History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com

Orville Redenbacher 1907

• 1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
• 1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.
• 1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
• 1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
• 1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
• 1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to California: 'Look what you made us do!' | Blaze Media

Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to California: 'Look what you made us do!' | Blaze Media: 

Cause and effect are reversed. Your eyes are lying to you. You don’t see that man waving a Mexican flag while he fires off a bottle rocket into a group of cops. You’re not watching people throw bricks off highway overpasses. Do you understand? You’re crazy if you think you see that, and if it’s happening, people like you made the protesters get violent.

The proper term for these kinds of lies is “gaslighting.”

The way we were-----Bernie Goetz, the Subway Vigilante – Only in New York – Episode 1

The Leftist Media Idiotically Fawns Over This SCOTUS Justice's Dissent

Lessons from the Del Monte Bankruptcy - American Free News Network

Unfortunately, they have over $1 billion in liabilities spread over more than 10,000 creditors (this big a number of creditors means that there are likely thousands of family farms still awaiting payment for their produce). - John F. Di Leo

We know the following issues contributed; the only thing we can’t be certain of is the relative weighting between them.

• Transportation costs went up a lot over the past four years, partially because of increased fuel costs but also partially due to other issues such as the trucking industry’s suffering in the aftermath of the pandemic...
• Food processing is a complex process, very dependent on inexpensive and dependable power. Ingredients have to be both cooked and refrigerated – fruits and vegetables have to be peeled, seeded, shelled, shucked, all these steps requiring different machinery, all requiring a lot of electricity...
• As Bidenflation (the unprecedented annual price inflation that skyrocketed during the Biden-Harris years) hit America’s farms, agricultural producers have had to raise their prices...

Much here!!-----Summer Storms - by James Howard Kunstler

The key is: had become a Democratic Party op.  - James Howard Kunstler

Didn’t start out that way, but might have turned into one. 

Consider: The Democratic Party was up to its eyeballs in ops against Mr. Trump since he rode down that fabled escalator in 2015. 

The “intel community” was the chief player in these operations. 

The intel community ran rings around Mr. Trump with all manner of fabricated nonsense during the election campaign of 2016 and throughout his first term...

Why wouldn’t the Epstein files now turn out to be an extension of these same operations? 

• The DOJ first moved against Epstein in 2005. The case culminated in 2008 with a plea deal on some Mickey Mouse state prostitution charges and a non-prosecution agreement with the feds..
• Between 2008 and 2019, Epstein returned to his international swashbuckling ways. Strangely, he was finally busted on June 6, 2019, by then-AG William Barr, whose father, Donald Barr, had been headmaster of New York City’s Dalton prep school, where Jeffrey Epstein, age twenty-one, was hired to teach math and physics in 1974, though he lacked a college degree. All that may just be coincidental, of course.
• Astoundingly little was learned from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021-22, which was led by Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey (fired in 2017). Small world. The case only covered Ms. Maxwell’s activities between 1994 and 2004. Why only that period? Never explained. 
• Rumors of a “client list” being among the evidence have never been substantiated, and were repudiated last week by AG Pam Bondi and President Trump...

Tariff Turnaround: Treasury Department Posts Stunning June Numbers

Tariff Turnaround: Treasury Department Posts Stunning June Numbers: 

Americans who aren’t used to seeing the words “government” and “surplus” in the same sentence are in for a surprise.

The federal government ran at a surplus in June, according to the Treasury Department, meaning money coming in surpassed money going out.

And it was largely money coming in from President Donald Trump’s tariffs that made the difference, according to news reports.

Watch to the second part!-----Now I Understand Why Black Ppl Feel Targeted By Carnival Cruise.

It's a WAR against us little people!-----How to Produce Junk Climate Science for Kangaroo Courts: A Lawfare Manual for Cultists and Grifters

A recent study published in the academic journal Nature has been making headlines, claiming that if it were not for major oil and gas companies producing energy between 1991 and 2020, the world would be $28 trillion richer. - Jason Isaac at American Energy Works.

