[ad_1] Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Jay Inslee is still the governor of Washington, what with all the competence and the just generally not making a lot of waves. But damn, he and Democrats in the state Lege have done some good governing lately. This week, the state Senate passed a “shield law” to

[ad_1] Louisville Courier Journal Do something! Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and all Republicans in Kentucky and elsewhere, please spare us your offerings of “Thoughts and Prayers” regarding this latest atrocity here in Louisville. Your prayers have proven ineffective unless they are addressed to some god of chaos and despair. Your thoughts would seem to

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted to confirm the reappointment of Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending him back to fill the House District 86 seat as an interim representative.   The vote to return Pearson to his seat – vacated last Thursday when the GOP-dominated chamber expelled the state representative after he and two

[ad_1] Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker  |  Opinion Contributor Louisville shooting: Raw video from shooting near Slugger Field At least four people were killed and eight people wounded, two critically, during a shooting near Slugger Field in downtown Louisville on Monday. Hagan Kurd, Storyful This is my hometown. I am now a Pastor here. I love

[ad_1] With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross In a letter to John Roberts this week, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) implored the Supreme Court chief justice to tackle two major accountability items. | Leah Millis/Pool via AP NEW FROM JMART — “How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown,” by Jonathan

[ad_1] Last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested schools could prevent mass shootings by enlisting more armed officers like banks do. On Monday, ten days after the senator’s tweet, a gunman armed with an AR-15 rifle killed five people and injured at least eight more at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. He bought

[ad_1] The perceived threat of central bank digital currencies, otherwise known as CBDCs, appears to be transcending party lines. While many dissenters throughout the world are known to have conservative affiliations, prominent liberals are increasingly speaking out. In the month of April alone, three high-profile political detractor have spoken up against the threat. We highlight

[ad_1] Firearms became the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. in 2020, surpassing car accidents, and signaling a complete shift in society and medicine since the year 1900, when the leading factors of child-death were pneumonia and tuberculosis.  Already in 2023, there have been 146 mass shootings in the U.S., the group says.

[ad_1] After Black teenager Emmett Till was brutally tortured and murdered by two white men in Mississippi, his mother, Mamie, committed a daring, outrageous and provocative act. At her son’s funeral, she chose an open casket so the world could see the horror perpetrated on him. I’ve viewed that image numerous times and it’s something

[ad_1] We visited more than three dozen religious services, finding hope, resilience and admonishments for action following The Covenant School shooting. One hand rose in praise. It belonged to Richard Koonce, who lost his wife in the shooting at The Covenant School. He was sitting seven rows from the back of Koinonia Church in Nashville’s

[ad_1] With an assist from Daniella Diaz Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) was briefed Monday evening on the consequential leaks of U.S. intelligence. (Photo by Drew Angerer) | Getty Images DIALING DOD FOR ANSWERS — Washington is reeling from the leak of highly classified information on the next phases of Ukraine’s strategy against

[ad_1] Carl Gibson  |  Opinion Contributor This week’s mass shooting that killed five and injured eight at a downtown bank happened less than three miles from my apartment. Even as a born-and-raised Kentuckian and gun owner for more than ten years, this mass shooting has hit (literally) close to home, and I know that I’m

[ad_1] Tucker Carlson: Why Democrats might turn to Gavin Newsom Fox News host Tucker Carlson examines why President Biden has not announced his 2024 re-election campaign and why California Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely to become the face of the Democratic Party on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Imagine

[ad_1] House Bill 1240 poised to become law soon PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As Washington state seems poised to become only the 10th state to ban the sale and manufacture of assault weapons, gun rights advocates worry what this will mean for gun owners. If this bill becomes law, opponents claim the long list of

[ad_1] Crime is a people problem. If you understand nothing else about crime, you must understand this — crime is committed by people. It is not committed by inanimate objects, and while data on criminal activity can be charted as a trend over time, trends don’t commit crimes, people do. There is a word for people

