History for July 14

History for July 14 - On-This-Day.com
Irving Stone 1903, William Hanna 1910, Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913


Dale Robertson 1923, Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer, Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")


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 Nazi Party were outlawed.


1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was first published.


2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.

Limbaugh: Only 1 thing standing in left’s way

Limbaugh: Only 1 thing standing in left’s way:

With American politics heating up to the point of people being publicly intimidated and verbally attacked in the most vicious of terms, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh says there’s only one thing in the mind of leftists that is preventing them from gaining power.
And that thing is elections.
“It’s becoming clear to the left that the only thing standing in their way now is elections,” Limbaugh said Wednesday on his national broadcast.
“If they can find a way around that, then they don’t need to worry about appealing to people or getting out the vote or coming up with ways to convince people to vote. If you look at the way the radical left is going with this intolerant bullying and intimidation of anybody who disagrees with ’em, and the desire to stop any expression of any alternative view or way of thinking?

The way we were-----I'm Telling You Now (Non Stop Edit)

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A primer on immigration/ag reporting:

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VDARE.com--Retweeted Andrew Good (@Drewbueno):

A primer on immigration/ag reporting:
1.) Ag industry & their lobbyists pitch a "labor shortage" story #RITF
2.) Media publishes it
3.) The fears prove unfounded

Unfortunately, journos bounce between #1 & #2.

Example:
2017– https://t.co/2CEaXPe8kx
2018– https://t.co/k3O4OHvV9E https://t.co/jMokwP6U5H

Immigration Now Front And Center With Voters | Articles | VDARE.com

Immigration Now Front And Center With Voters | Articles | VDARE.com
"A decade ago, immigration was a fringe issue, even among Republican voters. 
The following graph shows the percentages of registered voters in 2008 and today, by partisan affiliation, who identified (or identify) "immigration" as the most important issue facing the country:

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani OK'd Paris bomb plot: National Council of Resistance of Iran - Washington Times

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani OK'd Paris bomb plot: National Council of Resistance of Iran - Washington Times:

The Europe-based opposition to Iran’s ruling mullahs charged on Thursday that the plot to bomb its annual resistance rally near Paris on June 30 was approved by Iran’s highest leaders.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran quoted its intelligence sources inside the country as saying that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Hassan Rouhani approved the plan.
Belgian authorities foiled the plot when they found explosives in a car driven by a couple with ties to Iran.

Defense Expenditures Of NATO Members Visualized [Infographic]

Defense Expenditures Of NATO Members Visualized [Infographic]

More People Use a Gun in Self-Defense Each Year Than Die in Car Accidents | The Daily Sheeple

More People Use a Gun in Self-Defense Each Year Than Die in Car Accidents | The Daily Sheeple
"How is it that so many kids raised on “Harry Potter”, “The Hunger Games”, “Star Wars”, and all the Marvel action figure movies manage to miss a critical point of the stories? 
The lesson being:
If you want to prevail over evil villains, you must have the proper tools to fight back."

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Write and wrong: Calligraphers face jail

Write and wrong: Calligraphers face jail:

But the city’s ordinance “forces the two artists to use their artistic talents to celebrate and promote same-sex marriage in violation of their beliefs.”
“It also bans them from publicly communicating what custom artwork they can and cannot create consistent with their faith. The law threatens up to six months in jail, $2,500 in fines, and three years of probation for each day that there is a violation.”
The ADF brief said that if the women “politely decline to create custom artwork celebrating same-sex weddings or publish their desired statement [explaining how their religious beliefs prevent them from creating certain artwork], Phoenix will prosecute them.”