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Saturday, October 14, 2023
"On Eagle's Wings" Conference and Banquet, Saturday, October 21 - 9am to 6pm
Saturday, October 21 - 9am to 6pm
The 2023 "On Eagle's Wings" Conference and Banquet at the Cool Springs Embassy Suites (820 Crescent Centre Drive, Franklin), hosted by the Tennessee Eagle Forum. This all-day event will cover many important topics and feature several powerful speakers. Learn more and register yourself HERE.
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Friday, October 13, 2023
If you live in Franklin, Tennessee, please vote for Ken Moore for Mayor.
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| Mayor Ken Moore Antifa member? |
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| Gabrielle Hanson |
There are a lot of Republicans who support Donald Trump and while I think they are misguided and wrong, they are decent people and pretty much mainstream in their political views. They like Trump policies and think he was a good president. They don't acknowledge or don't care that he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power and illegally hold on to power.
There are those MAGA Republicans, and then, there are the weird Trumpinistas: charlatans, conspiracy theorist, white supremist, hypocrites, and con artist. Trump has attracted a lot of weird people to the party and resulted in some misfit candidates running for office. Gabrielle Hanson is in this category.
Hanson led an unsuccessful battle to block a Pride festival from being held at a city park in Franklen and then an image surfaced of her own husband wearing nothing but an American flag Speedo at a Pride event in Chicago. That is not a pretty picture. She justified the contradiction.
Other issues that have drawn attention is that she alleged that the Covenant School shooter was involved in a love triangle with school staff.
A Franklin ethics board found Hanson violated the city’s ethics code by using her position as an alderman to get gifts and privileges. And there has been more.
The worst, in my view, and the most recent issue regarding Gabrille Hanson is that she has failed to condemn a hate group called Tennessee Active Club. I am normally quite reticent to call a group a "hate group," because the term is often used to smear people who are culturally conservative. In the case of the Tennessee Active Club, the term "hate group" is justified. You can read about the Active Club network here. The group is openly white supremacist. Channel 4 News says the group is "a group of self-proclaimed neo-Nazis."
Earlier this week at a forum hosted for candidates for mayor and alderman in Franklin, members of Tennessee Active Club showed up and escorted Hanson and her husband into the event. They said they were there to protect Gabrielle. It gets weirder.
The group claims Mayor Ken Moore, who has served as mayor since 2011 is a member of Antifa. Yep, Dr. Ken Moore, Mayor of Franklin, is said to be a member of Antifa. Dr. Moor has served as president of the Tennessee Orthopedic Society, is a member of the Franklin Rotary Club, Building Lives Foundation Board, TMA Group Board, Williamson County and Franklin Chamber of Commerce Board, and chairman of the Columbia State Foundation Board and in 2018 the Tennessee Municiple League mayor of the year. The Sunday school teacher at the Franklin First United Methodist Church is said to me a member of Antifa. I know he doesn't look the part, but you never can tell.
After the appearance of Tennessee Active Club at that event, a call went out from other members of the Board of Alderman to condemn the group. Gabrielle Hanson refused. She said, “I’m literally not going to denounce whatever it is that they want to be, whether I agree with what they do in their personal life or not,” “If they want to support you and your re-election, and they want to support me, that is their right. We don’t discriminate in this community against anyone. Never did they lay a hand on anyone, and they were very respectful while they were here.”
The city of Franklin is recognized and honored as one of America's best small towns and wins accolades in all kinds of categories. It would be a shame, if the city of Franklin were to elect Gabrielle Hanson as mayor. The world is paying attention to the mayoral race in Franklin. This race has been covered in The New Republic, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Esquire, Vanity Fair, U K's The Daily Mail and many other publications.
Early voting begins Wednesday and runs through Oct. 19. Election day is Oct. 24. If you live in Franklin, please vote for Ken Moore.
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Nashville, Tennessee is ranked as the city with the toughest commute.
by Rod Williams, Oct. 13, 2023- According to a new study by Forbes, Nashville is the worst city in America for commuters. The study shows that commuters in Nashville lost 41 hours in congestion in 2022. Nashville has 452,194 workers with 2.6% of households not having access to a car. Nashville residents have an average commute time of 28.6 minutes to work each day.
Other cities in the list of the top five worst cities for commuters are Charlotte, North Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Houston, Texas; and Washington, D.C.. Los Angeles and New York are not in the top five, and neither are Boston, Dallas. or Fort Worth, but they are in the top ten.
I find this hard to believe but that is what the Forbes study shows. While Nashvillians spend 29.6 minutes on average on their travel time to work, New Yorkers spend 43.4 minutes. So, why is Nashville ranked worst? The study factors in a walk score, a bike score, and a transit score and Nashville scores low on all counts. If one considers only time travel to work, we are not in the top ten of worst commutes.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Gov. Bill Lee attended a solidarity event at the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville on Monday evening to show support for Israel.
WKRN, Oct. 9, 2023- The solidarity event, organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, had an overflow crowd of Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Davidson County in addition to Gov. Bill Lee (R-Tennessee), Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, multiple Metro Nashville councilmembers, and members of the Tennessee General Assembly.
“We have seen once again the persecution of the nation of Israel, but we will see once again the steadfast resolve of the people of this state and this nation to stand alongside the Jewish people and the nation of Israel,” Lee told the crowd. (link)
#'Be strong and resolute': Jewish Nashvillians mourn together at Israel solidarity event
The Tennessean, Oct. 10, 2023- The crowd of hundreds harmonized and sang the Hatikvah’s verses in total synchronization on Monday night, even when the slow and sorrowful tempo quickened to a cantor with upbeat chords on the guitar.
Many began clapping and others were crying, but the voices singing Israel’s national anthem resounded as one through the Gordon Jewish Community Center auditorium.
Concluding a community solidarity rally for Israel, the Hatikvah encapsulated the larger message the rally sought to promote. That despite Jewish Nashvillians’ differences, they all are hurting for Israel right now and can find comfort in each other. (link)
“In this moment, despite their differences, the Israeli people are united as one,” said Rabbi Daniel Horwitz, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville, in an address at the rally.
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Deficit Tops $1.7 Trillion As Interest Rates Surge
The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
After declining in recent years due to the pandemic ending, the deficit is now back on the rise, totaling $1.7 trillion in 2023 and more than double last year’s when you exclude the President’s now-overturned student debt cancellation and timing shifts. At a time when the economy is growing and unemployment remains near historic lows, this should have been a time to reduce deficits in order to help us better prepare to respond to future economic downturns or foreign crises.
Instead, we’re now facing the prospect of new foreign conflicts at a time when interest rates have been surging and when we’ve already been borrowing at a pace normally reserved for times of emergency or recession. While it’s not clear that interest rates are surging because of our borrowing, we do know that these increases add additional stresses to our budget through higher interest payments, and reducing deficits would help stem their rise.
With deficits doubling, interest rates surging, major trust funds on course to be exhausted in a decade, and new security threats emerging – everything is telling us it’s time to address the debt.
The first step is to ensure that we don’t end the year with any kind of a borrowing binge, as we have seen in years past.
Also, we should establish a bipartisan commission to put our debt trajectory on a more sustainable path, an idea which has been gaining bipartisan traction in Congress and among thought leaders.
There are always convenient justifications for why we should borrow more – it is important, it is an emergency, it will pay for itself, trying to pay for it is just too hard. Those justifications are precisely what got us to this moment where our debt is dangerously high and growing, and economic and national security conditions leave us exceedingly vulnerable. We must change course.
It will be tough, but we need to embrace the leadership and courage necessary to right our fiscal course.
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