Study authors...which was never peer-reviewed and uses a laughably absurd methodology developed by activists whose goal is to do the pseudo-science grunt work for climate change lawsuits against energy producers.

• Single events cannot be attributed to climate change. 
• Nevertheless, the study goes far beyond the ridiculous in its attempt not only to pin blame solely on individual energy producers but to attach a specific dollar amount to each company. 

Using dubious assumptions and their unsound “end-to-end” methodology, the authors cooked up an implausible correlation between individual companies and singular weather events alleged to have been caused or exacerbated by global warming. 

The bogus conclusions are then broken up into specific price tags and assigned to various energy producers...

Lunch video-----Why I Left Utopia | 5 Minute Videos

Noon-toon

 

Trump moves to block China from buying up American farmland * WorldNetDaily * by Audrey Streb, The Daily Signal

Trump moves to block China from buying up American farmland * WorldNetDaily * by Audrey Streb, The Daily Signal: 

The USDA and other agencies will look to block Chinese nationals from purchasing American farmland and end departmental "agreements going to people and entities in countries of concern or other foreign adversaries," Rollins told reporters on Monday ahead of the press conference. "Too much American land is owned by nationals of adversarial countries, and more than 265,000 acres in the United States are owned by Chinese nationals, much of which is located near American military bases," Rollins told reporters on Monday. Rollins pointed to a graph that illustrated Chinese farmland purchases surrounding American military bases on Tuesday.

Never trust the lying-media!!!

 

Punishing the job creators!-----18,300 Michigan households could pay more under proposed education tax hike

New tax could push state to fourth-highest income tax rate behind California, New York and Oregon - Scott McClallen

“Michigan currently charges a 4.25% income tax on all income,” he told CapCon in an email. 

• “The proposal would create a new tax bracket and charge its taxpayers another 5%. 
• In addition, Michigan allows local governments to assess income taxes. 
• This means that high-earning taxpayers in Detroit would be subject to 48.65% tax rates when including federal, state and local income taxes. 
• Taxpayers in Grand Rapids would be subject to 47.75% in income taxes.”

The group behind the proposal to add another tax bracket to the Michigan tax system, Invest in Mi Kids, must collect 446,000 valid signatures within 180 days to place its plan on the November 2026 general election ballot.
The proposal aims to amend the Michigan Constitution, which requires any state income tax to be set at a single rate. 

Under the proposal, the rate would go up for single filers who report more than $500,000 in income and joint filers who report more than $1 million in income...

Dead LAST!

 

President Trump this week said that Brennan and Comey are “crooked as hell” and it made me think about something.

Have you noticed that the corrupt deep state officials and Democrat politicians whom President Trump occasionally accuses of blatant and severe corruption don’t sue him for slander or libel? - John F. Di Leo

• ...when somebody calls you “crooked as hell”, you do have the right to take your case to court… especially when it’s somebody with a big public office like the presidency, and a massive loudspeaker or just as massive social media account to give his words heft...
• ...there is a well known standard policy in the law – at least in English-speaking nations (which have famously different legal systems than many others) – that the standard defense against an accusation of slander or libel is if you can prove that it’s true...

So what would happen if one of the people that President Trump calls “corrupt” were to sue him for libel? That would put it in the hands of the courts. 

• President Trump would have the opportunity for discovery...
• And would President Trump have similar evidence?
• Well… yes...

#1 This day 1959-----Lonely Boy - Paul Anka

Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’ - Clarice Feldman

Bondi said she had the Epstein list “on her desk,” and indicated it would be released.

• This was a mistake, because if the belief was that there was a roster of prominent people engaged in pedophilia, there is no such list...

Whether she was misled into thinking this is unknown, but she was responsible for carefully checking the reliability of the information handed to her, and apparently, she didn’t. 

Most likely, any list she had was no more than an unvetted sweep of all his contacts...

