History for May 6

History for May 6 - On-This-Day.com
Maximilien Robespierre 1758 - French revolutionary, Sigmund Freud 1856 - Psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis, Robert E. Peary, Sr. 1856 - Explorer


Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina) 1895 - Actor, (George) Orson Welles 1915 - Actor ("War of the Worlds", "A Man for All Seasons", "Catch-22"), Tony Blair 1953 - British Prime Minister


1527 - German troops began sacking Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance.


1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.


1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 on board) were killed.


1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.


1941 - Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California's March Field.


1942 - During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.


1960 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.


1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.

Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com

Federal Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Email Records Case | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan signed an order granting a request from the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch to question six current and former State Department staffers about the creation and purpose of the private email system. Those on the list were some of Clinton’s closest aides during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, including former chief of staff Cheryl D. Mills, deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and undersecretary Patrick F. Kennedy."

An evil man-----Obama’s Absurd Order To Strip 200,000 Veterans Of Their Firearms And Finances

Obama’s Absurd Order To Strip 200,000 Veterans Of Their Firearms And Finances | American Military News:
"A bill is being proposed that could help almost 200,000 veterans preserve their right to keep and bear arms and their right to their own finances – both of which Obama is trying to take away.
The legislation is being spearheaded by Senator Rand Paul who introduced the bill on April 19, 2016. Here is Rand Paul’s press release on the issue on his website.
This bill is a response to an executive action passed by President Obama in Jan. 2016. 
Here is the White House’s press release on the action.
The executive action passed by Obama targets, in part with previous laws and regulations, veterans and calls into question their “mental competence”.
Shortly after the action was passed veterans began receiving letters from the VA stating that an “unidentified report” indicated they may be declared “incompetent” or “mentally defective” and would be stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights. 
These vets were then told they would need to prove competence within 60 days.
Along with losing their 2nd Amendment rights vets were also threatened with losing the right to control their own finances. 
Any veteran declared “incompetent” would also have a fiduciary appointed to them by the VA. Again, they were given 60 days to prove their competence..."

Obama Learns of Navy SEAL's Death, Instantly Makes Sick Move to Dishonor Him Publicly

Obama Learns of Navy SEAL's Death, Instantly Makes Sick Move to Dishonor Him Publicly: "President Barack Obama responded to Tuesday’s death of Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV in Iraq by making no public statements whatsoever about the warrior’s premature demise.
Moreover, when White House press secretary Josh Earnest stepped out to the podium for that morning’s first press briefing, he made no mention of Keating until prodded about it by reporter Mark Knoller, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
“I can tell you the president has been briefed on this incident, and everyone here at the White House, including the first family, extends our condolences to the family of the service member that was killed today in northern Iraq,” Earnest then said."

‘It Was Easy’: Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Claims He Repeatedly Broke Into Clinton’s Private Server | TheBlaze.com

‘It Was Easy’: Hacker ‘Guccifer’ Claims He Repeatedly Broke Into Clinton’s Private Server | TheBlaze.com:

"The infamous Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer” said in a pair of interviews which aired Wednesday that he was able to repeatedly access Hillary Clinton’s private email server — and claimed that he came across evidence that indicated others had done so as well."

Tyranny of the minority-----School cancels Father-Daughter Dance — not ‘inclusive’ enough

School cancels Father-Daughter Dance — not ‘inclusive’ enough | EAGnews.org:
"COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina elementary school recently canceled an upcoming Father-Daughter Dance because some parents complained it was not “inclusive” enough.
The principal of Brockman Elementary in Forest Acres decided after consulting with the local Parent Teacher Organization to cancel the upcoming Father-Daughter Dance after some parents apparently felt it left some students out, presumably those without fathers, WIS reports.
A flyer for the dance – which has raised $2,000 for the PTO in the last five years – clearly states all are welcome to attend, but “there were a few parents that did not think the father-daughter dance was inclusive, when actually, it was at all times,” Richland One School District spokeswoman Karen York told the news site.
“It was never an event that was exclusive only to fathers and daughters,” she said. “Mothers and anyone else who wanted to show up at the dance were certainly welcome to attend.”
...WIS posted an informal poll on its website asking viewers to weigh in on the issue.
“Based on the facts at hand, do you think this father-daughter dance should have been canceled?” the poll questions.
In total, 93 percent of respondents voted “No,” while only 5 percent voted “yes.” Two percent voted “I don’t know....”

