From the Trenches World Report

Town Hall – by John Hawkins, November 23, 2013

1) He’s sending weapons to Libya to help repair America’s strained relationship with Al-Qaeda.

2) Parents all across the country can now point to Barack Obama’s performance when they’re explaining to their children why they shouldn’t use drugs.   Continue reading “15 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is the Greatest President In American History!”

Easy Bake Gun Club

Yesterday was the ATF raiding Ares Arms in California.

What never got reported was Tuesday’s massive highway roadblock and car to car searches by armed law enforcement officers in Maryland. Were there warrants for these searches? No. Was there reasonable cause to stop every commuter at 10a.m. on a Tuesday morning? No.   Continue reading “Massive Roadblock, Warrantless Searches in Maryland”

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Examiner – by Kurt Hofmann

Last Monday, we looked at the previous Friday’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raid on EP Armory, in Bakersfield, California. EP Armory is best known for the “80%” AR-15 lower receivers it sells, especially (and most directly related to the current situation) their Kevlar-reinforced polymer models, that by virtue of using differently colored material to distinguish what needs to be removed by drilling and/or milling from that which is to be left behind, makes the operation pretty straightforward, even without using jigs to guide the process.   Continue reading “ATF requiring license for renting out tooling, offering instruction?”

Time – by Denver Nicks

Last year’s deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard could have been prevented with better oversight of security clearances and improved on-site security, according to an internal Pentagon investigation released Tuesday.

“Had proper procedures been followed [in vetting personnel for access to secure facilities], the chain of events that led to the incident on September 16,2013, would have been interrupted,” the report says.   Continue reading “Navy Yard Shooting Review Recommends Security Clearance Reforms”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Something hilarious, and at the same time pathetic, happened earlier today: at precisely 9 am the US Treasury released its delayed Treasury International Capital data (which was supposed to be released yesterday but was delayed because it snowed) which disclosed all the latest foreign Treasury holdings for the month of January. Among the key numbers tracked and disclosed, was that China’s official holdings increased from $1.270 trillion to $1.284 trillion, that Japan holdings declined by a tiny $0.2 billion, that UK holdings increased by $7.8 billion to $171 billion, and that holdings of Caribbean Banking Centers, aka hedge funds, declined by $16.7 billion. Here is Reuters with the full data summary (save it before this article is pulled).   Continue reading “Meet The Brand New, And Shocking, Third Largest Foreign Holder Of US Treasurys”

RT News

US sociologists have long said that the majority of Americans will not be Caucasian past the coming decades. Already in California, Latinos have become the majority demographic, though political representation is another matter.

In March, for the first time ever, the official population of California will be 39-percent Latino, nudging past the 38.8-percent of state residents who are white non-Hispanic and far more than the comparatively small Asian American and African American demographics.   Continue reading “Latinos become the majority in California, but remain political lightweights”

Jonathan Turley

Jordan Wiser, a student at Ashtabula County Technical School in Jefferson, Ohio is rightfully confused after being being arrested for bringing a weapon into school. The “weapon” was a pocket knife that he had in his EMT medical vest . . . that was locked into the truck of his car. That’s right, in the latest example of the insane application of zero tolerance rules, the school officials called police after searching the trunk of a locked car to find a pocket knife used by a senior in his work as a EMT. He was then fed into a legal system that refused to show discretion in his prosecution. Notably, prosecutor Harold Specht ran for office based on a pledge that he would maintain a “hardline, zero tolerance policy” as a prosecutor. It was the perfect storm for Wiser: zero tolerance administrators handing a student over to a zero tolerance prosecutor. But it gets worse . . .   Continue reading “Ohio Student Expelled, Arrested, Spent 13 Days In Jail…After A Small Pocketknife Is Found In His Locked Car Trunk by School Officials”

Before It’s News – by stompk

I’ve believed the US/UK military has been involved in this all along, and that the plane was flown to Diego Garcia. Now, it seems all evidence is pointing that way..

KUALA LUMPUR: The airport runway of Diego Garcia is among the top five locations the investigative team discovered on the simulator programme in Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s residence in Shah Alam last Saturday, as reported by Berita Harian.   Continue reading “MH370 Pilot’s Simulator Had Diego Garcia Landing Programmed In”

United Liberty – by Jason Pye

During a recent appearance at the American Enterprise Institute, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern about the effect a minimum wage hike would have on the demand for labor, intimating that the Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty measure makes more sense.

“You know, when people say we should raise the minimum wage, I know some economists disagree, but I think, boy, I worry about what that does to job creation,” Gates told a crowd gathered at the conservative think tank. “The idea that through the Earned Income Tax Credit, you would end up with a certain minimum wage that you’d receive — that, I understand better than potentially damping demand in the part of the labor spectrum that I’m most worried about.”   Continue reading “Bill Gates concerned minimum wage hike would dampen demand for labor”

Freedom Outpost – by David Risselada

For those of you who are regular readers of my articles, you know I like to get a little conspiratorial at times. In fact, one of my biggest, most common themes is comparing America’s state under the current Commissar to the 45 declared goals of the Communist Party. Given the fact that these goals were entered into the congressional record in 1965, it is safe to say that the communist influence in the USA has transpired a bit beyond the conspiratorial and is based more in reality than what many would like to admit.   Continue reading “It’s a Communist Conspiracy Folks – That’s the Only Explanation”

Anti-War – by John Glaser

Bill Kristol is not shy about his fetish for war. His latest piece at the neoconservative Weekly Standard borders on self-parody in the way that it openly longs for a return to a time when Americans were eager to send the U.S. military off on unnecessary, imperialistic adventures.

Kristol is frustrated by the “war-weariness” of the nation. He laments the reluctance on the part of the Republican Party to “challenge” “the idol of war-weariness.”   Continue reading “Bill Kristol Calls For Americans to be ‘Awakened and Rallied’ to War”