From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

Target’s CEO Brian Cornell refused to change course when confronted this week by shareholders who are alarmed by his expensive push for a transgender, mixed-sex changing-room policy that has helped wipe out almost 20 percent of the company’s value.

Cornell told the annual meeting of investors that the company intend to stick with the April 19 transgender policy — which requires its customers to use mixed-sex changing rooms and bathrooms — and he even insisted there has been no financial repercussions, despite a $10 billion Wall Street loss in the months since the policy was announced.   Continue reading “Target CEO Clings To Transgender Mixed-Sex Changing Room Plan, Despite $10 billion Loss”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Moments ago the twitter account of the NYC Fire Wire announced that hazardous material teams and emergency service units are responding to an incident at New York City’s Federal Plaza, where two civilians have allegedly been exposed to “white powder.”   Continue reading ““White Powder” Incident At New York Federal Building: Two Civilians Exposed; HazMat Responding”

Hollywood Reporter – by Paul Bond

Mel Gibson and writer Randall Wallace are working on a sequel to The Passion of the Christthat will tell the story of the resurrection of Jesus, Wallace tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Wallace, nominated for an Academy Award for scripting Gibson’s 1995 best picture Oscar winner Braveheart, on Thursday (reluctantly) confirmed rumors that he has begun to write a script for a story about the resurrection, tellingTHR that the project is becoming too difficult to keep under wraps.   Continue reading “Mel Gibson Planning ‘Passion of the Christ’ Sequel”

The Newspaper

Requiring motorists to undergo a breath test at a a police officer’s request does not offend due process or the constitution, according to a ruling handed down last week by the Texas Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel weighed five arguments John Andrew Rankin posed in a failed attempt to strike down the state’s implied consent statute.

Rankin had been pulled over by McAllen Police Officer Luis Villarreal on July 19, 2014, and during the stop the officer noticed signs of intoxication. Officer Villarreal he decided to place Rankin under arrest and take him to the station for a breath test. Rankin refused to blow, even after being advised that he would automatically lose his driver’s license for six months.    Continue reading “Texas Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Implied Consent Law”

AZ Family – by David Baker

PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is offering a two-day summer camp for kids designed to teach them about the dangerous road they could head down if they get involved with drugs, alcohol, and/or gangs.

It’s called Sheriff Arpaio’s Camp Summer Stars and takes place at Tent City. The program combines two others from the Sheriff’s Office: T.O.U.G.H. Tents and S.T.A.R.S., which are designed to show young people the realities of jail life and to prevent them from getting involved in illegal activity.   Continue reading “Sheriff Arpaio offers 2-day ‘summer camp’”

Breitbart – by Ben Kew

The University of Oklahoma has revealed it will be introducing a hotline designed as a means for students to complain about microagressions and bias incidents.

The hotline promises to be a “safe place” for students to raise concerns and report incidents, which is open 24/7 all year round.   Continue reading “University of Oklahoma Introduces 24/7 ‘Microagression’ Hotline”

Fox News

MIAMI –  For 17 years, a South Florida couple grew vegetables in a front-yard garden until a new town ordinance was passed limiting such gardens to backyards. Now, the couple is asking a judge to uproot the ban they claim violates their constitutional rights.

Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts say they dug up the garden in front of their Miami Shores home in August 2013 when town officials threatened to fine them $50 a day if they didn’t. The threatened fine came a few months after the Miami Shores Village Council adopted a new zoning plan for the town of about 10,500 north of Miami.   Continue reading “Florida couple sues after town bans front-yard gardens”

Free Beacon – by Adam Kredo

A delegation of leading senators are seeking to stop the Obama administration from providing some health insurers with a $2.5 billion taxpayer-funded bailout under a provision in the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, according to congressional communication exclusively obtained by theWashington Free Beacon.

The senators are petitioning their colleagues on key committees to ensure that U.S. taxpayers will not have to foot the bill for excess costs incurred by insurance companies selling low-cost coverage under the Obamacare program, according to the letter, which lambasts the healthcare program for burdening middle- and lower-class families.   Continue reading “Senators Seek to Stop $2.5 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Obamacare Bailout”

Arizona Daily Sun – by Astrid Galvin

Continue reading “Border ranchers with few options now have police radios”

Daily Mail

An entire West Virginia town built to support the National Security Agency’s surveillance operation is up for sale, with bids starting at $1 million.

Sugar Grove Station, also known as ‘Spy Town,’ was built to house intelligence analytical staff, and sits in what is known as the ‘National Radio Quiet Zone,’ where cell phone and radio use is strictly limited by law. The last staffers were moved from the site in 2015.    Continue reading “‘Spy Town,’ the West Virginia community built to house NSA staffers and where cell phone use is restricted by law, is up for auction starting at $1Million after it was abandoned last year”

Market Watch – by Joe Palazzolo

Americans have no Second Amendment right to carry concealed guns in public, a federal appeals court in California ruled on Thursday in a significant blow to gun-rights activists and gun owners in a large swath of the Western U.S.

The San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 ruling, upheld a California law requiring residents to show “good cause” for carrying a concealed handgun.   Continue reading “Appeals Court says no 2nd Amendment right to carry concealed guns”