• Why the Epstein File will not Implicate Anyone not Already Implicated
• Why It’s Unlikely He Had Evidence of Prominent Pedophiles - According to Shipwreckedcrew
• It’s Unlikely That There Were Videos of Powerful People Engaged in Pedophilia - Chronicle’s Adam Mills asserts
• As for records listing who flew on his plane or visited his compounds, there’s every reason to believe they were not engaged in pedophilia there. Releasing such lists without verification would tar perfectly innocent people, and the president has acknowledged that:
  

  Bill O’Reilly said, “I talked to President Trump, man to man, eye to eye, on St. Patrick’s Day about this."
  “He said, and I agree: There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein’s conduct. They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another.
  “If that name gets out, those people are destroyed because there’s not going to be any context. The media doesn't care about context -- so you can’t do that.”...

"Nobody's allowed"??!!

The notion that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent is a baseless conspiracy theory, but yes, Tucker, you are allowed to promote it anyway, because there isn’t some international Jew police stopping you

Nobody has fought more for the innocent.

 

'Time to put an end to this once and for all!' Report urges Trump to do more to stop 'dangerous trans agenda' * WorldNetDaily * by Ireland Owens, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Time to put an end to this once and for all!' Report urges Trump to do more to stop 'dangerous trans agenda' * WorldNetDaily * by Ireland Owens, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"There must be justice for those who have fallen victim to the gender 'medicine' industry's lies and destructive practices," APP President Terry Schilling said in a statement provided to the DCNF. "In our report, we've outlined several additional ways the Trump administration can protect the vulnerable from the dangerous trans agenda and hold the $4.5 billion gender industry accountable. It's time to put an end to this once and for all!"

Six Everyday Ways to Raise Intellectually Curious Children - Intellectual Takeout

You are still a homeschool parent responsible for creating a learning environment and helping your children to grow intellectually. - Annie Holmquist

• But how does one do that? 

Many of us feel inadequate in our own academic prowess, so how could we ever raise intellectually curious children?
The late author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot offers several simple tips for doing just that in her book Keep a Quiet Heart.
1. “Teach your children to memorize!”...
3. “Read aloud to children.”...
4. “Buy a microscope or a magnifying glass.”...
5. “Have a globe on which they can find any country they hear named in the news or in conversation.”...
6. “Teach them to see illustrations of abstract truth in concrete objects.”...

History for July 15

History for July 15 - On-This-Day.com 

Clement Clarke Moore 1779

• 1789 - The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government.
• 1916 - In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co.
• 1942 - The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' was carried to help China's war effort.
• 1958 - Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
• 1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."
• 2006 - The social networking service Twitter was launched.

New assassination-attempt report: Secret Service knew of threat to Trump 10 days before * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

New assassination-attempt report: Secret Service knew of threat to Trump 10 days before * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

A new report on the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt on President Trump reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump's life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies. The damning report comes from the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) one year after a gunman's bullet grazed Trump's right ear during a campaign rally speech. The shooter, Thomas Crooks, killed attendee Cory Comperatore as he was protecting his family, while two others were injured.

The way we were-----New Year's 1981 opens with NYC murder wave after historically bloody 1980

Click-to-Cancel Is Blocked By Federal Appeals Court!!!

NYTimes and many other suggest that the more solar and wind, the cheaper the electricity...

The data shows otherwise — there are no countries with lots of solar and wind and low prices - Bjørn Lomborg
You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1919044309015466127
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1942265889052877179

10 Non-Tax Policies in Trump’s Megabill That Will Affect Americans

But there are non-tax-related items in the bill that will impact the lives of everyday Americans, affecting travel, women’s health care, immigration, and welfare benefits. - By Jackson Richman, Joseph Lord, Jacob Burg

Here are ten major non-tax areas that are addressed in the legislation, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4.

• Air Traffic Control-The new law provides $12.5 billion to the Transportation Department to institute long-overdue reforms to the nation’s air traffic control system.
• Border and Immigration-The legislation dedicates a total of $150 billion toward border security and immigration enforcement, aligning with some of Trump’s core promises on the 2024 campaign trail...

