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On August 12, 2015, The CDB will revive a Tennessee tradition that had its beginning on October, 4 1974 in a 2,200 seat venue called War Memorial Auditorium, an historic old hall that hosted the Grand Ole Opry for a few ...

Being born in the Deep South during the days of the Jim Crow Laws, segregation and pervasive persecution that everyone denied but everyone practiced under the guise of "separate but equal", I am quite familiar with ...

 There is little disagreement that our planet warms and cools and certain changes occur as the result, and that it has done so since man has had the capacity to record it, is not a point of contention with me.

The fact that there ...

The recent rash of homegrown terrorists has again raised the question of, “Why would a person born, educated and protected by his homeland suddenly turn into a vicious enemy of the state?”

Why would a ...

The subject I broach in this column transcends political parties and partisan politics. It is a chronic and growing shame that should rank at the top of the pile in the business of any president and Congress, no matter ...

 The recent slaughter of Charlie Hebdo newspaper employees in Paris should have had a multifaceted and very sobering effect on the rest of the world.

The attack was at the very heart of a free society, freedom of speech, freedom of ...

I heard a sermon by a country preacher a while ago and something he said - at least to me - cuts through a lot of the superficial religious rules and regulations so many denominations saddle themselves with and goes ...

A few days ago my wife and myself were on a trip, it was early morning and we stopped at a well-known fast food chain to get breakfast. We pulled up to the drive through only to be greeted by a surly, unhelpful voice ...

 In 1959, after Fidel Castro won the coup against an evil dictator named Fulgencio Batista, expectations were over the moon that Cuba would be joining the community of democratic nations, that political repression would be lifted, human ...