From the Trenches World Report

Tenth Amendment Center

The Bundy stand-off in Nevada has induced several people to ask me about the extent to which the federal government can own land, at least under the Constitution’s intended meaning. As it happens, in 2005 I studied the issue in depth, and published the following article: Federal Land Retention and the Constitution’s Property Clause: The Original Understanding, 76 U. Colo. L. Rev. 327 (2005).

In a nutshell, here’s what I found:   Continue reading “Ownership of Federal Land: Answers Suggested by the Bundy Standoff”

Warning Signs – by Alan Caruba

In a letter of advice to Peter Carr, dated August 19, 1785, Thomas Jefferson said “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions”

Considering that all but the most dense know that President Obama is now famous for lying repeatedly to secure public support for the Affordable Care Act –“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan”—we are all at a point of history in which this contemptible behavior by the President is being replicated by Democratic Party politicians seeking to be elected or reelected.

Continue reading “Are Lying and Politics the Same Thing?”

BBC News – by Andy Walker

A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.

In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos disembarked from the Krakow train at Vienna’s North Terminal station.

Of dark complexion, he sported a large peasant’s moustache and carried a very basic wooden suitcase.   Continue reading “1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place”

21st Century Wire – by Patrick Henningsen

One of the key underlying postulates of overseas wars has been somewhat lost on many Americans who have been conditioned through top-down political and mass media narratives over the years, to only see geopolitical and military events in binary form –freedom vs fascism, good vs evil, capitalism vs communist, and west vs east. The concept not mentioned in that list has been fundamental throughout history, and it is as follows: what is endorsed overseas will eventually come home to roost.

Think about it. The decades-long phase we’ve all witnessed – of the United States Federal Government’s hyper-militarisation overseas is already firmly planted on US soil.
Continue reading “The Painful Truth: Washington DC Thugs Have Already Crossed the Rubicon”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

The Obama administration has a new partner in crime and it is the American Psychiatric Association (APA).  The APA created the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (5th Edition) which was recently adopted. DSM 5 is highly controversial and has sparked outrage from the mental health practitioners. As many of these practitioners point out, the new DSM-V makes a pathology out simple and normal behaviors such as grieving for the loss of a loved one.

This constitutes a new subjective approach in diagnosing of mental illness that it promises  to end free speech and any form of political dissent. The federal government has already declared anyone who oppose its unconstitutional policies as having “political paranoia,”  which is now diagnosed as a type of mental illness.   Continue reading “Psychiatrists Are the New Federal Gun Control Agents and Political Thought Police”

Yahoo News – by Jim Gomez

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines have reached a 10-year agreement that would allow a larger U.S. military presence in this Southeast Asian nation as it grapples with increasingly tense territorial disputes with China, White House officials said Sunday.

Two Philippine officials confirmed the agreement to The Associated Press before the White House announcement.   Continue reading “US, Philippines reach deal on troops”

USA Today – by Kevin Johnson

WASHINGTON — A record surge in recent firearms production and transactions have swamped the federal government’s automated registration system for select weapons, including machine guns.

In a notice earlier this month to the firearms industry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it was temporarily suspending parts of its computerized system to shore up capacity in part to process the required registration and transfer of National Firearms Act covered weapons, which also include silencers, short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles and some explosive devices.   Continue reading “Firearms applications surge, swamp registration system”

Examiner – by Joe Newby

On Friday, John Jacob Schmidt of Radio Free Redoubtsaid that according to Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, Attorney General Eric Holder has approved drone strikes against the Bundy ranch to take place some time in the next 48 hours. According to Schmidt, the information came from a source Oath Keepers has within the Department of Defense.

That source, according to the report, allegedly said Attorney General Eric Holder authorized what is known as a “hot drone strike” against the ranch. Such a strike, he added would effectively kill everyone at the ranch.   Continue reading “Report claims Eric Holder approved drone strike against Bundy ranch”

Fox News

Illinois Democrats are backing off a plan to give $100 million of state money toward landing President Obama’s presidential library and museum — following accusations of voting “shenanigans” and nasty Chicago-style politics, not to mention the state’s dire financial situation.

