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June 1, 2023

First Baby Surrendered to Knoxville’s Safe Haven Baby Box

Tennessee’s first Safe Haven Baby Box was used for the first time since its installation last week, according to the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD).
June 1, 2023

Nashville Pride Sponsors Include Tennessee Titans, Vanderbilt, Other Huge Name Brands

June 1, 2023

Court Filing Explains Why Covenant School Parents Don’t Want Killer’s Manifesto Released

June 1, 2023

Nashville Mayoral Candidates Offer Views on City Schools

June 1, 2023

Senator Bernie Sanders to Hold ‘Raise the Wage’ Rally in Nashville with State Rep. Justin Jones

May 31, 2023

The Tennessee Star Appeals Judge’s Decision Allowing School and Parents to Intervene in Covenant Killer Manifesto Lawsuit

May 31, 2023

Four Tennessee U.S. Representatives Vote in Opposition of Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal

May 31, 2023

After John Durham Bombshell, Judge Breathes New Life into Clinton Foundation Whistleblower Case

May 31, 2023

Memphis Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Armed Robberies of Postal Workers

May 31, 2023

Nine Tennessee Counties Receive Clean Audit Reports by the Comptroller’s Office

May 31, 2023

Seattle Far-Left Reverend Training Tennessee Students to Protest Gun Control

May 30, 2023

Tea Party Patriots Action Condemn House Speaker McCarthy for Debt Ceiling Deal, Urge Republicans to Vote in Opposition

May 30, 2023

Nashville City Council to Hold Gun Violence Hearings in the Wake of Covenant School Massacre

News from the States

June 1, 2023

Court Filing Explains Why Covenant School Parents Don’t Want Killer’s Manifesto Released

Asking the court to “shield” Covenant Presbyterian School students from a “lifetime of abuse and harassment by the shooter from beyond the grave,” a new court filing lays out why parents of the children don’t want the Covenant killer’s manifesto and other writings made public.  Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles...
June 1, 2023

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Says Public Facilities Can Separate Restroom Use According to Biological Sex

June 1, 2023

Michigan Catches $4 Million of Food Stamp Fraud; Mum on Fraud Scope

June 1, 2023

Haley Hits Trump and DeSantis over Their Support of ‘Reckless’ Debt Ceiling Deal in 2018

June 1, 2023

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to Deploy National Guard Troops to Southern Border

June 1, 2023

Republican JR Majewski Drops Out of Race for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District

June 1, 2023

Maricopa County Disputes Video Footage Revealing That Voting Tabulators Were Not Properly Tested

June 1, 2023

Florida Audit Finds Accounting, Management Issues with Miami-Dade School District

June 1, 2023

Connecticut Lawmakers Advance Gun Control Measure

June 1, 2023

Minnesota Democrat State Senator Faces Ethics Complaint for Suggesting GOP Colleagues Look Like Terrorists

June 1, 2023

Busy Week Ahead for Presidential Politics in the First Nominating State

June 1, 2023

State House Democrat Leader Uses Cropped Letter to Blast Arizona School Voucher Program

June 1, 2023

Pennsylvania GOP Officials Want Shapiro to Shore Up Rainy Day Fund

June 1, 2023

Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson Declines 2024 U.S. Senate Run

June 1, 2023

Arizona Freedom Caucus Blasts Federal Debt Ceiling Deal, Calls for Better Results for Americans

May 31, 2023

The Tennessee Star Appeals Judge’s Decision Allowing School and Parents to Intervene in Covenant Killer Manifesto Lawsuit

May 31, 2023

Hobbs’ Claim That Ducey Administration Misappropriated Funds to Kindergarteners Criticized by Arizona Republicans and Education Advocates

National News

June 1, 2023

Analysis: The State School Choice in the U.S.

