History for June 24

History for June 24 - On-This-Day.com
E.I. Du Pont (Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours) 1771 - Chemist, industrialist, Ambrose Bierce 1842 - Journalist, editorialist, Norman Cousins 1915 - Journalist, author


Al Molinaro 1919 - Actor ("Happy Days"), Michele Lee 1942 - Actress ("Knots Landing"), singer, dancer, Nancy Allen 1950 - Actress


1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.


1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.


1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.


1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.


1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.


1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.


1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.


1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.

Homeland Security Chairman McCaul: The war is at our doorstep | Fox News

Homeland Security Chairman McCaul: The war is at our doorstep | Fox News:

"We are a nation at war, and our own city streets have once again become the frontlines.

The tragedy in Orlando is the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, and it reminds us that nearly 15 years after that fateful day, our enemies are still dead set on attacking us—from outside and from within.

To defend the American people, we need bold leadership and strategic thinking, including a clear-eyed assessment of the danger, a vision for how to win the wider war against Islamist terror, and a willingness to take decisive action.

On each of these accounts, the Obama administration has failed.  That is way House Republicans have put forward a strong national security agenda to get us back on track."

SUNY-Albany student confesses to making up racial attack story

SUNY-Albany student confesses to making up racial attack story - The College Fix:
"One of the three SUNY-Albany students who alleged she was a victim of a race-based attack on a bus has now confessed to fabricating the story.
Yesterday, Alexis Briggs “tearfully apologized” while pleading guilty to concocting the whole tale.
In a (plea) deal she’ll avoid any jail time, but will have to do 100 hours worth of community service and avoid any new criminal charges within the year.
In late January while riding a bus, Briggs, along with fellow students Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, claimed they were taunted with racial slurs and then attacked.
But several videos of the “incident” showed no evidence of the trio’s tale; in fact, the women ended up being charged themselves for misdemeanor assault, while two also were tagged with “falsely reporting an incident...”

Horror and Hush-Up in Twin Falls, Idaho

Horror and Hush-Up in Twin Falls, Idaho - Michelle Malkin:
"Something wicked happened in Idaho's rural Magic Valley.
The evil has been compounded by politicians, media and special interest groups doing their damnedest to suppress the story and quell a righteous citizen rebellion.
On June 7, a brief news item appeared on local Twin Falls, Idaho-based KMVT about a "reported sexual assault that possibly occurred near the Fawnbrook Apartments" five days earlier.
...Police and the local prosecutor's office grudgingly confirmed that an investigation had begun into the incident.
The victim:
A mentally disabled 5-year-old girl. 
The alleged perpetrators:
Three boys, ages 7, 10 and 14, from Sudanese and Iraqi immigrant families (predominantly Muslim) who have been in the country for less than two years -- all but confirming that they are refugees.
What happened?
The case is under seal because it involves minors, but prosecutor Grant Loebs said there is videotape of the alleged sexual assault (a fact which local activists first divulged).
Two of the boys are in custody.
It's not clear what happened to the third.
Here's the sickening thing:
The people who should have been asking tough questions -- like, you know, mainstream journalists -- have spent more time attacking local whistleblowers and bloggers than they have spent demanding answers and holding public officials accountable.
Why?..."

Anatomy of the terror threat: Files show hundreds of US plots, refugee connection | Fox News

Anatomy of the terror threat: Files show hundreds of US plots, refugee connection | Fox News:

"The files are sure to inflame the debate over the Obama administration’s push to admit thousands more refugees from Syria and elsewhere, a proposal Donald Trump has vehemently opposed on the 2016 campaign trail.

“[T]hese data make clear that the United States not only lacks the ability to properly screen individuals prior to their arrival, but also that our nation has an unprecedented assimilation problem,” Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told President Obama in a June 14 letter, obtained by FoxNews.com.

The files also give fresh insight into the true scope of the terror threat and cover a wide range of cases, including:"

Free Tampons: NYC Passes Law to Require Tampons to Be Made Available in Schools, Jails, Shelters

Free Tampons: NYC Passes Law to Require Tampons to Be Made Available in Schools, Jails, Shelters | Health News | US News:
"New York City lawmakers have passed what advocates call a pioneering requirement for free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails.
In a first of its kind, New York City passed a law mandating the free distribution of tampons in select locations.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is on track to become the nation's first city to require free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails after lawmakers approved the idea Tuesday amid a national discussion of the costs of having a period.
The proposal, which Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration supports, marks a new direction in activists' push to dismantle what they see as unfair financial barriers between women and needed sanitary products..."

