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"Thank you for correcting my English, which stinks"

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The Nashville English First website was down for a while today (or at least I couldn't access it), and it looks like the wait has paid off as they've updated it with their special patriotic July 4th edition (okay, it looks exactly the same as the pre-patriotic July 4th edition).

At Least We Finished Ahead of Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia!

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Annie E. Casey Foundation ranks Tennessee 42nd in protecting its children from a life of poverty.

Maybe we'll catch Kentucky the next time around.

HT: Facing South

Shelby County Mayor Wants Fedgov to Help Metro Area Not Just Cities

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From the Commericial Appeal:

[A. C.] Wharton will speak on a panel about why the federal government needs to realign policies to meet the needs of metro areas and not just cities.

"Your Old Road Is Rapidly Aging."

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The normally reclusive and press shy Bob Dylan just did a dynamite interview with the London Times. In this interview, he endorses Barack Obama.

Shorter Andrew Klavan: “I’m a Dick”

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Some clown named Andrew Klavan has an essay at the conservative New York City Journal chock full of his insights into family, media, and culture. Predictably, in telling us what’s wrong with all the above, he mostly just tells us what’s wrong with Andrew Klavan.

Why Should Pastors Blog?

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I often get asked, “why do you blog?” I think this is a fair question, even if there is an underlying assumption that it’s a waste of time. While I’m addressing this to pastors, I think it applies to all of us.

Being "Green" just another "ism"

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This quote from Charles Krauthammer nicely summarizes my basis for major skepticism toward the Left's Environmentalism: (at National Review Online):

For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class — social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts, and thei

Report: Poverty among issues for Bedford youth

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An annual report on Tennessee's youth reveals that poverty, with its impact on health and learning, is still a problem in Bedford County and across the Volunteer State. The report, Kids Count: State...

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