Conservative critics of Obamacare are like a guy at a party looking to score. After striking out with prettier women, and the night getting later, even Lindsey Graham starts looking attractive. Republicans in the Senate have for earlier bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That means the only remaining option is a proposal offered by…
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Former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton admitted that she wouldn’t “completely rule out questioning the legitimacy” of the presidential election’s results if the ongoing probe into Russia’s election interference reaps further results during an interview with NPR’s “Fresh Air” that aired Monday. Clinton has not been shy about discussing the stunning blow she was dealt…
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Tennessee has been bitten by the injury bug pretty hard this year and it looks like it has struck yet again. Senior linebacker Cortez McDowell is reportedly going to be out indefinitely with a wrist injury…
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TULLAHOMA, Tennessee – Heidi Newfield and Keith Burns, the duo that makes up Trick Pony, endorsed State Representative Judd Matheny for the 6th District of U.S. Congress, during a fund raising event held at the Blue Gill Grill on Tim’s Ford Lake in Tullahoma Monday evening. The public support of Matheny in front of the capacity crowd at the lakeside restaurant by the Country Music Association’s 2001 Artist of the Year was the second in two days by the band. Newfield and Burns recorded a short video posted to the Judd Matheny for Congress Facebook page, extending an invitation to the event and expressing their support for Matheny, whom they referred to as “the big guy.” In the video, Newfield says that they’re doing a special acoustic show “to support our buddy, Judd Matheny.” Newfield goes on to say, We want to get him up there in Congress where he belongs. So, we’re there supporting him and we want you all to come join us as well. In his introduction of the band, Matheny referred to a long history of business and friendship with Trick Pony during his years as an entertainment manager and owner of a private security…
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Shiver me timbers, mateys – it’s International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day! How better to celebrate than to head on over to your nearest participating Long John Silvers and get yourself a Deep Fried Twinkie? We first heard about Talk Like a Pirate Day back in 2002. But it turns out, its history stretches way back before the turn of the century. The founders of this fun observance, The Pirate Guys, Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy (aka John Baur and Mark Summers) tell the tale of how the day came to be on their website, talklikeapirate.com. “Once upon a time,” they write, “On June 6, 1995, to be precise – we were playing racquetball, not well but gamely.” They continue: It wasn’t our intention to become “the pirate guys.” Truth to tell, it wasn’t really our intention to become anything, except perhaps a tad thinner and healthier, and if you could see our photos, you’d know how THAT turned out. As we flailed away, we called out friendly encouragement to each other -“Damn, you bastard!” and “Oh, jeez, my hamstring!” for instance – as shots caromed away, unimpeded by our wildly swung rackets. On this day, for reasons we still don’t quite understand, we started…
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On Monday, the Andy Ogles for U.S. Senate campaign announced that it has hired Innovative Politics, which “played a key role” in the Donald J. Trump for President campaign advertising team following the Republican National Convention in the 2016 general election campaign. The firm is “a nationally renowned political consulting and full-service advertising agency,” according to a statement released by the campaign, and has been hired “to run [the campaign’s] media strategy and voter contact operations.” Innovative Politics produced nearly 30 television ads for the campaign, which spent more than $75 million dollars on television advertising. Jay Connaughton, chief media advisor with Innovative Politics, played a key role in Trump’s heavily covered Baton Rouge, Louisiana, trip following the devastating floods in the state, as well as in the President-elect’s headline making visit to Flint, MI. The Presidential race was only one of the many significant achievements for Innovative Politics during the past few national election cycles. The firm’s impressive national work, particularly in battleground states, helped the Republican Party maintain control of the U.S. Senate with victories in the critical U.S. Senate elections in North Carolina, Louisiana, Colorado, Iowa, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Florida. Connaughton praised Ogles in the statement. “Andy…
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Roy Moore holds an 8 percentage point lead over Sen. Luther Strange in their special election GOP runoff race in Alabama, according to a new survey released Monday. The JMC Analytics survey shows the primary race has tightened, but that Mr. Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, continues to lead Mr. Strange…
