From the Trenches World Report

St. Louis Post-Dispatch – by Christine Byers

ST. LOUIS • In Chief Sam Dotson’s vision of modern policing, a drone would circle Busch Stadium to watch for terrorists, or silently pursue a criminal who thought the chase was over when the officer in the car behind him turned off its red lights and siren.

And Dotson is working to make it happen.   Continue reading “St. Louis police chief wants drones to monitor city from the sky”

Heartland – by Loren Heal

The Los Angeles Unified School District will use a state grant to train teens to promote ObamaCare to family members. Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange, announced grants of $37 million on May 14 to promote the nationally unpopular law.

LAUSD will receive $990,000. The district listed as a primary outcome for its project, “Teens trained to be messengers to family members.”   Continue reading “California Schools to Train Kids to Sell ObamaCare”

Down with Tyranny – by Ken

Howie will have quite a lot to say about the Supreme Court ruling in the morning, and I’m happy to give the subject a pass. I’d probably just fulminate, and probably calumniate — the Five Supreme Lunks, that is. (Howie’s going to have some point-by-point on them too.)

Instead I thought I’d retreat into the political weirdosphere. From our local online news emporium DNAinfo.com this evening:   Continue reading “Antony Weiner is now the NYC mayoral front runner”

Laissez-Faire – by Jeffrey Tucker

Dear rest of the world: Please know that it is painful for Americans to see what is happening in the case of Edward Snowden.

Here he is flying from Hong Kong to Russia — countries that seem like safe havens from the long reach of the U.S. empire. Where will he end up? Could be Iceland, Venezuela, or Ecuador. He needs someplace to go where the authorities can’t be intimated to turn him over to his jailers and possible executioners.   Continue reading “Snowden’s Flight to Freedom”

The Organic Prepper

You’re in estimable and well-educated company if you don’t believe in the myth of global warming.  However, according to Obama, those who doubt the climate change propaganda are members of the “Flat Earth Society” –  basically, superstitious fools.

Ironically, Obama is the one using junk science and emotion in order to further an agenda, because man-made climate change is a myth that has been disproved.   Continue reading “Arrogant Obama Insults Skeptics: “We don’t have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society””

Chron – by Jason Stanford

As Gov. Rick Perry touts the Texas Miracle to lure businesses from New York, Sen. Barbara Boxer will hold a hearing this week on the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. But back home in Texas where 16 fertilizer plants are as large as the one in West, officials are putting the lazy in laissez-faire by adopting a voluntary “fertilizer happens” plan. Apparently Texans are on their own when it comes to industrial accidents, and the only government that bears any responsibility is the one in Washington that should be paying to rebuild everything.   Continue reading “Rick Perry’s anti-regulation zeal may bring business to Texas, but it also risks Texans’ safety”

12 News

(CNN) — The Texas town devastated by an April fertilizer plant explosion is suing the company that supplied the plant with ammonium nitrate, arguing the supplier sold the volatile compound “blindly” to a firm that didn’t handle it properly.

The city of West, Texas, accuses Adair Grain, which operated as the West Fertilizer Company, of negligently storing ammonium nitrate on its grounds before the April 17 blast. It also accused Illinois-based CF Industries of selling West Fertilizer about 200 tons of the compound without investigating whether the plant could store it safely.   Continue reading “West, TX sues fertilizer supplier after blast”

Max Velocity Tactical

I had a good group for this last weekend’s training. I will update here with any AARs or photos that come in. I have evolved the training schedule for the weekend a little. I have to base the progress of the training on how the students respond to it over the course of the two days and I had a goal this weekend of doing at least an introduction to team flanking assault, in order to show this technique following the training in basic fire and movement tied in with break contact drills up to team (four person) level.   Continue reading “June 22/23 Training Weekend + Bunker Assault”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

Following weekend revelations that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) website is registered to a New York City government server and apparently administered by city employees, a Bellevue-based gun rights group wants New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate.

CBS News, Politico and others learned about the MAIG website registration and Monday morning, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms called on Schneiderman to determine whether any laws have been broken. Gottlieb told Examiner that using taxpayer-owned computer servers to host a website for a politically-motivated gun control group is “pretty tacky.”    Continue reading “Bellevue group wants Bloomberg investigated by NYAG”

New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND ERIN DURKIN

Two bills that would rein in controversial police tactics took a major step forward in New York City Council on Monday — even as Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned that the bills would aid criminals and terrorists.

“Take heart, Al Qaeda wannabes,” Kelly said as he joined Bloomberg to trash the bills before the Council vote.   Continue reading “Bloomberg says NYC anti-stop-and-frisk measures would help crooks, terrorists”

New York Post – by TARA PALMERI

Mayor Bloomberg is spending city cash and resources on his pet project to toughen US gun laws through his national organization, The Post has learned.

City employee Christopher Kocher was sent to Nevada as a representative of Mayors Against Illegal Guns to lobby for a bill that enforces background checks on all firearm sales in that state.   Continue reading “Bloomberg spending NYC cash, resources on Nevada trip as part of push for tougher gun laws”