Special Thanks to Judy by Sean Dietrich  /  Sean of the South There is something sleeping on my feet while I write this. A she-something. Her snoring sounds like a diesel engine. She has paws bigger than skillets, a bladder the size of a teacup. Every morning, at approximately 5:13 A.M., she wakes me. And every morning, I walk the […]

By Thomas Lifson   /   American Thinker Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute, whom you may recognize as a frequent panelist on Fox News’s Special Report, has written an elegant short book that makes a powerful case on the solution to race relations in the United States. As the title indicates, Riley believes that America’s African-American community has been badly […]

A Bean Station motorcyclist last seen alive Wednesday afternoon was found dead Saturday at the bottom of a ravine off Boat Dock Road in West Hamblen County, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Trooper Jeffrey Coffey identified the deceased as Brian W. Manning. He was 39. Manning, who was riding a 2009 Kawasaki ZX600, was northbound on Boat Dock Road […]

by HANNAH RAPPLEYE and TRACY CONNOR  /  NBC News NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial said it was deadlocked Thursday but then deliberated another 10 hours without a verdict after the judge ordered them to try again. “We cannot come to a unanimous consensus on any of these counts,” the sequestered panel said in a […]

By Kent Luetzen KPAX.com | Continuous News | Missoula & Western MontanaMISSOULA – One man’s second chance at life meant someone else lost theirs. After waiting anxiously for more than two years, he finally got news that he was a match for a heart transplant. Reporter  Kent Luetzen has the story of Troy Schlimgen who, after four years of recovery, finally met his heart donor’s family. “And […]

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” Alexander Hamilton (1788) Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the founder of the nation’s financial system, the […]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the unprovoked attack of the USS Liberty by the State of Israel, which killed 34 American sailors and Marines and wounded 174. To this day, the State of Israel has never been held accountable for this despicable and dastardly attack against the people of the United States. In fact, the U.S. government and news […]

Staffers hope the first lady will be a stabilizing presence in a White House that’s been consumed by scandal and infighting. President Donald Trump’s White House residence — where an increasingly isolated figure under siege conducts his late-night phone klatches and early morning tweetstorms — is about to get a little less lonely. With the school year over, first lady […]

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Twenty years ago today, Bill and Hillary Clinton began the process of letting their only child go. Because Chelsea Clinton’s father was president and her mother was first lady, it happened publicly. The venue was Sidwell Friends School, which had long been a haven for the children of Washington’s elite, and President Clinton […]

Ally has always been an active girl — she’s into swimming, tennis, soccer and golf. Her parents, Emerald and Ken, describe her as a tomboy. “She’s bright and fun,” said Emerald. But in October 2013, Ally slowed down. A lot. She was dizzy and often felt exhausted. Tests soon showed Ally suffered from a rare brain tumor called medulloblastoma. She […]

Written by Keely Sharp   /   EagleRising.com Jim Carrey, one of America’s favorite comedians, is set to stand trial for the death of his late girlfriend….However, it isn’t what you think. He didn’t murder her. Cathriona White killed herself, and her death was already officially ruled as a suicide by the LA County Coroner’s office, in July 2016. So […]

by Jim Willis Special thanks to Thomas for this one….. “When I was a puppy I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I became your best friend. Whenever I was “bad,” you’d shake your finger at me and […]

Golf great Tiger Woods was arrested early Monday on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Woods, who was stopped near his Jupiter Island, Florida, home and later released on his own recognizance, blamed an unexpected reaction to prescription medication, saying alcohol was not involved. He has been recovering from April back surgery, hoping to make […]

Southern women scattered spring flowers on graves of both northern Union and southern Confederate soldiers of the Civil War in which over a half-million died. Many places claimed to have held the original Memorial Day, such as: Warrenton, Virginia; Columbus, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Waterloo, New York. One such place was Charleston, South Carolina, where a mass […]

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bill Cassidy, R-La. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Kelly; Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. THIS WEEK (ABC): Kelly; Rep. Adam Schitf, D-Calif. STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Linda Graham, R-S.C., and […]

By Nardine Saad  /  LA Times It began like a blues lyric: Gregg Allman hustled up a paper route and used the money to buy a $21.95 Silvertone guitar from Sears. He and his brother, Duane, fought over it until their mother quieted them with a second one. Duane could play like lightning, which meant Gregg, despite a voice of scrape […]

By Terence P. Jeffrey [Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on March 3, 2010, when Jim Bunning was serving in the U.S. Senate. Bunning, who was born on Oct. 23, 1931, died last night in Southgate, Kentucky, at the age of 85.] Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, a 78-year-old grandfather of 40 who is not running for re-election, has […]

Twentieth-Century Fox made a motion picture in 1955 titled A Man Called Peter, about the life of U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, born MAY 27, 1902. At the age of 25, Peter Marshall emigrated from Scotland, arriving at New York’s Ellis Island in 1927. Members of his Sunday School class paid his way to seminary in Atlanta, where he graduated […]

By James Bennett  /  The Daily Herald  Columbia’s Laura Hudson went to Savannah, Ga., last year to work as an extra on the “Baywatch” movie, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron. The crew invited her back twice more to work on the movie, which opens nationwide this weekend. The second time, she stayed for a week and was […]