by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 4, 2022
In an attempt to justify universal mail-in voting, Arizona Democrats Thursday downplayed the ongoing issue with mail theft and crimes against mail carriers that are soaring nationwide. “Note, these ‘drop boxes’ do not have 24-hour video surveillance...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 4, 2022
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Executive Order 22-02D on Thursday which “prohibits the State of Ohio investment or purchasing activity from aiding Russia in violating the rights of the Ukrainian people,” according to a press release by DeWine’s office. The executive...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Mar 4, 2022
Retired Brig. General Kurt Winstead announced key personnel additions to his campaign for the Republican primary for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. The Winstead campaign announced that Chris Devaney, campaign manager for Governor Bill Lee’s 2018...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Mar 4, 2022
Self-described “Catholic” President Joe Biden struggled with a question from a reporter from the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) on Ash Wednesday about why, as a Catholic, he supports abortion rights. EWTN Washington, D.C., correspondent Owen Jensen asked...
by Rachel Alexander | Mar 4, 2022
A TV ad from an organization attacking Trump-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has been running on TV and radio. The spot criticizes her for a $350 donation she made to Barack Obama in 2008, well before she entered politics in 2021. One of the men...
by Star News Staff | Mar 4, 2022
by Victor Davis Hanson The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms. This disaster for their party will come about not just because of the Afghanistan debacle, an appeased Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 4, 2022
A Big Tech watchdog group is speaking out about the way Silicon Valley’s titans of industry have handled the war between Russia and Ukraine. “Apparently these Big Tech monopolists find everyday conservative Americans more objectionable than murderous foreign...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 4, 2022
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) announced Thursday that the state will join a bipartisan investigation into popular Chinese-owned social media company TikTok. “Recent reports on social media’s impact on the mental and physical health of young...
by Bradley Vasoli | Mar 4, 2022
At a Connecticut General Assembly hearing Thursday, state lawmakers clashed on visions of tax policy, with Republicans pressing for sales tax reduction and Democrats advocating a mix of tax increases and targeted relief. According to the nonprofit Tax Foundation,...
by Star News Staff | Mar 4, 2022
From time to time, we will run pieces from past issues that seem relevant to what is going in our country or in the world today. This selection, chosen from 1968, was written as the Soviet Union, along with other Warsaw Pact nations, marched into Czechoslovakia to...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 4, 2022
A new report by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) shows that 67 police officers in the United States have been shot while on duty in the first two months of 2022. The number is a 40 percent increase from 2021 year-to-date and a 76 percent increase from 2020...
by Chris Butler | Mar 4, 2022
Members of one Athens church fear for their safety after they said homeless people — many of whom they suspect aren’t even from that city — have harassed and threatened them on church grounds. Luis Ortiz, the senior pastor of the Athens’ Young Harris Memorial United...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Mar 4, 2022
Democrat Maryam Khan became the first Muslim woman elected to the Connecticut State House Tuesday after winning a special election to the 5th House District of Windsor and Hartford. Khan won nearly 75 percent of the votes of 851 voters, with 8.7 percent turnout in the...
by Bradley Vasoli | Mar 4, 2022
While President Joe Biden proposed $22.5 billion in coronavirus-related spending this week, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey (R) urged clarification of how the government has spent almost $6 trillion in earlier COVID relief. Toomey joined 35 Senate colleagues in...
by Eric Burk | Mar 4, 2022
RICHMOND, Virginia – Senate Republicans won a minor showdown on Thursday by forcing several House bills to a full committee hearing although the Democrat-controlled Senate Education and Health Committee had removed the bills from its docket. Among the bills was...
by Grant Holcomb | Mar 4, 2022
Florida lawmakers continue to be in budget conferences reconciling differences between House and Senate budget proposals. So far, numerous agreements and billions of dollars have been agreed upon. The Florida House approved a $105 billion budget and the Florida Senate...
by Cooper Moran | Mar 4, 2022
Wisconsin voters are increasingly concerned about inflation and believe the state is trending in the wrong direction, according to a new Marquette Law School poll. The survey, which contacted 802 registered voters in the state and had a 3.8 percent margin of error,...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Mar 4, 2022
State Representative Mike Stewart (D-Nashville) voted against a resolution honoring an organization that fights human and child trafficking. The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed HJR0856, “A RESOLUTION to recognize Mission America Foundation” on...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Mar 4, 2022
Former Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen admitted in 1997 that direct economic impact benefits couldn’t justify taxpayer funding for a football stadium. Bredesen said in June of 1997, “I can’t justify building a football stadium on direct economic impact. The...
by Cooper Moran | Mar 4, 2022
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is facing an ethics complaint related to stock trading filed by a nonpartisan watchdog group. The organization, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), urged the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to investigate the...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Mar 4, 2022
Connecticut U.S. Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT-02) has taken in less than $500,000 for the 2022 election cycle. As of the December 31, 2021 deadline, FEC records show that Courtney raised $482,821.54 and has $959,616.55 cash on hand in the bank. Another Democratic...
