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Lainey Wilson’s story begins with a childhood spent singing Hannah Montana songs at school talent shows, a detail that explains just how early she discovered both her voice and her confidence as a performer. That spark grew quickly, and within a few years, she began writing her own music, laying the groundwork for the artist she would later become. Her first collection, Lainey Wilson, appeared in 2014, marking her first step into independent recording and giving her material to take on the road as she pushed forward without the support of a major label. Her move to Nashville became the The post Complete List Of Lainey Wilson Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A fall from a 10 foot ladder triggered a cascade of neurological problems that might have left an Ontario man paralyzed on his right side for life. But working with a device that delivers an electrical shock through the tongue has allowed him to recover movement and speech, and even has him looking towards a […] The post Tongue-Zapping Device Does More in 6 Months Than 4 Years of Normal Stroke Rehabilitation appeared first on Good News Network.

With November’s stinging election results not even a month behind the Virginia GOP, their chairman, state Sen. Mark Peake, announced that he will be stepping down. Peake told The Daily Signal that he’s leaving his post at the end of December because he wanted to make sure he could devote his full effort in the Virginia Senate to defeating the redistricting referendum before it needs a special election. He also said that the state’s Republican Party requires a chairman who can devote a similar amount of energy to getting out the vote should it make it to a Spring special election, and beyond that, helping win whatever districts there will be come November’s midterms. Peake stepped in after longtime chair Rich Anderson earned a post as assistant secretary of the Air Force. Cameron Hamilton has announced that he wants the State Central Committee to consider him. Hamilton mounted a challenge for the GOP nomination in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in 2024 and his wife Karen was just elected to Virginia’s House of Delegates from the 62nd District, succeeding the retired Nick Freitas. Some other frontrunners for the chairmanship include current chairs of Virginia’s 1st, 5th, and 6th congressional districts. They are Jeff Ryer, Rick Buchanan, and John Massoud respectively. Ryer has helped Rep. Rob Wittman win reelection in a very competitive district while even outperforming statewide and national Republicans. Buchanan led the 5th District through the tumultuous (and expensive) primary battle between challenger John McGuire and incumbent Rep. Bob Good. Buchanan also pulled the district together to deliver a 15% victory for McGuire in the general election. Massoud helped Rep. Ben Cline build a strong base that supports him at a better-than-60% clip and has also managed to withstand out-of-state money attempting to flip Virginia House 34th District where incumbent Tony Wilt survived the 2025 “blue wave.” Would Loudoun County GOP Chairman Scott Pio try again for the chairman position? He has been vocal on social media about the need for a change and called for Peake to step down in the wake of the Democrat sweep of the statewide races and a 14-seat “flip” in the house. He was a candidate for the position when Anderson departed and lost to Peake at the State Central Committee vote. The post Virginia GOP Chairman Announces He Will Step Down appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House Republican leadership committed to addressing affordability and national security issues at the Republican National Committee on Tuesday.  House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain, R-Mich., who started the press conference by offering her prayers and condolences to the families of the two National Guard members shot in the nation’s capital, promised legislative work on lowering the burden of regulations. “House Republicans are acting on our affordability agenda. Will move forward with the Dump Red Tape Act and the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. These are real reforms to roll back Washington’s overreach and put power back where it belongs. The power needs to be with the workers, with the families and with the job creators, not with the government,” McClain said. Other Republicans at Tuesday’s press conference pointed to government waste and unaccountability as driving forces of the affordability crisis, both on the state and federal level. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., addressed recent reports of millions of dollars worth of fraud crushing his home state’s social services. “One billion—that’s how much money has been stolen from the hard working taxpayers in my home state of Minnesota,” Emmer told reporters. “And if that’s not egregious enough, some of these taxpayer dollars have allegedly been diverted to Al-Shabaab terrorists.” “Under the failed leadership of [Gov.] Tim Walz, Minnesota has become a hotbed for fraud,” Emmer added. Emmer emphasized the importance of discussing the massive fraud perpetuated on taxpayers without fear.  “Let me be clear, it is not racist to call out criminal behavior, and we’re going to not cower to baseless labels, while Minnesotans, including law abiding Somali Americans, get robbed blind,” the Minnesota congressman said. He also thanked President Donald Trump for raising awareness about the systemic defrauding, which he said had been under covered despite awareness of the existence of criminal behavior for years.  