From the Trenches World Report

Chuck Baldwin

It is official: The Tea Party is dead. Writing for National Review, Brian Riedl rightly sums it up:

President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize). The budget deal would essentially repeal the final two years of the 2011 Budget Control Act and raise the baseline for future discretionary spending by nearly $2 trillion over the decade.  Continue reading “The Tea Party Is Dead And So Are The Patriot Movement And The Evangelical Church”

Jewish Telegraph Agency

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli Embassy in Finland has been vandalized by neo-Nazi and far right extremists for at least the 15th time in the last year and a half.

The glass front door of the embassy in Helsinki was shattered over the weekend, and images of swastikas and Adolf Hitler were hung in the entrance to the building, Ynet reported.  Continue reading “Israeli Embassy in Finland attacked for 15th time in past 18 months”

LifeSiteNews – by Lisa Bourne

July 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Minnesota mother whose son was maneuvered through a “sex change” by county officials has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case. She is charging the government with usurping her parental rights when its agents provided her son with transgender services and narcotic drugs against her wishes.

The Thomas More Society petitioned the High Court Wednesday on behalf of Anmarie Calgaro, arguing that Calgaro’s due process rights were “trampled on” when St. Louis County and its referred health providers “ended her parental control over her minor son without a court order of emancipation.”  Continue reading “Mom sues county for giving her minor son sex change without her consent”

New York Daily News

Continue reading “Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was a police dog”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

India’s government and companies are openly pushing for the U.S. Senate passage of a bipartisan “country caps” bill that would reward 100,000 Indian graduates per year with green cards if they take technology jobs in America.

“I must compliment the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants bill which removes country caps on the H1B visas,” Indian ambassador Harsh Shringla told a D.C. meeting of lobbyists and advocates on Tuesday.  Continue reading “India Ambassador Praises House for Outsourcing U.S. College Jobs to Indians”

Fox News

A federal judge in California on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from imposing restrictions on individuals seeking asylum in the United States, just hours after a judge in Washington had decided to let the rule stand while lawsuits play out in court.

The rule, published in the Federal Register last week, required people seeking asylum to apply first in one of the countries they cross on their way to the U.S. — with certain exceptions. It targeted tens of thousands of Central Americans who have crossed Mexico each month trying to enter the U.S.  Continue reading “Federal court blocks Trump asylum rules hours after judge ruled to keep restrictions in place”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

A record 61,000 unaccompanied migrant children have surged over the U.S.-Mexico border and been handed to federal care facilities since October, and there are still over two months left in the fiscal year, according to immigration officials.

The number tops the total for fiscal year 2016, at 59,170 turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services.  Continue reading “Record 61,000 migrant children surge over border, $230M spent for snacks, diapers, baby formula”

Press TV

US President Donald Trump has vetoed three congressional resolutions barring billions of dollars in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have been committing war crimes in Yemen for over four years.

In veto messages to Congress released by the White House on Wednesday, Trump argued that the bills would “weaken America’s global competitiveness and damage the important relationships we share with our allies and partners.” Continue reading “Trump vetoes trio of congressional bills prohibiting Saudi arms sales”

ABC News

Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday the federal government will be resuming capital punishment.

In the announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice said the decision was made related to “five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly.”  Continue reading “Federal government resuming executions after 2 decades, names first 5 people to be killed”

CBS DFW

AMARILLO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A school district in Texas will begin drug testing students as young as 12 years old who are interested in playing sports or participating in other extracurricular activities.

Testing will begin with the resumption of classes next month at Bushland Independent School District and will be required of students in grades seven through 12 who play in the band, sit on the student council, assemble a yearbook, play chess or participate in other clubs. Students who receive a permit to park at the high school also will be subjected to testing.  Continue reading “Texas School District To Drug Test Students As Young As 12”

MSN

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about President Trump’s introduction Tuesday at Turning Point USA’s student summit. In many ways, it mirrored the production style that has become synonymous with Trump’s campaign rallies.

Following a 12-minute video illustrating Trump’s rise to the presidency, music blared as the president’s name flashed across a giant screen in a bold shade of red. Trump took the stage and soaked in the raucous cheers from hundreds of young supporters packed inside the Marriott Marquis in Washington.  Continue reading “How did Trump end up in front of a presidential seal doctored to include a Russian symbol?”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Democratic U.S. senators will unveil a bill on Thursday to curb climate change by slapping a fee on oil, natural gas and coal and delivering most of the revenues to low- and middle-income Americans, one of the lawmakers said.  Continue reading “Senators to unveil carbon tax bill to generate $2.5 trillion in 10 years”

Daily Mail

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that online giant Amazon has ‘destroyed the retail industry across the United States.’

Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Department probe, announced on Tuesday, into whether big U.S. technology firms engage in anti-competitive practices, the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration is stepping up its scrutiny of Big Tech.  Continue reading “Treasury secretary says Amazon DESTROYED America’s retail industry”

The Great Recession

Here is a journey in photos and facts to compare the present Great Recession with the past Great Depression to gain perspective on where we might be headed.

Just as we had two great world wars, we might have two great depressions, the last of which we started out calling “The Great Recession” because, at the time, we didn’t know where it would end up or how long it would continue. Remember that World War I did not start off being called WWI. It was originally called “The Great War.”  Continue reading “Reading the Next Recession: Will the Great Recession 2.0 become The Great Depression II?”

Hawaii News Now

Continue reading “New Hawaiian law makes it illegal to start walking on the countdown timer”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reached a conclusion that defies easy summation. But here’s an attempt: it is not well-established that cops shouldn’t shoot children they’ve ordered to lie prone on the ground while trying to shoot a dog that posed no threat to officers.

In reversing the lower court’s denial of qualified immunity to Officer Michael Vickers, the Appeals Court has opened the door to preventing the stupidest, most-inept cops from being held responsible for their careless blunders.  Continue reading “Appeals Court Says No Rights Were Violated When A Cop Shot At A ‘Non-Threatening’ Dog But Hit A Kid Instead”

ABC News

A storm system that brought damaging winds and flash flooding has moved off the East Coast and attention turns to the West, where there is high fire danger, and the Southwest, where monsoon flash flooding possible.

Evacuations and a state of emergency have been declared for the Museum Fire near Flagstaff, Arizona.  Continue reading “Dozens of large wildfires burning in West as California feels the heat”