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Romney sports double-digit lead in Florida
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The latest polls taken in Florida see Mitt Romney widening his lead in the state that votes tomorrow. Rasmussen has Romney up 44-28 over Gingrich with Santorum pulling in 12 and Ron Paul 10 percent of the vote. PPP has it closer, 40-32-15-9 (Same order). Both Polls were taken on Saturday. A new NBC/Marist poll shows Romney leading 42-27-16-11. A Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald/Tampa Bay Times poll released late Saturday night showed Romney ahead of Gingrich 42-31.
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 realclearpolitics.com: 2012 Florida Republican Presidential Primary
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Opinion: The biblical defense of capitalism
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If you’ve never read a strong biblical case for capitalism, I would encourage you to read this Wall Street Journal guest editorial written by Rabbi Aryeh Spero, president of Caucus for America.
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Wall Street Journal: What the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
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Gingrich complains about Romney attack, looks past Florida
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Newt Gingrich is on the ropes and doesn’t seem to see a way off. He spent most of Sunday on the TV talks shows complaining about Romney campaign tactics. Gingrich laced into Mitt Romney for "carpet-bombing" him with "Wall Street money." Gingrich is looking past Florida, saying "If you'll notice, when you get outside the zone where Romney carpet-bombs with Wall Street money, and you look at what's happening in the rest of the country, I'm ahead in all three national polls that were released this week," Gingrich once again hinting that Rick Santorum should leave the race, adding "The fact is, when you combine the Santorum vote and the Gingrich vote, we clearly are -- the conservative combined would clearly beat Romney.”
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politico.com: Newt blasts 'carpet-bombing' Romney
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Ryan: Obama blocking bipartisan consensus on tax reform
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House Budget chairman Paul Ryan promised Sunday that House Republicans will produce a budget this year that “builds on” the savings proposed last year in the budget the passed the House but got no further. Ryan told Fox News Sunday “there is an emerging bipartisan census on fixing these big problems…Democrats who do agree…on how to do tax reform. Get the loopholes out, lower the rates.” “The problem,” said Ryan, “is the president and his party leader are out on the left standing on the sidelines looking in.”
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realclearpolitics.com: Paul Ryan: "The President Isn't Leading" On Upcoming Fiscal Train Wreck
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Pentagon seeks better bunker buster
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Pentagon war planners want a better bunker buster. The 30,000 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) that carries 5,300 pounds of explosives and is designed to penetrate 200 beneath the surface before detonating may not be good enough to take out Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities. The “bunker buster” was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North Korea to cloak their nuclear programs. Now, pentagon tests indicate that the bomb, as currently configured, wouldn't be capable of destroying some of Iran's facilities, either because of their depth or because Tehran has added new fortifications to protect them. Some experts question if any kind of conventional explosives are capable of reaching facilities such as those built deep underground in Iran. U.S. defense officials say they believe the MOP could already do damage sufficient to set back the program, but only for a few years at best.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203363504577187420287098692.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird: Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran
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Santorum cancels Sunday events to be with sick daughter
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Rick Santorum plans to get back on the campaign trail today after taking Sunday off to be with his sick 3-year-old daughter, who was hospitalized Saturday with pneumonia. Santorum’s daughter has a genetic condition known as Trisomy 18. The condition typically proves fatal and Santorum often says his daughter wasn't expected to live past 12 months. Santorum canceled his morning interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" and church services in Miami. His aides later canceled his trip to Florida and instead sent his 20-year-old daughter to campaign for him. Santorum scheduled a speech Monday in Missouri and another event in southwest Minnesota - two states with early February contests. He then planned to head to Colorado and Nevada for events Tuesday.
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myway.com: Santorum: Daughter with pneumonia recovering
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Gallup: Romney ties Obama, Gingrich loses
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The latest Gallup poll restocks Mitt Romney’s argument that he’s the guy to beat Obama. Romney essentially ties Obama in the nation's key battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States survey finds, while rival Newt Gingrich now trails the president by a decisive 14 percentage points. The poll of the dozen states likely to determine the outcome of November's election shows Romney would beat Obama today by a statistically insignificant percentage point, 48%-47%. But Obama leads Gingrich, 54%-40%. The president's standing against him has risen nine points since early December; Gingrich has fallen by eight. The Swing States survey focuses on the nation's most competitive battlegrounds: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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USA Today: Swing States poll: Romney and Obama tied; Gingrich trails
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Ketron to revise cyberbullying bill
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Alarmed by the suicides of two teens in the last two months over constant abuse at school, state Sen. Bill Ketron says he is trying to strengthen a cyberbullying law to make sure it is constitutional. Ketron sponsored a bill that passed in 2011 extending the state’s harassment statutes to offensive messages posted on the Internet. The law ran afoul of First Amendment defenders, so this session Ketron is backing two pieces of legislation to strengthen it. Last June, the ACLU-TN threatened a lawsuit challenging the cyberbullying law’s legality because it would criminalize the posting of any image that causes “emotional distress” to a person. The group called it “overly broad and vague” because it could open anyone who posts online to prosecution. [and you thought you never agreed with the ACLU]
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The Tennessean: Sen. Bill Ketron to pursue better cyberbullying law
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Haslam to deliver 'State of the State'
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Gov. Bill Haslam will deliver his State of the State message tonight and will appear on Nashville’s Morning News Tuesday morning to discuss it. The governor has laid out some tax and education reform that the legislature will consider this year, and is being pressured by Democrats to borrow up to $2 billion “while the interest rates are low” for capital projects at state colleges and universities.
