History for August 15

History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769, Julia Child 1912, Phyllis Schlafly 1924


Vernon Jordan 1935, Ben Affleck 1972, Jennifer Lawrence 1990 - Actress (TV: "The Bill Engvall Show," Movies: the "Hunger Games" series)


1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.


1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.

VICTORY! California Judge Says John MacArthur Can Hold Indoor Church | Todd Starnes

VICTORY! California Judge Says John MacArthur Can Hold Indoor Church | Todd Starnes:

A California judge today ruled that Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church can hold indoor church services and they can even sing songs.
It proves a point I made in my new book, “Culture Jihad” — when people of faith take a stand and engage their rights we can win the day. Click here to read “Culture Jihad.”
“An historic win,” said Jenna Ellis, the church’s attorney. She pointed out it was the first time a California court recognized that church is essential.
Los Angeles County was hoping the judge would slap Pastor MacArthur with a temporary restraining order forcing him to cease holding indoor services.

San Francisco Shuts Down Homeless Hotels With Free Booze And Drugs After Meth Lab Found, Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson | The Daily Caller

San Francisco Shuts Down Homeless Hotels With Free Booze And Drugs After Meth Lab Found, Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson | The Daily Caller:

Journalist Erica Sandberg said Wednesday that San Francisco has shut down its “harm reduction” program that offered free alcohol, drugs and hotel rooms to the city’s homeless after a meth lab was discovered in one room.
“It was basically a disaster,” Sandberg told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “It’s such a shame because it could have worked out.”

The way we were-----What Happened To Giant Flying Boats? Saunders-Roe Princess Story

Boob-tube-----Former ABC News boss: Bias in media

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Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

PANIC PANDEMIC: More COVID-19 Facts the Media DOESN'T Want You to Know |...

• "The median age for Covid deaths in the US = 78.
• The average life expectancy in the US? 78.
• You have been lied to by the lying Democrat Media about the DemPanic/PlanDemic from day 1."

West Texas doctor claims to have “silver bullet” for COVID-19

West Texas doctor claims to have “silver bullet” for COVID-19:

Dr. Richard Bartlett works at various clinics around West Texas, and says he’s found a successful treatment for the coronavirus.
“The treatment plan is inhaled, generic budesonide,” Bartlett said. “Using some generic antibiotics to protect from a secondary bacterial infection. Using zinc, which interferes with virus replication. It’s common sense. It’s intuitive.”
Budesonide is a steroid, that can be inhaled directly to the lungs using a nebulizer.

BLM Advocates Looting | Power Line

BLM Advocates Looting | Power Line

"The American press has a long history of sanitizing radical leftist movements. These days the main beneficiary of the press’s airbrush is Black Lives Matter, a racist, Marxist organization that sponsors, in reporters’ words, “mostly peaceful” riots. 

As with other far-left groups, BLM does not hide its true colors. 

It just relies on the press to misreport them.

...Black Lives Matter Chicago advocates looting and more looting, as the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

“The mayor clearly has not learned anything since May, and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the [Chicago Police Department] is abolished and our Black communities are fully invested in,” [Black Lives Matter Chicago] said in a statement.
***...“Over the past few months, too many people — disproportionately Black and Brown — have lost their jobs, lost their income, lost their homes, and lost their lives as the city has done nothing and the Chicago elite have profited,” the group’s statement reads. “When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us.”

BLM made its advocacy of looting explicit with this banner at the group’s demonstration yesterday:

Read all.

You know what they're doing here, don't you?-----Michigan Secretary of State sending postcards encouraging people to apply online to vote absentee - mlive.com

Michigan Secretary of State sending postcards encouraging people to apply online to vote absentee - mlive.com--
"Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced on Thursday she will be sending all Michigan voters postcards encouraging them to apply online to vote from home in the November presidential election.
...The postcards are being mailed using the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ list of 4.4 million active, registered voters who aren’t on a permanent absent-voter list and haven’t already applied to have their November ballot mailed to them.
...The postcards will be mailed to voters between Aug. 20 and Sept. 20...Read all.

