History for August 21 - On-This-Day.com

History for August 21 - On-This-Day.com:
William Count Basie 1904, Wilt Chamberlain 1936, Kenny Rogers 1938 - Country singer 


Clarence Williams III 1939 - Actor ("The Mod Squad," "Purple Rain"), Jackie DeShannon 1944 - Singer, Jim McMahon 1959 


1831 - Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed. 


1841 - A patent for venetian blinds was issued to John Hampton. 


1888 - The adding machine was patented by William Burroughs. 


1912 - Arthur R. Eldred became the first American boy to become an Eagle Scout. It is the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. 


1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner. 


1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag. 


1989 - Voyager 2, a U.S. space probe, got close to the Neptune moon called Triton. 


1994 - Ernesto Zedillo won the Mexican presidential election. 


1996 - The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was signed by U.S. President Clinton. The act made it easier to obtain and keep health insurance. 


1997 - Afghanistan suspended its embassy operations in the United States. 

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The latest 10-minute clip from the Center for Medical Progress includes a shocking claim from Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for StemExpress, that the heart of a baby was still beating after an abortion.

“The third episode in a new documentary web series and 7th video on Planned Parenthood’s supply of aborted fetal tissue tells a former procurement technician’s harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion,” a press release reads.
The majority of the video focuses on O’Donnell recounting how she was once asked to help procure brain tissue from the aforementioned fetus — an experience that she said shook her to her core."

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies

Hillary Clinton’s five email lies | New York Post:
‘I remember landing under sniper fire.”
“I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before [Obama] did.”
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the truth has always been one of disdain, as shown by her accounts of landing in Bosnia (she was actually greeted by a child on the tarmac), her policies (she voted for the war in Iraq and only criticized it later, after the winds shifted, and after Obama) and her finances (if owning two multi-million-dollar homes is “dead broke,” then sure).
But the Democratic front-runner has really outdone herself with her varying explanations for her home e-mail server.
Here are her five fabrications in the shifting story of why she hid her correspondence from public records and compromised national security:

Detroit is broke. We are paying the penalty-----Detroit paying penalty on first bond sale since bankruptcy

Detroit paying penalty on first bond sale since bankruptcy - Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit is paying a high price in its return to the $3.6 trillion municipal bond market for the first time since emerging from a record bankruptcy.
The $245 million of bonds, to be sold Wednesday through the Michigan Finance Authority, have the top claim on city income taxes to ensure investors are repaid.
Even so, 14-year debt is being offered at an initial yield of 4.75 percent, said three people familiar with the sale who requested anonymity because it isn’t final.
That’s 2.1 percentage points more than top-rated securities.
“It’s still Detroit,” said Dennis Derby, a portfolio manager in Menomonee Falls, Wis., for Wells Capital Management, which holds the city’s water bonds among its $39 billion of munis.
“There’s still concerns of whether or not they can have positive momentum.”
Detroit filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago to escape from debts it couldn’t afford after the population tumbled, tax collections slid and the automobile industry’s decline left the economy reeling.
That allowed the city to cut $7 billion from its obligations by the time it emerged from bankruptcy in December, an effort to steady the government’s finances and hasten its revival."

Why Hillary Clinton’s Own Signature Could Make Her Email Defense Much Tougher | TheBlaze.com

Why Hillary Clinton’s Own Signature Could Make Her Email Defense Much Tougher | TheBlaze.com:

"Despite her repeated insistence that she never sent or received any email marked “classified” on her private server, Hillary Clinton would have signed a nondisclosure agreement as secretary of state specifying that she understood what information is classified, regardless of whether it is “marked or unmarked,” national security experts told TheBlaze."

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com:
"Socialism has had a rough few decades, but it's enjoying a rare success.
Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a socialist, is running for president, drawing big crowds and leading Hillary Clinton in one poll in New Hampshire.
All this leads some people to a damning conclusion: Democrats love Sanders because Democrats are socialists. 
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has encouraged this claim by declining to spell out the differences between a Democrat and a socialist.
"These days, it's largely a distinction without a difference," Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. Ted Cruz asserts that Clinton "is just as much of a socialist as Bernie Sanders." "

Trump could boost bill ending birthright citizenship

Trump could boost bill ending birthright citizenship | Washington Examiner:
"Watchdog groups say up to 400,000 children are born in the United States to illegal immigrants each year. 
If they are born on U.S. soil, they are entitled to citizenship under an interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
Children of non-citizens who are born here can petition for legal status for their parents when they turn 21, which critics of the law say provides incentive for people to try to cross illegally into the United States in order to give birth."

