After the announcement earlier this week that 48 state attorneys general will be conducting a widespread investigation into Big Tech monopolies and censorship, a group backed by the Koch family is coming out in defense of Silicon Valley, Politico reports.
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DOJ Rejects Andrew McCabe’s Appeal to Avoid Charges
The Justice Department has denied Andrew McCabe’s appeal to avoid charges for lying to investigators about approving leaks to the media, The Daily Caller News Foundation has confirmed.
Read the full storyBeto’s Newest Gun Control Idea Involves Controlling What Americans Can Buy With a Credit Card
Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas suggested pushing financial institutions into refusing service to Americans who are seeking to purchase semi-automatic rifles, among other forms of artillery.
Read the full storyCommentary: Record Low Black Unemployment Rate Makes the 2019 Trump Economy the Most Equitable Ever
In 2016, when President Donald Trump was campaigning to black Americans, the appeal he made was a simple one, “What have you got to lose?”
Read the full storyUPDATE: Metro Council At-Large Candidate, Steve Glover Describes Details on His Civlian Lawsuit in Response to David Briley’s Executive Order
On Wednesday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Michael Patrick Leahy spoke with metro council at-large candidate, Steve Glover where he described his recent lawsuit filed against the ‘illegal’ executive order by Mayor David Briley.
Read the full storyCommentary: Democrats Are Lying About Trump’s Mexico Trade Deal
In the same way President Bill Clinton gave away hundreds of thousands of jobs to Mexico and Vice President Joe Biden helped send millions more to China, the Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 nomination now plan to outsource and destroy yet another American industry.
Read the full storyStudy Shows that Trump Rallies Did Not Increase Hate Crimes
The claim from some Democrats that President Trump’s rallies have sparked a surge in hate crimes has been debunked, according to a study by the Reason Foundation.
Read the full storyExplosion Rocks US Embassy in Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, was hit by a rocket explosion early Wednesday morning on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York that prompted a U.S. invasion of the country.
Read the full storyRepublicans Win Both House Races in North Carolina
Republicans managed to successfully hold both seats in the House of Representatives from North Carolina that were up for grabs in special elections Tuesday, marking three consecutive wins in special elections to the House this year.
Read the full storySupreme Court Lets New Trump Asylum Restrictions Take Effect
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration Wednesday to enforce new immigration rules that would deny asylum to migrants who did not seek protected status in a country they passed through on their way to the southern border.
Read the full storyBiden Hires New Campaign Staff to Woo Minority Voters
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is adding new staff members to his campaign specifically to win over minority voters.
Read the full storyCommentary: How Conservatives Can Protect the Environment and Win Voters, Too
Conservatives need to do a better job on the environment. That seems like a controversial thing to say, because usually when you hear a conservative speak positively about an issue closely identified with liberalism, it is the precursor to a sellout of conservative principles. How many times have you read an essay claiming to make “the conservative case” for some profoundly anti-conservative project like voting for Hillary Clinton or government-run healthcare?
Read the full storyWith Mexico’s Help, Border Apprehensions Down Sharply in August
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Monday that border apprehensions have steadily decreased in the past three months, giving Mexico credit for its increased cooperation.
Read the full storyFlynn Lawyer Argues Case Should Be Dismissed Over ‘Egregious Government Misconduct’
An attorney for Michael Flynn said in federal court Tuesday she may seek a dismissal of charges against the former national security adviser, citing “egregious conduct and suppression” of exculpatory information in the case.
Read the full storyCommentary: On 9/11 Anniversary, Remembering a Red, White, and Blue Nation Is Possible
Eighteen years ago, in the wake of the terrorist assaults on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, I wrote about the tidal wave of patriotism that swept across America.
Read the full storyGabbard Comes Out Against Open Borders, Supports Physical Barriers
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that she opposes open borders and even supports physical barriers, painting a stark contrast between her and the rest of the primary field.
Read the full storyCommentary: Trump Should Sanction Migrant Caravan Organizers as Border Migration Is Down 55 Percent Since May
Apprehensions on the southern border slowed precipitously in August to 64,006 as illegal immigration was curtailed, the latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol shows. Migration is down 55 percent from its peak in May 144,255 as people continue fleeing Central America in droves.
Read the full storyTrump Administration Considers Protected Status for Bahamas Residents
U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration is discussing the possibly of granting residents from the hurricane-hit Bahamas temporary protected status, a short-term permission to reside in the United States.
