From the Trenches World Report

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Mike Blaskey

Jerad Miller didn’t die on his own terms after all, the Review-Journal has learned.

It was a Las Vegas police officer — not Amanda Miller, his wife — who fired the shot that ended the life of the 31-year-old cop killer, according to an official with knowledge of the case.

Metro police initially thought Amanda Miller, 22, killed her husband in the Wal-Mart. That was based on security video footage that showed her pointing the gun at him, the official said.    Continue reading “Official: Police, not wife, killed Jerad Miller”

NBC Connecticut

The mother of a -12-year-old boy who brought a grenade to school for show-and-tell related to World War II lessons has been arrested.

Johnson Academy in Stratford was placed on lockdown around 10:30 a.m. Friday and students were evacuated to the auditorium until a State Police bomb squad determined the grenade was a simulator used for training.   Continue reading “Mom Arrested After Son Brings Simulated Grenade to Show and Tell”

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Common Dreams – by Tom Engelhardt

The United States has been at war — major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions — nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began.  That’s more than half a century of experience with war, American-style, and yet few in our world bother to draw the obvious conclusions.

Given the historical record, those conclusions should be staring us in the face.  They are, however, the words that can’t be said in a country committed to a military-first approach to the world, a continual build-up of its forces, an emphasis on pioneering work in the development and deployment of the latest destructive technology, and a repetitious cycling through styles of war from full-scale invasions and occupations to counterinsurgency, proxy wars, and back again.   Continue reading “Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy: A Record of Unparalleled Failure”

CNS News – by Susan Jones

 As tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, the Obama administration admits it didn’t anticipate how many would come —  and it is asking Congress “for additional (taxpayer) resources to meet this challenge.”

“So there is a request to the appropriators for just over $2 billion to support HHS (Health and Human Services) facilities in particular,” a senior administration official told reporters on a White House conference call Monday.   

The administration also is requesting another $160 million in “additional support” for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Border Patrol and immigration agencies. Continue reading “WH Wants ‘Just Over $2 Billion’ From Taxpayers to House Children Crossing Into U.S.”

Wall Street Journal – by ALI A. NABHAN And MATT BRADLEY

BAGHDAD—Al Qaeda-inspired militants seized control of Iraq’s second-largest city on Tuesday in a brazen military operation that underscored the weakness of the Baghdad government across vast swaths of the country.

Hours after government forces fled Mosul in disarray following four days of fighting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a nationwide “state of maximum preparedness” but didn’t indicate whether government forces were mobilizing to retake the Iraqi city, 220 miles north of the capital Baghdad.   Continue reading “Militants Overrun Iraq’s Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee”

KOIN 6 News

Update: TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a shooting inside the Troutdale school.

Law enforcement officials offered few other details concerning the shooting during a 10 a.m. media update, but offered condolences and praising students and staff for prompt, organized reactions.   Continue reading “Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School, Troutdale, Oregon”

The Organic Prepper

It’s interesting to step over to the dark side sometimes and read the “liberal” perspective on current events. I stumbled across a perfect example of liberal bias this morning when I read an article on a website called “Truthout”.  The author was reflecting on the Las Vegas shooting and an incident in Georgia that also took place this weekend.   Continue reading “I’m a terrorist…You’re a terrorist….Hey! We’re all right wing extremist terrorists!”

The Telegraph – by Johnny Clark

MOULTRIE, GA. — A Georgia consortium is poised to be a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for farming.

A statewide working group that includes state and federal government, industry and academia, has been working since 2009 to develop a type of drone that can save a farmer’s time and resources during the growing season.   Continue reading “Unmanned aerial vehicles are flying to the farm”

BuzzFeed – by Tasneem Nashrulla

Continue reading “A Company Has Designed A Bulletproof Blanket To Protect Kids During School Shootings”

Personal Liberty Digest – by Brandon Smith

Just a couple days ago, two armed assailants, a married couple purported by the mainstream media to be “white supremacists” and “conspiracy theorists,”ambushed two police officers at a CiCi’s Pizza in Las Vegas, killing the officers and one bystander after screaming, “This is a revolution!” The suspects then reportedly covered one officer’s body with a Gadsden Don’t Tread On Me flag and then fled to a Walmart, where they committed suicide. Yes, it reads like a Southern Poverty Law Center fantasy story; and in many ways, it is.

As I write this, the MSM has not officially blamed any particular scapegoat group or political organization. But I suspect that they will follow the pattern they have always followed, which is to equate the actions of one or two psychotics with the beliefs and principles of the liberty movement in general.   Continue reading “A Second American Revolution Is Now Inevitable”