Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Wednesday that she has joined a 39-state coalition in investigating the marketing and sales practices of JUUL Labs.
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Month: February 2020
Minnesota Dems Seek to Repeal Informed Consent Requirements for Abortions
A Democrat-backed bill making its way through the Minnesota Legislature seeks to repeal the state’s informed consent laws for abortion.
Read the full storyCommentary: President Trump’s Opportunity Zones Are Revitalizing Once-Forgotten Communities
I am not a partisan or a politician. I am a social impact investor. That is a fancy way of saying that I work to revitalize forgotten neighborhoods and help empower and restore hope to forgotten lives. My true goal is to help unite our country.
Read the full storyWhitmer Threatens Removal of Accreditation for Wayne State University
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Michigan leaders sent a letter to the Wayne State University Board of Governors threatening them with removal of accreditation if it did not adopt a Code of Conduct at its next meeting. The letter comes on the heels of squabbling within the board over the legitimacy of the leadership Wayne State University President Roy Wilson. Four members of the eight-person board attempted to fire Wilson from his role as president in November, claiming that they had never been briefed on a move to grant free tuition to high school graduates in the city of Detroit and that Wilson was overstepping his bounds, according to The Detroit Free Press. Anti-Wilson board members had skipped a meeting discussing tuition and a property purchase related to the medical school, and the other members counted Wilson as a member in order to reach quorum and passed the measures. The vote to remove Wilson in November was declared in valid, and he is still working In retaliation, the four anti-Wilson board members have repeatedly voted against all measures brought before the board, including a Code of Conduct required for the university by the Higher Learning Commission to keep its…
Read the full storyCincinnati City Councilwoman Arrested on Corruption Charges
Federal officials arrested Cincinnati Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard Tuesday for allegedly trying to sell her council vote for money. The councilwoman faces up to 50 years in prison if found guilty of these corruption charges.
Read the full storyU.S. Senate Candidate Manny Sethi Announces Plan to Address the Coronavirus
Physician turned U.S. Republican Senate candidate Manny Sethi announced Wednesday what he called a plan to address the coronavirus.
Read the full storyThe Trump Campaign Sues The New York Times for Libel and Defamation Over ‘Russia Conspiracy’ Hoax
The Trump campaign announced Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit claiming The New York Times knowingly libeled the president when the paper reported as fact a conspiracy to “collude” with Russia.
Read the full storySumner County Passes Second Amendment Sanctuary County Resolution
GALLATIN, Tennessee – After nearly four hours of the regular monthly meeting of the Sumner County Board of County Commissioners, a Second Amendment Sanctuary County Resolution was passed Monday evening by a vote of 18 to 4.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Left Dumps NeverTrump
The love affair between the Left and NeverTrump Right appears to be over. For real, this time.
Read the full storyRepublican Senators Murkowski and Collins Join Democrats to Defeat the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with Democrats Tuesday against protecting unborn babies after 20 weeks.
Read the full storyIllegal Alien Arrested in Montgomery County for Allegedly Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed that one of the men arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland, for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl is an illegal alien.
Read the full storyTrump Calls on Two Supreme Court Justices to Recuse Themselves from Cases Involving Him
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should remove themselves from cases involving him or his administration.
Read the full storyTennessee State University Schedules Opportunity Zone Event
Officials at Tennessee State University have scheduled a one-day forum on Opportunity Zones for Tuesday, March 3.
Read the full storyLeahy and Roberts Discuss Governor Bill Lee’s Pattern of Non-Consultation with Legislative Branch
On Tuesday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Tennessee State Senator Kerry Roberts (R-Springfield) in the studio to discuss this week’s Tennessee General Assembly agenda. Towards the end of the second hour, Leahy and Roberts discussed Governor Lee’s recent executive order on state employee family leave which some statesmen raised eyebrows citing that it was not possible to do without going through legislation. Further on into the discussion Leahy brought up how this seemed to be a pattern with the governor noting that the specifics of the Heartbeat Bill are still up in the air. Leahy: In the studio with our good friend all-star panelist and state Senator Kerry Roberts. It’s time now for the inside scoop about what’s really going on in the Tennessee General Assembly. What were the big issues? The big news going on up there on Capitol Hill? Roberts: It’s been a pretty quiet week with President’s Day on Monday. So, we tried to compress it into a couple of days. But the biggest thing that happened wasn’t legislative. So the governor in his State of…
Read the full storyCommentary: The Democrats Invented Bernie Sanders by Toying With Socialism for a Generation
After another big win, this time in Nevada with 46 percent of the vote, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described democratic socialist, is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 — and the Democratic establishment has no idea what to do about it.
