From the Trenches World Report

Freedom Outpost – by William Lafferty

Government officials are only people, subject to all the infirmities and limitations involved with being human.  Some are insane, others myopic, others power hungry, and a few are men and women of good purpose.  The problem with government officials being fallible is that, in the case of the United States, 300 million people depend upon them always doing the right thing.   Continue reading “Obama & Holder Demonstrate the Need for Having an Autoloading Rifle in the Closet”

Mises Daily – by Ryan McMaken

The militarized siege of a cattle ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn national attention as dozens of federal agents, armed with machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and more, have descended on the ranch to seize cattle, people, and generally show everyone who’s boss.

The conservative press has framed the story in a variety of ways, casting the story both as matter of outright federal seizure of private land, and as an absurd environmental crusade to save a tortoise from extinction.   Continue reading “Ranchers and Empire in the American West”

Marijuana – by Paul Armentano 

Those who report consuming cannabis two or three times per week are less likely to engage in at risk drinking behavior, according to data published online in The American Journal of Addictions.

Investigators from Sweden’s Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, analyzed data from a nationwide survey on alcohol and drug use conducted by the National Institute of Public Health. Over 22,000 respondents between the ages of 15 and 64 participated in the survey.   Continue reading “Study Shows Chronic Pot Smokers Drink Less Alcohol”

Examiner

This article was based on today’s exclusive interview with Kevin Annett of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State on this week’s litigation in the Brussels Common Law Court of Justice. Five judges and 27 jury members from six countries including the USA, considered evidence on over 50,000 missing Canadian, US, Argentine and European children who were suspected victims of an international child sacrificial cult referred to as the Ninth Circle.   Continue reading “Witnesses testify, eyewitnesses confirm that Pope Francis raped, killed children”

CNS News

In a speech delivered at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday evening, White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Lisa Monaco said it could help prevent terrorism if parents watched for “sudden personality changes in their children at home.”

“President Obama has been laser-focused on making sure we use all the elements of our national power to protect Americans, including developing the first government-wide strategy to prevent violent extremism in the United States,” said Monaco, in a transcription posted by the White House.   Continue reading “WH Counterterror Chief: Parents Need to Watch for ‘Sudden Personality Changes in Their Children’”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

The police state grows. Angela Kirking, a 46-year old woman living in Shorewood, Illinois does face-painting for children at local fairs. She also enjoys growing hibiscus plants for her own consumption. Apparently, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes her shopping for fertilizer and supplies at a local store called Midwest Hydroponics made her a very serious subject for investigation.

It seems that Ms. Kirking was so threatening, that after being observed shopping at her local hydroponics store, police agents staked out her home, sifted through her garbage, monitored her electricity usage, and finally busted into her bedroom in the middle of the night pointing guns at her, demanding to know if there were any illegal substances in her home.   Continue reading “DEA Raids Woman’s House at 5AM After She Shops for Gardening Supplies”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon has found that an immigrant woman’s constitutional rights were violated when she was held in jail without probable cause at the request of U.S. immigration authorities, one of several recent federal court decisions to scrutinize the practice of keeping people in jail after they’re eligible for release so that they can be considered for deportation.

The rulings make it clear that local officials are not required to honor immigration authorities’ requests that someone in custody continue to be held even though their original charges were resolved or they are eligible for bail, and that local jurisdictions may be held liable for doing so.   Continue reading “Oregon ruling spurs halt on immigration detainers”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – Press Release

Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, will be awarded the 2014 “Incitement to Civil War” Trophy by Alabama citizen journalist and Second Amendment activist Mike Vanderboegh at a ceremony at the Cliven Bundy Ranch on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Vanderboegh, who with fellow writer David Codrea first broke the Fast and Furious scandal story in a series on the Internet in December 2010 and January 2011, is in Nevada to show support for the Bundy family and their struggle with the federal government.   Continue reading “Harry Reid to be awarded 2014 Incitement to Civil War Trophy by citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh”

Nutritional Anarchy

Are your Lucky Charms less than magically delicious?  Are your Cheerios less than cheery?  Perhaps you broke off a tooth when there was something extra crunchy in your Cinnamon Toast Crunch or became totally ill from something totally disgusting in your bowl of Total.  If so, I hope you didn’t “like” them on Facebook.

General Mills has taken “CYA” (Cover Your A**) to an entirely new level.   Continue reading “The Untouchables: You Can’t Sue General Mills if You “Like” Their Products on Facebook”

Yahoo News – by LIZ KREUTZ 

Former – and potentially future – First Daughter Chelsea Clinton made the big reveal on Thursday: She’s pregnant.

She announced the news during a speech in New York City with her mother, Hillary Clinton, at her side.

“Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year,” she said at the Lower East Side Girls Club at the end of a Clinton Foundation event dedicated to empowering young girls.   Continue reading “Chelsea Clinton: I’m Pregnant!”

Yahoo News – by Andrew Cohen

Last week, in a decision that contorted both law and fact, a state judge ruled against an illiterate, intellectually disabled black man named Jerry Hartfield.

Hartfield has been imprisoned for more than 33 years — without a valid conviction or sentence authorizing his confinement. In the latest decision, the judge ruled that even though state and local officials clearly were negligent in letting Hartfield slip through the cracks all these decades, there is nothing in the Constitution that provides him with any protection from being retried. Continue reading “Texas has been holding this man hostage for 12,600 days”

Examiner – by Joe Newby

On Tuesday, an op-ed at the New York Times attempted to link veterans to white supremacist groups, citing the recent Overland Park, Kansas, shootings in which Frazier Glenn Miller — a veteran with a long history of white supremacist activity — allegedly shot and killed three people. The op-ed sparked outrage from veterans and prompted a stinging rebuke from the Military Times on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Veterans blast op-ed that labels them as potential domestic terrorists”

Reuters – by JONATHAN ALLEN

Flat on his belly in a sniper position, wearing a baseball cap and a flak jacket, a protester aimed his semi-automatic rifle from the edge of an overpass and waited as a crowd below stood its ground against U.S. federal agents in the Nevada desert.

He was part of a 1,000-strong coalition of armed militia-men, cowboys on horseback, gun rights activists and others who rallied to Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville ranch, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, in a stand-off with about a dozen agents from the federal Bureau of Land Management.   Continue reading “After Nevada ranch stand-off, emboldened militias ask: where next?”