From the Trenches World Report

USA Today – by Alan Gomez

President Obama has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a system-wide review of the way it enforces the nation’s immigration laws, asking the department “to see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law,” according to a White House statement.

The order comes at a critical time for the president, who continues pushing Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, but is facing increased pressure from immigration advocates who say he should halt all deportations until a new law is passed.   Continue reading “Obama wants deportation handled ‘more humanely’”

Bloomberg – by Ott Ummelas

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to “invade eastern Ukraine” after occupying the country’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, Estonia said.

Russia warned that Ukraine’s government has lost control of the country today, fueling concern the Kremlin may extend a military intervention as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for it to halt a takeover of the disputed province.   Continue reading “Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says”

The Right to Bear

For a short time, it appeared that Connecticut police officers might go door to door to confiscate guns from gun owners who’d tried to register their now-illegal firearms after the filing deadline.

But then it was discovered that more than 68% of Connecticut cops have failed to comply with the new gun registration laws that went into effect early this year.   Continue reading “68% of Connecticut Cops Have Failed to Register Firearms According to the New Law”

Try not to laugh!

CNN Money – by Jose Pagliery 

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called President Obama on Wednesday night to express frustration about the government’s spying and hacking programs.

“When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA”

Chron – by Craig Hlavaty

The family of a Robstown Independent School District student has filed a federal lawsuit against the Robstown Police Department, the school district, and the city of Robstown, after one of its officers allegedly choked the student to the point of passing out.

The student’s offense?  He was throwing milk in his school’s cafeteria, the suit says.

At the time of the February 2012 incident, the male student, whose is unnamed in the suit, was enrolled at Ortiz Intermediate School.   Continue reading “Federal lawsuit accuses Texas cop of choking milk-throwing student”

Illustrating again how the TSA has its operations outside of airports, bus passengers in Pittsburgh will be eyeballed by TSA agents during a “security exercise” involving multiple agencies that begins today.

CBS Pittsburgh – by Heather Abraham

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – If you take the bus or T to work, you may notice increased security at your stop today.   Continue reading “Port Authority To Perform Joint Security Exercise”

Chicago Tribune – by David Heinzmann

CenturyLink

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is the latest example of a very rare event in aviation: a plane that vanishes.

With radar, radio traffic and other technology, planes that crash are usually found quickly. But sometimes searches can take days or weeks if the plane disappears over open ocean or remote and rugged land areas.

Since the dawn of the jet age in 1958, here are some other notable disappearances (not all were jets):   Continue reading “Mystery of missing jet recalls past disappearances”

Freedom Outpost – by Joshua Cook

In a bizarre turn of events at the South Carolina state capital today, U.S. Senate candidate Dave Feliciano of Spartanburg, showed up at a press conference, (in blue jeans) and called Senator Lindsey Graham “ambiguously gay.”

The purpose of the press conference was to show unity between the candidates challenging Graham by signing a pledge.   Continue reading “U.S. Senate Candidate Dave Feliciano: “We’re Tired of the Ambiguously Gay Senator from South Carolina””

Militia News

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed as a result of the 911, when [supposedly] 19 jihadists, Radical Muslim terrorists, most of whom came from Saudi Arabia, who were armed with box-cutter knives, took over the planes and flew them into the Pentagon and the twin Towers.

Since its awkward birth in 2003, it’s safe to say the baby never learned to walk, or stopped flinging its food or sucking its thumb. But it has grown. An umbrella agency that now incorporates 22 different agencies and components with some 240,000 employees, it has survived mostly because of natural bureaucratic intransigence, but fed also, by the lingering specter of 9/11, which gives it near-impenetrable political security. It is currently receiving appropriations of $39 billion for fiscal year 2013 (and that is after sequestration).   Continue reading “It Is Time To Defund And Abolish The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)”

Before It’s News

This is the first properly constructed investigative journalism examination I’ve found of the events that occurred concerning the ONLY witness – “Danny” – to the “confessions” of the two brothers accused of the crime.

Why did the brothers bother to carjack Danny or anyone at all, confess the bombing to him and allow him to escape to tell the only available tale when they could have just left Dodge?   Continue reading “The Entire Case Against Boston Bombers is Based on One Witness “Protected” by FBI & CIA Oversight Agencies”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Both sides of the legislative attempt to block enforcement of key provisions of ObamaCare in South Carolina are ratcheting up their efforts.

A bill the supporter calls a “blueprint for other states” is pending in the state Senate and, although not as strong a nullification of the president’s pet project as some would prefer, it does retain the right of state agents to refuse to execute portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).   Continue reading “South Carolina’s Fight Over ObamaCare Heats Up in State Senate”

New York Times – by CLIFFORD KRAUSS

HOUSTON — Four years after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, BP is being welcomed back to seek new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

An agreement on Thursday with the Environmental Protection Agency lifts a 2012 ban that was imposed after the agency concluded that BP had not fully corrected problems that led to the well blowout in 2010 that killed 11 rig workers, spilled millions of gallons of oil and contaminated hundreds of miles of beaches.   Continue reading “U.S. Agrees to Allow BP Back Into Gulf Waters to Seek Oil”

About.com

Following the demise of the Soviet Union and its domination over Eastern Europe in 1991, the constituent components of Yugoslavia began to dissolve. For some time, Serbia, retaining the name of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and under control of the genocidal Slobodan Milosevic, forcefully retained possession of nearby provinces.

Over time, places such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro gained independence. The southern Serbian region of Kosovo, however, remained part of Serbia. The Kosovo Liberation Army fought Milosevic’s Serbian forces and a war of independence took place from about 1998 through 1999.   Continue reading “Why is it okay for Kosovo to declare independence but not Crimea?”