Marxist professor raking in $170k a year while denouncing capitalism

Marxist professor raking in $170k a year while denouncing capitalism - EAGnews.org:
"MADISON, Wis. – Prof. Erik O. Wright is a leading Marxist on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison.
A professor of sociology, Wright has dedicated himself and his work – including the four classes he teaches – to his version of the Wisconsin Idea: promoting Marxism and the eradication of capitalism.
According to his biographical entry on the American Sociological Association website, Wright is the intellectual force behind the radically left-wing Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin.
“For 28 years he has headed the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin,” the entry reads.
The MacIver Institute has previously documented the Havens Center’s efforts to promote political action and facilitate the political organization of labor unions and far-left groups in Wisconsin.
....In a 2012 interview with the New Left Project, Wright declared, “Capitalism is a central part of the problem, so of course ultimately it is necessary to be anti-capitalist.”
And anti-capitalist Wright is.
In a 2014 interview while visiting the University of Queensland Australia, Wright said the fall of the USSR in the early 1990s was an important moment for pro-Marx sociologists because it liberated them from having to defend the regime."

When People Asked Black Lives Matter Activist About Our Investigative Report, This Is What He Did | TheBlaze.com

When People Asked Black Lives Matter Activist About Our Investigative Report, This Is What He Did | TheBlaze.com:

"Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King went on a blocking spree in the aftermath of an investigative report published by TheBlaze Monday, forbidding anyone who dared ask him about it from being able to see his account.

On Monday, TheBlaze published a report which questioned whether King’s suggestion that he was the victim of a racially charged mob beating was accurate. A police report, witness statements and details provided by the detective who was assigned to the case heavily dispute King’s version of events."

Audit: DHS Employees Used Gov’t Charge Card to Spend $31,413 at Starbucks

Audit: DHS Employees Used Gov’t Charge Card to Spend $31,413 at Starbucks | Washington Free Beacon:
Inspector General finds agency at risk for illegal and improper purchases
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees used a government charge card to make purchases totaling $31,413 at Starbucks, according to an audit by the DHS Inspector General (IG).
The IG conducted the audit to see whether DHS implemented quality internal controls for the usage of the government charge card to prevent illegal, improper, or erroneous purchases.
The IG found that DHS did not have sufficient oversight over these purchases and as a result a moderate level of risk remains that DHS will not prevent illegal, improper or erroneous purchases in the future. From fiscal year 2012 to 2014, DHS made transactions totaling $400 million per year using this government card.
...Nearly half, or 49 percent, of the sampled transactions reviewed by the IG, valued at $206,903, did not comply with at least one of the requirements set forth in the purchase card manual.
...Other fraudulent purchases included a government charge card purchase for $417 worth of computer equipment that was not associated with the employee’s official travel.
Another employee withdrew more than $1,300 cash 10 days before his scheduled departure for official travel, which is against the manual’s rules.
According to the IG, the strictest penalty for misuse of the government charge card is the loss of the card.
“Without stricter penalties in place, there is little disincentive to prevent employees from using the travel card inappropriately,” the IG said.

Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela

Away from Caracas, shortages even worse in Venezuela - Yahoo News:
"Valencia (Venezuela) (AFP) - All the lady wanted was some chicken. But in shortage-plagued Venezuela, she waited in line five hours, only to go home empty-handed.
"I got here at 5:30 am and came away with nothing! It is just not fair that you have to work so hard -- and then put up with these lines," said an exasperated Lileana Diaz, a 49-year-old receptionist at a hospital emergency room.
Venezuelans have been enduring shortages of the most basic goods, such as toilet paper, for more than a year.
In Caracas, a cottage industry has emerged with people who will wait in line for you -- at a price.
But things are even worse outside the capital.
The problems are staggering here in Valencia, an industrial city west of the capital of this oil-rich country.
Valencia has big factories that produce food and other essentials. Still, the list of goods in short supply is long.
It includes coffee, cooking oil, cornmeal, soap, detergent, you name it.
Chicken is one of the most coveted.
Frustrated shoppers like Diaz are legion.
One tells the story of people who climbed over a fence to get a good place in line outside a store, prompting police to intervene and stop scuffles that broke out.
Another lady shopper shows off a nasty bruise on her right leg, thanks to a fight she got into as she tried to buy disposable diapers.

