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Tennessee Gun Report
Lots and lots of gun news this week. Also, later today Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions will release the results of its opinion poll on gun control. Look for it....
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I didn’t think it was in keeping with the Christmas spirit to have a gun post on Christmas Day so this week’s report is a day late. However, we did have an accidental shooting involving a 4-year-old...
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Told Ya So
Stories like this have me playing the world’s tiniest violin for the short-sighted idiots who bow and scrape before anti-tax zealots without thinking about the long term consequences: Spring Hill...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Ah I love New Year’s Eve. It’s when America’s most responsible citizens celebrate the New Year by shooting themselves in the foot, or, tragically, in the head, or accidentally shoot innocent...
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Dear God But It’s Cold Out There
Here in Nashville the temperature dropped from yesterday’s high of — I shit you not — 58 degrees to seven degrees this morning. All in the space of, what, 12 hours? It reminds me of that scene from the...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Probably the biggest gun news out of Tennessee is that they’re going to auction a gun that belonged to Bonnie of Bonnie & Clyde fame. Apparently it was found in her skirt after she was killed. Some...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Four accidental shootings this week, y’all! Plus, waaaay too many high school boys bringing guns to school. What the hell is up with that, anyway? • January 14, 2014: 1- We’re going to the Supremes,...
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Alexander’s Ex-Staffer Found Dead
Whoa: Senate staffer arrested on child pornography charges found dead The former chief of staff to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) who was arrested on child pornography charges last month has been found...
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Tennessee Gun Report
We’ve got the usual lunacy at our state legislature, with State Sen. Stacey Campfield wanting to make sure that no local government can opt-out of the state pants-wetter’s “carry yer gunz everywhere...
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You Don’t Own That, Gov. Haslam
This deserves to get some national attention: In a script for Gov. Bill Haslam to read on camera — prepared in 2011 by his Department of Economic and Community Development — a most unusual offer was...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Just the usual gun loonery this week; enjoy! • February 4, 2014: 1- Several guns were stolen from a home in Paris. 2- Respect the culture, etc. etc.: Report: Gun fired in fight over Nikes The Maury...
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Yet Another Anti-Obamacare Story Falls Apart
The Tennessean committed an act of journalism and actually looked into the claims of Emilie Lamb, a Tennessee woman who has become the “national posterchild” for the anti-Obamacare crowd, appearing in...
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More Hannity Hilarity
As you may have heard, Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Holt has a resolution inviting Sean Hannity “and like-minded New Yorkers” to move to Tennessee. This came after Hannity got his fee-fee’s hurt when...
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I Hate It When Mom And Dad Fight
Oooh. Grab the popcorn, y’all. Tennessee’s Republican Daddy is having a big fight with Corporate Mama over this week’s UAW vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. And how scared are the...
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So, What Is A Works Council, Anyway?
One thing which has been lost amid all of the conversation about the pending UAW vote at the VW plant in Chattanooga is that VW would implement a “works council” concept at the plant. The UAW would...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Three accidental shootings this week — two of them fatalities, for those of you keeping track. That’s not counting the usual rash of drug and gang-related gun violence (we get three or four shootings a...
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He’s Not Racist BUT ….
Good grief, don’t know how I missed this one from last week: Filmed at the church April 24, the 17-minute video has racked up nearly 40,000 views on YouTube in less than two weeks, and it has some...
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Next Time Keep Yer Yaps Shut, Tennessee Republicans
Uh-oh, looks like Sen. Bob Corker has embarrassed himself and maybe cost the entire South some jobs: Reuters reports this morning that Volkswagen’s “top labor representative” has threatened to block...
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Obamacare Boosts Wages, Tennessee Proves
What’s that you say? It’s true, according to Dean Baker: This is the “job loss” that has gotten opponents of the ACA so excited. But there is another aspect of this picture that should get other people...
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Tennessee Gun Report
Four accidental shootings reported this week, two in Greeneville and two in Memphis. The Memphis shootings were fatal. Carry on, nothing to see here …. • February 25, 2014: 1- Congratulations, Derrick...
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