For all the talk in Congress about balancing the budget and trimming costs, climate change rarely gets a mention as a deficit driver.
That hot place of perdition down below hath no fury like a spurned politician. And politicians, above all people, know that revenge is a dish best served cold.
Superstar and children's advocate Angelina Jolie stirs debate everywhere she turns, even when she opts to cut her risk of breast cancer with a double mastectomy and goes public with it as a health message for women.
In one of the most chilling, fretful and historically confused speeches in recent memory, President Barack Obama told graduates of The Ohio State University to reject voices claiming that "tyranny is always lurking just around the corner."
The arrest of 17 high school students for drinking alcohol under age earlier this month says more about the Signal Mountain Police Department than it does about the tipsy teens.
Ann Coulter, author and commentator @AnnCoulter With this IRS enforcing Obamacare, good luck to any Republican looking for an organ donor.
The average person is lied to 10 to 200 times daily, according to research conducted by Pamela Meyer, CEO of Calibrate, a fraud-detection firm in Washington, D.C.
There was good news and bad news for members of the media this week.
WE HAD A SEND-OFF for Jerry Garcia on the Walnut Street bridge. The police took pictures. Hey, tea party, welcome to our world!
HOW MANY bicyclists must be killed before they are banned from public roads for their own safety?
THIS IS AMERICA. If a man wants to smoke a joint or pick up a hooker, it’s none of the government’s business!
I would think tea partiers across the nation would take it as a point of pride that the IRS took their anti-tax, anti-government rhetoric seriously enough to watch them, not as another excuse to whine and play the victim.
Recently I filled up with gas in Fort Oglethorpe, then drove through parts of Rossville, East Ridge and into Chattanooga to meet my husband on McCallie Avenue.
In a recent column, "The Commencement Address: A Reality Speech," Ron Hart tries to make a point that students aren't learning.
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