxing The Peace Dividend

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Posted on May 8, 2008 - 8:31am at Post Politics
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Mike Byrd runs the costs of war for Nashville, Tennessee:

National Priorities Project Calculates Local Costs

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Posted on May 8, 2008 - 7:41am at Newscoma
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Mike has this:

The Local Costs of the Iraq War

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Posted on May 8, 2008 - 7:09am at Enclave
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According to the National Priorities Project, the Iraq War has cost the State of Tennessee over $8 billion ($1 billion = $1000 million). President Bush's new funding request for 08-09 will cost the Volunteer State over $2 billion, which according to NPP would buy Tennessee 21,714 afforable housing units, 41,906 elementary school teachers, or health care coverage for 435,808 adults.

Obamaleezza Rice: Angry Black Nationalist Radical

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Posted on March 28, 2008 - 4:13pm at Lean Left
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Black Americans were a founding population. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding. . . .

Descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that. . . .

Large opportunities lost, everyday

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Posted on March 7, 2008 - 12:55am at Loose TN Cannon
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We didn't hear too much about last week's Joint Economic Committee's public examination of the costs of the war. The witnesses included the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

Think about this.

For a fraction of the cost of the war, Social Security could have been saved and put on a "sound footing for the next half-century or more."

Homeschoolers To Invade Pre-K Day On The Hill

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Posted on February 26, 2008 - 7:55pm at Volunteer Voters
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Kay Brooks comments on a highly anticipated day on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill in her world:

World's collide

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Posted on February 26, 2008 - 4:03pm at Kay Brooks
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Tomorrow the Legislative Plaza will have two very different views of early childhood education on the hill. Tomorrow is Pre-K Day on the Hill. It's also the day many homeschoolers will be attending a House Education sub-committee to voice their opposition to non-public schoolers being subjected to pu

The Unregistry, Part Deux

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Posted on February 21, 2008 - 7:00am at Suburban Turmoil
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A number of readers have been visiting my Baby Unregistry lately to peruse the list of gifts that I decided I didn't want to receive back when I was pregnant with Bruiser. Well now, the kid's a little older and I have a whole new unregistry list to hand out to grandparents, aunts, uncles and general well-wishers. Please. Resist the urge to buy the following products (except for the Harley diaper bag. It's sort of cool):

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