The Nashville Predators will try to continue their success at Staples Center when they play the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night. The Predators are 18-11-0-6 all-time against the Kings in Los Angeles, and have earned at least a point in the past seven games there (4-0-3). Nashville beat the…
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State Senate Candidate Shane Reeves Promises to Donate His Legislative Per Diem to Charity if Elected
Murfreesboro businessman Shane Reeves, a Republican candidate in the 14th State Senate District special election, is promising to donate his legislative per diem to charity if he is elected. Legislators within 50 miles of the Capitol currently receive mileage reimbursement for travel at a rate of 47 cents per mile…
Read MoreFBI Investigating Clinton Foundation: Reports
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the foundation of former president Bill Clinton amid pressure from President Donald Trump and allegations of corruption by Republican lawmakers, US media reported Friday. The Hill, a news website covering Congress, CNN and the New York Times all confirmed that Justice Department investigators…
Read MoreMetro’s Official Document Reveals That The Real Price Tag For Mayor Megan Barry’s Mass Transit Plan Is $9 Billion, Not $5.4 Billion
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry’s transit plan has been presented as having a cost of $5.4 billion during the 15 year construction plan through 2032. But that figure represents just the rail corridor improvements portion of the plan. But, in reality, he total cost is a whopping $8.95 Billion. The figures…
Read MoreCommentary: Democrats’ Obsession with 2018 Midterms Won’t Subside Until They Lose
by Jeffrey A. Rendall It should come as no surprise to regular followers of American politics that the media is already concentrating intently on this year’s midterm elections – after all, pundits have been fixated on the subject literally since the day Donald Trump vanquished Crooked Hillary Clinton in…
Read MoreThree Times Trump Campaign Officials Said They Would Win
White House and former Trump campaign officials are pushing back hard Friday on a claim in a salacious new book that President Donald Trump and his team expected, or maybe even wanted, to lose the 2016 election. The claim is made in Michael Wolff’s new tome, “Fire and Fury: Inside…
Read MoreIllegal Immigrant Who Killed Kate Steinle Gets Time Served
An illegal immigrant who killed a tourist in San Francisco in 2015 in a case that gained national attention will not have to spend any more time in jail, a judge ruled on Friday. The judge sentenced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate to time served for illegal gun possession — the…
Read MoreTrump Renominates 21 of his Federal Judge Picks, Including Tennessee State Senator Mark Norris
President Trump announced Friday he intends to renominate 21 judicial picks whom he had nominated last year but hadn’t yet been confirmed by the Senate. The 21 nominees come from eight states “that are suffering from judicial emergencies,” according to the White House press release. The states are Alabama, Louisiana,…
Read MoreRuth Bader Ginsburg to Trump: I’m Not Going Anywhere
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dashed any hope President Donald Trump might have had that she would resign before the end of his term, announcing on Thursday that she had hired a full slate of clerks through 2020.
Read MoreNancy Pelosi Named ‘Porker of the Year’ by Non-Profit Watchdog
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been named the 2017 “Porker of the Year” by Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-profit watchdog organization which tracks the excesses of pork barrel spending and lavish mindsets among lawmakers. The California Democrat won the dubious designation, the group says, “for her long history…
Read MoreBob Corker Once Told Other Senators That Illegal Immigration Isn’t ‘Fair to American Citizens’
In 2007, when Bob Corker went to D.C. as the newly elected junior Senator from Tennessee he was openly against illegal immigration until he switched over while trying to save the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. During debate on the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007,” that would have…
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