Thursday night is about chasing history for the Nashville Predators. When it hosts the San Jose Sharks in Bridgestone Arena, Nashville can break the franchise’s single-season record for points with a victory. Currently sitting at 109 points with a 49-16-11 mark, the Predators can also move a step closer to…
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Rep. Diane Black Endorses Rep. Marsha Blackburn for U.S. Senate
Gubernatorial candidate and Republican Congress member Diane Black (R-TN-06) announced Wednesday her endorsement of fellow Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) in her bid to replace retiring junior Senator Bob Corker (TN-R) in the U.S. Senate. “I’ve served alongside Marsha in the state legislature and in Congress and have always known her to be…
Read MoreTrump Signs Law Banning Tax Dollars for Portraits of Government Officials
Remember Ed Schaefer? You should – you paid $30,500 for his hand-painted portrait. How about Steve Preston? His official government portrait cost you $19,500. But the days of taxpayers paying for oil paintings of government officials, obscure or memorable, are gone.
Read MoreCensus Challenge Is ‘Laughable,’ Kansas Secretary of State Says
California’s latest contribution to the resistance is “laughable,” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Wednesday. Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Kobach reacted to a filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, arguing that the plan to ask a question about citizenship on the next census is unconstitutional and…
Read MoreElon Musk Publishes a New Academic Paper Detailing His Plans to Colonize Mars
SpaceX’s founder and CEO published an academic paper earlier this month outlining his vision for a future where the Red Planet is permanently inhabited. Illustration of Musk’s vision for a Mars colony. “The base starts with one ship, then multiple ships, then we start building out the city and making…
Read MoreFirst Van Gogh in 20 Years to Go Under Hammer in Paris
The first Van Gogh painting to go under the hammer in France in more than two decades was unveiled Wednesday. “Women Mending Nets in the Dunes”, which the Dutch artist painted early in his career at Scheveningen near The Hague, is expected to go for around five million euros ($6…
Read MoreBrown University Offers ‘Tuition-Free’ Master’s Degree to DACA Recipients
by Chrissy Clark Brown University plans to offer “tuition-free” master’s degree programs to beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals if the federal government ends the Obama administration protections. DACA, an executive action implemented by then-President Barack Obama, authorized renewable two-year deferrals of deportation along with eligibility for work…
Read MoreFacebook Announces New Steps to Protect Users’ Privacy
Facebook said Wednesday it will overhaul its privacy settings tools to put users “more in control” of their information on the social media website. The updates include improved access to Facebook’s user settings and tools to easily search for, download and delete personal data stored by Facebook.
Read MoreCalifornia’s Orange County Continues Trend of Bucking Sanctuary Policies
California’s Orange County is preparing to follow in the city of Los Alamitos’ footsteps by defying the state’s sanctuary policies and supporting the Trump administration’s emphasis on immigration enforcement. Los Alamitos, located in Orange County, angered illegal immigrant activists when its city council voted last week to exempt itself from…
Read MoreCommentary: Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Is Dead Wrong About His Call to Repeal the Second Amendment, But at Least He’s Honest
By Robert Romano Finally, an honest liberal stands up and tells us all what he really thinks. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in the New York Times has called for the Second Amendment to be repealed, presumably so that Congress and the states can start banning guns. Therein, Stevens acknowledged…
Read MoreJudge Dismisses Class-Action Challenge to Travel Ban
A federal judge in Washington who had been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration reversed course Tuesday and ruled she could not force the State Department to grant visa lottery approvals to would-be immigrants from Iran and Yemen. The complicated case doesn’t directly challenge President Trump’s travel…
Read MoreThe FBI and Omar Mateen, Pulse Nightclub Shooter
How do you know something very much disturbs the left and their narrative? When it is big news, but if you relied on the Google news lineup, or The New York Times front page, you would have no idea it happened. Case in point: The extraordinary revelation by prosecutors in…
Read MoreFr. Benedict Kiely Commentary: An Undeniable Hero This Holy Week
Saint John Paul once said that, in the providence of God, there are “no such thing as coincidences.” Presumably, then, it was providential that on the Friday before this most Holy Week in the Christian calendar, a French police officer and devout Catholic gave his life — like Christ —…
Read MoreCommentary: The ‘Internet Tax’ Fight Isn’t Really About Internet Taxation
By Dan Mitchell One of the key principles of a free society is that governmental power should be limited by national borders. Here’s an easy-to-understand example. Gambling is basically illegal (other than government-run lottery scams, of course) in my home state of Virginia. So they can arrest me (or maybe even shoot me)…
Read MoreState Senator Todd Gardenhire Lashes Out at Fellow Republicans As His Bill to Expand In-State Tuition Benefits Dies in Committee
For the fourth year in a row, Chattanooga-area State Senator Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga), a Republican, has tried and failed to pass a bill that would grant in-state tuition discounts to illegal alien students in Tennessee. Calling his defeat a “victim of election-year politics,” he told the Times Free Press, “It’s my understanding…
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