Speaker of the Tennessee House Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Tennessee in a statement released by her campaign at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. “Tennessee needs someone who possesses the experience from day one to lead our state to the next level…
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WKRN: Beth Harwell Telling Public Officials She Will Run for Governor
WKRN is reporting that Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) may be in the race for the Republican nomination for governor as early as Sunday. “Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell has been quietly calling people over the last week telling them she is definitely running for governor,” WKRN reported late Saturday: News…
Read MoreState Rep. Judd Matheny Speaks to Tennessee Alliance of Liberty Groups
State Rep. Judd Matheny (R-Tullahoma) was one of the featured speakers at the regular quarterly meeting of the Tennessee Alliance of Liberty Groups held in Lebanon on Saturday. Matheny was originally scheduled to speak about the fight over the gas tax in the state legislature this session, and addressed…
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats’ Rage Over Phony Donald Trump Jr. Email Scam Is Pathetic
by Jeffrey A. Rendall In the earliest days of email I, probably like everyone else, received a great many unsolicited messages from people I didn’t know. These notes sounded enticing in the subject line but upon further examination of the contents turned out to be…well, fraudulent. This phenomenon is…
Read MoreColleges Pay Diversity Officers More Than Professors, Staff
Top public universities pay administrators with jobs related to diversity initiatives an average of $175,088 per year, substantially more than other professors and faculty members, according to a Campus Reform investigation. A sheet compiling the salaries of the top diversity administrators at 43 of America’s top public universities shows that…
Read MoreWatchdog Uncovers New Evidence of Quid Pro Quo at Hillary State Dept.
Judicial Watch released 448 pages of documents Friday showing further incidences of Huma Abedin, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff in the State Department, allocating special treatment to Clinton Foundation donors while Clinton served as Secretary of State. Clinton’s use of a private email server…
Read MoreStudents File Lawsuit After School Denies Pro-Life Club Approval
A religious nonprofit organization is suing Parkland School District in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, after Parkland High School deemed a pro-life student club too controversial and subsequently refused to approve its charter. The national public interest law firm Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit against the school district, high school, and…
Read MoreAl Gore Likens the Climate Change Movement to Campaign Ending Slavery
Former Vice President Al Gore compared the fight to end man-made global warming to the abolishment of slavery and the push for gay marriage. “The abolition of slavery, woman’s suffrage … and more recently the gay rights movement,” Gore said Thursday about the importance of staying ahead of the curve…
Read MoreScott Hamann, Maine Democrat, Kicked Off Committees Over ‘Inexcusable’ Anti-Trump Rant
A Maine state lawmaker who is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service over a threatening online comment about President Trump has been removed from two legislative committees as punishment, the state’s House speaker announced Friday. Democratic Rep. Scott Hamann has been kicked off the Health and Human Services Committee…
Read MoreBill Lee Wins Williamson County GOP Gubernatorial Straw Poll
THOMPSON’S STATION, Tennessee–Williamson County businessman Bill Lee won the gubernatorial straw poll conducted Saturday at the Williamson County Republican Party annual summer BBQ at Little Creek Farms with a whopping 63 percent of the 243 votes cast. State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet) finished a surprising second with 26 percent…
Read MoreFaith: Verse of the Day for Sunday, July 16
VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing July 16, Sunday Matthew 6:5-14 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly,…
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