BY V SAXENA  /  Conservative Tribune Thanks Thomas “feel the pain and not Tennessee.” “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we urge the other forty-eight states to refrain from imposing their unfounded moral judgment on their sister states as California has done in order to prevent escalating foolishness,” the resolution further added. The resolution also slammed California for its “exorbitant taxes, […]

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) Memphis pet owners are on guard because of online rumors suggesting dogs are being poisoned at an alarmingly high rate. WMC Action News 5 investigators reached out to Memphis Police Department to separate fact from fiction. We learned there is some truth to the rumors. WMC Action News 5 – Memphis, TennesseeWe found two cases of possible […]

Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt on Tuesday faced senators skeptical of the agency’s proposed steep budget cuts. Senators from both parties voiced concerns with at least some parts of the Trump administration’s proposed $5.65 billion budget for the EPA for next year, a cut of about 30 percent below this current funding level. Pruitt faced repeated pressure to defend […]

From Bloomberg “Two U.S. senators working on a bipartisan overhaul of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are seriously considering a plan that would break up the mortgage-finance giants, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The proposal by Tennessee Republican Bob Corker and Virginia Democrat Mark Warner would attempt to foster competition in the secondary mortgage market, where loans […]

The House passed a measure on Tuesday that grants lawmakers an extra $25,000 to pay for security needs in the wake of the shooting at the GOP baseball practice this month. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had briefed House Republicans on Friday about possibly expanding lawmakers’ annual office budgets to help pay for security costs. House Administration Committee Chairman Gregg Harper […]

Hearing entitled “The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Main Street, Retirees, and Savings,” 10 a.m. Click here for the Committee Memorandum. Witness List Dr. Norbert Michel, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation Dr. Paul Kupiec, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Dr. Karen Dynan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Mr. Alex J. Pollock, Distinguished Senior Fellow, R Street Institute

A Republican congressman lost close to $17 million on Tuesday when stock in an Australian pharmaceutical company he allegedly promoted to other lawmakers plunged to pennies per share. Shares of Innate Immunotherapeutics fell more than 90 percent in Sydney after a multiple sclerosis drug being tested by the pharma company showed no signs of working. Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), the […]

I would start worrying now….. From CNBC: “Fed Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that banks are “very much stronger” and another financial crisis is unlikely anytime soon. Speaking during an exchange in London with British Academy President Lord Nicholas Stern, the central bank chief said the Fed has learned lessons from the financial crisis and has brought stability to the […]

The House Budget Committee will not mark up a budget resolution this week, as it had hoped to, amid lingering disagreements within the Republican caucus over spending levels. “We’re just working really hard to get the final numbers put out,” said Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black (R-Tenn.). The House Freedom Caucus is threatening to withhold its support from the budget […]

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Five years ago today, a divided U.S. Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The law, called Obamacare even before it took effect, had been signed on March 23, 2010. From the start, there were problems with the sweeping new statute. For starters, the Department of Health […]

Peskov added that previous attacks had been conducted by the Islamic State terrorists, so there was always potential danger that such situations might occur again Thanks to Thomas MOSCOW, /TASS Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin had no information on pending chemical attacks in Syria. “I have no information whatsoever about the chemical threat. I have no […]

By Walter Williams My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues honoring traitors such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis, who fought against the Union. Victors of wars get to write the history, and the history they write often does […]

Hackers struck Europe, South Asia, and the U.S. with a powerful cyberattack on Tuesday, using highly virulent “Petya” malicious data-scrambling ransomware to disrupt companies’ and governments’ computer systems. Tens of thousands of computers were affected. Ukraine was hit particularly hard. Officials in Ukraine said the attack affected the power grid and government offices, although the country’s prime minister said “vital […]

Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday postponed plans for a vote on their proposal to replace ObamaCare as they faced rising opposition from members of their own party. Five Republican senators — more than enough to spell defeat for the bill — stated publicly that they planned to vote against the measure if the leadership went through with a plan for […]

Carlos Garcia    /   The Blaze Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told a town hall rally of supporters, and a few Trump protesters, what she planned to do to President Trump’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. According to a Los Angeles Times reporter at the event on Saturday in Gardena, California, Waters said that Carson should go back […]

Decision brushes liberty aside By Judson Phillips   /   Washington Times Liberty is slowly dying in this nation. The battles where liberty dies are mostly not the headline grabbing stories, but instead small cuts that help reduce this nation to despotism. One of the cornerstones of liberty in America is property rights.  In other nations, past and present, the sovereign […]

by Washington Examiner When Republicans claim they can’t get a fair shake from news media, they have weeks like this one in mind. The new Congressional Budget Office report for the Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill has revived a false claim, parroted by many once respectable media outfits, that millions of people (this time 22 million, one million fewer than the […]

by Robert King  /  Washington Examiner Senate conservatives are signaling that a key way to win their support for a Senate healthcare bill is to repeal more of Obamacare’s insurance mandates, but they aren’t saying if a requirement that shields sick people from high premiums must be on the table. Conservative holdouts have complained in recent days that the draft […]

By Caitlin Nolan Police are searching for the person or persons responsible for the brutal murder of a Philadelphia woman who was viciously attacked on the shortcut she regularly took home. Debra Gulliver, 33, was on her way home after a night out with friends when she walked through a park behind Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School at […]

Saudi Arabia, other Arab nations want to silence Al Jazeera By Tim Constantine   /   Washington Times The United States likes to hold itself up as an example to the rest of the world how humankind can flourish when afforded certain freedoms. Among those freedoms is Freedom of Speech. The ability to express ourselves, even if our opinion differs from […]