Tennessee Republican Attorney General Herbert Slatery wants to investigate Google to make sure the tech giant is abiding by state and federal antitrust laws.
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Day: September 17, 2019
Commentary: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Too Much Trump?’
by Victor Davis Hanson The new post-Mueller media narrative is “weariness” and “exhaustion” with President Trump’s tweets, his cul de sac Sharpie controversy, his ideas about buying Greenland, his unorthodox art-of-the-deal foreign policy that resulted in a plan to talk to Taliban leaders in the United States, and his firing of arch-conservative John Bolton. The Drudge Report, once a go-to site for Trumpism, now seems unapologetically anti-Trump, in its often trademark snarky style. Are Trump supporters then weary? The August jobs report “unexpectedly” reminds us that never have so many Americans been at work. The 3.7 percent unemployment rate continues to be the lowest peacetime unemployment figure in 50 years. Black and Hispanic unemployment remain at record lows. Workers’ wages continue to rise. Talk of recession is belied by low interest, low inflation, low unemployment, and a strong stock market. The result is that millions of Americans enjoy far better lives than they had in 2016. When we look to alternatives, all we seem to hear is multi-trillion-dollar hare-brained schemes from radical progressives and socialists masquerading as Democrats at a time of record national debt. The Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free healthcare for illegal aliens, reparations, the…
Read the full storyJoni Bryan of 917 Society to Host a Constitution Celebration at Nashville City Club Tonight at 6 pm
In a detailed discussion, Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy spoke to in-studio guest Joni Bryan who is the executive director of 917 Society. Bryan talked about the event which will take place today – September 17 – at the Nashville City Club in celebration of the Constitution’s 232nd anniversary.
Read the full storyQatar-Funded Group Engages in ‘Propagandistic Activities’ While Divvying Out Millions to US Schools, Experts Say
A U.S.-based organization funded by Qatar and tasked with furthering the allegedly terror-linked country’s national vision is openly influencing K-12 public school curriculums across America. A legal loophole allows it to do so without registering as a foreign agent, but experts say the group has at times stretched that boundary by pushing overt propaganda.
Read the full storyTennessee Residents Who Want Public Records Access Training Can Get it in October
If you live in Tennessee and want to see government documents, but you don’t know how to navigate the state’s public records laws then you’re in luck.
Read the full storyQuality Counts Analysis Reveals Nation’s Average C Grade Hasn’t Changed in Decades
The nation’s average C grade on education hasn’t changed since 1997, when the annual assessment of the nation’s K-12 education system was first created by Education Week’s annual Quality Counts report.
Read the full storyCommentary: I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person – It Was All a Sham
Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times, writing that I had wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been,” and had “effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities.”
Read the full storyBlackburn Gives Support to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh in Response to Democrats’ Latest Smear Campaign
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), one of two Republican women to ever serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is standing up for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Read the full storyThe 2020 Campaign Will Be ‘Nastiest in American History,’ Steve Bannon Says
The 2020 presidential election will be the nastiest in history, Steve Bannon said Friday in St. Louis.
Read the full storyThe Tennessee Star Report Talks to the King of Boston Radio Howie Carr About the New York Times’ Fake News Story on Kavanaugh
On Monday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy chatted with good friend Howie Carr, known as the king of Boston talk radio, to discuss the recent obscure Tweets followed by an even more un-credible story by the New York Times.
Read the full storyEx-Comey Aide Describes How FBI Chief Prepared for Infamous Trump Tower Meeting
In a book to be released Tuesday, a former FBI aide to James Comey describes the lead-up to a briefing where then-President-Elect Donald Trump was first told about allegations in the unverified Steele dossier.
Read the full storyBlackburn Legislation Would Require Asylum-Seekers to Submit to DNA Test to Prove Children are Theirs
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria to discuss her legislation to require a DNA test to substantiate the familial relationship between an alien and an accompanying minor.
Read the full storyICE Facilities to Receive Security Overhaul Following Violent Attacks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon beef up security at facilities in response to a recent slate of violence against the agency’s detention centers and offices across the country.
Read the full storyAmerican Inventor Series: Margaret E. Knight, the ‘Lady Edison’
Margaret E. Knight, born in York, Maine in 1838, preferred a “jack-knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood” to dolls as a young girl. Her amateur woodworking skills made her sleds the “envy of the town’s boys” while her kites were famous throughout the community, according to Henry Petroski’s account of the young inventor in The American Scholar.
Read the full storyIlhan Omar Claims She’s Only Controversial Because People ‘Want Controversy’ in Explosive Interview
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday where she said that she’s only controversial because “people seem to want the controversy.”
Read the full storySixth Circuit Court Rules That TDOT’s ‘Billboard Act’ Unconstitutionally Restricts Non-Commercial Free Speech
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion on September 11, 2019, affirming that Tennessee’s Billboard Regulation and Control Act of 1972 is unconstitutional based on its content-based regulation of free speech.
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