Congress’ power of the purse is one of its bedrock responsibilities listed in Article 1 of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has reaffirmed this power on several occasions, including in a 1976 case when the Court declared, “The established rule is that the expenditure of public funds is proper only…
Read MoreDay: May 8, 2017
Obama’s Non-Profit On Same Dubious Path First Blazed By Clinton Foundation
Barack Obama’s presidential foundation is barely two years old, but he is taking it down the same controversial – and by some accounts illegal – post-presidency path of his predecessor Bill Clinton, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group. Federal law requires tax-exempt entities…
Read MoreLoretta Lynn Remains Hospitalized Following Stroke
Loretta Lynn’s publicist confirmed to Rare Country on May 8 that the country music legend remains hospitalized after a stroke. Country music fans will recall that news broke over the weekend that the 85-year-old singer-songwriter had been admitted to a Nashville hospital after suffering a stroke on the night of…
Read MoreSCORE and Tennessee DOE Launch ‘Teach Today, Change Tomorrow’
The goal of the Teach Today, Change Tomorrow Initiative is to insure a “great teacher in every classroom.”
Read MoreLuke Bryan Did Not Disappoint
Two Time ACMA Entertainer of the Year Winner, Luke Bryan, once again performed in Nashville, for two sold-out shows at the Bridgestone arena and he did not disappoint.
Read MoreTwo Marines Killed In 2015 Chattanooga Terrorist Attack Honored Sunday For Bravery
Two Marines killed in the Chattanooga terrorist attack in July 2015 were posthumously honored Sunday with Navy and Marine Corps Medals. The families of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Sullivan and Staff Sergeant David Wyatt received the medals on their behalf. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is the the highest non-combat decoration…
Read MoreConservatives Urge Trump To Keep His Promise, Ditch The Paris Climate Agreement
Dozens of conservative and free market groups sent a letter Monday to President Donald Trump, urging him to keep his campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from an international agreement to fight global warming signed by the Obama administration. Representatives from 40 right-leaning groups told Trump a withdrawal from the…
Read MoreJeff Hartline Commentary: Crafting A State Budget With Both Hands Tied Behind Your Back Is An Impossible Task
by Jeff Hartline May 8, 2017 As is the habit of the Tennessee General Assembly, the last days of each year’s session are tortured with the approval of the State Budget, one Constitutional requirement that must be completed prior to adjournment. There probably aren’t a thousand regular citizens in the…
Read MoreKushner Family Offers Wealthy Chinese Investors The Chance To Buy Their Way Into The US
The Kushner family told a group of 100 wealthy Chinese investors Saturday that they could secure immigration visas to the U.S. with an investment of half a million dollars, several media outlets revealed. Speaking in Beijing, Nicole Kushner Meyer, sister of senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, encouraged wealthy Chinese…
Read MoreKellyanne Conway: Hillary Clinton Joining ‘Resistance’ Likely to Backfire on Democrats
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday she welcomes Hillary Clinton’s return to the national spotlight, predicting that the Democrat’s vow to join the “resistance” is likely to backfire on Democrats. “As for Hillary, look, people are rolling their eyes and bellyaching – most of them are Democrats, by the…
Read MoreL.A. City Council Passes Trump Impeachment Resolution
The Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution Friday calling for an investigation in Congress into whether President Donald Trump has committed any impeachable offenses. “Today I ask the Council to put our City on the record and tell congress to do its job by investigating whether President Donald J.…
Read MoreInside a Young New Jersey Man’s Alleged Path to ISIS
POINT PLEASANT — The web searches relating to ISIS propaganda allegedly came in rapid fire. “Where to buy black jihad flag,” “france terrorist attack,” “isis propaganda video.” At least two dozen of these types of internet searches were among the thousands officials say Gregory Lepsky, 20, who is accused of…
Read MoreJeb Bush and Derek Jeter Group Has The Money to Buy the Baseball’s Miami Marlins, Source Says
NEW YORK — A group led by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and ex-Yankee Derek Jeter has rounded up the investors to buy the Marlins. “They have the money,” a Major League Baseball source said. But the source said negotiations to purchase the Marlins are ongoing and that three groups…
Read MoreCommentary: The House Obamacare Vote: First Step To Repeal Or Sham?
by ConservativeHQ.com Staff Through the passage of the American Health Care Act, the House has now voted-out a bill that some of our friends are calling a first step in the complete repeal of Obamacare, and that other friends are calling a complete sham and a step backward for Republicans.…
Read MoreHouse Finance Chair Charles Sargent Strips Amendment For Vets, Reverting to Pork Project
House Finance Chairman Charles Sargent (R-Franklin) on Friday stripped an amendment to the budget bill, HB 511, that would have given $3.12 million to veterans, opting instead for a pork project in Williamson County. On Thursday during House debate on the budget, Rep. Jimmy Matlock (R-Lenoir City) introduced an amendment…
Read MoreCommentary: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regulations Strangle Innovations Like Google Wallet, PayPal
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Be wary whenever a federal agency issues a professedly benign regulation. Even the devil can quote scripture. Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 553(e), federal agencies are required to “give . . . interested person[s] the right to petition for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of a…
Read MoreConstitution Series: The First Amendment
This is the sixth of twenty-five weekly articles in The Tennessee Star’s Constitution Series. Students in grades 8 through 12 can sign up here to participate in The Tennessee Star’s Constitution Bee, which will be held on September 23. The First Amendment was passed by Congress September 25, 1789,…
Read MoreFaith: Verse of the Day for Monday, May 08
VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing May 8, Monday Psalm 62:5-7 5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. 7 On God…
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