Day: January 23, 2025

Tennessee U.S. Rep. Mark Green Leads Letter to Coast Guard Demanding Answers on Sanctioned China-Owned Shipping Company

Tom Pappert
Rep. Mark Green

U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) led four members of the House of Representatives seeking answers from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) regarding its practices for dealing with COSCO Shipping, state-owned shipping company from China that was sanctioned by the federal government earlier this month.

Green, the leading the House Committee on Homeland Security, led Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI-02), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL-26), and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) in a letter seeking answers from Admiral Kevin Lunday about how the Coast Guard handles the shipping company, with the congressmen warning its vessels, “frequently have Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political commissars embedded amongst their crews.”

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Promise Made; Promise Kept: Trump Orders Full Release of Government Documents on JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassinations

Christina Botteri
JFK assassination

Completing the fulfillment of a campaign promise from his first run for office nearly a decade ago, President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an Executive Order to declassify the trove of long-held records and other documents pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

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Manifesto and Diary Purportedly Left by Antioch High Shooter Solomon Henderson Contain Rants About Jewish People, Capitalism, Race

Tom Pappert
Solomon Henderson

The Tennessee Star on Thursday obtained a diary and manifesto purportedly left by Antioch High School killer Solomon Henderson, the 17-year-old who police say fatally shot one 16-year-old student and injured two more at his Nashville, Tennessee high school on Wednesday.

Law enforcement previously acknowledged that documents were posted online by Henderson prior to his attack, but have not authenticated the materials obtained by The Star. A request for Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to release their copies of the documents was not returned prior to press time.

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Trump Declares ‘Golden Age of America’ in First International Address at Davos

Christina Botteri
President Donald Trump addresses WEF in Davos

In his first international address since taking office, President Donald Trump spoke on Thursday to an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, emphasizing a “revolution of common sense” and outlining a series of America-First policy initiatives aimed at reversing what he described as the economic and social damages of the previous administration.

Trump began his speech – delivered stateside via video teleconference – by reflecting on his recent inauguration, describing the election as a “massive mandate” with victories in all seven swing states, leading to what he called the “golden age of America.”

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Trump’s Pollster Finds Sen. Marsha Blackburn Has Nearly 60-Point Lead in Tennessee Governor Primary

Tom Pappert
Sen. Marsha Blackburn

Polling released Thursday morning to The Tennessee Star shows Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is the early favorite to secure the Tennessee Republican Party’s nomination for governor next year, with Blackburn securing more than 60 percent of the vote in a hypothetical primary race. 

The polling was conducted by Fabrizio, Lee and Associates, the polling firm run by Tony Fabrizio and David Lee, which has polled for President Donald Trump and his presidential campaigns since 2016.

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Trump Aims to Dismantle Globalist Trade Policies

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump Ssigns Executive Orders and Actions on Jan 20, 2025

President Donald Trump unveiled his trade policy objectives this week and emphasized his plan to strengthen “the American economy, the American worker, and our national security” in his second term.

Just hours after taking the oath of office on Monday, Trump introduced a myriad of sweeping executive actions which included a presidential memorandum outlining his vision for an “America First” trade policy.

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Ernst Introduces Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood

Daily Caller News Foundation
Planned Parenthood

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced legislation in the Senate Wednesday to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood after the organization received COVID relief funds.

At least $120 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were provided to affiliates of Planned Parenthood in 2020 and 2021 contrary to “applicable affiliation rules and size standards” during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Dec. 17 letter that Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky sent to then-Small Business Administration Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman. Ernst told the Daily Caller News Foundation that her legislation would ensure that the non-profit organization, known for promoting abortion, would not receive taxpayer funds.

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Antioch High School Reportedly Removed Metal Detectors Prior to Shooting at Nashville School

Tom Pappert
Antioch High School main entry

A source familiar with Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday that metal detectors were previously installed at Antioch High School some time during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that they were removed sometime prior to the January 22 shooting that saw two dead and two injured.

The source told The Star that the metal detectors were installed sometime around 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting they could have been obtained by MNPS using federal pandemic relief funding, but that they were removed for unclear reasons over the intervening years.

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Commentary: Congressional Budget Office Lowers U.S. Population Projections

RealClearWire
New born baby

by Bill King   This week, the Congressional Budget Office once again reduced its population projections for the U.S. for 2025-2055. Last year, in its 30-year forecast, the CBO had projected that the U.S. population would be about 383 million by 2054. This week’s projection lowered the 2055 projection to 372 million, approximately a 2.8% decrease. If the CBO is correct, the U.S. population will grow by about 22 million or 6% (350 million→372 million) over the next thirty years. It will be the slowest population growth in the country’s history.The lower projection is based on the fertility rate continuing at a very low level and a slowdown in immigration. The most recent data on the fertility rate (the average number of children born to each woman) was 1.62 in 2023. The CBO projects that it will slightly decline to 1.60 for the balance of the forecast period. However, it warns that the rate could go even lower. A fertility rate of about 2.1 is necessary to have a stable population. The CBO breaks down the fertility rate between women born in the U.S. and those who have emigrated here. I was surprised that there is relatively little difference, with women born…

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Virginia U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith Says One ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Pushed by House GOP Could Become Two if Trump Meets Resistance

Tom Pappert
Morgan Griffith

The plan by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA-01) to pass the legislative agenda outlined by President Donald Trump could result in accusations of Republican failure, warned Virginia U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09), who said that the legislation could easily be broken into two bills that would be easier for House Republicans to pass through the narrowly divided Congress.

Griffith made the remarks during a Wednesday appearance on “The John Fredericks Show” after Scalise confirmed on Tuesday that House Republicans are “moving forward with one bill,” with the Louisiana Republican additionally telling reporters that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has agreed to the plan that would see Trump complete multiple campaign promises, including his promises to extend his tax cuts, increase border security, and improve domestic energy production.

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22 Democratic States Challenge Trump Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship

American Greatness
Pregnant woman

At least 22 different states, all with Democratic control of their respective governments, have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States.

ABC News reports that an initial lawsuit was filed on Monday by a coalition of 18 Democratic state attorneys general, alongside the cities of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. A separate lawsuit was filed by four more states later on the same day, demanding that a federal court halt any implementation or enforcement of the order.

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