[Blaze] Why the FBI BATTLED Tennessee media over Covenant School shooter’s manifesto
The Covenant School shooter’s manifesto has finally been released by the Tennessee Star — but it didn’t happen without a fight.
“We’re just a journalistic organization seeking documents which the public has a right to see, and at every level, the local government has obstructed those desires, as has the FBI,” Tennessee Star CEO Michael Patrick Leahy tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”
“In fact, the Metro National Police Department has claimed for well over a year that the investigation is ongoing. They claimed in court in March it would be over by the end of June. Well, here we are, the beginning of September, they’re still claiming it,” he explains.
“It’s basically a stalling tactic because they don’t want this information out,” he adds.
In 2023, Leahy was hauled into court on June 17 by the presiding judge in the state case to explain why “she shouldn’t hit me with contempt of court charges.”
“She claimed that perhaps there was a court order that she’d issued that I violated. There was no such order,” Leahy explains. “It was Kafka-esque, right here in America.”
Leahy didn’t give up, as he believes it’s incredibly important for Americans to understand the motive behind a shooting like this, and Savage also notes that "the shooter's writings shed light on her poor mental health leading up to the shooting."
“This is a matter of public interest,” he says. “What is the motivation behind these mass murders committed by very troubled people, and what’s the public policy solution to it? I think that’s a very important part of the discussion.”
“We believe that we have served the public interest by demonstrating the very confused state of mind that Audrey Hale had and the absolute total failure of the mental health system to treat her for her difficulties,” he continues, noting that Hale had been under psychiatric care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for 22 years.
“She was also taking very, very strong SSRI drugs since 2019. Those will have an impact on a person, and I think that really, the whole public discussion about this has been misdirected. They try to make it about gun control.”
The issue isn’t the weapon a person uses but why the person picks up the weapon in the first place.
“The real issue here is how our children are suffering from mental illness and not being treated properly and how they’re being overprescribed with psychiatric drugs,” Leahy says.
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The moment everyone has been waiting for has almost arrived, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris set to debate each other tomorrow night. While it's commonplace for political candidates to make specific demands before participating in a debate, Kamala's list of demands has not been revealed — until now.
The Babylon Bee has exclusively obtained the following list of demands made by the Harris campaign prior to tomorrow's debate:
* Only questions about what kind of spices she uses when cooking: This is the type of thing Americans want to hear.
* Moderators must respond to all of Kamala's answers with "you KNOW das right" or "guuuuuurl, say it!": Conversely, all of Trump's answers must be met with boos and hisses.
* The debate is to be held 3 hours before air time and edited down to her best 7 minutes: It's standard practice with all Kamala Harris public appearances.
* She will be awarded extra points for each accent she uses: Being multi-lingual should have its advantages.
* Trump will be docked speaking time for being white and male: Plus, he's wealthy, so he's lucky to even be allowed to speak at all.
* Jamaal Bowman must be stationed by the fire alarm: Just in case things aren't going Kamala's way.
* She must be given the opportunity to sleep with the moderator the night before: Kamala always has to have her secret weapon up her sleeve.
While Kamala drives a hard bargain, it's plain to see that the viewing public is in for quite a treat tomorrow night — especially once everything Trump says is edited out.
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She will be awarded extra points for each accent she uses
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At the second first presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris will claim she capped prescription drug costs so that she can say she took on big drug companies. Sure enough, ahead of her debate, Harris released a new list of policies on her campaign website. She claims: “Just as she did as Vice President, she will take on Big Pharma to lower drug prices.”
But what she’s not telling you is that her policies and one consequential vote is making seniors’ wallets weep.
As vice president, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote that’s now making seniors’ Medicare Part D premiums skyrocket faster than a SpaceX rocket. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) might as well be renamed the “Inflation of Medicare Premiums Act.” The IRA or IMPA has increased seniors’ Medicare Part D premiums by more than 20 percent this year and will increase their premiums by more than 50 percent next year. And it could be even higher—some say double.
And to hide the premium hikes on seniors right before the election, the Biden-Harris administration is bailing out Part D insurers with billions in taxpayer dollars from the Medicare trust fund.
But wait, there’s more! This act didn’t just tweak the numbers; it created a new $3 billion bureaucracy so big that it could probably be seen from space. This isn’t just about higher premiums; it’s about government bureaucrats playing doctor, deciding what medicines are covered for your ailments.
And if you thought that was the limit of this legislative misadventure, think again. They’ve siphoned off $300 billion from Medicare, not for your grandparents’ heart medication, but for EV subsidies and health care for illegal immigrants. Kamala Harris must believe electric cars and illegal immigrants’ health are more important than your grandparents’ health.
Harris might claim she’s fighting for you, but her policies? They’re fighting seniors’ bank accounts. Trump has a plan to make healthcare great again, not just for the elite, but for every American senior.
Trump will dismantle the giant healthcare bureaucracy created by this administration and kick out the government bureaucrats that Kamala Harris put in charge of deciding what kind of health care you can have.
He’ll implement the Trump Rebate Rule, which cuts out the middlemen and says that all price discounts negotiated between drug and insurance companies will only go to patients and seniors. In plain English, that means your drug discounts go to you, not some insurance exec’s bonus or some EV made in China.
So, as we gear up for tonight’s debate, remember, it’s not just about who can demagogue on drug prices louder. Here’s hoping for a healthcare comeback that doesn’t require grandma and grandpa to take out a new reverse mortgage. It’s about who’s got your back when it comes to those healthcare bills and can make American health care great again.
[RealClearDefense] Many consider the Convair B-58 Hustler, the world’s first Mach two bomber, to have been a highly problematic aircraft in the 1950s. It was an extremely expensive aircraft, and its reported lack of range, along with safety concerns, combined with General Curtis Lemay’s opposition to the whole concept, helped force the USAF brass to retire the aircraft very early in its career. That is the conventional thinking expressed in Kenneth P. Werrell’s 2024 book, Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes and Failures, 1940-1990. Werrell quotes an Air Force historian named John Greenwood, who provides a quick summation of the case against the aircraft: “‘The B-58, although the holder of numerous world speed records, was severely restricted in its usefulness and lifetime. Designed for supersonic, high altitude penetration, the B-58 was limited in range, payload, and growth potential for the addition of advanced radar and other electronic equipment. The decision to phase out the B-58 was an easy one.’” (p.146)
The B-58 was retired in 1970, and for many, it is a forgotten aircraft, never fully appreciated in its time. Military minds are often not receptive to radical innovative ideas, like a supersonic bomber was in that era, and stubbornness animated the USAF generals to get rid of this aircraft before it had a real chance to prove its worth. Status quo or conservative thinking may have its place in many arenas, but the military really should not be one of them for they are in the business of protecting democracy, and innovation in weapons design and doctrine can make a significant difference in combat.
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...FWIW, one story I heard on several occasions is that the -58 was simply too expensive and demanding to operate as the escalating costs of Vietnam started to pile up. When it worked it worked very well - but it was maintenance-intense, and couldn't be adapted to Vietnam operations. (Not that they didn't try; there was an attempt to use -58s as a bombing pathfinder but the plan was scuttled before tests were run, mainly because DOD was terrified of losing a -58 in combat.)
Robert MacNamara without question took advantage of this; he wanted the -58s gone and PDQ at that and wasn't going to let the USAF try and delay it. So he made USAF a deal - retire the -58 and they would get two wings worth of a dedicated medium bomber version of the TFX. This is what became the FB-111, which was actually everything the -58 was never quite able to become. It had its own issues, but it served long and well.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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