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A Tennessee woman has been jailed because of her overgrown yard. Karen Holloway was cited by Lenoir City during the summer when she started to struggle to keep up with her yard work because of what she called “personal, family issues.” “With my husband going to school and working full time, me with my job,…
NumbersUSA began a seven-figure, 10-state ad buy today that asks viewers whether Americans or “new immigrants” should get new jobs. The 30-second ad, running in states with competitive U.S. Senate races, says immigrants are finding work while longtime citizens or legal immigrants struggle to get jobs. “Should the jobs go to millions of Americans and legal…
At least one of Virginia’s 23 community colleges has some serious shaping up to do, a recent state audit revealed. Northern Virginia Community College paid $1.3 million in hourly rates of up to $290 to a firm it didn’t even hold accountable to make good on its contracts, an audit from the state’s Auditor of…
As Election Day approaches, Republicans are focusing too much effort on buying television ads, warned George Will on Fox News’ Special Report last night. Will said that voters have been “saturated” by political ads, and that the “utility” of these dollars may be overestimated. “The return on ‘get out the vote’ may be much larger,”…
To Sonya Gilliam, a recent account of improper sorting of Benghazi-related documents at the State Department brought back vivid memories of her own encounters with high-level government officials who withheld, deleted or destroyed public records. And one name stood out for its familiarity: Cheryl Mills. A former deputy assistant secretary of state had told The Daily…
Speakers from several pro-life organizations gathered at a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood on Tuesday to protest abortion and the organization’s taxpayer funding. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country and received $500 million in taxpayer funds last year. Lila Grace Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, a pro-life advocacy group,…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee delivered an impassioned plea for Republicans to defend traditional marriage during the opening monologue of his Fox News show Saturday. Huckabee blasted the Supreme Court’s recent decision to forgo any cases on same-sex marriage and encouraged the GOP to join him in opposing such “judicial tyranny.”
Melissa Harris-Perry is more scared of the police than she is of ISIS or Ebola. During an MSNBC panel discussion about people “losing faith” in community, Harris-Perry said she feels “more terror” when she sees “blue lights” than when she thinks about Ebola or ISIS: “Like, it feels to me like — and it could…
In the first debate of their heated U.S. Senate race, the incumbent Democrat’s attacks last night on the policy positions of his Republican challenger took on a personal tone. Rep. Tom Cotton, the challenger, and Sen. Mark Pryor, the incumbent, squared off at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Joining them to debate who would serve…
A new ad from a left-wing advocacy group that blames Republicans for the Ebola outbreak is set to debut in battleground states this weekend. The Agenda Project’s ad, titled “Republican Cuts Kill,” intersperses what they characterize in their video’s description as “disturbing footage of the Ebola outbreak” with various Republicans saying the word “cut.” The…
NASHVILLE — U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is pushing for legislation to create a federal entity to regulate the housing market, six years after the government’s subprime loans nearly tanked the U.S. economy. Is it a good idea? Two experts—one a Franklin, Tenn.-based financial adviser, the other a Heritage Foundation research fellow—oppose housing finance legislation…
Electronic signatures on voter registration forms from third parties may pose risks, one advocate for fair elections says, but there’s more to be worried about in his state leading up to the Nov. 4 elections. In late September, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring gave the legal green light to the state’s Norfolk Electoral Board to accept electronic signatures…
Republican lawmakers say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enjoys a “beyond cozy” relationship with a liberal environmental action group that seeks to reshape national energy policies in a way that would hurt American businesses and families. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, told The Daily Signal that the…
A 26-year-old nurse named Nina Pham is the health care worker at a Dallas hospital who tested positive for the Ebola virus after helping to treat a man who later died of the disease, her family told a Dallas radio station. WFAA reported that Pham, a 2010 graduate of Texas Christian University’s nursing program, is the first person known to contract the…
Craig Bergman had just hit the road to produce his first political documentary about Agenda 21—the United Nations’ controversial sustainable development plan—when news of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservatives broke in May 2013. “When I saw this scandal, I said somebody has to seize this and seize it right now. So I said,…
Some prominent nonprofits focusing on firearms are locked and loaded this election cycle, shelling out millions in hopes of influencing voters before they head to the polls Nov. 4. This year, although gun control isn’t a major issue, groups on both sides support and oppose targeted candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S….
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Students attending Sarasota County public schools might be wondering, “Where’s the beef?” The answer won’t be found between two buns, at least not on Mondays. Sarasota County Schools kicked off a Meatless Monday campaign last week, nixing traditional protein-packed food items for vegetarian substitutes. The program is part of “a popular international movement … to promote…
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, who has chronicled U.S. military action in Iraq for years, said today that America and the world are in “a mess” in the fight against the Islamic State, the brutal terrorist group also called ISIS or ISIL. President Obama “has clearly gone through a wake-up call,” Woodward told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” adding: “He’s…
Leon Panetta, who served as both CIA director and defense secretary under President Obama, today said his former boss is too isolated in the White House. Continuing media interviews to promote his new memoir, which is critical of the president on ISIS and other national security matters, Panetta said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that a staff shakeup after the midterm elections…
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this morning said he is “deeply concerned” about a second person in the United States testing positive for the deadly Ebola virus. The patient, an unidentified health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, was among those who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the man visiting the…