Day: June 10, 2018

Blue Angels Honor One of Their Own Who Died in Tragic Plane Crash

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Kuss Blue Angers Dedication

SMYRNA, Tennessee–On Saturday, the Blue Angels honored their colleague, pilot and Marine Corps Captain Jeff Kuss, who died tragically in a plane crash during a training exercise in Smyrna two years ago. “A Blue Angel F/A-18C Hornet [was] installed at the Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC Memorial at Lee Victory Recreation Park on May 30,” according to the memorial’s website: The Blue Angel aircraft is on permanent loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida and will be on display as part of the Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC Memorial. The memorial is dedicated to Marine Captain Jeff Kuss who on June 2, 2016, at the age of 32, lost his life in a tragic in-flight accident while flying as Blue Angel #6 in practice for the Great Tennessee Air Show. Smyrna Mayor Mayor Esther Reed welcomed the audience to the Captain Jeff Kuss USMC Memorial Dedication promptly at 10 a.m. Sailors from the Navy Operation Support Center in Nashville, and Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment followed with the presentation of colors. The Stewarts Creek High School Chorale and Band then performed the National Anthem. Clark Harrell, Executive Principal of Stewarts Creek High School delivered the opening…

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Tea Party Leaders Declare in TV Ad ‘I’m Voting for Diane Black’

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Diane Black

Diane Black’s campaign released a new ad Thursday featuring several Tea Party group leaders from around Tennessee, stating they would cast their primary vote in August for Diane Black for Governor. The fast moving, supercut-style series of endorsements fits five Tea Party group leaders, including Mark West (Chattanooga Tea Party),  Steve Osborn and Dan Napieralski (Sevier County Tea Party), Wayne Schnell (Cross County Patriots), and Theresa West (Knoxville Tea Party) into a single thirty second spot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CObL6jdn70   TRANSCRIPT: Mark West: I’m supporting Diane Black Theresa West: I’ll be voting for Diane Black Dan Napieralski: I’m voting for Diane Black Steve Osborn: She will fight for our conservative values Mark West: Defined by life and marriage Theresa West: She’s fought for lower taxes Steve Osborn: She has good Christian morals Wayne Schnell: She would be one excellent candidate and a super governor for the State of Tennessee Mark West: I’m Mark West, founder of the Chattanooga Tea Party Steve Osborn: Chairman of the Sevier County Tea Party Wayne Schnell: … leader of the Cross County Patriots Tea Party Theresa West: … Knoxville Tea Party Dan Napieralski: … Sevier County Tea Party, and I’m voting for Diane Black        

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Trump Blames Trade Deficits On Past US Leaders: ‘You Can Go Back 50 Years’

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by Will Racke   President Donald Trump on Saturday offered harsh words for the people he holds responsible for U.S. trade deficits — past American leaders. Speaking at a press briefing at the G7 summit, Trump blamed a generation of U.S. politicians for making deals that have led to large deficits with America’s most important trading partners. “I blame our past leaders for allowing this to happen,” Trump said, adding that his immediate predecessor, former President Barack Obama, was just one in a long line of presidents who have supposedly led the U.S. astray on trade. “You can go back 50 years, frankly,” he said. Trump’s address to the media came after meetings with the leaders of the group of seven large economies — the U.S. plus Canada, France, Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan — in Quebec on Friday. This year’s summit has been marked by deep discord over the Trump administration’s recent actions on trade, which include protectionist measures against not just China, but also the G7 nations and other key trading partners such as Mexico. [ RELATED: Mexico Responds To Trump’s Metal Tariffs With Import Taxes On US Goods ] Ahead of the summit, Trump announced the U.S. would not exempt Canada, Japan…

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It’s Time to Let Supersonic Flight Soar Again

