Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said the Trump administration foreign policy is being executed “by design” and is free from “accidents.”
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President Donald Trump has tapped his former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark as regulation czar in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Clark was targeted by the Democrats’ lawfare for assisting Trump with handling the botched 2020 election, and unlike several other officials at the DOJ, did not turn on Trump during the tense time leading up to January 6, 2021. Clark will not need Senate confirmation for the position.
Rob Gasaway, a business consultant, academic, and legal reformer who mentored Clark in private practice and who has known him for 30 years, commended the forthcoming appointment. “In today’s confused, often diseased, legal profession, Jeff Clark’s rehabilitation and return to high public office stands as a beacon to hope for better times,” he told The Arizona Sun Times. “Today, one can dream more reasonably than yesterday that within our lifetimes the great problem of restoring constitutional morality will be tackled inside the legal profession, in the halls of legal academia, in the larger public mind — and perhaps even solved.”
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, warned Republicans against partaking in the left’s abuse of the judicial system, specifically when it comes to the recent filings of impeachment against federal judges.
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The Tennessee Star on Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting the FBI provide all of its internal records regarding “legacy tokens,” including those related to the May 2023 memo that “strongly” advised the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) not to release documents like the manifesto left by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological woman who identified as a transgender man when she killed six at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023.
Obtained by The Star last June, the May 11, 2023 memo was addressed to MNPD Chief John Drake and sent from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, part of the agency’s Critical Incident Response Group, from an address in Quantico, Virginia.
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House Republicans zeroed in on the Biden administration’s use of foreign aid to bankroll left-wing causes that undermine American interests across the world in a heated oversight hearing Wednesday.
House Republicans, led by Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, sought testimony from experts to outline how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) advanced a left-wing policy agenda during the Biden administration that in turn alienated U.S. allies and made the world less safe for Americans. Democratic lawmakers struggled to defend the worst abuses of USAID funding, such as pushing far-left ideologies on countries with conservative cultures and indirectly financing terrorist groups.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, reflected on the Tea Party movement’s impact on the nation exactly 16 years after the movement’s first notable public events took place in February 2009.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials were warned Wednesday evening to take special security caution and keep “situational awareness” around their Washington headquarters in anticipation of protests as USAID workers fired by the Trump administration return to their offices to retrieve personal belongings the next two days.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) is sponsoring a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would direct the U.S. Treasury Department to print $250 Federal reserve notes featuring the portrait of President Donald Trump.
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Despite a string of headlines suggesting that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its efforts to slash federal waste is hurting President Trump in the polls, the public appears at odds with the media over its perception of the department and on Trump’s first month more broadly.
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The IRS whistleblowers who first brought concerns to Congress about how the government handled the tax investigation into Hunter Biden filed an appeal Thursday with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, requesting a hearing and seeking corrective action from the agencies that retaliated against them.
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Oscar-award winning actor Gene Hackman and wife have been found dead in their home in New Mexico, authorities reported early Thursday morning.
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The Trump administration has created a registry for illegal migrants to submit their personal information or else face penalties such as fines or prison time.
Illegal migrants 14 years or older living in the United States must register and provide fingerprints on a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) account, according to an announcement from the agency Tuesday. The registration applies to illegal migrants who have not previously interacted with the government, such as those who’ve applied for asylum or properly entered the country through a port of entry.
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Some election integrity researchers are expanding their investigation of politicians who benefitted from questionable “Smurfing” campaign contributions, and discovered that Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) received many of them. Smurfing refers to the practice of using straw donors to make campaign contributions, usually elderly and unemployed people who are unaware their identities are being used for money laundering. There are many contributions made under one name, sometimes thousands of them, and they are usually small amounts, often around $10 each, in order to escape detection.
Peter Bernegger, one of the key researchers who discovered the Smurfing phenomenon, posted on X on Tuesday, “Arizona @SenRubenGallego caught Smurfing, i.e. criminally laundering money into his campaign! Note that this is just the tip of the iceberg. This is a ‘quick’ data run of the top Smurfs found to have had their identities stolen by Gallego’s campaign. Smurfing found by Chris Gleason @immutablechrist Phillip Allison @TheTVConsPiracy , myself and others exposing Smurfing. This is another form of election fraud. We are running all 100 US Senators, Tom Cotton and Jon Ossoff already ran – see the tweets below.”
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In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to set up shop as a political counterweight to the university, challenging its modes of governance and day-to-day operations
Alarmed by academia’s dominant ideological ethos of social justice activism – particularly the holy trinity of race, sex, and gender – more than two dozen dissident groups have emerged seeking to rebalance the culture at leading public and private universities across the country, including Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Williams, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday during his first cabinet meeting that he “not stopping” tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods but the start date has been delayed.
When Trump first took office, he threatened to implement tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico but delayed them after having a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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Country Radio Seminar (CRS) 2025 wrapped up last week after three days of unforgettable musical performances, insightful panels, and dynamic industry sessions.
This year’s event was a resounding success, offering attendees a dynamic lineup of showcases and events, including the Amazon Music Presents: “Country Heat at CRS 2025” showcase, Warner Music Nashville’s Luncheon, Bob Kingsley’s Acoustic Alley, “Team UMG” at the Ryman, BBR Music Group Decades Party, Big Machine Label Group’s Luncheon, and the highly anticipated New Faces of Country Music Show and Dinner.
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