1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.
1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.
1952 - On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time.
1987 - The "intefadeh" (Arabic for uprising) by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began.
1991 - Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law (NAFTA) the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation.
Trump plans to enter office and begin to not only conduct the largest deportation program ever witnessed in U.S. history, but he has also vowed to resume border wall construction, end birthright citizenship for those born to illegal migrant parents, restart the travel ban and bring back the Remain in Mexico program — which kept asylum seekers waiting in Mexico while their claims were adjudicated in immigration court.
Hurricane readiness and aftermath assistance are usually down to a science in places like Florida and Georgia, sometimes even before federal government agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) arrive.
However, in western North Carolina, a place that might not often feel the effects of a hurricane, Ronald Reagan's declaration that "...government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" has been on full display.
As Britain’s reactor fleet shrivels, the amount of nuclear capacity will fall from six gigawatts (GW) today to just 1.2 GW by 2028 or soon after.
Along with rising demand from power-hungry data centres and technologies of the future, it will make it even harder to keep the lights on when wind and solar generation is low...
The possibility of preemptive pardons is sparking instant reaction on the political right.
"Why would they need to do that if they did nothing wrong?" wondered Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA.
Now, I mean this quite literally. And I urge you to do your own research on this: I would be pleased if readers could find a single book that is on any list anywhere as forbidden to be sold, imported, or read in the United States. [see end note [i]] So, you may well ask, “How can Banned Books be an ongoing social controversy if there are no banned books?” The long and short of it is:
1. Some people think that some books are not appropriate for school children of various ages. 2. Other people, specifically the American Library Association, the trade group of librarians in the United States, and PEN America, a writers advocacy organization, hold the position that ALL books should be made available to all people in all libraries and if there are to be any exceptions, only librarians or the books’ authors are qualified to make those decisions.
Now, let’s get real... The real story is that the American Library Association (ALA) label any challenge, any questioning of librarian’s choices about which books to include in which sections of any library: Book Banning.
JERUSALEM – The United Nations, which has found ways – almost daily – to cover itself in ignominy, succeeded yet again when it passed three recent non-binding resolutions related to Israel, highlighting again it has an unhealthy obsession with the Jewish state.
On December 3, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. In doing so, it perfectly mirrored maximalist Palestinian demands… short of getting rid of the whole of the State of Israel entirely. The resolution also implemented the establishment of a June 2025 conference, whose sole purpose is to "urgently chart an irreversible path toward" a Palestinian state.
The report found that 94% of federal workers do not show up in person regularly, highlighting the poor service delivery and complacency in government offices.
The Department of Energy, the Agency for Global Media, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture topped the list of absentee/absconders with abysmal occupancy rates of 0%, 2%, and 6%, respectively...
Members of AxMITax argue property tax is too much money wasted by homeowners, that’s not being used effectively. “You’re paying for a lot of things that could be paid through consumption,” said AxMITax Founder Karla Wagner.
“If you want to go to the zoo, pay admission.
If you want to go to a museum, pay admission.
It shouldn’t be on your property tax bill. It should be a choice.”
Additionally, Wagner said her citizen-led group is working to end property tax to reduce the number of foreclosures that come from nonpayment...
New drug-testing guidelines have heightened the threshold for marijuana violations while also reclassifying other fines.
The NFL and its players association have agreed to new substance-abuse guidelines that include an increase in tolerance for THC levels in an athlete's blood.
NFL reporter Tom Pelissero reported on the new agreement, posting a summary that was forwarded to athletes' agents.
“December 7th, 1941 ─ A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
He vowed: “Always will our whole Nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.”
After two hours of bombing, 21 U.S. ships were sunk or damaged, 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,403 Americans were killed, and another 1,282 were wounded.
Over 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed in the wreckage of the USS Arizona. Today less than two dozen survivors remain alive.
Please watch this two minute video of President Roosevelt’s address to the joint session of Congress. Click on Video Here Within an hour of Roosevelt’s speech, Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan. God bless America.
1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.
The University of Michigan has one of the worst DEI bureaucracies of any university, but things might be turning around.
The University of Michigan announced Thursday that it was ending its use of DEI statements in faculty hiring.
This decision — recommended in late October by an eight-member faculty working group and inevitable in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29, 2023, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC banning race-based college admission — is sure to disappoint the multitudes of leftists who rallied on campus Monday in support of continued funding for DEI initiatives.
Members of AxMITax argue property tax is too much money wasted by homeowners, that’s not being used effectively.
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