History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author

• 1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language."
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.
• 1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store.
• 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.
• 1918 - The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France.
• 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2.
• 2008 - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines announced they were combining.

Constitutional peace officers call summit to address threats facing America | WND | by WND Staff

Constitutional peace officers call summit to address threats facing America | WND | by WND Staff: 

Democrats have claimed for years it is President Donald Trump, with his plans to "Make America Great Again," who is the threat they must defeat. He's a danger to "democracy," they claim. Their rhetoric theorizes that the United States is a gone if he's re-elected. But actually it is Joe Biden who repeatedly has made light of the U.S. Constitution.

The way we were-----The Most Absolutely Insane Target of WW2

Gun Control Zealots Hate Facts, This is Why... | Thomas Sowell

They knew! And they lied!-----Rand Paul Drops Another Bombshell

How many federal agencies and officials knew ahead of time that the government was working with a private partner and the Chinese lab from which COVID-19 likely originated? - CATHERINE SALGADO

"...According to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), potentially hundreds of U.S. federal employees knew that COVID-19 could have been a result of American and Chinese development in a lab.

• “How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up?” asked Paul in a Fox News piece on April 9. 
• “Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.”..

Why car insurance costs are skyrocketing, leading to higher inflation

...since December 2021...costs have increased by 45.8% 

• Skyrocketing auto insurance costs helped contribute to inflation accelerating at a faster-than-expected pace in March.
• On a monthly basis, car insurance prices as part of the consumer price index rose by an unadjusted 2.7%, while the year-over-year increased by 22.2%, according to data released Wednesday.
• The rise in insurance costs is in addition to historically high prices for new and used vehicles since the coronavirus pandemic, as well as rising costs to repair vehicles...

Biden's green agenda described as being based on 'magic' | WND | by Bob Unruh

Biden's green agenda described as being based on 'magic' | WND | by Bob Unruh: 

"It's 'magical thinking' from beginning to end in terms of the green agenda. This is just going to hammer the American people. They're spending so much money that there are parts of California where they don't have enough bureaucrats to spend the climate cash flowing in from the Inflation Reduction Act and from the Biden administration. They have to hire bureaucrats even to figure out how to spend it all."

Singapore deals with those arriving in small boats in such a way as to discourage the practice.

Remember when the CDC hiding vax-injury reports was a "conspiracy theory"? - Patricia Anthone

The PURPOSE for collecting early reports on adverse reactions is to serve as an early warning

"... a "safety signal" which warrants further investigation. 

• But instead of collecting and responding to these data in the manner of scientific professionals, the CDC SUPPRESSED, denied and buried the data in order to prevent "vaccine hestitency."

Well, those secreted vax-injury reports; 780,000 events which could have informed course-correction had they not been concealed, have now been released...

Trouble at the Fed - by Christopher F. Rufo and Luke Rosiak

An investigation into Federal Reserve governor Lisa D. Cook’s academic record raises questions. 

"Lisa D. Cook is one of the world’s most powerful economists. 

She taught economics at Harvard University and Michigan State University and served on the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers before being appointed, in 2022, to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, which controls the interest rates and money supply of the United States.
Despite her pedigree, questions have long persisted about her academic record. 

• Her publication history is remarkably thin for a tenured professor, and her published work largely focuses on race activism rather than on rigorous, quantitative economics...
• The quality of her scholarship has also received criticism. Her most heralded work, 2014’s “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” examined the number of patents by black inventors in the past, concluding that the number plummeted in 1900 because of lynchings and discrimination. Other researchers soon discovered that the reason for the sudden drop in 1900 was that one of the databases Cook relied on stopped collecting data in that year. The true number of black patents, one subsequent study found, might be as much as 70 times greater than Cook’s figure, effectively debunking the study’s premise.
• Cook also seems to have consistently inflated her own credentials...

Lunch video-----Well, this is interesting.

"Those parents should be arrested for child abuse.

Noon-toon

 

Maxine Waters urged radicals to harass lawmakers in public. Turns out, she's not keen when they come for her. | Blaze Media

Maxine Waters urged radicals to harass lawmakers in public. Turns out, she's not keen when they come for her. | Blaze Media: 

Evidently supportive of the tactic, Waters told the crowd at the charity event, "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome any more, anywhere."

