future generations

July 4th marks the anniversary of the birth of this nation. On that day, the Declaration of Independence was signed by a cadre of men, who wrote the words ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ That declaration was a living promise to future generations of certain fundamental, inalienable rights such as the right to privacy.

There is a bill in the US Senate right now that deserves our support. Senate Bill 594, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act, currently has twenty-one sponsors in the Senate. This bill would ban the use of cluster bombs, which injure thousands of innocent people each year. Unfortunately the Pentagon and Department of Defense officials have fought the effort to outlaw these weapons.

From Michael Collins:

Republicans have brought much of the strife on themselves by failing to deal with issues such as energy, fiscal matters and health care when they were in the majority, said U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga.

Governor Bredesen may allow the Real Estate Trasfer Fees to be sucked into the general fund in order to balance the state budget.

He did this once before, caught hell for it, and made it up to future generations with a stupendous effort to preserve and protect some really important lands, The Sundquist Forest and Frozenhead among them. The problem this time is that Bredesen has only a couple of

We recently celebrated Earth Day 2008, which it wouldn't surprise me if the Democrats tried to turn into a federal holiday.

Democratic U. S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett discusses how to preserve Tennessee manufacturing:

KAG points to a piece in the Metropulse calling on Lamar Alexander to be a hero:

Let an evangelical Christian quote from the Old Testament, particularly one of those passages that labels homosexuality as a sin, or, if you really want to get the left's dander up, the Ten Commandments, and that person will be called all sorts of things by the anti-Christian left.

The Internet is now obsolete, merely awaiting replacement: "Super-fast 'grid' could make internet obsolete.

Scientists have designed a super-fast information network capable of downloading data at 10,000 times the speed of a typical broadband connection.

Here's another entry in the puzzling story of our missing-in-action governor. This week, the House killed legislation to place new environmental safeguards on strip mining, and Bredesen admitted that, although he favors such restrictions, he wasn't familiar with the bill and hadn't lifted a finger to help it.