Friday, January 03, 2020
Militia Leader Who Led Raid on U.S. Embassy a White House Visitor
Iranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
History for January 3
History for January 3 - On-This-Day.com
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 B.C., Lucretia Mott 1793, Clement Attlee 1883
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892, Victor Borge 1909, Mel Gibson 1956 - Actor ("Braveheart," "Lethal Weapon" movies)
1959 - In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century.
Thursday, January 02, 2020
Delingpole: A Few Things We Could Happily Live Without in 2020...
Happy New Year! Here’s a few things the public sphere could probably survive without by this time in 2020…
California public schools can’t suspend students for disobeying teachers...
"New laws taking effect in 2020 will impact schools across California.
Starting next school year, it will be illegal for public schools in the state to suspend students in first through fifth grade for willfully defying teachers or administrators."
Starting next school year, it will be illegal for public schools in the state to suspend students in first through fifth grade for willfully defying teachers or administrators."
Over 250,000 Illegals and 5,500 Gang Members Deported By ICE in 2019 | Neon Nettle
- 85,958 of those illegal aliens were deported from the interior of the US in 2019
Of the 65,000 illegal aliens deported from the U.S. interior, the majority were convicted criminals..."
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Big Oil’s Monster Decade Reveals Why Energy Experts Are Not Very Good At Making Predictions | The Daily Caller
Energy analysts argued in 2010 that coal would still be a top fuel source by 2020 and that Americans would still be dependent on oil imports at the end of the decade — those projections didn’t pan out.
Kurt Schlichter---Here’s What’s Going to Happen in 2020
Here’s What’s Going to Happen in 2020"If you thought you can’t top the stupidity we experienced in 2019, brace yourself for 2020 because it’s going to be a pronoun-fueled weather cult pinko freakshow.
But it won’t be all amusing antics – the left hates us and its ugly mask is coming off, revealing the even uglier fascist visage lurking beneath.
If you listen to them, and if you aren’t an insufferable goo goo wimp who refuses to hear them, you will know that they intend to silence you, even imprison you, and deprive you of the ability to participate in your own governance.
So, if you want to live as a free man or woman – if they have their way, they’ll destroy you for recognizing that unalterable binary – best be ready.
Be motivated to engage in the cultural melee.
Vote.
And buy guns and ammo.
As my favorite literary creation famously says, no one has ever regretted being too well armed.
- With that in mind, here are my predictions for 2020:..."
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Democrat Admits Impeachment 'Genesis' Was Before Trump's Election
Appearing Monday on MSNBC’s All In, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) admitted the “genesis” of impeachment was birthed during then-candidate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for the presidency.
JOHN TIERNEY: Journalists Against Free Speech.
Instapundit Blog Archive JOHN TIERNEY: Journalists Against Free Speech.
"Well, to be fair, journalists were mostly in favor of free speech and civil liberties in general when it was communists and the like who were being targeted.
Now that it’s communists and the like who are doing the targeting, their principles are slipping.
Or perhaps being revealed as nonexistent."--Posted by
"Free speech is no longer sacred among young journalists who have absorbed the campus lessons about “hate speech”—defined more and more broadly—and they’re breaking long-standing taboos as they bring “cancel culture” into professional newsrooms.
They’re not yet in charge, but many of their editors are reacting like beleaguered college presidents, terrified of seeming insufficiently “woke.”
...These mostly younger progressive journalists lead campaigns to get conservative journalists fired, banned from Twitter, and “de-monetized” on YouTube.
They don’t burn books, but they’ve successfully pressured Amazon to stop selling titles that they deem offensive......It’s a strange new world for those who remember liberal journalists like Nat Hentoff, the Village Voice writer who stood with the ACLU in defending the free-speech rights of Nazis, Klansmen, and others whose views he deplored—or who recall the days when the Columbia Journalism Review stood as an unswerving advocate for press freedom.
Now that it’s communists and the like who are doing the targeting, their principles are slipping.
Or perhaps being revealed as nonexistent."--Posted by
How to make snowflakes... - Elliot Eisenberg
How to make snowflakes. I went to high school... - Elliot Eisenberg
"How to make snowflakes.
Occasionally someone pulled the fire alarm.
Usually during finals or midterm exams.
We laughed.
"How to make snowflakes.
I went to high school on the South Side of Chicago, a couple blocks from the toll booths on the Chicago Skyway.
We lived between the old US Steel South Works and the City Incinerator.
The teams were called Boilermakers.
We lived between the old US Steel South Works and the City Incinerator.
The teams were called Boilermakers.
Sometimes in gym class we chose teams: the Jews against the Mexicans.
Occasionally someone pulled the fire alarm. Usually during finals or midterm exams.
We laughed.
Now I live in Southeastern Michigan.
Someone pulled a false alarm.
A message came from the synagogue clergy:
“This afternoon Bloomfield Hills High School was evacuated under suspicion of an active shooter. The good news is that this was a false alarm. The bad news is that our teens truly believed they were running for their lives.”
The message then assured young people they could look to clergy for counseling and prayers.
Roughly 4,000 people live in Bloomfield Hills; 40% of its homes are worth over $1 million and another 32% are worth $500,000 to $999,000 (Wikipedia).
The vast majority of students at Bloomfield Hills High know they’ll be going to UMich, one of the Ivies or another Big Ten school.
They don’t need counseling and prayers.
They need to learn self reliance and self defense.
They need to feel as if they are part of a community, a country and a religion, each of which they can be proud of.
They need to feel as if they are part of a community, a country and a religion, each of which they can be proud of.
Want snowflakes?
Counsel them; make them victims.
Want adults?
Challenge them; make them stronger.
Snowflakes melt with heat.
Steel bends but does not break.
Steel bends but does not break.
Make steel, not snow."
2019 is one of the least deadly years for US police officers in decades, statistics show | Fox News
2019 is one of the least deadly years for US police officers in decades, statistics show | Fox News:
This year is ending as one of the least deadly for police officers in decades.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 31, statistics from the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks the deaths of officers in the U.S. and its territories, indicate that 131 police officers have died in 2019 —the lowest annual total since 1959, when 122 were killed.
This year is ending as one of the least deadly for police officers in decades.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 31, statistics from the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks the deaths of officers in the U.S. and its territories, indicate that 131 police officers have died in 2019 —the lowest annual total since 1959, when 122 were killed.
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