This week Tennessee tried to make the Holy Bible their official State book. The only issue they had getting it out of their state house – which version. Eventually they settled on the “Holy Bible”. The Governor, Bill Haslam, and state Attorney General, Herbert Slatery opposed the bill, with Slatery stating he believed it violated both the state and federal constitutions.

Thankfully, yesterday the Tennessee state senate killed it. It’s not because more level heads prevailed, it was because they felt it wasn’t the “…time or place now in the full Senate floor to delve into that. We really need to look into it in committee,” Really? You need a committee for that?


Senate kills bill to make Bible state book

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34 comments (Latest Comment: 04/17/2015 20:35:58 by wickedpam)

There are myriad ways that being a Republican believer means that you believe something to be absolutely true, despite evidence to the contrary (see Climate Change, Trickle-Down Economics, and The War on Christmas to name a few). Where things get dicey is in the topics that don't get a lot of discussion. In particular, lower and middle class Americans who consider themselves to be conservative have found scapegoats for their struggles, usually undeserved and tainted with stereotype. This often creates more problems. Perhaps we can do a "Snopes" on a few of these.
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22 comments (Latest Comment: 04/16/2015 04:18:51 by Will in Chicago)

Former FLOTUS, Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she is running for the Democratic Party's nomination.


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27 comments (Latest Comment: 04/14/2015 00:17:51 by Will in Chicago)

Good Morning.

I just checked my thermometer, and it's 56 degrees here in the Greater Boston area. Yesterday, lakes Cochituate and Quinsigamond finally iced out, although a couple of the smaller bodies of water through Sudbury still had skim ice on them in spots.
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 04/11/2015 16:06:05 by Will in Chicago)

Washington Post reports that once again, we have an issue with the Secret Service.
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35 comments (Latest Comment: 04/09/2015 21:00:49 by clintster)