From the Trenches World Report

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Sadly, we can’t say we’re surprised.

Driven by the high costs of higher education and the absurdly high cost of living in California, a recent survey revealed a stunning figure: Nearly 20% of Community College students in America’s most populous state are homeless.

Whether they’re sleeping in their cars, or crashing on couches, or are among the growing number of California’s “unsheltered” homeless, some 19% responded to a survey of community college students saying they either didn’t have a place to live, or were simply crashing or living in their vehicles.  Continue reading “20% Of California Community College Student Are Homeless, Study Finds”

American Digest

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.  Continue reading “The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain”

Axios

Daily Mail

The doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed killing all 157 on board yesterday ‘had smoke pouring from the rear’ before coming down ‘with a loud boom’, a witness has said.

Gebeyehu Fikadu said he saw flight ET302 ‘swerving and dipping’ while ‘luggage and clothes came burning down’ when it crashed within minutes of take-off from Addis Ababa yesterday morning.  Continue reading “Ethiopian air crash: Airlines ground Boeing 737 Max 8 jets”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Following a dramatic hearing at a federal district court in Eastern Virginia, activist and former military prisoner Chelsea Manning was jailed by a judge for contempt of court after refusing to testify to a grand jury empaneled in the government’s long running criminal investigation into Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The judge, the Hon. Claude H. Hilton, ruled that Manning must remain in civil detention until she testifies, her lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen told the New York Times. Continue reading “Chelsea Manning Jailed For Refusing To Testify About Wikileaks”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Foreign workers have now outpaced American workers in terms of job growth for at least half a year, new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data reveals.

In February 2018, foreign-born workers continued to make job growth gains over native-born American workers. Foreign-born workers, for example, saw more than three times as much job growth as native-born Americans last month.  Continue reading “Foreign Workers Outpace Native-Born Americans in Job Growth for Six Months”

Mish Talk – by Mish Shedlock

Under a proposed Illinois law, it will be a crime to report certain crimes. There are ways around this insanity.State Sen. Christina Castro introduced a bill last session to prevent illegal alien reporting. It passed both houses but was vetoed by Rauner.

Rauner rightly concluded that such a bill would violate federal laws. I believe it would be unconstitutional to boot.  Continue reading “Illinois Law Would Ban Landlords from Reporting Illegal Alien Tenants”

Freedom of the Press Foundation – by Camille Fassett

The California Attorney General’s office is threatening reporters with legal action merely for possessing a list of the state’s law enforcement officers that have been convicted of crimes — obtained through a public records request.

In a Jan. 29 letter to journalists Jason Paladino and Robert Lewis, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office called possession of the list a crime.  Continue reading “In a brewing First Amendment fight, California’s Attorney General threatens journalists for possessing a public records document”

NBC News – by Kerry Sanders, Ezra Kaplan, Daniella Silva

DERBY LINE, Vermont — More than 960 people crossed into the U.S. illegally from the northern border with Canada last year, according to data released from Customs and Border Protection.

While that number is a tiny fraction compared to the migration across the border with Mexico, it represented a 91 percent increase from the prior fiscal year, the data showed.  Continue reading “Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows”

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