History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Locke 1632, Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809, Ingrid Bergman 1915


John McCain 1936 - Prisoner of war in Vietnam from October 1967-1973, U.S. Senater from Arizona, U.S. Presidential nominee, Elliott Gould 1938, Robin Leach 1941 - Television host ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous")


1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.


1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.


1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.


1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.


1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.


1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.


1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space.


1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Planned Parenthood - Washington Times

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Planned Parenthood - Washington Times:


"Planned Parenthood had been on a legal winning streak, piling up decisions from judges who have ruled that states can’t stop the country’s largest abortion clinic network from receiving federal grant money.
But they suffered a major setback last week when a federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas can kick Planned Parenthood out of its network of Medicaid-approved health providers."

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Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact - Kurt Schlichter

Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact - Kurt Schlichter
"The whiny wailing and rending of garments (mostly bow ties) by the True Cons over President Trump pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio brings to mind another president’s choice when a loyal supporter was the victim of a liberal witch hunt.
President Bush was an honorable man, but the way he allowed Scooter Libby and the Libby family to be ruined and impoverished over what everyone knew was a skeevy liberal political vendetta before issuing a partial commutation is to W’s lasting shame.
His excuse: the Rule of Law or something.
But, as anyone willing to see knows, today the Rule of Law is a unicorn and it has been for a long time. 
I like the Rule of Law, and I’ve been warning for years about what happens when it goes away.
Yet we are where we are, whether we like it or not.
We’re in a land where the law is only intermittently and selectively applicable. 
Allowing allies to suffer in an effort to pretend that all is well is not going to bring the Rule of Law back.
Nostalgia for the Rule of Law no excuse for tolerating an injustice to an ally.
Hell, undoing injustices is what the pardon power is for..."
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Don Surber: Odd admission by National Review

Don Surber: Odd admission by National Review:
Odd admission by National Review
Rich Lowry, editor of National Review and co-founder of Never Trump, made an odd admission that President Trump is accomplishing a major conservative goal.
A hint: Trump is beating up the successor to the Evil Empire.
Cannot stand the suspense?
Well, here it is:
The Media Is Trump's Evil Empire
Lowry likely thinks he is mocking President Trump by assigning President Trump an inferior enemy.
But while Stalin and the Soviet Union were evil, sided with Hitler at the start of World War II, and slaughtered 50 million of his own people over time, that Evil Empire never really posed an existential threat to the United States.
Khrushchev wisely backed off in the Cuban missile crisis.
We fought that evil because we were the only ones who could.
We were never in peril.
But the refusal of the national media -- including Lowry -- to accept the results of the election last November does imperil the nation.
Fake News about urinating hookers and the like undermine the ability of Americans to make the peaceful transition of power, which is a hallmark of our democratic republic...
From Lowry:
"The media has become for the right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War...
Now, a policy of containment, preferably rollback, of the mainstream media occupies that central role..."
I find his blithe dismissal of Reagan benighted.
His purpose in standing up to the Soviets was not to unite "religious conservatives and libertarians," but to stand up to evil.
Likewise, President Trump is both developed philosophically and delivering his agenda on time and under budget..."
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AGAIN: Berkeley 'Anti-Fascist' Protest Turns Violent As Antifa Clashes With Police | Daily Wire

AGAIN: Berkeley 'Anti-Fascist' Protest Turns Violent As Antifa Clashes With Police | Daily Wire:


"Chaos broke out at a protest in Berkeley, California on Sunday, as black-clad "anti-fascists" ran wild, converging on Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park near the University of California Berkeley's campus, ostensibly demonstrating against a "March Against Marxism" that never happened.

A LIST OF OBAMA’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE USA

A LIST OF OBAMA’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE USA
"Quit trashing Obama’s accomplishments. 
He has done more than any other President before him. 
Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
• First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
• First President to violate the War Powers Act.
• First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Long list!

Trump Fundraiser Attendee Says Police Were Given Stand-Down Order

Trump Fundraiser Attendee Says Police Were Given Stand-Down Order:
"A week ago in Minneapolis, Republican donors attending a Trump fundraiser were assaulted, robbed and spat upon by a violent leftist mob as they were leaving the event. 
Attendees say that even though there was a strong law enforcement presence at the convention center downtown where the fundraiser was held, they were not afforded any police protection when coming to and leaving the event -- and even more incredibly, there were no arrests.

Many people who attended the event told Fox 9 that police seemed to back down from intervening, but the Minneapolis Police Department insists there was no stand-down order.

Twin Cities News Talk TCNT morning hosts Andrew Lee and MN state Senator David Osmek took calls on Monday from attendees who also said that the police seemed to be holding back. 

One male attendee claimed he was told by more than one officer that law enforcement had been ordered to "stand down" -- and that the order had "come from the top.".."

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