Day: July 24, 2017

72-Year-Old Nashville Man Shoots And Kills Attacker In Self-Defense

Wendy Wilson

A 72-year-old Nashville man shot and fatally wounded a man in self-defense last week during an attempted robbery. A second male assailant fled with the mortally wounded suspect after the shooting. “They didn’t know who they were messing with,” Robert James Johnson told WKRN News 2 “They messed with the wrong person that day.” Johnson was ambushed after trying to do a good deed Wednesday afternoon by helping a young woman living on the streets who later was arrested for facilitating the crime. Molena Holt, 26, asked Johnson to drive her to Springfield, Tennessee, and Johnson agreed. She asked that he first stop at Madison Manor Apartments so she could pick up some clothes. Police say that after she got out and walked behind a building, the two men allegedly approached Johnson, still in his car, and demanded money at gunpoint, punching him in the neck and taking his wallet. Johnson took out a handgun from his pocket and fired, fatally wounding Randall Caradine, 46, of 12th Avenue South, according to a Metro Nashville Police Department press release. The second unidentified suspect drove the wounded Caradine to a nearby auto repair shop and told employees to call 911. He pulled Cardine from…

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EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Moore Is Taking the FreedomWorks ‘Axes to Taxes’ Tour to Tennessee

Tennessee Star Staff

In an exclusive interview with The Tennessee Star, economic writer Stephen Moore, a campaign adviser to President Trump and Heritage Foundation fellow, tells why he has joined FreedomWorks to bring its “Axes to Taxes” tour to Tennessee. The event, hosted by the Tennessee Republican Assembly, will be held at the Dairy King in Nashville a week from Saturday, August 5, at 8:30 am. “The idea behind the tour is that FreedomWorks has about 6 million grassroots activists around the country, many of them Tea Party activists, many of them Donald Trump and Ted Cruz supporters from the past presidential race. Our concern is the left is making all the noise. It’s not our side that’s really activated the way liberals are,” Moore said. In order to counter balance that, “we need to get our side fired up again,” he added. “So that’s our real goal is to have this tour around the country.” Moore pointed out the practical impact of the noise from the left. “When these members in Congress go home for the recess, all they hear from is liberals. We want to get our side really ginned up again,” Moore said. Moore praised his friend, former Nashville talk radio…

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Trump Commissions USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier, Calls on Congress to Boost Defense Spending

Tennessee Star Staff

President Trump commissioned the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Saturday, celebrating the newest symbol of American military might as he called on Congress to approve a budget with a big increase in defense spending. Addressing an audience of dignitaries and sailors on the $12.9-billion nuclear-powered carrier at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, Mr.…

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Constitution Series: The Sixth Amendment

Tennessee Star Staff
Tennessee Star

    This is the thirteenth of twenty-five weekly articles in The Tennessee Star’s Constitution Series. Students in grades 8 through 12 can sign up here to participate in The Tennessee Star’s Constitution Bee, which will be held on September 23. The Sixth Amendment, like the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment, primarily focuses on the protection of individual liberties against the police powers of the state: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have previously been ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. A good way to remember the Sixth Amendment is that it guarantees six very specific rights to every citizen: (1) If you ever accused of a crime, and prosecuted criminally, you have the right to a speedy and public trial (2) You have a right to be tried by an impartial jury of your…

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Durbin Expands Russia Hysteria to Voter Fraud Commission: ‘Exactly What Putin Wants’

Tennessee Star Staff

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) pushed the application of Russian hysteria into new territory Sunday, claiming in a tweet that President Donald Trump’s creation of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is “exactly what Vladimir Putin wants.” Trump created the commission, tasked with investigating possible voter fraud and ensuring the integrity of U.S. elections,…

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Judd Matheny on the Campaign Trail in Pleasant View for Sixth Congressional District Seat

Tennessee Star Staff

State Rep. Judd Matheny (R-Tullahoma) could be the hardest working politician in Tennessee. On Saturday, Matheny, the only announced candidate so far for the Sixth Congressional District seat currently held by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN-06),  stopped by the annual Pleasant View Firefighters Parade and Picnic in Cheatham County, sponsored by the Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department. Cheatham County is in the far northwestern corner of the Sixth Congressional District. On Friday, Matheny was in Putnam County, handing out 2,500 pencils and book marks to students and their parents at the Putnam County Back to School Bash. Later on Saturday, Matheny was in Lebanon, where he gave a short speech at the Wilson County Republican Party annual picnic. “Senator Beavers has been solid as a rock since I’ve been in the state legislature,” Matheny said of the gubernatorial candidate, who was also in attendance in Wilson County. Matheny noted that during the horn honking protests over the proposed state income tax in 2000, when he was still just a private citizen, Beavers, then serving in the State House of Representatives, helped him navigate his way into and around the State Capital Building to make the case against the state income tax…

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Trump Warns Iran to Release Detained US Citizens, Threatens ‘Serious Consequences’

Tennessee Star Staff

U.S. President Donald Trump is warning Iran to release American citizens detained in the Islamic Republic, saying if it does not he is “prepared to impose new and serious consequences.” A White House statement Friday said Trump is willing to take new measures “unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released and returned.” The comments come…

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Commentary: Obamacare Repeal is ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Moment for GOP

Tennessee Star Staff

By Jeffrey A. Rendall   Another week, another failure for the Republican congressional leadership. The media is ablaze with stories of more feckless incompetence by the GOP congressional majority to pass any kind of repeal and/or replace of Obamacare this week. Of course the professional talkers are snickering at President Trump as well, seemingly joyous that the president doesn’t appear to carry sufficient political clout to lean on enough senators to get anything pushed through. Though it’s safe to say all conservatives are frustrated with the lack of progress on Capitol Hill it’s doubtful Trump himself will sustain any political hits from the inactions of a wayward few in his own party. Jason L. Riley wrote at The Wall Street Journal, “Emily Ekins, a Cato Institute scholar who is part of a politically diverse team of academics and pollsters in the process of analyzing the 2016 election, told me on Monday that Trump supporters are less concerned about his policy agenda and more interested in having someone who understands them occupy the Oval Office… “This is of little comfort to Republicans in Congress. Unlike the president, GOP lawmakers must face voters next year and desperately want some legislative victories to…

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Mayor Megan Barry’s ‘Office of Resilience’ Sells Globalists The Opportunity to Shape Nashville

Chris Alto

  Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has officially tethered the city to the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities” (100RC) initiative. The globalist foundation provides direct funding for Barry’s new “Office of Resilience” chief resilience officer, Erik Cole. The Foundation’s team works with networked cities to plan for every eventuality ranging from natural disasters like floods and tornadoes to “slow-moving disasters like unemployment, affordable housing, and poverty and inequality – that are increasingly part of 21st century life.” According to a U.S. Conference of Mayors report, from 2015 to 2016, chronic homelessness in Nashville has increased by 9.8 percent, well above the national average and ranking Mayor Barry’s city as having the sixth largest jump among cities included in the report. Nashville also ranked a 43.2% increase in unsheltered homelessness during the same time period. Mayor Barry’s commitment to “meeting the goals of the Paris [climate] Agreement” aligns with the “City Resilience Framework” (CRF) and is supported by the president of 100 Resilient Cities and other 100RC city members. The CRF was developed by Arup, whose “independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists” have assembled to “shape a better world.” The CRF is intended to identify a city’s “characteristics and capacity” to respond to the:…

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