Read the full storyOver 3,600 Law Enforcement Agencies Across the US Were Given ICE Detainers
More than 3,600 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. were handed detainers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the last fiscal year, indicating how necessary local and state cooperation is for federal immigration authorities.
Read the full storyDHS Deputy Chief Won’t Rule Out Theory That Coronavirus Was Created in a Chinese Lab
Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), could not definitively rule out the theory that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory.
Read the full storyOmar Announces Release of New Book Called ‘This Is What America Looks Like’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) announced Tuesday that her memoir, “This Is What America Looks Like,” goes on sale this week.
Read the full storyWhitmer Files Motion to Remove Medicaid Work Requirements in Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a motion on Tuesday for a partial summary judgement in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia after work requirements for Medicaid in Arkansas, similar to Michigan’s program, were found to be unlawful.
Read the full storyOhio Bill Proposal Would Prevent Biological Men From Competing in Women’s Sports
Two Ohio state representatives are set to introduce a bill this week that would prevent biological men from competing in women’s sports.
The Save Women’s Sports Act (SWSA), co-sponsored by Jena Powell (R-Arcanum) and Reggie Stoltzfus (R-Paris Twp.), will designate that sport teams be based on a person’s biological sex rather than how he or she feels.
Read the full storyMichigan Dems Want to Follow New York’s Lead in Banning Cat Declawing
Michigan House Democrats have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of declawing cats in the state.
Read the full storyHouse Committee Approves Bill to Make Minnesota Constitution Use Gender-Neutral Language
A House bill that seeks to replace all male pronouns in the Minnesota Constitution with gender-neutral language cleared its first committee Tuesday.
Read the full storyTwo Tennessee Legislators Say They Want to Make Local Governments More Transparent
State Rep. William Lamberth (R-Portland) and State Sen. Mike Bell (R-Riceville) have put forward a bill that would make government entities provide more information to the public on upcoming government meetings.
Read the full storyTennessee Lawmakers Propose Constitutional Amendment to Support Victims of Crime
State Sen. John Stevens (R-Huntingdon) and State Rep. Patsy Hazlewood, (R-Signal Mountain) have introduced legislation that they say would strengthen the rights of crime victims in Tennessee’s Constitution.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Counter-Coup Has Begun
I remember as if it were yesterday, telling President Trump’s National Security Adviser, retired three-star General Mike Flynn: “Get 20 DoJ polygraphers here now and have them do single-scope interviews through the whole bloody building!”
Read the full storyDetails Obtained in Roger Stone Juror Tomeka Hart’s Jury Questionnaire Appear to Contradict Public Statements She Made on Twitter
The lead juror at Roger Stone’s trial said in a written questionnaire for prospective jurors that she was “not sure” whether she posted online about the Russia investigation or Stone, and that she “may have shared an article” on social media on the topics, according to a portion of the document reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
But Tomeka Hart’s Twitter feed shows that she indeed posted multiple times about the Russia probe and at least once about Stone, who was sentenced on Thursday to 40 months in prison in a case that stemmed from the special counsel’s investigation.
Read the full storyIdentified: The FBI Agent Faulted in FISA Report for ‘Significant Errors’
An FBI agent faulted for some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department’s inspector general report on FISA abuse against a Trump campaign associate has been identified.
The New York Times, citing people familiar with the FBI’s Russia probe, identified Stephen A. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator who works out of the bureau’s New York field office, as “Case Agent 1” from the inspector general’s (IG) report.
