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tough love

"...we can't make it so easy for them that they don't even try.”

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I use the "tough love" approach pretty frequently in my daily routine and there is no doubt that there are many in our community who share Councilman Buscetto's viewpoint. Interestingly enough, a good portion of them are homeless themselves.

My baseball team

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I am now into my second spring season as the head coach of a Little League baseball team. We are now in the ten-year-old league, light years away from the tee-ball we were playing just a few years ago.

Oh good. I was so worried about this

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It seems that Dr. Phil is going to help Brittney. He showed up at her hospital room, I guess to give her some of his wondermous tough love. However, rather than asking Brittney what she was thinking, he asked himself that question and decided putting her in front of the camera might not be all too wise.

"...the focus on chronic homelessness may have the unintended consequence of shifting services away from families and rural comm

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This is becoming a very real problem in the outlying suburbs and smaller towns around Nashville as well, since the recent crackdown and generally homeless-unfriendly climate of the downtown area has sent the homeless in search of better living conditions outside of the normal haunts and hangouts. Unfortunately, these places are woefully underequipped and ill prepared to deal with large influxes of homeless and you can bet that it won't take long before the kindness turns to tough love in m

Corporations Don’t Have A Soul

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Southern Beale believes that the formation of the tax structure in this country should look to the social justice standards outlined in the Bible.

Specifically, Beale cannot understand why so many conservative evangelicals cannot or will not see this:

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