From the Trenches World Report

Yahoo News – by CHRISTINA NG | ABC News

A Washington prosecutor who is charging two boys aged 10 and 11 with conspiracy to commit murder concedes that it is “very rare” to try someone so young, but said the felony charges were necessary because the boys’ crime was premeditated and experts determined they were “a danger to others.”

The fifth graders from Colville, Wash., were arrested in February and Steven County Superior Courtjudge ruled recently that the boys are competent to stand trial on murder conspiracy charges, witness tampering and juvenile possession of a firearm.   Continue reading “Fifth Graders Charged With Murder Conspiracy Are ‘Danger to Others’”

Yahoo News – by DYLAN LOVAN | Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A soldier apprehended Thursday in Tennessee was charged with murder in the shooting death of a civilian employee at Kentucky’s Fort Knox a day earlier.

The FBI said in a court filing that Marquinta E. Jacobs fired a .45-caliber handgun at the victim, “striking him several times.” Jacobs is charged with murder, according to the criminal complaint.   Continue reading “Soldier charged with murder in Fort Knox shooting”

NY Daily News

Three Indian smoke shops must pay more than $10 million to New York City for trafficking untaxed cigarettes off a Long Island reservation, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled.

Judge Carol Amon also prohibited the bootleg smoke sellers — which operated on the Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic — from ever selling untaxed cigarettes again.   Continue reading “Cough up $10M! Cigarette shops on L.I. reservation burned for untaxed sales”

Such a humanitarian. I’d rather see his head on a platter.

Huffington Post – by JOSH LEDERMAN

WASHINGTON — Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts.   Continue reading “Obama To Return 5 Percent Of His Salary In Solidarity With Furloughed Federal Workers”

TL In Exile – by T.L. Davis

It is very simple: the resistance will not be organized. There is no way to get people together on anything at this stage and there aren’t many more stages left.

Obama is “constrained” by the Constitution. He considers that wrong, but we know that constraining people like him is the whole purpose of the Constitution. Of course he feels constrained by it, he is supposed to and so is everyone else in a position of immense power. He is constrained by our rights and so has done everything he can to obliterate them.   Continue reading “That Magical Moment”

Bob Owens

Leftists in Connecticut and Maryland have pushed through extreme and unconstitutional gun laws in the past 24 hours. The question now becomes whether or not firearms manufacturing companies in those locations will now leave states which will not allow their employees to own the very guns they build for American citizens.

Colt, Marlin, Mossberg, Stag Arms, and Sturm Ruger are major firearms manufacturers in Connecticut.   Continue reading “Maryland, Connecticut pass sweeping gun control laws. Will major gun companies leave now that their products have been made illegal?”

Bob Owens

During a stop on his permanent campaign last night at a private residence in San Francisco, President Barack Obama claimed that the Sandy Hook shooter used a machine gun:

Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues:  gun control.  (Applause.)  I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.   Continue reading “During a San Fran fundraiser, Serial Liar Obama claims Lanza used “fully automatic weapon.””

Bob Owens

New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney claims that her office has received death threats as a result of her anti-constitutional activities:

Rep. Carolyn Maloney said she received death threats Tuesday at her upper East Side office warning her not to move forward with gun control legislation.   Continue reading “Bloody calculus”

Journal Sentinel – by Paul Gores

The defense products unit of National Presto Industries Inc. has been awarded a $64.5 million contract to produce ammunition, the company said Tuesday.

The new award, which went to National Presto’s AMTEC Corp. subsidiary, is part of a five-year deal with the U.S. Army starting in 2010 to supply 40mm practice and tactical ammunition. Deliveries are scheduled largely for 2014 and 2015. The new order brings the total amount awarded to AMTEC under the current 40mm contract to $477.8 million, the company said.   Continue reading “National Presto wins $64.5 million defense contract”

Destiny Survival

Body armor is protective clothing that has been designed to protect the body from any kind of penetrating attack or gun shot. At first they were used by the military and the police personnel but now they are becoming common among the private citizens too. The biggest problem that comes with the body armor is their uncomfortable structure. Efforts have been made by many companies to make them comfortable and improve their structure. The improved facility helps in moving easily and reducing the problems during summers.   Continue reading “Body Armor: Just Protective Clothing”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

As the potential for a globally destabilizing event becomes ever more probable, many concerned Americans are starting to wonder where they’d go if the worst were to happen.

To help answer that question, we can start by identifying the areas of the country to avoid.   Continue reading “America’s Death Zones: Where NOT To Be When It Hits the Fan”

The New American – by Bob Adelmann

At noon on Thursday Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy (shown, signing bill) signed into law a wide-ranging bill in response to last year’s shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. After weeks of closed-door negotiations between Republican and Democrat leaders and another 13 hours of debate on Wednesday, the 139-page bill was passed by the House, 105-44. It had previously passed the Senate, 26-10.   Continue reading “Connecticut Governor Signs Toughest Gun Bill in America”

Examiner – by David Codrea

Legislation currently being finessed by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats poses threats to privacy rights as well as a danger of creating unintentional criminals, American Civil Liberties Union “top lobbyist” Chris Calabrese told The Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese in an exclusive article posted early this morning.

“[T]he group thinks Reid’s current gun bill could threaten both privacy rights and civil liberties,” the report explains. “The inclusion ofuniversal background checks — the poll-tested lynchpin of most Democratic proposals — raises two significant concerns.”   Continue reading “‘Universal background check’ opponents get unexpected boost from ACLU”

Washington’s Blog

Is Fukushima Causing Health Problems In the United States?

Infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this.

However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone in the world is a healthy man in his 20s.   Continue reading “Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington”

Staten Island Live – by Carol Ann Benanti

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Experts maintain that women who drink alcohol in moderation have a better chance of staying healthy as they age than non-drinkers — especially if they spread out their consumption over most days of the week.

And now, one South Beach woman — a super centenarian in fact, who seems to have acquired just the right recipe for longevity — has adopted that theory and lives the above-mentioned hypothesis each and every day. Read on and we’ll explain!   Continue reading “At 101, Staten Island woman shares her recipe for living a long life”

The Asahi Shimbun – by YOSHIHIRO MAKINO, February 15, 2013

Senior U.S. administration officials held secret talks in North Korea on at least three occasions in 2011 and 2012, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

Although the visits had potential implications for Japan, Washington did not inform its security partner at the time and only informally confirmed one of them when the Japanese side pressed, government and other sources in Japan, South Korea and the United States said.   Continue reading “LEFT IN THE DARK: Secret U.S. military flights carried officials, equipment to N. Korea”

Examiner – by Gregory Patin

It has been widely reported since at least 2010 that U.S. corporations and the wealthiest Americans have taken advantage of tax loopholes by hiding their assets in offshore subsidiaries (a.k.a. tax havens) in order to avoid paying U.S. income taxes. The amount of money hidden in these tax havens and what the lost revenue means to the American people has not been so widely reported.

According to several sources, including the BBC, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) and James Henry, former Chief Economist at McKinsey & Company, the top 1% of wealthiest Americans and corporations have deposited between $21 and $32 trillion in tax havens in order to evade U.S. taxes. The top seven U.S. banks, furthermore, account for over $10 trillion in assets in more than 10,000 overseas subsidiaries.   Continue reading “Closing corporate tax havens: The solution to the sequester (and world poverty)”