From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
A single billionaire provided the lion’s share of the money to the main Republican super-PAC set up to destroy Donald Trump.
Marlene Ricketts, the matriarch of the Ricketts family that owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team, contributed $3 million to the anti-Trump super-PAC “Our Principles PAC,” which is being run by former Mitt Romney adviser Katie Packer. Continue reading “Secret anti-Trump donor revealed”
Daily Signal – by Philip Wegmann
A Supreme Court justice nominee appointed by President Barack Obama could do much to shift the ideological weight of a bench split now evenly among justices nominated by Republican and Democrat presidents.
In particular, the new justice could provide the deciding vote to overturn the District of Columbia v. Heller decision. In that landmark case, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment protects the individual’s right to possess and own a firearm. Continue reading “Four Pro-Gun Senate Dems Silent on Whether They’ll Vote for Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee”
New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade
The legally verified text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released on 26 January 2016 and can be accessed by chapter below. (This supersedes the version of the TPP text that was initially released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015.) The French and Spanish language versions of the Agreement were released on this website on 2 February 2016. Continue reading “Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership”
Vox – by Dara Lind and Jeff Stein
The Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago has agreed to hear a lawsuit on Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility for president — virtually ensuring that the issue dominates the news in the runup to the South Carolina primary.
Cruz was born in Canada to a US citizen mother and a noncitizen father. The Constitution requires presidents be “natural-born citizens,” but what exactly that requires hasn’t been settled in court. Continue reading “Bad news for Ted Cruz: his eligibility for president is going to court”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he believes President Obama will name a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in “a little over” three weeks.
The Senate Democratic leader said he spoke to Obama on Thursday, and that he takes a “very, very personal” interest in the choice of a possible successor to Scalia. Continue reading “Reid believes Obama to name replacement for Scalia in ‘a little over’ 3 weeks”
Ted Nugent apologized for re-posting a graphic with a message about gun control that was labeled “anti-Semitic” in media reports.
Nugent’s Feb. 8 Facebook post features Israeli flags on a collage of the faces of 12 prominent Jewish Americans, and asks, “So who is really behind gun control?”
Ten days later, his assistant sent a statement to MLive, attributed to Nugent: Continue reading “Ted Nugent apologizes for ‘nasty and offensive’ gun control post”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
While speaking with supporters at a campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said if he is elected “you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.”
“It wasn’t the Iraqis,” Trump said. Continue reading “Trump: If Elected ‘You Will Find Out Who Really Knocked Down The World Trade Center’”
KANSAS CITY, MO Retired union workers facing large pension cuts gathered to voice their anger at those cuts Tuesday.
Representative Emanuel Cleaver conducted the town hall meeting.
According to Cleaver, more than 270,000 people from across several states, including Missouri, who have vested millions of dollars into their pension funds, have been told their benefits from the Central States Pension Fund would be drastically cut, some as much as by 60 percent. Continue reading “270,000 truckers told their pensions will be cut up to 60%”
The Guardian – by Lois Beckett
When the supreme court ruled in 2008 that the second amendment gives Americans an individual right to own a firearm, it was Justice Antonin Scalia who wrote the historic and controversial majority opinion. The decision in that District of Columbia v Heller case, which struck down a local handgun ban, was 5-4. Continue reading “Antonin Scalia’s death calls supreme court gun rights stance into question”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on federal criminal charges against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy (all times local):
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A federal judge says Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy should stay behind bars because he’s a danger to the community and a risk for failing to show up for future court dates. Continue reading “Rancher Cliven Bundy to stay behind bars”
Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter
Heavy metals can do significant damage to the body. Historically, they’ve been used as “an instrument of murder” (in the case of arsenic) and instruments of war. But most people who are exposed to heavy metals in today’s times are through their food, water, vaccines, or the air around them. The good news is that there are natural ways to chelate heavy metals from your body. Continue reading “6 Foods For Natural Heavy Metal Chelation”
The Hill – by Cory Bennett and Julian Hattem
Republicans are refusing to use the Benghazi playbook to go after Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Instead of launching formal investigations or propping up a new special committee to investigate the emails — as they did with the 2012 Libya terror attack — House Republicans have gone out of their way to avoid formal inquiries into allegations that classified information was mishandled on Clinton’s personal machine. Continue reading “Republicans stand down for FBI investigation of Clinton server”
We are the Mighty – by Orvelin Valle
The highest rate of fire for a machine gun in service is the M134 Minigun. The weapon was designed in the late 1960s for helicopters and armored vehicles. It fires 7.62 mm calibre rounds at a blistering rate of 6,000 rounds per minute, or 100 rounds per second — about ten times that of an ordinary machine gun, according to the Guinness World Records. Continue reading “The Metal Storm gun can fire at 1 million rounds per minute”