Eight elderly people died at a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, where Hurricane Irma had knocked out the power, leaving the facility without air conditioning in near 90-degree heat. At least 115 other people were evacuated from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills after sweltering for several days, some of them in respiratory distress. The center is located across the […]

Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie is just the latest in an increasingly large number of supporters of Roy Moore, giving him his strong endorsement on Tuesday. Said Massie, “Roy Moore has more political spine than anyone I know,” adding: He has twice chosen to lose his job rather than compromise his principles. He is a man willing to stand up to the […]

By Bella Baxter If you looked up at the sky now, it’s hard to imagine a devastating hurricane just passed through the area not more than a few days ago. Puffy white clouds dot the deep blue expanse, floating happily overhead. The ground, though, tells a much different story. After an agonizing week of watching and waiting, Hurricane Irma finally made […]

by streiff  /   RedState Let’s not fool ourselves. Civil asset forfeiture is nothing more or less than the unconstitutional seizure of property by law enforcement agencies as a way of generating an off-the-books income stream to provide funding at a higher level than that approved by the legislative body that is sets their budget. Stories of abuse abound and it will be […]

by Andy Sher  /    Chattanooga Times Free Press NASHVILLE — The head of Americans for Prosperity’s Tennessee chapter, Andy Ogles, said Thursday he is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who continues to weigh a bid for a third term. “In less than a year the Republican primary will give us an opportunity […]

Search-and-rescue teams on Tuesday fanned out in the Florida Keys, the part of the state hit hardest by Hurricane Irma. Authorities estimated that as many as a quarter of the homes in the island chain were destroyed and 65 percent suffered major damage after Irma hit with top sustained winds of 130 miles per hour and a storm surge that […]

Written by Keely Sharp   /   Eagle Rising As Hurricane Irma sped towards Florida and the threat became more imminent, people began to flee the state in search for shelter and safety. In fact, they were urged to do so, and it was mandatory in some parts of the Sunshine State. Sadly, not everyone who fled took their animals, or […]

House Budget Committee Chairwoman Diane Black (R-Tenn.) might not finish out her congressional term as she focuses on her run for governor, according to a report in The Tennessean confirmed by The Hill. “We haven’t made that decision yet,” Black was quoted as saying at a gubernatorial candidate forum at Nashville’s Tennessee State Fair. Black added that she’s still hoping […]

Sodomites need to go back in the closets and stay there  –  or – they need to clean up their lives. Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation hours after a fifth accuser, a cousin, said Murray molested him when the cousin was a teen. Murray maintains he has never abused anyone. By Jim Brunner , Daniel Beekman and Lewis Kamb / Seattle Times staff reporters For five […]

by James Silberman   /   FAMILY POLICY INSTITUTE California State Senator Scott Weiner, feeling empowered by the lack of a conservative movement in his state, is attempting to criminalize traditional values. His “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Resident’s Bill of Rights,” which was recently passed by the state senate, would make it a crime to “misgender” nursing home […]

By R. Albert Mohler, Jr. This past week I was part of an effort that put America’s theological and moral fault lines fully in view. I was a signer of something called the Nashville Statement, a document adopted by a group of evangelical Christians seeking to reaffirm traditional Christian values on sexuality. Within hours, the vitriol in response to our document […]

by James Silberman  /  FAMILY POLICY INSTITUTE A Yakima teacher is blowing the whistle on school administrators who he claims instructed him and his coworkers to “engage in active deception towards parents with regard to trans-gendered students.” In a Facebook post on August 28, Jeremy Wuitschick, a teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Yakima, WA, gave details about an interaction […]

Want to See where some of those tax dollars go…. here is one way. Tennessee’s TNInvestco program has yielded 1,800 new jobs and helped attract about $500 million in additional funding to Tennessee companies in its seventh year, according to a 2016 annual report. The program was created in 2009 and 2010 to spur job creation at early stage companies […]

  by: Jeremy Pierre  MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis police are looking for a man who pulled a gun on a woman and beat her dog with a baton at the dog area in Overton Park Saturday evening. The woman told police the man had two German Shepherds that began to fight with her dog. The man began beating the woman’s […]

Speculative Reporting Senator Bob Corker is considering retirement, according to a CNN report breaking this morning: Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the influential chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee who was once considered for a spot in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, is weighing whether to call it quits next year. Corker told CNN last week that he has not made a decision […]

By Patrick Lantrip  /  The (Memphis) Daily News Developer Yehuda Netanel said you can’t measure a development by how many bumps in the road it has, but by how many bumps in the road it overcomes, which is a fitting summary of his company’s ambitious Lake District project over the last few weeks. The project hit one of these aforementioned […]

By Becky Yeh   /  Live Action Kentucky is on the cusp of being the first state without an abortion facility. Its last-remaining location, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, is embroiled in a high stakes legal battle against Gov. Matt Bevin and state lawmakers. If the court decides in favor of the state to enforce basic health and safety regulations for abortion facilities, […]

by SAPHORA SMITH, KALHAN ROSENBLATT and PHIL MCCAUSLAND  /   NBC News Hurricane Irma’s northern eyewall hit the Florida Keys just after 7 a.m. ET Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said as almost 500,000 lost power across mainland Florida. The system is expected to cause life-threatening storm surges of up to 15 feet along parts of southwestern Florida and on other parts of the […]

By Chuck Muth OK, you are NOT going to believe this… Actually, you will.  But before going any further, let me warn you that, as the great American philosopher Larry the Cable Guy put it, I’m madder than Jesse Jackson at the airport being asked to pick up the white courtesy phone. As such, strong – occasionally even profane – language ahead.  Ye be warned. It all started […]

By Rocky Top Politics The curious case of the altered headline. A couple of days ago, the Washington Times had this headline: Within hours, the Times had altered its headline (although the original headline was still embedded in the link): See the difference?  Alert (or as the alt-left likes to say: “woke”) RTP tipsters contacted our tip line (rtptipline@gmail.com) and pointed […]