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Katherine Coble shares a personal story about the DEA’s regulation of prescription pain medication:

In a Knoxville News Sentinel op-ed yesterday

A city can draft all the plans they want - we've done it here in Nashville till we're blue in the face - but the key isn't in the drafting, as people who are homeless in Nashville have discovered, it's in the executing....

Meanwhile, the folks who should be occupying those missing beds are wandering around "downtowns" across the country....

The idea to give homeless people homes has been gaining popularity nationwide, largely because it has been seen as a cost-effective way to get them off the street and into better lives.

Over the past 8 years, there seemed to be only one thing that motivated politicians more than voting themselves pay raises; cutting the costs of expenditures to assist the poor.

Big admission in Canada: Socialized medicine isn’t working!

From Investors Business Daily:

Socialized Medicine: Quebec’s former health minister is tacitly admitting that the system he helped create is not sustainable. It has, as Claude Castonguay has succinctly noted, reached “a crisis point.”

and this:

Hamblen County residents are in dire straits, they say, because of the rise in Hispanic immigrants, legal and illegal. This past Saturday Congressman David Davis and State Senator Steve Southerland gathered for a fundraising pancake breakfast held at a local VFW in conjunction with a group called T-FIRE to add their voices and promises to the discussion. Congressman Davis has vowed to call in Homeland Security and other federal agencies to address what some see as a critical