History for March 2

History for March 2 - On-This-Day.com

Sam Houston 1793 - First President of the Republic of Texas

• 1807 - The U.S. Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
• 1836 - Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.
• 1877 - In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
• 1917 - The Russian Revolution began with Czar Nicholas II abdicating.
• 1917 - Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship with the enactment of the Jones Act.
• 1925 - State and federal highway officials developed a nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped, numbered marker.

Supreme Court blocks a California ban on indoor church services | Fox News

Supreme Court blocks a California ban on indoor church services | Fox News: 

The U.S. Supreme Court handed California churches a victory Friday, granting injunctive relief to a group that had sued over coronavirus lockdown rules that banned indoor services. The churches will be allowed to hold indoor services as they await a decision on their appeal in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing their case but had denied a motion to suspend the ban during it. The 6-3 decision came with the Court's liberal justices in dissent.

The way we were-----Margaret Thatcher's Memorable Remarks: A Video Mash-up | The New York Times

Boob-tube-----Jay Leno - Headlines (2008) Pt 02

WaPo's Fact Checker In Chief Has No Idea When Biden Took Office by Beth Baumann

WaPo's Fact Checker In Chief Has No Idea When Biden Took Office by Beth Baumann
"Fact checking" is all the rage today.
...the head fact checker at The Washington Post...Glenn Kessler tweeted during President Donald Trump's CPAC speech, complaining about kids not being back in school. 

His question was, "Who was president a month ago?"

It didn't take long for Twitter to remind the fact checker in chief that it was Biden – not Trump – that was in office a month ago...

• Kessler's statement, however, points to a bigger issue: a few people are dubbed "fact checkers," the ones who are said to know anything and everything.
• But the truth is if they miss something as basic as this, what else are they missing (or purposefully lying about)?...Read all!

BUSTED: What an SF Bay Area Teachers' Union President Was Caught Doing Should Have Parents' Blood Boiling by Matt Vespa

BUSTED: What an SF Bay Area Teachers' Union President Was Caught Doing Should Have Parents' Blood Boiling by Matt Vespa
"...What if I were to tell you that a teachers’ union president quarterbacked an effort to keep schools closed, but then was caught dropping his daughter off at an in-person preschool? 

You’re probably not shocked. 

• We have a class of people who think the rules don’t apply to them. 
• It has infested the political class. 
• It reeks of it on the Hill. 
• And public-sector unions are no different. 

It should make parents’ blood boil (via KQED)...Read all.

Breaking: Special counsel John Durham abruptly announces his resignation from the US Attorney's office - TheBlaze

Breaking: Special counsel John Durham abruptly announces his resignation from the US Attorney's office - TheBlaze: 

Special counsel John Durham, the U.S. attorney appointed to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion and election interference probe, abruptly announced Friday that he would resign from the U.S. Attorney's office. Durham released an official announcement saying he would resign effective at midnight Sunday.

The AP Is NOT Happy With the 'Label,' 'Democrat Party'...

The AP Is NOT Happy With the 'Label,' 'Democrat Party,'
"The Associated Press has a grammatical construction bone to pick with us, my fellow conservatives. And it’s not happy. 

That’s right, this “derisive” habit we have of incorrectly referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Party” is not only just one more example of our “extreme partisanship,” it’s also “just another piece in a big bubbling kettle of animosities” we harbor as we attempt to make Democrats “sound like rodents.”
...AP “journalist” Julie Carr Smthye’s What’s in an adjective?‘Democrat Party’ label on the rise is as hilarious as it is whiny, as trots out example after example of “proof” of “conservatives seeking to define the opposition through demeaning language.”...Read all.

"Experts say..."-----It's the US' deadliest avalanche season in years. Experts say Covid is partially to blame - CNN

It's the US' deadliest avalanche season in years. Experts say Covid is partially to blame - CNN

"(CNN)The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the US economy, health care system and schools.

Some experts say it's also to blame for a recent spike in avalanche deaths. 

Seriously.

So far this winter season, 33 people have died in US avalanches, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). 

That's not far from the record 36 deaths set in 2008 and reached again in 2010.

But a unique combination of climate- and pandemic-related trends could see the US break the record. 

Here's why...Read all.