A Democrat-led House committee approved the money last week at an out-of-town hearing in Chicago with no Republicans in attendance. They instead relied on a procedural move that allowed them to use votes from a previous meeting.   Continue reading “Illinois Dems back off $100 million push for Obama library following outrage”

Fox News -April 20, 2014

President Bashar Assad on Sunday toured a historic Christian village his forces recently captured from rebels, state media said, as the country’s Greek Orthodox Patriarch vowed that Christians in the war-ravaged country “will not submit and yield” to extremists.

Syrian state TV and the country’s official SANA news agency said Assad was in Maaloula, inspecting the damage done in recent fighting to its monasteries and churches.   Continue reading “Syrian President Assad reportedly visits Christian village”

There is a growing awareness that our elected officials like Harry”Dirty Harry”  Reid have or are selling the American people as collateral to a hostile power that has declared the United States as is principal enemy… The People’s Republic of China

Moreover, there is a movement afoot to identify patriot prosecutors, judges and sheriffs and patriots willing to sit on grand juries to determine whether their representatives have committed any state crimes and to indict them in the various states, and to get ride of them while isolating WA DC.   Continue reading “The Bundy Incident and Rumors of War”

Newsday – by Nicole Fuller

A Brooklyn man says a Suffolk police officer threatened to take him to a wooded area and beat him after a traffic stop, according to a lawsuit filed last Friday in U.S. District Court.

The lawsuit alleges Sandino Hazzard’s civil rights were violated after an officer pulled him over in North Babylon a couple of years ago and falsely arrested him. In addition, police used excessive force when an unidentified officer allegedly “pushed, assaulted and strip searched” Hazzard, the suit states.   Continue reading “Brooklyn man alleges in lawsuit he was threatened by Suffolk cop”

Philly.com – by Aubrey Whelan and Mike Newall

Tampa Bay Times – by Dan Sullivan

TAMPA — A Tampa police detective was fired Thursday amid a federal grand jury investigation into potential criminal conduct, police Chief Jane Castor said.

Detective Eric Houston, who worked on some of the department’s highest profile cases, was dismissed several weeks after a department investigator found Houston was involved in suspected criminal activity, Castor said. She refused to give specifics about the accusations but said the information was turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.    Continue reading “Tampa police detective fired amid accusations of criminal conduct”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution – by Rodney Thrash

The person of interest who prompted a lockdown of the state’s third largest university posed no threat to the campus community, officials said this afternoon.

About 2 p.m., Kennesaw State officials received a call about a suspicious man on campus with a possible weapon and put the school on lockdown as a precaution, university spokeswoman Tammy DeMel told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an emailed statement.   Continue reading “Univ. goes into lock-down over student with a cell phone in front pocket”

Canada Free Press – by Timothy Birdnow

The internet has been buzzing for the last few days with hysterical hypocrisy from the Left over some remarks made by Clive Bundy, the Nevada Rancher who recently staved off a paramilitary assault by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Bundy made a comment that perhaps black people were better off slaves (as opposed to the neo-slavery of benevolent government.) He was roundly thrashed for his remarks.   Continue reading “Saul Alinsky Tactics and the BLM War”

WND – by Patrice Lewis

The horrifying headlines were coming so thick and fast this month it was hard to keep up:

• “Feds want your mental health records”
• “Judge says ordinary tools are actually weapons”
• “Hundred of thousands of New Yorkers refuse to register so-called ‘assault weapons’ ahead of April 15 deadline”

Continue reading “So When’s the Revolution?”

Christian Mercenary – by T.L. Davis

Liberty is not about Cliven Bundy, it never was. The support Bundy received was in direct proportion to his request for such help. I have nowhere else seen a rancher or land owner asking for the help of the patriot/liberty community. Nowhere else have I seen an aggrieved individual requesting the help of militias to defend their liberties. We are here, we are available.

This is a necessary step in the process.
Continue reading “Blood of Patriots”