"Steyn Was Right and I Was Wrong" :: SteynOnline

"Steyn Was Right and I Was Wrong" :: SteynOnline
"Mark is overseas in connection with research for a new book. 
But his decade-old bestseller America Alone is timelier than ever. 
Tarek Fatah begins his column in today's Toronto Sun as follows:

Almost 10 years ago, Maclean's magazine published an essay by Mark Steyn titled, "The future belongs to Islam".

In it, he suggested, "the West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it."

It was an extract from Steyn's then best-selling book America Alone, where he concluded, "It's the end of the world as we've known it..."

There was an outcry among Canada's Islamists, who took Steyn and Maclean's to the Ontario and British Columbia Human Rights Commissions.

My fellow Sun columnist, Farzana Hassan, and I wrote a rejoinder in Maclean's titled, "Mark Steyn has a right to be wrong."

Today, I recognize, Steyn was right and I was wrong.

Read the rest of Mr Fatah's column to see why. 
America Alone was, as he says, a bestseller, and many presidents, prime ministers and other influential politicians read it and cited it. 
But too few western leaders made any serious attempt to change course. 
Autographed copies are available at the SteynOnline bookstore, and approaching its tenth birthday Mark's book remains an indispensable guide to the new world now emerging.

Lunch video-----Mark Steyn - Party at the End of the World

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Immigration boss who barred feds from terror suspect up for award, but agency won't say why | Fox News

Immigration boss who barred feds from terror suspect up for award, but agency won't say why | Fox News:

"A U.S. immigration official blamed in a federal report for barring law enforcement agents from a suspect in the San Bernardino terror attack has been nominated for a prestigious agency award – but her bosses in Washington refuse to say what she did to earn consideration.

Irene Martin heads the San Bernardino U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, where last December, she allegedly blocked five armed Department of Homeland Security agents from the man authorities say supplied the firepower in the deadly attack a day earlier. Although an Inspector General's report found she acted improperly, and then lied to investigators, FoxNews.com has learned she has been nominated for the Secretary’s Award for Valor."

Instapundit » Blog Archive » YOU’D THINK THE CITY WOULD MIND, BUT YOU’D BE WRONG: After banning Uber and Lyft, DUI arrests skyro…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » YOU’D THINK THE CITY WOULD MIND, BUT YOU’D BE WRONG: After banning Uber and Lyft, DUI arrests skyro…:
YOU’D THINK THE CITY WOULD MIND, BUT YOU’D BE WRONG: 

After banning Uber and Lyft, DUI arrests skyrocket. “In the first three week after Uber and Lyft left Austin, DWI arrests were up 7.5 percent over the same time last year. 
City police made 359 DWI arrests from May 9, 2016 (the day Uber and Lyft shut down) to May 31, 2016. 
During that same period in 2015, Austin police made 334 DWI arrests.”

The thing is, these arrests generate revenue for the city. And, of course, traditional taxi services generate graft. 
So for politicians, it’s a no-brainer. If the public is worse off, tough."

11% of Brexit voters have yet to decide which way they will vote in EU referendum | Daily Mail Online

11% of Brexit voters have yet to decide which way they will vote in EU referendum | Daily Mail Online
The final countdown! 
All to play for as 11% of voters say they have yet to decide which way they will vote in today's historic EU referendum 

Much at Steak in EPA’s Latest Beef

Much at Steak in EPA’s Latest Beef | Somewhat Reasonable:
"The recent release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 600-page methane rule was the latest skirmish in the war on methane, but the next battle will be felt at your supermarket.
According to EPA, the oil and gas industry is the top methane offender, but livestock — especially cattle — is a close number-two, making ranchers and their cattle radical environmentalists’ next targets.
In November 2015, John Sutter wrote an article for CNN titled “Why Beef is the New SUV,” in which he stated reducing beef consumption is vital if the United States is going to play its part in limiting the increasing global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius as originally set out in the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Sutter then went into great detail about how this can be done and why it’s imperative.
The “solutions” being studied range from requiring backpacks to be strapped to the backs of cattle to capture methane, injections to aid the cattle’s digest process, and genetically modifying cattle to produce less methane.
Scientists at Modern Meadow are even attempting to engineer meat from cell cultures.
Sound healthy to you?..."

