Yahoo Shine – by Beth Greenfield

A school-bus driver in rural Georgia who was fired after sticking up for a hungry student last spring has joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to file a lawsuit against the school district on Thursday for “violating [his] free speech rights.”

The bumpy ride for the driver, Johnny Cook of Tallapoosa, began last May, when he posted a Facebook message expressing concern for a middle-school student who told him he was hungry after being denied a school lunch for not having the necessary 40 cents on his account. Continue reading “Bus Driver Fired for Helping Hungry Student Fights Back With Lawsuit”

The Lonely Conservative

Via Jim Geraghty here’s a 2005 press release from Senator Richard Lugar on disarming Ukraine.

DONETSK, Ukraine – U.S. Senators Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL) called for the immediate destruction of 15,000 tons of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and light weapons, and 1,000 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) or shoulder missile launchers that are often sought by terrorists.   Continue reading “In 2005 Obama Pushed To Disarm Ukraine”

Bitcoin exchange website First Meta CEO reported to have committed suicide at 28Christian Today – by Benjamin Jones

According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide. Reasons are currently unknown.

First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange platform for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. The news of suicide of its CEO Autumn Radtke spread on Facebook and Twitter, drawing attention from the BItcoin industry.   Continue reading “Bitcoin exchange website First Meta CEO reported to have committed suicide at 28”

Live Leak – by aplaktr

The tax, officially known as a “storm water management fee,” will be enforced in nine of the state’s counties. The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to “raise revenue to cleanup [sic] the Chesapeake Bay,” according to MarylandReporter.com.

Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a Wednesday afternoon press release. The law “requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the ‘impervious surfaces’ on their land,” he says.   Continue reading “Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property”

The Rebel – by John Kaminski

The world increasingly makes no sense. It is awash in lies, financial scams and false flag murder. That everyone has not gone completely insane already is a miracle in itself, given the environmental and behavioral incentives to do so.

We look to those who can ease the pain of troubled minds and broken hearts, hoping they can provide some degree of understanding about a world in which the moral fabric we hope our children can absorb and pass on to their offspring has rotted into a sordid fast buck operation with no redeeming social value.   Continue reading “On a shrink and a prayer”

CBN – by David Brody

GREELEY, Colo. — If you mention the word “secession” most people think of the South during the Civil War. But today, a new movement is gaining steam because of frustration over a growing, out-of-control federal government.

A number of conservative, rural Americans are taking about seceding and creating their own states, meaning a new map of the United States of America could include the following:   Continue reading “The New USA? Secession Movement Gains Steam”

Russian President Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti / Alexey Nokolskiy)RT News

Russia will not go to war with the people of Ukraine, but will use its troops to protect citizens, if radicals with clout in Kiev now try to use violence against Ukrainian civilians, particularly ethnic Russians, Putin told the media.

Putin, who was given a mandate by the Russian senate to use military force to protect civilians in Ukraine, said there is no need for such an action yet.   Continue reading “Putin: Deploying military force is last resort, but we reserve right”

Attention Trenchers.  Our own Bulldog (Steve) and Mrs. (Missy) Bulldog will be taking to the airwaves this Thursday, March 6th at 9:00 pm Eastern, 8:00 pm Central, 7:00 pm Mountain, 6:00 pm Pacific on Liberty Tree Radio, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio, and our own Patriot Broadcast From the Trenches webcast and 89.5 micro FM Chiloquin, the State of Jefferson.

The program is called Get Ready It’s Coming.  Steve and Missy will be covering current events that indicate the time is near for conflict within our borders.  Learn how to put together your bug out bag.  Be prepared.  Also learn how to prep and store food and which tools will be essential in both the long and short term.   Continue reading “Trenchers Alert”

Pro Liberate – by William Norman Grigg

“I don’t know why there would be [one],” replied Idaho Falls Police Chief Mark McBride when asked if his department would apologize to Victor and Delosanto Madrigal and their family. “Just because a person is found not guilty doesn’t mean the officers were wrong.”

Actually, Chief McBride, that is precisely what this acquittal means, given that the charges in question were contrived by your officers to justify their own criminal behavior – and the only “evidence” supporting them was police testimony that the jury correctly determined to be entirely implausible, if not outright perjury.   Continue reading “Chief Mark McBride: The Crime Lord of Idaho Falls”

Dollar Vigilante – by Wendy McElroy

“Give me the children until they are seven, and anyone may have them afterwards.” – attrib. St. Francis Xavier.

Obama is cementing his redefinition of America by federalizing the minds of its future: children. The federal Common Core program seeks to “align” the curriculum and standards of public school systems that have been under state jurisdiction. The program is said to be voluntary but then, so are taxes.   Continue reading “US Schools Go Full-Bore Soviet”

Stop the Drug War – by Phillip Smith

A drug court probation officer parties down with one of his clients, a Georgia cop goes to prison for ripping off a drug dealer, and so does a Philadelphia cop. Keep an eye on Philly. The stench is really rising there. Let’s get to it:

In Philadelphia, a former Philadelphia narcotics officer pleaded guilty Monday to attempted robbery and firearms charges for stealing $15,000 from a Southwest Philly drug dealer after planting cocaine in his car. Jeffrey Walker, a 24-year veteran of the department, also agreed to testify against his former colleagues in a widening federal probe of corruption in the dope squad, and his lawyer said his crimes paled in comparison with those of other implicated officers.   Continue reading “This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories”

Zero Gov – by Bill Buppert

This series of essays have been concentrating on the more innocent and less strong among the population and the caging, maiming and killing that has been targeting the disabled to include the wheelchair-bound, disabled, deaf and blind.

This is the last in the series much to the relief of police apologists everywhere. The first four essays can be found here:   Continue reading “Badged Serial Killers: The Growing Murder Culture of Cops (Part V)”

Freedom Outpost – by Richard Anthony

If you’re like me you are paying attention to what is transpiring within our government. Many senior General officers are being fired (or “retired early”). Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and several other federal agencies are soliciting for hollow point ammunition on the pretext it will be used for “target practice.” Why does the Social Security Administration need hollow point ammo for target practice, you may ask? They don’t, but since the information about DHS soliciting for millions of rounds has some people alarmed, the government has decided to spread-out the purchases amongst other agencies as not to alarm the civilian population. This also coincides with foreign troops (Russian) practicing crowd control maneuvers on American soil. There has been an American “practice town” built for just this purpose. I could site more instances regarding FEMA camps and even the American 3rd Infantry Division’s new mission, but you get the idea, right?   Continue reading “A Storm is Brewing on the Horizon – Will Obama Declare Martial Law Before 2016?”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

Scrape away the media sensationalism and geopolitical posturing and it boils down to a simple dynamic: follow the energy.

Though many seem to believe that internal politics and geopolitical posturing in Ukraine are definitive dynamics, I tend to think the one that really counts is energy: not only who has it and who needs it, but where the consumers can get it from.

Let’s cut to the chase and declare a partition along long-standing linguistic and loyalty lines a done deal. Let’s also dispense with any notions that either side can impose a military solution in the other’s territory.   Continue reading “Ukraine: Follow the Energy”