Day: March 12, 2025

Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Ban Property Taxes Headed for Full Vote in Tennessee State Senate

Tom Pappert

An effort that would amend the Tennessee Constitution in order to prohibit the General Assembly from authorizing, levying, or collecting property taxes in the future is headed toward a full vote in the Tennessee Senate after being approved on Tuesday by a key committee.

The summary provided for Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 1 by State Senator Ferrell Haile (R-Gallatin) explains it would amend the Tennessee Constitution in order “to prohibit the General Assembly from levying, authorizing, or otherwise permitting a state tax on property.”

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Tennessee TV Station WSMV 4 Reportedly Claims Patriotic Song by Dugger Band Too ‘Politically Biased’ for Public Airwaves

Tom Pappert
Dugger Band

Nashville television station WSMV-4 reportedly told the Greeneville-based band, The Dugger Brothers, that it would be forbidden from performing its patriotic song, “True Colors,” due to the station’s concerns about the composition’s pro-America lyrics being “politically biased.”

The Dugger Brothers band, composed of brothers Jordan and Seth Dugger, shared the email they reported receiving from a WSMV-4 employee in a post to social media on Tuesday. They added that the email was only sent after they were invited by WSMV-4 to perform the song on the station’s morning program.

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Prosecutors Say Gunman Who Shot Nashville Man in Presence of 7-Year-Old Child Is Twice Deported Illegal Immigrant

Tom Pappert
ICE arrest

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee on Tuesday confirmed the man accused of shooting a man in Antioch, Tennessee, in view of the victim’s 7-year-old daughter is a Mexican national and illegal immigrant who federal authorities previously deported on at least two occasions.

According to prosecutors, 36-year-old Jose Guadalupe Vazquez-Delgado was drinking heavily with a man at a residence in Antioch last month when they began arguing. Vazquez-Delgado and his alleged victim had just left the home, with the victim’s 7-year-old daughter in tow, when the citizen of Mexico is alleged to have fired his weapon more than a dozen times.

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EPA Admin Zeldin Announces 31 ‘Historic Actions’ Targeting Biden Admin’s ‘Green New Scam’

Just the News
Lee Zeldin

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the agency will take 31 “historic actions” to roll back the Biden administration’s climate agenda in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order to “Unleash American Energy.” 

“By overhauling massive rules on the endangerment finding, the social cost of carbon and similar issues, we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” Zeldin stated in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. 

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Trump Admin Halts Funding to Maine’s Universities over Governor Allowing Men in Women’s Sports

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Janet Mills

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday temporarily paused funding to the entire University of Maine System (UMS) due to the state’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refusing to comply with President Donald Trump’s order banning men from competing in women’s sports.

Trump and Mills had a fiery exchange at the White House in February in which the president called the governor out for pledging not to comply with the order to protect women’s sports, which Mills responded by threatening legal action against the president. The USDA opened an investigation into Maine’s department of education the following day to review UMS’s compliance with Title IX, which protects women from discrimination.

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German Government Reportedly Concealed Intel That Wuhan Lab Leak Was ’80 to 95 Percent’ Likely

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The German government for years concealed an assessment by its Foreign Intelligence Service that a lab origin of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly likely, according to a Tuesday investigative report by two German newspapers.

The investigation, published jointly by Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, claims that German intelligence (BND) met in Berlin within weeks of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020 for a mission dubbed “Project Saaremaa” — named after an Estonian Baltic Sea island.

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Eurocrats Launch Retaliatory Tariffs on Billions Worth of U.S. Goods

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EU Building

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade measures against the U.S. with a slew of new tariffs on American industrial and farm products.

The European Commission is levying sweeping tariffs on up to $28 billion worth of U.S. goods, according to a press release. The EU’s decision comes after President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports from all U.S. trading partners went into effect at midnight Wednesday.

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ICE Arrests 33,000 Illegal Aliens Across U.S. Since Trump Took Office

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Breitbart   President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has arrested about 33,000 illegal aliens across the United States — including thousands of gang members and terrorists — since Jan. 20, when he took office. In a briefing call with media on Wednesday, ICE officials said agents had arrested about 33,000 illegal aliens across the United States from Jan. 20 to March 10 — surpassing the 33,000 at-large arrests of illegal aliens ICE made under former President Joe Biden in Fiscal Year 2024. The arrests, spanning less than two months, also outpace the number of criminal illegal aliens Biden’s ICE agency arrested in Fiscal Year 2024, when just 32,000 were taken into custody. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Former Columbia University Student Mahmoud Khalil to Remain Detained in Louisiana for Now

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CBS News   An activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University will remain detained in Louisiana following a brief Wednesday court hearing. Judge Jesse Furman said he would grant a request by Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers allowing them to have privileged phone calls with Khalil at least twice — today and tomorrow. Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities Saturday night at his university-owned apartment. Lawyers said in court Wednesday he was first brought to a detention center in New Jersey before being flown to another site in Louisiana.  Khalil’s attorneys said they have been unable to have privileged communications with him since. They said the detention facility holding Khalil wouldn’t allow that type of call until March 20.  READ THE FULL STORY               

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Trump Administration Weighs Barring Cubans, Haitians from U.S. as Part of New Travel Ban

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Miami Herald   The Trump administration is weighing including Cuba and Haiti on a list of countries whose nationals will face restrictions to enter the country, sources with knowledge of the ongoing discussions told the Miami Herald. Cuba, which is on a State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism, might end up on a “red list” of countries facing a total travel ban, while Haiti might end up on a less restrictive version of the list, the sources said. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump directed officials in the administration to come up with a list of nations that could be part of an expanded travel ban similar to the one he introduced during his first term for countries with Muslim majorities, based on the idea that they have a weak security apparatus to do background checks. READ THE FULL STORY                   

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New Hampshire Senator Retires, Setting Up Battle in 2026

Zachery Schmidt
Jeanne Shaheen

Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) announced on Wednesday that she is retiring and will not seek reelection in 2026.

“I ran for public office to make a difference for the people of New Hampshire. That purpose has never, and will never, change,” Shaheen said. “But today, after careful consideration, I’m announcing that I have made the difficult decision not to seek reelection to the Senate in 2026. It’s just time.”

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Commentary: Attorney General Pam Bondi Slams the Bar Association’s Unlawful and Abusive DEI Standards

The Daily Signal
US Attorney General Pam Bondi

Virtually every law school in America must be accredited by the American Bar Association, an organization that has abused this position of trust to push a radical leftist agenda on law students, including policies that violate the law itself.

The American Bar Association has long held an undeserved position as a vaunted legal institution—largely through the imprimatur certain government largesse has given it.

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