Read the full storyTwo Ohio Planned Parenthood Clinics Shut Down After Withdrawal From Title X
Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio have shut down following the organization’s withdrawal from the federal family funding program Title X.
Read the full storyPresident Trump Fires National Security Adviser John Bolton
President Donald Trump has fired his National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Read the full storyCommentary: Delaying Tariffs Is Not the Answer to China’s Trade Practices
For the past two years, President Donald Trump has argued that China was paying the cost of the trade war. Following a delay in some of the tariffs from the latest round in the dispute with China, however, the president has acknowledged for the first time that tariffs have an impact on American families.
Read the full storyDemocratic Senators Want Facebook to Shut Down Firearm Sales That Are ‘Slipping Through The Cracks’
Fifteen Democratic senators sent a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg demanding more information regarding the latent sale of firearms on Facebook Marketplace, a practice the company called a “clear violation” of policies.
Read the full storyTrump Administration Proposes Changing Deadline on Work Permits for Asylum Seekers
Asylum seekers hoping to work in the U.S. may soon have to wait longer to find out the fate of their applications if a government proposal is successfully implemented.
Read the full storyButtigieg Draws on Bible, Suggests Unborn Babies Can Be Aborted Up Until Their First Breath
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested Friday that unborn babies can be aborted up until they draw their first breath, saying parts of the Bible mention “how life begins with breath.”
Read the full storyLiberal Activists in Boston Protest Amazon’s Partnership With ICE, Block Traffic
Hundreds of people blocked rush-hour traffic Thursday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in a dozen arrests for trespassing on Amazon property.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Inertial State
One of the nobler elements of the American system is its jealous protection of the rights of minority interests. Going back to James Madison’s strictures about balancing faction against faction in Federalist #10, and Abraham Lincoln’s warnings against unfettered popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Americans have long held to a noble tradition of respecting minority rights, rather than simply riding roughshod over minority factions in the name of decisive majoritarian action.
Read the full story‘The Waste Report’ Details $50 Billion in Questionable Government Spending
In his Summer 2019 edition of The Waste Report, U.S. Senator Rand Paul details more than $50.2 billion of government spending that he says wasted hard-earned taxpayer money.
Read the full storyCommentary: The August Jobs Report Is Not ‘Mixed’ It’s Yuuge
The anti-Trump talking-down-the-economy crowd has America already in a recession, with POLITICO’s Morning Money leading its Thursday morning news with, “…manufacturing in recession and capital expenditures dropping, the strong consumer is the final leg holding up the U.S. economy. But the length of the workweek dipped in July, often a leading signal that employers are cutting back. A sharp slowdown in job creation could follow.”
Read the full storyAugust Jobs Report: 130,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment Remains at 3.7 Percent
The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate remained at 3.7%, according to Department of Labor data released Friday.
Read the full storyParents: Williamson County Schools’ New Curriculum Claims President Obama Shipping 1.7 Billion Dollars in Cash to the Dictators of Iran Without Congressional Authorization Is an Achievement
On Friday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – host Leahy welcomed Williamson County Schools parents Stefanie and Edina to the show to talk about the recent discovery of the new Tennessee “standard” curriculum for the county. During the show, Edina said that parents are only allowed to view Williamson County Schools’ (WCS) new online social studies curriculum in person at the facilities of WCS under the supervision of WCS staff and disclosed what she learned in an in-person review of the curriculum with David Rector of WCS. Edina highlighted a segment of the new curriculum that discussed the Obama administration’s so-called “achievements” and “setbacks.” Leahy and both parents were dumbfounded to learn about the subtle propaganda that is part of the curriculum. Leahy: We have two special guests in the studio today, two parents from Williamson County. Edina, you are originally from Edina: Hungary. Leahy: Originally from Hungary. Edina: And California so I escaped socialism twice. Leahy: Well, maybe three times I don’t know. Edina: I seem to have bad luck Leahy: (Laughs) So you and you have a last name I can’t…
Read the full storyTwo Sequels and an Adventure with a Twist Await Moviegoers this Weekend
In a theater near you, two sequels and an adventure you’ll want to tell you grandmother about opened Friday.
Read the full storyDorian Crawls Up US East Coast After Weakening to Category 1 Storm
Hurricane Dorian has weakened to a Category 1 storm, after generating tornadoes and flooding roads in North and South Carolina.
Read the full storyFormer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Won’t Run for President
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced Friday that he would not pursue a 2020 presidential bid.
