1. Chewing the Buddha: Bush at the Olympics
(Newsletter)

...n they came to for the Liberals Political Views By Rachael Bliss    Tuesday, 19 August 2008 In Knoxville We Spoke Up in Solidarity! Pastor Martin Niemöller, a contemporary of Adolf ...

2. End the Occupation of Iraq - and Afghanistan
(Newsletter)

...Bible black and ringing with thunder last night above Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church here in Knoxville. You know it as the building where Jim D. Adkisson carried a shotgun inside a gui...

3. Shooting Suspect Got it Wrong!
(Newsletter)

...By Rachael Bliss    Monday, 28 July 2008 Sunday, I was riding with my youngest son on our way to Knoxville when my cell phone rang.  I saw that it was my son's friend who frequently c...

4. The Big Guns of August
(Newsletter)

...and False Patriotism It was Nov. 22, 2004, a gray, overcast Monday, and I was in trouble with editors of the Knoxville News-Sentinel. I was supposed to meet three of them at the Regas Restaurant to ta...

5. MWC NEWS SPECIAL ISSUE
(Newsletter)

...ou see, I had recently made a momentous decision to stop writing my weekly column for a major newspaper, The Knoxville News-Sentinel and its online counterpart. CONTINUE... The Conscience of Medi...

6. On Obama’s role in New Millennium Writings
(Opinions/op-ed)

... so-called leader and those who surrounded him. In 2007, I ended my popular, 20-year newspaper column at the Knoxville News-Sentinel rather than see my commentary cut back to every other week, a move ...

7. If 9/11 Changed Everything, Why Did Oklahoma City Change Nothing?
(Opinions/Society)

...t the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.  These murders follow events in Pittsburgh last April and in Knoxville in July 2008.  The Pittsburgh killer apparently accepted right wing talking ...

8. 'It could've been all different, Jack... You got to believe that'
(Opinions/op-ed)

...pe. And leave one they do. Like Jake and C.H. Butcher, who were seminal in bringing the 1982 World's Fair to Knoxville, as well as a pair of gleaming towers still pointing to the heavens above that ev...

9. On Cormac’s Fire
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...ads on a string… * The world lost a would-be shrine when the old Cormac McCarthy home burned down Jan. 27 in Knoxville. Cormac’s brother Dennis and sister-in-law Judy were at my writing workshop at Te...

10. A killer, a church, a town 'with up so floating many bells down'
(Opinions/Society)

...he rest of his days behind bars for the July 2008 assault at the Tennessee Valley United Unitarian Church in Knoxville. That's where Adkisson carried a shotgun inside a guitar case and shot eight peop...