Woke ideology still entrenched at West Point academy | Blaze Media

Woke ideology still entrenched at West Point academy | Blaze Media: 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion employees are still running amok in the hallowed halls of the United States Military Academy at West Point. President Trump and members of his administration have taken the first steps toward eliminating DEI in the military, but there won’t be lasting change until all traces of it are removed from our military’s oldest academy.

Milton Friedman Crushes Man's 3 Questions like Dixie Cups

U.S. inflation is trending downwards!

Facebook - Florida’s Voice ·
Inflation rates are finally curbing, as trends show a significant decrease when compared to the previous few years. 

• With an annual rate of 7% in 2021, 6.5% in 2022, 3.4% in 2023, 2.9% in 2024, and the current number at 2.4% for 2025, the data is looking good. 
• In July, we’re looking at a significant decrease from 2.4% to about half, around 1.65% as of July 9th.

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation.

Noon-toon

 

BREAKING NEWS: Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Admits His Statewide Instruction to Delete Poll Book Information Was Unlawful

BREAKING NEWS: Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Admits His Statewide Instruction to Delete Poll Book Information Was Unlawful: 

HILLSDALE, Mich., July 11, 2025 — Under cross-examination in a probable cause hearing, Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater was forced into a number of troubling admissions regarding his election instructions to Michigan clerks.

In Michigan District Court 2B on Friday, Brater was questioned for four hours about the state’s claim former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert, permitted an unauthorized computer examiner access to voter data, including access to non-public voter information.

The hate continues!

 

5 Republican states are planning to copy Florida’s new illegal immigration facility — “Alligator Alcatraz.” - Jayne Friedman

And anyway, don't worry Debbie: no one's going to be in any of these places for long. They're all getting shipped back to their home countries ASAP. - Rod D. Martin

• Kristi Noem says capacity is doubling.
• The Left is melting down.
• Meanwhile, the media is throwing a tantrum.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz toured the facility and called it: “Disturbing, vile… needs to be shut the [expletive] down.”
Why? Because the toilet and sink are in the same unit? Like every other prison?
It’s not a Marriott.
And anyway, don't worry Debbie: no one's going to be in any of these places for long. 

• They're all getting shipped back to their home countries ASAP.
• That's what Democrats are REALLY mad about.

Democrats created this crisis.
Their sanctuary cities.
Their open borders.
Their refusal to enforce the law.

• All because they want to inflate their census numbers for corrupt extra House seats and electoral votes.

No more.

#1 Movie this week 1965-----"The Sound of Music" - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

BREAKING: Fauci Pardon Was Signed Using AUTOPEN — NOT By Biden Himself!

According to leaked emails reported by The New York Times, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients authorized the use of an AUTOPEN to pardon Dr. Anthony Fauci—NOT President Biden. - The Hodgetwins

That means Biden didn’t physically sign the pardon—his staff did it for him, just hours before leaving office.

Zients wrote:
“I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons.”
Among them? FAUCI. The man at the center of COVID-era controversy is now walking free — thanks to a mechanical signature and executive shortcuts.

WHY THIS MATTERS:
Was Biden even aware of what he was signing?
Critics say this shows Biden is not mentally fit and that staff are running the White House.
House Oversight has launched an investigation into the entire pardon process.
Trump allies are calling it a sham — demanding accountability and Fauci behind bars.
Is Fauci’s pardon even LEGAL if Biden didn’t sign it himself? Or is this the DEEP STATE covering for its own?

Ichaelma Udginsha

How does someone other than the president authorize the use of the auto pen

#1 This day 1968-----Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass (1968)

The Democratic Party’s extreme rhetoric is coming home to roost.

If 10 people had been arrested as part of a conspiracy to kill Internal Revenue Service agents or Environmental Protection Agency inspectors, and the crime scene had been littered with graffiti and flyers echoing Republican Party talking points, the New York Times would have made it front page news and would have immediately done detailed profiles on everyone involved. - Washington Examiner

• But after 10 people were arrested for shooting a police officer in the neck as part of a larger effort to ambush Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Alvarado, Texas while carrying a flag reading, “Resist Fascism, Fight Oligarchy,” the New York Times ran one brief story, four days after the event. 
• And it didn’t even make the print edition.