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by Jeffrey A. Rendall It’s often said folks learn a lot more from their failures than from their successes; if that’s the case then congressional Republicans should be virtual Rhodes Scholars by now. Judging by the degree of hysteria emanating from party members last week after Democrat leaders announced the consummation of an immigration deal with President Donald Trump that purportedly grants blanket amnesty to DACA recipients and does not include money for Trump’s long-promised border wall, the GOP was in full panic mode over the possibility of their leader turning full-Benedict Arnold and deciding there may be greener legislative pastures with the liberal environmentalist extremists in the Democrat camp. Ever-sharp-tongued conservative boat-rocker Ann Coulter tweeted and re-tweeted images of things like pets now hating Trump and people burning their “Make America Great Again” hats. Coulter even claimed we now have Hillary Clinton as president. Other conservatives and Republicans practically stepped on each other in their rush to abandon the Trump ship. Eight months into the Trump presidency it almost looked like a lot of former hopefuls are now giving up, reaching for the chloroform and preparing to leave this world. Kyle Cheney and Ted Hesson of Politico reported, “President…
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), supposedly a nonpartisan government agency that analyzes budget proposals and the economy, has been an aggressive critic of President Donald Trump’s agenda. On Thursday, the CBO released a report warning a move being weighed by the Trump administration would speed up the implosion of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, causing…
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Improved security has made it harder than ever to illegally cross into the U.S. from Mexico, and Border Patrol agents are catching a higher percentage of those who try, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security. The report from the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics used arrest and migrant survey data to…
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Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown of California compared President Donald Trump supporters to prehistoric cave dwellers Monday during a New York climate event. Brown, an outspoken Trump critic, issued an usually harsh derision of Trump supporters after dismissing Trump’s rhetoric on climate change science and U.S. policy toward North Korea as “stupid and dangerous and silly.” “They’re…
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Ben Franklin’s face graces U.S. currency, but Texas officials may soon remove his name from one middle school over a “connection to Confederacy.” Dallas Independent School District is conducting an investigation into numerous schools in the wake of a national debate over monuments and historical figures associated with slavery. The move, which may also affect Thomas…
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The fact-checking website PolitiFact labeled as “false” Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat’s statement that legalizing the DACA ‘kids’ would lead to three-four million more people coming into the country, because of chain migration. But Brat was right, experts say, and PolitiFact was only looking at half the facts. In a Sept. 7 interview on MSNBC, Brat…
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by Roy Beck A new national poll of “likely midterm voters” finds 55% of them favoring a bill that “would allow immigrants to bring in their spouse and minor children but would end migration of extended family.” Only 32% of the voters say they oppose eliminating the Chain Migration categories. With so much speculation the last two days about what the President would require to be part of any DACA amnesty, his tweet September 15 was a welcome one: CHAIN MIGRATION cannot be allowed to be part of any legislation on Immigration! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017 Although the brief tweet could have been clearer, we assume the President meant that “Chain Migration categories cannot be allowed to continue in any immigration legislation.” That would be consistent with his repeated support over the last year for the concept and legislation to reduce overall legal immigration, primarily by ending Chain Migration categories for extended family members beyond spouse and minor children. Majorities support all parts of the ‘RAISE Act’ The scientific survey of 1,000 likely midterm voters conducted by Pulse Opinion Research found strong majorities supporting all parts of the RAISE Act, which the White House stated Friday afternoon…
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BRENTWOOD, Tennessee – Keith and Kristyn Getty are headlining a sold-out conference at Brentwood Baptist this week designed to bring back the appeal of congregational hymn singing. A husband and wife hymn-writing team from Northern Ireland, the Gettys have become sensations among evangelical Protestants looking for something different from the contemporary worship style that has become commonplace. Once widely popular, hymns fell out of use as churches became “seeker-friendly” and began devising ways to draw in people unaccustomed to, or turned off by, the rhythms of traditional church life. Churches began relying on praise bands and contemporary worship songs. But now many of those songs are panned as both shallow and difficult for average churchgoers to sing, as they were penned as performance pieces. “We need to build deep believers,” Keith Getty told the crowd of 4,500 during the opening worship service Monday afternoon. “It’s time to grow up.” Getty said he believes congregational singing has an important role to play in maturing and strengthening the church at time when secularism is growing and nominal Christianity is destined to become a thing of the past in Western culture. The Gettys and their fellow conference presenters are encouraging pastors, church musicians and others in…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing September 19, Tuesday Hebrews 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Ephesians 2:8-10 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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