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Concorde airplane

by Jason Snead   Before he became the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn was famous for another pioneering achievement. In 1957, he became the first man to fly across the country faster than the speed of sound, traveling from California to New York in just three hours and 23 minutes. Glenn’s aptly named “Project Bullet” seemed at the time to herald a new age of supersonic flight, in which passengers could cross the globe in an afternoon, thanks to American ingenuity and technological prowess. Yet, 61 years later, supersonic commercial aviation remains an unrealized dream. [ The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution. Find out more ] Beginning in 1969, the Concorde proved that routine commercial supersonic flight was technically feasible. It carried passengers at an altitude high enough to see the curvature of the Earth and flew them fast enough to outrun a sunset. But for all its splendor, the Concorde had problems. It was an expensive, government-subsidized gas guzzler that flew just one commercially viable route—shuttling wealthy passengers back and forth between New York and London. When it was retired from service in 2003, it left…

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America’s Right Turn, Chapter 3: The Recipe for Creating a New Mass Movement

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by Richard A. Viguerie   This is an excerpt from Chapter 3 (“The Recipe for Creating a New Mass Movement”) of America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power, by Richard A. Viguerie and David Franke. In this chapter we ask:  How can a grassroots political movement emerge and succeed in our media-dominated world?  For answers, we use the revolutions of 1517 and 1776 (Chapters 1 and 2) as laboratory examples. Then, in coming chapters, we will show how these factors resulted in the emergence, growth, and success of the conservative movement in the second half of the 20th century. In this first excerpt from the chapter, we consider two factors in creating a new mass movement—“Issues that motivate” and “A dedicated vanguard.” As you read the excerpts from this chapter, ask yourself these questions:  Did these same factors contribute to the Trump Revolution of 2016?  Indeed, did his election in 2016 signify the emergence of a new mass movement, or was it rather the evolving of the conservative movement?  I invite you to share your thoughts in the comments section that follows this article.   Chapter 3: The Recipe for Creating a New Mass Movement The media…

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Commentary: Three Myths of Socialism Debunked by Venezuela’s Nightmare

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by Barry Brownstein   History provides endless examples of vicious despots ruling under various collectivist ideologies. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and – today – Kim Jong-un and Nicolás Maduro may have had different names for their collectivist ideologies, but they have resulted in the deaths of countless millions of people and endless misery for the survivors. Alarmingly, a majority of millennials would prefer to live under socialism or communism. Economically illiterate and ahistorical, they cling to the fantasy that if the right people came to power, they would live in their imagined utopia where society would be ordered according to their whims and wishes. Reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev has lived in and covered Venezuela for the past five years. He describes his experience of the Venezuelan meltdown in a recent essay for the Wall Street Journal, “The Tragedy of Venezuela.” Kurmanaev grew up in Russia in the 1990s and witnessed “corruption, violence and degradation.” “Venezuela’s collapse has been far worse than the chaos” he experienced in Russia. In my FEE essay, “Venezuela’s Road to Literal Serfdom,” I cover delusions people have about socialism. Through the eyes of Kurmanaev’s reporting, we can further explore myths about socialism still embraced by many. Myth 1: Collectivists Care More About the Poor No…

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Sponsor of 2001 Bill That Allowed Illegals to Get Drivers Licenses in Tennessee Claimed It Was Only for ‘A Properly Documented Immigrant,’

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Diane Black

Tennessee Jobs Now, a SuperPAC that supports Randy Boyd in the Tennessee Governor’s race, has been running a television commercial that hits Diane Black for a 2001 vote as a member of the Tennessee General Assembly that resulted in illegal aliens being able to get driver licenses. Black does not deny that she voted for the bill, SB1266, nor does she deny that the result of the bill was that it allowed illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses in Tennessee. She has subsequently explained that the result that illegal aliens were able to obtain drivers licenses in Tennessee after the law was passed was “an unintended consequence of a bill that was supposed to allow legal immigrants to get licenses.” A cursory reading of SB1266, as it was passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Sundquist, does not give the impression its purpose was to allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses. Indeed, the words “illegal,” “alien,” “immigrant,” “documented immigrant,” and “undocumented immigrant” appear nowhere in the law: SB1266, An Act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-50-321, relative to information required to be submitted to obtain a driver license Section 1: Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-50-321(c)(1), is amended by…

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