Scientists Discover New Type of Fusion Reaction: Merging Quarks Is Eight Times More Powerful Than Single Reactions in H-Bomb

Israeli and American physicists have come across a new type of fusion reaction that is startlingly powerful. Initially, the scientists were a bit scared and thought it’s better not to publish the research least it fell into the wrong hands, leading to a planetary-bomb. The fusion, however, can’t sustain a chain reaction so scientists say the…

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Save Our Fairgrounds Wants Nashville Metro Council to Vote No on Soccer Stadium Tuesday

The group Save Our Fairgrounds is getting ready for Tuesday’s Metro Council meeting, at which members plan to ask the council to vote no on Mayor Megan Barry’s proposal for a soccer stadium and development at the Nashville Fairgrounds. The group’s main objection is the plan to allow for a mixed-used development on 10 acres that is in addition to the soccer stadium. Plans call for affordable and workforce housing, a hotel and retail. Some Metro Council members have also expressed concerns about that part of the deal. Barry wants Major League Soccer (MLS) to choose Nashville for an expansion team. The 10 acres for development would be leased to the MLS ownership group. “We would welcome MLS soccer and the soccer stadium to the fairgrounds, but not at the expense of taking away 10 acres and giving it away freely to the team owners,” Rick Williams, chairman of Save Our Fairgrounds, said on Facebook Friday. Some Metro Council members have voiced concerns about the 10 acres as well, and also have pressed Barry’s office for stronger language holding the ownership team responsible for costs of the stadium to limit risks for taxpayers. While some general obligation bonds would be used, Barry’s office…

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Flames Win Shootout Over Devils, 5-4

CALGARY, Alberta — Sean Monahan and Matthew Tkachuk scored in a shootout to give the Calgary Flames a 5-4 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday. Drew Stafford replied in the shootout for the Devils. Monahan, Michael Frolik, Michael Stone and Micheal Ferland got Calgary’s regulation-time goals. Taylor Hall, Ben Lovejoy, Brian Gibbons and Andy…

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Letter to the Editor: Gun Control, Border Security, and the Flagrant Hypocrisy of the Left

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Dear Tennessee Star, The Texas Church shooting is a tragedy. I wish I could think of some realistic idea that would halt this type of horrible event from ever happening again, but I can’t. Over the years I’ve watched the horror of this type of senseless mass killing with the same sense of loss and hopelessness as most Americans. I listen to “experts” point out common factors, guns being the most often noted, and then watch as the discussions sink into a morass of mental illness in its various forms, notification of authorities by mental health professionals, failure to follow up with patients, on, and on, and on, leaving out some killers with no known mental health issues. So,even the “experts” seem at a loss. Now come the Democrats and the Hollywood types. “More gun control laws!” they shout from the rooftops, at any microphone within range of their voices. If I sincerely believed more gun control would work, I would be shouting with them. While these mass shootings merit attention and efforts at resolution, totals of citizens murdered by shootings in strict gun controlled cities, think Chicago, dwarf the loss of life in “mass shootings.” Think of Chicago as a…

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BREAKING: Joe Carr Announces Run for Tennessee State Senate Seat Jim Tracy Will Be Leaving

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Former State Rep. Joe Carr (R-Lascassas) announced on Monday he will be running for the State Senate seat in the 14th District currently held by State Senator Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville). On Friday, Tracy was appointed by the Trump administration to serve as the Tennessee State Director of Rural Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Earlier on Monday, Senator Tracy resigned from the State Senate, which means that a special election will be held, most likely within the next 120 days, to replace him in the State Senate. You can read Carr’s full statement here: LASCASSAS, TN (November 6, 2017) – Today, Former State Representative Joe Carr formally announces his candidacy to represent Tennessee’s 14th Senate District of the Tennessee General Assembly. Joe Carr stated, “Tennessee has a great opportunity to assist President Trump in making America Great Again. To do that Tennessee needs to lead the way in removing unnecessary rules and regulations, enforcing the rule of law with those who enter our state illegally, supporting values that protect the life of the unborn, the protection of our Second Amendment Rights and, of course, the demonstrated willingness to fight for Tennessee’s Sovereignty from an ever-expanding federal government. Specifically, we are going…

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State Senator Jim Tracy Appointed to USDA Position by Trump Administration

State Senator Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) was appointed to a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the Trump administration on Friday. Tracy was named as the new USDA Rural Development State Director for Tennessee by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. “U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced a slate of Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Rural Development (RD) State Directors, all serving as appointees of President Donald J. Trump. FSA State Directors help implement U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policies in planning, organizing, and administering FSA programs in their respective states. They are also responsible for running the day-to-day activities of the state FSA office. Similarly, RD State Directors work to help improve the economy and quality of life in rural America,” the USDA said in a press statement released late on Friday: “These state directors will help ensure that USDA is offering the best customer service to our farmers, ranchers, foresters, and agricultural producers across the country,” Secretary Perdue said. “FSA and RD both play a critical role in helping the people of agriculture, and are able to connect with people in their home states. They are the initial points of contact for millions of our USDA…

