Thursday, August 20, 2026
History for August 20
History for August 20 - On-This-Day.com 
Ron Paul 1935
- 1918 - The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War I.
- 1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans.
- 1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization.
- 1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S. | Frontpage Mag
Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S. | Frontpage Mag:
El-Sayed will be one of two Michigan Islamist Democrats, including Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who had told a Christian to leave the city over his opposition to honoring an Islamic terrorist supporter, to speak at the Islamic Supremacist conference whose speakers have a history of calling for an Islamic takeover of the United States and the imposition of Sharia law.
Dearborn and other Islamic controlled areas in Michigan played a significant role in the nomination of Abdul El-Sayed, who lost the non-Muslim Democrat vote, but secured the Democrat nomination by winning 94% of the Muslim vote, appearing to prove Wahhaj’s thesis of a unified bloc vote allowing Islamists to seize control of the American political system.
Mission High boasts top Berkeley admit rate despite math failures
SF high school where 94% flunk math has California’s highest Berkeley acceptance rate - Titus WuA San Francisco high school where students get top grades simply for showing up now has the highest acceptance rate in the state to the prestigious University of California, Berkeley — as critics blame
- rampant grade inflation and
- rock-bottom standards
for a surge in ill-prepared college students who end up dropping out.
Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle.
But it’s not because of superior academics, critics say, but rather because of
Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle.
But it’s not because of superior academics, critics say, but rather because of
- low standards
- and a lefty policy that eliminated SAT testing requirements in the University of California system,
sending a flood of students who can barely do fractions into demanding courses like Calculus...
Hacker Admitted to 2020 AZ Voter Data Theft, Destroyed Evidence — Prosecutors Did Nothing
Newly declassified FBI documents released Thursday detail a 2020 breach of Maricopa County’s voter registration system. - Rusty Weiss 
According to the files, a hacker used a vulnerability on the county recorder’s website to extract 633,000 voter records in the days leading up to the election...
The suspect later confessed to federal agents and acknowledged destroying the data by wiping hard drives and deleting Google Cloud copies after realizing investigators were closing in.
- Perhaps the most shocking revelation here is what happened next.
- Nothing.
- Nothing happened next...
Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin to Subpoena Clinics Accused of Giving Sex Change Drugs to Minors
Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin to Subpoena Clinics Accused of Giving Sex Change Drugs to Minors:
However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision reversing a lower court ruling halting a subpoena against a telemedicine clinic called “QueerDoc” and sending the case back to a lower court for more consideration.
The panel wrote that the long-term risks of sex change drugs for minors are “uncertain,” and a president of the United States has the authority to direct the DOJ to pursue enforcement of laws in alignment with his policies.
An "end of society" problem!-----Pandemic lockdowns never ended for some people
For too many young people, disrupted social ties have never fully recovered - John Burn-Murdoch
- Only occasionally in my work do I come across a statistic so astonishing that it stops me in my tracks. Earlier this week was one of those times.
- on an average day in 2023, one in 10 young Americans aged between 23 and 29 did not spend a single minute interacting face to face with another person...
Mamdani's New York: Man Charged with Hate Crime After Randomly Attacking Jewish Woman, 63, at Synagogue
Mamdani's New York: Man Charged with Hate Crime After Randomly Attacking Jewish Woman, 63, at Synagogue:
A 46-year-old man has been charged with a hate crime after chaos erupted at Central Synagogue in Manhattan Friday night.
Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx was arrested, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch posted on X.
“Montes has now been charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime, among other charges,” she wrote.
We know why Whitmer opposes this!-----Show your work: Bill would force Michigan to open its SNAP books
A new bill introduced to the Michigan Legislature would force the state to share its data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with the federal government...“This bill will help reel in fraud within public assistance programs,” Runestad, R-White Lake, said in a news release.
“It is an easy and simple ask for the state to give information to the federal government, yet Gov. Gretchen Whitmer refuses to do so.”...
Instapundit - WHERE DID ALL THE MEN GO?
It’s true, a growing legion of men are dropping out of the workforce. - Mark Tapscott
Writing for The Washington Stand, Zachary Patton, a talented young journo, offers this prescient analysis of the problem:
- They just stop looking for work.
Writing for The Washington Stand, Zachary Patton, a talented young journo, offers this prescient analysis of the problem:
“A major driver of this contraction in the workforce is the direct consequences of social safety net expansion. What was once designed with the intention of being temporary cushions during economic recession has morphed into a permanent way of living for millions of able-bodied Americans.
“Divided amongst state-funded disability benefits, nutritional assistance, and low-income housing subsidies, the economic estuary that exists between a demanding career and remaining jobless has dried up to almost a point of non-existence. When safety nets mitigate non-work without demanding an exchange, the motivator to persevere through demanding labor dissolves.”
Konstantin Kisin used an apple analogy to explain concerns around illegal immigration and border control in simple terms.
The argument focuses on how governments handle unlawful entry, public consent, national borders and immigration enforcement. - Bruce Hamill Daily Update
- The debate links to wider questions about asylum policy, migration pressure and state authority in the UK and Europe.
Fauci was apparently warned to save '$$' to tackle vaccine fallout: 'Will come back to bite you' | Blaze Media
Fauci was apparently warned to save '$$' to tackle vaccine fallout: 'Will come back to bite you' | Blaze Media:
Anthony Fauci and other health officials who told Americans the COVID-19 vaccines were "safe and effective" had suspicions to the contrary, a new document drop from Republican Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) appears to show.
A newly released email from May 2021 seemingly reveals that the head of the Food and Drug Administration was so concerned about the novel mRNA vaccines that she advised Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins to create a contingency fund to deal with the fallout from them.
Must read!-----What If Communism Really Does Work?
In fact, the Democratic Socialists of America – essentially the borderless movement of global communism – have been making inroads in the Democratic Party for generations, but only recently have they felt comfortable dropping the mask, and saying, point blank, that they are indeed proud marxists. - John F. Di Leo
- Yes. Of course, communism works.
People wouldn’t keep pushing for its implementation if it didn’t work.
- People wouldn’t keep it going – for decade after decade of utter misery, in Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea and more – if it didn’t work for somebody.
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