History for October 16 - On-This-Day.com Noah Webster 1758, Oscar Wilde 1854, David Ben-Gurion 1886 Eugene O'Neill 1888, Angela Lansbury 1925, Charles Colson 1931 1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY. 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
A homegrown terror attack plot went awry after a New York man confided in another individual about his plan and they notified authorities.
Paul Rosenfeld, 56, admitted that he concocted a 200-pound bomb and was planning a suicide bombing on Election Day in Washington, D.C., CBS News reported.
Court records show that Rosenfeld corresponded with an individual from Pennsylvania and gave the specifics of his plot, which was to take place at the National Mall in Washington. The individual informed the FBI, and on Tuesday, police apprehended Rosenfeld.
During dogfights, pilots expect their aircraft to take a few shots from enemy fighters. In the event that a fuel tank takes bullet fire, there are a few problems that could occur.
The first is fuel leaking on hot equipment and causing the plane to catch fire. There is also the possibility of bullet holes causing the tank to leak, run out of fuel and crash. Explosions and crashing are scenarios that pilots typically want to avoid and self-sealing fuel tanks help to prevent disasters. “Self-sealing fuel tank” is often a point of discussion but how exactly do they work?...
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is pleading the fifth because he's in "real legal jeopardy," said a member of the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday.
Last week, Simpson's lawyer announced that his client intends to “invoke his constitutional rights not to testify" for a closed-door deposition on Oct. 16.
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said he is not surprised Simpson would take such a course of action, considering how his past testimony clashes with what a Justice Department official under scrutiny told the committee.
"People have credibly proposed that progressivism is a religion.
I don't agree.
Progressivism has many of the trappings of religion. It has its rituals, its codes, and its sacraments. But as a religion, if fails one important test.
Unfalsifiability.
The aspect that it cannot be proven false. Religion depends on faith in a higher power, one that cannot be physically proven.
Progressivism is falsifiable - it can be proven wrong. Every single aspect can be proven and every outcome predicted.
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent calls for incivility may come back to haunt the Democratic Party during the midterms if a new Republican ad resonates with voters.
The GOP opted for a kind of political aikido this week with the release “The Left: An Unhinged Mob,” an ad which seeks to use the Democrats’ own rhetoric against them. The spot features a handful of political leaders using strident messaging juxtaposed with violent and emotional outbursts from political activists.
“When they go low, we kick them,” former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says after a clip of a pro-life protester is kicked in the face by an abortion activist. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” adds Mrs. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, before cutting to left-wing protesters pounding on the doors of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
"https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/12/hillary-clinton-dems-vs-gops-political-aikido-unhi/
But the White House believes that despite a lack of media coverage of his accomplishments, supporters know about them and will head to the voting polls to help the GOP maintain control of the House and keep the president on what CNN dubbed a “winning streak.”
In the Washington Post Friday, former Bush speechwriter and columnist Marc Thiessen agreed and said that Trump has proven to be successful at keeping his campaign promises. He wrote, “The fact is, in his first two years, Trump has compiled a remarkable record of presidential promise-keeping.”
A woman who falsely accused a teenager of raping her has been jailed for 18 months. Sophie Skinner, 25, went alone to a Wetherspoons pub in Abergavenny, Wales, in June 2016 where she was seen on CCTV ‘looking for attention’. She came across Damon Osborne, who was 18 at the time, and got chatting before she made her way to another bar.
The mother-of-three came across Mr Osborne again later that night while he waited for a lift home. She asked him if he wanted to have sex and the pair went into some nearby public toilets where CCTV caught her initiating sex. She then told him she could get him into ‘trouble’ after he refused to have a relationship with her because he had a girlfriend. Skinner went to another bar where she was again captured on CCTV ‘desperately looking for attention from others’, before returning to the Wetherspoons and telling bouncers Mr Osborne had raped her.
But women are morally stainless and never lie. All the best people assured me of that, when it suited their political needs. Plus, the value of cameras. Quoth her victim: “If there was no CCTV in this case she may have been believed and I would be spending years in prison. It would have ruined my life.”--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"
Please, stop telling me to believe all women. I did not go to law school to abandon rational analysis and basic concepts of fairness just because a particular accuser lacks a Y chromosome.
Imagine with me an alternate reality where instead of Christine Blasey Ford accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were teens, we have a Christopher Ford accusing Kavanaugh of attempted murder:
Why can’t we hate men? - The Washington Post -Suzanna Danuta Walters June 8-2018 "Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs. It’s not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before “mansplaining” and “incels.” Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men’s groups and rape camps as a tool of war and the deadening banality of male prerogative. Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men..." Read all!
History for October 15 - On-This-Day.com Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - German philosopher, John Kenneth Galbraith 1908, Mario Puzo 1920 Lee Iacocca 1924 - Chrysler Chairman, Penny Marshall 1943 - Actress ("Laverne & Shirley"), Emeril Lagasse 1959 - TV chef 1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV. 1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed.
A Senate in which states are represented equally is not broken. If reporters and pundits have deficiencies in their civics education, that is not the fault of the Senate, and neither is it the Senate’s fault that Democrats have not held a majority since January 2015.
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Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is pleading the fifth because he's in "real legal jeopardy," said a member of the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday.
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But the White House believes that despite a lack of media coverage of his accomplishments, supporters know about them and will head to the voting polls to help the GOP maintain control of the House and keep the president on what CNN dubbed a “winning streak.”
Why can’t we hate men? - The Washington Post -Suzanna Danuta Walters June 8-2018
