History for August 3

History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ernie Pyle 1900, John T. Scopes 1900, Leon Uris 1924


Tony Bennett 1926, Martin Sheen 1940 - Actor, Martha Stewart 1941 - Television personality


1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.


1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.


1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.


1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.


1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.


1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.


1981 - U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.


1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

5 Absurd Excuses the Left Is Using to Delay Brett Kavanaugh | The Heritage Foundation

5 Absurd Excuses the Left Is Using to Delay Brett Kavanaugh | The Heritage Foundation:

Now, they are claiming that we have virtually no idea who Kavanaugh is or what kind of Supreme Court justice he would be. Solving that mystery, they say, requires putting the confirmation process on hold while they access more than 1 million documents related to Kavanaugh’s service in the George W. Bush White House.
This demand raises an obvious question: What is the point of this demand, since the Democrats making it announced their opposition to Kavanaugh before President Donald Trump even announced that he was the nominee?
The answer is equally obvious.

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NRA Fact-Checks the Hysteria Over 3D-Printed Guns

NRA Fact-Checks the Hysteria Over 3D-Printed Guns
"With the debate raging over the ability to download information in order to make parts for firearms and produce them on a 3D printer, the National Rifle Association (NRA) had to remind people that making undetectable plastic guns has been illegal for 30 years.
“Many anti-gun politicians and members of the media have wrongly claimed that 3-D printing technology will allow for the production and widespread proliferation of undetectable plastic firearms,” Chris Cox, the executive director for the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement.
“Regardless of what a person may be able to publish on the Internet, undetectable plastic guns have been illegal for 30 years,” he continued. 

“Federal law passed in 1988, crafted with the NRA's support, makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive an undetectable firearm.”
Much of the hysteria surrounding 3D-printed firearms and parts has led to many people making false statements..."

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Generation Z: America’s Most Intolerant Generation | Intellectual Takeout

Generation Z: America’s Most Intolerant Generation | Intellectual Takeout
"The post-millennials have arrived.
As the oldest millennials turn 37, demographers have designated a new generation for those born after 1996, Generation Z. 
The oldest members of this cohort just graduated from college and had their first (legal) alcoholic beverages.
As they wind their way through college, post-millennials will change higher education, just as previous generations did.
Generation Z is racially diverse, increasingly secular, and very much online.
Non-Hispanic whites make up just over half of this cohort, compared with 72 percent of Baby Boomers.
...The members of this generation have different problems: they’re less prone to criminality and substance abuse but more susceptible to depression and suicide. 
And one thing that has especially emerged as a defining characteristic—of at least some large portion of them—is their tendency to be intolerant and to wish authority to make others behave as they wish..."
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The Democrats and their socialism problem - Washington Times

The Democrats and their socialism problem - Washington Times:

The Democrats have some problems. OK, they have a lot of problems, but let’s throw this new one into the mix — ‘cuz it’s a doozy.
“An overwhelming majority of respondents, 76 percent, said they would not vote for a ‘socialist’ political candidate, while only 24 percent of those polled said they would,” finds a July 24 poll conducted by The Hill and HarrisX.
Why, you ask, is that a problem for the Democrats? Because they have all but embraced socialism, what with their free health care and free college and free money for everyone (this last dubbed “universal basic income,” so as to sound less socialist).
Sen. Bernard Sanders, the Vermont “independent” who got aced out of the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 by some shenanigans perpetrated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, started the whole thing off.

Mexico’s Murder Rate Hits Highest Level in Decades

Mexico’s Murder Rate Hits Highest Level in Decades:
"The number of murders in Mexico rose sharply last year, pushing the homicide rate to its highest level since at least 1990 as violence among drug gangs persisted and highlighting the challenge faced by the incoming administration to contain criminal violence.
The National Statistics Institute said Monday the number of murders rose 27% last year to 31,174, the most on record going back to 1990 and equivalent to 25 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The homicide rate rose from 20 per 100,000 in 2016, and was above the recent high of 24 in 2011..."
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MUST SEE=> Watch Liberal Media Hacks SCREAM AT TOP OF THEIR LUNGS at President Trump in Oval Office -- UNREAL! (VIDEO)

MUST SEE=> Watch Liberal Media Hacks SCREAM AT TOP OF THEIR LUNGS at President Trump in Oval Office -- UNREAL! (VIDEO)

The Behavior of Liberal Media Hacks is Just Unbelievable!

President Donald Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti Monday in the Oval Office.

President Trump opened the room to reporters so the two leaders could make a few statements during their meetings.

The reporters know when they come into a meeting whether or not the president will take questions.  On Monday the president was not planning on taking questions.

The liberal media hacks wanted desperately to harass the president about the Russian-collusion witch hunt while he was sitting with a foreign leader.
So they started SCREAMING at President Trump!

