driving force

Today is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of NASA.

The driving force, of course, was the launch of Sputnik on Oct. 4, 1957, followed by its even weightier successors. In the midst of the Cold War, a country that aspired to global preeminence could not let that challenge pass.

In 1992, it was pro-life Democrats who took a hit from the national party at their convention by being refused a primetime slot for one of their best known spokesman. Now, it’s Southern Dems who are taking a hit.

Barack Obama on John McCain's $300MM prize:

The Tennessean is taking a look at Councilman Eric Crafton's attempt to write discrimination into the metro charter through his proposed English Only charter amendment. Apparently some are seeing it as an attempt to get voters to the polls for McCain:

Ilissa Gold doesn’t believe, as Jeff Woods asserts, that attorney and political consultant Tom Lee attempted to blackmail Bredesen man Will Pinkston over a technical correction tax dispute.

I was reading in the current Limbaugh Letter that Ted Kennedy recently ordered his yacht crew to dump diesel fuel into Nantucket Sound. The story was carried in Cape Cod Today, which you can read here:

Ken Whitehouse reports on another month of declining state revenues:

by Nathan McIntyre