The Picower family is forcing shoddy electric appliances into every American home to assuage their guilty consciences.
As the single-largest beneficiaries of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the Picowers have plenty to feel awkward about. One way they’re excising the guilt is by financing climate change lawsuits and leftwing judicial influence schemes that will strip Americans of conveniences they take for granted – say hot showers or efficient dishwashers.
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U.S. Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA-01) said Wednesday that the suggestions by President-elect Donald Trump that the United States should reassert ownership over the Panama Canal and purchase Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark both serve U.S. national security interests.
Wittman made the remarks during an appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” telling host John Fredericks, who is the publisher of The Virginia Star, that increased access to Greenland would help monitor Russian submarine activity while renegotiating the country’s interest in the Panama Canal would better position the United States against China.
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Former Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Director Amy Acton announced on Tuesday that she is running as a Democrat for state governor.
“I’m a doctor, not a politician,” she said in a statement, according to The Hill. “I solve problems by bringing people together regardless of party to find solutions. So unlike most of our leaders I know the answer to moving our state forward isn’t giving politicians more power, it’s giving people more freedom.”
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States United Democracy Center (SUDC) has provided free official work for Arizona’s top three Democratic officials.
On its website, SUDC says it is a “nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections.” However, according to Influence Watch, this nonprofit acts left-leaning.
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Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are planning to introduce legislation to abolish the controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
According to Fox News, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) will introduce the bill, which has earned several prominent co-sponsors, including: Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Bob Onder (R-Mo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Keith Self (R-Texas), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).
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Davidson County Chancery Court Chancellor Anne Martin reportedly said on Wednesday that she intends to release a ruling in the lawsuit brought against Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, the Metro Nashville government, and the Davidson County Election Commission by February 1 over the successful Choose How You Move transit referendum, noting the plan is set to take effect on February 1 after voters approved it in November.
The lawsuit was filed in November by Emily Evans and her Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, a group created to oppose the transit referendum, who claim the transit plan illegally uses the 2017 IMPROVE Act to raise Nashville’s sales tax to fund items not covered by the 2017 legislation, including sidewalks and traffic signals.
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Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.
Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from enforcing immigration laws to protecting minors from so-called transgender treatments.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said he believes that the U.S. Supreme Court will grant President-elect Donald Trump’s emergency motion seeking to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case.
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New legislation introduced Tuesday in Tennessee would require the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, Tennessee Department of Safety (TDOS), and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to create new portals that will allow election officials to determine if voter applicants are U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.
House Bill 69 by Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) requires the Coordinator of Elections and TDOS to “create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant’s application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a non-United States citizen based on records on file.”
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U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), who launched and remains co-chair of the Congressional Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Caucus, said on Wednesday that the unidentified drones spotted in December flying over New Jersey, Virginia and other states along the eastern seaboard, are likely a “test” from China, dismissing claims the drones are part of an American program to find radioactive materials.
Burchett made the remarks during his appearance on the Wednesday episode of the “What’s The Biggs Idea” podcast hosted by Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), telling his colleague the drones likely originated in China, and that the United States likely “failed” whatever test the foreign government posed.
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North Carolina’s death toll rose to 104 as a result of Hurricane Helene and the names of those who died have been released by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
The most recent addition was for a motor vehicle crash in Mitchell County. The storm’s fatalities across seven states is 233.
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Republicans in Congress led by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to impose term limits for members of Congress.
The amendment would limit U.S. senators to two six-year terms and U.S. House members to three two-year terms. The two-page resolution states that after the amendment is passed by Congress and ratified by the states, the amendment would go into effect “within seven years after the date of its submission by the Congress.”
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a court filing on Wednesday saying it will release Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s January 6 report about President-elect Donald Trump.
Smith’s report contains information about Trump’s involvement in January 6 and his classified document case.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) confirmed to The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday that confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for attorney general and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are set to begin in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been assigned to oversee President-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to the nation’s highest court submitted on Wednesday that seeks to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case.
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Following Congress’ certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election on Jan. 6, all eyes now turn towards Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and most importantly, to his first days in office and the work to be done in enacting his agenda.
The first president since Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive terms, Trump has a lot of unfinished business — completing the border wall, extending and expanding his tax cuts, restoring American energy dominance, using tariffs to bolster American production and so forth — but certainly cleaning up the national security apparatus that was weaponized against him before he was ever elected in 2016 has to be a top priority.
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A majority of Virginia voters want state lawmakers to pass legislation that would set new standards for health insurance companies when it comes to transparency surrounding prior authorization decisions and approval rates, a new poll shows.
The polling firm Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy polled 625 registered Virginia voters from December 17-December 20 on their experiences and views regarding the healthcare industry, specifically health insurance companies providing customers with prior authorization before receiving medical care.
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Arlington County Republican Committee accused Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti of leniency when it was revealed the suspect in a Pentagon City double stabbing that occurred last month, 23-year-old Leonardo Reyes, previously reached a plea deal with her office in 2021 for armed robbery.