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The Tennessean: Gov. Bill Haslam to give second State of the State address
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Gingrich looks past Florida
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Newt Gingrich is bracing for a potentially big loss in Florida and insists he sees a path to the Republican presidential nomination – one in which Tennessee could play a prominent role. The Gingrich campaign released a strategy memo Monday that argued the geography and structure of the nomination race now favor Mr. Gingrich over his top rival, Mitt Romney. Pointing to polls that show strong support for Gingrich in the South, the campaign expects to do well in the former speaker's home state of Georgia, as well as in Oklahoma and Tennessee, all of which vote March 6 with seven other states in so-called Super Tuesday. Gingrich also argues that after Florida, the contest moves to a much wider stage in states that will award delegates even to candidates who come in second or third. They say the multistate nature of the race will blunt Romney's financial supremacy by making it tougher to bombard individual states with TV ads, as Romney and his supporters did to notable effect in Florida. Romney, meanwhile, is discouraging the “two man race” talk. Romney says he expects serious challenges from Santorum in Minnesota and from Ron Paul in Nevada, said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign. "It's not a two-person contest between Mitt and Newt Gingrich," he said.
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Wall Street Journal: Florida Vote Sets Stage for Final Push
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Black heads House effort to block Obama suits
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Feb. 3,2012 - Congressman Diane Black discusses her lead role in a bill that would deny funding for DOJ suits against states regarding illegal immigration.
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Ralph Rant: Reject Refi II
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Feb. 2, 2012 - Everything you need to know about President Obama's latest plan to bail out underwater homeowners.
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Haslam discusses agenda
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Jan. 31, 2012 - Gov. Haslam makes his first trip to Nashville's Morning news to discuss his 2012 agenda.
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Rep. Joe Carr discusses Haslam agenda
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Jan. 11, 2012 - Rep. Joe Carr discusses the tax and education elements in Gov. Bill Haslam's 2012 legislative agenda.
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Ralph Rant: GOP should make a tax deal
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Jan. 25, 2012 - Here's my idea of a good tax deal the GOP should try to make with Obama.
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Newt Gingrich vision speech
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Jan. 26, 2012 - My segment-by-segment presentation and mini-analysis of the speech Newt Gingrich delivered after his victory in the South Carolia primary.
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Mitt Romney's vision speech
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Jan. 23, 2012 - This is a segment-by-segment presentation and mini-analysis of the speech Mitt Romney delivered following his second place finish in the South Carolina primary.
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Ron Paul's vision speech
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Jan. 24, 2012 - A multi-segment breakdown and my mini analysis of Ron Paul's vision speech, delivered on the night of the South Carolina primary.
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Rick Santorum's vision speech
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July 25, 2012 - This is a segment-by-segment breakdown of Rich Santorum's speech after his 3rd place finish in South Carolina.
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Cunningham, Stites, discuss hot Metro issues
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Jan. 17, 2011 - Taxi laws, backyard chickens and picking winners and losers with taxes - all hot topics for Nashville Tea Party Founder Ben Cunningman and District 13 Metro Councilman Josh Stites.
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DeMint: Now or Never
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Jan. 13, 2012 - Sen. Jim DeMint discusses his game plan to help you save the country from economic collapse.
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Beacon Center unveils new Laffer study on TN estate tax
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Dec. 8, 2011 - Here's some great information on the economic damage done by Tennessee's state estate tax.
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Join estate tax support group
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Dec. 12, 2008 - I'm not sure that's the right name for the group, but if you have a personal problem with Tennessee's state estate tax, listen to this and contact me asap.
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Ralph and Tim sing Blue Christmas
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Nov. 22, 2011 - Oh sure, it's torture, but it's only 60 seconds, and then it stops.
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Ralph Rant - Bipartisan debt solution impossible
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Nov. 28, 2011 - Those who claim partisanship is stalling a solution to the debt crisis have it exactly wrong.
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Desjarlais comments on Supercommittee failure
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Nov. 22, 2011 - Cong. Scott Desjarlais continues to display his Tea Party stripes in his contrarian view of the supercommittee failure.
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Corker and I disagree on Supercommittee
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Nov. 18th, 2011 - Sen. Bob Corker and I disagree about the failure of the Supercommittee...and we discuss other things too.
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If not Obamacare, what?
