Month: February 2020

Initiative Proposal Wants to Implement Term Limits on Ohio State Legislatures

Zachery Schmidt

  A group trying to alter the way term limits work in the Buckeye State filed petition paperwork with Attorney General Dave Yost Wednesday. A group called Ohioans for Legislative Term Limits (OLTL) wants to limit the number of years state elected officials can serve to 16. Currently, an amendment passed by Ohioans in 1992, allows politicians to serve eight continuous years in either chamber. However, elected officials can return to the Senate or House after sitting out four years. “This initiative would institute a 16-year lifetime ban that would close the current loophole that allows legislators to shuffle back and forth between the House and Senate indefinitely,” Columbus attorney Don McTigue told the Toledo Blade. If Ohioans pass this initiative, term limits would be counted on January 1, 2021. This means it will affect politicians being elected this November. McTigue also told the Toledo Blade this group has supporters from both political parties. “A campaign structure is being organized now,” he said. “You will be hearing more from the campaign as things develop in the weeks and months ahead.” Yost has until March 2 to determine if this proposal can move forward. If he does approve the proposal’s language,…

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Commentary: The Impatience of the Democratic Primary

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A few takeaways after two weeks of stomping where the candidates were stumping and stalking Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes.” Or in the case of the Democrats’ caucuses in Iowa, who doesn’t count the votes.

The Iowa app-ageddon exposed the Washington political class for the self-serving failure it is. These people keep getting hired even though they keep losing elections or screwing them up as they did in Iowa.

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Tennessee Man Looks to Help Others in Need Through American Mobility Project

Chris Butler

Twelve years ago a helicopter accident in Iraq robbed Adams, Tennessee resident and U.S. Army veteran and helicopter pilot Gary Linfoot of the ability to walk.

Linfoot may have to use a wheelchair, but new, yet costly, technologies have enabled him to enjoy certain conveniences he otherwise would not.

And now, thanks to the new nonprofit, the American Mobility Project, Linfoot wants to share those technologies with other people in need.

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Carol Swain Commentary: A Dangerous Revisionist History of America’s Founding Pushes a False and Destructive Narrative

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Under the guise of a venture called the “1619 Project,” revisionist history about race in America is being introduced into classrooms across America without undergoing the normal peer review expected of educational materials. August 2019 marked the birth of the project, a publication of The New York Times Magazine and the Pulitzer organization, containing a collection of essays and artistic works to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of slavery in America. The project has mushroomed into a movement to re-educate Americans via newfangled claims about how deeply racism is embedded in America’s core.

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Washington Journalist Neil McCabe Gives His Take on Bill Barr and President Trump’s Public Spat and DOJ’s ‘Snake’ Culture

Julie Carr

On Wednesday’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. – Michael Patrick Leahy and all star panelist Crom Carmichael spoke with special guest former Breitbart colleague and Washington journalist Neil McCabe.

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Commentary: How the Ruling Class Might Elect Bloomberg and Realign American Politics

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The Democratic Party’s establishment might well succeed in making Michael Bloomberg president of the United States—not on Election Night 2020, however. But it could happen if a third party were to win some electoral votes and, with no candidate receiving a majority of them, the House of Representatives was called upon to choose between the top-two electoral vote-getters.

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Refugees Get Full Access to U.S. Welfare Programs, Expert Says

Chris Butler

  One out of five legal immigrants in this country in recent years has come here as a client of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement — and they arrive with instant access to all welfare programs the United States has to offer. This, according to Don Barnett,  a fellow with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies and a resident of Williamson County. Barnett spoke in Lebanon Monday as part of  The Tennessee Star Wilson County Town Hall on Refugee Resettlement at the Lebanon D.T. McCall and Sons’ location. Barnett delivered an extensive and detailed presentation on the history and costs of the Refugee Admissions Program, which began 40 years ago with the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980. More than 3 million refugees have been legally resettled in the United States under that program over four decades, Barnett said. The Office of Refugee Resettlement is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. “In 2016 we had 212,000 individuals with instant access to the welfare system,” Barnett told audience members. In 2016, 85,000 of those 212,000 entered through the federal Refugee Admissions Program, while the remainder came through other programs. “In addition, there’s another category called…

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Tennessee State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson Joins Leahy and Roberts to Discuss the Governor’s Approach on the Heartbeat Bill

Julie Carr

Tuesday 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 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – Leahy was joined in the studio by State Senator Kerry Roberts and on the newsmaker line by Tennessee State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson.

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Frank LaRose Doesn’t Want Jane Fonda to Speak at Kent State University Event Commemorating the Kent State Shooting

Zachery Schmidt

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose wants Kent State University (KSU) to “rescind” its speaking invitation for actress Jane Fonda at an event commemorating the 50-year anniversary of the KSU shooting where the Ohio National Guard killed four students and injured nine others who were protesting the on-going Vietnam War.

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Questions Arise About Rick Staples’ Campaign Spending

Chris Butler

The media is raising questions about Tennessee State Rep. Rick Staples, D-Knoxville, and how he has spent his campaign finances.

This, according to a report The Tennessee Journal published Monday.

Staples did not respond to The Tennessee Star’s repeated requests for comment Monday, by email, at his office, and on his Facebook page.

According to The Tennessee Journal, “Staples spent $1,200 at a local restaurant just before his wedding last year, and on a rental car, hotel stays, and air travel coinciding with his honeymoon.”

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Commentary: The Myth of the Moderate Democrat

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Our friend Deroy Murdock posted a great column about the Democrat candidates for President which we caught on NewsMax.

Mr. Murdock’s point was that while not all of those still in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President may not be full-blown socialists, like Senator Bernie Sanders, the balderdash that they are even vaguely centrist is either desperately uninformed or deliberately dishonest.

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