As the school year ends and legislative sessions adjourn, Chalkboard updated its review of which legislatures nationwide are implementing school choice measures that provide education options for students and their families and which states have removed them. Several states across the country have recently adopted legislation that would allow students...
June 1, 2023

Over 300 COVID-Era Medical Papers Retracted Due to Scientific Errors, Ethics Concerns

June 1, 2023

Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Blake Treinen Condemns Team’s Decision to Honor Anti-Catholic Hate Group

June 1, 2023

Suspected Chinese Spies Posing as Tourists Are Trying to Infiltrate U.S. Military Bases: Report

June 1, 2023

Illegal Aliens Throwing Parties in NYC Hotels

June 1, 2023

Private Americans Patrol the Smuggler-Blighted Border Badlands of Arizona

May 31, 2023

Bud Light Shells Out $200,000 to LGBT Business Organization amid Dylan Mulvaney Backlash, Cratering Sales

May 31, 2023

House Passes Compromise Deal to Suspend Debt Ceiling, Cut Spending

May 31, 2023

After John Durham Bombshell, Judge Breathes New Life into Clinton Foundation Whistleblower Case

May 31, 2023

Agents Applaud Retirement of Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz with End of Title 42 Immigration Restrictions: ‘He’s a Joke’

May 31, 2023

Mike Pence Expected to Launch 2024 Presidential Campaign Next Week

May 31, 2023

Catholic Major League Pitcher Trevor Williams Rebukes Dodgers for Honoring Anti-Catholic Hate Group

May 31, 2023

Jack Miller Center Unveils ‘ContextUS,’ a New, Online Civics Library

May 31, 2023

Massachusetts Public Libraries to Host Virtual Drag Queen Tutorial for Teens

May 31, 2023

Texas, Georgia, Arizona: Three Cases Studies of State Oversight of Troubled Local Elections

May 31, 2023

States Legislatures Adapt to Electric Vehicles

May 31, 2023

Music Spotlight: Mitchell Tenpenny

Commentary

June 1, 2023

Commentary: Combating the Censorship Industrial Complex

It’s been nearly six months since the first installment of the Twitter Files — the journalistic effort by Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and many others to expose the myriad channels by which the U.S government cooperated with Twitter on content moderation and censorship — was first...
June 1, 2023

Commentary: Chick-fil-A’s Woke Turn Signals Larger Problem of DEI in Corporate America

May 31, 2023

Commentary: America and the Future of Globalism

May 31, 2023

Commentary: Identity Studies in Academia Is the Birthplace of Woke

May 31, 2023

Commentary: The Nonsensical ‘Holy Climate Panacea’ Triad of More Wind, Solar, and Electric Cars is Maddening

May 30, 2023

Commentary: As It Always Has Been, the Only True Cause of the Left Is Power

May 30, 2023

Commentary: Ron DeSantis Has All the Right Enemies

May 29, 2023

Commentary: Protecting Our Forgotten Rights

May 29, 2023

Commentary: The Forgotten History of Memorial Day



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June 1, 2023

First Baby Surrendered to Knoxville’s Safe Haven Baby Box

Tennessee’s first Safe Haven Baby Box was used for the first time since its installation last week, according to the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD).
June 1, 2023

Analysis: The State School Choice in the U.S.

As the school year ends and legislative sessions adjourn, Chalkboard updated its review of which legislatures nationwide are implementing school choice measures that provide education options for students and their families and which states have removed them. Several states across...
June 1, 2023

Nashville Pride Sponsors Include Tennessee Titans, Vanderbilt, Other Huge Name Brands

Nashville Pride, which has several events upcoming during the month of June, is sponsored by big name brands including the Tennessee Titans, Vanderbilt Health and others, according to its website.  Both Bridgestone and Nissan, who have huge presences in Tennessee,...
June 1, 2023

Court Filing Explains Why Covenant School Parents Don’t Want Killer’s Manifesto Released

Asking the court to “shield” Covenant Presbyterian School students from a “lifetime of abuse and harassment by the shooter from beyond the grave,” a new court filing lays out why parents of the children don’t want the Covenant killer’s manifesto...
June 1, 2023

