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One might be tempted to fact check the Republicans at their convention this week, but they haven't offered any.

Remember when Bill Frist made comments as to Terry Schiavo’s mental capacity after examining a video for an hour?

My, how things change.

Kay Brooks doesn’t understand how Mayor Karl Dean can take issue with the language “No person shall have a right to government services in any other language” in Eric Crafton’s English-Only charter amendment:

More on the renewed battle to make Nashville's official language English. This quote from Mayor Karl Dean:

We are supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We’re not. We are supposed to be a democracy; the essence of which is that the majority rules.

That’s the word from a source in the campaign:

“Without a solid third-place finish, there’s no point in going on,” a Thompson adviser said Wednesday. “It was an honorable race, and he turned out to be a good candidate. The moment had just passed.”

Nathan Moore takes issue with the phrase “freedom from religion” in a Tennessean editorial:

There’s no room for discussion on “freedom from” religion in any honest debate on the First Amendment, the problem being that particular phrase cannot be found anywhere in the founding document.

Many of you have likely been following the battle in federal court over a prayer group’s use of Lakeview Elementary and its facilities. The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Church and State have assisted the plaintiff parents in suing the school district over the use of the school as a site for prayer, and apparently, the effects of invoking the Almighty.