With a rush on in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and by President Barack Obama to impose a ruinously bureaucratic and costly system of socialized medicine upon Americans, it is interesting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate version of proposed legislation would cost "only" $849 billion!

Our Chattanooga National Cemetery is one of the finest, most scenic and most historic national cemeteries anywhere in the world. It was established in November of 1863, after the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in the War Between the States.

Former Tennessee state Rep. David Copeland hasn't been in the political spotlight lately, but he isn't forgotten.

Critics of the U.S. detention of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say the facility there is populated by prisoners who were simply in the wrong places at the wrong times in the war on terrorism.

It's understandable if most Americans do not pay close attention to the small Central American nation of Honduras. But it is good nonetheless that the United States is no longer defending the former president of that country, who was rightly removed according to Honduran law after he tried to take dictatorial power.

Most people don’t really “like” any kind of taxes, although we know that many of them are necessary for the orderly operation of our government and our society. But probably, one of the most “unlovely” and least popular of taxes is our local “sewer service fee.”

President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress have peddled for months the claim that ObamaCare socialized medicine would reduce medical spending. But based on common sense and analyses of ObamaCare's costs, the American people just haven't bought that claim.

This brief heading came up in a recent scan of the news wires: "ACORN lawsuit."

The reports about pirates from the East African country of Somalia attacking and demanding ransoms from ships in the Indian Ocean seemed to have dropped out of the news recently. But attacks have continued, with dangerous and outrageous incidents. Now there has been another noteworthy one.

While many Americans among our generally well-fed people are struggling with problems of bulging waistlines, it is highly disturbing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that one in seven American households has struggled to have enough food for reasonable nutrition during the past year.

Hamilton County Commission Chairman Curtis Adams has been such a durable and colorful part of local government for so many years -- 22, count 'em -- that it just won't be the same when he steps out of political office at the end of his current term next year, as he has announced he has decided to do.

Not many people outside Alaska knew Sarah Palin as Alaska's governor before Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain surprised a great many people by selecting her as his vice presidential running mate last year.

Do you remember Susette Kelo of New London, Conn.? Her century-old home was seized against her will by city government so her property could be used not for, say, a road or military base -- but by other private interests that might bring in higher tax revenue.

It is quite reasonable to have widely differing opinions about what to do with prisoners captured by the United States in the Afghanistan War.

Everyone with humane instincts certainly wants all Americans to have whatever medical care they really need. But "wishes don't grow on trees." Good medical care is expensive. It can't be "free." The real issue involves how to provide the best medical care