Lunch video-----Young Voters Love Trump's COVID Plan...When Told It's Biden's

"Campus Reform Digital Reporter Eduardo Neret asked young voters about President Trump's recent executive orders to suspend student loan payments and cut payroll taxes. 
Do the voters think these are good ideas? 
Do they think Trump is trying to help struggling Americans?...Read all.

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Portland DA Says Protesters Won’t Be Charged With Harassment, Rioting Under New Policy | The Daily Caller

Portland DA Says Protesters Won’t Be Charged With Harassment, Rioting Under New Policy | The Daily Caller:

Multnomah County District Attorney (DA) Mike Schmidt says protesters who took part in George Floyd protests can only be charged with assault, theft or property damage in a new retroactive policy.
The policy comes as Schmidt says the DA’s office needs to “recognize that we will undermine public safety, not promote it, if we leverage the force of our criminal justice system against peaceful protestors who are demanding to be heard,” according to an official statement.
“We  will presumptively decline to charge cases where the most serious offenses are city ordinance violations and crimes that do not involve deliberate property damage, theft, or the use or threat of force against another person,” according to Schmidt.

Morning Greatness: Almost Every American Blames the Media for Political Strife - American Greatness

Morning Greatness: Almost Every American Blames the Media for Political Strife - American Greatness

"Everyone blames the media for political strife

A new Gallup poll finds that 84% of Americans say the media is biased.

The study from Gallup and the Knight Foundation shows that a whopping 86 percent of Americans believe media outlets lean one way or another politically, with 49 percent saying there’s “a great deal” of bias while 37 percent say “a fair amount.”

A majority of Americans, 56 percent, say their go-to news source has some form of “bias,” with 20 percent acknowledging a “great deal” of bias at their preferred outlet while 36 percent saying “a fair amount” of bias is present.

...But here’s the kicker: 84% say “the media is to blame for political division in this country.” 

And four out of five respondents said the media is “trying to persuade people to adopt a certain viewpoint.” 

There’s a word for that: propaganda!

Is this accidental?...Read all.

Mother knows best!

Democratic Party sets rules for criticizing Joe Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris - Washington Times

Democratic Party sets rules for criticizing Joe Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris - Washington Times

• Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett operatives sign a missive that warns what media message must be

"Media organizations have just been warned by the Democratic Party machine that they better be very, very careful with how they cover Joe Biden’s vice presidential choice — just revealed to be Kamala Harris.
Any criticism of the expected woman will be considered racist and sexist, we are told.

...An actual memo went out from an ad hoc group of Democratic operatives (pretending to be advocates for women) to media organizations with orders on how to proceed with their coverage. 

...The implication of the memo was any critical coverage deemed unfair (and all would be deemed so) will be declared racist and/or sexist...Read all.

#1 This day 1968-----Rascals People Got To Be Free

Sean Malone - What's happening today is partly a consequence of...

Sean Malone - What's happening today is partly a consequence of...
"What's happening today is partly a consequence of our failure to take stuff like this seriously. 

People in the libertarian world spent decades navel gazing and writing papers nobody read instead of learning how to craft persuasive arguments and communicate with people in engaging ways through modern media.
And it's not just an issue of having the tools to *respond* to videos like this.
We should not have had to be reactionary. 

Instead we should have been creating the content socialists felt the need to respond to."

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AJ+ posted a video to playlist Election 2016: Crashing The Party — with Francesca Fiorentini.

August 5, 2015 · 

The scariest thing in American politics already walks among us.

-4:11

5 Ways America Is Already Socialist

Impossible to disagree with this!

9 Ways Kamala Harris Proves to Be a Champion of the Radical Left

9 Ways Kamala Harris Proves to Be a Champion of the Radical Left:

Regardless of the chatter and ongoing analysis from political pundits, commentators, and officials, Harris has a well-documented record of embracing radical progressive ideas, touting them herself on numerous occasions.
Here are nine examples of Harris putting her far-left ideology on full display.