According to a Clement campaign press release, Bob Clement and Dave Ramsey will be interviewed together this morning at 11:05 on Supertalk 99.7 WTN by radio host Michael DelGiorno. Their discussion, which will take place at the Williamson County studio of Mr. Ramsey, will center on the Congressman’s unusual property tax pledge.
While you’re there, Dave, […]

Though we don’t necessarily approve of his choice of candidates, we wanted to do something that would make Bill Fletcher proud. That said, here’s our version of an ad that should be on TV:
NARRATOR: Don’t you wonder why Bob Clement is always angry at you?
[silent, slow motion, clip of angry Bob; scolding viewers]
NARRATOR: Well, Bob […]

On Tuesday, Sept. 11th, as soon as we’re done with our yearly commemoration of crying into our cereal while watching Jon Stewart memorialize the date for us, we’re heading out to vote. [Early voting going on now if you’re into that kind of thing. — Ed.] You thought your civic duty ended on August 2nd? […]

The New York Times reports yesterday that the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, inspector general Glenn Fine, is “investigating whether sworn statements to Congress by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales were ‘intentionally false, misleading or inappropriate.’”
Fine has also made Mr. Gonzales the focus of investigations “into the propriety of the Justice Department’s involvement in the National […]

Gail Kerr writing in today’s Tennessean, reminds us that despite the best efforts of either mayoral candidate, your property taxes will increase willy nilly all on their own.
North’s [Jo Ann North, Nashville’s assessor of property] staff looks at every one of the properties in Davidson County every four years. They compare your house and the […]

The press release sent out last week by Reverend V.M. Singletary and the New Wine Ministers announcing mayoral candidate Bob Clement’s delay in submitting answers to their questionnaire must of hit a nerve. By last Friday night they had a Clement submission in hand.
Regardless, the progressive group endorsed Karl Dean at a press conference this […]

Seriously, does it get any better than C-span at the mall with Bruce Barry? (Yes! Macy’s is also having a sale! –Mary)
Bruce Barry, FOL*, Vanderbilt professor of management and sociology, and author of the recently released Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace, will be at Davis Kidd in Nashville tonight, August […]

Friends and Liberadio(!) sponsors, Pam Kidd and Keri Cannon, are featured in this morning’s Davidson AM section of the Tennessean. Kidd and Cannon, a mother-daughter real estate team, “give a huge chunk out of every commission to Village Hope, a charity organization the two founded together.” You can read more about what they do, […]

Summary: Bruce Barry, professor of management and sociology at Vanderbilt University (the broadcast home of Liberadio(!)), talks to us about his new book, Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (Buy the Book). Think you have unlimited freedom of expression in your workplace? Turns out you do. Until you don’t. Find out […]

It appears as if the Clement campaign, like Stephen Colbert, are no fans of dictionaries or reference books. If they were they would have realized that their afternoon press release should have been titled, “The Truthiness about Property Taxes,” and not the “The Truth about Property Taxes.”
From the Clement press release:
Nashville – Bob Clement has […]