History for February 9

History for February 9 - On-This-Day.com
William Henry Harrison (U.S.) 1773, George Ade 1866, Carmen Miranda 1909


Gypsy Rose Lee 1914, Carole King 1942 - Singer, Mia Farrow 1945 - Actress


1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.


1861 - The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis as its president.


1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. The bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS).


1885 - The first Japanese arrived in Hawaii.


1895 - Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan.


1895 - The first college basketball game was played as Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated the Porkers of Hamline College, 9-3.


1943 - During World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.


1960 - The first star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was for Joanne Woodward.


1997 - "The Simpsons" became the longest-running prime-time animated series. "The Flintstones" held the record previously.

Eric Holder: DOJ wrong to apologize to tea party groups for IRS scandal - Washington Times

Eric Holder: DOJ wrong to apologize to tea party groups for IRS scandal - Washington Times:

"Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the Trump administration was wrong to have apologized to tea party groups snared in the IRS’s targeting scandal, saying it was another example of the new team undercutting career people at the Justice Department who’d initially cleared the IRS of wrongdoing.

“That apology was unnecessary, unfounded and inconsistent, it seems to me, with the responsibilities that somebody who would seek to lead the Justice Department should have done,” Mr. Holder said.

He’d ordered a criminal probe into the IRS’s handling of tea party applications after the 2013 revelation by an inspector general that the tax agency had subjected conservative groups to intrusive and inappropriate scrutiny when they applied for nonprofit status."

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BACKLASH: Here's What Democrats Are Saying About Pelosi's Political Stunt On Illegal Immigrants | Daily Wire

BACKLASH: Here's What Democrats Are Saying About Pelosi's Political Stunt On Illegal Immigrants | Daily Wire:

"House Democratic lawmakers are reportedly enraged at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's decision to give an unprecedented eight-hour speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, saying that she hurt many of her Democratic colleagues who are running in 2018."

Americans who practice yoga contribute to white supremacy, Michigan State University professor claims | Fox News

Americans who practice yoga contribute to white supremacy, Michigan State University professor claims | Fox News:
"White people who do a downward-facing dog are contributing to a “system of power, privilege, and oppression,” according to a Michigan State University professor.
Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State, claims in an article she recently co-authored that Americans who practice yoga are contributing to white supremacy and promote the “yoga industrial complex.”
White Americans should learn yoga’s history, acknowledge the cultural appropriation they engage in and possibly reduce the cost of yoga classes for poor people, a group that often includes people of color and “recent immigrants, such as Indian women to whom this practice rightfully belongs,” Gandhi argued.
She co-authored the piece titled “Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation,” with Lillie Wolff, a self-described “anti-racist white Jewish organizer, facilitator, and healer,” who has called for “decolonizing” yoga, the College Fix reported..."
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Column: If we build mass transit, they won’t necessarily come

Column: If we build mass transit, they won’t necessarily come:
"Mass transit use is declining across America despite substantial tax increases intended to prop up buses, light rail and trolleys.
According to the American Public Transportation Association, mass transit use has declined in 24 of 30 major U.S. cities since 2014.
Metro Detroit is experiencing this national trend.
In 2014, Macomb County voters approved a 65 percent increase in the property tax subsidizing the SMART bus system - and SMART ridership declined by more than 7 percent from 2013 to 2016 according to Michigan Department of Transportation data.
SMART anticipates even fewer riders this year, according to their 2018 budget.
...Even without additional taxes, Metro Detroit taxpayers will pay $7 billion over the next 20 years in mass transit taxes - over $4,250 per household - through gas taxes, vehicle registration fees and existing property taxes..."
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Democrat Sen. Carper: Discard Millions of Americans so Illegals Can Get Jobs - Breitbart

Democrat Sen. Carper: Discard Millions of Americans so Illegals Can Get Jobs - Breitbart:

"Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says ‘dreamer’ illegal immigrants should be hired to replace millions of Americans who supposedly are too unskilled, uneducated, unethical or drugged up to work for companies.
“I think the business community is saying that to the administration [and] they are certainly saying that to those of us in the Congress, and we should focus on that,” Carper told MSNBC.
“We have a moral responsibility to them,” Carper said about the roughly 690,000 ‘dreamer’ illegals, not about Americans. Carper added, “doing a deal with the dreamers is as much about —  as I said earlier — is about making sure we have the folks who can go to work tomorrow.” Carper continued:"

Steve Russo - The Truth About Maxine Waters’ Lifestyle, That She...

Steve Russo - The Truth About Maxine Waters’ Lifestyle, That She...:
"The Truth About Maxine Waters’ Lifestyle, That She Tries Very Hard to Hide
Another case of... "Do as I say, not as I do."
One could say the Congresswoman Waters is a confirmed expert on the question of housing, especially her own housing.
Consider where she lives in a 6,000-square foot, $4.3 million mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
Now how’d she afford a place like that? 
After having spent the last 40 years working in government? 
We’d hate to speculate.
How does she keep getting re-elected despite not living in her own congressional district? 
No clue there either..."
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Illegal Alien Found Guilty Of Murdering Family Of 5 While Committing Robbery So He Could Pay His Rent | Daily Wire

Illegal Alien Found Guilty Of Murdering Family Of 5 While Committing Robbery So He Could Pay His Rent | Daily Wire:

"An illegal immigrant faces life in prison after he was convicted on Monday of murdering a family of five with a hammer in a sanctuary city while committing robbery and burglary.