Read the full storyThe Tennessee Star Report: Erin Leahy of Leahy Music Group Joins Michael Patrick Leahy to Talk About Her Roots
On Monday’s Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy lcomed Erin Leahy – from the progressive-folk musical group Leahy to the show.
Read the full storyCommentary: #VoteBlueNoMatterWho Is No Match for #NeverSanders
Almost everything the Democratic Left said about Donald Trump causing a Republican Party implosion proved untrue – and yet is proving true this year of the Democrats.
Trump’s agenda, for the most part, was Reaganesque, with a few important exceptions – closing the border and enforcing immigration law, getting tough with China’s unfair trade policies, restoring assembly and manufacturing jobs to the hollowed-out interior, avoiding optional wars abroad, and trying to drain the proverbial federal swamp of its careerist bureaucrats and revolving-door apparatchiks.
Read the full storyThe Trump Administration’s Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Officially Goes Into Effect Following Supreme Court Victories
The Trump administration officially implemented its public charge rule for foreign nationals seeking permanent status, following two key victories in the nation’s highest court.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday put into effect the administration’s new public charge rule, which takes into account a foreign national’s past use of taxpayer-funded benefits when determining whether that individual qualifies for a green card. The rule, which the White House first introduced in 2019, survived a lawsuit that reached all the way to the Supreme Court.
Read the full storyThe ‘New’ Ninth Circuit Court Rules Trump Admin Stripping Funding From Abortion Clinics Is Constitutional
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue stripping federal funding from clinics that offer abortions.
The court upheld the Trump administration’s June 2019 declaration that taxpayer-funded clinics must stop referring women for abortions or be stripped of their Title X funding.
Read the full storyCommentary: ‘Sex Change’ Isn’t Surgically or Pharmacologically Possible, My Surgeon Testified in Court
Many people wonder why I’m so outspoken about the madness of prescribing cross-sex hormones and genital mutilation surgery for patients who suffer from the desire to be the opposite sex, known clinically as gender dysphoria.
I speak out because I consulted the “gender experts” when I had gender confusion, and they told me sex change was the only way to get relief.
But they were wrong. I didn’t need sex change – I needed effective psychotherapy to resolve childhood issues.
Read the full storyThales Academy-Franklin: Principal Rachael Bradley Talks About Direct Instruction and the Next Parent Informational Meeting March 10th
Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcasting live from Music Row on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – Leahy was joined on the newsmakers line by all-star panelist and the new Thales Academy in Franklin Principal, Rachel Bradley.
During the second hour, Bradley described the methodology of direct instruction which will be used at the new Thales Academy in Franklin as a teacher-led and carefully scripted environment that prevents misinformation from floating around the classroom. She described the flow of teaching as quick-moving where every minute of the school day is learning.
Read the full storyAt Least Seven Bloomberg Offices Have Been Vandalized
At least seven Michael Bloomberg campaign offices have been vandalized in February with messages the campaign says mirror the rhetoric of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Campaign offices in Chicago, Ohio and Michigan have been spray-painted with messages such as “racist oligarch fuck Bloomberg,” “corporate pig” and “eat the rich” over the past two weeks, NBC News reported.
Read the full storyOhio Department of Education Lowers the Bar for High School Graduation Requirements
Despite having a budget of more than $11 million for the Department of Education, Ohio Superintendent Paolo DeMaria decided high school graduates only need to know barely more than the basics in order to graduate.
Read the full storyNew Poll Shows Bernie with Big Leads in Michigan and Wisconsin
A new poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with significant leads over his Democratic primary opponents in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Read the full story‘Struggling’ Detroit Announces Opening of New Arts and Culture Office
The city of Detroit announced the inauguration of its new Office of Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship (ACE) with former Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley as its director.
Riley and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan officially declared the new joint public-private government initiative at a Thursday press event.
Read the full storyMichigan Senate Introduces Bill to Change Penalty for Deer Baiting to $1
A bill recently introduced to the Michigan Senate could effectively remove the ban on deer baiting.
Read the full storyWalz Sends Letter to Trump Admin in Response to ‘Immoral’ Efforts to Deport Hmong, Lao Residents
Gov. Tim Walz sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week expressing his opposition to “any agreement resulting in the deportation of Hmong and Lao Minnesotans.”
