In his last official letter as America’s president, George Washington warned against “foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues” that he believed were “inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main…
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by John Miller Tennessee’s Senate race is poised to become a battleground in one of the most divisive issues facing the country: Can the United States make free trade work in the national interest? With Sen. Bob Corker out of the race and national figures like Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon vowing to field populist candidates, the 2018 campaign could become a nationalized race that features intra-party debates on the trade issue. Fueling the debate may be an obscure trade dispute that is making its way to the president’s desk—one with significant implications for Tennessee. Earlier this month, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously held that trade practices by Samsung and LG Electronics are harming Whirlpool and other U.S. manufacturers. The decision follows two previous rulings by the ITC that Samsung and LG are dumping washing machines into the U.S. market. With the benefit of subsidies from the Korean government, the conglomerates are overloading the U.S. market with washers and selling them below market value in order to undercut U.S. manufacturers. Dumping is illegal under both U.S. and international trade law. President Trump will decide in the coming months whether or not to level tariffs and other remedies against…
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When chef Michael Mina and his team of chefs rolled into the Saveur Test Kitchen wearing pristine white coats and wielding 30 dry-aged tomahawk steaks, we knew it was going to be a good night.…
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The Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees 4-0 on Saturday to book a Major League Baseball World Series showdown with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After fending off elimination in game six on Friday, the Astros won the best-of-seven American League Championship Series four-games-to-three to reach the World Series for the second time in club history.…
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Mae Beavers took the gloves off on Saturday and bashed former President George W. Bush, failed 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush, and gubernatorial rival Randy Boyd for undermining the presidency of Donald Trump. “We don’t need globalists who oppose the Trump agenda leading the country or the state of Tennessee,” Beavers told The Tennessee Star in an exclusive interview on Saturday. “That’s what you get with George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, and Randy Boyd,” the former State Senator from Mt. Juliet added. Beavers criticized Boyd for the leadership role he plays in one of the largest globalist organizations in the country. “Randy Boyd is a named member of the New American Economy, along with Democrats Rahm Emanuel and Karl Dean,” Beavers noted. Boyd’s position with the New American Economy, formerly known as the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), was reported by The Star in March. The Star noted that “included in PNAE’s ‘15 key economic issues of immigration reform in America’ are:” Supporting legal status for the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants which PNAE says pay taxes and do the jobs American citizens won’t do, and despite being in the country illegally, “even start their own businesses.” In a…
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What happened to the president they once reviled? Mainstream media journalists are all of a sudden anxious to give the words of former President George W. Bush a full airing, and to refer to them in the most complimentary way. Bush, wrote the Washington Post, had offered a “blunt assessment” in his speech in New York…
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Hillary Clinton admits she “really tried to get out of going” to President Trump’s inauguration. The former first lady and failed Democratic presidential nominee said on BBC One’s “The Graham Norton Show” that she asked the remaining former presidents if they were going to the Jan. 20 inauguration in an effort to justify not showing up…
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Some people have criticized the growing trend of #MeToo, a social media phenomenon of women breaking their silence about sexual assault and harassment, as another example of “slacktivism” or “armchair activism” that will equal little change. But this effort is different from, say, — because this time it is personal. Hollywood never shies away from crowdsourcing…
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Dr. George Flinn, owner and president of Flinn Clinics, announced on Friday that he will be hosting a health care town hall in Jackson,Tennessee on October 30. The event will be held at 6 p.m. in Jackson at the Old Country Store, and will be moderated by local radio personality Steve Bowers, host of the “Blue Suede Forever” program on 103.7 WDXI-FM in Jackson. Flinn will be joined by three other local physicians on an expert panel: Dr. Lisa Piercey, Executive Vice President of West Tennessee Healthcare, Dr. Kumar Yogesh, a pulmonologist from Dresden, and Professor Hunter Baker from Union University in Jackson. “Congress has had the tools they need to reform healthcare for nearly a year now,” Flinn said in a statement. “Yet, they’ve done nothing to provide relief to the tens of millions of patients, small businesses and healthcare providers across the country that have been crushed by Obamacare,” he noted. The statement added: In order to expand the opportunity for the public to share their voice, Dr. Flinn has established a website where he is encouraging everyone to learn about healthcare reform and leave feedback. The website, www.trackingourcongress.com, contains videos, surveys and a phone number…
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Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander disparaged Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare and called for bipartisan cooperation during a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. Alexander implored his colleagues to support a bipartisan health care reform bill that he introduced with co-sponsor Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, arguing the legislation represents a centrist…
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WASHINGTON — On Thursday morning, GOP strategist Karl Rove lambasted Steve Bannon in The Wall Street Journal for his involvement in Republican primaries. By Thursday afternoon, Bannon’s allies were already plotting their revenge: mobilization against North Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger — Rove’s pick in that race. “I’m familiar enough with Bannon’s 2018 efforts that this…
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A liberal billionaire who bankrolls several Democratic causes spent more than $10 million to kick-start a media campaign calling on Congress to impeach President Donald Trump. Environmentalist Tom Steyer is spending the money on a national TV campaign to “demand that elected officials take a stand” on ousting the Republican president. Steyer was one of former…
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US President Donald Trump said Saturday he will allow long blocked secret files on the assassination of John F Kennedy to be opened to the public for the first time. The November 22, 1963 assassination — an epochal event in modern US history — has spawned multiple theories challenging the official version that Kennedy was killed…
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In a speech on Friday to the California GOP state convention, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said former President George W. Bush carried out the most “destructive presidency” in U.S. history. Bannon hit out at Bush the day after Bush gave a speech in New York in which he rebuked Trump without mentioning him…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing October 22, Sunday Acts 1:7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. Galatians 4:4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens
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