By Dr. Susan Berry Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) has signed legislation that provides for a task force to write new education standards that will eventually replace the Common Core in his state. Nixon’s office announced his approval of the measure Monday, the last possible day the governor could take action on bills passed earlier this year, local news KMBC.com […]

Early voting in TN continues through August 2; primary election day is August 7th. The opposition to Common Core is not over. I hope that none of our subscribers speaks to any candidate for state or federal office without determining their position on Common Core.  Just as important is the fact that there are many local school board races on […]

by RUTH KING, 2014 CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS Filing date for U.S. Senate is February 7, 2014 Primary: June 3, 2014 Filing deadline for General election candidates: June 3, 2014 Voter Registration: http://www.sos.state.al.us/elections/voterregistrationinfo.aspx Deadline for Registering to Vote: Voter registration is closed for the ten (10) days before an election. To see the actual voting records of all incumbents on other […]

By Walter E. Williams While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley’s new book, “Please Stop Helping Us,” I thought about Will Rogers’ Prohibition-era observation that “Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls.” Demonstrative of similar dedication, one member of Congress told Vanderbilt University political scientist Carol Swain that “one of the advantages and disadvantages […]

Remember that slippery slope issure…. And the train just keeps rolling along…. by Jon Terbush  / The Week If Christian business owners cannot be compelled to violate their faith, why should the same protection not apply to Satanists? That’s the argument the Satanic Temple is making to claim that, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, women who […]

From Resister in the Rockies we have this post:  Under the guise of economic trade sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine situation, Øbama signed EO 13662, effectively banning the entire AK line, and other Kalashnikov Russian-made imports, indefinitely. This includes the import of parts and accessories. Just like that. Isn’t living under a dictatorship grand?

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado’s attorney general asked the state’s highest court on Monday to order the Boulder County Clerk to stop giving out marriage licenses to gay couples, saying her actions must be governed by the current state of the law, court documents show. In the latest legal maneuver of his weeks-long tussle with Hillary Hall, the […]

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond Virginia decided there are more unlegislated rights to be discovered. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond ruled in a 2-1 decision that the ban is unconstitutional. “Because we conclude that Virginia’s same-sex marriage bans impermissibly infringe on its citizens’ fundamental right to marry, […]

Written by  Dave Bohon A newspaper editor in Iowa who was fired for his private blog criticism of a homosexual-themed “Bible” has filed a religious discrimination complaint against his former employer. While serving as the editor-in-chief of Newton, Iowa’s Daily News in 2013, Bob Eschliman wrote a post on his personal blog about the “Queen James Bible,” an “LGBT” adulteration […]

A suicide attacker killed an influential cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday, officials said, raising tensions during a dispute over election results that will determine the country’s new leader as US-led troops withdraw. Hashmat Karzai was a campaign manager in the southern province of Kandahar for Ashraf Ghani, one of the two presidential candidates involved in a bitter […]

The left telling you how to run the economy…. Washington (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Monday that the surge in companies moving offshore via mergers to skirt US taxes could weaken the country’s finances. Taking aim at “inversion” deals, Lew said Congress needs to amend tax laws to eliminate takeovers of foreign companies by US firms with […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the Veterans Affairs committees in the U.S. Congress said on Monday they had struck a rare compromise deal on legislation that provides about $17 billion in funding to ease long waiting times for VA medical centers. Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, and Representative Jeff Miller, a Republican, said the figure marks about […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate proposal to curb the government’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records and increase transparency about the program has White House backing and may get more traction with critics who have dismissed other bills as too weak. Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will introduce the legislation on Tuesday. Because […]

General events on July 29th In 1773, The first schoolhouse to be located west of the Allegheny Mountains was built in Schoenbrunn, OH. In 1835, the first sugar plantation in Hawaii is established. In 1870, America’s first asphalt pavement is laid in Newark, N.J. In 1907, Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scouts, in England. In 1956, Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso […]

Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. – 1 Corinthians 10:12 Back in 1911, a stuntman named Bobby Leach went over Niagara Falls in a specially designed steel drum—and lived to tell about it. Although he suffered minor injuries, he survived because he recognized the tremendous dangers involved in the feat, and he had done everything […]

Most of you are aware that about 50 liberty groups gathered in Nashville in the Summer of 2013 to select a single candidate to run against Liberal Lamar. The purpose of that effort was to make sure we do not split the conservative vote and all stand behind a single candidate. Joe Carr was selected to be that candidate and […]

By Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog   NASHVILLE — Don’t wear your emotions on your sleeve in a Tennessee courtroom. Members of Tennessee’s Supreme Court, like “Dragnet’s” Joe Friday, just want the facts. Two Nashville crime-victim advocates, Verna Wyatt and Kathleen Starnes, told Tennessee Watchdog they and other crime victims are furious at the court, particularly Justice Connie Clark. Wyatt, who […]

Editor’s Note: It is easy to be labeled by those that are the least tolerant of all. bit.ly/1kiH5Oy One of the more celebrated MSNBC hosts says that those who want to  deport immigrants in America illegally are just as bad as the racists in the 1960s who tried to keep their schools segregated from black  children. Now there are all sorts of […]

Editor’s Note: If you hadn’t excepted the money this would not have been a problem. by Alex Harris / TNReport.com In response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services placing hundreds of unaccompanied immigrant children in Tennessee, Gov. Bill Haslam on Friday shot off a letter to President Barack Obama complaining that the state wasn’t appropriately consulted about the federal government’s […]

By Nick McFerron Five seats are up for re-election on the Jackson-Madison County School Board, and two are contested. With Election Day drawing near, District 5 candidates Dave Bratcher and Jeff Wall are in a final push toward Aug. 7. Bratcher has served on the School Board during two terms, but each time it has been for one year. After […]