[ad_1] The former Tennessee legislators who were ousted last week by the state’s Republican-led House of Representatives said on April 9 they would accept reappointments by their respective districts and will run in the special elections to fill their seats. Justin Pearson, a Democrat who had represented Memphis, and Justin Jones, a Democrat who represented

[ad_1] On ABC’s This Week, co-moderator Jon Karl invited Justin Pearson, one of the expelled former Democrat Tennessee representatives on the program to let him play the victim because he was held accountable for his actions. Opening the program on Easter Sunday, Karl still insisted on lying on this holy day.  Karl claimed the “two

[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola photographed on Friday, April 29, 2022 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) WASHINGTON – When Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola joined an Alaska Public Media call-in radio show this week, a self-proclaimed Peltola supporter and longtime hunter called in. “I admire Representative Peltola, I remember when she was a legislative

[ad_1] It’s one of the holiest times of 2023 and yet it started with a tragic shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville that left seven people dead. When the terror happened — notably at a school associated with a local church, Covenant Presbyterian Church in Green Hills — holy days for Muslims, Christians, Jews

[ad_1] On Saturday, the Washington State Senate approved legislation banning the sale of assault weapons. “House Bill 1240, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee and sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, passed the House of Representatives on March 8, and the Senate today, in historic votes,” said the WA State Office

[ad_1] Both chambers of the Washington state legislature have approved a ban on assault-style firearms, sending the measure to the governor’s desk for signature. Washington will become the 10th state to enforce such a law.  House Bill 1240, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gov. Jay Inslee and sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds,

[ad_1] PREVIOUS VIDEO: WA Senate committee moves assault weapons ban forward OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington state Senate on Saturday approved an assault-weapons ban, a measure long sought by gun-control advocates. HB1240 passed the Senate in a 27-21 vote, with one excused. The measure will go back to the House since it was amended by

[ad_1] OLYMPIA, Wash. – After hours of deliberation, the Washington State Senate has passed the assault weapon ban with a 27-21 vote.  House Bill 1240 would ban the sale, manufacture and import of assault weapons into Washington. The bill does not ban the possession of assault weapons and provides exceptions for law enforcement, the military

[ad_1] After the recent shooting in Nashville that killed three children and three adults at a Christian school, we asked readers to weigh in on an earlier report that showed gun violence as a major cause of death among children. We asked how the trend can be reversed. Here are some of the responses: ‘We

[ad_1] The Tennessee State GOP pulled off their first partisan legislative expulsion on Thursday with the kind of racist flourish this country has now come to expect from the Guns Over People party. Republicans currently control the Tennessee House by an unusually wide margin, with 75 members to the Democrats’ 22 – and now there

[ad_1] We speak with Justin Jones, one of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a Republican supermajority in the Tennessee state House of Representatives Thursday for peacefully protesting gun violence in the chamber last week as thousands rallied at the Capitol to demand gun control after the Covenant elementary school shooting in Nashville. A vote

[ad_1] Most people know that America has a gun problem. It’s just our politicians who don’t. (Michael Conroy | AP photo) Bryan Oberc, Munster, Ind., tries out an AR-15 from Sig Sauer in the exhibition hall at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019.   | April 7, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

[ad_1] Reader disappointed with Reagan column I am disappointed that so much space is given to “Another View” by Michael Reagan, in the Times-Standard on Saturday, March 25th. We welcome and look forward to views that are different than our views but to publish this person who makes broad sweeping Fox-Entertainment types of statements with

[ad_1] CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Democrats and gun control advocates rallied around a trio of bills on Thursday that amplified calls for gun regulation while recalling the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that became the deadliest in U.S. history. More than five years after a shooter killed scores of people at a country

[ad_1] I started writing this column before another disreputable chapter was added to the never-ending Trump saga. He became the first president ever to be indicted for a crime. The indictment can take its place beside the two impeachments, but this time he doesn’t have a fawning band of sycophants in Congress to run interference