From the Trenches World Report

Canada Free Press – by Bob Burdick

Mom plunged into depression when Dad died.  I had tested my wings and left the nest years earlier, and now, for the first time in her life, Mom was alone.  I lived nearby andchecked on her often, but it didn’t take a trained eye to see she wasn’t faring well.  She shunned friends and neighbors, lost weight because she wasn’t eating properly, and the “toddy” she once enjoyed before bedtime was now poured in mid afternoon.  One day I caught her drinking at noon.  I couldn’t allow this to continue.

“I can’t eat all that!”We spent the next day together.  I woke her at dawn; fixed my breakfast specialty of steak, eggs, and hash browns; and then set the platter before her with a fresh cup of coffee and a small glass of orange juice.   Continue reading “Cowgirls Need Love Too”

Bluebird of Bitterness

“We had a problem in this nation because so many people couldn’t afford health insurance. So what’s Obama’s plan? Simply charge those folks money for not having enough money! Brilliant! Oh, but his master strategy doesn’t stop there. It used to be expensive to buy insurance on the individual-market — now it will be TWICE as expensive for men, and only almost twice as expensive for women!

“Do you see how this works? Problem: Insurance is expensive. Solution: Make it more expensive, and then tax people for not buying it.” —Matt Walsh   Continue reading “Cruz missiles, train wrecks, and broken promises”

Goes to show that you never never call the cops.

New York Daily News – by Joe Kemp

A Missouri man arrested during a scuffle with emergency workers who were attending to his suicidal daughter says he’s still fighting the charges six months later.

Kevin Russell said he and his son were handcuffed to a bench in a Joplin police station as his 16-year-old daughter, Brooke, died March 17 at a nearby hospital.   Continue reading “Missouri man arrested after spat with EMT responding to daughter’s suicide, held for more than three hours before he learns girl died”

Lew Rockwell – by Eric Margolis

“Most armed; most free.”  So the renowned Italian thinker and strategist Niccolo Machiavelli described the Swiss five centuries ago.

That was a time when the 30 ft pikes and deadly halbards (pole axes) of Switzerland’s fierce mercenary armies were the terror of Europe.   The “furia Helvetica” ruled the battlefields until 1515 at Marignano when French guns, firing at point-blank range, tore apart the massed Swiss pike phalanxes.   Continue reading “Most Armed; Most Free”

This is rich. FOX is whining about McCain hiring a liar when FOX employs dozens of liars, like Willim Kristol, fired from the NYT for lying and Judith Miller, fired from the NYT for passing on lies about Iraq. And ‘Colonel’ North, who was convicted of committing perjury before a joint Congressional committee.

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Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   Continue reading “McCain hires controversial Syria analyst who inflated credentials”

Raw Story – by Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist”.   Continue reading “Seymour Hersh on Death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s One Big Lie, Not One Word Of It Is True’”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The West was ready to attack Syria and Iran weeks ago. Now the world is reaching for the banner of peace in unprecedented fashion! This is absolutely something you need to be paying attention. Must read our comments on, “They Cry Peace: UN Security Council Unanimously Adopts Syria Resolution.”   Continue reading “Peace: Obama Speaks to Iran’s Rouhani, Believes Resolution of Nuclear Issues is Possible”

KETK

CNN) — Nine months after the Sandy Hook school shooting tragedy, President Barack Obama seems to be borrowing one of the ideas first presented by the NRA, putting millions of dollars into funding armed police officers in schools across the country.

Friday afternoon the Justice Department announced about $45 million in funding intended to create 356 new school resource officer positions under the federal COPS grants.   Continue reading “Obama admin borrows a page from the NRA, funding cops in schools”

AmmoLand – by Alan Korwin

PHOENIX, AZ –(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is doing everything they can to take guns off the street, lock up criminals and make the world safer for all of us.   Continue reading “Mayors Against Guns Bleeding Members”

Business Insider – by Sam Ro

Albert Edwards, the skeptical strategist at Societe Generale, has a lengthy note discussing America’s inequality problem.

In 10-pages, he cites the works of numerous economists including Joseph Stiglitz and points to the concerns of the wealthy and influential like Warren Buffett, Bill Gross, and Stanley Druckenmiller.   Continue reading “ALBERT EDWARDS: The Fed Is Inflating A Housing Bubble To Hide A Destabilizing Economic Problem”

Resister in the Rockies – by Ironwill III

Gabriel Gomez is a former candidate for U.S. Senator of Massachusetts. He is a former Navy SEAL (credentials here) but despite his Oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, he has some qualms about protecting the 2nd Amendment in it’s entirety, as can be read in his article he wrote for the Boston Globe.   Continue reading “Bracken’s Reply to Gun Grabbing Gabriel Gomez – Former SEAL”

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