Read the full storyRecreational Marijuana Could Be on Ohio Ballot in 2020
Ohioans might get another opportunity to vote on legalizing recreational marijuana this year.
Read the full storyBill Filed in Tennessee General Assembly to Address Hamilton County’s Alleged Destruction of Public Records
Tennessee State Sen. Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga) and State Rep. Yusef Hakeem (D-Chattanooga) have filed legislation intended to address the Hamilton County government’s alleged and recent destruction of government records.
Read the full storyAnother Year, Yet Another Horrible Audit for Decatur County
Tennessee Comptrollers said in an audit late last week that the Decatur County government’s problems are severe enough that, as of now, they will not approve the county’s new budget.
The county taxpayers will also have to pay a nearly $10,000 fine to the Internal Revenue Service, Comptrollers said.
Read the full storyCommentary: President Trump’s ‘Historically’ Unpopular Numbers Don’t Add Up
by George S. Bardmesser It’s been nearly a month since I wrote about the media-fabricated mirage of Trump’s alleged unpopularity. Yet Fox News, apparently, still hasn’t received the memo. My conclusion, after looking at a set of polls administered between September 1 and January 24, was that Trump’s approval numbers are quite healthy (trending upwards slowly, and around 47 percent and rising), and, if anything, better than Obama’s were at this point in his presidency: This chart showed data for the polls excluding Rasmussen (a pollster that I consider more reliable than most, but one which others view as having an in-house Republican effect). Rasmussen’s numbers (again, deliberately not included in the chart above) tend to be in the roughly 48-49, percent range in the last few months. As of this writing, we have three additional weeks of data, and the same chart looks as follows: Note the outlier at 54 percent on January 29 – this is that Gallup poll that showed a historically high 49 percent approval among the category “all adults” – which, according to the approach taken in my earlier piece, was adjusted to “likely voters” by adding five points to it. Gallup’s 49 percent figure made headlines at…
Read the full storyRoger Stone Files Motion To Disqualify Judge Amy Berman Jackson Handling His Case
Roger Stone’s attorneys filed a motion Friday to disqualify Judge Amy Berman Jackson from future proceedings in his case because she said during his sentencing hearing Thursday that the Trump confidante’s jury served with “integrity.”
Jackson, who sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison, will soon decide whether to grant Stone’s request for a retrial. The GOP operative alleges that jury foreperson Tomeka Hart was biased against him and submitted false statements during the jury selection process about her opinions regarding President Donald Trump.
Read the full storyObama-Era DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney Found Dead with Gunshot Wound to Chest
An Obama-era whistleblower was found dead Friday morning in a remote area roughly an hour outside of Sacramento, California with a gunshot wound to his chest.
Philip Haney, one of the founding members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), exposed the Obama Administration’s dangerously P.C. national security policies in 2015 and 2016. His body was found next to a vehicle near Drytown, California.
Read the full storyCalifornia Sues Trump Administration Over ‘Failure to Protect Species’
California is suing the Trump administration for the administration’s failure to protect endangered species in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, Reuters reports.
The lawsuit by the state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Environmental Protection Agency filed suit on Thursday against the Trump administration in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Read the full storySecond Wave of Middle Class Tax Cuts Slated for September
Keeping with his promise in 2018 that he would be issuing a second round of tax cuts, President Donald Trump’s administration signaled that details of the new cuts would be announced in September.
Read the full storyReview of School-Based Sex Ed Finds Increases in Sexual Activity
A global research review of school-based comprehensive sex education programs found very little effectiveness from these programs and instead found increased sexual activity.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Was a Mindless Rage of Collectivist Groupthink
On June 1 of next year, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will mark the centennial of a catastrophe—an entirely man-made one. More specifically, an entirely thought-made one. It will be very painful to acknowledge. In its immediate aftermath, in fact, Tulsans of a few generations ago tried hard to ignore and forget it. But you can’t learn from history if you choose to pretend it never happened. So the story must and shall be told.
Read the full storyPompeo Meets With New Oman Leader
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Oman Friday for a meeting with the country’s new ruler, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.
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