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Becoming Clarence and Ginni’s friends

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After ProPublica reported that for more than two decades, Clarence Thomas has been taking lavish vacations, super-yacht trips, and rides on a private jet, all courtesy of GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, Thomas issued a statement explaining that the reason he hadn’t disclosed any of this was that Crow and his wife are among Clarence and Ginni Thomas’ “dearest friends” and that “as friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them.”

Christine Flowers: New film about growing up female arrives just in the nick of...

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I just saw the trailer for a movie that made me actually tear up.

Gary Franks: The Tennessee Duo was wrongly removed from office while fighting the wrong...

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The two Black state Representatives from Tennessee – let’s call them the Tennessee Duo – who were kicked out of the state Legislature earlier this month for breaking rules of order (while protesting in the chamber during a debate on gun legislation) brought back memories.

Tom Purcell: Will’s wit soothes a taxing time

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Tax returns are due Tuesday, and many Americans are surely stressed out as they scramble to get their financial records in order.

Lori Borgman: Fretting over waistbands is a stretch

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The verdict is still out on whether this is good news or bad news, but many of the pants for women this season have wide elastic waistbands.

David Trinko: Nearly done sharing those COVID stats

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The national emergency is nearly over. So, too, will be our weekly updates about it.

Dr. Jessica Johnson: Troubling politics in Tennessee

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“And I know that rules sometimes have to be broken, and sometimes you have to get in good trouble.” — Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson

John Grindrod: Drawing a line from art to reality

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The play “Inherit the Wind”, in my opinion, is a true dramatic masterpiece. It’s the fictionalized account of the famous Scopes Monkey Trials that took place in Dayton, Tennessee. In 1925, a teacher named John T. Scopes was tried for violating the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of any theory of evolution in Tennessee public schools that wasn’t consistent with the Bible’s version of how we as humans came to be. The high school science teacher did nothing more than introduce his students to Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Legal-Ease: Hourly, salary or independent contractor?

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Some people are paid by the hour, day or week. Other people are paid by the “job”.

Michael Reagan: Save the planet from a President Newsom

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My governor Gavin Newsom has finally found an excuse to get out of the state he’s been tyrannizing for the last three years.