Day: March 17, 2025

Tennessee Rancher Sues Biden, FCA Board over 657-Day Delay in Complaint, Claims It Forced Home Liquidation

Tom Pappert
Dustin Kittle

Tennessee rancher and agriculture attorney Dustin Kittle on Monday asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to amend his lawsuit against former President Joe Biden and various current and former government officials over the allegedly politically motivated 657-day delay by the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) in responding to his complaint about the decision by a bank to demand immediate payment for an agricultural loan.

Kittle alleged in his March 2024 lawsuit that Biden’s failure to appoint members to the FCA board caused a bureaucratic slowdown which resulted in a 657-day delay over his complaint regarding a loan after a bank demanded to be paid in full despite Kittle never missing a payment, according to a press release he posted to the social media platform X.

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Police: Nashville Man Arrested for Fleeing in Stolen Vehicle Previously Bailed Out on More Stolen Vehicle Charges

Tom Pappert
Kenneth Strickland

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) reported on Saturday that a man was arrested for the second time in ten days over charges involving a stolen vehicle, with separate judges establishing bonds of less than $100,000 after both instances.

MNPD on Saturday reported the arrest of 31-year-old Kenneth Strickland by its Violent Crimes Division after he allegedly fled from a traffic stop while driving a stolen Jeep Grand Cherokee.

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Tennessee State Senate Passes Resolution for Constitutional Amendment Allowing Judges to Deny Bail Outside Capital Crimes

Tom Pappert

The Tennessee State Senate on Monday passed Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 25 by State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), which calls for the Tennessee Constitution to be amended in order to allow judges the option to deny bail to defendants accused of crimes outside capital offenses.

Lawmakers passed the legislation with 23 votes in favor and just six votes against, with opponents consisting of five Democrats and one Republican.

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CDC Whistleblower on MMR Vaccine-Autism Study Gains New Attention After Weldon Nomination Pulled

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It took seven years for a “gender affirming care” practitioner at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to disclose the politically inconvenient results of her federally funded study: Gender-confused children on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones do not show mental-health improvement.

But it took even longer for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention senior scientist to disclose he and colleagues withheld a “statistically significant finding” from their peer-reviewed study of autism and measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in 2004: African-American males inoculated under age 3 had an increased risk for the disorder.

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Still Searching for COVID-19 Origins Five Years After ‘Proximal Origin’ Paper Tried to End Debate

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Anthony Fauci

Half a decade after the start of a global pandemic, the Trump Administration has begun a renewed push to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, with more and more evidence — including by non-U.S. intelligence agencies — indicating that it came from the Wuhan lab.

Exactly five years ago today, an influential scientific Proximal Origin paper was published pushing back on the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci, the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “prompted” the writing of that influential article.

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White House Says It Didn’t Defy Judge’s Order in Deporting Illegal Migrants to El Salvador

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CBP Arrest

The White House late Sunday responded to speculation about whether the Trump administration had defied court orders in having deported to El Salvador roughly 200 illegal migrants, including alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

“The administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement. “The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.”

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Left-Wing Group Sues Trump Admin to Stop Deportations of Anti-Israel Foreign Student Protesters

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Mahmoud Khalil

A left-wing group representing the interests of Arab-Americans filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to stop the deportations of students involved in anti-Israel protests.

The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeking to block the Trump administration’s efforts to repatriate foreign students involved the anti-Israel protests that swept many college campuses in 2024, according to court documents. The White House has argued that the students detained and deported so far have been involved in anti-Semitic activity aligned with the Hamas terrorist group, and immigration experts say the actions are not related to free speech.

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Tennessee Senators File Bill Redirecting Federal DEI Funding to Local Law Enforcement

Tom Pappert
Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) have filed legislation that would redirect federal funding from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs gutted under executive orders signed by President Donald Trump to local law enforcement, with money earmarked to assist with incarcerating criminal illegal immigrants ahead of their deportation.

