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The Tennessee Valley Authority is implementing its biggest rate hike in 30 years, a 10% to 20% increase come October.

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Ouch.

Let's thank those fine folks in the halls of power for stepping in so quickly and assisting so well all those wonderful middle and lower-income sucke.....errrrr, Americans who supported them enough to put them into positions of power and privilege.

Indoctrination

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Phil Bredesen will be using the school system as a way to boost participation in CoverKids:

The state will be sending out 1.5 million flyers to public school students to boost enrollment in the state’s health insurance program for low-income families.

“During the first week nearly 100 customers were in line each morning to apply for assistance”

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Anyone who has tried to get some help through MAC prior to July 1 discovered that they'd "plumb run outta money," as one of the ladies I spoke with there told me while trying to help an elderly man fill a script.

I have sent probably close to 100 people in their direction since the first of July, as this was the

A roundup of cultural news

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I've been slow in posting the last couple of days, and have a number of social-related news items to point out.

Contrary to the feminist axiom that the world would get along just fine without men, Focus on the Family notes that "Swedish researchers looked at 24 papers published between 1987 and 2007 and found that regular positive contact [with active fathers] reduces criminal behavior among children in low-income familie

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