A video excerpt of an undated interview with Waters recently went viral wherein she intimates that this sort of harassment is unacceptable — if directed her way.

Waters complains of an instance wherein someone confronted in a restaurant. The Democrat apparently construed the criticism as a surefire sign of a "racist attitude."

" The evidence is irrefutable; the theories are many."

 

Fomenting hate-----This is how WaPo covered a story about a man who opened fire on police during a traffic stop. Let's break down the bodycam footage. | Not the Bee

...look how the Washington Post is covering this story about a kid who opened fire on police during a traffic stop. - Jesse James

Let's look at how writer Jennifer Hassan opened this story:

Dexter Reed's mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. "Mom, I'm going for a ride," he told her, before heading out in the car that he had purchased just three days earlier.

Reed, 26, was killed that same day, when tactical-unit police officers fired 96 bullets at him within 41 seconds, according to Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which investigates allegations of police misconduct and police shootings. "He was just riding around in his car," Dexter's mother, Nicole Banks, told Fox 32 Chicago on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. "They killed him."

Sounds bad for the police, right?
Well, before you go grabbing that pitchfork for another Summer of Love, let's do what WaPo didn't and give you the facts.
There are FIVE bodycams that recorded the shootout.
Here is the first one...

Don't believe your lyin' eyes?

 

Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal for Scientist Who Tried to Kill Colleague - JONATHAN TURLEY

I have been a criminal defense attorney for my entire career, but there is a case out of Berkeley, California that is a real head scratcher. 
"David Xu was the chief metallurgist for a company called Berkeley Engineering and Research (BEAR) and was caught on tape trying to poison a colleague. His actions are blamed for not only causing harm to Rong Yuan, but her parents.
After spending only 10 days in jail, Alameda County prosecutors and a judge signed off on a probation deal in the case...
Yet, the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder charge and accepted a plea on the two poisoning counts. 

Then a probation officer recommended no jail time... 

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Female Athletes Must Take Matters Into Their Own Hands After Leadership Lets Man Win Weightlifting Meet | The Daily Caller

For USA Weightlifting policy to allow a male athlete to compete (and win) in the women’s category at the Masters National Championships in Reno is appalling; - LOLA POLLACK

"Over the last seven years, I’ve poured my heart into Olympic Weightlifting...

My accolades — a gold medalist at the 2023 U23 National Championships with a 200kg total, participation in over 25 competitions, nine national championships, a Pan American competition and a coaching certification — teeter on the edge of irrelevancy, as the sport I love becomes dominated by men pretending to be women...

Who really pays for Biden's "free-money"?

 

Iowa enacts law allowing police to arrest, deport some illegal immigrants | Blaze Media

Iowa enacts law allowing police to arrest, deport some illegal immigrants | Blaze Media: 

Reynolds stated, “The Biden administration has failed to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk.”

“Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them. This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books,” Reynolds added.

State Senator Janice Weiner (D) criticized the bill, calling it “a political stunt and a false promise that doesn’t contain the needed resources,” the New York Times reported.

Anti-Trump groups are quietly planning for a deepfake election crisis | Blaze Media

Do you trust that if a crisis does develop, the people behind 'the Deepfake Dilemma' won’t use it as an opportunity to benefit Joe Biden? - JUSTIN HASKINS 

"Dozens of prominent U.S. and state government officials, advocacy groups, and executives from big tech companies gathered in New York last month to participate in an important simulated election exercise.
The war game exercise imagined a fictional crisis in which AI-generated photos and videos are released on social media immediately before the 2024 election. 

• The images appear to show election officials in Florida dumping ballots, in an apparent attempt to manipulate the election’s outcome.
• The simulation also included phone calls to elderly voters in Arizona that featured AI-generated voices. The calls asked elderly voters to stay away from polling centers due to threats from radical militia groups...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 13

History for April 13 - On-This-Day.com 

Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President

• 1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
• 1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.
• 1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing.
• 1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
• 1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
• 2002 - Venezuela's interim president, Pedro Carmona, resigned a day after taking office. Thousands of protesters had supported over the ousting of president Hugo Chavez.