Read the full storySilicon Valley Becomes Punching Bag for Presidential Hopefuls
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. presidential candidates have long come to Silicon Valley to raise money and, with a tech company campus as a backdrop, talk about innovation and the future.
Read the full storyBlack Unemployment Hits Record Low, Spurred By Uptick In Employment for Black Women
Black unemployment hit a record low in August, spurred by an uptick in employment for black women.
Read the full storyCommentary: Congress Should Reject Lamar Alexander’s plan to Federalize Health Data
Terrible ideas come in all partisan packages and this seems to be particularly true when it comes to federalizing your health care.
Read the full storyProgressive Website ThinkProgress Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Wants to Buy It
ThinkProgress, a top progressive website operated by the liberal think tank, Center for American Progress, is shutting down on Friday after a 15-year run.
Read the full storyCommentary: Independent Gun Dealers Are Cornerstones of Liberty
The news that Walmart – the world’s largest retailer – has decided to virtue signal by ceasing the sale of handgun and modern sporting rifle ammunition and barring firearms permit holders from carrying in their stores, reinforces what we have been saying about corporate totalitarianism: The greatest threat to liberty may not be an overweening government, but soulless corporations intent on enforcing conformity to their will.
Read the full storyDevin Nunes Files Racketeering Lawsuit Against Fusion GPS
Rep. Devin Nunes filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against opposition research firm Fusion GPS and the Campaign for Accountability, accusing the two of smearing him over his investigation into Fusion GPS’s and the Steele dossier.
Read the full storyUS, China to Hold High-Level Trade Talks in October
U.S. and Chinese envoys are to resume high-level trade talks next month, China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday, days after the two sides announced another round of tariffs targeting each other’s exports.
Read the full storyCommentary: What Public Schools Get Wrong About Diversity
Diversity. It’s one of the buzzwords of this generation. Forget sameness, everyone must be different, while at the same time inclusive. It’s that simple.
Read the full storyAngel Mom Michelle Root Who Lost Her Daughter to Illegal Immigrant Says, ‘Angel Families Are the End Result of Open Borders’
On Thursday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy welcomed Angel Mom Michelle Root to the show to speak about the death of her daughter by the hand of a Honduran illegal immigrant who at the time of incident had a previous warrant for his arrest but was still let off on bond.
Read the full storyDeath Toll Rises To 20 in the Bahamas After Hurricane Dorian
At least 20 people are confirmed dead in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage to the islands.
Read the full storyLabor Department To Reinstate Aide Wrongfully Accused Of Anti-Semitism
The Department of Labor reinstated a political appointee Wednesday night who resigned under pressure after a Bloomberg Law reporter accused him of anti-Semitism for a Facebook post in which he was actually condemning anti-Semites in the alt-right, the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned.
Read the full storyBernie Sanders Says Abortion Will Help Fight Climate Change
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he supports abortion, in part, as a way to curb human population in light of climate change.
Read the full storyJeff Hartline of the TFA Says ‘A Policy Should Not be Crafted on the Basis of the Morning Headlines’
In a specific discussion Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy welcomed in-studio guest Development Director of the Tennessee Firearms Association Jeff Hartline to the show to speak on the Second Amendment and Walmart’s decision to stop selling certain rifles and ammunition in their retail outlets.
Read the full storyCommentary: The Two Ticking Time Bombs of the Coming Election
It is now clearer than ever that the whole Trump-Russia collusion argument, as many of us have been loudly proclaiming since it began, is a monstrous hoax, “a conspiracy so immense”—to use Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s infamous words in his attack upon General George C. Marshall in 1951—that it has been hard for the public to take it on board.
Read the full storyHong Kong Withdraws Extradition Bill That Ignited Summer-Long Protests
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the implementation of an extradition bill that ignited a summer of peaceful and violent protests throughout the region.
Read the full storyReport: Trump Using $3.6 Billion in Military Funds to Build Border Wall
President Donald Trump is reportedly moving forward with his plan to redirect billions in military funds toward wall construction at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read the full storyJoni Bryan of 917 Society Says Group Will Distribute Free Constitutions to Eighth Graders Nationwide, with Help from Dr. Ming Wang and Lee Beaman
In a discussion Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy spoke to in-studio guest Joni Bryan who is the executive director of 917 Society. The 501-C3 non-profit organization has recently partnered with AmVets to handle distribution of Constitutions for all eighth-graders nationally in hopes to create a “rite of passage” for both the born and naturalized citizens of America.
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