So much corruption, stuffed into one Chicago tour

So much corruption, stuffed into one Chicago tour:
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - While designing a walking tour of Chicago focused on corruption and political shenanigans, journalist Paul Dailing watched new scandals pop up at a rate that only reinforced the city's reputation for rackets and rough politics.
Just in the past year, the chief executive of the city's schools pleaded guilty to wire fraud and the police chief lost his job in a scandal over police shootings of black men.
Then, last month, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was convicted of a financial crime and admitted to sexually abusing high school wrestlers in Chicago's suburbs decades ago.
There was no way Dailing could stuff all the new cases into the three-hour weekly downtown tour he launched in April.
After all, he had to cover two centuries of graft, embezzlement, blackmail, patronage, vote-buying, gerrymandering and scams.
But he ties them into a culture of corruption that has hurt the city and the state of Illinois..."

Important stuff!-----How Often Should I Charge My Gadget's Battery to Prolong Its Lifespan?

How Often Should I Charge My Gadget's Battery to Prolong Its Lifespan?:

Lunch video-----The Clintons and Their Secrets

Noon-toon

You Want a ‘Deal’? It’s Called the Constitution. | Glenn Beck

You Want a ‘Deal’? It’s Called the Constitution. | Glenn Beck:

"You want to fix America?

Here’s the first thing we must do: Root her in truth.

—The truth that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with unalienable rights.

—The truth that these rights are automatically theirs and don’t require the government’s permission or input, and the government can never take them away.

—The truth that governments are instituted among men to protect those rights, and when the government doesn’t do that, it is the people’s right and their duty to change or abolish it.

That is the change we seek. That is what the Republican Party must stand for."

White Men Should Stop Running For Office, Colorado Group Says

White Men Should Stop Running For Office, Colorado Group Says | CPR:
"A new political action committee has one question for straight white men with political aspirations.
"Dude, can you not?"
It's a question embedded in the name of the organization.
The Can You Not PAC plans to discourage straight white men from running for office in Colorado's diverse districts. 
The hope is that will clear the lane from female, minority and LGBTQ candidates.
..."We want to ask, 'Have you ever thought about not running for office?' "
In the short term, the pair plans to focus on Colorado districts that have large blocs of minority voters but tend to elect "traditional" candidates.
...Long term, they hope to tackle what they call a "crisis of overconfidence" among straight white men. 
A 2004 study found that among professions that most generally produce candidates for elected office, more men than women feel they are qualified. Political scientists think that helps explain why U.S. legislatures are mostly male.
...Huelsman admitted they've gotten pushback from white males who are eyeing a future in politics. But he called that a "positive first step" of starting conversations about privilege. "

Half of immigrant-led households collect welfare as admission rules go unenforced

Half of immigrant-led households collect welfare as admission rules go unenforced - Washington Times:
"Immigrants are supposed to be beneficial to the U.S. — so much so that federal law requires them to prove they won’t end up on the public dole if they are legally admitted.
But it’s a stricture honored more in the breach than in compliance, according to statistics obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which found that of the millions of legal immigrants living in the U.S. and collecting welfare or other public benefits, only a single person was kicked out of the country over the last three years for becoming a public burden.
...No enforcement means more impoverished immigrants willing to test their chances, said Ian Smith, the FAIR investigator who obtained the data.
“Like all removal grounds, they’re supposed to deter that behavior, and it’s there to make sure that [those] people come into this country are at least somewhat desirable,” he said.
“It was supposed to be a filtration mechanism.
It’s like anything.
If you don’t enforce it, the deterrence element gets turned off.”
...Immigrants from Mexico and Central America have the highest rate, with nearly three-quarters using at least one program. 
The Caribbean is second, with a 51 percent use rate..."

After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate

After 10 Years Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate | The Daily Caller
"It’s been nearly one decade since former Vice President Al Gore released his film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
It sent shockwaves through American politics and emboldened environmental activists to push for more regulations on American businesses.
Gore warned increasing carbon dioxide emissions would spur catastrophic global warming that would cause more extreme weather, wipe out cities and cause ecological collapse. 
To stop global warming, humans needed to ditch fossil fuels and basically change every aspect of their lives.
Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” is sort of like going back in time.
Back to a world where flip phones were cool and “Futurama” was still putting out new episodes.
A world where a bitter presidential candidate was trying to rebrand himself as an environmental crusader.
But have Gore’s warnings, which were alarming to many in 2006, come true?
In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, The Daily Caller News Foundation re-watched “An Inconvenient Truth” just to see how well Gore’s warnings of future climate disaster lined up with reality..."
Short answer?
The film was (and remains) bunk!
Read on.

Whether He Wins or Loses Today, Ted Cruz Needs to Stay in Till June 7 | The Resurgent

Whether He Wins or Loses Today, Ted Cruz Needs to Stay in Till June 7 | The Resurgent:

"A lot of reporters have already written Ted Cruz’s campaign obituary. Yesterday, my phone buzzed repeatedly with reporters wanting comment on stories they were already writing about where Cruz and #NeverTrump go after Trump wins Indiana. The polling in Indiana is notoriously unreliable, but all the polls do point to a Trump lead.