Walz, a Democrat, said, “You commit fraud in Minnesota, you’re going to prison. I don’t care what color you are, what religion you are.” “But sitting on the sidelines and throwing out accusations, and let’s be very clear, demonizing an entire population and lying to people about the safety and security of this state, is beneath that,” he added, according to a Minneapolis-St. Paul Fox affiliate. When asked about the president’s description of Walz as “retarded,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said, “that’s not the word that I would choose.” Meanwhile, a growing contingent on Capitol Hill is looking to perform more oversight of the Trump administrations strikes on Venezuelan drug boats. Johnson was asked about these strikes on Tuesday, but wanted to avoid getting ahead of the relevant committees. “I’m not going to prejudge any of that,” Johnson said of the strikes. “As you know, both of the Armed Services Committees in the Senate and the House will be having hearings on this to review, and that’s their role.” “I don’t know how much of the tape should be released, because I’m not sure how much is sensitive with regard to national security and all that. I haven’t had a chance to review it, so I’m not going to prejudge it. But I will say that, you know, it’s not an unprecedented thing,” Johnson said. The speaker then noted the precedent set by previous administrations. “One of the things I was reminded of this morning is that under Barack Obama, President Obama, he had, I think there were 550 drone strikes on people who were targeted as enemies of the country, and nobody ever questioned it okay? And second secondary strikes are not unusual. It has to happen if a mission is going to be completed,” the speaker explained. Republican leadership also promised to address concerns over Chinese Communist Party influence operations in the United States. Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, noted that Congress would be considering legislation this week designed to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on American youth. He explained how a Des Moines public school group had been taken on an all-expenses-paid-for trip to China where they were surveilled and propagandized.  “I’ve had parents across Iowa say, ‘How is this allowed to happen?’ And the simple truth is, there’s no law preventing it,” Nunn explained, adding that, “The Chinese government is creating a series of shell organizations to recruit kids to come to China and then exploit them the moment they sit down in soil inside Beijing.” The post House GOP Pushing Affordability Heading Into Election Year appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was the only (and first) flagship morning or evening newscast to mention the special election in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District to fill an R+10 seat, but the kudos should stop there as the two-minute-and-25-second piece was a puff piece for far-left Democrat — State Representative Aftyn Behn — by ignoring any number of incendiary statements she’s made that include her hatred of Nashville....which is part of the district. “Voters in Tennessee have an opportunity to send the Trump administration a very strong message today. That’s because there is a special election to fill a congressional seat in the Nashville area. The President won the district a year ago by a wide margin but this race is very close after last month’s elections....A lot of people are watching this one,” co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King began, greasing the skids for her fellow leftists. Incredible. Tuesday's 'CBS Mornings' was the only network morning newscast to mention the special election for a House seat in Tennessee, but did not mention A SINGLE controversy hovering over Democrat Aftyn Behn, touting her claims of a campaign representing all Tennesseans… pic.twitter.com/Em3HMbOSOP — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2025   Correspondent Nicole Valdes filed from Nashville and started by playing Captain Obvious “Republicans are making moves” to keep the seat because “this race could send a message not just to Washington, but President Trump as Democrats try to flip a historically red seat.” Valdes boasted “there is an unlikely battle brewing over a special election” “in a deep red district” with “Democratic State Representative Aftyn Behn....looking to keep the momentum going and give Democrats another win following the recent blue victories in November in states like New Jersey and Virginia.” After acknowledging Republicans are “pull[ing] out all of the stops to drum up support for first time GOP candidate Matt Van Epps” with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) making an in-person visit and President Trump holding a tele-rally, she pivoted to Behn with the most milquetoast summation and a softball question.  Most notably, however, Valdes touted socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) involvement in the race: VALDES: Behn leaned on heavy hitters on the left like former Vice President Al Gore and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [TO BEHN] Why do you think you have a shot at winning in a district where President Trump won by 22 points? BEHN: The voters are tired. They’re tired. I have routinely said throughout the campaign, I don’t care who you voted for, I don’t care what political party you belong to, if you are upset with the cost of living and the chaos of Washington, then I’m your candidate. That was it. Nothing of substance about what Behn believes or why she might lose (other than the district’s voting demographics). Most glaring with Valdes choosing to ignore Behn as having said she “hates” Nashville. Our friend and former NewsBusters intern, Greg Price brought that old clip to light on November 19: ? Aftyn Behn-- the Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election-- says that she despises Nashville, the city that she's running to represent in Congress: “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the… pic.twitter.com/L9lmo1YkkJ — Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 19, 2025   This wasn’t the only controversial and incendiary comment CBS Mornings didn’t care to mention. In 2019, Behn wrote in the Nashville-based paper The Tennessean that the state is “racist” with “racism...in the air we breathe” and it’s become “wild and untamed.” Our friends at the Free Beacon published a story about that on November 18, but CBS didn’t care either. Unsurprisingly, she hates the very people she’s asking for their vote. In 2020, she went postal on Trump voters ass having supported a “racist, white supremacist, bigot”: ?UNCOVERED: In a 2020 podcast, Democrat Aftyn Behn smeared President Trump and his voters as racists, white-supremacists, and bigots. Behn is running to represent a district in Tennessee that President Trump won by 22 points. pic.twitter.com/hoD6nZNYY6 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 20, 2025   On Monday afternoon, Behn refused to tell CNN’s Kasie Hunt whether she still believes in defunding police:  Aftyn Behn refuses to denounce her defund the police comments ONCE AGAIN and