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James Butler digs into pork and political payoffs in the Tennessee state budget in a piece at ClarksvilleOnline.com headlined The true cost of pork spending.

Corruption also rears its ugly head in Tennessee, at least last year. Rep.

It's been an awfully humiliating month for Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who recently settled a probe by the Federal Election Commission after she failed to report nearly a half a million dollars in campaign donations and disbursements.

Tonight, Israeli television carried Olmert's first statement about the furor that could finally end his tenure. Haaretz reports:

As Harold Ford Jr. would say, "bless their heart."

The state GOP is blazing away at House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh and the Democrats today for killing a couple of gun bills—one to let Tennesseans carry pistols into saloons and another to make the names of handgun permit-holders secret.

As most of you know, I swim several times a week. Yesterday I was VERY excited, when I got an e-mail from Speedo announcing the World Swim Against Malaria campaign. The World Swim Against Malaria campaign donations raised buy mosquito nets to help prevent malaria. As little as $5.00 buys one net.

Ever had this experience? You’re reading the news and you get caught up in the writer’s slant. The villains in the piece are worthy of scorn, your sensibilities are offended and find yourself disgusted with the status quo.

Then something happens.

You realize that the article is completely backward.

Case in point - The old-boys club that is the Pennsylvania sta

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Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Rep. John Murtha the “Porker of the Year for 2007″. I’m sure that Murtha is very proud and in fact would look on this award as a badge of honor, considering that he’s looking for more campaign donations bribes on Feb. 27th. You [...]

Franklin's mayoral contest has become quite an expensive endeavor. Over 200K was spent in obtaining the prize seat of Williamson's capital.