Bill to Allow FBI Access to Browser History Without a Warrant Fails by Just Two Votes | TheBlaze.com

Bill to Allow FBI Access to Browser History Without a Warrant Fails by Just Two Votes | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday blocked an expansion of the government’s power to investigate suspected terrorists, a victory for civil libertarians and privacy advocates emboldened after a National Security Agency contractor’s revelations forced changes in how the communications of Americans are monitored.

After the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, senior Republicans had pressed for allowing the FBI to obtain a person’s digital fingerprints without first securing a judge’s permission. The mass shooting in Orlando on June 12 left 49 dead and 53 injured. The gunman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and other militant groups."

Young People Asked to Match Quotes to Clinton or Trump — See How They React When They Learn the Truth

Young People Asked to Match Quotes to Clinton or Trump — See How They React When They Learn the Truth | Video | TheBlaze.com:
Campus Reform polled several young people and asked them to match different quotes to either presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or her GOP rival Donald Trump.

The “squares” in the challenge include the following:

• “This candidate wore a $12,000 suit while giving a speech about inequality.”

• “Which candidate said they carry hot sauce everywhere they go to ‘pander’ to black voters?”

• Which candidate said, “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president we will attack Iran if it attacks Israel. We would obliterate them”

• “Which candidate made a joke about ‘colored people time’ saying that black people are always late?”

• “Which candidate suggested a 12-year-old rape victim made up accusations because she enjoyed ‘fantasizing about older men’”

• “This candidate accepted millions of dollars from the kings of Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Oman.”

The Campus Reform reporter then informed the respondents that the answer to every single one was Hillary Clinton, leaving them stunned.

“Oh, that makes me sad,” one woman replied.

“Wow,” another said.

Several of the young people said they didn’t exactly trust Clinton. Watch the video below:

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History for June 23

History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com
Irvin Cobb 1876, Alfred Kinsey 1894, Alan Turing 1912
 

Wilma Rudolph 1940, Clarence Thomas 1948 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Frances McDormand 1957 - Actress


1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.


1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.


1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."


1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.


1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.


1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.


2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.


2015 - Verizon announced it had completed its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL, Inc.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/06/june-22-2016-to-left-by-tammy-derouin.html

To The Left

By Tammy Derouin

We are willingly trading our freedom for a false sense of security.  The Left would have us believe that removing gun rights from law abiding citizens is going to reduce radical Islamic terrorist attacks.  More gun laws will not prevent this type of an attack.  A terrorist is a terrorist, a criminal is a criminal and evil is evil.  Each will act regardless of the law.

 

You know what would reduce these attacks; a president who cared about the United States.  If we had a president who valued the rights and safety of the American people, we wouldn’t be dealing with attacks on our own soil.  But, we have an individual who appeases and aids our enemy.  I really thought our Constitution stated something about this kind of behavior. 

We have a president who likes to lecture Americans after we’ve been attacked.  He doesn’t want us to judge our enemy based on the actions of the few; the ones who have actually carried out their desire to destroy us.  He wags his finger at Americans because of his lack of courage to utter the words radical Islam or jihad. He judges all law abiding gun owners by the actions of a few.  Funny how the request for respect only goes one way, to the Left!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who had the bombs to stare evil in the eyes while blasting it into oblivion.....

Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs

Choreless Generation Doesn’t Want Summer Jobs | Intellectual Takeout:
I got my first summer job around age 11 when my elderly neighbor asked me to weed her garden. 
As I advanced through middle and high school, that once a month money-making enterprise expanded into bigger and better paying jobs – and more dealings with the general public.

While such an experience may seem like a natural progression of life, recent reports suggest such an idea is not necessarily the case. 

In fact, data shows a steady downward trend in the number of teens who get summer jobs. (Chart)

According to a recent article from Market Watch, the reason why teen employment is in decline is one we’ve heard before: young people aren’t interested in work..."

Here's How The Community Reinvestment Act Led To The Housing Bubble's Lax Lending

Here's How The Community Reinvestment Act Led To The Housing Bubble's Lax Lending - Business Insider:
"...Contrary to my initial conclusion, the evidence is overwhelming that the CRA played a significant role in creating lax lending standards that fueled the housing bubble. 
Once I realized this, I had to abandon my suspicion that the anti-CRA case was a figment of the rhetoric of Republicans attempting to distract attention from their own role in the mortgage mess.

