History for July 18

History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com
William Makepeace Thackeray 1811, Vidkum Quisling 1887, Richard "Red" Skelton 1913


Nelson Mandela 1918 - President of South Africa, John Glenn 1921 - Astronaut, Hunter S. Thompson 1937


1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution.



1914 - Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps.


1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.


1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.


1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.


1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.


2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days. (Maryland)

Box Office Poison: 'Shock and Awe' Is Director Rob Reiner's 6th Mega-Flop in a Row

Box Office Poison: 'Shock and Awe' Is Director Rob Reiner's 6th Mega-Flop in a Row:

This weekend, Reiner’s Shock and Awe crashed and burned at the box office. For some reason, even though it is 2018, Reiner is still wasting millions of dollars to attack former President George W. Bush. This, even after every single movie attacking Bush bombed.
What’s more, as if to prove just how insulated he is from real America, Shock and Awe tries to make heroes of journalists, a group currently enjoying approval ratings little better than child molesters.

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Prof claims Trump ‘making microaggressions worse’ on campus

Prof claims Trump ‘making microaggressions worse’ on campus

• An associate dean at a Texas university claims that the election of Donald Trump is responsible for an uptick in microaggressions on college campuses.
• According to Nicole Walters, Trump's election has emboldened her white colleagues to inquire if she’s an affirmative action hire, suggest she’s in collusion with other black faculty members, and question her authority.

A professor at the University of St. Thomas in Texas recently blamed the Trump administration for the rise in microaggressions she and her colleagues have allegedly  faced from each other since the 2016 election. 

Nicole Walters published “Trump’s America is Making Microaggressions an Even Greater Reality for Women Faculty of Color” in the recent issue of the peer-reviewed academic journal Women, Gender, and Families of Color.
Walters—who is also a Dean at the Texas institution—cites the alleged rise in microaggressions on her campus as a “marked difference from President Barack Obama’s ethos of inclusivity and his message of hope and unity.”
[RELATED: Prof details ‘barrage of microaggressions’ from white colleagues]
Since the election, Walters claims that many of her white colleagues suddenly feel emboldened to inquire if she’s an affirmative action hire, suggest she’s in collusion with other black faculty members, and question her authority.
“It has been a life-changing experience, to say the least..."
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BLAME THE MESSENGER: A large, longitudinal, randomized, controlled study recently found that Tenness…

Instapundit � Blog Archive � BLAME THE MESSENGER: A large, longitudinal, randomized, controlled study recently found that Tenness…
"BLAME THE MESSENGER:

A large, longitudinal, randomized, controlled study recently found that Tennessee’s pre-kindergarten program for low-income children had modestly NEGATIVE effects on academic achievement once the children were in the third grade. 
The program participants also had more disciplinary problems than non-participants, most of whom had stayed at home that year rather than participating in some other program. 
This is, of course, disappointing, especially since the study had found positive effects when measured at the end of the pre-kindergarten year. 
But those effects faded over time and turned negative..."
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States Need Congress to Break Obamacare’s Medicaid Gridlock | The Heritage Foundation

States Need Congress to Break Obamacare’s Medicaid Gridlock | The Heritage Foundation:

Thankfully, there is a better path forward. Conservatives have offered a consensus plan—the Health Care Choice Plan—to provide states and people real choices.
Under this plan, the current funding streams—for subsidies to insurers and for the Medicaid expansion—would be converted to block grants to the states. States would be able to use these funds to develop their own programs to help low-income people without the complicated federal constraints of the Medicaid program.
It would end the funding imbalance between expansion and nonexpansion states and would stop the gaming and manipulation of Obamacare funding that inappropriately shifts costs to federal taxpayers.

Chicago could soon test universal basic income program | Fox News

Chicago could soon test universal basic income program | Fox News
"Chicago may soon become the largest municipality in the U.S. to test a universal basic income program.
Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar recently proposed legislation that would provide 1,000 families with a $500 monthly stipend -- no questions asked. 
The bill already has the backing of the majority of city lawmakers, and Pawar hopes to soon work with Mayor Rahm Emanuel to implement the pilot program, The Intercept reported..."
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Former Clinton WH Staffer: It's 'Tempting' to Beat up Rand Paul | Breitbart

Former Clinton WH Staffer: It's 'Tempting' to Beat up Rand Paul | Breitbart:

A former Clinton White House staffer and veteran presidential campaign staffer tweeted Sunday that “it would be tempting” to beat up Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) if he lived in the senator’s hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
I never advocate violence but if I lived in Bowling Green it would be tempting to beat the crap out of Rand Paul.

Why Baltimore Police Have 'Stopped Noticing Crime' | Trending

Why Baltimore Police Have 'Stopped Noticing Crime' | Trending
"An interesting news story ran in Thursday’s USA Today. “Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death,” read the headline. 
“A wave of killings followed.”
What I found most interesting about it, though, was not the facts that were reported but rather that anyone should have found them surprising. 
“Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city,” the story begins, “a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.”
The story goes on to describe how Baltimore’s police officers reported seeing fewer drug dealers out and about, fewer traffic violators, fewer people with arrest warrants, fewer of any type of person who previously would have attracted their attention. 
Note that the story does not say there were fewer of these lawbreakers, only that the police did not report seeing as many.
Surely if the officers were being candid, they would say they saw just as many as ever, but that they made the decision not to do anything about them.
And who can blame them?...
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