Paul Cantrell — a vicious, corrupt Democrat of the Huey Long style — had been elected the sheriff of McMinn County, Tennessee in 1936, 1938 and 1940, all through good old-fashioned voter fraud. He’d left the office of sheriff to serve in the Tennessee state senate for two years, putting Pat Mansfield, one of his associates, in his stead.

However, by 1946, Cantrell decided he wanted the sinecure back.

Veterans of World War II returning to McMinn County, meanwhile, had ideas of their own. They decided to run Knox Henry, a former GI, as a candidate to clean up county government. Other GIs ran against Cantrell’s political machine in an Aug. 1 primary election.

In the 1940s South, winning the Democrat nomination was tantamount to winning the election, so the stakes were high. Cantrell knew this, so he sent out 200 deputized “poll watchers” to beat anyone who tried to interrupt the…

But there is a reason she wants the funding and there is an even better reason that the funding is banned. The 1996 ban on the CDC “researching” gun violence came about because at its core, the CDC is staffed by partisan Democrats. Their first mode of attack is to declare something to be a “public health” threat and then they go about trying to legislate and regulate their way forward. For instance, obesity is a health risk factor. Depending upon your genetics obesity may or may not be an important consideration. In 1998, CDC led the effort to redefine the BMI for “overweight” from 27.8 to 25. Literally, overnight 29 million Americans went from a healthy weight to overweight. This change was a boon for CDC, it got a lot more money to research the “obesity epidemic”, and for Pharma, which wants to find a pill to fix weight…