refuses to say if she wants more money for cops in her district to help fight crime. BEHN: "Those past comments were at a time when I was a private citizen..." pic.twitter.com/OvtSN4eTTJ — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 1, 2025   Speaking of police, even MS NOW called her out in one recent interview for having celebrated a burning police station in the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots: Wow. Democrat Aftyn Behn appears to have been celebrating the burning of a police station back in 2020 and MSNBC actually called her on it. She wants to represent Tennessee but hates Nashville and wants to defund police. ?? No thanks @aftynfortn! pic.twitter.com/ncpR5dVLGJ — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 24, 2025   Along with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) having said Behn would back socialized, government-only health care, Behn herself has also said she would support Medicaid funding for illegal immigrants: Aftyn Behn says she would reinstate taxpayer funding for Medicaid for illegal immigrants that Republicans eliminated: BEHN: "What I would do in Congress is definitely restore Medicaid funding that was cut..." pic.twitter.com/sF6a7Wlgvg — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 2, 2025   While the district she’s running to represent is in the central part of the state, she’s smeared the eastern half, expressing relief she’s no longer living there because “I was always someone who wanted to get out of” there. Behn comes off as a white woman who became a little too woke in school, so it made sense she has branded sororities as “a staple of white supremacy.” No matter which sets of examples you choose (and we only included a small sampling), Behn has open, undisputed contempt for the state and voters she’s claiming to want to represent in Washington. And despite all that, CBS News decided to help meddle in the election by keeping that information from voters on its flagship morning show. To see the relevant CBS transcript from December 2, click here.

On November 19, investigative journalist and BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo, alongside reporter Ryan Thorpe, broke a story that went instantly viral, rapidly spreading across conservative media, social platforms, and mainstream outlets.Titled “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer,” the article peels back the layers and connects the dots of yearslong federal investigations into large-scale fraud involving members of Minnesota’s Somali-American community.“The basic story is this: Over the last 10 years, Minnesota's Somali community — it's about 100,000 people, mostly in Minneapolis, a neighborhood called Little Mogadishu for obvious reasons — has been, you know, conducting fraud at an eye-popping scale,” Rufo explained on a recent episode of “Rufo & Lomez.” “We're talking about billions of dollars ... that are getting sucked out of taxpayer programs, routed through various fake NGOs into the pockets of Somalis in Minnesota,” he added.According to Rufo’s reporting, a web of interconnected schemes, enabled by lax oversight under Gov. Tim Walz's administration and Minnesota's generous welfare system, allows these Somali immigrants to exploit various government programs, especially those intended to serve low-income and immigrant families, like Medicaid, child food programs, and food stamps/SNAP.While the feds have long known about these fraud schemes and have even been able to recover some of the funds and secure convictions, their investigations have been focused strictly on the theft and laundering.Rufo, however, was the first to ask the question: But where is the money going? His bombshell piece revealed the answer: Much of it is allegedly going back to Somalia, specifically into the hands of Al-Shabaab — a designated terrorist group.“The other kind of dirty secret of this story is that the Minnesota state government, the Democrats who are in charge, Tim Walz and others, have effectively turned a blind eye to this because they don't want to offend the Somalis. They don't want to earn the accusation of racism with the Somali activists who’re very, very ready and very eager to deploy, and they feel that they need the Somali vote in Minneapolis to win statewide,” Rufo told co-host Jonathan Keeperman.“So you have this cycle of corruption, payoffs, kickbacks, and political influence, and I hope that the story, which blows open this whole scheme, will have some impact.”Rufo’s wish is already coming true. Just two days after its publication, President Trump announced the revocation of Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota on Truth Social.Rufo also hopes, however, that his reporting will spark dialogue about immigration, American identity, and how the convergence of the two should determine who we allow into our country and how we expect them to live among us.He argues that the reigning progressive dogma when it comes to immigration — diversity is strength, all immigrants are the same, and assimilation is a byproduct of white supremacy — has opened the door for Somali clan corruption to colonize Minneapolis and build a billion-dollar fraud pipeline to fund Al-Shabaab.“When [immigrants] go through the Visa process, it doesn't magically evaporate their former culture,” says Rufo.“Look at dysfunction in Somalia. Look at corruption in Somalia. Look at how in Somalia money moves. Look at norms regarding theft. ... Now compare it to what's happening here [in Minnesota].”Today “the primary source of income for Somali-Americans in Minnesota and also the primary source of income for the Al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia appears to be fraudulently obtained United States taxpayer money,” he adds.Keeperman praises Rufo’s reporting as “super important.”He urges that “we need to be able to point to specific things to demonstrate the larger point about what Americanism is versus what it isn't and why it's important if we want to preserve America as it is — that we are bringing in people who will make America more like America and less like these other dysfunctional places they're coming from.”To learn more, check out Rufo’s original reporting here or watch the video above.Want more from Rufo & Lomez?To enjoy more of the news through the anthropological lens of Christopher Rufo and Lomez, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.