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Nov. 16, 2011 - I've outdone myself - an alternative to Obamacare and good tax reform with one stone.
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My friend, the flip-flopper
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Nov.16th, 2011 - Rep. Joe Carr of Lascassas, TN explains why he now opposes the school voucher bill.
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Rest in Peace, Fred Kielkopf
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Nov. 14, 2011 - My tribute to an uncommon "common man."
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The Clean Tax plan
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Nov. 7, 2011 - Forget "flat." No one has ever proposed a real flat tax anyway. Forget "fair." You can't slay all the necessary dragons to get from a progressive income tax to a flat or flatter sales tax, but you can so something nearly as good. You can find bipartisan support right now for a Clean Tax.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tim Ross's near death experience
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Oct. 26, 2011 - News and weather guy Tim Ross returns to Nashville's Morning News and gives us previously undisclosed details of his bike accident, that would almost certainly have killed him but for one thing.
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Ralph Rant: S&P downgrade a political move
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Aug 8, 2011 - S&P cited political gridlock when they downgraded U.S. debt, but the timing and reasoning is suspicious at best.
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Heritage scholar discusses debt downgrade
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Aug. 8, 2011 - Heritage Foundation Senior Fellor J.D. Foster discusses the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt.
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DeMint discusses the Great American Wakening
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Aug 4, 2011 - Sen. Jim DeMint rightly acknowledges I taught him everything he knows, then discusses The Great American Wakening - and some current fights over spending.
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Ralph Rant: Obama dons 'centrist' costume
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July 12, 2011 - Republican negotiators need to recognize President Obama's 'centrist' disguise for what it is, reset both the clock and the bar for raising the debt ceiling.
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Tamny on govt meddling with CPI
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July 8, 2011 - John Tamny, editor of realclearmarkets.com, discusses the plan to dicker with cost of living numbers to shrink the deficit.
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Redistributing Wealth - Destroying peace and prosperity
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June 17, 2011 - This is the raw studio audio from our special presentation on the societal problems associated with government redistribution of wealth. It runs approximately one hour.
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Sen. Rand Paul would means test entitlements
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Feb. 24, 2011 - Sen. Rand Paul tells us he would means test entitlements in order to cut spending and balance the budget.
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Click here to see view the albums in Ralph's photo gallery.
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Music City Honor Flight
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Learn more about Honor Flight, which provides free trips to Washington D.C. to WWII Vets to see the WWII Memorial. The site includes a link to make a donation online, or address to send a check to help with the cause.
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This is Honor Flight
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This video will fully explain my affinity for Honor Flight. Have a tissue handy.
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Accurate Mortgage
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Accurate Mortgage sponsors Nashville's Morning News and helped me refinance my mortgage. Ph: (615) 833-0456 or click on the link. Mike, Joe and the gang will take good care of you.
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Assisted Senior Benefits
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This private company helps veterans who served during a foreign war - and their spousees - access a little-known, but significan benefit - up to $2,000 - to help with long-term care assistance. PH (615) 724-1888.
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Cool Springs Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy
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For a hearing problem, allergies, sleep disorders or any problems with you ears, nose or throat, call my friends at Cool Spring ENT. (615) 739-6646
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Huffines Dental Excellence
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Need a dentist? Call mine. Dr. Ricky Huffines and his wonderful staff can take care of all of your dental needs. Ph (615)815-1559 or click on the link.
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Liquidation Outlet
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For bargain basement prices on general merchandise, visit Liquidation outlet in Murfreesboro at 1020 West College Street.
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Myers Plumbing, Heating & Cooling
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This Nashville family owned business since 1977 is now servicing some of the grandchildren of their original customers. Myers has been a BBB accredited business since 1989 and receives an A+ rating from the BBB. You can depend on Myers for fair pricing and excellent service, whether you need plumbing, heating or AC service.
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Mr. B's Air Duct Cleaning
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If you need your air ducts cleaned, call Mr. B's Air Duct Cleaning. Warren and his crew will do a great job - or you pay nothing! Call (615) 244-1785.
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Pilotjourney.com
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Click here to view a video of my Discovery Flight experience from Pilotjourney.com
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Vintage Construction
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Vintage Construction offers foundation repair, and solutions water problems and mold in homes. Visit the sites to see the 12 Early Warning Signs of a structure in distress.
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 Ralph Bristol is a 30-year veteran of radio and TV broadcasting. He is a US Air Force veteran and holds a BS degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Ralph was a radio and TV reporter, anchor and news director in Missouri and Illinois before joining WORD Radio in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC in 1995.
In the spring of 2007, Supertalk 99.7 WWTN beckoned Ralph to Nashville. Ralph defies political labels, and has no partisan loyalties, but can best be described as a libertarian/conservative. Ralph writes and speaks extensively on education, tax and economic issues. In his spare time, Ralph terrorizes golf courses, invents useful things with sharp tools and dead wood, and entertains audiences with irreverent humor and contrarian insight. Invite him to speak to your group at your own risk. |
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