From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
An illegal Mexican immigrant who has been deported from the U.S. no less than four times was arrested in Texas after he threatened to kill a neighbor and was found with a loaded gun in his truck.
Omar Garcia-Vasquez, 44, was arrested on Tuesday in McLean, just east of Amarillo. A sheriff’s deputy responded to a 911 call about “a man with a gun,”the Amarillo Globe-News reported. Continue reading “Illegal Alien Deported FOUR TIMES Is Arrested In Texas After Threatening A Family”
Last spring, designer Adam Harvey hosted a session on hair and makeup techniques for attendees of the 2015 FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, England. Rather than sharing innovative ways to bring out the audience’s eyes, Harvey’s CV Dazzle Anon introduced a series of styling methods designed with almost the exact opposite aim of traditional beauty tricks: to turn your face into an anti-face—one that cameras, particularly those of the surveillance variety, will not only fail to love, but fail to recognize. Continue reading “Clothes and Gadgets Block Face Recognition Technology, Confuse Drones and Make You (Digitally) Invisible”
What! You mean to tell me you don’t use Dial or Zest to get clean?
You use HANDMADE SOAP?????
But how will you get your daily dose of cancer-causing parabens? Your hormone-disrupting substances? Continue reading “Congress Wants to Put Artisanal Soap Makers Out of Business for Your Safety”
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The Examiner – by Nancy Swanson
Today a class action lawsuit (Case No: BC 578 942) was filed in Los Angeles County, California against the Monsanto corporation. The suit alleges that Monsanto is guilty of false advertising by claiming that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, targets an enzyme only found in plants and not in humans or animals. Monsanto makes this claim to support the contention that glyphosate is harmless to humans. Continue reading “Monsanto sued in Los Angeles County for false advertising”
Home of restrictive gun laws. Liberal enclaves like Los Angelos and Hollywood. That terrible, four-year drought. Feinstein and Pelosi.
Not great qualities for a state, I have to admit.
I can’t tell you how many times people have blithely suggested that I move. Or that they hold close the fervent wish that our state should break off with the next earthquake and fall into the ocean. Or that they lump every single Californian in with the Obama-loving, gum-chewing, impractical folks that are always the ones representing us on TV. Continue reading “In Defense of California: Stop Wishing We’d Fall into the Ocean and Die”
My three kids are sarcastic and irreverent. This isn’t a shock to anyone who knows me. Their mouthiness can be irritating, but usually I manage to remember that I don’t set much of an example of rhetorical decorum.
Maybe I should start giving the same consideration to other people’s kids.
For some time I’ve been mean to university students who feel entitled to a “safe space” — by which they seem to mean a space where they are insulated from ideas they don’t like. Continue reading ““Safe Spaces” And The Mote In America’s Eye”
A Sixteen-year-old Palestinian armed with a large knife was shot dead by Israeli troops in eastern Jerusalem. Israeli police said he tried to attack border patrol officers near a checkpoint.
The police statement said that the Palestinian youth began running towards the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officers wielding a knife. One of the officers pushed him away and teenager started to sprint towards the crossing. Continue reading “Israeli soldiers kill 16yo Palestinian wielding butcher’s knife”
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing at least 906 people across a swath of four countries as the violently shaking earth collapsed houses, leveled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches on Mt. Everest. It was the worst tremor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years.
At least 876 people were confirmed dead in Nepal, according to the police. Another 20 were killed in India, six in Tibet and two in Bangladesh. Two Chinese citizens died at the Nepal-China border. The death toll is almost certain to rise, said deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam. Continue reading “Nepal quake: Hundreds dead, history crumbled, Everest shaken”
Huffington Post – by Roque Planas
Three immigrant women who say they were punished for joining a hunger strike in a Texas family detention center on Thursday sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and GEO Group, the company that operates the facility.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court against ICE Director Sarah Saldaña and personnel at the Karnes County Residential Center, seeks to prohibit ICE and GEO from putting women and their children in isolation as punishment for protesting, and from threatening to separate mothers from their children. Continue reading “Private Prison Company Sued For Allegedly Putting Hunger-Striking Moms In Solitary Confinement”
Huffington Post – by Mariah Stewart
KINLOCH, Mo. — Just minutes away from Ferguson, its now-famous neighbor, is Kinloch, the first well-established African-American community in St. Louis County. Kinloch was once a flourishing town with some 10,000 residents.
Today, the population is less than 300. They elected a new mayor earlier this month: Betty McCray, 64, a seven-year veteran of the Kinloch Board of Aldermen. She won with 76 percent of the vote — that is, 63 votes. Continue reading “Newly Elected Mayor Locked Out Of City Hall In Struggling St. Louis County Town”
Hickory Record – by Frank Bumb
HICKORY, N.C. – State legislators for Catawba County want the federal government to keep their hands off North Carolina residents’ guns.
State Reps. Jay Adams (R-District 96) and Mitchell Setzer (R-District 89) are the primary sponsors behind House Bill 886 (HB886), the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
The bill prevents any enforcement of a federal law that “infringes on a law-abiding citizen’s right to keep and bear arms.”
Continue reading “Taking aim: Catawba County legislators fire shots at federal gun laws”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, JD
Fresh on the heels of its effort to thwart federal attempts to disarm civilians, the North Carolina legislature is trying to arrest the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) larceny of liberty, as well.
Senate Bill 303 would permit North Carolina to refuse to enforce recently promulgated EPA regulations restricting the use of wood-burning stoves for heat. Continue reading “North Carolina Senate Passed Bill Nullifying EPA Regulations on Wood-burning Stoves”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There was big news at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Friday night.
As CBS2’s Lou Young reported, Rabbi Arthur Schneier sound out that he is about to be made a Knight of the Roman Catholic Church.
The rabbi knight will be part of one of the same orders that once took part in the crusades. This particular title is “The Pontifical Order of St. Sylvester, Pope and Martyr.” Continue reading “New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier Welcomed As Knight Of The Catholic Church”
Palm Beach County, Fla. — Footage released Thursday afternoon from an incident involving a Palm Beach Sheriff’s Officer back in September of 2013 contradicts the official story released by the Department at the time. The video, which has not been seen by the public until today, shows 20-year-old Dontrell Stephens being shot in the back multiple times by Deputy Adams Lin.
On the recording, Stephens can be seen riding his bicycle as Deputy Lin trails behind in his police cruiser. As Lin hastily closes in on the young man, Stephens pulls over and dismounts from his bike. Holding only his cell phone, the 20-year-old briefly steps out of the vision of the camera. As he steps back in view, four shots ring out, and Stephens collapses out of frame. Continue reading “Dashcam Shows Cop Shoot Unarmed Man Repeatedly In Back”
An NBC News journalist is involved in a harrowing scene of battlefield danger. The journalist’s first-person story serves as the dominant narrative for years—but it turns out to be wrong, very wrong. Sound familiar?
This isn’t the Brian Williams scandal. It’s worse: the story of the December 2012 kidnapping and rescue of Richard Engel, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, in Syria. Continue reading “NBC knowingly lied to try start a war with Syria”
