WATERGATE 06/13/2022 50 years ago this week, June 17, 1972, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and touched off one of the greatest scandal in American politics: Watergate. In terms of sheer magnitude, no scandal before or after touched so many lives and brought to ruin so many political and …
By Sgt. 1st Class William Jones, Tennessee National Guard July 30, 2021 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sgt. William Lukens, a tactical generator mechanic in the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 208th Area Support Medical Company in Smyrna and a senior at Middle Tennessee State University won the 2021 Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Camp Navajo, …
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When I was a senior in high school, we studied a poem about life in the city. The teacher adamantly stressed that the poem was an allegory about the American dream. Few in the class agreed with her opinion, but after all, she was the teacher, and she knew best. Well, it just …
A new school year has started, and so has the perennial debate about the suitability of any number of books. Too often, it seems, we believe in freedom of speech and press for ourselves, but not for others. The books I like are OK to read, but the books you like aren’t OK. …
7-19-21 Former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite is reported to have said he knew he was doing a good job when everyone was mad at him If that sentiment is true, then Facebook must really be doing a great job. Everyone, it seems, is complaining about bias and misinformation on the social media site. For …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Governor Bill Lee signed House Bill 0938 into law today. The legislation makes the beloved song “Amazing Grace” the official state hymn of Tennessee. Rep. Mike Sparks (R-Smyrna) and Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis) introduced HB 0938/SB1416 in February, which makes the hymn written by John Newton in the 1760s an official state …
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