If the planned execution of federal law enforcement officers by ambush in Texas were an isolated incident, maybe there would be justification for the story to be largely ignored. 

But it is not...

We're the racists??

 

A desire for good press photos made President Trump an easier 2024 assassination target, report suggests | Blaze Media

A desire for good press photos made President Trump an easier 2024 assassination target, report suggests | Blaze Media: 

The report said advance teams planning for the rally were unaware of all the resources they could request to support security efforts. Some did not request these assets because they believed based on experience the requests would be denied, the report said.

“The lead advance agent stated that she did not request a Task Force Counter Surveillance Unit for the rally even though this asset could have helped mitigate the known risk,” the report said. 

Robot picking apples.

Didn’t Democrats say we needed illegals to pick our food? - Paul A. Szypula@Bubblebathgirl

• Robot picking apples. 
• Didn’t Democrats say we needed illegals to pick our food?

AM Fruitcake

 

History for July 14

History for July 14 - On-This-Day.com

Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913

• 1430 - Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
• 1789 - French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
• 1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
• 1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.
• 1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.
• 1933 - All German political parties except the National Socialist (Nazi) Party were outlawed.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Accidentally Reveals She 'Fundamentally Misunderstands the Role of a Supreme Court Justice'

Ketanji Brown Jackson Accidentally Reveals She 'Fundamentally Misunderstands the Role of a Supreme Court Justice': 

Civil liberties attorney Laura Powell suggested Jackson might want to try a different career if she’s interested in pursuing that course.

“Maybe she should have become an influencer instead of a Supreme Court justice,” Powell wrote

The way we were-----Rare 1957 Dodge Coronet Coupe – Muscle, Style, and History Combined

Canada's 2001 climate predictions. How did they do?

This Is Peak Government... David Strom

It sounded like a great idea.
Governor Andrew Cuomo...convinced state lawmakers to shell out over $100 million to purchase decorative LED lights to enhance the beauty of some of New York's most iconic bridges...
Underneath it all, the project wasn't a bad idea. 

Beautify the city a bit, right? 

Not everything has to be stolid, brutalist, and inhuman.
Except...

• Spending the money was the point, not actually beautifying the city...

ANTISEMITISM IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOSERS. DOWN DEEP, THE EU KNOWS THAT IT’S A LOSERS’ ORGANIZATION.

Instapundit - Second, they still have the courage to fight in war, which most Europeans no longer have.

But nobody likes to have their nose rubbed in it. -  Glenn Reynolds

The fact the State Dept. can’t go through a two percent staff reduction without making a scene and patting each other on the back about fighting “fascism” should be nauseating to normal people.

Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers

Mark Hemingway@Heminator - The fact the State Dept. can’t go through a two percent staff reduction without making a scene and patting each other on the back about fighting “fascism” should be nauseating to normal people.

Alex Raufoglu@ralakbar - Jul 11 - HAPPENING NOW!!  Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ tonight, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleague, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻

 

Travelling in London these days is like a journey through a third-world hellhole!

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department.

PBS News on X: The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. - Citizen X@latayprime

• Let’s talk about THESE fascist policies unleashed by the Biden Administration: 

1.OSHA Vaccine Mandate — Tried forcing vaccines on 80 million workers without Congress. 

2.Disinformation Board — Created a government body to police free speech. 

3.Student Loan Forgiveness — Attempted massive debt cancellation by executive fiat, stick taxpayers with the bill. 

4.Targeting Opponents — Weaponized DOJ and FBI against political adversaries. 

5.IRS Surveillance Plan — Pushed to monitor $600 bank transactions of Americans. 

6.Labeling Parents as Threats — Used anti-terror laws to intimidate school board critics. 

7.Equity Executive Orders — Forced racist and discriminatory DEI mandates across the entire federal government. 

8.Eviction Moratorium Overreach — Extended property seizure powers through the CDC. 

9.Big Tech Censorship Collusion — Coordinated with social media to suppress dissent. 

