Day: August 8, 2017

Bill Hennessy Commentary: Missouri’s Governor Greitens Signs Executive Order Protecting Patients’ Prescription Privacy

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  By: Bill Hennessy   In case you haven’t heard, Governor Greitens signed an executive order on July 17. The EO made Missouri the 50th state to establish some sort of prescription drug tracking. Most states track everything about prescriptions. And hyperactive federal judges have already opened those state databases to the unmasking eyes of the Deep State. So what makes Greitens’s plan unique and amazing? First, let’s look at the threat to privacy posed by most states’ plans. A threat the Missouri legislature almost brought to Missouri. From Business Insider: Federal courts in Utah and Oregon recently ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration, in its effort to investigate suspected drug abusers or pill mills, can access information in those states’ PDMPs without a warrant, even over the states’ objections. That means the federal government can look in your medicine cabinet. Anytime. Without a warrant. Unless you live in Missouri. The bills that failed in the Missouri legislature (narrowly) looked like laws in those other states. The legislature would have tracked patients and prescribers and dispensers. But the legislature failed. So Greitens acted. Greitens’s EO is different. Very different. So different, Democrat Claire McCaskill is screaming for more intrusion. Like they…

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BREAKING: American Icon Glenn Campbell Has Died

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  Glen Campbell, velvet-voiced troubadour of “Wichita Lineman” and “Rhinestone Cowboy” fame, died Tuesday in Nashville according to TMZ: Campbell died Tuesday around 10 AM in a Nashville facility for Alzheimer’s patients … according to a source close to his family. The musician released more than 70 albums over a 50-year career, and had a series of hits in the ’60s and ’70s including “Gentle on My Mind,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Country Boy” and his best-selling single, “Rhinestone Cowboy.” Campbell was also an actor and TV host who starred in the variety show, “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour” on CBS from 1969-1972. The 2014 documentary “I’ll Be Me” documented Glen’s farewell tour and struggle with his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.   Developing…

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Nashville To Get Direct Flights To London

Wendy Wilson

  Nashville International Airport will offer direct flights to London on British Airways starting in May 2018, Gov. Bill Haslam announced at a press conference Tuesday morning. Haslam was joined at the press conference by Nashville Mayor Megan Barry and Simon Brooks, British Airways senior vice president for North America. It will be the first time the city has offered nonstop flights to London since American Airlines scaled back its operations more than 20 years ago. Tuesday’s announcement followed years of effort on the part of community and business leaders. “This is an exciting day in Nashville, an exciting day for the state of Tennessee,” Haslam said. “It’s a day that many of us have worked long and hard to see happen.” Haslam said that when he was traveling overseas about a month ago, “no matter where we went throughout Europe, there was a great deal of excitement about this flight.” The flights will help facilitate business travel between various European cities as well as various cities in Tennessee, not just Nashville, said Haslam, who expects travel to outperform projections. “This is truly a game changer for the city, and the region and the state,” he said. Brooks of British…

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Commissioner Lawrence: County Might Prosper If Williamson County Medical Center Is Sold

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  By Chris Butler, Editor Tennessee Watchdog   Selling the Williamson County Medical Center to private interests could help more hospitals and clinics set up shop in the area, said one of the few county commissioners who wants to study the idea. People who live in and around Williamson County and want more competition would get it, said County Commissioner Gregg Lawrence. As long as Williamson Medical is under county control, hospital administrators will take advantage of Certificate of Need laws. Those same hospital administrators will clog up the works when it comes to anyone trying to build a competing hospital, said County Commissioner Todd Kaestner. The potential rewards of selling the hospital to private interests are too great to ignore, both men said. “The biggest thing is you can bring in a private owner who has the resources to do capital investment of a significant size. You could add a lot more services at Williamson Medical,” Lawrence said, adding the hospital currently does not offer spinal surgeries, heart surgeries, or cancer treatments. As reported, most county commissioners won’t even consent to a formal study to find out if selling the hospital is in the county taxpayers’ best interests. Many…

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Commentary: H.R. McMaster Doesn’t Understand The Enemy Or The War

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  by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor   In our article ‘H.R. McMaster Is Proof The Deep State Exists‘ we outlined many of the reasons why President Trump’s National Security Advisor, LTG H.R. McMaster, should be relieved of his White House post. However, there is one more reason, perhaps the most important reason, that we left for treatment in a separate article: McMaster’s demand that the President re-escalate American military operations in Afghanistan. Back in February, Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to ask for a “few thousand” more U.S. troops. A few weeks later, Gen. Joseph McMaster in AfghanistanVotel, head of U.S. Central Command, echoed Nicholson’s request, telling senators that a new “strategy” for Afghanistan had to “involve additional forces.” During his Senate testimony, Nicholson was asked by Senator John McCain, who strongly advocates more US troops in Afghanistan, whether the U.S. was winning or losing in Afghanistan. “I believe we are in a stalemate,” replied the general. “We are not winning in Afghanistan,” Defense Secretary James Mattis later testified. Fast forward to July, when President Donald Trump’s senior Cabinet officials and top national security advisers met for a contentious…

