Knox County has sued itself and spent nearly $1 million on legal fees, according to KnoxNews.com. The attorneys who did legal work on the case, as the website went on to say, are coming out of this quite well. This, of course, is all taxpayer money. According to Knox News,…
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Dr. Carol M. Swain Commentary: Congress’s Role in Creating America’s Healthcare Crisis
by Dr. Carol M. Swain In 2017, President-elect Donald Trump sent pharmaceutical stocks into a nosedive by speaking an important truth. Drug companies, he said, are “getting away with murder” with their pricing of lifesaving drugs. True to his word, the president, since his election, has pushed for needed reforms aimed at…
Read MoreThe Most People in Nearly 20 Years Quit Their Jobs for Better Ones in 2018
by Tim Pearce Roughly 2.4 percent of the Americans in the workforce quit their jobs in the past year, the fastest rate since 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS’s most recent version of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) found that an…
Read MoreDemocrats Already Sending Out Job Postings Seeking Lawyers to Investigate Trump
by Nick Givas House Democrats have already released job postings seeking lawyers and legal staff to help aid their upcoming investigations of President Donald Trump. Democrats want legislative counsel with experience in: “criminal law, immigration law, constitutional law, intellectual property law, commercial and administrative law (including antitrust and bankruptcy), or…
Read MoreCommentary: Cure for GOP Shutdown Fears is Forceful Messaging on the Wall, Not Surrendering
by Peter Parisi Supporters of border security can only hope that, over the Christmas recess, Santa gifted congressional Republicans with a crash course in effective messaging on the need for funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall. They will need it when Congress reconvenes Thursday amid the partial government…
Read MoreDr. Carol M. Swan Commentary: Congress’s Role in Creating America’s Healthcare Crisis
by Dr. Carol M. Swain In 2017, President-elect Donald Trump sent pharmaceutical stocks into a nosedive by speaking an important truth. Drug companies, he said, are “getting away with murder” with their pricing of lifesaving drugs. True to his word, the president, since his election, has pushed for needed reforms aimed at…
Read MorePolice Officer Deaths on Duty Increased in 2018, Report Finds
by Neetu Chandak A preliminary report released Thursday found U.S. police officer deaths on duty increased by 12 percent in 2018 from 2017. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a non-profit dedicated to making police officers’ work safer, found 144 police officers died between Jan. 1 and Dec.…
Read MoreReport Details Nature of Facebook’s Secret Rulebook Governing Global Speech
by Chris White Facebook’s secretive rulebook regulating how employees censor certain forms of expression contains numerous biases and outright errors, according to internal documents The New York Times obtained Friday. The nearly 1,400-page document shows the Silicon Valley company’s guidebook is riddled with mistakes and is not nimble enough…
Read MoreMissouri Federal Grand Jury Indicts 14 in Home Health Care Scam
A fraud scheme perpetrated on taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid began to unravel with an anonymous tip alerting officials “that some Iraqis were fraudulently receiving home care services,” says a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report from earlier this month. Investigators examined billing records from several home health care companies that provide services to the…
Read MoreSecond Amendment Groups Vow to Fight Minnesota DFL’s Gun Control Efforts
The only thing barring Democrats from total control of Minnesota’s government is a one-seat Republican majority in the Senate, but that might not be enough to block gun-control efforts during the upcoming session. Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R-Nisswa) recently indicated that he has “some openness” on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL)…
Read MoreTrump Threatens to ‘Entirely’ Close US-Mexico Border Unless Wall Funding is Secured
President Donald Trump on Friday once again threatened to close the entire U.S.-Mexico border and cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador if Congress fails to give him money to fund the border wall. In a series of tweets, Trump also asked to change the “ridiculous immigration laws that…
Read MoreCommentary: Can Ohio’s Sherrod Brown Return the Dems to Blue-Collar Roots?
by Henry Olsen Senator Sherrod Brown is one of many Democrats considering a run for the White House. His name likely does not ring a bell, as he has not garnered the national attention that other potential rivals have. Many observers think he could be a formidable opponent for…
Read MorePotential Massive Earthquake Likely to Affect Nashville Differently Than Rest of State
If a large earthquake were to rattle Tennessee then Nashville and the rest of Middle Tennessee likely would not feel the same damage as other parts of the state, according to a Memphis geologist. The effects of such an earthquake on Tennessee’s bridges, including one on I-40 that goes over…
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