Tennessee fired fifth-year head coach Butch Jones after another blowout loss, according to multiple reports Sunday. Volunteers athletic director John Currie told Jones on Sunday morning that he was being fired, sources told ESPN’s Chris Low. The move was first reported by Sports Illustrated. Tennessee, winless this season in the…
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Justin Allgaier Faces a Serious Penalty After His Car Fails Post-Race Inspection
With a 10th-place finish yesterday at Phoenix Raceway, JR Motorsports driver Justin Allgaier punched his ticket to the Championship 4 race at Homestead, but he’ll be competing in that race with an all-new crew chief. Following the Ticket Galaxy 200, NASCAR officials discovered his No. 7 Chevy had an unattached…
Read MoreSteve Bannon Predicts McConnell Will Be Out Of Leadership In A Year
Steve Bannon, former White House adviser and the populist chief of Breitbart News, predicts that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will lose his position as the head of Senate Republicans by November of 2018. In an interview with the New York Times released Friday, Bannon told reporter Jeremy Peters “I…
Read MoreTrump Questions Church Of Scientology Tax Exemption
President Donald Trump apparently does not believes the Church of Scientology is a real religion, which could lead the church to lose its tax-exempt status just as Trump moves to appoint a new head of the Internal Revenue Service. Trump told Lynne Patton — a regional head at the Department…
Read MoreA Tale of Two Tax Bills: Comparing the House, Senate Reform Plans
Last week, the House GOP released the first concrete details on how Republicans plan to update the federal tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provides tax relief to many Americans and has the potential to facilitate real economic growth through important business-tax reforms. While the House proposal as…
Read MoreCommentary: GOP Nice Guys Will Finish Last In 2018
by George Rasley, CHQ Editor In one sense, the fact that Democrats won the gubernatorial races in two Democrat-dominated states, New Jersey and Virginia, is not a big deal. Given political trends in the Old Dominion, the Virginia Governor’s race was Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam’s to lose, likewise…
Read More63 Percent Of Alabama Republicans Still Support Roy Moore, Poll Says
A majority of Alabama Republicans still support GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore after four women accused him of inappropriate sexual conduct, according to a poll released Thursday. Sixty-three percent of Republicans in the state of Alabama still back the Republican candidate, according to a poll released by Decision Desk HQ…
Read MoreUsing Grand Jury Testimony, ‘Ferguson’ Stage Play Challenges Media Narratives
NEW YORK – When it came time for Darren Wilson to testify about what happened after firing his gun from inside his vehicle, the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer told the grand jury that his assailant “had the most intense, aggressive face.” Wilson, then 28, is the white police officer who…
Read MoreRepublicans Fleeing Trump? Not in West Virginia
The shellacking handed to the GOP in Virginia on Tuesday has sent panic-stricken Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from President Donald Trump, whom they blame for the results. Not in West Virginia, though. While Trump’s approval rating has eroded across the country over the past year, he remains popular in…
Read MoreRoy Moore: Allegations Are ‘Completely False and Misleading’
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore on Friday emphatically denied sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl — or even ever meeting her. Under fire after The Washington Post reported Leigh Corfman’s allegations that he undressed her in 1979, Moore told radio show host Sean Hannity that the allegations are false. “I…
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