If Cruz pulls out a win in Indiana tonight, it will be a real upset changing the narrative. If Cruz loses, his ability to stop Trump from 1,237 delegates shrinks to possible, but highly improbable. Regardless, Cruz should stay in the race."

The 9 worst predictions about Trump's rise to the top

The 9 worst predictions about Trump's rise to the top - POLITICO:
With Trump all but clinching the GOP nomination, we look back at the greatly exaggerated reports of his political demise.
...Here are a few predictions that, in hindsight, do not look as great as they once seemed:

• Because he’s not a ‘real candidate’
   

“...Harry Enten wrote for FiveThirtyEight on June 16, 2015, the day Trump declared himself a candidate....“For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another ‘Home Alone’ movie with Macaulay Culkin — or playing in the NBA Finals — than winning the Republican nomination,” Enten wrote.

• Because he’s ‘not really a Republican’

Prognosticator Nate Silver remarked in mid-September that Trump would not be the nominee because he is “not really a Republican.”
“...There’s an alternate reality in which he decided to run as a Democrat instead — he wouldn’t have to change his policy positions all that much."

• Because he’ll be out by Iowa

Former Mitt Romney adviser and noted Trump critic Stuart Stevens took to CNN on Oct. 5 to boldly predict...“I don’t think he’s going to be on the ballot by Feb. 1,” Stevens declared.

• Because he ‘seriously’ won’t win

As Trump cemented his place as the party’s front-runner in mid-October, Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Bernstein dismissed pundits who said that the insurgent candidate’s stock was rising. "
..and he will lose once the further winnowing of the candidates produces one or two strong opponents,” he concluded. “In short, everything we know about how presidential nominations work says Trump isn’t going to be the nominee, or even come close.”

• Because everyone will laugh at you for thinking that Trump will win

“The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary,” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat tweeted Sept. 25.

• Because it’s going to be Marco Rubio

...“No major party has ever nominated a figure like Trump or Carson, and I don’t believe that the 2016 GOP. will be the first,”..

• Because he hasn’t been tested

Writing for The New York Times’ The Upshot blog on Dec. 15, Nate Cohn wrote of Trump’s appeal as a factional candidate, suggesting parallels to Howard Dean, Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain. 
...“He does not have broad appeal throughout the party; he is unacceptable to the party’s establishment; and there are reasons to believe that his high numbers may be driven by unsustainable factors...”

• Because I’ll leave the party

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol...“I don’t think Trump will be the nominee, so I don’t expect it to be an issue,” Kristol said. “But since I don’t think I could support Trump, and I’d like to have someone to vote for, if Trump were to be the nominee, I’d be open to a new party, probably for 2016 only — but you never know.”

• Because he’s finally collapsing

“Pundits who underestimated Trump’s potential last autumn have been hesitant to come out and state what has now become apparent: 
He is probably not going to be the Republican nominee after all,” Jacob Weisberg wrote for Slate on April 8, three days after Cruz earned a temporary reprieve by trouncing Trump in Wisconsin.

AM Fruitcake

History for May 5

History for May 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Soren Kierkegaard 1813 - Philosopher, poet, theologian, Karl Marx 1818 - Socialist writer ("Das Kapital", "The Communist Manifesto"), founder of communism, John B. Stetson 1830 - Hat manufacturer, inventor of cowboy hat


Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman) 1865 - Journalist, wrote about taboo subjects for her time period (divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity), women’s rights advocate, Christopher Morley 1890 - Writer (New York Evening Post, Saturday Review), novelist, Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) 1942 - Country singer


1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.


1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.


1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.


1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda began publishing.


1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.


1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.


1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed.


1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-4-2016-leftists-theater-by-tammy.html

Leftists Theater

By Tammy Derouin

Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, think you would live during a time when the whole world would be turned upside down?  Today’s reality is something straight out of a Hollywood nightmare.  The stage has been set and the plot has been established.  The lights and cameras have been carefully placed to capture every choreographed attempt to cause chaos.  Sometimes the director himself tosses the match, setting the stage for the next scene.  You can almost hear him call, action!

Once the smoke clears his hired stage hands rush in to clean up the mess.  They attempt to smooth things over and then look to blame the entire flop on everyone except themselves and their miserable script.  The audience is in a daze yet some still manage to applaud and beg for more.  The all too familiar and now predictable “recovery act” goes into full swing.  We know it as the 3 D Act; a full blown action plan to Deceive by Denying and Disguising the truth.

Each attempt to bring about chaos which doesn’t end with the desired results of uncontrollable civil unrest is a disappointment to the Left.  The Leftists Theater has been producing many programs with numerous acts.  Each act is being used as a lightning rod to produce and encourage disorder.

One effective way to cause unrest is to toss out the rules and laws.....  

