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National Review Online writer Kevin Williamson was on MSNBC today and claimed that Medicare and Social Security benefits are not important for seniors and that it would be best if they went “broke."

A Tennessee man who attempted to pull a gun out during a domestic dispute ended up accidentally shooting himself in the knee.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated three candidates for full terms on the National Labor Relations Board, which has been in limbo since a federal appeals court invalidated his recess appointments to the agency. Obama urged the Senate to move swiftly in confirming the members — two Republicans and one Democrat — along with two other Democrats he nominated in February. That would fill all five seats on the board.

But it is not clear whether Republicans will go along with the package of nominees. The labor board has been a partisan lightning rod during Obama's presidency, with Republican lawmakers and business groups furious over decisions and rules they say are aimed at helping labor unions win more members.

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As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition block remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states.

Widening Medicaid insurance rolls, a joint federal-state program for low-income Americans, is an anchor of the law Obama signed in 2010. But states get to decide whether to take the deal, and from Virginia to Texas - a region encompassing the old Confederacy and Civil War border states - Florida's Rick Scott is the only Republican governor to endorse expansion, and he faces opposition from his GOP colleagues in the legislature. Tennessee's Bill Haslam, the Deep South's last governor to take a side, added his name to the opposition on Wednesday.

A Tennessee man sent his dog to be euthanized because he though the dog was "gay," but the dog was later adopted thanks to a Facebook campaign.

15-year-old Matthew Daniels, of Sweetwater, Tennessee unintentionally shot himself with a family handgun. "We have no sign that he was depressed or anything of that nature, so it looks like an accidental shooting."

A few weeks ago, we discovered the wonderful pastor of Old Paths Baptist Church in Tennessee, Sam Morris. He had a lot to say about the Newtown school shooting, like it happened because of evolution and homosexuals.

In 2009, Bill Day was an award-winning, nationally syndicated political cartoonist flying high at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee. But on a March afternoon, Day became a casualty of budget cuts and was escorted out of the paper — just one of many staff cartoonists let go in recent years by newspapers struggling to control costs.

At the moment, Hagel remains the primary candidate for defense secretary and is being screened for the position, but his selection is not a done deal. He would succeed Leon Panetta, who has made it clear without announcing a date that he intends to step down early next year. No senator is threatening to block Hagel's confirmation if it comes before the full Senate despite complaints from outside groups. Democrats have the votes to confirm him and would be reluctant to embarrass and weaken Obama at the start of his second term by joining Republicans to scuttle Hagel, especially after the Rice imbroglio.