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Don Williams is a prize-winning columnist, short story writer, freelancer, and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual anthology of literary stories, essays and poems. His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award and the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize. He just finished a novel, "Oracle of the Orchid Lounge," set in his native Tennessee. Publishers or agents may inquire via email. His book of selected journalism, "Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes, the Best Writings About People" by Don Williams, is due a second printing. In 2007, he gave up his weekly column at the Knoxville News-Sentinel rather than see it cut back to every-other-week by editors who endorsed Bush-Cheney.
SHARE Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Rebel Repubs tell Bush Where to Stick It, and Markets Plunge
Yeah! Attboy! Attagal! Tell Wall Street where to stick it. We'll not throw good money after bad. Your orgy of high-living at our expense is over.
Wow, that felt good. Now, what I really think
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 11, 2008 So many pigs, so much lipstick--the sad legacy of 9/11
Each year we dress 9/11 in red, white and blue and trot it out for vigils by candlelight and excruciating video. And each year such shows become less meaningful as we recall what we did in the name of 9/11.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 McCain's heroic story isn't the whole story; questions need asking
It won't be easy to challenge a living icon of military heroism, as McCain is positioning himself, but a baker's dozen questions need asking before it's too late. Is MSM up to the job?
SHARE Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Hillary Supercharges Convention with Electrifying Support for Obama
"I love you. I love you. I love," former President Bill Clinton mouthed toward Hillary shortly after she began speaking Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. And as she finished, many in the hall were chanting the mantra aloud. "We love you Hillary." Ah, what might've been.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 8, 2008 Bush puts big Double-I brand on Olympics--Insulting Incoherency
Just hours ago George W. Bush put his distinctive brand on the 2008 Olympics in China. You know the brand. It marks all Bush initiatives. The big Double-I. Insulting Incoherency.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Church shootings and candle lights vie beneath 'Bible black' skies
The sky was Bible black and ringing with thunder last night above Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in West Knoxville. You know it as the building where Jim D. Adkisson carried a shotgun inside a guitar case Sunday morning and shot nine people during a children's performance of the musical "Annie." None of the children were shot, but two adults later died.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 14, 2008 Fannie Mae mess is just latest layer on Chef Dubya's tottering cake
This is only the latest layer in a tall leaning cake historians will someday deconstruct like archaeologists at a dig to try and figure how we could've allowed such a chef as George W. Bush in the kitchen to begin with.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 7, 2008 On Barack Obama and 'the art of the possible'
You hung it all out there for your latest hero, Barack Hussein Obama. So how does he repay you? He does the utterly predictable thing and steps down off the pedestal you put him on.
SHARE Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Three reasons Obama will beat McCain; charisma, charisma, charisma
He's tall, youthful, chiseled, athletic, sincere and exotic. When has either party offered such an attractive nominee? Go down the list.
Johnson? Nixon? McGovern? Ford? Carter? Dukakis? Mondale? Obama's the rock star of politics. His time is now.
(29 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 7, 2008 What a sweet, gracious, generous speech; Hillary endorses Obama!
Hillary Clinton can flat deliver a speech, and her latest is for the ages, because there was nothing flat about what she said or how she said it Saturday shortly before 1 p.m., when she endorsed Barack Obama and pledged to work her heart out for him!
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 24, 2008 Is Obama big enough to ask Hillary onto ticket despite RFK gaffe
Asking Hillary to be his running mate would demonstrate an almost transcendent big-mindedness, largeness of spirit and good will on Obama's part, and that's what he's been running on isn't it?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 5, 2008 Hillary's Words Provide Cover for Bush War Crimes
Should George W. Bush send missiles screaming across ancient Persian skies in coming weeks or months, he might well cite remarks by Hillary Clinton when justifying his latest crimes.
(34 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Barack knocks Rev. Wright's remarks out of the ballpark
It might've been strike 3 for Barack Obama, but he knocked the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments out of the ball park in about as clean and forceful a swing as you're likely to see in the World Series of politics.