10.Lawless Immigration Policy — Ignored border laws, flooding the country with illegal aliens. Looks like PBS will never learn,
@RepBrandonGill

Lunch video-----'ABC forgets' documentary which ‘absolutely skewers the renewable energy...

Noon-toon

 

Dems accused of protecting child-labor rackets after California ICE raid * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Dems accused of protecting child-labor rackets after California ICE raid * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Democrats have erupted in rage at a raid on a California marijuana farm operation by agents for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement but are facing backlash because the operation was caught exploiting children for its labor. A report at the Hill said the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that undocumented minors were found working at the cannabis scheme in the raid.

No more blank checks!

 

Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

I keep reading how big batteries are all it takes to make wind and solar reliable as the sole grid electricity source. - David Wojick

• The reality is that making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.

Below is an example using the PJM grid. 

PJM is America’s biggest grid operator, with a territory covering the Mid-Atlantic and points west...
My example year is 2030, as that is a standard near-term transition target year for which we have reasonable estimates of peak demand. 

Here then are the very simple numbers.

• PJM’s estimate peak demand for 2030 is about 180,000 MW.
• Meeting that for 16 hours with batteries requires 2,880,000 MWh of usable storage.
• Usable storage is between 20% and 80% of nameplate battery capacity, hence 60%.
• Thus we need 4,800,000 MWh of nameplate battery capacity.
• Storage facility capital costs vary, but $500,000 per MWh is a reasonable estimate.
• This gives a total cost of $2.4 trillion, or $2,400,000,000,000, for the batteries to make wind and solar reliable in this case. 

This fantastic cost is clearly not feasible...

Invaders!

 

UNBELIEVABLE: A San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the MURDER of ICE agents on social media.

”I wanna see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles. Don't let me down.” - DeVory Darkins@devorydarkins

• UNBELIEVABLE: A San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the MURDER of ICE agents on social media.
• ”I wanna see a few dead ICE agents, Los Angeles. Don't let me down.”

#1 This day 1967-----The Association - Windy - 1967

The Big Beautiful Bill Gives Some of Higher Ed’s Ugliest Problems a Makeover

This law does so much that major provisions—like the elimination of Grad PLUS loans—that would’ve made headlines on their own are now easy to overlook. - Andrew Gillen

To help make sense of it all, here’s my take on the best and worst parts of the new law.

• What are the Best Provisions in the Law?

The new law has five big improvements.
One, it eliminated Grad PLUS loans. Grad PLUS was the worst of the loan programs...Taxpayers lost tons of money on the loans, around 24 cents for every dollar lent...
Two, Parent PLUS loans now have maximum caps. Parent borrowing was previously limited only by the college’s cost of attendance, but will now be capped at $20,000 per year...
Three, a new income-driven student loan repayment plan was created...

• What are the Worst Provisions in the Law?

My biggest concerns about the law concern the new repayment assistance plan (RAP) for student loans. RAP largely mimics the payment burdens of the Obama-era REPAYE plan. 

But it contains two features that worry me: it waives any unpaid interest, and it guarantees that a borrower’s principal will be reduced by at least $50 per month when they make the required monthly payment...

Grifter ALERT!

 

Bongino and Bondi clash over botched handling of Epstein files | Blaze Media

Bongino and Bondi clash over botched handling of Epstein files | Blaze Media: 

The dramatic Epstein saga has caused a rift between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Bondi in recent days, one source familiar with the matter confirmed to Blaze News. Other reports indicate that Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel are both threatening to leave the bureau altogether unless Bondi is removed from office.

Watch this CNN analyst discover how little we all care about climate change

I'm sorry but this is just wonderful. It's like it's gift-wrapped just for us. - Daniel Plainview
Harry Enten: 

'Are Americans afraid of climate change? And the answer is, Americans aren't afraid of climate change. Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people.
'We have data going all the way back since 1989 [showing who is greatly worried about climate change]. Look at that, it was 35 percent. 2000, 40 percent. 2020, 46 percent. And 2025, 40 percent -- which is the exact same percentage as back in 2000.'