It sounded like they were SCREAMING at the top of their lungs!

…And they wonder why Americans have no faith in the mainstream media today?

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Rush: Facebook claim of finding ‘bad actors’ just a ‘crock’

Rush: Facebook claim of finding ‘bad actors’ just a ‘crock’:

And there’s more.
“Facebook is doing this for a second reason, and that is they’re already beginning to set the table, make excuses for Democrats losing the next election. Folks, do not doubt me on this. Whereas the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party has done everything they can to destroy the integrity, honor, and the perceived validity of the U.S. electoral system, if they win the next election, I guarantee you there will be no problem with the American electoral system.

Yes, they DO hate us-----California Professor Demands That Editors Resign If They're White | pluralist

California Professor Demands That Editors Resign If They're White | pluralist
"It's time to STEP DOWN and hand over the positions of power."
An English professor at California State University, Fresno, last week tweeted that editors must resign if they are white.
​Randa Jarrar, an English professor at California State University, Fresno, said they should “hand over the positions of power” because merely holding such positions is “fuck up enough.”
"At some point, all of us in the literary community must DEMAND that white editors resign," she said. 
"It's time to STEP DOWN and hand over the positions of power. 
We don't have to wait for them to fuck up. 
The fact that they hold these positions is fuck up enough."
Jarrar, who is of Greek and Arab heritage, made her Twitter account private after coming under fire in April for a post celebrating the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, who she called "an amazing racist." ...
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HERE’S WHY BUREAUCRATS SEE A LETHAL THREAT IN THE ‘PLATFORM ECONOMY

Instapundit  Blog Archive  HERE’S WHY BUREAUCRATS SEE A LETHAL THREAT IN THE ‘PLATFORM ECONOMY:
"HERE’S WHY BUREAUCRATS SEE A LETHAL THREAT IN THE ‘PLATFORM ECONOMY:’ 
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a great new video out explaining why the Platform Economy — Uber, AirBnB, Amazon, etc. — is such a gift to the cause of individual liberty. 
And why politicians and bureaucrats are determined to regulate it out of existence.---Posted by Mark Tapscott

#1 This day 1956-----"My Prayer" The Platters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Socialist Face of Unserious Movement | National Review

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Socialist Face of Unserious Movement | National Review
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Great Young Hope progressives deserve. 
When, last Thursday, she was asked an elementary question about spending, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez struck her best Cobra Kai pose. 
“I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week,” she exclaimed, contorting her face into Jack Nicholson’s and attempting to shoot webs from her fingers. 
“I can’t believe I can say that,” she added. “It’s really weird!”

Alas, nothing from this brush with greatness appears to have worn off on her. Mere seconds elapsed between the boast and the disaster that followed. 

Speaking to a friendly Trevor Noah, Ocasio-Cortez revealed that 

• she does not know the difference between a one-year and a ten-year budget; 
• confused the recent increase in defense spending with the entire annual cost of the military;
•  implied that the population of the United States was around 800 million strong; and, 
• having been asked to defend her coveted $15 minimum wage, launched into a rambling and inscrutable diatribe about “private equity” firms that would have been a touch too harsh as a parody on South Park. 

If anything, she was worse this time than she had been during her appearance on Firing Line a few days earlier, on which newly revamped show she 

• demonstrated her obliviousness to the fact that the United States economy exploded during the 1990s, 
• to the manner in which unemployment numbers are calculated, and
•  to even the most obvious facets of the Israel–Palestine question about which she has assured her supporters she is so passionate.

“It’s really weird!”...

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"Undocumented Immigrant" Is a Made-Up Term That Ignores the Law | The Heritage Foundation

"Undocumented Immigrant" Is a Made-Up Term That Ignores the Law | The Heritage Foundation:

The Justice Department leadership is correct. Illegal alien is the correct legal term that should be used.
“Undocumented immigrant” is a politically correct, made-up term adopted by pro-illegal alien advocacy groups and liberal media outlets to obscure the fact that such aliens have violated U.S. immigration law and are in the country illegally.

Patriotism: The Secret of Trump's Success

Patriotism: The Secret of Trump's Success
"The driving force behind Trump's winning for America is his powerful patriotism. 
Patriotism is a virtue that our politicians talk about a lot, in utterly empty ways. 
Many Democrats think it is a vice.  
The left wing of the Democratic Party mistakes it for white nationalism. 
Trump lives American patriotism. 
It is the reason he ran for president and the reason he won. 
He knows we are a great country.
Trump recognizes and is comfortable with power – his personal power, America's power. 
He does not think power is toxic. 
He thinks American and presidential power is wonderful and meant to be used for our common, national good.
Our president loves to build..."
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