NASHVILLE, Tennessee — A total solar eclipse is often attributed to various things. Coincidence. Magic. Divine intervention. The rare event is so grand that even scientists are moved to use words beyond the realm of science. Scott Bolton of NASA used all the words above when talking to reporters Monday…
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‘Drive to 55’ Likely Gives ‘Tennessee Promise Scholarship’ to Illegal Immigrants in a Boyd Administration
Gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd takes full credit for the “Drive to 55” higher education umbrella initiative which includes programs like the Tennessee Promise scholarship, but has made no definitive statement to date about whether illegal immigrants should be permitted access to this benefit or in-state college tuition. Boyd, however, is…
Read MoreNashville Was the Place to Be for Many Eclipse Watchers Monday
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — In preparing for Monday’s total solar eclipse, Mark Holloran read that from where he lives in Franklin, he could see 99.8 percent totality. That wasn’t good enough, he and his wife decided. “We drove in to get the last .2 percent,” he said at First Tennessee Park,…
Read MoreWhy Bannon May Wield More Power on the Outside
Many Republicans subscribe to the conventional wisdom that Steve Bannon will be less of a danger to President Donald Trump and the GOP establishment now that he’s outside the White House. It’s wishful thinking by moderates in the Trump White House and by senators like Pat Toomey, the Republican from…
Read MoreGeorge Rasley Commentary: How And Why Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe Caused the Deaths of Three People In Charlottesville
by George Rasley ConservativeHQ.com Editor “The police actually allowed us to square off against each other,” a Black Lives Matter protester told CNN. “There were fights and the police were standing a block away the entire time. It’s almost as if they wanted us to fight each other.” “Where…
Read MoreConservatives Launch Campaign to Bolster Trump’s Judges, Pressure Democrats
Conservative groups announced a campaign Monday designed to pressure Senate Democrats to sign off on President Trump’s judicial nominees, saying this White House deserves a chance to fill the record number of vacancies remaining across the federal courts. The Judicial Crisis Network said it will spend $500,000 on digital ads,…
Read MoreMatt Schlapp: Left ‘Going Right After the Founders’ with War on History
Stewards of the National Mall announced that an exhibit adjacent to the Jefferson Memorial will soon include a plaque noting the Founding Father’s status as a slaveholder. In the aftermath of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 that killed on woman and injured approximately 20 others, left-wing…
Read MoreCommentary by Angelo Codevilla: Republican Party Needs to Be Replaced
Having refused to repeal Obamacare, the Republican Party is dead, as was the Whig Party in 1854 after it colluded in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which opened these territories to slavery. Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress as well as control of legislatures and governorships in 26…
Read MoreTrump Campaign Supporters During Election Snubbed for Pentagon, State Department, National Security
Many of the Donald Trump supporters who toiled long payless days last year to get the Republican elected president remain on the sidelines as plum national security jobs go to outsiders. A review of campaign policy groups shows that a scant number landed senior posts at the Pentagon, the National…
Read MoreWhite House Petition Asking Trump to Label Antifa a ‘Terrorist Organization’ Nears 200K
A petition urging President Trump to recognize Antifa – a left-wing, militant activist movement – as a terrorist organization has well surpassed the required 100,000 signatures for an official White House response. The “We the People” petition, created Thursday by someone of the name M.A., says Antifa’s violent actions in…
Read MoreThe Polk Foundation Launches The Tennessee Star Constitution Project Featuring September 23 Constitution Bee for Students
FRANKLIN,Tennessee – The Polk Foundation today announced the launch of their initiative to teach secondary school students the cornerstones of American liberty: the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and all the amendments. Dubbed The Tennessee Star Constitution Project, the effort includes: The publication and free distribution of an…
Read MoreFaith: Verse of the Day for Tuesday, August 22
VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing August 22, Tuesday Proverbs 16:2-3 All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. 3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. James 2:17 In the same…
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