From the Trenches World Report

Bloomberg – by Robert Schmidt

A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics.

James Kidney, who joined the SEC in 1986 and retired this month, offered the critique in a speech at his goodbye party. His remarks hit home with many in the crowd of SEC lawyers and alumni thanks to a part of his resume not publicly known: He had campaigned internally to bring charges against more executives in the agency’s 2010 case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)   Continue reading “SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  With the April 15 2014 deadline for gun registration under the SAFE Act fast approaching, estimates indicate over 90 percent of gun owners have yet to comply.

Making matters worse for elected officials–and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) in particular–is the fact that many law enforcement officers at various levels have openly stated that they will not enforce SAFE Act requirements.   Continue reading “90 Percent of NY Gun Owners Refusing SAFE Act Registration”

Freedom Outpost – by David Risselada

Change for America has already been written in the history books. The Left set out on a mission to fundamentally transform this nation, and they are succeeding at an alarming rate. We are living in a time where so many are completely clueless as to what the intentions of the founding fathers were for the people of this country; and we are literally witnessing society give up their rights to self-governance for the false promise that somebody can care for them better than they can care for themselves.   Continue reading “The Winds of Change Are Blowing in America”

Free Beacon – by Elizabeth Harrington

A two-decades-old battle between a Nevada rancher and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has resulted in officials armed with machine guns surrounding the ranch and forcibly removing the owner’s cattle, according to the rancher’s family.

Cliven Bundy, the last rancher in Clark County, Nev., has been fighting a “one-man range war” since 1993, when he decided to take a stand against the agency, refusing to pay fees for the right to graze on a ranch run by his family for centuries.   Continue reading “Last Man Standing”

Police State USA

LOS ANGELES, CA — A scandal has been discovered inside the LAPD, in which nearly half of the squad cars in one division had their recording equipment tampered with, making accountability more difficult for the dozens of officers involved.  The troubling discovery was exacerbated by police supervisors who made little effort to keep the oversight commission informed.

An audit of the Southeast fleet showed that out of about 160 vehicles, 72 were discovered to have had antennas removed, the LA Times reported.  The antennas are part of a system that allows cruiser footage to be accompanied by detailed audio, even when the officer is far away from his vehicle.  The audio is collected through microphones worn on officers’ clothing, which is sent back to the cruisers via a transmitters attached to officers’ belts.   Continue reading “Recording equipment went missing in half of LAPD cars examined”

Celebrity Magnet – by Kristyn Clarke

(PCM) News that is sending shock waves through the world of pro-wrestling is that iconic wrestler The Ultimate Warrior has passed away at the age of 54.  The Ultimate Warrior, whose real name is James Brian Hellwig, had just appeared on Monday night RAW and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during Wrestlemania this past weekend.   Continue reading “Iconic Wrestler The Ultimate Warrior Has Passed Away At The Age Of 54”

Reuters – by DAVID ALEXANDER

The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy, a “Star Wars” technology that will make enemies think twice, the Navy’s research chief said.

Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, the chief of Naval Research, told a round table group recently the futuristic electromagnetic rail gun had already undergone extensive testing on land and would be mounted on the USNS Millinocket, a high-speed vessel, for sea trials beginning in 2016.   Continue reading “U.S. Navy to test futuristic, super-fast gun at sea in 2016”

RT News

Another US military ship is set to be deployed in the Black Sea amid the Ukrainian crisis. The US Navy destroyer Donald Cook will join the USS Truxtun, whose stay in waters bordering Russia was extended to ‘conduct drills’ with Romania and Bulgaria.

“We’ll also send another ship to the Black Sea within a week,” Derek Chollet, the US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs told the House Armed Services Committee, as he said the Department of Defense sanctioned to prolong USS Truxtun’s stay in the Black Sea “to conduct exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces,” after it left the region on March 21.   Continue reading “Second US Navy destroyer heads to Black Sea”

The Patriot Post

It’s a simple theory: More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more likely to prevent criminal negligence. This isn’t just the conjecture of right-wing extremists as the Left would have you believe; rather, it has strong statistical support in study after study.

You can now add another analysis to that mix – according to economist Mark Gius, more guns still equal less crime.   Continue reading “Concealed Carry and Murder Rates”

Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

Last year, lots of powerful groups tried to get a war going in Syria. It seemed to me that the necessary ground work hadn’t been done and that they might not be able to pull it off. Thankfully, that’s how it happened.

And by “necessary ground work,” I’m not referring to the military operators the US government had in Syria for a year or two prior; I’m talking about making the American populace eager for a new war. That’s a crucial and often ignored factor.   Continue reading “The War Drums are Beating”

Deal Book – by Andrew Ross Sorkin

It is the talk of the Valley.

A high-stakes negotiation is taking place in Silicon Valley among some of the biggest names in the industry — Apple and Googleamong them — over accusations that they were involved in a collusion to prevent their employees from being hired at rival companies. The employees filed a class-action suit, contending that the illegal hiring practices cost employees $9 billion in lost wages. Now the companies are locked in mediation sessions, hoping to settle the case in the next several weeks.   Continue reading “Tech Firms May Find No-Poaching Pacts Costly”