Do you need NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS? If you eat a diet that includes products made with sugar and white flour, the answer is absolutely yes. Even if you eat a healthy diet, the answer is yes. FOOD CHOICES that include sugar,…
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New Madrid Earthquakes Could Devastate Nashville
In the wake of a 2.2 magnitude earthquake in western Tennessee on Monday, a new report from global insurance firm Swiss Re is warning larger earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone could have “potentially crippling economic” affects to the…
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Outrage Over Dead Lion; Silence Over Slain Babies
A Minnesota dentist has been publicly condemned for killing a protected lion in Zimbabwe, and a hired guide has been charged with a crime. Here are some details about the case that has gained global attention. THE HUNTER Walter James…
Read MoreCashing In on Johnny Cash
I was sitting in a dark room with my mom and dad, watching a DVD of Man in Black: Johnny Cash Live in Denmark 1971 projected onto the wall. We’ve just paid $16 each for this privilege — or more accurately,…
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Why No Grocery Store Downtown?
For at least the third year in a row, an urban grocery store, a movie theater and more retail top the list of downtown residents’ wants, according to the Nashville Downtown Partnership’s 2015 resident survey, out Monday afternoon. Despite the…
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Remembering the Errors of Darwinism
For one sweltering week in July 1925, the nation’s newspapers and their sharp-edged pundits, including the sharpest of them, H.L. Mencken, focused on the small town of Dayton, Tenn. Ninety years ago come July 10, two of the 20th century’s…
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Tennesseans Lost Almost $1 Billion to Government Fraud, Waste
Tennessee taxpayers lost $763 million to government waste last year, according to the 2015 Tennessee Pork Report, unveiled at a press conference in Nashville on Tuesday by the Beacon Center of Tennessee. Beacon, a free-market think tank, reported at least…
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These Criminals Keep It All In the Family
A mom and two men were arrested early Sunday morning in Madison after police caught them in the act of a burglary at a Mexican restaurant in the Rivergate area, while a 7-year-old boy was waiting in the car. According…
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Tennessee is Nation’s Capital for Islamist Extremism
Tennessee seems an unlikely birthplace for American jihad. Yet long before the five U.S. service members were murdered this past week in Chattanooga, before the Boston Marathon bombers, the Fort Hood shooting or the rise of the Islamic State, it…
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Nashville Zoo Gets $10 Million from City
Mayor Karl Dean and the Metro Council gave the Nashville Zoo $10 million to support major new developments, zoo officials said Thursday. However, the city’s investment is contingent on the zoo’s ability to match the funds dollar for dollar with…
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