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Group Sues Vermont AG for Withholding Emails About Climate Crusade Against Oil Groups

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Vermont is refusing to comply with a court order forcing officials to release communications about the state’s supposed involvement in a climate inquisition against fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group said Monday. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan denied conservative group E&E Legal’s request for communication between former Attorney General William Sorrell and New York Attorney…

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Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ Tanks at Box Office

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Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” drew a lukewarm response from moviegoers, ranking 15th at the box office in its first weekend of wide release and earning tepid reviews from audiences. The sequel to Mr. Gore’s influential 2006 climate-change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” has earned about $1 million since its limited release July 28, prompting one critic…

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Memphis Parents Upset About High School STEM Program

Wendy Wilson

  Some parents in Memphis are upset about East High School becoming a STEM school, with at least one parent saying the plan is racist. “I feel like it’s just like Jim Crow,” parent Jacquelyn Webb told WREG News Channel 3. “They legally separating our students because they want the cream of the crop.” However, Shelby County Schools spokeswoman Natalia Powers said more than half of the 90 students already accepted into the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program at East High School are African-American and there are also some Hispanics. Parents attended a meeting Friday evening at the Lester Community Center to voice their concerns about students being separated, with some in the area now having to be bused to Douglass High School or Melrose High School. The only new students being enrolled at East High School this year are those accepted into the new STEM program, now being offered to ninth-graders. The program will expand to other grade levels in coming years until the entire school is STEM only. Some parents said they were caught off guard by the change and complained about just now learning about it. Powers, however, said the district has been communicating with families since…

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West Tennessee Site Likely to be Considered for New Toyota-Mazda Auto Plant

Wendy Wilson

  A site near Memphis will likely be considered for a new auto manufacturing plant to be built jointly by Toyota and Mazda. The plant will create up to 4,000 jobs, according to a news release issued by the Japanese car companies on Friday. They plan to spend $1.6 billion on the plant, with the goal of starting operations in 2021 pending government approvals. The plant will produce about 300,000 vehicles a year, and will make Toyota Corollas and crossover models that Mazda plans to introduce to the North American market. The news release did not say where the plant would be built, but real estate expects believe the Southeast is a definite possibility, according to the Commercial Appeal. A leading Tennessee industrial site is the Memphis Regional Megasite, 4,100 acres of vacant farm land off Interstate 40 in Haywood and Fayette counties between Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee. State officials bought the land a decade ago to attract a Toyota car plant, but the company decided to put its Corolla assembly line west of Tupelo in Blue Springs, Mississippi. Because the new plant will build the Corolla, chances are it will be located near the Mississippi plant to be close to parts supply companies, reports…

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Report: Hillary Clinton ‘Wants to Preach’ and Is Looking to Become a Spiritual Leader

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is looking to become a spiritual leader after losing to President Donald Trump in 2016, according to reports from people in Clinton’s circle. Clinton wants to preach, according to her pastor Rev. Bill Shillady, who has written a book about the former secretary of state’s spiritual life, particularly during her…

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Gubernatorial Candidates Beavers and Black Consistently Support Bills to Curb Illegal Immigration, But a Key Bill Sets Them Apart

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  On the issue of illegal immigration, gubernatorial candidates Mae Beavers and Diane Black both consistently vote for bills intended to curb illegal immigration. However, in 2001, a Democrat controlled legislature passed HB983, a bill which allowed driver’s licenses to be issued to someone without a social security number enabling illegal aliens to obtain a Tennessee drivers license. It was estimated that more than 180,000 licenses were issued after the law was passed. Beavers voted against HB983 while Black voted for it. Black doesn’t deny voting for the bill, but explained it as “an unintended consequence of a bill that was supposed to allow legal immigrants to get licenses and co-sponsored legislation to repeal it.” Just months after Tennessee’s legislative session concluded, the 9/11 terrorist attack occurred and the question of easy access to state driver’s licenses was highlighted by the FBI raising the same question in state legislatures around the country, including Tennessee. This prompted a bill at the start of Tennessee’s next legislative session to fully repeal the illegal alien driver’s license bill. Even though the bill was not passed, both Beavers and Black signed on as co-sponsors and both voted for it. In 2004, the Tennessee General Assembly and the Governor’s office…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Tuesday, August 8

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  VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing August 8, Tuesday Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.~ Jesus Romans 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.    

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