From the Trenches World Report

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

Initial hopes were that somehow the bad press that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (still known as ATF) has been receiving had caused the agency to pull back in its prosecution of criminal cases involving guns. But those hopes have faded.

Reports from Syracuse University showed that there were 6,791 such prosecutions recommended by the ATF in President George W. Bush’s last year (2008), while there were just 5,082 gun violation cases under Obama in 2013 — a decline of 25 percent. The all-time high occurred during the Bush administration in 2004, when 8,752 cases were brought by the Justice Department. And so far this year, prosecutions have declined even further, likely to end the year at fewer than 4,400, if the present trend continues.   Continue reading “ATF: Guns Are the Problem”

CNS News

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters on Thursday that lawmakers will leave town for their summer vacation without completing their basic budget duties. Nor do they expect to reach a deal on the immigration crisis or the VA mismanagement before the August recess.

“I expect we’re going to do a C.R. (continuing resolution) next month,” Boehner said. He expects the temporary spending measure to keep the government funded at current levels until “early December” — after the midterm election. That leaves the remaining spending decisions up to a lame-duck Congress.   Continue reading “Boehner: ‘I Expect We’re Going to Do a C.R. Next Month’”

AOL

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) – Prosecutors in Northern California said Thursday that they have obtained an arrest warrant for a tuberculosis patient who has refused treatment and may be contagious, putting those around him at risk.

Eduardo Rosas Cruz, a 25-year-old transient, went to the San Joaquin General Hospital’s emergency room in March, complaining of a severe cough. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, medical staff told him to stay in a Stockton motel room, where a health worker would deliver his medication and watch him take it. But officials say he took off.   Continue reading “Police seek man who refused tuberculosis treatment”

AmmoLand

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- On Day 2 of the SilencerCo release event, we got to shoot the shorter 6′ version of the new “Salvo” shotgun suppressor.

With its shorter length, it is louder than the longer 8?, 10?, and 12? versions, but I took about 10 total shots with no ear pro and it was fine.

If I was going to shoot more rounds such as trap/skeet/sporting clays in one go, I might consider wearing ear pro, or finding a lighter load to see if it would further reduce the noise.   Continue reading “SilencerCo’s Salvo Shotgun Suppressor Q&A Day 2”

Green Building Elements – by John Perlin

John Perlin’s book, “Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy,” tells of a scheming thirteenth century priest/scientist who tries to convince the Pope to start a solar weapons’ race by showing him a treatise written by an early Muslim geometrician regarding solar burning mirrors. Had solar energy lived up to its threat as the ultimate weapon, it might have taken center stage much earlier as the power source of the world. The military today revisits this thirteenth-century vision with great success.   Continue reading “The Dark Side of Solar Energy: Solar Weaponry”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

As we reported yesterday, it would seem that an armed doctor in Pennsylvania prevented a possible mass shooting at the hospital he was working at.

The doctor managed to land several chest hits on the suspect after he had shot another person and wounded the doctor.

However, despite his heroic, likely life saving acts, the doctor (identified as Lee Silverman), may end up unemployed as gratitude.   Continue reading “Armed Doctor Who Opened Fire on Active Shooter in Hospital Shooting Could Lose His Job”

Weasel Zippers

We’ll pass.

OBAMA: President Obama at a fundraiser last night outside Seattle: “People are anxious. Now, some of that has to do with some big challenges overseas. I am very proud that we have ended one war, and by the end of this year we will have ended both wars that I inherited … But whether people see what’s happening in Ukraine, and Russia’s aggression towards its neighbors in the manner in which it’s financing and arming separatists; to what’s happened in Syria … to the failure in Iraq for Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise … to what’s happening in Israel and Gaza” …

Continue reading “Obama Calls For Collectivist “New World Order”…”

National Review – by Ryan Lovelace

President Obama is encouraging Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to slack off on the job, former border cops tellNational Review Online.

Some ICE officials think the Obama administration has intentionally neglected to give them orders to support efforts to resolve the crisis on America’s southwestern border, says Ronald Colburn, former national deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. As a result, the wave of unaccompanied children from Central America is unfolding while ICE officials cool their heels.   Continue reading “Obama Gives ICE the Cold Shoulder”

The latest crazy proposed solution to the manufactured humanitarian crisis. 

So now the U.S. is going to go to Honduras to seek out children for refugee status in the U.S. and safely transport them here???

CBS News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, White House officials said Thursday. Continue reading “Obama administration weighs giving Honduran children refugee status”

“Fascism, socialism, communism, progressivism… all must all be resisted. To a slave of the state it matters little whether he is allowed to own his cage.” – Don Fredrick

“[W]hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” – Ayn Rand   Continue reading “Thought Provoking Quotes”

WND – by Bob Unruh

The head of a gun-rights organization is delivering a lesson on the Constitution to a member of Congress who claimed his statements on the Second Amendment constituted a threat against her.

“Allow me to explain the obvious,” Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, wrote in an open letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.   Continue reading “Congresswoman sees ‘threat’ in Constitution”

Activist Post – by Eric Blair

Big retailers, including Amazon, have been lobbying long and hard for it, and now the Internet sales tax is back after being quietly reintroduced in the US Senate last week. 

The Marketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act would force customers to pay sales taxes for online purchases from out-of-state online merchants, and it forces online retailers to collect and remit separately sales taxes to all US territories. Continue reading “Internet Sales Tax Quietly Moving Through Congress”