Morning Brief: Guns in trunks rolls ahead despite serious questions, rhetoric turns harsh as budget cuts loom

Blame swirls as sequester looms—Nooga

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann hosts municipal roundtable—Nooga

Sen. Bob Corker on fact-finding trip to Africa—Nooga

Former park sale to cost city up to $412,000—Nooga

Councilwoman Deborah Scott critical of new 311 position—Times Free Press

Tennessee House committee OKs Rep. Mike Carter's annexation curb—Times Free Press

Guns in trunks bill rolls ahead despite serious questions—Tennessean

Sequester just over a week away, but blame game has already begun—Washington Post

Rhetoric turns harsh as budget cuts loom—Wall Street Journal

On sequester, White House, Republicans play political chicken—The Hill

With cutbacks days away, Barack Obama tries to pressure GOP—NY Times

Obama's sequestration strategy: Shame—Politico

Drone makers take aim at U.S. market—Wall Street Journal