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Someone ALWAYS Pays, Governor!
Gov. Haslam, still hot for privatization, might want to check out what’s happening in our privatized prison industrial complex, which has apparently found a wonderful new revenue source: A private...
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WTF Ron Ramsey
Tennesee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey just posted this on his Facebook page. It’s positively chilling: Holy holy war, Batman! What the hell is wrong with this man? “It’s time to prepare”? “Our enemies are...
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Straight & Narrow Minded
Blount County, Tennessee, punted on its “please, God, go smite someone else” resolution: after crowds showed up to protest the item, the commission did the cowardly thing by not approving the meeting’s...
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Tennessee Gun Report
So much gun fail this week I can’t even believe it myself. It’s almost as if more guns don’t make us safer, y’know? • October 9, 2015: 1- In Murfreesboro, a Responsible Gun Owner™ brandished a gun in...
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Tennessee Gun Report
I got behind schedule again, folks. Sorry! Lots of gunfail across Tennessee, though. And I’m sure I missed a few, as well. Tennessee gunfail, smells like freedumb. Enjoy! • October 29, 2015: Someone...
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Let’s Not And Say We Did
I’m glad State Rep. David Hawk likes his job and all but I think this is a spectacularly bad idea: The Tennessee legislature has been quite efficient in recent years, according to State Rep. David...
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Tennessee Gun Report
We’ve got some awesome gunfail from across the state this week. Let me tell you, I feel so safe with all of these Second Amendment Heroes on the loose. Really, we must be the safest state in the...
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Congratulations, Unidentified TN Man! You’re Our 2nd Amendment Hero Du Jour
We have an awful lot of Nervous Nellies running around the state of Tennessee with their pew-pew-pew toys, firing them every time they’re a-skeered. Yesterday it was Sherry McLain of Lacassas, who...
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“Republican” As A Synonym For Coward
[UPDATE]: Just as I predicted: Christian groups break with GOP over Syrian refugees Faith-based groups, who play a key role in resettling refugees to the United States, say they are dismayed by the...
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Jim Cooper FAIL #2
I’m done with you, buddy. Seriously. You either lied to the Nashville Scene or were utterly clueless about this SAFE Act vote; either way, you don’t belong in Congress anymore. Okay, Mary Mancini,...
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Tennessee Gun Report
So much gun fail in the past couple of weeks that I don’t even know what to say. It’s almost as if more guns don’t make us safer! I know, crazy talk! • November 22, 2015: 1- A 5-year-old in...
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Everyone Can Shut Up About Syrian Refugees Now
Tennessee’s Attorney General has ruled that the state has no say over refugees resettled in the state: In the opinion released Monday, Slatery notes that through the supremacy clause of the U.S....
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Tennessee Gun Report
Your semi-regular round up of gun crazy. Enjoy. • December 12, 2015: An 11-year-old Estill Springs girl was shot in the back in the garage of a home. She died. • December 11, 2015: From Dyersburg, and...
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Rep. Rick Womick Continues Anti-Gay Hissy Fit
Fresh off his unsuccessful attempt to have Gov. Bill Haslam impeached over gay marriage, loony Tennessee Republican (I realize that’s redundant) Rep. Rick Womick would now like the state of Tennessee...
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2015 Tennessee #GunFAIL In Review
I started this tradition last year, with a year-end wrap-up of the best GunFAIL stories from across the state. This year’s report has been much different from last year’s; last year we had sheer gun...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Our first gun report of the new year and Memphis, you are over-represented. What is going on down there? • January 5, 2016: In Memphis, a 21-year-old man accidentally fired his gun in his apartment....
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Denial
The reaction to President Obama’s executive order on gun control has been interesting. Initially the NRA called the proposals “surprisingly thin”: “This is it, really?” asked Jennifer Baker, an...
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Tennessee Gun Report
The past week has given us a handful of accidental shootings and various other gun hilarity. One question: are we safer yet? • January 15, 2016: In South Nashville, a man was shot in the arm, but his...
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“Things Just Happen”
Quite possibly the stupidest thing you will read this week: According to police, four children were left alone in a vehicle while their mother and step-father went inside a store to a pay a bill. One...
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Maybe It’s Not The Lack Of Training
Remember last October’s horrific story of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed by her 11-year-old neighbor because she refused to show him her new puppy? The kid has just been convicted by a...
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