A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy was arrested on charges related to child pornography. Johnathan Allen, a deputy with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, was placed on administrative leave after a law enforcement agency in South Carolina relayed information about the charges. According to WCNC, Hamilton was arrested on “three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of criminal solicitation of a minor.” Tennessee sheriff’s deputy, Johnathan Allen, has been arrested for possessing images of children being sexually abused. pic.twitter.com/QM7jtJRlyY — ???? (@antifaoperative) December 5, 2024 Per WCNC: The investigation began in York County, with local authorities alerting Hamilton County law enforcement on Dec. 4. Tennessee deputies executed a search warrant Thursday morning, leading to Allen’s arrest. He was arrested in Hamilton County and booked in York County jail by Thursday night. He is being held with no bond pending a court hearing. “I am furious over the alleged actions of Allen and the disgusting nature of these charges,” Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett said in a statement. Allen has been placed on administrative leave pending a pre-disciplinary hearing. Allen joined the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office as a corrections deputy in September 2021 and recently graduated from basic law enforcement academy on Nov. 1. He was participating in field training at the time of his arrest, according to the sheriff. The York County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation. Officials have not released additional details about the case. A Hamilton County deputy was arrested on charges related to child pornography, according to the sheriff's office.https://t.co/jvntC3XR55 — Times Free Press (@TimesFreePress) December 5, 2024 Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Detectives Arrest Deputy In Joint Investigation For more information, please visit: https://t.co/URGxhzS0B5 pic.twitter.com/VfNJgiVMsk — Hamilton County Sheriff's Office – TN (@hcsotn) December 5, 2024 Chattanooga Times Free Press reports: He is the third Hamilton County deputy to be arrested in the past three months. In September, a jail deputy was fired after being charged with driving under the influence. Last month, another jail deputy was arrested and fired after he allegedly threatened a student at Cleveland State Community College, shutting down the campus.

King Charles’ Foundation has partnered with Arla and Nestle to provide Cravendale Milk and Shreddies for ‘breakfast clubs’ According to the King Charles III Chartible fund: Two of the UK’s biggest food manufacturers, Arla and [...] The post King Charles’ Link To Dairy Giant That Are Testing A Methane-Suppressing Feed For Cows appeared first on The People's Voice.

Following South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's disastrous effort to implement martial law this week, two U.S. sources told Reuters on Thursday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin no longer intends to visit South Korea.

President Joe Biden surprised attendees at the White House’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday night when he took off his stocking cap, displaying a wild new look, and appearing more like a character out of Charles Dickens’ yuletide classic "A Christmas Carol" than the commander-in-chief.

NBC News, speaking for Democrats, is upset that Donald Trump is acting like the president when he isn’t. Well, Joe isn’t either. Their article is clown world material. The author complains that President-Elect Trump is speaking as if he is president. He demanded the hostages be released, he threatened tariffs, he teased Prime Minister Trudeau, […] The post NBC Upset Trump Acts Like a President, Crowding out Joe appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Comedian Bill Murray insists that the sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” is still funny, despite many viewers voicing their disagreement lately. The “Ghostbusters” star, once a regular on the show, discussed his thoughts on a recent episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast. “People always give me a hard time about, ‘Oh, the original show was so great and it’s lousy now,’” Murray said, per Variety. “And I say, ‘No, it’s not.’ The show that’s on now, they do stuff that’s just as good as anybody ever did, all the time.” The actor also said he would “certainly” come back to help celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary next year, the outlet noted. “I told ‘em I’d like to host one this year. So maybe if I get organized,” said Murray. “I think I did it two other times when I was there. I’d like to try it one more time. It might be the last time to try it.” The “What About Bob?” actor also revealed who he thought the best host of the show was. “There’s only one that stands above all others,” Murray said. “It was Ray Charles. [He] completely buries every other entertainer I’ve ever met or worked with or read about.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE He went on, “Ray Charles knew all his lines cold. Ray Charles came in and played solo, he played with The Raelettes, he played with his scepter and he played with the ‘Saturday Night Live’ orchestra. And he may have played with his quintet as well. And he killed and murdered every single one of [his performances].” “At the end of that show, they play that song and saxophones playing and you’re like ‘Hey man I had a great week,’” Murray said. “You’re up there on the stage and you’re waving at people—I did not want to stand on that stage. I had no business being on that stage with Ray Charles.” The show debuted in 1975 and has helped launch the careers of dozens of comedians. During the lead-up to the 2024 election, “SNL” was criticized for making jokes about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.  The show also scheduled Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for a last-minute appearance the weekend before the election, which backfired when NBC was forced to give Trump equal airtime after a Sunday night football game.  Sunday Night Football regularly attracts more than 20 million viewers, while the ratings show that “SNL” recently attracted 5.6 million viewers for its season premiere.