Nashville Mayoral Candidates Offer Views on City Schools

A poll conducted in May on behalf of Tennesseans for Student Success by VictoryPhones, showed that Nashvillians prefer a mayoral candidate with a strong position on education and infrastructure. That quality slightly edged "positions on social issues" as the leading factor...
June 1, 2023

Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Blake Treinen Condemns Team’s Decision to Honor Anti-Catholic Hate Group

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen released a statement Tuesday in which he expressed his “disappointment” that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that engages in obscene performances that are “blasphemous,” are being “honored as heroes at Dodger Stadium.” The...
June 1, 2023

Over 300 COVID-Era Medical Papers Retracted Due to Scientific Errors, Ethics Concerns

Over 330 different medical research papers have been retracted in the aftermath of the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, due to either research errors or ethical problems. As reported by the Daily Caller, the watchdog group Retraction Watch documented the retractions in a...
June 1, 2023

Suspected Chinese Spies Posing as Tourists Are Trying to Infiltrate U.S. Military Bases: Report

Chinese nationals attempted to gain access to U.S. military bases in Alaska, posing as tourists to carry out suspected spying operations, USA Today reported, citing officials and servicemembers. In some cases, visitors from China seem to have mistakenly entered some...
June 1, 2023

Illegal Aliens Throwing Parties in NYC Hotels

In New York City, illegal aliens who are currently being housed in former hotels have been throwing wild parties during their stays, according to a former employee of one such facility. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the former Row NYC...
June 1, 2023

Senator Bernie Sanders to Hold ‘Raise the Wage’ Rally in Nashville with State Rep. Justin Jones

Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will hold a rally in Nashville this week with Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville).
June 1, 2023

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Says Public Facilities Can Separate Restroom Use According to Biological Sex

In an official opinion from the Ohio Attorney General's office, Attorney General Dave Yost says that the Ohio Revised Code allows managers of public restrooms to separate restroom use according to biological sex. In December, Green County Prosecutor David Hayes...
June 1, 2023

Michigan Catches $4 Million of Food Stamp Fraud; Mum on Fraud Scope

Standing in the checkout lines or in virtual lines at Sam’s Clubs in metro Detroit, criminals are spending government benefits stolen from people more than 2,000 miles away in California. On May 24, three people – Travis Newby, 39, of Detroit, Derriun...
June 1, 2023

Commentary: Combating the Censorship Industrial Complex

It’s been nearly six months since the first installment of the Twitter Files — the journalistic effort by Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and many others to expose the myriad channels by which the U.S government cooperated...
June 1, 2023

Haley Hits Trump and DeSantis over Their Support of ‘Reckless’ Debt Ceiling Deal in 2018

As congress weighs another “deal” to raise the national debt limit, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is blasting the two leading contestants for the GOP nomination for their support of a “reckless” debt ceiling agreement in 2018.  The former South...
June 1, 2023

Republican JR Majewski Drops Out of Race for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District

A political candidate seeking to secure Ohio's 9th Congressional District from U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) ended his 2024 run. Ohio Republican JR Majewski dropped out of the race on Tuesday evening just over a month after announcing his second...
June 1, 2023

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to Deploy National Guard Troops to Southern Border

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will deploy National Guard troops to the southern border, his office announced Wednesday. The Virginia governor will send 100 troops to the Texas-Mexico border to address the surge in illegal immigration and drug smuggling that...
June 1, 2023

Maricopa County Disputes Video Footage Revealing That Voting Tabulators Were Not Properly Tested

A video that has gone viral allegedly showing Maricopa County Elections failing to properly test voting tabulators prior to 2022’s election has prompted a defensive response from the county. The state Election Procedures Manual (EPM) requires that statutorily mandated Logic...
June 1, 2023

Florida Audit Finds Accounting, Management Issues with Miami-Dade School District

A recent audit of the Miami-Dade County School District has revealed several issues with accurate record-keeping and sound financial management. The Florida Auditor General found nine separate issues, ranging from IT and security concerns to failing to correct deficiencies in annual...
June 1, 2023

