Trace Sharp

I write at newscoma.com, aggregate news and quietly work as a rabble-rouser.

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The Beacon Center has existed for roughly eight months now. It evolved from what had been the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a creation of a 1997 Science Hill High School graduate, Drew Johnson, who now writes for the Washington Times. I’ve read reports that the Koch brothers are benefactors of the Beacon Center. Officials with the think tank will not disclose its donors, except to say 90 percent of the center’s funding come from Tennessee. When I put the question directly to Cunningham last week, he declined to confirm or deny that the Koch brothers have anything to do with the Beacon Center. Cunningham did tell me, however, that the Beacon Center strives to reach across partisan and ideological lines to push it’s agenda in the state General Assembly. In that regard, he said his conservative organization has joined hands with the American Civil Liberties Union to oppose “policing for profit,” a term given to the practice of law enforcement agencies seizing cash or property without due process. The think tank expects both Republicans and Democrats to support a “school choice” voucher bill that it says will actually result in an increase to the state’s per pupil funding for local schools. Cunningham also believes his organization will receive the greatest bipartisan support for legislation the Beacon Center has dubbed the “right to try” bill that would allow terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs prior to their full Federal Drug Administration approval. One issue where the Beacon Center is not likely to see a great deal of support from Democrats, or Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is its opposition to Medicaid expansion. A special session of the General Assembly will be held next month a to consider the governor’s call for an expansion of TennCare under the Affordable Care Act.

Beacon Center's light doesn't shine on everyone | Johnson City Press

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Spot on.

How to suck at your religion - The Oatmeal

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Neo-Nazis in American Politics: Follow the Money — Lady Voters

Beat David Duke to it...

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White people rioting over stupid shit (with images, tweets) · betakateenin · Storify

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(via Reserved Seating In Tennessee Politics – Newscoma)

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Loretta Lynn & Jack White "Portland, Oregon"

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Yep.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." .. (H. L. Mencken)

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I had seen the black woman stock photo, but this is the first I’d heard about the Asian man stock photo.

Wow.

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