“Nashville” on The Daily Caller

The Tennessee Senate voted 22-10 on Thursday to once again override the governor’s veto of a bill to allow handgun carry permit holders to bring weapons into bars and alcohol-serving restaurants. (more)

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Canadian doctor who has treated Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez and other high-profile athletes was charged Tuesday with smuggling, unlawful distribution of human growth hormone and conspiring to lie to federal agents. (more)

I have a home in Utah, come from the city boasting the Reagan Presidential Library – Simi Valley, Calif. – and have an office near Nashville, Tenn., which serves as a second home. I love the people in these areas; they are the salt of the earth. Could be that I’m comfortable around conservatives and people of faith, or maybe it’s just the water I drink. But one thing I know; after armchair monitoring of political events for forty years, I can read political tea leaves. (more)

Chaotic and socialist, Greece upset the European apple cart recently when they failed to curtail unsustainable government spending. Greece has been on a collision course with reality for years and now has to be bailed out with a $1 trillion package to avert their crisis from spreading throughout Europe. Billions will come from the U.S. taxpayer. (more)

Truth is a tough mistress. The sting of her whip? Intellectual and moral consistency. Truth frustrates moral relativists and hypocrites alike. Truth is not interested in your voter registration card, which campaign you work for, what Plum Book position you snagged a presidential appointment to, or what “non-partisan” charitable organization allows you a place to park your desk. Truth is just truth. (more)

Decision time is approaching for the Tea Party movement. (more)

A few weeks ago on these pages I shocked a lot of people by strongly stating what seems to be an obvious but important reality that Sarah Palin cannot beat President Obama in 2012. While many of her incredibly passionate fans are still understandably unwilling to accept this clear fact (and therefore take their frustrations out on me), this post is not to gloat over the most recent credible poll showing that Palin would be, as I predicted, the worst possible contender against an Obama who still is a strong favorite to win reelection. Instead, I want to praise Palin for possibly understanding this situation and reacting brilliantly to it. (more)

Apparently, there are people who wrestle for a living and who don’t work for Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment. Unlike WWE superstar John Cena who reportedly earns $1.7 million a year, some of these nameless grapplers make as little as $25 a gig at lucha libre shows (lucha libre is a high-flying, quickly-paced, Mexican style of wrestling). And sure, these small-town shows attract less than 1,000 fans per week while WWE events consistently sell out arenas with 20,000 plus seats. But hey, these local guys are just as good at pretending to wrestle and verbally abuse each other as anyone working for Vince. (more)

Last week I made a rare appearance on MSNBC (a network on which I have had numerous “YouTube moments” since the 2008 election, when they became the “Obama Network”) and shared some statements which apparently shocked some of my fellow conservatives. (more)

Antoine Perretta, a 21-year-old University of Denver student, regularly pays off his three credit cards, to build up his credit score. He’s working toward getting an affordable loan to buy a car, a used black Audi. (more)

Who’s running the Tea Party? As with most questions debated by its activists, there is no consensus. Members of the cross-country network of conservative grassroots groups will say only that they shun formal leadership. (more)

Following the weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the conservative grassroots activists made clear they don’t want any more NY-23’s in 2010. (more)

NASHVILLE — Even before the three Grammys that Kings of Leon won last month, the group had become the emblematic band of the new decade by resurrecting the sound and spirit of rock’s classic era for a generation that doesn’t view the music as necessarily heroic or transformative. Combining the blues strut of the Rolling Stones with the jitters of post-punk bands like Joy Division and, more recently, the reach of U2, the Kings of Leon do what great pop does — they transcend any specific root or subculture to make something universal. And “Use Somebody,” with its churchy chorus and what Caleb Followill, the band’s 28-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist, calls song’s “double meaning” of mercenary lust melting into loneliness and soul hunger, was a perfect anthem for a troubled year like 2009. (more)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sarah Palin is predicting a good year for conservative candidates for public office, saying the policies of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress will be short-lived. (more)

Jeffrey McQueen lost his auto industry job in Detroit a year ago, but now he’s making a few bucks off of Tea Party activists — income he said comes from real anger. (more)

The first-ever Tea Party convention kicks off today at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, and, when it closes with a banquet on Saturday night, Sarah Palin will take the stage as the event’s only marquee speaker–and opinions vary on whether it’s a good or bad move, politically, for her to be there. (more)

There aren’t many — if any — young activists here at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. (more)

Here at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, there are no plans to turn the movement into a third party. Rather the group’s aims to channel its following into “a force to be reckoned with in the traditional party structure.” (more)

Tea Party supporters who flooded Nashville for a sold-out convention at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort forked over more than $550 to come to the convention here. That’s a hefty price for the everyday American concerned with government spending — and it doesn’t include airfare or gas, a hotel room (easily $200 or more a night) or the daily parking fee ($18). (more)

This weekend’s Tea Party Convention in Nashville, under criticism that high ticket prices are preventing true grassroots activists from attending, made a surprise announcement late Sunday night that the convention will be televised. (more)