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Jennifer Clark is a good comparison shopper and a bad gambler.

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.

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"I've had enough of reading things ... by neurotic, psychotic, pigheaded politicians ... all I want is the truth, just give me some truth."

  • May 21st, 2013  |
  • By Chris Devaney
  • 16 comments  |

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.

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• Who is the most powerful person in the area?

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.

Weird is cardboard sledding.

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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!

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Someone dropped the ball? Dropped the ball? Dead infants and children are not dropped balls!

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.

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