History for March 27

History for March 27 - On-This-Day.com:
William Conrad Rontgen 1845, Sarah Vaughan 1924, David Janssen 1931 

Cale Yarborough 1939, Quentin Tarantino 1963 - Movie director. Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer 


1794 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy. 


1802 - The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French Revolutionary War. 


1836 - In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution. 


1860 - The corkscrew was patented by M.L. Byrn. 


1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi. 


1912 - The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan. 


1933 - About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City. 






1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved the prescription drug Viagra. It was the first pill for male impotence. 


1998 - Top civilian aircraft makers in France, Spain, Germany and Britain agreed to create single European aerospace and defense company. 


2004 - NASA successfully launched an unpiloted X-43A jet that hit Mach 7 (about 5,000 mph)

ABC Reporter Pushes Back Against WH Press Secretary Over ‘Counterterrorism’ Claim: ‘That’s Astounding’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

ABC Reporter Pushes Back Against WH Press Secretary Over ‘Counterterrorism’ Claim: ‘That’s Astounding’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"ABC reporter Jonathan Karl noted that “complete chaos” has gripped Yemen as the country faces a bloody struggle against radical rebel forces and asked if the White House still views Yemen as a counterterrorism “model.”

The reporter seemed surprised when Earnest said the White House is maintaining its position."

Bookmark all 50 of these!----Newsmax's Top 50 Conservative Blogs of 2015

Newsmax's Top 50 Conservative Blogs of 2015
Here are the top 50 conservative blogs:

1. Instapundit - University of Tennessee law professor and hawkish libertarian Glenn Reynolds’ nearly decade-and-a-half-old powerhouse often causes "Instalanches" of Web traffic to sites to which it links articles. 
Reynolds posts relentlessly and the brevity and wryness of his often all-caps comments are famous, like a recent link to a Popular Mechanics report on Iran exploding a fake U.S. aircraft carrier to flex its muscles during nuclear talks. 
Blogged Reynolds, “WHY DON'T WE ONE-UP THEM BY BLOWING UP A REAL IRANIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH FACILITY?"  

Tracking rape, on and off campus

Tracking rape, on and off campus:
"Campus rape is a serious problem. But while public attention is focused on students carrying mattresses and the discredited Rolling Stone report about rape at the University of Virginia, the fact is that sexual assault is more common off campus than on."

Bowe Bergdahl Charged With Desertion, Could Face Life in Prison | TheBlaze.com

Bowe Bergdahl Charged With Desertion, Could Face Life in Prison | TheBlaze.com:

"Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could spend the rest of his life in prison after being charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, the U.S. Army announced Wednesday.

Bergdahl was charged with Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, “desertion with intent to shirk important or hazardous duty,” and with Article 99, “misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place.”

Defining designerware down----Straight Women in Baggy Clothes Are Appropriating Lesbian Culture

Guardian Column: Straight Women in Baggy Clothes Are Appropriating Lesbian Culture:
"“Unisex” clothing styles are ruining everything.
A lesbian columnist wrote a piece in The Guardian complaining that the straight women who wear less-than-feminine clothing are “appropriating” lesbian culture and making it too hard for lesbians to tell who the other lesbians are.
The columnist, named Sophie Wilkinson, describes the trend of what she calls “unisex style” as a new thing, blaming the “high-street ubiquity of unisex outfitters such as American Apparel and Uniqlo and the androgynous cuts of Scandinavian shops like Cos.”
“What was once a queer-owned style has shifted to the mainstream, being appropriated by straight women to the point that it’s now impossible to infer a sexual orientation from the way a woman dresses,” Wilkinson writes in a piece titled “Butch chic: how the gender-neutral trend has ruined my wardrobe.”

The real war against women!!-----The five strategies the left uses to silence conservative women on campus

The five strategies the left uses to silence conservative women on campus
Donna Shalala, the president of the University of Miami, attracted criticism in the national press based on her administration’s decision to reject the application of four female students who wanted to organize a conservative group on campus. 
The University claimed, according to press reports, that the group was redundant.

..In founding the Network of enlightened Women (NeW) at the University of Virginia in 2004 and working with women across the country to start chapters, l have seen firsthand how colleges and universities—and members of the political left who often lead them—use their power to control and shape debate on college campuses. 

And the administrators aren’t the only ones who can shut down voices they dislike; faculty and students are just as capable of shouting down their conservative peers.

Here are five ways that colleges and their community members keep conservative women’s voices quiet:

1. Build a Bureaucracy

Each school has its own rules on how to start student clubs. Like the University of Miami under Shalala, many schools have regulations that often work against conservative voices. For example, many schools require faculty sponsors to start a club. Sometimes one of the biggest challenges our chapters face is finding a faculty member who will sign-on to be the faculty sponsor.

With so many left-leaning professors—a 2005 study found that 72 percent of college faculty members are liberal—it is unlikely that many liberal groups suffer the same challenge. These rules make it more difficult for students to start chapters of organizations that don’t have broad support among faculty.

2. Operate Institutions Closed to Conservative Women

Read on and get angry!

A Simple Question - Thomas Sowell - Page 1

A Simple Question - Thomas Sowell - Page 1:

"It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. The simple question was asked by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, and it was addressed to two Democrats. He asked what has Hillary Clinton ever accomplished.