Dehghani-Tafti is one of the prosecutors who received significant political backing from an organization tied to the controversial Hungarian-American financier George Soros, and more recently, the prosecutor argued there was “no basis” to disrupt an anti-Israel encampment that formed near the Virginia home of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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President Joe Biden bestowed the National Medal of Technology and Innovation on a vaccine maker that allegedly hid a child’s death in a COVID-19 clinical trial from Americans, and the Food and Drug Administration may have known about the purported subterfuge.
Moderna apparently only disclosed the death from “cardio-respiratory arrest,” which it asserted without evidence was not related to the child’s jab, in the European Union Clinical Trials Register Sept. 30, six months after its trial on “healthy children” 6 months-12 years ended, but not in publicly accessible U.S. system ClinicalTrials.gov as legally required.
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A newly updated study concludes that the popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok suppresses anti-China content and influences user opinion on the communist country’s human rights record and society, likely manipulating its algorithm.
The study from researchers from Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute, follows preliminary findings from the group released in August and is now backed by more evidence than before.
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) was appointed chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on Tuesday.
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U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) on Monday said that the Pentagon under President-elect Donald Trump, if Pete Hegseth is confirmed to serve as the country’s Secretary of Defense, will drop the focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) seen under the Biden administration, and become focused exclusively on “lethality and competence.”
Hagerty stressed the importance of Hegseth’s confirmation during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “Mornings with Maria,” telling host Maria Bartiromo that new leadership at the Pentagon would make the nation’s military more effective and address its recruitment and retention crisis.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Metro Nashville Police Department and Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, as well as any other law enforcement agencies who fail to report data to the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC) about illegal aliens arrested in the state, may face legal challenges for defying state law.
In May, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed HB2774/SB2158 into law, which, among other requirements, requires the TNDAGC to collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on the number of persons not lawfully present in the U.S. charged or convicted of a criminal offense in Tennessee during the previous year.
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The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) on Tuesday told The Tennessee Star that it submitted data to the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC), who in turn confirmed to The Star that it received data covering the month of October 2024 from DCSO after The Star first contacted the agency seeking information about which Tennessee law enforcement agencies had submitted data in compliance with a Tennessee state law.
“We provided a spreadsheet of data, as required by statute, to the TNDAGC of those booked into Davidson County jails,” said Jonathan Adams, the director of communications for DCSO.
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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. and replacing it with a system similar to the one used by the X platform.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, announced the policy overhaul and assured the platform would work with the incoming administration and return to the company’s foundational values and roots.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced his plan to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to the “Gulf of America” during a Tuesday press conference.
Trump said during the press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, that the potential new name for the gulf is “beautiful” and “appropriate” as Mexico continues to allow “millions” of illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. through the southern border. The president-elect called Mexico a “very dangerous place” that is ultimately “run by the cartels,” and has threatened the nation with economic consequences over the border crisis.
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Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday delayed special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his final report into his two Justice Department investigations into Donald Trump when he was president.
Cannon delayed the release until the court has time to review an emergency motion Monday that made such a request from two Trump co-defendants.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced at a Tuesday press conference that DAMAC Properties will invest “at least” $20 billion in data centers across the country.
DAMAC Properties is an Emirati property development company. The location of these new data centers will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, and Indiana.
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The House on Tuesday passed the “Laken Riley Act” in a bipartisan 264-159 vote.
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The New York appeals court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss his sentencing Friday in his hush money case.
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Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) announced on Monday that a person died from bird flu.
This case marks the first human death from bird flu, also known as H5N1—the bird flu outbreak started in America in 2022.
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Hundreds of attendees who paid $1,000 to $50,000 each filled up a sold-out event at Mar-a-Lago Saturday evening, where they watched a screening of a new documentary about the lawfare against Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman. Madison Media Fund, launched by film producer Gary DePew to support “freedom focused filmmakers,” deliberately timed The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice for release on January 6. Incoming-President Donald Trump stopped by to watch the movie, flanked by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).
The evening included a panel discussion with Eastman and others in Trump’s circle who were targeted by lawfare; Rudy Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, General Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Clark, and Peter Navarro.
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McDonald’s is the latest business to end a number of its “woke” DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies after being investigated and approached by Robby Starbuck, the political commentator and filmmaker from Tennessee announced Monday.
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Consumers are right to be dissatisfied with the current state of the economy despite claims of a booming economy from U.S. officials and the media, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Consumer sentiment, meaning Americans perception of the economy, is expected to improve in December following a mid-month reading of 69.7 index points, which is far from the high under Biden of 88.3 in April 2021 and even further from the 90 to 100 range that was common during the Trump presidency, according to the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers. Politicians and the media have insisted that consumers are wrong to be unenthusiastic about the state of the economy, but experts told the DCNF that consumer perceptions are more in line with the true state of the country.
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The Department of Justice fined an Ohio meat-packing company last week almost $4 million after a hiring manager stole the identities of American citizens and gave them to illegal immigrants who were not eligible to work in America.
Fresh Mark, Inc., entered into a Non-prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio after Yelwin Omar Munoz-Solis’ “involvement in an identity theft scheme and subsequent obstruction of justice.”
