Day: May 29, 2017

Nashville Predators Lose Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final to Penguins, 5 to 3

Tennessee Star Staff

The Nashville Predators dropped Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final to the Pittsburgh Penguins 5 to 3 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Monday. The Penguins jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first period, as WKRN reported:   After dual penalties by Calle Jarnkrok and James Neal, the Penguins were able to capitalize as Evgeni Malkin scored his eighth goal of the postseason to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead. About a minute later, the Penguins scored again as Chris Kunitz found Conor Sheary for an easy finish and a 2-0 lead. Just before the end of the first period, the Preds got some bad luck as Nick Bonino’s shot was deflected by Pekka Rinne and off Mattias Ekholm for a 3-0 Penguins lead. The Predators fought back to tie the game 3-3 by the third period, but the Penguins went up 4-3 with about 3 minutes and 17 seconds left in regulation to go ahead for good, and scored again in the final minute after Nashville pulled goaltender Pekka Rinne. The Predators press office summed up the game with this tweet: #Preds force the comeback and dominate majority of the play but fall 5-3 in Game One.…

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Trump at Arlington: Words Can’t Describe ‘Depths of Devotion’ of Those Who Gave Their Lives for Ours

Tennessee Star Staff

In a moving address to veterans and families at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, President Donald Trump singled out a member of his Cabinet – Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, who lost his youngest son in the war in Afghanistan. The cameras panned to Kelly, who was seated…

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Nashville Predators Gear Up for Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final Against Pittsburgh Penguins

Tennessee Star Staff

PITTSBURGH — A little more than 24 hours before the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators launch the 2017 Stanley Cup Final with Game 1 at PPG Paints Arena, there was the craziness Sunday that was the NHL’s annual media day. The requisite off-beat questions — Who’s your funniest teammate? Which player could sing the National Anthem?…

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State Rep. Judd Matheny: ‘If Everybody Does Stand Together, Government Has to Come Down to Our Level’

Laura Baigert

  MOUNT JULIET, Tennessee — At the Wilson County Conservative Republicans meeting Saturday, guest speaker Rep. Judd Matheny (R-Tullahoma) said of the battle over the 2018 state budget, “If everybody does stand together, government has to come down to our level.” Matheny was referring to the stand-off that occurred in the House of Representatives when he added a constitution-breaking amendment to the budget, which prompted House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) to come down on the House floor and sit next to Matheny in Rep. Mark Pody’s (R-Lebanon) adjacent empty seat.  Alluding to Pody’s absence that day preaching the eulogy at a funeral, “The seat was empty next to me, and believe me, I felt it,” said Matheny. The monthly meeting, according to host Sen. Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), started seven to eight years ago and was attended this month by a crowd of about 40 overflowing the room at the Providence location of Logan’s Roadhouse in Mt. Juliet. Pody introduced Matheny at the Saturday meeting, saying that sitting next to Judd Matheny was the only request he has ever made of Speaker Harwell when he came to the House and she asked what Pody wanted for a wide range of…

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Judson Phillips Commentary: The Immoral Minority Strikes Again

Judson Phillips
Tennessee Star

  A couple of weeks ago, there was a protest in front of Senator Lamar Alexander’s Nashville home.  The group that protested is called, “Moral Movement Tennessee.” A number of years ago, the left decided they could make mileage by calling themselves, “moral.”  Conservatives have not seriously challenged the left on this.  And with the help of the enemy media, the left has wrapped themselves in this cloak of, “morality.” As with all liberals, they have morality in name only. “Moral Movement Tennessee” has an agenda that reads just like the various bat guano crazy Democrat groups.  They want single payer healthcare, they want massive tax increases, increase voter fraud and pretty much destroy Tennessee as a favorable business environment. Every Western morality teaches that theft is wrong, yet this is exactly these liberals want to do. Liberals are notoriously cheap.  They want everything for free and hate to give to charity.  These same liberals who would lecture real Americans about “morality” want to take from others by force. This is called taxation and the Libertarians are on to something when they tell us taxation is theft. Charity is a part of morality. But forced charity is not moral. It…

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Kay Ivey, Alabama Governor, Signs Law Protecting Confederate Monuments from Removal

Tennessee Star Staff

Alabama’s Republican governor has effectively safeguarded the state’s Confederate monuments from removal amid a recent purge of Civil War relics within neighboring states. Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 on Wednesday, putting in place measures to protect decades-old statues, monuments and other tributes from Decatur to Dothan. Officially the legislation prohibits…

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Donald Trump Delivers Memorial Day Weekend Speech: Civilized Nations Will ‘Crush’ Terrorists

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Tennessee Star

President Donald Trump touted the “extraordinary gains” made in his “historic” first overseas trip as president that “paved the way for a new era of cooperation” as he concluded the trip during a speech Saturday at the Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily on Memorial Day weekend. Both the president and first lady Melania Trump spoke…

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