From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Responsible Statecraft – by William Hartung
Sometimes more is less. So it is with the House and Senate’s compromise version of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was made public this week and was passed by the House on Thursday. Continue reading “New spending bill squanders billions on dysfunctional weapons programs”
President Joe Biden Thursday announced a $36 billion bail-out of financially troubled pension plans covering some 350,000 union members, including many truck drivers. Continue reading “$36 Billion Biden Bail-Out Rescues Pensions Of Truckers And Other Union Workers”
A string of attacks on power facilities in Oregon and Washington has caused alarm and highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US electric grid. Continue reading “Attacks on Pacific north-west power stations raise fears for US electric grid”
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2023 contains a section explaining a trial run for “safe storage” requirements for personal firearms. Continue reading “NDAA 2023 Contains ‘Safe Storage of Personally Owned Firearms’ Experiment”
The Department of Energy under President Joe Biden is touting a $200 million grant it gave to a lithium battery company that would help the United States grow its domestic sources of green energy, even though it “primarily” operates in China, according to a report. Continue reading “Report: Biden Energy Department Touts $200M Grant to Battery Company Primarily Operating in China”
A new, strict gun law in Oregon remains on hold after the state’s high court said it would not grant an emergency motion to overturn a lower court’s ruling. Continue reading “Oregon Supreme Court leaves in place order blocking strict new gun law”
The White House is supporting a bill that would spend roughly $29 million to exclude more Americans from white-collar jobs and also reduce job-creating investment in heartland states. Continue reading “White House Backs White-Collar Replacement Bill”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A ruling by a state court judge placed Oregon’s tough new voter-approved gun law on hold late Tuesday, just hours after a federal court judge allowed the ban on the sale and transfer of high-capacity magazines to take effect this week. Continue reading “State judge places hold on Oregon’s gun law, state to appeal”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is set to destroy firearms associated with the Obama-era Operation Fast and Furious scandal, sparking a rebuke from the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. Continue reading “ATF set to destroy guns associated with Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal”
Federal immigration policy is all about the labor needs of business, says President Joe Biden’s labor secretary.
“The issue of immigration is how do we make sure that companies and businesses have the opportunity to employ people,” secretary Marty Walsh told Fox Business on Friday. Continue reading “Biden’s Labor Chief: Immigration Is About Importing Workers for Business”
Firearm enthusiasts in Oregon are flocking to gun stores as they wait to find out whether a federal judge will delay the start of a strict permit-to-purchase law before Thursday’s deadline. Continue reading “Firearm sales explode as Oregon awaits judge’s decision on gun control law”
(Reuters) -Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent company of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion for spreading lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. Continue reading “Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1 billion Sandy Hook verdict”
The city of Raleigh released a small portion of police officers’ body camera video Thursday showing the confrontation between police and the suspect in the mass shooting in the Hedingham neighborhood in October. Continue reading “‘Officer down’: Raleigh police release video of confrontation with mass shooting suspect”
SAN FRANCISCO — When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that would punish California doctors for spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, he pledged that it would apply only in the most “egregious instances” of misleading patients. Continue reading “Is Spreading Medical Misinformation a Doctor’s Free Speech Right?”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement. Continue reading “San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill”
Cars have always been a minefield when it comes to privacy rights verses public safety, and now, two important questions are finally in front of a U.S. circuit court: Is live streaming protected in the same way as recording, and does the passenger in a stopped car have a First Amendment right to record or broadcast a stop? Continue reading “Federal Court to Rule on Passengers Live Streaming Police During Traffic Stops”
An assistant district attorney in Stillwater, Oklahoma, has been arrested after allegedly being caught possessing child pornography.
Kevin Etherington, the 53-year-old first assistant district attorney of Logan and Payne Counties, was arrested this week on one count of aggravated possession of child pornography and one count of violation of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act, according to KOKH-TV. Continue reading “Oklahoma assistant DA arrested on child porn charges, fired from job”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., threw cold water on President Biden’s hopes to pass an assault weapons ban during the lame duck Congress on Sunday. Continue reading “Sen. Chris Murphy pops Biden’s hopes for assault weapons ban, says the votes aren’t there”
Protesters thronged the streets of cities across China over the weekend – defying a brutal crackdown from the Communist regime – to demand an end to coronavirus lockdowns and the resignation of dictator Xi Jinping. Continue reading “China: Years of Lockdown Abuses Trigger Anti-Communist Protests Nationwide”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gun rights group, sheriff and gun store owner filed an emergency motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking to stop enforcement of one of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Continue reading “Group files emergency motion to stop Oregon gun control law”