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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Meltdown 101 The importance of same-store sales
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Broadcasts to mobile devices to start in 22 cities
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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New TV trends Internet movies, 3-D, power saving
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN halts Gaza aid, truce resolution deal approved
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN Security Council calls for Gaza cease-fire
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN Security Council calls for immediate Gaza truce
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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UN calls for immediate cease-fire in Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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Pope Benedict jokes about hoarse voice
Southern Ledger - January 9, 2009
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WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM ELECTION DAY.
November 1, 2004 -
November 7, 2004
The bitterly contested election of 2004 is finally over, but the fallout from the election will continue for a long time to come. There were plenty of winners, and losers, on election day…and many of them were not even on the ballot!
LOSERS
Governor Phil Bredesen. Governor Bredesen launched a vicious assault on several Republican candidates who ended up victorious, most notably Sen.-elect Diane Black, Sen.-elect Jim Tracy, Rep.-elect Curtis Johnson, and Rep. Judd Matheny, among others. The Governor now has to deal with a State Senate that has a Republican majority and a State House with a more aggressive Republican minority than ever. The Governor’s conciliatory words need to be backed up with some conciliatory action, and soon, or things will not be very pleasant for him in the months ahead.
Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle. South Dakota finally woke up and realized that the Tom Daschle they heard at home was different from the one who was leading the liberal, obstructionist minority in the Senate in Washington. His defeat is a warning shot for the dozen or so other Democrat Senators from red states who may find it harder to talk conservative at home and vote liberal in Washington.
Liberals. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years to attack President Bush, W is STILL the President. 11 states voted on amendments to ban gay marriage; the amendments prevailed in ALL 11 states by huge margins. Republicans gained 4 more U.S. Senate seats and now have a 55-44-1 majority, more than enough to confirm conservative federal judges and the three Supreme Court justices that Bush will likely appoint over the next four years. America is much more conservative than the liberals and mainstream media want to believe. We proved it Tuesday.
Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden told us to vote for Kerry. We didn't. Bush is still President and he will continue to attack and kill the terrorists wherever they are. We are still far from safe, but we are safer thanks to the fact that pleas to vote against President Bush from terrorists like Bin Laden and Arafat were ignored by American voters.
The U.N and France. W is STILL the President. Deal with it.
Pro-Income tax crowd. Tommy Head, the lead sponsor of the income tax, is gone. Of the 11 Republicans who voted for an income tax, only ONE remains (Rep. Steve McDaniel). Most candidates on both sides SAID they were against the income tax. With Republicans in control of the State Senate, and only 4 seats away from controlling the House, the income tax took another big step backward. In Memphis, where voters had a chance to pass a payroll (income) tax targeting those who travel into the city to work each day, voters overwhelmingly said NO by a 73-26% margin. If the pro-tax crowd can’t win with a race-baiting, class warfare campaign in Memphis, how can they expect to win statewide?
Jeb Bush. If his last name was Smith the Florida Governor would probably be a front-runner for the Republican nomination for President in 2008. As it is, nobody will be pushing a third Bush president in 2008. When is that next Florida U.S. Senate seat up?
WINNERS
Hillary Clinton. If John Kerry had won, Hillary’s presidential ambitions would have been either delayed or denied. As it is, she and Bill retain control of the Democrat party apparatus, money, and leadership. She will almost certainly be the Democrat’s nominee in 2008.
Sen. Bill Frist. With a net gain of 4 seats in the U.S. Senate, the Majority Leader will now have a 55-45-1 majority to work with. Many of the new faces in the Senate owe their seats to the money and influence he provided. An opportunity for them to pay him back will come as he begins his pursuit of the presidency in 2008. Look for him to make regular trips to Iowa and New Hampshire over the next few years.
Tennessee Right to Life. The Right to Life lobby in Tennessee targeted a number of incumbents for defeat, on both sides of the aisle, and got a bunch of them. More importantly, candidates all over the state were loudly proclaiming themselves pro-life to avoid being targeted.
New Hampshire. In 2008 both political parties will have a free-for-all to determine their presidential nominees. Candidates, the media, political hacks, volunteers, and pollsters will flock to the state over the next four years by the thousands…infusing tens of millions of dollars into the state.
FOX News, Internet Bloggers, and Talk Radio. The utter contempt that most Americans have for the mainstream media – a contempt expanded in the wake of the CBS RAthER-gate scandal and all the other biases exhibited during the campaign -- has been a boon to the alternate media. Look for the power and influence of the “new media” to expand even more over the next four years.
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Steve Gill is the politically active morning radio talk host on SuperTalk 99.7 WWTN.
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DRAFT DECEPTION BY THE DEMOCRATS -
October 5, 2004 -
October 12, 2004
During the past several months the Democrat party underground has been spreading a bogus rumor claiming the Bush Administration is planning to revive a mandatory military draft immediately after the November election. CBS, in keeping with its peculiar standards of fair journalism (which seems founded upon “what ridiculous story can we air this week to help the Kerry campaign”), aired an item last week which was intended to give the rumor credence. As planned, the Kerry campaign pointed to the “n... |
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IS TENNESSEE "BUSINESS FRIENDLY?" -
August 16, 2004 -
August 22, 2004
Competition among states for business growth and relocation has never been more intense. Much of the attention on economic development at the state and local level focuses on companies that relocate - and the jobs they bring with them. But the real engine of economic growth is the expansion of existing companies, big and small, that already do business here.
A large company choosing to move from California to Tennessee may get the headlines, but the hundreds of small businesses across... |
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16 WORDS -
August 9, 2004 -
August 15, 2004
They were just sixteen words. They were spoken by the President in the 2003 State of the Union Address. "The British government," he said, "has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
In making his case for pre-emptive war against Iraq, the statement by President Bush was only a small portion of the rationale underlying the decision. The information indicated that Saddam Hussein was proceeding with efforts to develop nuclear weapons... |
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FACTS AND FIGURES WILL UNDERCUT FUTURE INCOME TAX PUSH -
August 2, 2004 -
August 8, 2004
During the income tax wars in recent years the pro-tax crowd regularly pointed to Tennessee's revenue figures as evidence of the need for an income tax. Yet the same media outlets that so breathlessly reported the revenue "facts" to justify an income tax have suddenly gone silent as new numbers are released month after month that prove their arguments to have been nothing but hot air. The latest tax collection figures were released late last week and revealed that collections for May, 2004 were... |
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A TRUE HERO GIVES HIS ALL FOR HIS COUNTRY -
July 19, 2004 -
July 25, 2004
The words "hero" and "patriot" get bandied about a lot these days. Seldom are they applied to those who truly measure up to the words. Pat Tillman did not just measure up to those words, he defines them.
Two years ago Pat Tillman was a star football player for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. In 2000 he had 224 tackles, a team record. He had a $3.6 million dollar contract. He had fame. He had a new wife and a community that revered him as a "hero" on the football field. He was a "celebrity... |
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