You a "moderate"?-----The Trumping of Party

The Trumping of Party :: SteynOnline:
"...And among the broader citizenry, where elections are decided, the GOP's complaint is entirely irrelevant.
It's not often that I find the pajama boys of Vox.com worth reading, but this Ezra Klein column makes an interesting point:
"It's not that Trump is a moderate Republican.
It's that he's a moderate, full stop.
And he's the kind of moderate that really exists, not the kind of moderate Washington likes to pretend exists.
What, after all, is a "moderate"?"
The way it works, explains David Broockman, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, is that a pollster will ask people for their position on a wide range of issues: marijuana legalization, the war in Iraq, universal health care, gay marriage, taxes, climate change, and so on.
The answers will then be coded as to whether they're left or right.
People who have a mix of answers on the left and the right average out to the middle — and so they're labeled as moderate.
But when you drill down into those individual answers you find a lot of opinions that are far from the political center.
"A lot of people say we should have a universal health-care system run by the state like the British," Broockman told me in July 2014. 
"A lot of people say we should deport all undocumented immigrants immediately with no due process."
Because the first position is "left" and the second position is "right", the pollsters split the difference and label such a person a "moderate". 
But he isn't actually a moderate, so much as bipartisanly extreme.
In practice, most "moderates" boil down to that: 
They hold some leftie and some rightie positions. 
The most familiar type of "moderate" in American politics are the so-called "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" red governors of blue states - Christie Whitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Pataki and (in his Massachusetts incarnation) Mitt Romney.
In practice, they usually turn out to be not all that "fiscally conservative" because it turns out the social liberalism comes with quite a price tag..."

Watch: Reporter Backs Cruz Into Corner With Gotcha Question – Cruz Laughs In His Face

Watch: Reporter Backs Cruz Into Corner With Gotcha Question – Cruz Laughs In His Face:

“The single greatest national security threat facing America is the threat of a nuclear Iran,” he asserted. “If this deal goes through, three things will happen.”

First, he said, “the Obama administration will become the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism.”

Secondly, he noted the hostages ignored during negotiations with Iran."

WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP: “If Israelis aren’t paranoid, they should be.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP: “If Israelis aren’t paranoid, they should be. Every time they turn arou…:
WIPING ISRAEL OFF THE MAP: 
“If Israelis aren’t paranoid, they should be. 
Every time they turn around, someone is trying to wipe their country off the map. 
Literally.”

Of course, Mr. Obama’s would-be deal with Iran is designed to simply take that punitive worldview to its ultimate end game.

RELATED: “Obama lawyers intervene to protect PLO funds in terrorism cases:
In an unusual legal move, the Obama administration has taken the legal side of the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization in a federal court case that American terrorism victims’ families had already won.”

Unexpectedly."

History for August 20

History for August 20 - On-This-Day.com:
Benjamin Harrison (U.S.) 1833, Jacqueline Susann 1921 - Author, Ron Paul 1935 


Isaac Hayes (Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.) 1942 - Singer, songwriter, actor, producer, Robert Plant 1948 - Musician (Led Zeppelin), Al Roker 1954 - Telvision personality 


1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska. 


1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow. 


1885 - "The Mikado", by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City. 


1923 - The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," was launched in Lakehurst, NJ. The ship began its maiden voyage from the same location on September 4. 


1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans. 


1955 - Colonel Horace A. Hanes, a U.S. Air Force pilot, flew to an altitude of 40,000 feet. Hanes reached a speed of 822.135 miles per hour in a Super Sabrejet. 


1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 


1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills. 


1998 - U.S. military forces attacked a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan. Both targets were chosen for cruise missile strikes due to their connection with Osama bin Laden. 


1998 - The U.N. Security Council extended trade sanctions against Iraq for blocking arms inspections. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/08/august-19-2015-innocent-unless-proven.html

Innocent Unless Proven Guilty

By Tammy Derouin

I was selected for jury duty this past week.  This wasn’t my first experience, in fact, it was my fourth time being called but only the first time I didn’t end up on a jury.  The experience served as a reminder of how fortunate we are to live in a country where you are innocent unless proven guilty.  This is something the defense attorney emphasized continuously as jury selection took place.   

