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...checks and balances is of utmost importance for a healthy political system. To act otherwise would be to jeopardize that which our founding fathers instituted to prevent a dangerous accumulation of power. However, the country is presently poised to neglect past wisdom as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. proposed to end the use of the filibuster on judicial nominations—the so-called “nuclear option.” And at stake is more than just a few judicial nominees; this would dramatically damage the foundations of our democracy, pulling partisanship and political extremism further...
SANDY BRITT Cumberland Furnace, Tenn...
Hijackings occur because political solutions have failed. Nations that suppress minorities are shifting their responsibilities to countries like the U.S. that use more civilized systems for redressing the problems of their citizens. People's grievances must be addressed. Ottis J. Knippers Jr. Lawrenceburg, Tenn...
...winner is Spring Hill, Tenn., a bucolic community of 1,400 located 28 miles south of Nashville and 563 miles away from the auto industry's epicenter in Detroit. The site is not as out of the way as it sounds. It is only about 30 miles from Smyrna, where Nissan builds cars and trucks, and some 30 miles from La Vergne, where Bridgestone makes tires. The success that these two Japanese companies have had in Tennessee reportedly impressed GM, as did the state's abundant electricity, favorable tax structure and productive labor force. Despite its fame as the home...
Thirty-seven years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. In the wake of King’s brutal murder, a man with the same name and same face has been elevated to a level of reverence that no other black person in American history has achieved. This other King’s birthday is a holiday, his name graces boulevards, and a honorary monument is being erected in Washington, D.C. In the meantime, the real, infinitely more complex King sits idly by, buried in the stagnant dust...