hard feelings

R. Neal weighs in on the show trial at the Sheraton:

John Rodgers surveys the political landscape in the 7th Congressional District’s Republican primary and points to underdog Tom Leatherwood’s giant-killing history as a possible indicator of trouble for incumbent Marsha Blackburn:

The Chicago Tribune warns against giving too credence to polling that indicates Barack Obama may have trouble picking up support from Hillary Clinton supporters in the general election:

NCP reporter Nate Rau has a piece this morning that sketchily summarizes the LED controversy that you've been reading about here on Enclave.

Hey, Tennessee Center for Policy Research! If you want some public records from Governor Bredesen’s administration, perhaps you should offer some red wine and rockfish. Apparently the guys at Politico got what they needed with that kind of bait.

We've had some gnarly weather here lately, which I am told is rather normal for Nashville during the winter time, and this has put a slight damper on the ability of our vendors to stand on corners and sell the newspaper, but something interesting has been happening for our vendors, as well as our paper.

First, regarding our vendors, whenever the weather clears, they can't sell papers fast enough. We just got our first set of customized bags and aprons, so permanent vendors will be ve

Tennessee Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper through conservative NY Times columnist David Brooks relays bad memories about Hillary Clinton and her attempts to reform health care during the 1990s. Cooper calls Clinton's approach "absolutist, draconian and intolerant":

Dear Five People,

You know, you guys who come to the blog.

I have a couple of things to say today as I’m a whupped raccoon and I’m going to try to muster up enough energy to say Howdy. You know, the day job eats into the blogging life sometimes. Dammit.

First of all, please vote tomorrow. Vote for who you think will represent you the best. It’s the cool-to-be-a-voting-American Day.