Jury duty isn’t something most people look forward to doing.  In fact, I would bet most people shudder when they realize what that distinctive looking envelope means. It is an inconvenience. Your life is disrupted.  For a minimum of one week, you have to have a backup plan.  Your normal chaotic routine just got even more hectic. You need to make arrangements at work, daycare and possibly deal with a lack of income for several days. 

Nobody in the jury assembly room was overjoyed to be at the courthouse.  As we moved to the court room, anxiety increased. After the initial thirteen were placed in the jury box, the attorneys spent the rest of the day removing and replacing jurors until both sides were satisfied that they had found an impartial jury. 

I’m sure everyone would have preferred to have been in a different location, especially the defendant.  The defense attorney made sure everyone understood his client was presumed innocent. Just because you are a defendant, doesn’t mean you are guilty. The prosecution, the state, must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.  The defendant does not need to testify, nor does he need to prove his innocence...

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Horrific Claim in New Planned Parenthood Video: Intact Brain Was Harvested From ‘Late-Term Male Fetus Whose Heart Was Still Beating’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The latest 10-minute clip from the Center for Medical Progress includes a shocking claim from Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for StemExpress, that the heart of a baby was still beating after an abortion.

“The third episode in a new documentary web series and 7th video on Planned Parenthood’s supply of aborted fetal tissue tells a former procurement technician’s harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion,” a press release reads.
The majority of the video focuses on O’Donnell recounting how she was once asked to help procure brain tissue from the aforementioned fetus — an experience that she said shook her to her core."

Trey Gowdy Asked About Hillary's Server... Issues 4 Words That Will Send Her Scrambling

Trey Gowdy Asked About Hillary's Server... Issues 4 Words That Will Send Her Scrambling:

"Gowdy also slammed Clinton for trying to blame House Republicans for this whole scandal. He pointed out that she was the one who chose to use a private email address that was handled on a personal server and used to discuss classified information… and then later lie about it.

“I get that she’s frustrated,” Gowdy said. “Sometimes when people are frustrated they look in the mirror and engage in a little bit of self-reflection and then sometimes they lash out and blame nonexistent right-wing conspiracies, and apparently she’s chosen to do the latter."

BLACKLIST: Michigan Media Leaves Michiganders In The Dark On State Senate Scandals

WEST MICHIGAN POLITICS: BLACKLIST: Michigan Media Leaves Michiganders In The Dark On State Senate Scandals:
"I have been immensely disturbed at the lack of media attention on two big issues in Michigan's State Senate over the last few months.
The first story on the self imposed "blacklist" is the #MeekhofSenateBuilding, a controversial project the legislature never even voted on.
Instead, Senators Meekhof and Richardville utilized a Lansing slush fund knows as the "Michigan Strategic Fund" to pay for the project in the middle of "lame duck."
The property was never assessed, and the state is overpaying by millions, triple the value of the property. 
All this the benefits a big GOP donor-of course. 
As State Rep. Todd Courser prepares to ask for an Attorney General Opinion/investigation, why has this story been largely ignored?
Especially after the revelation a couple weeks ago from WXYZ that no assessment was done and the state is paying triple the real value of the property, yet barely a word has been said about it...
The second is a change to senate rules that eliminated the public and media's access to important Senate records.
In a voice vote unaccountable to Constituents and pushed for by Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, the public and media no longer have access to vital records of the Senators they elect after Senate rules were changed...."

Read 'em all!-----TOP 25 QUOTES BY AYN RAND (of 954) | A-Z Quotes

TOP 25 QUOTES BY AYN RAND (of 954) | A-Z Quotes

Muslim Activist Says This Is Why Islamism Is ‘Much More Dangerous Than Nazism’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Muslim Activist Says This Is Why Islamism Is ‘Much More Dangerous Than Nazism’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a committed Muslim who is outspoken about the dangers of Islamism, warned Tuesday that Islamism is “much more dangerous than Nazism.”

“You super-charge something with a religious belief and it becomes much more palatable and easier to spread,” she said on The Glenn Beck Program. “So I’m actually more worried about Islamism than one could’ve been about Nazism.”

Ahmed said that while Islam is a religion, Islamism is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion."