Connecticut Lawmakers Advance Gun Control Measure

Connecticut lawmakers are advancing a wide-ranging package of gun control measures billed as the most significant changes since the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. The Democratic-led proposal, approved by the state House of Representatives Thursday on a largely party-line vote of...
June 1, 2023

Minnesota Democrat State Senator Faces Ethics Complaint for Suggesting GOP Colleagues Look Like Terrorists

Democratic Sen. Omar Fateh is facing another ethics complaint, this time for making disparaging comments about his Republican colleagues and allegedly misrepresenting their views. The complaint was filed in April but wasn’t made public until earlier this month. The Minnesota Senate’s subcommittee...
June 1, 2023

Busy Week Ahead for Presidential Politics in the First Nominating State

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign kick-off event in suburban Des Moines Tuesday was just the beginning of an action-packed week ahead in Iowa presidential politics. Up next, former President Donald Trump, Fox News and CNN town halls, and U.S. Senator...
June 1, 2023

Private Americans Patrol the Smuggler-Blighted Border Badlands of Arizona

As blazing sunlight ebbs to a star-studded sky along the U.S.-Mexico border, members of the Arizona Border Recon group peer through field glasses at a trio of men on the southern side in camouflage fatigues and carrying pistols and AK-47s....
June 1, 2023

State House Democrat Leader Uses Cropped Letter to Blast Arizona School Voucher Program

State House Minority Leader Andrés Cano (D-Tucson) made a tweet Tuesday, sharing a letter from the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), and used it to blast the Universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Program. In this letter, Christine Accurso, leader of...
June 1, 2023

Pennsylvania GOP Officials Want Shapiro to Shore Up Rainy Day Fund

High-ranking Republican Pennsylvania officials sounded off on Wednesday in the state Capitol Building against Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget legislation which would deplete state reserve funds in five years. Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity (R) and House Appropriations Minority Chair Seth Grove...
June 1, 2023

Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson Declines 2024 U.S. Senate Run

A potential GOP contender to run for U.S. Senate against Ohio Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in 2024 declined to run for the seat. U.S. Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH-08) informed supporters on Tuesday that instead of pursuing the U.S....
June 1, 2023

Arizona Freedom Caucus Blasts Federal Debt Ceiling Deal, Calls for Better Results for Americans

The Arizona Freedom Caucus (AFC), a group of conservative-minded state lawmakers, released a statement Tuesday, blasting the debt ceiling limit deal made between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as a bad deal for the people of...
June 1, 2023

Commentary: SEIU Resorts to More Influence Peddling in Pittsburgh

Two years ago, hell-bent on getting its hooks into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) –  the largest private workforce in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania –  SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania effectively bought the Pittsburgh mayor’s office. In November, the union intends to...
June 1, 2023

Commentary: Chick-fil-A’s Woke Turn Signals Larger Problem of DEI in Corporate America

Chick-fil-A apparently has joined the cultural revolution. Social media was buzzing on Tuesday about Chick-fil-A Inc. announcing the hiring of a vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
May 31, 2023

The Tennessee Star Appeals Judge’s Decision Allowing School and Parents to Intervene in Covenant Killer Manifesto Lawsuit

The Tennessee Star and other plaintiffs in a closely watched public records lawsuit are appealing Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles’ decision last week to allow the Covenant Presbyterian Church, the school and parents of students to intervene in the case. ...
May 31, 2023

Four Tennessee U.S. Representatives Vote in Opposition of Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal

Tennessee Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01), Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) and Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) all voted against the bill, citing its failure to address the government’s “out-of-control spending.”
May 31, 2023

Bud Light Shells Out $200,000 to LGBT Business Organization amid Dylan Mulvaney Backlash, Cratering Sales

Bud Light is making a $200,000 donation to the National LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) to support “economic opportunities and advancements for LGBTQ+ Americans,” according to a press release from its parent company Anheuser-Busch. The company suffered significant losses after many Americans...
May 31, 2023

Commentary: America and the Future of Globalism

If globalization is the economic integration of nations in a world where technology has all but erased once formidable barriers to long-distance communication and transportation, globalism is its cultural and ideological counterpart. In theory, the same dynamics might apply. As...
May 31, 2023

