Day: July 31, 2017

President Trump’s New Chief of Staff John Kelly Removes Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director

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  Several news outlets are reporting President Trump’s new Chief of Staff, the no-nonsense former General John Kelly, has removed Anothony Scaramucci as White House Communications Director. It is unclear if Mr. Scaramucci will stay on in some other capacity within the Administration, or if he will be separated altogether. Via the NY Times: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff. DEVELOPING…

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Mae Beavers Edges Bill Lee in ‘Rural Tennessee Speaks’ Gubernatorial Straw Poll, Boyd and Harwell No Shows

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  State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet) narrowly won the Rural Tennessee Speaks Republican gubernatorial straw poll over Williamson County businessman Bill Lee on Saturday held Saturday evening in Dover, Tennessee. A large crowd of more than 200 turned out to hear from all four announced candidates who are running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. “It was 66 for Mae, and 62 for Bill Lee. Not everybody voted. 147 votes were cast. As far as the other three candidates, there were a total of 19 votes cast for them. Diane Black received 10 votes, Beth Harwell received 7, and Randy Boyd received 2,” State Rep. Jay Reedy (R-Erin), President of the Rural Tennessee Speaks PAC, told The Tennessee Star. Both Beavers and Lee showed up and spoke to the attentive audience, but the other two announced candidates were no shows. Speaker of the Tennessee House Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) apparently cancelled prior to the event, and Knoxville businessman Randy Boyd did not attend. “They were all invited,” Reedy said of the four announced candidates (Beavers, Boyd, Harwell, and Lee) and one unannounced candidate (Black). “It was probably four days ago, her campaign manager Holt Rich had called earlier in the week…

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State Rep. and Congressional Candidate Judd Matheny Donates School Supplies At Portland Back to School Bash

Laura Baigert

PORTLAND, Tennessee — State Rep. Judd Matheny (R-Tullahoma) handed out school supplies at the 8th annual Back to School Bash sponsored by the Portland Chamber of Commerce on Saturday. Matheny is running in the Republican primary for the 6th District of the U.S. House, a seat currently held by expected gubernatorial candidate Diane Black, could be found handing out school supplies. The event, was held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Richland Park. Sponsors of the event handed out backpacks filled with school supplies to students who met the only requirement of being enrolled in Portland schools and accompanied by a parent or guardian. Bags were available to everyone from pre-Kindergarten to grade 12, and the 700 available bags were handed out within 1 hour and 10 minutes, Portland Chamber of Commerce President/CEO, Sherri Ferguson, told The Tennessee Star. Dozens of volunteers helped to pack the backpacks and then hand them out at the event. Another 10 bags will be delivered to each of Portland’s nine schools, as will additional school supplies in time for the first day of school, Monday, August 7. Matheny has attended several of these events around the 6th Congressional District, handing out lunch…

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FBI Lawyer Allegedly Under Investigation for Leaking

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FBI General Counsel James A. Baker allegedly is under an ongoing criminal investigation for supposedly leaking classified information pertaining to a U.S. surveillance program, according to a Circa report published Friday night. Several U.S. government officials with knowledge of the purported investigation told Circa reporter Sara Carter that Baker is under investigation concerning details divulged in…

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Constitution Series: The Seventh Amendment

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The Jury by John Morgan

    This is the fourteenth 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 Seventh Amendment is one of those steady but unspectacular amendments that does not feature prominently in many Supreme Court cases, because it specifies two relatively straightforward rights: (1) trial by jury and (2) finding of facts made by a jury can not be appealed or “re-examined.” In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of common law. You may note a phrase in that amendment with which you may not be familiar: “the rules of common law.” What, exactly, are “the rules of common law,” and what, while we’re at it, do we mean by “common law”? The Oxford English Dictionary provides the simplest explanation of what is meant by common law: “The part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than…

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How an Obama Appointee ‘Pulled the Rug Out’ from Under Persecuted Christians

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At the first World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians held in Washington, D.C., two months ago — organized by the Rev. Franklin Graham — Vice President Mike Pence told a delighted audience that President Trump was committed to “defending Christians.” The audience included Christians from all over the world who had suffered for their faith.…

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Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan

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Debbie Wasserman

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemingly planned to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn’t stopped him from leaving the U.S. Monday. Public statements and congressional payroll records suggest she also appears to have known that his wife, a fellow IT staffer, left the…

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Commentary: Democrat IT Spy Tries To Run To Pakistan: We Connect More Dots For You

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Imran Awan - House IT scandal

  by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor   Yesterday, we connected some of the dots about Imran Awan, the House Democrat’s information technology staffer who was busted for unauthorized access to government computers and arrested at Dulles Airport for bank fraud, not espionage, as he tried to flee to his native Pakistan. Earlier in the week learned that FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home Awan shared with some of the other members of his gang; his bothers Abid and Jamal Awan, Hina R. Alvi (Imran Awan’s wife) and Natalia Sova, all employed by House Democrats as IT administrators. The brothers, and their wives, are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress reported our friend Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation. Alvi worked for many of the same members as the three brothers, as well as the House Democratic Caucus. Among those whose computer systems may have been compromised is Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who was previously the target of a disastrous email hack when she served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign. Awan, who is rumored to…

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Education Scholar: 3 Most Frequently Assigned College Common Readings Are About Racism

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The three most frequently assigned common readings for incoming freshmen at American colleges are all “about African Americans suffering from American racism,” according to a study discussed Thursday by an education scholar. David Randall, Director of Communications for the National Association for Scholars, gave a lecture entitled “Beach Books: How universities are using summer reading lists…

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Mae Beavers to Democratic Party Snowflakes: Bring It On

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  The Democratic Party of Davidson County picked on the wrong Republican grandmother when it attacked State Senator Mae Beavers (R- Mt. Juliet) in a press release late Friday afternoon. On Saturday, the Republican gubernatorial candidate punched back, and her response stunned the left wing pajama boys and girls in Nashville. Davidson County’s Democrats alleged on Friday Beavers “could be breaking federal law and violating the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users,” according to chattanoogan.com. “If blocking hateful trolls who tweet profanity and obscene images constitutes viewpoint discrimination, then I’d be more than happy to slug it out in federal court,” Beavers said in a statement released by her campaign on Saturday that bore the headline “Beavers Responds to Offended Snowflakes.” “Sharing opinions is a cherished constitutional right, but posting borderline pornography on someone else’s account is clearly not,” the conservative candidate for the Republican nomination for governor continued. Beavers’ campaign noted that “On June 24th, the Davidson County Democratic Party tweeted out a photograph featuring a drag queen attempting to impersonate Beavers during ‘Nashville Pride.’ ” Here is the actual June 24 tweet from the official Twitter account of the Democratic Party of Davidson County: What an honor…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Monday, July 31

Dana Hunsinger Gill
Tennessee Star - Verse of the Day

  VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing July 31, Monday Matthew 9:22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment. Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. James 1:6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

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