Activity on Capitol Hill in Nashville yielded a cigarette tax increase of 42 cents per pack added to the already 20 cents per pack in the spring.

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The last few days in the U.S. Senate have provided a concrete testimonial regarding the global war on terror. The votes cast by Tennessee’s Senators reflect not just a verbal, but tangible support of the men and women in uniform defending America.

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In a Salon.com article by Thomas F. Schaller, the author states that the Democrat Party has lost a certain voter: "The ‘NASCAR dad’ — that shirt-sleeved, straight-talkin’, these-colors-don’t-run fella who votes his cultural values above all else — or ‘Bubba.’"

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As illustrated last week in the sad case of state Rep. Rob Briley and as more or less acknowledged by Tennessee’s Democratic and Republican chairmen, our two major political parties have developed different approaches to politicians in trouble.

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