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Blessed Independence Day from The Trenches

It did not begin or end with these words, but July 4th, 1776 altered the course of History. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume [...]

Breaking News: SCOTUS Upholds Obamacare, “The Tax That is Not a Tax”

The mind of the left is a fascinating thing to behold. For a party that prides itself on being “progressive” and “liberal”, they certainly embrace tyranny and oppression with an alarming lack of irony. Not only have they adopted this “government must either provide for ‘free’ or force a largely unwilling populace into behaving a [...]

Is This The Swatter?

On the heels of last week’s swatting attempt on CNN Contributor and RedState managing editor Erick Erickson, I decided to host a podcast to discuss the incident. I invited guest Patrick Frey, who blogs as Patterico, to offer insight into his own swatting – a June 2011 experience about which Frey has detailed extensively at his own blog in recent [...]

Revealed: Who @Shoq Sent Illegal Recording To

Revealed for the first time : grumpy Twitter political hack @Shoq sent an illegal recording to a group of people in his inner circle. I have now heard a recording of this conversation and The Trenches will be revealing excerpts from it soon. As promised in my original post, I was sent this material by [...]

Will The @Shoq Inner Circle Tell The Truth?

I just sent the following email to @Shoq and nine carefully chosen members of his inner circle: Hello, Some of you know who I am. To those who don’t, I’m writer who previously wrote for The Huffington Post and more recently became a protegé of the late Andrew Breitbart’s. I’m asking any of you to comment on [...]

Why A White Guy Created A Viral Graphic About Black Conservatives

I recently created a graphic that went a bit viral. It was a statement I wrote about the plight of black conservatives — even though I’m not black. Because I’m a former leftie, I still have a lot of liberal friends on my Facebook account. A couple of weeks ago, I saw that many of [...]

American Speakers At The Occupy Conference In Iran

According to two reports from the Iranian propaganda arm Press TV, a conference was held in Teheran recently about the Occupy movement in the U.S and it featured a number of American speakers who traveled to the country, apparently without fear of the current State Department Travel Warning. The cast of characterw speaking and their message [...]

Kimberlin / Walker Audio Posted by AnonyOps

We brought you the audio from the Kimberlin / Walker Maryland Miscarriage trial in this post but now a new revelation that the audio was posted by Twitter account @AnonyOps raises a number of questions. In a tweet on Friday, June 1st AnonyOps took credit, saying: If you missed it, I put the Kimberlin V. Walker [...]

#TwitterGulag : How It Works… And What to Do

For anyone familiar with the Conservative communities of Twitter, the hashtag #TwitterGulag is probably familiar by now. If you’re not familiar, it’s the term adopted after a spate of accounts began to be suspended for barely discernible reasons. Users brand new to Twitter who looked to be part of the Conservative community, and even some [...]

Maya Wiley’s Cognitive Dissonance Games

Who is Maya Wiley, and why should lovers of the free market and equal potential care? Wiley is a civil rights attorney who founded the Center for Social Inclusion, which features this cheerful rhetoric on their page: “The right has a strategy to turn us away from racial justice. They claim that racial justice means blinding [...]