From the Trenches World Report

WJLA 7 News – by Tom Roussey

WASHINGTON (AP) – Residents of the nation’s capital will be able to get licenses to carry concealed handguns outside the home, but only after they provide a specific reason for needing one, officials said Wednesday.

Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials said they plan to propose legislation that would make the District of Columbia similar to a half-dozen states, including Maryland, where residents can be denied a concealed-carry permit if they can’t show a need for one. The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Maryland’s law last year.   Continue reading “D.C. rewrites gun laws, proposes concealed-carry licensing program”

New York Observer – by Will Bredderman

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced today they had outlined a broad, multi-million dollar plan to fortify New York’s transportation hubs against the threat of terrorism–and said the details will be released next week in a joint event with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Mr. Cuomo met with State Senate co-majority leaders Jeffrey Klein and Dean Skelos, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and a host of legislative, police, military and agency leaders to hammer out the plan and its financing–which Mr. Cuomo said would go into full effect next week, last several months, cost in the tens of millions of dollars and be paid for out of next year’s state budget.   Continue reading “Cuomo Prepares to Roll Out Aggressive Anti-Terrorism Plan”

Here is an old C.G. newspaper clipping a mother saved in her Bible.

She had been a school teacher and believed prophesy, so she always kept up on issues, long before most ever thought of them here.    Continue reading “Newspaper Clipping from Oct 13, 1975.”

Thanks to VRF.

Yahoo News – by MICHAEL RUBINKAM and KATHY MATHESON

BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — With tens of thousands of acres of undisturbed northeastern Pennsylvania forest offering ample opportunity to hide, the self-taught survivalist accused in last week’s deadly ambush at a state police barracks has so far avoided capture.   Continue reading “Search for ambush suspect centers on dense woods”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

What has happened to America?  Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline.  It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation.  For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways.  The following are 50 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer…   Continue reading “50 Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

WEAVERVILLE, Calif. – Not only is there no such thing as a free lunch, an eighth grader found out the hard way there’s no such thing as a shared lunch, either.

ABC 7 reports Kyle Bradford, an 8th grader at Weaverville Elementary School, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn’t like the school-prepared cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria.   Continue reading “Student gets detention for sharing his lunch”

Cent News – by Pedro Juarez Mejia

Mexico – Residents of Mexico’s Los Cabos beach resort armed themselves with guns, machetes and bats in hurricane-battered neighborhoods Thursday to scare off looters from raiding their homes, as authorities scrambled to restore order.

The government deployed extra federal police and soldiers to the Baja California peninsula to counter widespread looting that erupted after Hurricane Odile tore down homes earlier this week.   Continue reading “Residents take up arms to deter looters in Mexico resort”

Breitbart – by Edwin Mora

U.S. Border Patrol agents have apprehended at least 474 aliens from terrorism-linked countries attempting to sneak into the country illegally this year alone, according to a leaked document obtained by Breitbart Texas.

According to the document from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Intelligence and Investigative Liaison, of the 474 aliens, 76 are from terrorism-linked nations located in and around the jihadist Islamic State’s area of operation — Turkey (41), Saudi Arabia (13), Syria (7), Jordan (7), Iraq (4),Iran (3), and J Kuwait (1).    Continue reading “474 Illegals From Terrorism-Linked Countries Apprehended in 2014 Alone”

UPI – by Ben Hooper

ODENSE, Denmark, Sept. 18 (UPI) — A Danish town outfitted homeless volunteers with GPS devices to help officials track the routines of “those who just want to sit on a bench and drink beers.”

Tom Rodding of Odense council said the city outfitted 20 local homeless people with GPS trackers so officials can keep track of their movements and improve city planning for objects such as benches and shelters.   Continue reading “Danish town outfits homeless with GPS trackers”

Reuters – by Scott Malone

The failed Scottish vote to pull out from the United Kingdom stirred secessionist hopes for some in the United States, where almost a quarter of people are open to their states leaving the union, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Some 23.9 percent of Americans polled from Aug. 23 through Sept. 16 said they strongly supported or tended to support the idea of their state breaking away, while 53.3 percent of the 8,952 respondents strongly opposed or tended to oppose the notion.   Continue reading “Angry with Washington, 1 in 4 Americans open to secession”

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — Department of Homeland Security Secretary (DHS) Jeh Johnson is pushing for the agency to create “Southcom,” a southern-based command to manage resources.

Southcom would aim to decrease illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border and make it easier for officials to crack down on criminals, according to the Washington Times. The command would reportedly work to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) collaborate more effectively.   Continue reading “DHS Pushing for Southwest Command to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration and Criminals”

Syracuse – by Marnie Eisenstadt

Shop now if you depend on food stamps or cash assistance from New York.

Neither will work starting early Sunday morning. The system will go down at midnight and isn’t expected to come back online until noon Sunday.

It’s being shut down so the state can switch to a new company to run the program. It will take at least 12 hours to do the switch. Medicaid benefits are on the same card, but they will not be affected by the change.   Continue reading “Food stamp system to go down across New York this weekend”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

You can find them in every gun store in even the most restrictive states in the nation, and with good reason; bolt-action rifles are among the most ubiquitous rifles in the United States, and have been in deer camps and military arsenals in the United States since the Palmer carbine was used in the U.S. Civil War.

Now two separate gun control groups are attempting to restrict access to them.   Continue reading “And Then They Came For The Bolt-Actions”

Fox 4 KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged with throwing two Molotov cocktails at a U.S. congressman’s office on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 28-year-old Eric King was charged Wednesday in last week’s attempted firebombing at U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver’s office in Kansas City.   Continue reading “Man federally charged for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at Rep. Cleaver’s office”

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