Liar? Thief? Seems like the perfect guy for the job!-----Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush'

Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush' - NBC News:
"The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.
John C. Beale’s crimes were “inexplicable” and “unbelievably egregious," said Judge Ellen Huvelle in imposing the sentence in a Washington. D.C. federal court. Beale has also agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution and forfeiture to the government.
Beale said he was ashamed of his lies about working for the CIA, a ruse that, according to court records, began in 2000 and continued until early this year.
“Why did I do this? Greed – simple greed – and I’m ashamed of that greed,” Beale told the court.
He also said it was possible that he got a “rush” and a “sense of excitement" by telling people he was worked for the CIA.
“It was something like an addiction,” he said."

New twist in road funding plan: Help Detroit collect income tax from residents working in suburbs

New twist in road funding plan: Help Detroit collect income tax from residents working in suburbs - Crain's Detroit Business:
The Michigan Legislature's deal-making over a road improvement plan could shake loose bills designed to help Detroit collect city income taxes from residents who work in the suburbs.
Mayor Mike Duggan will testify in Lansing on Wednesday for legislation that would require employers to withhold city income taxes from paychecks of Detroit residents.
Businesses with fewer than 10 employees and less than $500,000 in wages would be exempt.
Another bill pending in the House Tax Policy Committee would authorize the state to use audit and penalty procedures when it takes over Detroit's income tax collection in 2016..."

New EPA regs to slash emissions which energy industry already slashed

New EPA regs to slash emissions which energy industry already slashed « Hot Air:
We should once again offer a tip of the hat to Barack Obama for not going gently into that good night as a lame duck. 

He’s still in the batter’s box trying to build his legacy on climate change with a fresh raft of proposed EPA regulations, this time focused on methane emissions specific to oil and gas drilling sites. (Fox News)

"The Obama administration is proposing to cut methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production by nearly half over the next decade in an unprecedented step to curb climate change.

The administration’s target is to cut methane from oil and gas drilling by 40 to 45 percent by 2025, compared to 2012 levels. 

The move was not unexpected — officials set the same goal in a preliminary blueprint in January. 

Still, by moving forward with the official proposal, 

President Barack Obama is adding to a list of energy regulations that have drawn applause from environmentalists and ire from energy advocates.

Woman Reveals What Reportedly Happened After She Sought an Abortion at Planned Parenthood and Didn’t Want to Sign a Fetal Tissue Donation Form | TheBlaze.com

Woman Reveals What Reportedly Happened After She Sought an Abortion at Planned Parenthood and Didn’t Want to Sign a Fetal Tissue Donation Form | TheBlaze.com:

"Tanner recalled how she once had serious concerns about a tissue donation form she was asked to fill out while seeking an abortion years ago at a Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C. — an act that she said left her with intense regret.

“I was second-guessing my decision to have the abortion,” Tanner told Live Action News. ”And as I was filling out the paperwork, I saw a permission slip that dealt with the disposal of the ‘products of conception.’”

A nurse reportedly told Tanner that donating fetal tissue was similar to being an organ donor, "

Hillary's lies trumping the 21stt centiry's Hitler-----Putin Escalates Again in Ukraine

Putin Escalates Again in Ukraine - WSJ:
"Russian proxies in occupied eastern Ukraine shelled Ukrainian-government positions over the weekend and on Monday.
The artillery barrage killed two civilians and wounded several others in Sartana, near the Sea of Azov.
It’s one of the larger-scale escalations of the conflict since a winter cease-fire.
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to withhold a radar upgrade that would allow Ukrainian forces to protect against shelling.
Moscow and Kiev agreed under the Minsk II accord negotiated in February to cease hostilities, create a buffer zone and withdraw heavy weapons.
Yet “to a big extent [the Russian side] continually violates the agreement,” Gen. Viktor Muzhenko, the chief of staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, told us in a rare interview before the latest escalation.
“Some days we can have 80 to 100 violations.”
Russian violations range from small-arms fire to covert infiltration to the heavy shelling on the weekend.
The Kremlin’s aim is to gradually break the will of the Ukrainian people.
“This war looks like a war of attrition,” Gen. Muzhenko says.
“It’s Russia’s intent to demoralize our forces, and using that mechanism they want to influence Ukraine’s military leadership as well as the state leadership.”