Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-2) to Serve on Three House Committees in the 118th Congress
Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) announced that he was selected to serve on three House committees in the 118th Congress. Burchett will be returning to serve on both the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and House Foreign Affairs...
Mentor Leaders Call for Lake County Commissioners to Rescind Sales Tax Increase
In Lake County, a discussion about raising the sales tax is ongoing. The county’s 7.75 percent sales tax rate, which is now the third-highest in the state, was approved earlier this month by the county Board of Commissioners after a 0.5 percent hike. On January...
Wisconsin Bail Reform Amendment Goes to Voters
A constitutional amendment proposal to reform Wisconsin’s cash bail system is now headed to voters in April’s election. Following the Republican-controlled Senate’s approval of the measure earlier this week, the GOP-dominated Assembly on Thursday passed the...
Bill to Repay Loans of Mental Health Professionals Clears Virginia House Committee
by Madison Hirneisen A bill to create a loan repayment program for Virginia mental health professionals sailed through a House of Delegates subcommittee Thursday, receiving bipartisan approval from a panel of lawmakers. House Bill 1534, authored by Del....
Hamilton County Republican Party Names Melissa Powers as Next County Prosecutor
Melissa Powers, a former juvenile court judge, has been chosen by the Hamilton County Republican Party to serve as the county’s next prosecutor. The Hamilton County Republican Party’s central committee met late Thursday afternoon at Clovernook Country Club...
Catholic Universities Continue to Endorse Pro-Abortion Agenda
by Gabrielle M. Etzel Wednesday marked the start of this year’s National March for Life, the first since the right to an abortion was federally overruled in June of last year in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In light of the...
Commentary: Read Something Other than Current Politics
by Anthony Esolen American professors who call themselves liberals almost always do one of three things when it comes to reading old books. They ditch them, they disparage them, or they wrench them out of joint so that they can be made to do obeisance to what...
Commentary: Miss Universe Is Just the Latest Organization Erasing Women
by Tim Young Another day, another biological male stealing the spotlight from biological females in the name of feminism and equality. A new Miss Universe was crowned on Saturday and the transgender owner of the organization, Anne Jakrajutatip, took to the...
Google Parent Company Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs from Global Workforce
by Joseph Weber Google parent Alphabet Inc. is cutting 12,000 jobs worldwide, roughly 6% of its global workforce. The cuts, announced by CEO Sundar Pichai in a memo to Google employees, is the latest in Big Tech job cutbacks. “This will mean saying...
ICE Releases Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Affected by Data Leak
by Jennie Taer Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released nearly 3,000 illegal immigrants from custody after they were affected by a data leak, an agency spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The late November accidental data breach...