In previous articles, we looked closely at two of the three main pillars to President-elect Trump’s supply-side economic growth agenda: Increasing energy production and cutting taxes. Now for the third and final pillar, regulatory reform. As anyone who’s ever taken a decent Principles of Economics course knows, prices are determined by the “market forces” of supply and demand. Demand represents consumers’ preferences over various goods, while supply represents the “costs of production” businesses face in producing those goods. Economic growth happens over time when forces begin to shift the supply curve to the right. I hammer this point home with my students and make them repeat the slogan, “The recipe for economic growth is to push the supply curve to the right.” Government regulations imposed on businesses and their products, however, act just like taxes in that they raise the cost of production, pushing the supply curve for any given product “up and to the left,” which raises price and reduces quantity. Likewise, government actions that ease or remove those regulations have the opposite effect, pushing supply curves “down and to the right,” reducing price, raising quantity, and increasing economic growth. Supply-side economists like Art Laffer tout the benefits of Trump’s big 2017 tax cut package, and certainly those tax cuts paid off handsomely in Trump’s first term economy (pre-Covid). Renewed tax cuts will have a similar effect in Trump’s second term. But according to Trump himself, business leaders told him repeatedly that his regulatory reforms were an even more powerful tool for boosting productivity and growth. Deregulation Regulations are like taxes in that they impose costs on businesses, but burdensome regulations are worse than taxes because in most cases the people get little to nothing in return. At least with taxes the government gets revenue that it can ostensibly use for infrastructure, defense, and other public goods. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual report on the federal regulatory burden, “Ten Thousand Commandments,” as of 2024, federal regulations impose costs north of $2.1 trillion on the U.S. economy. Government paperwork takes up 10.34 billion hours of work time, and the government’s regulation log — the federal register — checks in at well over 89,000 pages, very close to its all-time high at the end of the Obama years. Regulations are like barnacles on a ship: each one is small, seemingly insignificant, and invisible to the casual observer. Over time, however, regulations accumulate and greatly impair the ship’s hydrodynamic efficiency. It’s well past time to give the hull of this economy a massive scrubbing. Trump’s first term featured a big push to reduce the regulatory burden on U.S. businesses. He famously targeted a 2:1 regulatory reform ratio — for every new rule enacted, two existing regs would be eliminated. This valiant effort bore some fruit. Trump had a few notable deregulation successes early in his first term. Many of these were simply Congressional vetoes of impending Obama-era regulation, but Trump also made strides in streamlining the permitting process for infrastructure projects. Trump’s efforts pushed the federal register to a modern low of 61,308 pages, and Trump’s first term saw far fewer new regulatory measures as compared with recent administrations. Ultimately, Trump’s first-term deregulatory program was a mixed bag, as many deregulation efforts were stymied by “deep state” resistance or held up in the courts. Trump knows the power of deregulation and has pledged to boost the regulatory reform ratio to 10:1 in the second term — axing ten rules for each new one adopted. This is ambitious to be sure, but much can be done by simply peeling off regulations that were piled on by the Biden administration. The incoming Trump administration has already taken concrete steps to sharpen their focus on government regulation reform and addressing waste with the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Congress will also play a big role in this process, as will Trump’s solid deregulation-minded cabinet picks like Lee Zeldin (EPA), Chris Wright (Energy), and Doug Burgum (Interior). These men know their economics and are fully aware that burdensome regulations stifle economic growth like nothing else. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Deregulatory efforts in the second Trump Administration will also be hugely abetted by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling repealing so-called “Chevron deference” which will significantly pare back government agencies’ rule-making powers and really grease the skids for deregulation. Tax cuts, regulatory easing, and booming energy production — each of these policy levers has, by itself, the potential to restore strong growth in output, jobs, and personal incomes. If president Trump’s next administration can hit the supply-side trifecta, he will almost certainly be able to deliver on J.D. Vance’s promise of the “greatest economic comeback in American history.” Donald Trump may well go down in history as the leader who made “supply side economics” a household word and showed us all the wonderful possibilities when policymakers who understand basic economics have the guts to ignore the tut-tutting experts and wreck the uniparty consensus that tolerates economic stagnation. Full speed ahead with the supply-side reform package. We should do everything we can to help Donald Trump push supply curves to the right and Make America (economically) Great Again. * * * RELATED: Supply-Side Trumponomics, Part One: ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ RELATED: Supply-Side Trumponomics, Part Two: Tax Cuts * * * Tyler Watts is a professor of economics at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.