Vietnamese national Binh Thai Luc, 41, was facing eviction for not paying his rent when he murdered the family in 2012, shortly after he lost money earlier in the evening at a casino.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:"

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The Clintons' political death by delayed reaction

The Clintons' political death by delayed reaction:

"For the first time in their charmed lives, they are genuinely damaged goods. As Dan Merica and Eric Bradner of CNN reported a week ago, they are personae non grata in what was for a long time their own party, people whose presence is to be avoided when running for office, or at most doled out in small doses to gullible people: "Hillary we could probably use in targeted ways," they quote one professional. "The Bill question gets very tricky…zero tolerance means zero tolerance…we have to mean what we say.""

How Believing in Socialism Can Make You Miserable - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

How Believing in Socialism Can Make You Miserable - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world:
"On my (Brittany's) college campus, the largest and most active club was the “Revolutionary Student Union,” also known as the school’s resident Marxists. 
Even then, I passionately disagreed with socialism. 
But one thing that struck me was how these students were not only wrong, but seemed deeply unhappy. 
They always walked into class scowling and were always grousing, not just about the evils of capitalism, but about intractable frustrations and perceived injustices in their personal and academic lives.
I often wondered if there was a connection between the dysfunction in their lives and their socialist ideology.
To these young revolutionaries, every frustration in their lives was someone else’s fault..."
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Islam—Facts or Dreams? - Imprimis

Islam—Facts or Dreams? - Imprimis:
"In 1993 I was a seasoned federal prosecutor, but I only knew as much about Islam as the average American with a reasonably good education—which is to say, not much.
Consequently, when I was assigned to lead the prosecution of a terrorist cell that had bombed the World Trade Center and was plotting an even more devastating strike—simultaneous attacks on the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the United Nations complex on the East River, and the FBI’s lower Manhattan headquarters—I had no trouble believing what our government was saying: that we should read nothing into the fact that all the men in this terrorist cell were Muslims; that their actions were not representative of any religion or belief system; and that to the extent they were explaining their atrocities by citing Islamic scripture, they were twisting and perverting one of the world’s great religions, a religion that encourages peace..."
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Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates all traces of cancer in mice | KurzweilAI

Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates all traces of cancer in mice | KurzweilAI:
"Bodywide immune stimulation without adverse side effects-February 5, 2018

Effects of in situ vaccination with CpG and anti-OX40 agents. Left: Mice genetically engineered to spontaneously develop breast cancers in all 10 of their mammary pads were injected into the first arising tumor (black arrow) with either a vehicle (inactive fluid) (left) or with CpG and anti-OX40 (right). Pictures were taken on day 80. (credit: Idit Sagiv-Barfi et al./ Sci. Transl. Med.)

"Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice was able to eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals — including distant, untreated metastases (spreading cancer locations), according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers..."

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24-Year FBI Special Agent: Comey Made Up His Own Rules, Let Political Opinions Infect Investigations | Video | RealClearPolitics

24-Year FBI Special Agent: Comey Made Up His Own Rules, Let Political Opinions Infect Investigations | Video | RealClearPolitics:

"Chris Swecker, who served 24 years as an FBI special agent speaks to FOX News about the FISA memo, what it said about the Comey-era FBI, the "predetermined" Clinton-email investigation and more. On Sunday's FOX & Friends, Swecker said Comey's "hubris" led to predetermined investigations, political opinions infecting investigations, and "a non-investigation of the Clinton email investigation."

Swecker wrote an op-ed piece for FOXNews.com last week: Shocking memo reveals how Comey disgraced an honorable FBI."

Comedy Is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny - WSJ

Comedy Is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny - WSJ:
"I found myself seated at my computer last month, watching on YouTube the comedian Bill Maher talk about Donald Trump’s marriage.
If you don’t share Mr. Maher’s politics, you are likely to find him an odious, even loathsome character, for he doesn’t really exist outside politics.
His standard tone is mockery, his modus operandi to lacerate his targets with obscenities, flash a nervous smile, and then bask in applause from his audience.
...Yet to have taken what I think of as the Trumpian option in their comedy has rendered these comedians charmless while strikingly limiting their audiences to those who share their politics.
I recently wrote a book on the subject of charm, in preparation for which I asked a great many people to name five persons in public life they thought charming.
No one could do it.
In a political time as divisive as ours, a public figure loses roughly half his following—and hence his charm—just as soon as he announces his politics. 
For an entertainer to do so is perhaps even more hazardous..."
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