Sun
Mar 17 2013
03:05 pm
By: EricLykins
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Discussing:
- Feds indict civil rights group (3 replies)
- Georgia issues burn ban, first time in state history (2 replies)
- State of TN proposes exempting voucher students from standardized testing (1 reply)
- UAE asks for financial assistance? (1 reply)
- Are our deployed military going hungry? (1 reply)
- Tennessee passes bill to restrict college students' protests (1 reply)
- Inflation up, gas up, food up, consumer sentiment lowest ever (1 reply)
- Some AI uses are "outside the bounds of safe/reliable technology" (2 replies)
- A Letter to the U.S. Congress (1 reply)
- President: we can't take care of daycare, Medicare, Medicaid (1 reply)
- U.S. House Democratic Leadership says to Stop the Madness (1 reply)
- Am I missing something? (1 reply)
TN Progressive
- Louisville, TN, town center coming soon? (BlountViews)
- Siemens expending in Blount County, But... (BlountViews)
- Maryville Arts Walk - 3rd Thursday - today thru Oct. 15 (BlountViews)
- Candidate for U.S. Rep., against Burchett campaigns Saturday, 4/18/2026, Blount County (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- TN GOP discussing eliminating the state’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee’s final 2027 budget shrinks disaster response fund by $55.8M (TN Lookout)
- Congressional Black Caucus members condemn Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Rolling in dough (TN Lookout)
- Suspect charged with attempt to assassinate Trump intended mass casualties, prosecutors say (TN Lookout)
- US Senate panel approves Warsh as new Fed chair, as Americans struggle with soaring costs (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Tales from the Lily Pad (Knox TN Today)
- Double delight: An afternoon at Sitting Bear Overlook and Sunset on Hawksbill (Knox TN Today)
- New principals for Gibbs MS, Blue Grass, West Haven, West High, Ftn. City (Knox TN Today)
- New Business Spotlight: Forté Fitness (Knox TN Today)
- Everyday Genius: The 2-Minute Rule That Changes Everything (Knox TN Today)
- Turner Homes is now Turner Companies (Knox TN Today)
- Nick McBride: On the Grow property records for last week (Knox TN Today)
- A Visit to the Top of Old Smoky with Stephen Lyn Bales (Knox TN Today)
- ArtBeat: Spotlight on the local arts events (Knox TN Today)
- 4/30 HEADLINES: News and events from the World, the USA, Tennessee, Knox & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- More options emerging for East Tennessee home buyers this spring (Knox TN Today)
- Weekend Scene: Grits & Greens to Beer & Blooms and more (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Former Knox County prosecutor censured over 'conduct involving dishonesty' (WATE)
- Rep. Harshbarger introduces bill to ban child sex-change procedures (WATE)
- Tennesseans paying among highest costs from gas price spike, new report finds (WATE)
- One Knoxville's best-ever U.S. Open Cup run ends in Round of 16 (WATE)
- New backcountry reservation system, fees coming to Great Smoky Mountains (WATE)
- 'Gut-wrenching': Ohio crash leaves UT senior hospitalized weeks before graduation (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Carolyn Denney Burton Obituary | 1941 - 2026 - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Mike Ozborn - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Linda Bell - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- ☀️ A good day to write an essay - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Trump, Iran are locked in high-stakes standoff as oil prices hit 4-year high - The Washington Post (Business)
- Janet Mills, Governor of Maine, Suspends Senate Campaign - The New York Times (US News)
- U.S. Economy Grew 2 Percent in Early 2026 Even as War in Iran Began to Hit Energy Prices - The New York Times (Business)
- Core inflation rate hit 3.2% in March, as expected; GDP grew 2% in first quarter - CNBC (Business)
- US Jobless Claims Plunge to 189,000, Lowest Since 1969 - Bloomberg.com (Business)
- New Orleans sheriff indicted after investigation into escape of 10 inmates - CBS News (US News)
- Trump threatens US troop cuts in Germany - DW.com (US News)
- States rush to redraw congressional districts to gut Black voting power - The Guardian (US News)
- Lilly reports first-quarter 2026 financial results, raises full year guidance, and highlights momentum of new medicines - investor.lilly.com (Business)
- Warren Buffett has stepped aside. Berkshire is now Greg Abel's show. - Reuters (Business)
- Coast Guard operating in "crisis" as DHS shutdown halts pay in May, cuts power, strains missions overseas - CBS News (US News)
- Brendan Carr’s fight with Disney revives GOP fissures - Politico (US News)
- 2 winning Powerball tickets hit jackpot worth $143 million, dozens of others win $2 million and $1 million: See where all the lucky tickets were sold - WKYC (Business)
- Thom Tillis doubles down on his latest Trump personnel ultimatum - Politico (US News)
- Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say - CNN (US News)
Local Media
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To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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Wonder what the Repubs mean when they say they're going to "recruit minorities?"
Do you suppose they're actually going to start promoting the legislation those minorities want, or are they going to start handing out free toasters or what???
They have no idea. THey
(in reply to Tamara Shepherd)
They have no idea. THey think just "reaching out," rather than "appealing to" is the way you win elections. It ain't, but it's what all the overpaid people tell each other when they can't handle the truth, and they don't want to change.
I will take a stab at the
I will take a stab at the real autopsy.
Romney went overnight from a somewhat reasonable Massachusetts Republican (who could have passed for a "Democrat" in the South, not that it mattered) to a right wing douchebag because of all the right wing douchebags running the Republican party.
And Paul Ryan. (Or maybe that's Exhibit A re. the above.)
Plus, Obama is a Rock Star. Rock stars rule pop culture media.
Republican Autopsy - meet Illegal Alien Autopsy
This says it all better than I ever could.
(link...)
The hundred-page report is
The hundred-page report is finished.
"When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us."
Illuminating.