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Semper fi

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Bob Tuke draws upon his military experience to explain his position on Iraq in another email letter after posting up $225,000 bones in the first quarter (which was actually only 27 days of fundraising for the Tuke for Tennessee campaign). I think the email points out something very crucial for both the Tuke and Padgett campaigns.

Honor the Originals

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Liz Garrigan, of the Nashville Scene, has an excellent editorial about why honoring the same old (literally) do-gooders at charity events is uninspiring and may not be doing as much good as we think.

She writes:

What if a press release was sent but no one published it? (UPDATED)

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UPDATE: the below post is a hypothetical musing only. A.C. Kleinheider, PeskyFly, and Michael Silence seem to question where I was coming from, and so I felt that I should clarify for the record that of course I consider the TNGOP press release a major story. I had a funny feeling when publishing this, and apparently for good re

When Will Search Mature?

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When people search the internet they are looking to find something of relevance to a need they are trying to fill.
Today’s search engines deliver results based on meta tags and “hits” which is largely an influence of advertising or popularity. Advertising and popularity does not necessarily equate to [...]

Inherited Political Power

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UPDATE: I republished this two-year-old post because of its increased relevance, with the last sentence in the next-to-last paragraph bolded.

I had to recall one of my pet sayings when I read this post: Jeb Bush leaves open White House bid:

The one thing we were never supposed to have in America is inherited political power.Think George III, royal idiot and bane of the American colonies. Now we

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