 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for July 13

History for July 13 - On-This-Day.com 

Jack Kemp 1935

• 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
• 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
• 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
• 1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
• 1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.

DOJ Nails Prolific Chinese Hacker Accused of Stealing 'Groundbreaking' US Secrets

DOJ Nails Prolific Chinese Hacker Accused of Stealing 'Groundbreaking' US Secrets: 

The Department of Justice announced earlier this week that a “prolific” Chinese hacker was apprehended on July 3 at the request of the Justice Department on charges of attempting to steal sensitive coronavirus research.

Xu Zewei, 33, of the People’s Republic of China, was charged in a nine-count indictment in the Southern District of Texas, according to the Department of Justice website.

He is accused of carrying out “computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021, including the indiscriminate HAFNIUM computer intrusion campaign that compromised thousands of computers worldwide, including in the United States.”

The way we were-----Rebuilding Japan after World War II

Democrats Brainstorm Genius Ways To Appeal To Men

Riley Gaines on X: "Hahaha this is a real ad being run on TVs in Los Angeles Watch "We're Not the Crazy Ones"

"Hahaha this is a real ad being run on TVs in Los Angeles 

"We're Not the Crazy Ones" https://t.co/g5JxRkinc1" / X 

Smart Move, Lee Zeldin - David Strom

BREAKING: Trump's EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announces the EPA will now compile and release EVERYTHING they know about geoengineering and contrails
He's clawing back some of the most outrageous and useless grants that were dished out to Democratic Party pols, and now he is helping to sort out public confusion on issues that have festered due to increasing (and often justified) mistrust of the government.

Karen Bass says LA anti-ICE riots 'never happened' as the media reported them | Blaze Media

Karen Bass says LA anti-ICE riots 'never happened' as the media reported them | Blaze Media: 

Bass says the media exaggerated the extent of the violence from protesters. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting ridiculed for arguing that the mainstream media exaggerated "a couple of incidents" of vandalism during anti-ICE protests into full city rioting.

How the New Tax Law Will Actually Affect Your Tax Bill ($6,000 Senior De...

It’s Time for Regime Change in Higher Education

Interestingly, alongside each of our politically infiltrated state and city government administrations are local universities that act as their ancillary political organizations. 

They provide the most critical element of successful political operation: ideology, belief, and agenda. -Matthew G. Andersson

Universities are also a “professional labor mill” that supplies trained members to the political class... 

Universities are especially suited to do this, because they can hold out an array of hard incentives, rewards, and punishments, that effectively guarantees ideological assimilation and behavioral compliance: 

• The awarding of degrees,
• the promise of jobs; 
• the social ranking by grades and honors; 
• the favor of faculty recommendations; 
• the enticement of scholarships; and the burden of tuition debt, which shapes risk and reward behavior...

Lunch video-----Deliberate destruction of biosamples

The Intent of this program was to study the effects and benefits of Covid Vaccines, through a prospective study over several years of a representative sample of adults in Queenland, which has one fifth of the Australia’s population and an area seven times that of the UK. 

Several of the major research and health care institutions in QLD were collaborators in the study. 

The Estimated cost over several years was to be Aus $20 million. 

It was a show-cased as a “real time study” with few to compare internationally... 

• It was suddenly announced in mid-2023,  when many participants would have been followed for less than a year, that enrolment would cease, that the surveillance data would be indefinitely quarantined and the stored biosamples would be destroyed within 12 months. 
• This occurred without advance notice or consultation of participants or of the study team...

Noon-toon

 

John Kerry admits: Trump 'was right' on immigration * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal

John Kerry admits: Trump 'was right' on immigration * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal: 

Under the four years of the Biden administration, over 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S., including about 2 million known "gotaways"—individuals who evaded Border Patrol apprehension.

In 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that more than 662,000 criminal illegal aliens were released into the interior of the U.S. Among those, 435,719 had already been convicted of a crime, with 226,847 more facing pending criminal charges.

Who'd of thunk??