Vice President Mike Pence To Speak Aug. 3 at Tennessee GOP Dinner in Nashville

Tennessee Star

  Vice President Mike Pence will be the keynote speaker for this year’s annual Tennessee GOP Statesmen’s Dinner to be held Thursday, Aug. 3. “This is an exciting time for the Tennessee Republican Party as we continue to grow and gear up for 2018’s critical elections,” said party chairman Scott…

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Oscar-winner Martin Landau, Who Starred in ‘Ed Wood,’ ‘North By Northwest’ and ‘Entourage,’ Dies at 89

Tennessee Star

LOS ANGELES — Martin Landau, Oscar-winning actor for “Ed Wood,” has died at 89. He died Saturday at UCLA Medical Center where he experienced “unexpected complications” during a short hospitalization, his publicist confirmed. “We are overcome with sadness to report the death of iconic actor Martin Landau,” a statement said.…

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OFF THE RECORD: Did Glen Casada Cast His Vote for Diane Black in Gubernatorial Straw Poll?

Tennessee Star

  One of The Tennessee Star’s cameras captured this interesting photograph at the annual Williamson County Republican Party BBQ in Thompson’s Station on Saturday: As The Star reported earlier, Williamson County businessman Bill Lee won the straw poll at the event with 63 percent of the votes cast. State Senator…

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Procedural Victory Moves Administration Closer to Green Light on Trump’s Wall

House Democrats failed in a last-minute attempt Friday to prohibit funds allocated to the Defense Department’s $696 billion budget from going toward the construction of the border wall President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to build. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.), chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led the Democratic charge…

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Commentary: Social Security Gender War Exposes Bureaucratic Bloat

Talk about a bureaucratic nightmare. Stacy Harp, who hosts Bible News Radio with her husband, Randall Harp, is just trying to transfer the Social Security payments for her father, Clayton Perrotte, from Florida to Tennessee. Sounds pretty straight-forward – yes? Well get this: Harp can’t get it done. Because somewhere…

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Four of Donald Trump’s Judicial Nominees Clear Senate Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared four of President Trump’s judicial nominees Thursday, rejecting complaints by Democrats who said that one of them called a Supreme Court justice a “judicial prostitute” and that the other equated the high court’s legal rulings to slavery and abortion. Two of the picks were approved…

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Rand Paul Accuses Big Government Republicans of ‘Going Back on Their Word to Repeal Obamacare’

Sen. Rand Paul accused “big-government Republicans” of going “back on their word to repeal Obamacare” by supporting the revised Senate health care bill. “The real problem we have is, we won four elections on repealing Obamacare, but this bill keeps most of the Obamacare taxes, keeps most of the regulations,…

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‘Free Press Act’ Proposed by Democrat Would Require White House to Hold Regular Televised Press Briefings

Tennessee Star

The White House would be required to hold at least a couple on-camera press briefings each week if a Democratic lawmaker musters support for a House bill being offered. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut introduced the Free Press Act on Thursday, a legislative proposal that aims to increase transparency within…

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