From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post – by Matt Sledge

WASHINGTON — A major bill to reform the National Security Agency was introduced on Tuesday as the spy service’s director defended its activities before the House Intelligence Committee.

The bipartisan legislation introduced jointly by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is one of the most ambitious efforts to rein in the NSA’s spying powers in the wake of revelations made by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.  Continue reading “NSA Reform Bill Introduced As Agency Remains On The Defensive”

Huffington Post – by Shadee Ashtari

An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week.

Lawyers Against the War argued in a letter dated Sunday that Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen have a duty to arrest Cheney “as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture.”   Continue reading “Canadians Seek Dick Cheney’s Arrest For War Crimes During Upcoming Visit”

AmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- The Senate Judiciary Committee will soon begin the first step in taking anti-gun judges and “court-packing” them into what is widely regarded as the nation’s second-most-important court — the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

And, unlike anti-gun judges with no “paper trail,” the nominee, Robert Wilkins, has a particularly virulent anti-gun record.   Continue reading “Senate Committee to Vote on Anti-Gun Judge, Robert Wilkins for Nation’s 2nd-Highest Court”

RT News

Over 1,000 people showed up to protest the death of Andy Lopez hours before the funeral for the 13-year-old boy was scheduled to take place. California police fatally shot Lopez last week when they saw him carrying what turned out to be a toy rifle.

The Tuesday rally began at approximately 12pm local time and only seemed to grow as the day went on. Demonstrators planned to march through the small city of Santa Rosa, California, located approximately 50 miles north of San Francisco.   Continue reading “Thousands protest against police ahead of 13-year-old shooting victim’s funeral”

WND

The U.S. military says it has a new benefit for same-sex couples who are in the Armed Services and want to get “married.”

And it’s a taxpayer-funded perk available only to same-sex duos, not heterosexual couples.

It’s government-paid leave to travel to a state that recognizes same-sex “marriage.”   Continue reading “Military gives bonuses only to same-sex couples”

Max Velocity Tactical

As suggested by a blog reader, I have posted below the table of contents for Contact II.

Here is the comment (thank you MM1):

Media Research Center

RESTON, VA – In a bombshell report for NBC News.com, NBC News senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers found buried in the 2010 Obamacare regulations language predicting, “A reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate is forty percent to sixty-seven percent.” Myers’ reporting shows that Barack Obama knowingly lied to the American people for more than three years when he regularly insisted that those who like their current health insurance would be able to keep it under Obamacare.

Yet, according to an analysis from the Media Research Center, this massive, deliberate breach of trust was worthy of only 21 seconds of coverage on NBC Nightly News, buried at the end of the show’s fourth story, with no follow up on Today. ABC and CBS completely censored Lisa Myers’ discovery with not one single second of coverage on either their morning or evening programs.   Continue reading “NBC Buries Own Reporter To Hide Obama Lie”

Politics on the Hudson – by Joseph Spector

American Tactical Imports is leaving Rochester for South Carolina, blaming the move in part on the state’s gun-control law passed in January.

“As one of the gun industry’s top importers and manufactures of firearms and firearm related accessories, ATI’s decision to relocate is two-fold,” the company said in a news release yesterday.“ATI believes it is imperative that a firearms importer and manufacturer do business within a state that is friendly to the Second Amendment rights of the people.   Continue reading “Firearms maker leaves Rochester to “a state that is friendly to the Second Amendment rights of the people””

PR Newswire

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said gun ban groups and the Obama administration are engaged in “world-class hypocrisy” for criticizing gun rights organizations over “Guns Save Lives Day” – on the day after the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy – while planning their own lobbying effort and activities to exploit the event.

“When we launched ‘Guns Save Lives Day’ (GSLD) we were condemned for ‘poor taste’ by the same groups that are now reportedly planning a November lobbying effort, and media events coinciding with the Sandy Hook anniversary,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “According to Politico, the leading gun prohibition groups are coordinating with the Obama administration to fully exploit the Newtown anniversary to further their own political agenda, exactly as we predicted when we announced the GSLD project.   Continue reading “CCRKBA Blasts Hypocrisy of Gun Ban Groups, Obama Admin. on Newtown Exploitation”

The DC Caller

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped a cool $1 million in support of a campaign in Colorado to raise income taxes by nearly $1 billions a year.

Bloomberg’s intervention occurred even though Gov. John Hickenlooper recently appealed to deep-pocketed out-of-state groups to stay out of local politics.   Continue reading “Bloomberg drops $1 million into effort to raise taxes in Colorado by $1 billion”

AmmoLand

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- Assembly Bill 9 (when introduced last spring) would have, if passed, created a special class of off-duty and former law-enforcement officers who could carry places (school grounds) ‘we the people’ could not.

It also trampled private property rights of private individuals and businesses.

Wisconsin Carry was able to get amendments to the bill that would have extended the right to carry on school grounds to concealed carry license holders AND protected the private property rights of private homes and businesses.   Continue reading “Wisconsin’s ‘Only Ones’ Concealed Carry Bill AB 9 Off the Calendar for 2013”