by Hayley Feland | Aug 19, 2021
Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed political strategist Steve Bannon, who was the...
by Chris Butler | Aug 19, 2021
Several people on Wednesday urged members of the Fulton County Commission not to approve a nearly $600,000 contract with an Illinois-based group to review and assess the county’s voter registration and elections operations. County commissioners had not approved...
by Hayley Feland | Aug 19, 2021
Nashville Mayor John Cooper backs school defiance of Governor Lee’s (R) executive order allowing parents to opt their kids out of mask mandates. Cooper called the order “disappointing.” The order follows the Nashville Metro Public Schools (MNPS) board...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Robert Romano “Our military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31st. The drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way, prioritizing the safety of our troops as they depart… And thanks to the way in which we have managed our withdrawal, no...
by RealClearWire | Aug 19, 2021
by Mark Hemingway Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Nicholas Ballasy – – – Background photo “White House” by APK (CC0 1.0), photo “Jake Sullivan” by US Embassy.
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Eric Lendrum Joe Biden’s Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, admitted to having spoken directly with faculty members from school districts that are defying the law and forcing mask mandates on their students, even if their states have banned such...
by The Center Square | Aug 19, 2021
by Casey Harper A federal judge has ruled the Biden administration must resume allowing oil and gas leasing on federal land and waters, but the administration is saying it will not go down without a fight. The Biden administration said it will appeal a court...
by Chris Butler | Aug 19, 2021
Vanderbilt University officials have announced their COVID-19 masking requirements for the new 2021-2022 school year. Vanderbilt officials said in a Health and Safety Protocols memo that the Nashville-based school has a high vaccination rate of about 94...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Kevin Portteus The sudden collapse of American power in Afghanistan has triggered the usual partisan blamestorming in Washington. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has blamed the Biden Administration. How clueless does a member of the Cheney family have to...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Ailan Evans Twitter announced Tuesday it will test a feature allowing users to report tweets they believe are misleading, as the company cracks down on alleged misinformation. Users in the U.S., South Korea, and Australia will be able to select the “It’s...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Rachelle Hernandez While schools like the University of Wisconsin Madison have considered canceling President Abraham Lincoln, one Princeton professor wants to preserve his legacy and help students learn more about the nation’s 16th president. The Ivy League...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Andrew Kerr Multiple watchdog groups said Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure report filed on Friday. Omar reportedly...
by Hayley Feland | Aug 19, 2021
Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) joined the lawsuit over the suspension of the service academy Boards of Visitors. The boards were suspended by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, which Green calls “unacceptable.” Green, a member of the United States Military...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Emina Melonic In Alan Parker’s 1982 film, “Pink Floyd—The Wall,” a young boy’s reality turns into a nightmare. It’s post-war England, and the boy—now in his teens and fatherless—sits in a classroom tuning out his bland math lesson and composing poems...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Debra Heine One of the five Taliban commanders who was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 by former president Barack Obama in exchange for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, is emerging as a key figure who helped the insurgents seize power in Afghanistan....
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky President Joe Biden’s average approval rating has dipped below 50% for the first time since taking office. His approval stands at 49.8% in FiveThirtyEight’s tracker and 49.4% in RealClearPolitics’ average. While Biden’s approval rating still...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Corey Walker Deborah Ball, a mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, argued in a podcast that the discipline inflicts racism against Black and Latino students. On Jul 21, Ball appeared on an episode of the Ed Fix Podcast titled “Fighting Racism...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Greg Piper – – – Background photo “Sarah Parke Morrison Hall” by Wardsr (CC0 1.0), photo “Jim Bopp” by Bopp Law. ...
by Star News Staff | Aug 19, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky The Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Texas Constitution authorizes the state’s House of Representatives to arrest members who flee in order to break the quorum required to vote. The opinion states that “just as” Texas’ Constitution...