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Some Good Ole Boys (And Girls) Re-Record ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Theme Song in Tribute to Waylon Jennings

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–Exactly thirty seven years ago a television theme song about a couple of rebellious boys, Bo and Luke Duke, who were always just a couple of steps ahead of the local Sheriff, shot to number one on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. Written and performed by outlaw country legend Waylon Jennings, the theme to “Dukes of Hazzard” was re-recorded on Wednesday at the Sound Stage Studios in Nashville. A star-studded group of country artists led by John “Bo Duke” Schneider, and including Tanya Tucker, Bobby Bare, Mark Wills, Steve Wariner, Heidi Newfield, T. Graham Brown, John Conlee, Confederate Railroad, the Nelsons, and others gathered to sing the song “We Are the World”-style to raise funds for the Waylon Jennings Diabetes Foundation as Diabetes Month kicked off. John Schneider says Scott Innis initiated the project and legendary drummer Paul Liem helped grow it into something even bigger. The re-recording of “Good Ole Boys” will be part of an album of the best songs that some of Nashville’s legendary songwriters have written but inexplicably never got cut. “These are some amazing songs and great lyrics that are likely to become hits,” says Schneider, “and every one of these incredible…

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Lindsey Graham Calls for Special Counsel Probes of Democrat Ties to Russia, Fusion GPS, Uranium One

Sen. Lindsey Graham called Sunday on a special counsel to investigate the Democratic Party’s links to Russian involvement with the Fusion GPS dossier and Uranium One deal, adding that President Trump should stay out of it. “I think we need a special counsel to investigate the Fusion GPS episode between the Democratic Party, Mr. [Christopher] Steele…

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Memo Reveals Details On The Deal Giving Hillary Powers Over The DNC’s Purse Strings

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) struck a deal with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the summer of 2015 that gave her presidential campaign authority to approve or disapprove DNC hires, according to memo NBC News obtained Friday night. In exchange for Hillary for America’s bailing out the debt-crippled DNC, officials agreed to hire a…

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This Is How ‘Temporary’ Protected Status Became Permanent For 300,000 People

Within the next two months, U.S. immigration officials will have to decide what should happen to hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals living in the U.S. under a program that shields them from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security is set to decide Monday whether it will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to 57,000 Nicaraguans and…

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Paul Ryan: ‘Jaw-Dropping’ That Clinton Was Running DNC in the Primary

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on “Fox News Sunday” that it’s “no wonder the Democrats are ticked off” after last week’s revelations of a funding agreement between 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee that may have tipped the scales in Clinton’s favor. Former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile reignited…

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Commentary: What To Do When The Sword of Allah Comes To America

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by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor   When President Trump responded to the latest Muslim terror attack in New York by tweeting “In NYC, looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. NOT IN THE U.S.A.!” And later continued: “We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!” Our reaction was, oh great, here we go again with the Obama-era idea that Muslim terrorists, like Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov (whose name means Sword of Allah), are crazy. As we have explained many times Islamist terrorists are not “deranged” or “sick” or crazy, they are motivated by a very clear ideology called Islam, which is set forth in a very well-understood manifesto called the Koran, or Quran. This ideology is embraced by millions of Muslims around the world and has many military wings: The Muslim Brotherhood (next to the Communist Party perhaps the oldest continuously operating terrorist organization in the world), Al Qaida, the Islamic State or ISIS, Hamas, The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, just to name a few of the more obvious and lethal organizations operating in…

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Shelby County Commission Sues Pharmaceutical Companies Over Illegal ‘Opioid Abuse’

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The Shelby County Commission and Shelby County sued several pharmaceutical companies in Shelby County Circuit Court on Thursday, alleging illegal abuse in their manufacture, sale, and distribution of opioids. “It’s not just the drug companies. It’s also the distributors, including pharmacies and the doctors writing the prescription that are being sued,” Heidi Shafer, chairman of the Shelby County Commission tells The Tennessee Star in an exclusive interview. “The lawsuit is very narrowly tailored only to go after those who are abusing,” Shafer adds. “About 80 counties around the country are already suing the companies involved in opioid abuse,”  Shafer says. Last month, President Trump declared the epidemic of opioid addiction to be a public health emergency. “President Donald J. Trump is mobilizing his entire Administration to address drug addiction and opioid abuse by directing the declaration of a Nationwide Public Health Emergency to address the opioids crisis,” the White House said in a statement released on October 26. “The lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies was filed at 9 Thursday morning on behalf of the County, but the issue won’t go before the full County Commission until next week,”WREG reported: Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, who says his administration was already working…

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