President Trump announced Thursday that his administration is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, a move backed by 10 state attorneys general who wrote a letter to Trump last week asking him to step away. The attorneys general represent the states of West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska,…
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President Donald Trump has made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, undoing a crowning achievement of the Obama administration. Trump promised to “cancel” the Paris Agreement on the campaign trail, but his own White House was split on the issue. The president already issued…
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State Senator Mark Green (R-Clarksville) told WWTN 99.7 FM’s Pamela Furr, sitting in as host of the Dan Mandis Show on Thursday, that he will “be making an announcement in the next day or so” about his political future. Furr also asked Green about his plans after his announcement last…
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Folks in Mobile, Alabama, like their crawfish boils and thanks to a new law signed by their governor, they can continue to enjoy them at local bars. The Mobile County Health Department began cracking down on the informal sidewalk boils last year, saying they didn’t comply with food handling regulations…
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said the GOP-led Congress has been slow to deliver on President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda because “conservatives are not the majority” in the House or the Senate, during an interview Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” Brooks, who is mounting a primary challenge against Sen. Luther…
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Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said Wednesday the civil service appeals process prevents the agency from firing “terrible managers,” and that the Senate must act to reduce the impact of the Merit Systems Protection Board and excessive government employee union-backed due process requirements. “Just last week we were…
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There are at least seven reasons why the Vanderbilt Poll-Tennessee released on Tuesday by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, co-directed by Vanderbilt Professor John Geer, is fatally flawed. Those flaws come as no surprise to conservatives across the state. “The Vanderbilt Poll has notoriously leaned left for…
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The White House appears to be preparing for a grueling, sustained conflict. But not with North Korea. Instead, the White House is prepping for a major counteroffensive against the U.S. news media. “I think the news-reading public should tell the media that unless the source is named, we’re going to…
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History buffs who want to know more about the history of Tennessee will have their chance Saturday, when the Tennessee State Library and Archives holds a “Tennessee Celebrates Statehood” birthday celebration. “Part of our mission is to make our state’s history accessible to a wider audience beyond scholars and…
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by Jeffrey A. Rendall With all the noise Democrats have made since Donald Trump first won the Republican presidential nomination and then pierced the “blue wall” to prevail in last November’s election, you would think the new president’s most dangerous adversaries reside far outside his own Republican Party circles.…
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A federal aid agency President Donald Trump proposed cutting is being investigated for giving out nearly $1 billion in loans to several nearly bankrupt solar companies, according to a Reuters report published Tuesday. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development is auditing $890 million of…
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When Heidi Shafer moved to Memphis in 1987, she couldn’t tell local politicians apart. Everyone, Republican and Democrat, was against crime and for the children and for education. Their campaign literature did little to distinguish one from the other. “Everybody sounded the same,” she recalled in an interview Wednesday…
Read MoreThe House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to increase the penalties on illegal immigrants who repeatedly cross the border, but there is scant evidence it will fare any better in the Senate than it did last year. Named Kate’s Law after 2015 homicide victim Kate Steinle, the bill…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing June 1, Thursday 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
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