So I laid out the facts and arguments that had convinced me to switch sides in the CRA debate. 
...If you carefully run through these posts and the accompanying comments, I think you'll see that every argument raised by the "Defend CRA at all costs" crowd has been refuted.
For people with less time on their hands, here's a quick guide to the main points raised by the CRA defenders and the arguments that refute them. If I've left out any salient points, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.

Let's begin:

• How could a piece of 1977 legislation be significant to the deterioration of mortgage standards 25 years later?
Read on and see how badly we've been screwed by our own government.

After DNC attack, hacker Guccifer 2.0 claims Hillary Clinton 'dossier' leak | Fox News

After DNC attack, hacker Guccifer 2.0 claims Hillary Clinton 'dossier' leak | Fox News:

"A hacker who goes by the name ‘Guccifer 2.0’ claims to have  published a dossier of Hillary Clinton-related documents accessed during the recent attack on the Democratic National Committee’s computers.

In a blog post Tuesday, Guccifer 2.0 described the haul as “a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server.”

The files include a “HRC Defense Master Doc” outlining criticism and defense points on issues such as U.S. military intervention in Libya, the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack and the Clinton email server controversy."

Revolt by Security Diplomats May Define Hillary as the Weak Candidate

Revolt by Security Diplomats May Define Hillary as the Weak Candidate | Observer
"51 dissident State Department Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), the Dissent 51, signed a Dissent Channel cable savaging the Obama Administration’s Syria policy and implicitly attacking the Obama Administration’s inept diplomatic and military strategy for eliminating the anti-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Usually one FSO (or at most a handful) sign a dissent cable. 51 is an unprecedented number of government line officers signing a dissident document which—Obama Administration denials to the contrary—could put their careers at risk.
The Dissent 51 FSOs demonstrate that America still has federal employees who will risk their careers to express profound professional disagreement with what they believe are major policy errors which damage U.S. interests, in this case long term U.S. security interests in the Middle East and Europe.
This is good news.
The Dissent 51 cable, however, also exposes a severe and now embedded morale problem within the State Department.
One solo signee per dissent cable seems to be the usual case, with a rare duo or trio. 51 shows that senior State Department officials and the White House have vehemently ignored their own staff experts. Now the experts are exasperated.
The exasperation may have begun as personal exasperation but it is now institutional exasperation—which is why I describe the morale problem as embedded..."

The Rise in Per Capita Federal Spending

The Rise in Per Capita Federal Spending | Mercatus:
"Government debt is projected to reach 77 percent of the US gross domestic product by 2024, if not sooner. 
Economists have identified that level of debt as counterproductive, yet this sad state of affairs is the result of a growing bipartisan propensity to spend, as a worrying trend has emerged: high levels of spending under Republican administrations have become institutionalized in Democratic ones."

Lunch Video: Like Clockwork, Every Stupid Argument for Destroying the 2nd Amendment

Video: Like Clockwork, Every Stupid Argument for Destroying the 2nd Amendment | The Daily Sheeple
Utterly ridiculous, but sadly predictable.

Now Jeh Johnson is saying gun control is a matter of homeland (national) security and something has to be done that doesn’t infringe on the 2nd amendment “AS INTERPRETED BY THE SUPREME COURT”...

So tell me again… how would the “no fly no buy” list have magically prevented Orlando? Answer: it wouldn’t have.

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Bathroom signs!

‘They Were Trying to Rewrite History’: Judge Napolitano Bashes DOJ Over Orlando 911 Transcripts | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘They Were Trying to Rewrite History’: Judge Napolitano Bashes DOJ Over Orlando 911 Transcripts | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The U.S. Department of Justice released transcripts Monday morning of the Orlando terrorist’s phone conversations with 911 operators, omitting references to Islam and the Islamic State terror group.

But after receiving backlash from lawmakers and the public, the DOJ reversed its initial decision to scrub the transcript and released a full, unredacted version Monday afternoon, calling the uproar over the omitted phrases “an unnecessary distraction.”

Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It

Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It | The Daily Sheeple:
Did you know that your Facebook mobile app has complete access to your phone’s microphone?

Recently, an expert has come out to claim that Facebook may be listening in on your conversations. 
Kelli Burns, a mass communication professor at the University of South Florida, believes the app might be using people’s microphones to gather data on the content of people’s conversations.

