Kelly Clarkson Whenever Kelly Clarkson belts out a powerful song, she nails it. She just did it again in a performance of her emotional new album track, “Move You.” The 35-year-old pop star, who signed with Atlantic Records after spending 14 years with RCA Records, shared a live video on Sept. 29 of herself belting out…
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Widespread protests involving the national anthem continue to dominate the news cycle when it comes to the NFL and, on Sunday morning, players from the Miami Dolphins took a knee during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” However, in advance of Week 4, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reached out to NFL staff from across the country and Adam Schefter…
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BLACKSBURG, Va. — No. 2 Clemson crashed No. 12 Virginia Tech’s house party Saturday night and came away with yet another big victory over a ranked opponent. The Tigers toppled the Hokies 31-17 in front of an electric crowd at Lane Stadium. Junior quarterback Kelly Bryant passed for 186 yards and a touchdown and rushed for…
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The United States Team continued to plow forward to victory with all the subtlety of a freight train, winning of three of the four foursome (alternate shot) matches Saturday over the International Team during the morning session of Day 3 at the 12th Presidents Cup, being contested at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J.…
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True freshman Malik Davis rushed for 124 yards and two touchdowns, Lamical Perine rushed for three touchdowns and No. 21 Florida overcame the loss of quarterback Luke Del Rio to record a 38-24 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday in SEC play at Gainesville, Fla. Redshirt freshman quarterback Feleipe Franks was 10-of-14 passing for 185 yards in…
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Rock star Marilyn Manson was crushed and reportedly seriously injured by a falling gun prop at a New York City concert Saturday night. During a concert at the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, Manson was midway through singing “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the Eurythmics when a giant gun prop collapsed on top of him.…
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JERSEY CITY – The Presidents Cup will have its namesake in attendance for the final day at Liberty National Golf Club. The White House announced on Sunday that President Donald Trump will travel from his golf club in Bedminster to the tournament in Jersey City. He is expected to arrive at 3 p.m. According to his…
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Let your fingertips fly. Know your way around one of these? Peignault Laurent/Unsplash Compared to reaching for the mouse or navigating a menu, a single keyboard shortcut shaves a moment off your task. This might not seem like much, but add up all those saved moments over a week or a month, and you’re gaining a…
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LAS VEGAS — Former football star O.J. Simpson was released from a Nevada prison early Sunday after serving nine years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas. The onetime football legend whose earlier murder trial in Los Angeles inspired years of debate over race and justice was paroled only minutes after…
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LOS ANGELES—Monty Hall, the original host and co-creator of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the long-running game show that debuted in 1963, making kooky audience costumes and carnival-style bartering an institution on daytime television, has died, according to Associated Press. He was 96. Hall, who was also a dedicated philanthropist, died of heart failure Saturday morning at…
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A major national university has approved a policy to suspend and expel students who protest “campus speeches and presentations.” The University of Wisconsin system Board of Regents voted on the new punishments for students who have already been charged with “disrupting others’ free expression.” Now, students who offend a second time — having previously engaged in…
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Small business owners in Tennessee are paying the price — literally — for large corporations raking in tax breaks. “What we keep seeing is that small business owners are taking on the burden of higher taxes for governments to give their tax dollars to big businesses,” said Mark Cunningham, a spokesman for the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a nonpartisan think tank. Nashville has waived property taxes or given grant money for many new downtown hotels, Cunningham said. Those funds must be replaced from somewhere, and somewhere often means small businesses. With Nashville and Memphis competing with other cities for the new Amazon headquarters, whoever lands the deal will pay out the “biggest corporate welfare deal” for 50,000 jobs, Cunningham said. “It’s a terrible deal.” In effect, he said, Tennessee has two tax codes: one for big businesses and one for small businesses. The Beacon Center of Tennessee would prefer everyone pay lower taxes. The piling on of multiple taxes from different government bodies year after year takes a toll, some small business owners say. Small business owner Kasey Parsons ignited a firestorm when she posted to Facebook the city and county property tax bills for only one of her several…
