Summary: It’s Veterans Day and what better day to discuss honoring our service men and women as well as the worthwhile work of organizations like Veterans for Peace, Vote Vets, and Operation Stand Down Nashville, which organizes a community-based event that provides homeless veterans with a wide range of necessities including food, clothing, medical, and […]
Always On illustrates what we’d be talking about if we were on the air 5 days a week.
Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man: The AFL-CIO is sending the anti-union busters to town tomorrow to protest Bush’s National Labor Relations Board. Here, let them tell you:
In a shocking move that will set workers’ […]
Tony Garr and the Tennessee Health Care Campaign have put together a town-hall like discussion with some of our state legislators for tonight.
The event, Improving Access & Reducing the Financial Burden of Health Care, will give you a chance to discuss Tennessee’s health care issues with State Reps Brenda Gilmore (D, the Fightin’ 54th!), Sherry […]
Yesterday, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin proposed a loosening of media ownership rules. In a joint statement, Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein respond:
This is portrayed as a moderate proposal, but it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Don’t let the wool be pulled over your eyes. The proposal could repeal the ban in […]
Eighteen months ago, Kevin Martin and his merry and band of FCC commissioners began a review of its media ownership rules. It’s was a big deal when they brought one of only six public hearings to Nashville and here, just like in the other five cities, the response to media consolidation was undeniably one-sided - […]
Hey! Look at us! The Democrats won in 2006 and we’re still jammerin’ on about the threat of election fraud. Go figure. It’s almost like it’s a non-partisan issue. Weird.
And we’re not alone. One of our guests this morning was Nashville filmmaker David Earnhardt, producer, writer and director of Uncounted: The New Math of American […]
Psssst! I have a Veterans Day secret. It’s not really much of a secret, really, because if you think about it you’d naturally come to the same conclusion. Here it is: Not every veteran thinks alike. Much like the rest of the country, military personnel have different ideas and opinions on a variety of different […]
Marty Kaplan writing for The Huffington Post tells us today about a new study that illustrates how our entertainment tastes as polarized as our political views. The 24 question poll, a joint effort by the Norman Lear Center and John Zogby, “may give candidates some ideas about where to advertise,” but it also illustrates that […]
Yesterday, President Bush and his spokesperson, Dana Perino, were crowing about the effect his “frank discussion” with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had on the leader’s decision to schedule elections sooner rather than later - Feberuary of ‘08.
“You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time,” Bush said Wednesday, […]
Our neighbors to the north are a day away from picking a new governor and the Democratic candidate, Steve Beshear, is twenty points ahead. So what do you do if you’re the Kentucky GOP? You get Debbie Boone’s dad to light up the phone lines with bigoted and inflammatory rhetoric.
“Now do you want a governor […]
