Vanderbilt wide receiver Trent Sherfield had 127 yards of total offense and two touchdowns, helping the Commodores to a 31-17 win over Western Kentucky at Vanderbilt Stadium. The Vanderbilt defense held WKU (5-4) to minus-6 rushing yards on 30 attempts, though that included six sacks. WKU quarterback Mike White was 31 of 50 for 324 yards…
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Senator Rand Paul was a victim of a home invasion assault in his Bowling Green home Saturday afternoon, sustaining what police describe as ‘minor injury.’ The Bowling Green Daily News reports reported Paul spokesman Kelsey Cooper said in a statement, “Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault. The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police. Senator Paul is fine.” Local reporter Daniel Pike, with the The Bowling Green Daily News, tweeted the Kentucky State Police statement regarding the assault. Kentucky State Police say BG man is accused of assaulting U.S. Sen. Rand Paul. More soon at https://t.co/0e4oaL9gA7. pic.twitter.com/VODOihjrCa — Daniel Pike (@DPikeBGDN) November 4, 2017 Dr. Boucher is an anesthesiologist (retired), osteopath, and inventor who lives in a nearby neighborhood, according to publicly available records. He is currently being held in the Warren County Region Jail. The Bowling Green Daily News adds: Boucher is a Bowling Green anesthesiologist and pain specialist who developed a product called Therm-a-Vest, a cloth vest partially filled with rice and secured by Velcro straps that is designed to relieve back pain by delivering heat directly to the areas of the back where most pain is felt. Boucher applied for a…
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US President Donald Trump paid a somber visit to Pearl Harbor ahead of his first official trip to Asia, also meeting with military officials overseeing US operations in the Pacific region. Trump and his wife Melania tossed white pikake flower petals into the waters at the USS Arizona memorial, where hundreds of US service members died…
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The dream of tax reformers for decades has been to transform the maddeningly complex federal tax code into a system simple enough for Americans to file their tax returns on a postcard. Republican leaders who the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Thursday said that dream would become reality for 90 percent of taxpayers. Meeting with…
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Our planet used to be filled with beautiful giraffids, roaming about on spindly legs with their dinky pseudo-horns. 23.3 to 5.3 million years ago was, presumably, a glorious time: The Earth was cooling down from the molten days of…
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The internet is a big place overflowing with information—which makes it a great place to do research. However, as good as your Google skills might be, even the most well-known search engine doesn’t always cut it. Sometimes, you just don’t get…
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The centerpiece of the proposed House Republican corporate tax reform is a bet that slashing the top rate from 35 percent to 20 percent will trigger an economic boom that will raise workers’ wages and goose long-term growth. President Donald Trump on Thursday cited a study by the White House Council of Economic Advisers that the…
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More men than women die of venomous animal bites. This is not because men are exposed to more dangerous animals at their jobs than women (the injuries tend to happen over the weekend), but rather…
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Many critics of Nashville Mayor Megan Barry’s mass transit proposal are conservatives and libertarians, but her plans have also prompted criticism from left-leaning advocates of the poor and working class. A group called People’s Alliance for Transit, Housing and Employment (PATHE) has formed to press the progressive Democratic mayor and other Metro leaders to make affordable housing, higher wages and immediate improvements to the bus system greater priorities. A key element of Barry’s proposal is light rail along five corridors, but PATHE maintains that “light rail is meaningless if most of us can no longer afford to live along the routes,” according to a statement on the group’s website describing its mission and purpose. The statement also says: While no one denies that our public transit system needs major expansion, we still have not been presented with a plan that addresses the most pressing crises facing our communities, mainly economically distressed neighborhoods and residents. The experience of other cities, including Denver and Atlanta, has shown that without explicit community benefits (or equivalent measures) legally written into or alongside major transit projects, there are unintended, devastating consequences for everyday people. These include dramatic cost of living hikes along new transit corridors, mass displacement…
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Carry permit holders will be allowed to bring their firearms into the new home of the Tennessee state legislature, according to a joint statement issued this week by Lt. Gov. Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) and House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville). Lawmakers have started relocating to the renovated Cordell Hull Building from the War Memorial Building and Legislative Plaza. The Cordell Hull Building will open to the public Nov. 15. “Tennessee carry permit holders are among the most law-abiding demographics in our state,” the statement said. The new policy requires permit holders to present their permit at security and undergo a thorough screening that will determine the permit’s validity. Once that is verified, a permit holder will get the green light to carry on the premises. To receive a permit, people must be fingerprinted, submit to a background check and get firearms training.
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The new GOP tax overhaul would strip illegal immigrants of the ability to claim several major tax credits, saving the government $23.1 billion over the next decade, according to the bill’s authors. For years Republicans have complained that despite a general ban on taxpayer benefits flowing to illegal immigrants, the IRS has allowed them to collect…
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President Donald Trump said jobs that were never going to happen are being created thanks to his new policies. Trump made the boast on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday night, in his first interview as president with Laura Ingraham, also the founding editor of LifeZette. “I have been in here 10 months, and we…
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared on Fox News for a rare television interview Wednesday night, where he expressed concern about societal cohesion in view of protests staged by professional athletes during the national anthem. “What binds us? What do we all have in common anymore?” Thomas asked. The justice suggested that the player protests erode…
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Former Democratic party leader Donna Brazile called the Hillary Clinton campaign’s takeover of party fundraising a “cancer.” Writing in Politico Thursday, Brazile said it “broke my heart” to discover that her predecessor as party chair had given the Clinton campaign power over the Democratic National Committee’s “finances, strategy, and all the money raised” during her primary…
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The head of the House Freedom Caucus said Friday he is confident the GOP’s plan to overhaul the federal tax code will pay for itself over 15 years, downplaying warnings from fiscal hawks who warn the proposal will push the nation deeper into debt. Republican lawmakers on Thursday rolled out their long-awaited rewrite of the tax…
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by Jeffrey A. Rendall It’s now been over a week since Arizona Senator Jeff Flake delivered his melodramatic retirement announcement speech on the senate floor and the fateful words the establishment lawmaker uttered are still reverberating around Washington. Some even believe Flake and fellow retiring Senator Bob Corker are now “free” from the usual invisible restraints placed on politicians running to retain their offices, suggesting the two could make things pretty difficult for President Donald Trump and the GOP majorities going forward. Are they right? Sarah Westwood of the Washington Examiner reported, “Neither Corker nor Flake have the same incentives as their fellow GOP lawmakers, between now and Nov. 2018, to fall in line behind Trump as their party works to pass tax reform, repeal Obamacare, cobble together an immigration package that legislates DACA protections and keeps the government open past the holidays. “The margin of error for Republicans, with a slim 52-member majority in the Senate, was already too narrow for the GOP’s comfort. It took just one Trump critic, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to sink months of work on a healthcare plan that the president pushed aggressively through the House and Senate.” I hate to disagree with…
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The GOP’s plan to overhaul the U.S. tax code includes changes to green energy tax subsidies that lawmakers say will save taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Republicans want to modify production and investment tax credits for green energy projects, including wind turbines and solar panels, and push for eliminating subsidies for purchasing electric cars. However,…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing November 4, Saturday Psalm 118:8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in humans. Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength
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