Day: July 2, 2017

Gubernatorial Candidate Mae Beavers and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett Talk Politics in East Tennessee

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State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), one of three announced candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, and Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, who recently said he will be running for Congress, presumably against incumbent Rep. John J. Duncan (R-TN-02), or the U.S. Senate against Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) in 2018, met for lunch at the Vol Market in Knoxville last week to talk politics. The meeting generated interested among Tennessee political observers and sparked discussions about a potential alliance in the August 2018 Republican primary between the two well respected independent minded conservatives. The two have plenty in common and are mutual admirers. “Tim is one of the best retail politicians in Tennessee and I appreciate him introducing me around the famous Vol Market. It certainly won’t be my last visit!” Beavers told The Tennessee Star. “His leadership as Knox County Mayor proves that actually governing as a conservative rather than just talking like one at election time produces great results for our citizens. Like many, I can’t wait to see what challenge Tim takes on next as his terms as Mayor come to an end,” Beavers added. Burchett was equally complimentary of Beavers. “I really enjoyed introducing Mae…

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Libertarian Justin Amash One of Few Republicans to Oppose Sanctuary Crackdown in Congress

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The House of Representatives vote to pass two immigration-enforcement bills Thursday mostly followed the partisan divide, but each had defectors on both sides. The , which would cut off grant funding to jurisdictions that thwart federal immigration officers, saw 10 members of Congress buck their party. , which would increase penalties for people with criminal records…

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‘Hookers for Health Care’ Organizes Against Republican Efforts to Replace Obamacare

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Republican efforts to replace former President Obama’s signature piece of legislation have a new group of activists pitted against them: prostitutes. Nevada’s licensed prostitutes have organized a hundred-strong coalition called “Hookers for Health Care” to influence America’s national health care debate. Leader Alice Little of Carson City’s Sagebrush Ranch brothel says undoing the Affordable Care Act…

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Trump Choice to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Draws Ire of Liberals

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The White House nominated Washington labor lawyer Eric Dreiband as an assistant attorney general to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – a choice eliciting anger from liberal advocacy groups. Organizations like the ACLU and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which is headed by Mr. Dreiband’s predecessor, questioned the lawyer’s experience, saying…

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Commentary: Democrats Leap Headfirst Out of Bounds with ‘Death Party’ Rhetoric

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By: Jeffrey A. Rendall   If the left’s recent contentions are to be believed, Americans better brace themselves for the coming of a serious body count in the years ahead. No, these hyperbolic liberals aren’t talking about America entering into another Asian land war against the communists or even gearing up for a final push in the never-ending War on Terror; instead, leftists are forewarning of tens of thousands being killed (literally) by Republican efforts to change the faltering Obamacare law. The Editors of the Washington Examiner report, “The new Congressional Budget Office report for the Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill has revived a false claim, parroted by many once respectable media outfits, that millions of people (this time 22 million, one million fewer than the House version of the bill) will ‘lose their insurance.’… “More galling yet is the claim that the Senate’s modest proposals will ‘kill’ nearly 29,000 additional people each year. This is the worst sort of fact-free appeal, and a good example of why there is little intelligent discussion of politics anymore.” It’s true; such rhetorical excess does tend to remove the credibility of those who make such outlandish claims. If the 29,000 per annum “killed” figure…

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Conexion Americas Community Event in Nashville Focused on Progressive Activism And Food From Randy Boyd Funded Kitchen Incubator

Wendy Wilson
Tennessee Star

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Michael Gilbert has worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years, but he’s only had his own business for about a year. The South Carolina native turned to Conexión Américas for help in getting his food truck off the ground. He is a member of the nonprofit’s culinary entrepreneurship program that offers people like him training in marketing and other skills they will need. Most importantly, it offers them use of a commercial kitchen. Gilbert said he values the chance to interact with other chefs in the program. “It’s a good learning experience,” he said Friday as he served breakfast fare from his City Kitchen food truck parked outside Casa Azafrán, where Conexión Américas held an Independence Day celebration. While Gilbert is an American citizen, the help he has received has come from an organization that promotes relief programs for illegal immigrants and provides services for them, as well as for legal immigrants. Conexión Américas co-founder Renata Soto is chair of National Council of La Raza, a national organization that has protested counterterrorism measures on grounds they violate immigrants’ rights. Conexión Américas’ progressive stances have created a problem for Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd, who last year donated $250,000 to help…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Sunday, July 2

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  VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing July 2, Sunday Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 1 Peter 2:16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

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