Blackburn and Hagerty were joined on Friday by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jim Justice (R-WV) in submitting the Restoring Law and Order Act, which would empower law enforcement through $500 billion in federal grant funding to support local law enforcement.

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JD Vance Confident TikTok Deal Will Be Reached by April Deadline

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Breitbart   In an interview with NBC News aboard Air Force Two, Vice President JD Vance stated his belief that the framework for creating “a distinct American TikTok enterprise” will be established by the April deadline, even if the final paperwork is not completed. The fate of the popular social media app has been uncertain since last year when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation forcing TikTok’s Chinese-based owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to a non-Chinese buyer or face a nationwide ban in the U.S. President Trump tasked Vice President Vance and national security adviser Michael Waltz with finding a U.S.-based buyer for TikTok. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order instructing the Attorney General to delay enforcement of the ban for 75 days, effectively giving TikTok until April 5 to secure a U.S. buyer. The President has expressed hope that a deal can be reached soon and noted that the administration is in discussions with four potential buyer groups, which he did not identify. Trump has also indicated his willingness to grant an extension if a deal is not finalized by the deadline. While ByteDance has not publicly confirmed negotiations with any potential U.S. buyers or its willingness to…

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White House ‘Determined’ to Fight Court Order Blocking Tren de Aragua Deportations

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Washington Examiner   The White House defended its decision to proceed with multiple deportation flights over the weekend after a federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to pause the flights while courts determine his legal footing. Late last week, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed the deportation proceedings for hundreds of illegal immigrants associated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The move marked the first time the 18th-century law had been used since World War II. Just days later, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg directed Trump and the administration to pause those deportation proceedings to consider the implications of Trump’s use of the law, which has traditionally been reserved for times when the United States is actively engaged in a war with a foreign nation. READ THE FULL STORY                   

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Dr. Carol Swain Calls U.S. Department of Education’s Reduction to Workforce a ‘Great Decision’

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Linda McMahon

Dr. Carol M. Swain said the U.S. Department of Education’s cut to its workforce was a “great decision” and a step in the right direction to make the department a “smoother running organization.”

Last week, Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced that the department initiated a force reduction that will impact nearly 50 percent of its workforce. The impacted staff will be placed on administrative leave beginning Friday.

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CNN’s Harry Enten Unpacks Democrats’ ‘Horrible’ Ratings

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CNN's Harry Enten

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten explained on Monday how disastrously low Democrats’ popularity ratings are, based on recent polling.

Polls released by CNN/SSRS and NBC News on Sunday showed the Democratic Party at an all-time low popularity with voters. Enten, on “CNN News Central” referenced these polls and highlighted that Democrats in Congress have even worse approval ratings than the party at large.

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Tennessee Death Row Inmates Sue over ‘Extreme Pain and Suffering’ from Lethal Injection Under New Protocol

Tom Pappert

Nine death row inmates filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday, alleging Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol could cause them “extreme pain and suffering” due to a drug approved by the state following the completion of a years-long review ordered by Governor Bill Lee. 

An attorney representing nine death row inmates stated on Friday that the new drug Tennessee announced last December it would authorize for use in lethal injections, pentobarbital, “is excruciatingly painful,” and was selected by state officials “only because they were able to get their hands” on the substance.

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Tennessee Weighs Constitutional Bail Amendment as 20+ States Let Judges Deny Bond Outside Capital Cases, Including Texas and California

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The Tennessee State Senate on Monday is scheduled to vote on a resolution that would amend the state constitution to expand the number of cases where judges are allowed to deny bail, as the Volunteer State currently mandates all defendants be issued bail unless they are accused of a capital crime.

In addition to capital murder cases, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 25 by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) would modify the Tennessee Constitution to empower judges to deny bail to defendants accused of second-degree murder, acts of terrorism, aggravated rape, aggravated rape of a child, grave torture, or any crime which would require a defendant to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence behind bars if convicted.

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Commentary: The Color of St. Patrick’s Day Went from Blue to Green

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St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a color known as St. Patrick’s blue.

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