History for December 25

History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Isaac Newton 1642 (O.S.) - Physicist, mathematician, Clara Barton 1821, Conrad Hilton 1887


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.


1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.


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.

Giving a Trump victory its due: Media ignores his ISIS success, mocks him - Washington Times

Giving a Trump victory its due: Media ignores his ISIS success, mocks him - Washington Times:

"What was actually happening? In addition to ISIS being crushed, a small sampling of the president’s accomplishment include the economy continuing to soar, 70 record stock market closes, 2.2 million new jobs since the election, the Hispanic unemployment rate dropping to a historic low 4.7 percent, tax cuts and the start of tax reform, and the slashing of job-killing and freedom suppressing regulations.
Mr. Trump doesn’t “cause controversies,” the media does. Another Trump accomplishment? Exposing how far a corrupt media will go in an attempt to nullify an election. The good news is Mr. Trump, and his entire family, survived a year of media malpractice meant to destroy them. But that doesn’t need to be reported, we already know."

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A deafening media silence on the Obama-Hezbollah scandal | New York Post

A deafening media silence on the Obama-Hezbollah scandal | New York Post:
"Politico published a jaw-dropping, meticulously sourced investigative piece this week detailing how the Obama administration had secretly undermined US law enforcement agency efforts to shut down an international drug-trafficking ring run by the terror group Hezbollah. 
The effort was part of a wider push by the administration to placate Iran and ensure the signing of the nuclear deal.
Now swap out “Trump” for “Obama” and “Russia” for “Iran” and imagine the eruption these revelations would generate.
Because, by any conceivable journalistic standard, this scandal should’ve triggered widespread coverage and been plastered on front pages across the country.
By any historic standard, the scandal should elicit outrage regarding the corrosion of governing norms from pundits and editorial boards.
Yet, as it turns out, there’s an exceptionally good chance most of your neighbors and colleagues haven’t heard anything about it..."
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Nope, PM2.5 from forest fires doesn’t kill anyone, either – JunkScience.com

Nope, PM2.5 from forest fires doesn’t kill anyone, either – JunkScience.com
Nope, PM2.5 from forest fires doesn’t kill anyone, either

Lazy or lyin’ researchers and the WaPo’s Chris Mooney get it wrong (again).

JunkScience readers already know from “Scare Pollution” and our California study that PM2.5 in outdoor air kills no one.
Nevertheless, foolish researchers — Maria Val Martin (University of Sheffield)...presented this nonsense at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

As before, “Scare Pollution,” our California study and much other work and reality debunks the notion that PM2.5 kills anyone under any conditions. 

But researchers have even previously looked at whether PM2.5 from forest fires kills. 

Not surprisingly, the answer is, NO!

The only thing PM2.5 kills is junk scientist credibility."

WATCH: Liberals LOVE The Republican Tax Plan — If They Believe It's 'The Bernie Tax Plan' | Daily Wire

WATCH: Liberals LOVE The Republican Tax Plan — If They Believe It's 'The Bernie Tax Plan' | Daily Wire:

"Conservative commentator Ami Horowitz recently took to the streets of the "liberal Mecca" East Village to see how die-hard progressives felt about the Republican tax reform bill that Democrats have literally declared "the end of the world." Horowitz asked several passersby for their reaction to specific measures in the bill and, shockingly, found they they uniformly loved it — well, at least when presented as the "Bernie" tax plan."