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Oldie but a goody via Drudge:

Joe Lance shows up to cover an event featuring Bob Tuke only to find that the event is closed to the press:

I had planned to do a companion post to the one covering Mike Padgett's visit last week, but today's luncheon with special guest Bob Tuke turned out to be closed to the press. I wasn't the only one who had thought differently, and they asked each of us to leave.

Will we ever know the absolute truth?

According to an article in The Independent (UK):

I wasn't paying much attention to the NAFTA debate between Clinton and Obama, other than noting Clinton was the first to distance herself from NAFTA early on.

Then Obama picked up, once again, on one of her themes and said in a later debate that he, too, would walk away from NAFTA if he couldn't get reforms.

When I was a kid growing up, then in college, and later in my adult life, I had many good friends. There have been a few that I would do almost anything for … almost. And at the time, they would have done the same for me. Many of you dear readers also have had such relationships.

It has always been one of the interesting ironies to me that the same business community that demands a free market also tends to rely--with a few exceptions--on centralizing power in order to solve problems. Hence, it seems no accident that the one of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce's endorsed School Board Members, David Fox, has come out today calling for centralizing the School Board Member selec