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The “champion” of Tennessee smokers, one James S. Burnette, filed a lawsuit claiming that the smoking ban violates his due process rights as well as the equal protection provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

Some teenagers (me) smoke a lot of pot when they are young, some do a little blow, others vote Republican; all are bad for you, but it appears that Eric Stansell, a Democratic candidate for the 52nd House seat, did the latter.

George Carlin, who was not just a comedian but a first amendment rights champion, is being honored tonight through Friday on HBO.

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My father was friends with him. Not close talk weekly friends, but catch up over lunch when he was in town friends.

I remember meeting him when I was seven or eight. He was always Mr. Russert to me.

My father has always been proud to call him a friend. Fondest memory of him? After a book signing in Buffalo, he and his father went out with my siblings, my father and I.

Last night Barack Obama went to Iowa, where the long process of the caucuses and primaries started. It was a metaphoric end to the primaries, and he wanted to end it where he started it.

A Hispanic journalist mourns the loss of an ethics crusading legislator who once used the word “wetback”:

From a champion-less Celebration to costly lawsuits and bad press, the last few years have been hard on the Walking Horse industry, including its oldest organization, the international Tennessee...

CHAPEL HILL -- How many times in softball does one inning or one play determine a game? Defending District 9-A champion Forrest scored nine runs in the fifth inning to break open a one-run game and...

From an entry at his blog:

That man running errands in Centerville told me he would vote for me “if you’re an old Southern Democrat.”

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’