Each week, as more Tennessee families fall behind on their mortgages, the so-called rescue companies are lining up at their doors. Some are there – not to help– but to profit from misfortune. They will charge high fees, make false promises and then fail to put in the same time or energy as the nonprofits that offer these same services for free.
We have now experienced the first 100 Days of having Barack Obama as president of the United States. Believe it or not, despite the warnings of Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity and countless Tea Party attendees, the nation has not descended into socialism, Al Qaeda troops are not forcing our children into madrassas, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not the Congressional Chaplin.
Citizen A and Citizen B are invited to a seminar to learn more about the investment deal of a lifetime. This asset is so exceptional it guarantees lifelong dividends, but there’s still one little catch.
A week ago I ventured to one of the various “Tea Parties” that sprung up across America on Tax Day. While I expected a great deal of justifiable anger and bashing of the new president, what I didn’t expect was such a dearth of knowledge about American history and politics.
In Nashville, Ku Klux Klan fliers describing African Americans as savages were wrapped around a free advertising circular earlier this year. The fliers talked about an “ongoing race war.”
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