Lunch video---JUST IN: Kristi Noem rips Joe Biden in CPAC 2021 speech

Lunch video-----INSANE: "Systemic Racism" Blamed For Glue Hair Fiasco

Noon-toon

 

Boston public schools cancel new advanced classes for high performing students because of racial inequalities - TheBlaze

Boston public schools cancel new advanced classes for high performing students because of racial inequalities - TheBlaze: 

Boston Public Schools officials said that a program with advanced learning classes would be cancelled over concerns that the classes served disproportionate racial groups. The program known as Advanced Work Classes was intended to serve high-performing students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Students are encouraged to study their subjects in a deeper and non-traditional manner.

"Free" government "healthcare".

 

Biden launches free taxi to destination of choice for illegal migrants - American Thinker

Biden launches free taxi to destination of choice for illegal migrants - American Thinker

• Illegal aliens are in for some gravy.
  

"Unlike legal immigrants who must pay their own way to their final destinations in this 5,077-mile span country, the Biden administration has introduced free flights for illegals to their destination of choice. 

Want a free trip to Hawaii?

 Off you go, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers but only if you arrive in the U.S. illegally and can name someone (legal or not) there who will take you in...Read all.

#1 Movie this week 1980-----KRAMER VS. KRAMER - Trailer

Imagine if this was a republican-----Watch Biden completely short-circuit during a speech and literally ask "What am I doing here?"

Watch Biden completely short-circuit during a speech and literally ask "What am I doing here?"

The man is not OK. My goodness."

#1 This day 1980-----Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Official Video)

Media's been lying to us for decades!-----The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth

The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth

The ‘Cronkite Moment’ of 1968: Remembering why it’s a media myth

In Anniversaries, Cronkite Moment, Debunking, Media myths, Quotes, Television on February 27, 2020 at 7:03 pm

"Fifty-two years ago tonight, CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite presented a prime-time report about the war in Vietnam and declared in closing that the U.S. military effort was “mired in stalemate” and that negotiations might eventually offer a way out.

It was a tepid analysis, hardly novel. But over the years, Cronkite’s assessment has swelled in importance, taking on the aura of a vital, media-inspired turning point. It is so singularly important in American journalism that it has come to be called the “Cronkite Moment.”

In reality it is a moment steeped in media myth.

Notable among the myths of the “Cronkite Moment” is that President Lyndon B. Johnson watched the program and, upon hearing the anchorman’s comment about “stalemate,” snapped off the television and told an aide or aides something to this effect:

“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” (Versions vary.)

Cronkite’s remarks supposedly were an epiphany to the president, who realized his war policy was a shambles.

The account of the anchorman’s telling hard truth to power is irresistible to journalists, representing a memorable instance of media influence and power.

But Cronkite’s program on February 27, 1968, hardly had decisive effects. 

Here’s why (this rundown is adapted from a chapter about the “Cronkite Moment” in my media myth-busting book, Getting It Wrong):...Read all.

"Equity"

 

VIDEO: Jim Acosta confronted at CPAC over CNN's coverage of Gov. Cuomo's scandals - TheBlaze

VIDEO: Jim Acosta confronted at CPAC over CNN's coverage of Gov. Cuomo's scandals - TheBlaze: 

CNN reporter Jim Acosta was confronted at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over his network's coverage of the scandals besieging Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The exchange was captured on video by Acosta's interlocutor, David Marcus, who is a columnist for The Federalist.

Imagine the media melt-down if she was black, was killed at a BLM riot?-----With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Capitol Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety | RealClearInvestigations

With Ashli Babbitt Killing Shrouded in Mystery, Capitol Officer Who Shot Her Is in Hiding for His Own Safety | RealClearInvestigations

"All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. 

But only Ashli Babbitt’s death was directly caused by violence that day. 

She was a rioter killed by a Capitol Police officer, who fired the only shot by any person during the 4½-hour siege. 

Yet the story of who he is and why he opened fire remains shrouded in mystery.

More than six weeks after Babbitt succumbed to a single gunshot wound to the upper chest, authorities are keeping secret the identity of the officer who fired the fatal round. 

They won’t release his name, and the major news media aren’t clamoring for it, in stark contrast to other high-profile police shootings of unarmed civilians...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 1

History for March 1 - On-This-Day.com

William Dean Howells 1837 - Author

• 1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
• 1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
• 1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.
• 1907 - In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.
• 1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
• 1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.