History for December 25

History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com


Sir Isaac Newton 1642 (O.S.) - Physicist, mathematician, Clara Barton 1821, Humphrey Bogart 1899


Anwar Sadat (Egypt) 1918, Rod Serling 1924, Jimmy Buffett 1946 - Singer
  

0800 - Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III.


1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ.



1818 - "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.


1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front.


1926 - Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Emperor Taisho.


1989 - Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.


1989 - Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.


1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.

US abandons Israel as UN votes against Israeli settlements, and Trump responds – TheBlaze

US abandons Israel as UN votes against Israeli settlements, and Trump responds – TheBlaze:

"The blame for this is being put on President Barack Obama and his administration, who has been highly critical of Israel in the past. Various heads of organization heads have weighed in on the decision, not just pointing their fingers at Obama, but adding some incredibly harsh words as well."

And they still repayed him with hate and lies-----George W. Bush Never Left Washington Until December 26th For One Incredible Reason

George W. Bush Never Left Washington Until December 26th For One Incredible Reason – American Military News:

"While President Obama has been at his favorite vacation spot in Hawaii for days now, it not always was this way.

In fact, for the 8 years of George W. Bush’s presidency, he never left the D.C. area until the day after Christmas. One year a reporter, the Washington Times’ Joseph Curl, was curious why the President simply stayed at nearby Camp David instead of spending Christmas at his beloved Crawford ranch and asked a White House staffer.

“So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.”

This shook Curl who wasn’t used to this treatment. Additionally, President Bush sent a separate plane to pick up the press corps the day after Christmas so that they could bring their families if they so chose.

This perk no longer exists, meaning if any member of the press or staff wanted to go with family, it would cost over $1000 instead of around $100.

If the press remembers President Bush for nothing else, they will for the tremendous generosity he showed them.

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From the Washington Times:

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year‘s, I think about George W. Bush.

It was in that week each year for the eight years I covered him as a reporter that he gave me a spectacular gift — and he knew it."

Why conservatives could be the biggest winners of the Left’s post-election freak-out

Why conservatives could be the biggest winners of the Left’s post-election freak-out
"...Continuing the trend of the Obama years, Democrats were repudiated at every level at the ballot box. 
Most stingingly, the Left lost the presidency to a figure who offended its sensibilities perhaps more than any other, on the basis of style and rhetoric, in Donald Trump.
Predictably, the Left is apoplectic, reacting emotionally rather than rationally over a defeat that stunned it.
While going through various stages of grieving, what is perhaps most heartening is the fact that the Left has apparently learned nothing. 
In so doing, it risks severely marginalizing itself.
In short, by continuing to call plays from the same playbook, the Left risks doing to itself what Jimmy Carter did against Ronald Reagan in 1980: Turning itself into the “There you go again” party in its myopia.
Whether or not Americans broadly internalized such realities, they did reject what the Left was selling.
...In so doing, the Left apparently overplayed its hand.
As with casting its political foes as racists for decades, it devalued the labels it ascribed.
It showed its inherent biases and double standards.
It protested too much.
...In its words and actions, the Left has shown that it has learned nothing:

• Casting Trump as Hitler while engaging in sickening hagiography for Castro; 
• claiming that the election was lost because of the Russians or fake news stories (rather than as a reaction in part to the false narratives of “real news” sources consisting of sneering progressive elites, or the world the Left has constructed in which there are no truths); and 
• showing an unwillingness to change direction in terms of policy but rather to push further left underscore its sore loserdom, hysteria, and delusion.

...Let us hope that the Left keeps it up.

FBI issues warning to U.S. churches after ISIS calls for terror attacks – TheBlaze

FBI issues warning to U.S. churches after ISIS calls for terror attacks – TheBlaze:

"The FBI has issued a warning to U.S. churches to be vigilant for threats coming from Islamic State sympathizers after the terror groups called for attacks around the Christmas festival. "

Time To Rescind 1965 Immigration Reform Act

Time To Rescind 1965 Immigration Reform Act | US Defense Watch:
"Much like the Titanic that sank on April 15, 1912, the United States stands at a critical juncture in the history of our nation.
Few realize it, but, like the Titanic, this nation smashed into a piece of legislation in 1965 that was never asked for or approved by the American public.
In 1965, our ‘Captain’ Lyndon B. Johnson along with helmsman Senator Teddy Kennedy, Jacob Javitz and Howard Metzenbaum drove America into an iceberg of massive, unrestricted immigration that opened up the flood gates with the “Immigration Reform Act.”
At first, the flow of one million immigrants annually wasn’t noticed.
We were benevolent.
We lived in a big country with only 194,000,000 (million) people.
We enjoyed plenty of room and resources.
However, the massive flow of humanity from that legislation still pours into our country 51 years later and few seem to notice–much like the party-goers and dancing on the Titanic that kept up for hours after hitting the iceberg in the North Atlantic.
However, even the invincible Titanic could not survive the onslaught from the constant flow of incoming water–slowly, methodically stealing its ability to stay afloat.
Today in the United States, 100 million immigrants later and pouring in at 1.5 million annually–both legal and illegal–our nation shudders from San Francisco to New York and from Chicago to Miami.
We rose from 194 million to 326 million in five decades.
What was once a benefit to our country is now a full-scale overpopulation, linguistic, sociological, religious, terrorist, cultural and societal crisis..."
Much more!

Obama’s appalling UN betrayal

Obama’s appalling UN betrayal | New York Post:
"Friday’s failure to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations sets a new low in the annals of American diplomacy.
It was a shocking betrayal of a firm US ally, and of longstanding bipartisan US policy — a sneaky, dishonest move by a lame-duck president to express his pique at the president-elect and land a final vindictive blow on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the process, he sought to tie his successor’s hands in a way that no past president — especially his own predecessor, George W. Bush — has ever before done.
President Obama has now empowered the economic war against Israel, just to get even with a leader who dared to defend his own country’s best interests.
A day earlier, Egypt had withdrawn its support for the extremist, one-sided resolution condemning all Israeli activity beyond the 1967 cease-fire lines.
That’s when Team Obama spread the word that it would’ve abstained — which prompted Israel’s enemies to revive it for Friday’s vote, where Washington indeed declined to veto..."