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Virginia House Delegate Jason Ballard (R-Pearisburg) introduced legislation last Wednesday that could allow state law enforcement to apply an existing law against those who engage in “swatting,” a slang term for making a false police report to compel an intense police response, typically involving a SWAT team, to a specific address.
House Bill 1583 would amend and reenact the portion of Virginia code specifying bomb threats are a Class 5 felony to include threats, whether real or false, to “discharge a firearm within or at” any location where it is already illegal to call a bomb threat. It also would change the law to make such threats a Class 1 misdemeanor for offenders under 18.
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The top election oversight body in the battleground state of Wisconsin kicked off 2025 by launching a bipartisan investigation of uncounted ballots in the state’s capital city.
Election integrity advocates say that’s a good first step.
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We watched as Joe Biden (and his handlers) continued to dishonor the Office of the Presidency as he finally exits the political stage in little more than two weeks. Last week, in a clearly partisan effort, he cheapened the prestige of the nation’s second highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Award, awarding it to J6 Committee chair and vice chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney who were complicit in deleting records before the GOP retook control of the House of Representatives in 2022. But on Saturday, he outdid himself with many of his selections for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor.
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President-Elect Donald Trump vowed Monday to “terminate” Joe Biden’s last minute executive orders, such as his new “permanent” ban on future offshore drilling, and other “money wasting hoaxes.”
Biden announced his latest executive action on Monday, to “permanently ban future offshore oil and gas development in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a way that could be especially difficult for the incoming Trump administration to undo,” according to CNN.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that his son, Donald Trump Jr., and other “various representatives” will be traveling to Greenland this week amid his ongoing interest in the U.S. purchase of the country.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are “MAGA.” My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post
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Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) was sworn into the 119th Congress on Friday, marking the beginning of his second term in Congress.
Ogles, who represents Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, said it is an “honor” to continue representing the Volunteer State in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, described the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) handling of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack that killed 14 and injured dozens more in New Orleans as “nothing short of appalling.”
After authorities said ISIS-inspired terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar drove a vehicle through a crowd of revelers early on New Year’s Day before engaging in gunfire with law enforcement, the FBI has circulated conflicting information about the attack and suspect on multiple occasions, Pappert explained.
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The upcoming week is filled with crucial economic data releases that will provide insight into the state of the U.S. economy as it transitions into 2025. A mix of labor market reports and key Fed communications will shift expectations about growth and Fed policy, resulting in large swings in the interest rates that govern consumer borrowing costs for credit cards, auto loans and mortgages.
The main event is the December jobs report, where employment gains are expected to have slowed.
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A panel on the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last Wednesday that Attorney General Kris Mayes’ prosecution of Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby for delaying canvassing of the 2022 election may proceed. Crosby, along with Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd, was indicted for felonies by a grand jury in November 2023 for briefly delaying canvassing of the 2022 election in order to investigate concerns with the voting machine tabulators. Judd accepted a plea agreement two months ago for a misdemeanor charge of failing to perform her duty as an election officer and was sentenced to probation.
State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) and Speaker of the House Ben Toma (R-Peoria) filed an Amicus Curiae brief opposing the prosecution last March.
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Over at Instapundit, Mark Tapscott called my attention to an interview in our former paper of record that Times journo Nicholas Kristoff conducts with Elaine Pagels, the celebrated (by some) Princeton historian of religion.
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Federal prosecutors are considering filing charges against up to 200 more individuals in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the latest data from the U.S. Justice Department released on Monday.
The 200 figure includes about 60 individuals who allegedly assaulted or resisted law enforcement officers during the Capitol riot.
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President Joe Biden last week honored Metro Nashville Police (MNPD) Chief John Drake and the Nashville police officers who responded to the Covenant School shooting by awarding them the Medal of Valor, while the department reported that Attorney General Merrick Garland met with the Nashville police in the White House.
In posts to the social media platform X, the MNPD wrote, “Our Covenant School heroes, accompanied by Chief Drake, are at the White House & have just received our nation’s Medal of Valor from President Biden in the Oval Office. Attorney General Merrick Garland met with the team in the Roosevelt Room.”
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New York Judge Juan Merchan on Monday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team’s attempts to delay the sentencing in the former president’s hush money case.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell confirmed on Sunday that she is seeking support from the White House to improve the city’s security ahead of the Super Bowl in February, and its famous Mardi Gras celebrations in March.
In a Sunday press conference, Cantrell stated, “I have specifically requested through the White House that the City of New Orleans be assisted with getting a tactical expert in our city this week to map our city for target hardening measures.”
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued a statement after Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to outgoing FBI Director Chris Wray demanding answers about the federal law enforcement agency’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the wake of New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, accusing the senator of engaging in “hate and bigotry.”
The attorney general, a Democrat whose official biography states he is the son of Haitian immigrants with “a vast background in public service,” accused Blackburn and Republicans who support President-elect Donald Trump of launching, “unfounded attacks on immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion – even undermining the FBI as the agency’s dedicated public servants investigate the attack on their fellow Americans ringing in the New Year.”
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