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Country music star Chris Stapleton marked Friday night by winning his first Entertainer of the Year award from the Academy of Country Music. And when the show was over, he was just another working man. After the annual academy awards show was over, Stapleton was photographed doing a little cleanup. According to Billboard, the unscripted moment at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, came as Stapleton and his entourage were leaving the main room at the center. And so, still wearing the jacket and jeans that were his show clothing, Stapleton grabbed a leaf blower to deal...

A new report in The New York Times says the spring and summer have brought an autumnal chill to the relationship between Fox News and former President Donald Trump. The Friday report noted that it had been more than 100 days since Trump was interviewed on Fox News, which during Trump’s presidency became his go-to network for getting his side of an issue out to the public. The report noted that on April 13, Trump did a phone interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity in which he listed a number of problems facing the nation, adding that they would...

Police have learned that 17 gangs have honed in on the wealthiest residents of the Los Angeles area by robbing them after they leave venues catering to the rich and famous. Police said the robberies are often carried out by crews working from multiple vehicles and that the high-end handbags, watches and other items are then sold regionally on a thriving black market, according to the Los Angeles Times. Violence towards victims is becoming a hallmark of the crimes, said Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who leads a Los Angeles Police Department task force formed as the number of high-end violent robberies...

An eight-year-old Florida girl is making the system bend to her will as she defies the Palm Beach County School Board's mask mandate. So far, she has been suspended 38 times for failing to do as the adults tell her. “I was really shocked by it,” said Bailey Lashell, Fiona’s mother, according to WTEN-TV. “I couldn’t believe it was all over not complying with the mask mandate.” “It is not fair that I'm getting punished because you guys, the school board, are not following the law,” she said. “I’m still going to stand up for what I believe in.” “I...

The Illinois county that's home to Chicago is going to make legal gun owners pay for the crimes of illegal gun owners, regardless of what any court might say. Cook County slapped a tax on guns in 2012 and added ammunition to the tax in 2015, according to Fox News. The tax was $25 per gun, with centerfire ammunition taxed at 5 cents per round and rimfire ammo at one cent per round, according to Fox. An Oct. 21 Illinois Supreme Court ruling, written by Justice Mary Jane Theis, found the tax was unconstitutional and a violation of the Second...

Archaeologists with the University of Cincinnati have discovered two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient Greece. The UC archaeologists announced the discovery Tuesday in Greece. Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, archaeologists in UC's classics department, found the two beehive-shaped tombs in Pylos, Greece, last year while investigating the area around the grave of an individual they have called the "Griffin Warrior," a Greek man whose final resting place they discovered nearby in 2015. Like the Griffin Warrior's tomb, the princely tombs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea also...

Look, I understand that people have problems with TPA/TPP. Fine. I’m not here to change people’s minds; I make rhetorical weapons for other people to use. That’s what I am reasonably good at, and I let other people be the silver-tongued devils that go out and convert folks. However: please do not be stupid. And ‘stupid,’ in this context, very much includes ‘willing to let people manipulate your opinion without looking them up first.’ A leading voice against a pending Asian free trade agreement is tailoring his message to the country’s grassroots conservatives, but until recently he described himself as...

As of this writing, Democrat Kathy Hochul leads Republican Jane Corwin and Democrat-turned-"tea party" candidate Jack Davis with 47.1 percent of the vote to 42.5 percent and 9.2 percent, respectively. New York's 26th Congressional District leans Republican, and so the party spin machines are already in overdrive trying to explain meaning of the election. Democrats (many of whom were adamant just six months ago that elections were about the economy and not policy positions) are claiming that this represents a massive upset victory in a district that John McCain won by six points, and that the race had become a...

Jack Davis: Counterfeit Tea PartierDon't get fooled by his ballot line. ‘Jack Davis is a total fake,” says Levi Russell, communications director of Tea Party Express. “He is a liberal Democrat who endorsed President Obama, supports cap-and-trade, and has given thousands of dollars to big-government liberals. Jack Davis is no more ‘Tea Party’ than Barack Obama is!” The man who speaks for one of America’s chief Tea Party groups does not mince words about the 78-year-old congressional candidate. And why should he? Davis, who is running in Tuesday’s special election in upstate New York’s 26th district, has turned that contest upside down. He finagled...

n the special congressional election in western New York, a "Tea Party" candidate named Jack Davis is on the ballot. He is polling in the low 20s, and could cost Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, a mainstream conservative, the election.

The Tea Party Express went on the attack Monday against third-party candidate Jack Davis in the special election for ex-Rep. Chris Lee's (R-N.Y.) House seat. Leaders of the group were in Rochester to endorse Republican Jane Corwin in a tight three-way race against Democrat Kathy Hochul and Davis, who's running under the "Tea Party" banner. At a morning event in the district, Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer labeled Davis "a phony." "Jack Davis is no more 'Tea Party' than Barack Obama," Kremer said, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. National Republicans and conservative activists have their sights set...

NY-26 special election may not be in the forefront of conservative minds, but the race has serious national implications: "A win by the Democrat in this Republican district -- even if created by a phony Tea Party candidate siphoning off votes from the Republican-- will be spun as a major victory for Obama.  You will hear nothing but how it signals Obama's turnaround, how it reflects Obama's new found popularity after the bin Laden kill, and how it signals unhappiness with Republicans.  You will not hear a word in the MSM about the fact that Davis is not a real...

New York’s special election in district 26 is proving to be a statement on the power of the Tea Party brand. One of the candidate’s running to replace republican Chris Lee of Craigslist fame used a quirk in New York election law to place himself on the ballot as a Tea Party candidate. (Think Jimmy McMillan and “Rent is too Damn High Party”) Jack Davis after losing the Democratic nomination gathered 8,500 more signatures than the required 3,500 to be on a Tea Party line of May 24ths ballot.

The NRCC continues its efforts to remind voters in New York’s 26th congressional district that self-proclaimed “Tea Party” candidate Jack Davis is a three-time Democratic U.S. House candidate who endorsed Obama and cheered on Nancy Pelosi’s majority in the House. VIDEO Meanwhile, American Crossroads takes a look at Davis’s record as a candidate and a businessman: VIDEO The special election in this district is May 24.

Britain's oldest surviving First World War veteran died yesterday aged 108. Jack Davis, who served with the 6th Battalion Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry, "just peacefully drifted away" at a nursing home in Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, at 11.15am, said his son, Ken. He only escaped the battle of the Somme in 1916 because he contracted trench fever. But the horrors of the trenches remained with Mr Davis throughout his life, his son said, adding: "He always expressed the opinion of how futile war can be. He used to say, 'So many soldiers go to their deaths in a war, and...