wow, just watched haslam's immigration ad on tv, where he suggests tennessee needs to follow arizona's lead.

I take exception to today's KNS Voter Guide with regard to its coverage of the governor's race. You saw immediately, of course, that only the three Republican candidates are pictured on its front cover. No candidate profile for the sole Democratic candidate is contained inside the Guide, either.

It is notable that this is the ONLY race in which the Guide fails to provide any info whatsoever on the Democratic candidate.

Yes, I understand that the upcoming election is a primary for gubernatorial candidates and that the Democratic candidate is unopposed--but did it not occur to KNS that some voters may be undecided as to which primary they will vote in (particularly WRT Haslam vs. McWherter)?

Look out! The Muslim horde is infiltrating and imposing Sharia law.

It would be an interesting follow up asking Ramsey how he thinks the government should define "religion" versus "way of life."

For what it's worth, I wrote a long response to Steve Ross' post about the Metro Pulse profile, and it has not appeared on his blog. I sent a follow-up message asking if he'd received my first response and haven't heard anything back on that either. I don't mind him asking questions, but it would be nice if he'd at least let me answer them.

The short version is, there's nothing nefarious or "smelly" about the timing of the article. The notion that Metro Pulse has the luxury to sit around and plot out that kind of thing, or that we would be for any reason inclined to, is just silly. The story got done as fast as I could get it done, and pegging it to the first week of early voting made all kinds of topical/timeliness sense. Ross himself says he doesn't have a problem with the content of the articles, so I don't know what to tell him other than what I have already tried to.