The two Democrats immediately sidestepped the question and started reciting their talking points in favor of Hillary. But O'Reilly kept coming back to the fact that nothing they were talking about was an accomplishment."

This is amazingly GOOD for USA!---Supreme Court grants unanimous win for common sense

Supreme Court grants unanimous win for common sense | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"According to a study released last year by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, investor lawsuits have historically cost shareholders more than seven times what plaintiffs ultimately receive. And a large share of the riches in such cases — $19 billion of the $90 billion in judgments and settlements won between 1996 and 2014 — goes to trial lawyers."

Pay the media for fawning coverage?---Feds Paid Politico $432K in 2014

Using your tax dollars to buy the media to assure you the government is your friend?
Sure looks like somtin' stinky here....wasn't 2014 an election year?
Disgusting!
Feds Paid Politico $432K in 2014 | The Weekly Standard:

It's all about the money. Not the students-----A $46,000 Spread in the Cost of Tuition Per Degree at Michigan Universities

A $46,000 Spread in the Cost of Tuition Per Degree at Michigan Universities [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Compare the University of Michigan with Michigan State University.
A student taking a 12-hour load will pay about $3,000 a year more to go to Ann Arbor — but a student taking a heavy 18-hour load will pay well over $2,500 a year more in East Lansing.
That’s because tuition at Michigan is fixed for students taking 12 to 18 hours, in marked contrast to many other schools that charge by the credit hour.
In other words, a student at Michigan has incentives to take a heavy load and graduate in a timely fashion.

Almost 85 percent of students who earn a bachelor’s degree from Michigan do so within four years, far more than the 64 percent at Michigan State and an extraordinarily low 11 percent at Wayne State University.

While these differences are revealing, the true cost of going to college depends not only on the number of years attended but also on the risk of dropping out.
It is a fact that over half of the first-time undergraduates (non-transfers) entering seven of the state’s public universities never graduate, or at least not within six years. (The seven are Oakland, Wayne State, Eastern Michigan, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior State, Saginaw Valley State, and the University of Michigan-Flint.)
At Wayne State, a paltry 11 percent of students graduate in the standard four years, and only 32 percent graduate in six..."

Bibi Netanyahu Apologizes for Nothing; Marie Harf Excuses Ayatollah Khamenei - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Bibi Netanyahu Apologizes for Nothing; Marie Harf Excuses Ayatollah Khamenei - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

"All Netanyahu did was realize it and tell people this was going on.  And that, all of a sudden, became racist, when it was Obama and his campaign team that were behaving according to the tenets of racism.  Netanyahu just responded.  But he had to apologize for some reason and I just hope it's not that meaningful in terms of Netanyahu's resolve.  It's like, did you see the Iranian supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei?  A lot of people noted that he gave a speech the other day and he was shouting, "Death to America!  Death to America!  Death to America!"

Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France

Looking more and more like "suicide by pilot". 
Yes, it's early, but the airline already tells us it's "an accident" so it's apparently OK to speculate. 
But Muslim pilots have murdered airline passengers before. 
Too often. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82910&page=1
And why hide the names of the crew?: "Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, has characterized the crash as an accident. 
The airline has not disclosed the identities of the pilots, except to say that the captain was a 10 ­year veteran with more than 6,000 hours of flying time in A320s."
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France - NYTimes.com
Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re­enter.
“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. 
“And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. 
There is never an answer.”
He said, “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”
While the audio seemed to give some insight into the circumstances leading up to the Germanwings
crash, it also left many questions unanswered.
"We don’t know yet the reason why one of the guys went out,” said the official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
"But what is sure is that at the very end of the flight, the other pilot is alone and does not open the door."
The data from the voice recorder seems only to deepen the mystery surrounding the crash and provides no indication of the condition or activity of the pilot who remained in the cockpit.
The descent from 38,000 feet over about 10 minutes was alarming but still gradual enough to indicate that the twin ­engine Airbus A320 had not been damaged catastrophically.
At no point during the descent was there any communication from the cockpit to air traffic controllers or any other signal of an emergency.
...Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, has characterized the crash as an accident. 
The airline has not disclosed the identities of the pilots, except to say that the captain was a 10­year veteran with more than 6,000 hours of flying time in A320s.

History for March 26

History for March 26 - On-This-Day.com
William C. Westmoreland 1914 - U.S. Army general, Strother Martin 1919, Sandra Day O'Connor 1930 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice 


Leonard Nimoy 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek"), James Caan 1939 - Actor, Nancy Pelosi 1940 - U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives 


Bob Woodward 1943 - Journalist, Diana Ross 1944 - Singer, Kenny Chesney 1968 - Country singer 


1804 - The U.S. Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana. 


1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S. 


1937 - Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, erected a statue of Popeye. 


1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria. 


1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland. 


1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent poliomyelitis. 


1982 - Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Washington, DC, for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 



1989 - The first free elections took place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was elected. 


1992 - In Indianapolis, heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was found guilty of rape. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison. He only served three. 


1996 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $10.2 billion loan for Russia to help the country transform its economy. 


1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.