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SAMUEL HARDIMAN | THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL Special thanks to Bill Congressman Steve Cohen defended his calls to two Memphis City Councilors ahead of a crucial council vote on a Memphis, Gas, Light and Water contract and denied those calls were on behalf of Franklin Haney, a Chattanooga businessman who has been Cohen’s longtime political ally and frequent political donor. “I talked to […]

Iga Swiatek, an unseeded 19-year-old, became the first even tennis player from Poland to win a Grand Slam singles title after she defeated her 21-year-old American opponent Sofia Kenin, who won the Australian Open in February, 6-4, 6-1 in the French Open Final on Saturday. The 54th-ranked Swiatek had only played in seven major tournaments before this year’s French Open […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday that the Trump administration’s latest coronavirus relief funding offer, “amounted to one step forward and two steps back.” She explained that the major divides between Democrats and the White House were over an apparent lack of national coronavirus containment strategy and inadequate funding for child care and supplemental insurance benefits. Republicans, meanwhile, told […]

FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist and historian  (1805 – 1859)  Most of us remember when Obama, just before being elected […]

Special Thanks to J.r. Maness THE VERY UNCIVIL WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION. This was written by my good friend Joe White. Thought some of you might enjoy a good true story of some of the events of this very uncivil war of Northern Aggression in Tn. I am a third Great Grand Son of this Robert and Cynthia Kennedy. They […]

By Bill Crowder Did you know that October is Pastor Appreciation Month? As someone who served in pastoral work for over 20 years, I can tell you that people in ministry cannot get too much encouragement! And, while we regularly pray for our pastors and try to support them and their families financially, it might be good for all of […]

He’s a Bernie Sanders fan. 30-year old Matthew Doloff was booked into the Denver jail system on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting of a Patriot Prayer demonstrator in the city’s Civic Center on Saturday. Doloff appears to have been in the service of a 9NEWS reporter as a private security guard when he shot and fired a conservative demonstrator. He […]

Kentucky State Board of Elections 1/20/17: D: 1,687,040 R: 1,347,255 9/15/20: D: 1,670,789 R: 1,533,095 10/10/20 (Book-closing): D: 1,672,380 R: 1,568,690 DEM REGISTRATION ADVANTAGE OVER THE YEARS: 1/20/17: 339,785 9/15/20: 137,694 10/10/20: 103,690

BY STEVEN HAYWARD  So forget the old saying, “Oh to be a fly on the wall.” After this week, we all want to be a fly on Mike Pence’s head. Of course, there are two theories about this. One is, the fly was a Deep State nanobot designed to interfere with Pence’s brain waves and mess him up in the debate. […]

The Center for American Progress claims that recent policy changes at the Department of Homeland Security “could potentially undo the gains that DACA recipients have made.” Yes — and water is wet. No one doubts that those granted temporary lawful status under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program benefited. After all, they weren’t deported. But what the CAP study […]

  by Br’er Rabbit The first step in expanding your knowledge on a subject is recognizing that you don’t know all there is to know about that subject. In a way it is similar to the Zen philosophy that one must first empty their cup before it can be filled. If you think you already know all there is to know […]

A fond farewell to a good friend By Rich Galen  |  Mullings We read in Ecclesiastes 3:1(and in the collected works of Pete Seeger), “To everything there is a season.” Later, in 3:6 “A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;” The time for Mullings is over. It has […]

A class action lawsuit has been filed against McDonald’s, claiming it misleads customers who purchase a vanilla ice cream cone because it is not made with “natural flavor” as the ingredients indicate. “The representations for the Vanilla Soft Serve Ice Cream are misleading because this gives consumers the impression that all of the vanilla taste is from vanilla beans, when […]

A California man is suing Starbucks and the maker of its cups and lids claiming that his sex life was ruined by hot tea. According to news reports, Tommy Piluyev ordered two grande Honey Citrus Mint teas and when the barista passed them to him through the drive-up window one of the lids came off and the cup tipped, pouring […]

by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist This week’s White House Report Card finds President Trump just 25 days from Election Day and trying to scramble the polls that find him trailing Democrat Joe Biden. White House officials, showing some confidence because those same polls showed Trump behind Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016, got a bit of a boost from Vice President […]

BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON  |  Center for Individual Freedom California’s state legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery. Apparently, when California’s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little to do with […]

by R. Cort Kirkwood If you own a popular restaurant or small business, Yelp, the popular business-rating website, might just decide you’re a racist. In a series of tweets and on its blog yesterday, Yelp announced it will label businesses with the woke version of the Scarlet Letter to help users avoid them. What Yelp defines as “racist” is unclear. But this much […]

WASHINGTON (CN) — Confirmation hearings for the judge nominated and all but certain to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, will kick off Monday.  A former law clerk of Justice Antonin Scalia, who like her was Catholic, Barrett graduated with honors from Notre Dame Law School in 1997. She taught there […]