Day: July 1, 2017

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett Refuses to Fully Cooperate With Voter Fraud Commission

Tennessee Star Staff

  Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett is refusing to fully cooperate with the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, on which Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach serves as vice chairman. “Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said today his office legally can’t agree to a request from President Donald Trump’s commission on election integrity to provide personal information about voters,” the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported on Friday: “Although I appreciate the commission’s mission to address election-related issues, like voter fraud, Tennessee state law does not allow my office to release the voter information requested to the federal commission,” Hargett, a Republican, said in a statement. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, is serving as vice chairman of Trump’s recently created Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. In a letter sent Wednesday to election officials across the country, Kobach asked for their recommendations on any changes in federal law in areas like ensuring integrity of elections. But Kobach also said that “for the Commission to fully analyze vulnerabilities and issues related to voter registration and voting, I am requesting that you provide to the Commission the publicly available voter roll data for Tennessee, including, if publicly…

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Donald Trump Blasts States That Are Refusing to Give Records to Voter Fraud Panel

Tennessee Star Staff

President Trump took aim Saturday morning at the two dozen states refusing to heed his election integrity commission’s request this week for detailed voter records as his administration ramps up a review of the U.S. election system. “Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL,” Mr. Trump tweeted from his…

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Trump Nominates Belmont Law Professor To Be U.S. Attorney For Middle Tennessee

Wendy Wilson

  President Trump has nominated a Belmont University law professor to serve as U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Donald Cochran, who teaches criminal law and trial advocacy, previously taught at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama, according to a White House press release. From 1998 to 2002, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama. In that role, he prosecuted white collar crimes, public corruption and violent crimes. His cases included that of the final defendant charged with the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The bombing of the African-American church by white supremacists played a role in the civil rights movement. Cochran began his career as a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office in Birmingham, where he prosecuted homicides, sexual assaults and other violent crimes. A graduate of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Law School, Cochran was an Army Ranger and Special Forces officer for nine years before studying law.  

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Somalia Born Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud Pleads Guilty to Terrorist Activity in Ohio

Tennessee Star Staff

A 25-year-old Ohio man pleaded guilty to allegations he was involved in a terrorist plot in 2015, according to newly unsealed legal documents. Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud was charged by a federal grand jury with providing material support to terrorists, providing support to a designated terrorist organization, and of lying to the FBI about international terrorism. His…

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Rush Limbaugh Rips Media’s Trump-Tweet Fears: ‘It’s Republicans Who Are Being Fired Upon’

Tennessee Star Staff

Radio host Rush Limbaugh says media hand-wringing over PresidentTrump’s outbursts at reporters is absurd since “it’s Republicans who are being fired upon.” Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed consumed most of Thursday’s news cycle after he mocked MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough as “Psycho Joe” and Mika Brzezinski as “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and then went on to insult Ms.…

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Commentary: Fighting Fire with Fire

Tennessee Star Staff

By: George Rasley, CHQ Editor   Morning talk TV hostess Mika Brzezinski and her husband to be serial philanderer Joe Scarborough constantly belittle President Donald Trump on MSNBC’s low-ratings “Morning Joe” show. Their disregard and disrespect for the President is consistent with other liberal main stream media outlets because the President is a Republican. Earlier this month, as our friend Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit reported, Mika went on an all-out assault against the President. In less than one minute she called President Trump – “Narcissist”, “Mentally Ill’, “Not Well”, “Ignorant”, “Stupid”, “says he can grab women anywhere” and insinuated that he might have homosexual tendencies. President Trump apparently had enough yesterday as he posted the following in two tweets on Twitter: “I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..” The President’s second tweet said the following: “…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” Predictably, the rest of the establishment media piled on to insist that Brzezinski was right. The Washington Post offered Brzezinski…

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Trump Administration May Be Inching Toward ‘Regime Change’ in Syria, Iran and Venezuela

Tennessee Star Staff

The Trump administration and Congress appear to be inching toward policies of regime change in at least three countries — Iran, Syria and Venezuela — in what would be a dramatic reversal of the non-interventionism that Donald Trump advocated during the campaign. In a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on June 14, Secretary of…

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CNN Producer Calls Trump ‘Crazy,’ Voters ‘Stupid As S—‘ in Latest Project Veritas Video

Tennessee Star Staff

A producer for CNN’s morning news show said that media insiders view President Trump as a “clown” who’s “f-ing crazy” and voters as “stupid as sh-” in an undercover video released Friday by Project Veritas. Jimmy Carr, a producer for CNN’s “New Day” starring Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota, said “90 percent of us are on…

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The Gas Tax Increase Goes Into Effect Today: How It Happened Despite Record State Revenues

Laura Baigert

  The gas tax increase of 4 cents per gallon, which will eventually increase to 6 cents per gallon, as well as a diesel tax increase that will eventually reach 10 cents per gallon, both go into effect today, July 1, throughout Tennessee. The culprit for this tax increase is Governor Haslam’s IMPROVE Act – Improving Manufacturing, Public Roads and Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy – later renamed the Tax Cut Act of 2017. As Tennesseans are forced to pay this higher tax, it’s time to review how it happened in a state with record revenues and a billion dollar surplus. It started no later than 2015, when Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Transportation (TDOT) Commissioner John Schroer went on a taxpayer-funded six-week 15-city tour, meeting with elected officials, business leaders and chamber of commerce executives as well as “infrastructure officials and community members” creating a “need” and building support for a gas tax increase.  At the time, there was a $6.1 billion backlog of road and bridge projects. Davidson and Middle Tennessee counties that ring it, were provided Resolutions to be passed by their respective legislative bodies, most often a County Commission, that urged Governor Haslam and the Tennessee…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Saturday, July 1

Dana Hunsinger Gill
Tennessee Star - Verse of the Day

  VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing July 1, Saturday Ecclesiastes 4:12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. 1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.

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