Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lilies of the Field", "To Sir With Love")
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.
1880 - The American Bell Company was incorporated.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1987 - A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
2003 - In West Warwick, RI, 100 people were killed and more than 230 were injured when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Jack Russel's Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for the band, was one of the victims in the fire.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine provides a timely opportunity for a critical thinking exercise.
Suppose you are the leader of Russia, China, Iran, etc. Consider Biden's tragic exit from Afghanistan in August 2021, and the strained relationship that disaster created with our NATO allies. Wouldn't you see the present as a golden window of opportunity to carry out your war-filled dreams? After all, what America has in President Joe Biden is a commander in chief who Mark Levin, host of "LevinTV" noted, is incapable of defending The United States of America.
Issues like climate change and COVID, for example, are used by scientists and politicians to control what people hear and say and to discourage dissent. "This is because the debate on science is actually a debate on politics. And the debate on politics is actually a debate on conformity and is actually not a debate at all," Mark explains.
The false claim that Trump was in wrongful possession of confidential documents - American Thinker "The National Archives, which is controlled by a hard leftist cadre, very excitedly announced that President Donald Trump took classified information with him when he left the White House.
The problem—which the AP reluctantly concedes—is that, as President, he had the final say over what’s classified. ...As a predicate, the National Archives management has turned that government office into a purely leftist entity determined to advance all leftist causes, including destroying Donald Trump.
Recently, it was caught stating that the U.S. Constitution and all of America’s other founding documents contain “harmful content.” Why? Because they have “racist, sexist, misogynistic, and xenophobic opinions.”
Additionally, the National Archives management has concluded that the entire institution of the National Archives itself is structurally racist because it’s concerned with lauding the work of the White men who created our nation.
You can read more about that insanity here. Most recently, the leftist, impermissibly partisan National Archives management’s vendetta against Trump has management claiming that Trump was found to be illegally in possession of classified information...Read all, much more!
Hundreds of students at a California school walked out of class on Tuesday afternoon in protest of their district's continued mask mandate despite statewide requirements being relaxed.
The walkout, according to reports, was in protest of the delay in lifting mask mandates at schools across California.
The majority were incarcerated for drug-related felonies, mostly possession and dealing.
..Despite these differences, these men all shared one thing in common: they were uneducated. ...The reasons for their failure in school were obvious.
They came from families and even a culture that placed little value on education.
...On Feb. 1, the Washington Examiner reported that 77 percent of the students in a Baltimore high school were reading at elementary levels.
Of the 628 students tested, 484 were in this group, including 159 who were only reading at a kindergarten or first-grade level.
This same article tells us that only 37 percent of high school seniors nationwide might be considered proficient readers.
...If our leaders were serious about racial equality and equal opportunity in America, our schools would teach all our children to read, to write, and to calculate.
These old-fashioned 3Rs—reading, ’riting, and ’rithmatic—remain foundational for any child’s education.
Anyone possessing those three skills can tackle any subject on the planet—calculus, the history of India, biology, the law.
But a kid from Baltimore or any other place who can’t read the news, decipher a bill, write a resume, or do long division faces a bleak future. And so does our country...Read all!
As we previously reported, the police in Ottawa moved in this morning on the Freedom Convoy protesters. They had arrested a couple of the organizers Thursday. The police arrived with their names covered, so they couldn’t be seen on their uniforms, and with tow trucks that the government had said they would conscript into service under the Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Some of the trucks had the names of the companies covered over and without plates, and at least one driver had a mask covering his entire face, to obscure who he was.
These are not people proud of their actions...Read all!
Hawley fired back by arguing the piece praises Gardner as a member of a “cohort of prosecutors that seek a new approach to justice, and in particular seek to reform current tough-on-crime practices.” Hawley stated that he actually agreed with the characterization, saying that these prosecutors’ practices were “pro-crime.”
According to a Columbia University study from late 2017, “depression increased significantly among persons in the U.S. from 2005 to 2015, from 6.6 percent to 7.3 percent.”
Given that this is a “significant” increase, it’s even more alarming to hear the depression numbers for teens.
In that same time frame, teen depression rates rose from 8.7 percent to 12.7 percent. What’s driving this increase?
...But a new study gives another interesting explanation: depression may be related to a lack of religion...Read all.
A recent CNN poll found a majority of Americans who disapprove of the Biden administration don’t approve of anything the president has done.
“This is fascinating,” CNN’s John King said Feb. 10. “What has President Biden done for you that you approve of? Fifty six percent of Americans, nearly six in 10 Americans, that means a decent amount of Democrats, said ‘nothing.’ They disapprove of everything that’s happened.”
