From the Trenches World Report
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An explosion that injured at least 29 people in New York City late Saturday appeared to be “an intentional act,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, as sources told Fox News a second device — a pressure cooker — was found four blocks away. Continue reading “Explosion That Injured at Least 29 an ‘Intentional Act,’ NYC Mayor Says”
Ford announced it will be hitting the road, taking its small-car production across the border to Mexico.
So, this had FOXBusiness.com thinking – what other companies have jumped ship, relocating their operations outside of the U.S.? The North American Free Trade Agreement, once thought to be a saving grace for the economy, instead offers access to cheaper labor elsewhere. Combine this with the U.S. corporate tax rate, one of the highest in the world, and you’ve got plenty of incentive for companies to abandon their U.S. bases.
Continue reading “Companies Saying Goodbye to the U.S.”
Two Fort Worth police officers who were shot while responding to a suicide call at a home Friday evening are expected to recover, the department says.
The call came in at about 8:30 p.m. from a home on the 3800 block of Wharton Drive. Continue reading “Two Fort Worth Officers Shot, Suspect Killed”
Before citizen-soldiers of the 48th Infantry Brigade deployed to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Georgia National Guard troops spent months training away from their families and day jobs as they prepared for war. Now a shrinking Army wants them able to get ready for combat sooner.
The brigade’s 4,200 soldiers are the first of 13 National Guard and Army Reserve units nationwide chosen to test a new role that pairs them with commanders on active-duty who will oversee their training. Continue reading “A shrinking Army aims to keep citizen-soldiers combat ready”
Why did the chicken cross the road? (a little humor)
DONALD TRUMP: We will build a big wall to keep the chickens from crossing
the road, and we will make the chickens pay for it.
JOHN KERRY: We will trust the chicken to tell us whether it crossed the
road or not. Continue reading “Politics of Chickenology”
College Fix – by Jennifer Kabbany
In an August welcome letter to the class of 2020, University of Chicago Dean of Students John Jay Ellison told the students not to expect safe spaces and trigger warnings, telling the freshmen they are entering college, not preschool.
The letter went viral and was heralded by many as a breath of fresh air against the tide of precious snowflakes and self-righteous social justice warriors that have a stronghold on campuses nationwide. Continue reading “U. of Chicago professors pen letter of their own — defending safe spaces and trigger warnings”
The Canada Department of Employment believed a boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his help.
An agent was sent to the fishing village of Burin to investigate the boat owner.
GOVT AGENT: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”. Continue reading “Fisherman”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly” has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year. Continue reading “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low”
Our tax dollars hard at work.
Imprisoned former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has learned that she will receive gender transition surgery, her lawyer told CNN, in what could make her the first US prison inmate to undergo such a procedure.
Manning, a transgender woman, was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks. Continue reading “Chelsea Manning will undergo gender transition surgery, lawyer says”
Trentonian – by Isaac Avilucea
TRENTON >> The teacher thought it was candy.
She was in for a rude awakening when she realized her 5-year-old kindergarten student had brought 30 packets of heroin to school Monday, officials said.
The 5-year-old boy, a student at the International Academy of Trenton on the 700 block of Bellevue Avenue, was playing with a white packet that his teacher thought was a candy wrapper, police spokesman Lt. Varn said. Continue reading “Trenton kindergarten student, 5, brings heroin to school”
CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey
With the additional $231,327,000,000 in taxes that the U.S. Treasury collected in August, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today, President Barack Obama has now presided over more than $20,000,000,000,000 in federal tax collections during the 91 full months he has served in the Oval Office.
From February 2009 through August 2016, the Treasury collected approximately $20,197,437,000,000 in tax revenues (in non-inflation-adjusted dollars), according to the Monthly Treasury Statements. Continue reading “Obama’s Tax Collections Surpass $20,000,000,000,000; Still Runs Up Debt by $8,878,290,996,028”
The Daily Caller – by Ethan Barton
More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa Kerry and officials from both agencies, records show. The Peace Corps then awarded the money without competition to a nonprofit Kerry created for the program. Continue reading “John Kerry’s State Department Funneled MILLIONS To His Daughter’s Nonprofit”
BOOTHBAY HARBOR (WGME) — A sign in Boothbay Harbor is raising some eyebrows. Seemingly a play on the Black Lives Matter slogan, it reads “Black Rifles Matter: Yes, we have ’em. No, you can’t take ’em.”
Some local businesses are worried the sign sends the wrong message and could make some tourists feel unwelcome. Continue reading “‘Black Rifles Matter’ sign causes controversy in Boothbay Harbor”
This is the uplifting moment a group of 400 students gathered outside their cancer-stricken teacher’s Tennessee home to sing songs of worship.
Students from Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville descended upon the home of beloved Latin teacher Ben Ellis. Continue reading “Truly uplifting moment 400 students gather outside their cancer-stricken teacher’s house to sing song of worship”
UPDATE:Birmingham police on Monday said four men and two women were shot in Gate City Sunday night – two of them with life-threatening injuries. Bobby Clayton, 20, died and the other remains hospitalized.
The preliminary investigation shows one of the victims is a teen who had a previous altercation with a black male seen driving a red Ford Mustang. Witnesses told police that both men started shooting at each other, and that it appeared the teen started shooting first. The person in the red Mustang recklessly returned fire, striking several people that were in the area including the victim. Continue reading “1 dead, 5 wounded in Birmingham shooting at Gate City public housing community”
Hillary Clinton had a “medical episode” that required her to leave a 9/11 commemoration ceremony early on Sunday, a law enforcement source who witnessed the event told Fox News.
The Democratic presidential nominee appeared to faint on her way into her van and had to be helped by her security, the source said. She was “clearly having some type of medical episode.” Continue reading “Hillary Clinton has ‘medical episode’ at 9/11 ceremony, source says”
All Gov – by Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
TOKYO (AP) — Several hundred American service personnel who say they became sick from radiation after participating in relief operations for the 2011 tsunami that set off the Fukushima nuclear disaster are now getting high-profile support in Japan.
Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister from 2001 to 2006, told reporters Wednesday he has set up a special fund to collect private donations for the former service members, with the goal of collecting $1 million (100 million yen) by the end of next March, mainly to help with medical bills. Continue reading “Former Japanese Leader Heads Fundraising Effort for Ailing U.S. Sailors Who Aided Fukushima Relief”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Insys Therapeutics, the company who makes insane profits from a drug behind one of the worst overdose epidemics in the nation’s history, fentanyl, has donated $500,000 to a campaign opposing marijuana legalization in the US state of Arizona.
In a glaring display of hypocrisy, the maker of the drug Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl spray, claims that marijuana is dangerous because it could hurt children. Continue reading “Maker of Deadly Drug 50 Times Stronger Than Heroin Spends $500K to Fight Legal Pot”