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The annual state conference of the Eagle Forum, the powerful national grassroots organization founded by Phyllis Schafly in 1972, will be held this Saturday, October 7, at the Embassy Suites in the Cool Springs area of Franklin, Tennessee. The all day conference begins at 8:30 am and will continue until 5:30 pm. The banquet, which features keynote speaker William Federer, a prolific author and host of American Minute, will begin at 6:00 pm. Federer’s topic will be “Islam’s Long March.” The announced candidates for governor of Tennessee have been invited to speak briefly at the evening’s banquet. Additional speakers at the conference will include Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, who will speak on “The Muslim Brotherhood: Its History, Influence and Infiltration,” Andy Puzder, former CEO of CKE Restaurant Holdings, owner of Carl’s Jr. and Hardees, who will speak on “Economic Gains of the Trump Administration,” Dr. Roy Spencer, of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, will speak on “Global Warming: Separating Fact from Fiction,” Cathy Hinners, a former police officer and founder of Daily Roll Call, who will speak on “Muslim Brotherhood: The Threat In Our Backyard”, David Fowler, President, Family Action Council of Tennessee who will talk about the proper roll of the courts, and State Rep.…
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Former NFL running back Herschel Walker agrees with President Trump on the national anthem protests, saying athletes should set aside their political differences when they’re at work and save the protesting for their own time. Mr. Walker, who supported Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, said he agrees with the president that the NFL should impose rules prohibiting…
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Groups that help enroll people on the Obamacare exchanges are struggling to encourage enrollment because, at least in part, to a lack of awareness about the program’s continued existence, the Daily Beast reports. The Trump administration has drastically cut the funding used to market Obamacare and to assist people in enrolling in its health exchanges, leaving…
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Millions of fans are unhappy with the current trend of national-anthem kneeling by NFL players — and they’ve expressed their anger and disgust over the last few days in a number of “we’re-not-taking-it-anymore” moves. Here is a look at five of the biggest backlashes against the NFL’s kneelers this week. 1.) Fans burn their memorabilia. Jersey…
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The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against an agricultural services company for allegedly rejecting American citizen applicants in favor of foreign guest workers. Colorado-based Crop Production Services Inc. discriminated against at least three U.S. citizens by refusing to employ them as seasonal technicians in Texas, instead hiring temporary foreign workers under…
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made it very clear that boosting energy production in Alaska would be a major part of the Trump administration’s plan for U.S. “energy dominance.” “The road to energy dominance goes through the great state of Alaska,” Zinke said in a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Zinke…
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A pro-abortion group testified Thursday that the rights of Maine women are violated because the state won’t fund abortion services. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a hearing that Maine law is discriminatory because it prohibits state Medicaid from paying for abortion services, while it allows those funds to cover the cost of pregnancy…
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Broken promises from Bill Haslam’s 2010 campaign could figure prominently in any run for Bob Corker’s Senate seat. While campaigning for governor, Haslam repeatedly raised the issue of illegal immigration and how he, as governor, would work to insulate Tennessee from the negative fiscal effects of illegal immigration and from becoming a magnet for illegal immigrants. In his “Jobs4TN” written campaign materials Haslam tied job development and employment for Tennesseans to the problem of illegal immigration and promised: In order to keep Tennessee a great state, we must also work to provide more and better job opportunities for Tennessee residents. An important part of that effort must be making sure that available jobs are only going to individuals who are legally resident in the state. Tennessee is paying a price for the failure of the federal government to effectively secure our nation’s borders and enforce our immigration laws. As governor, I will enforce the state laws on the books and do everything within my authority to be sure that Tennessee does not attract illegal activity. After he was elected, however, Haslam began to incrementally retreat from considering illegal immigration a negative fiscal and/or employment issue. In 2009, during the Bredesen administration, Managing…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing October 1, Sunday Isaiah 58:11-12 11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. 12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings. John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
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