Facebook admits that the app is capable of listening to what’s happening around it — but claims the feature simply identifies what people are listening to or watching as means of conveniently posting about it.

Currently, the feature is only available in the U.S. and has been available for a couple of years according to Facebook, although recent warnings from Burns have drawn renewed interest.

According to a report in The Independent:

Professor Burns has said that the tool appears to be using the audio it gathers not simply to help out users, but might be doing so to listen in to discussions and serve them with relevant advertising. She says that to test the feature, she discussed certain topics around the phone and then found that the site appeared to show relevant ads.

Though Professor Burns said she was not convinced that Facebook is listening in on conversations – it may have been that she was searching for the same things that she chose to discuss around the phone – but she said that it wouldn’t be a surprising move from the site.

The claim chimes with anecdotal reports online that the site appears to show ads for things that people have mentioned in passing.

Read on!

Trump’s Pro-Growth Path to Victory

Trump’s Pro-Growth Path to Victory - WSJ:
"Can Donald Trump make America grow again?
His record-breaking number of GOP primary voters—more than 13 million—seem to think so.
And Americans overall strongly prefer Mr. Trump over Hillary Clinton on the economy, and on employment and jobs, according to Gallup’s latest polling.
...Yet consider the potentially axiom-breaking speed and magnitude of the rise of U.S. trade with China after China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001.
By 2015, compared with 2000, American trade with China (adjusted for inflation) almost tripled to a $577 billion annual rate, and now represents 3.2% of U.S. gross domestic product.
...Since 2000—the last year before the great expansion of U.S. trade with China began—real per capita U.S. annual GDP growth has fallen, on average, to less than 1%.
In the five years before 2000, growth averaged more than 3%. 
We can’t blame the Great Recession for this dismal “new normal”—it began right after 2000 when trade with China took off, not in 2008 when Lehman Brothers failed..."
Read on!

Secret Service officer whose tell-all about Hillary Clinton banned from networks

Secret Service officer whose tell-all about Hillary Clinton banned from networks | Daily Mail Online
Secret Service officer whose damning tell-all about Hillary Clinton is already a bestseller reportedly BANNED from appearing on broadcast networks after she labels book 'trash'

• Hillary Clinton and her campaign have reportedly blocked Gary Byrne from promoting his new book on any of the broadcast networks 
• ABC, CBS and NBC did not respond to requests for comment from DailyMail.com 
• Crisis of Character details Byrne's years as a Secret Service uniformed officer in the Clinton White House 
• The book is already a bestseller and number two on Amazon's list for the month of June 
• Byrne claims to have walked in on Bill Clinton being intimate with Monica Lewinsky and implies Hillary may have slugged her husband in the book 
• Several agents said in an interview that Byrne did not even have the access to see the things he writes about given his low rank the Service

Dem Congressman and Clinton Superdelegate Convicted in Racketeering Case | TheBlaze.com

Dem Congressman and Clinton Superdelegate Convicted in Racketeering Case | TheBlaze.com:

"PHILADELPHIA (TheBlaze/AP) — Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was found guilty in a federal corruption case Tuesday. Chaka was found guilty of all charges, including charges related to racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Fattah is a superdelegate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton."

What If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes?

What If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes? (VIDEO) - FIRE

Administrators at college campuses routinely use speech codes to launch investigations into campus newspapers, prohibit religious symbols, and silence support for political candidates.  
Instead of fostering a marketplace of ideas at the university, faculty and students often push to disinvite controversial speakers and entertainers. 
College administrators have used speech codes to prohibit biased speech, disrespectful speech, and “inappropriately directed laughter,” and to restrict all questionable speech to “free speech zones.”... 

Shocking Homophobia by Western Muslim Educators

Shocking Homophobia by Western Muslim Educators:
"Islamic private schools in Canada have been found to be using textbooks produced by Saudi Arabia which endorse the death penalty for homosexuality.
In two of the school textbooks, homosexuality is described as "one of the most heinous sins" and the death penalty recommended is by stoning or by fire.
The books allegedly explain that homosexuality is bad not only because it goes against the laws of nature, but also because it spreads moral corruption and HIV.
The books propose that early marriage and executing gay people will save society from homosexuality.
Meanwhile in Australia the controversial Sheikh Shady Al-Suleiman has denied that he supports punishments for homosexuals, despite having previously made statements that Allah will punish gay people and adulterers with HIV/AIDs for their sins..."

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