House Passes Compromise Deal to Suspend Debt Ceiling, Cut Spending

The House of Representatives on Wednesday evening passed a bipartisan deal to suspend the debt ceiling and cut spending ahead of a June 5 deadline to avert a national default.
May 31, 2023

After John Durham Bombshell, Judge Breathes New Life into Clinton Foundation Whistleblower Case

Just a few weeks after Special Counsel John Durham revealed significant failures to investigate allegations against Hillary Clinton’s family charity, a U.S. Tax Court judge has once again breathed new life into a years-long whistleblower case alleging IRS improprieties involving...
May 31, 2023

Agents Applaud Retirement of Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz with End of Title 42 Immigration Restrictions: ‘He’s a Joke’

Rank-and-file Border Patrol agents welcomed the news that agency Chief Raul Ortiz is retiring, telling the Daily Caller News Foundation that his exit was long overdue. Ortiz announced Tuesday that he will retire from the federal government, effective June 30, according to...
May 31, 2023

Hobbs’ Claim That Ducey Administration Misappropriated Funds to Kindergarteners Criticized by Arizona Republicans and Education Advocates

Several leaders and education advocates are denouncing Governor Katie Hobbs’ reversal of funding Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for kindergarten. Hobbs reversed the grant of $50 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act last week, which previous Governor Doug...
May 31, 2023

Mike Pence Expected to Launch 2024 Presidential Campaign Next Week

Former Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly planning on launching his 2024 presidential campaign next week, setting him up to face off against his old boss, former President Donald Trump, for the Republican nomination.  Pence is likely to launch his...
May 31, 2023

Catholic Major League Pitcher Trevor Williams Rebukes Dodgers for Honoring Anti-Catholic Hate Group

Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams said Tuesday in a statement posted to Twitter the move by the Los Angeles Dodgers to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic hate group, "makes a blatant and deeply offensive mockery of my...
May 31, 2023

Memphis Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Armed Robberies of Postal Workers

A Memphis man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison in connection with armed robberies of several postal workers. "Sidney Poitier Pilcher, Jr., a/k/a Slimey Sidd, 21, has been sentenced to over nine years in federal prison for aiding...
May 31, 2023

Jack Miller Center Unveils ‘ContextUS,’ a New, Online Civics Library

ContextUS is the Jack Miller Center’s newly published, free online library that provides citizens with the content to gain that necessary civic knowledge. This state-of-the-art resource gives teachers, students, and scholars access to more than 700 core texts of the American...
May 31, 2023

Massachusetts Public Libraries to Host Virtual Drag Queen Tutorial for Teens

More than 30 Massachusetts public libraries are joining together to host a virtual drag queen event, targeted for teens aged 13-18, in which New England-based drag queen “Giganta Smalls” will teach the young people about the life of a drag...
May 31, 2023

Nine Tennessee Counties Receive Clean Audit Reports by the Comptroller’s Office

Nine Tennessee counties audited by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury have all received a clean audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, the comptroller’s office announced.
May 31, 2023

Texas, Georgia, Arizona: Three Cases Studies of State Oversight of Troubled Local Elections

Republican-run Texas and Georgia have given state officials oversight of some local elections following issues in Democratic counties, while Arizona didn't do so there was a Republican administration.  Last week, the Texas House passed two pieces of election integrity legislation that were...
May 31, 2023

Seattle Far-Left Reverend Training Tennessee Students to Protest Gun Control

In the wake of The Covenant School shooting, a far-left reverend from Seattle has been working in Nashville to teach students how to protest. "Reverend Osagyefo Sekou came to Nashville to work with the Dores Worker Solidarity Network on April...
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May 31, 2023

Despite Inflationary Pressures, Record Numbers of Tourists Visited Florida

Florida is one of the top destinations for vacationers and the state’s economy has experienced a boost as other states continue to feel the effects of shutting down during the COVID-19 pandemic. Florida experienced record tourism numbers in the first...
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