Forget salads – bacon, cheese and cream are the key to weight loss. Eating fat – rather than carbohydrates – is the key to slimming down, according to Grant Petersen, author of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog. For years, Mr Petersen…
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Feds Waste $10 Billion a Month
Federal agencies are writing checks to the wrong people, in the wrong amounts, wasting $125-billion dollars in 2014 alone. According to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), that’s enough to buy an iPad for every American or feed everyone in this country…
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Are Tennessee Conservatives Adrift?
I begin with an aphorism: “Moral ideas without institutional sanctions are impotent. Institutional sanctions without moral ideas are tyrannical.” Every civilization attempts to deal with this aphorism. So does every political movement. There is never universal agreement on either the…
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Titans Embarrassed by Weak Miami Dolphins
Dan Campbell wanted Miami to have fun again and play physical football. Well, Reshad Jones and the Dolphins nearly ran out of ways to celebrate. Cameron Wake got his first four sacks this season and also forced two fumbles —…
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Will TN Join the Movement to Amend the Constitution?
Nationally syndicated talk radio host Phil Valentine will be moderating a legislative forum in Nashville Monday on the calling of a constitutional convention to rein in federal government growth and spending. The event, hosted by Convention of the States, is…
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Education Bureaucrats Believe Criminals Fear Unarmed Teachers
A Republican state lawmaker says he might offer legislation authorizing faculty and employees at Tennessee’s public higher education institutions to carry firearms and have “the best chance possible to defend themselves” if there’s a campus shooting. Sen. Mike Bell of…
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Doctors Warn About Increasing Incidence of ‘Text Neck’
These shocking X-rays show teenagers and children as young as seven developing hunchbacks and abnormally curved spines because of an addiction to smartphones. A leading Australian chiropractor has warned that ‘text neck’ – a condition often brought on by bending…
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Nashville Is So Hot, People Move Here Without Jobs or Homes
Census numbers confirm what anybody can see: People are flocking to Nashville. What the figures do not show, however, is many are moving to town without a job lined up in advance. Lindsay Gallagher has lived in Nashville for two…
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Cookeville Cops Keeping Citizens Safe From Pot Brownies
She had homemade baked goods in her vehicle, but she was no Betty Crocker. A 26-year-old Cookeville woman, in fact, was arrested when a Cookeville police officer discovered marijuana was the special ingredient in her brownies and cookies. Amanda Wills,…
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