Your tax dollars at "work".-----University pays communist former Black Panther $18,500 for 3-hour appearance

University pays communist former Black Panther $18,500 for 3-hour appearance | EAGnews.org
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Many college and university diversity offices have sprung up in recent years, ostensibly to build stronger ties between students and faculty of different races, and help make higher education more accessible and rewarding for minority students.

But many of the people who run those offices tend to have a strong bond with the radical fringe that operates the “white privilege” movement. 

They are notorious for hiring radical speakers to address students and try to recruit them into their Marxist, anti-American school of thought.

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington recently provided a great example by hiring 1960s radical Angela Davis, a former member of the Black Panthers and Community Party U.S.A., to speak to students in 2015.

...For a communist who speaks openly against greed and the free enterprise system, Davis sure gets a lot of money to make a speech. UNC-Wilmington paid $18,500 for Davis to appear at the school, according to university spending records obtained through an open records request..."

Total FAIL and they're proud?-----Three-time deportee arrested again — for failing to register as sex offender

Three-time deportee arrested again — for failing to register as sex offender | The American Mirror
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are touting the capture of an illegal immigrant who has repeatedly re-entered the country to rape young girls as the agency’s “profound and positive impact on overall public safety.”

ICE agents arrested Mexican national Sergio Amador-Olive, 37, at his home in Salt Lake City for failing to register as a sex offender, according to an ICE statement that described the repeat border jumper as a “priority for immigration enforcement.”

Amador-Olive – whose body is a tattooed collage of young girls in seductive poses mixed with creepy clowns and religious figures – was first convicted of impregnating a 15-year-old girl and removed from the U.S. in April 2003.

He then re-entered the U.S. illegally and was convicted of attempted rape in June 2005 for trying to force a co-worker to have sex. 

Amador-Olive was sentenced to 15 years in prison for that crime, though ICE arrested him again in June 2010. 

The ICE statement does not detail whether Amador-Olive was deported after his prison stay, or the reason he did not serve out the full sentence.

Regardless, ICE deported him to Mexico in September 2010, before arresting him again in Arizona a month later.
In April 2011, he was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for re-entering the U.S., and deported again in August 2014, according to Fox News Latino.

His arrest in Salt Lake City April 28 marks the fifth time he’s been arrested in the U.S..."

Chicago Public Schools to Allow Transgender Students, Employees to Choose Bathrooms Based on ‘Gender Identity’ | TheBlaze.com

Chicago Public Schools to Allow Transgender Students, Employees to Choose Bathrooms Based on ‘Gender Identity’ | TheBlaze.com:

"CHICAGO (TheBlaze/AP) — Chicago Public Schools will allow transgender students and employees to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender identities, according to guidelines released Tuesday by the nation’s third-largest school district."

Tossing more $Trillion$ into the fire-----CO2 Emissions In The EU Have Increased In 2015, Despite €1 Trillion In Green Subsidies

CO2 Emissions In The EU Have Increased In 2015, Despite €1 Trillion In Green Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF):
"Eurostat estimates that in 2015 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion increased by 0.7% in the European Union (EU), compared with the previous year."

Prof’s Theory: Six-Figure DPS Staff 'Thought They Deserved' Kickbacks

Prof’s Theory: Six-Figure DPS Staff 'Thought They Deserved' Kickbacks [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"A Wayne State University law school professor is getting nationwide attention for speculating on the rationales used by 13 Detroit Public School officials accused of taking bribes and kickbacks for 13 years.
He offers that they felt they deserved it for working hard in thankless, underpaid jobs.
The 12 DPS principals and one assistant superintendent involved were paid an average of roughly $115,000, according to a state database.
Wayne State's Peter Henning’s comments appeared in a nationwide Associated Press story about the scandal.
It read, “Wayne State University Law School professor Peter Henning described it as a scenario that is all too familiar in a city where public employees think they are owed more than they get for difficult, thankless jobs.”
Then it quoted Henning: “I doubt any of them really thought they were doing anything wrong — they (believed they) were just getting something they deserved. They worked hard, were underpaid and had to deal with all the stuff that goes on in DPS.”
...The state database includes total salaries and bonuses, if any, but not benefits. 
...The highest salary was $126,103 and the lowest was $104,374.
Here are the individual salaries of 11 of the 13 DPS officials who have been charged:

• Tanya Bowman: $126,103
• Clara Flowers: $121,375
• Nina Graves-Hicks: $119,546
• Clara Smith: $116,532
• James Hearn: $114,943
• Tia’Von Moore-Patton: $113,832
• Stanley Johnson: $113,231
• Beverly Campbell: $113,033
• Ronald Alexander: $112,926
• Gerlma Johnson: $108,313
• Josette Buendia: $104,374

Per capita income in the city of Detroit was $14,984 from 2010 to 2014."