History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com 

Caspar Weinberger 1917

• 1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished.
• 1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
• 1990 - The first shots were fired by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis when a U.S. frigate fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker.
• 2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.

Trump on Russia-Ukraine: We'll skip ceasefire, go right to peace deal * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff

Trump on Russia-Ukraine: We'll skip ceasefire, go right to peace deal * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff: 

After a three-hour meeting with Russian President Putin in Alaska Friday, President Trump spent hours on the phone with world leaders overnight, leading to an announcement that he expects all parties in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war soon to agree to a peace agreement – skipping the usual step of a ceasefire.

In addition, Trump said he would host Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office Monday to discuss the deal. That part of the announcement reminded some of the last time the Ukrainian leader visited the White House, an acrimonious meeting that ended without any official agreement between the parties.

The way we were-----VDH | Revisionists Get It Wrong: Why the Atomic Bombings Ended WWII

What If the Japanese Had Refused to Surrender? | WWII’s Deadliest Altern...

The U.S. Navy's New DDG(X) Destroyer Can Be Explained Just 2 Words - National Security Journal

The DDG(X) is the U.S. Navy’s next-generation guided-missile cruiser, currently under development. - National Security Journal - Isaac Seitz 

The U.S. Navy’s next-generation guided-missile destroyer, the DDG(X), is a critical “clean-sheet” design intended to replace the aging Ticonderoga and Arleigh Burke classes.

• This 14,500-ton warship will feature an advanced integrated power system, enhanced stealth, and significant growth margins for future weapons like lasers.
• However, the program is already facing major headwinds. The Congressional Budget Office projects a cost of $4.4 billion per ship—33% higher than the Navy’s estimate...

Government at its most "democrat"!-----At One Fed Agency: Bumbling Lawyers, HR Annoyers, and One Guy, Grifting Away in Margaritaville

In 2023, Commissioner Pham was the canary in the coal mine as to what seems to have been overzealous and controlling attorneys for the agency. - Jim Thompson 

• Caroline Pham is a Republican commissioner at the little-known Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). It regulates derivatives and will, in the future, be tasked to regulate cryptocurrency.

They ran roughshod over a Canadian firm called Traders Global Inc., and it cost the agency 3.2 million dollars. 

• The commission's attorneys claimed that Traders Global had committed fraud by wiring money from the Cayman Islands to Canada. 
• In fact, the wires were for tax payments to the Canadian government. 
• When confronted, Traders Global produced evidence that it was paying taxes. 
• Canada also provided receipts to the CFTC... 

Former insider exposes takes fight to Big Pharma | Blaze Media

Former insider exposes takes fight to Big Pharma | Blaze Media: 

“I would say a big breakthrough moment for me was when the CEO, the CFO, the head of investor relations, and the head of R&D of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world came into our office to reassure us about their stock,” Manookian tells BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan.

Global Wildfires: What the Media Isn’t Telling You

It's VERY easy to cheat when you're the democrat government!-----Two Michigan Politicians Indicted For More Of That Election Fraud That Doesn’t Exist

Kentucky Driver’s License Scam = Registering Illegal Aliens To Vote - Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

From Kentucky comes news of DMV clerks selling drivers licenses to illegal aliens that also provides a backdoor for getting those illegal aliens on the voter rolls.
A bombshell investigation in Kentucky just exposed what Democrats are desperate to hide. 

Whistleblower Melissa Moorman caught government employees at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet selling driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. 

• The price? Two hundred bucks cash, under the table. This wasn’t rare. Nope. Moorman says it happened four to five times every single day at Louisville’s Nia Center Licensing Branch. 
• Every. Single. Day...

Lunch video-----Iran Challenges America’s Ghost Bomber — BIG MISTAKE

Noon-toon

 

Former WaPo 'Fact-Checker' Admits He 'Screwed Up' by Dismissing Lab Leak Theory 5 Years Later

Former WaPo 'Fact-Checker' Admits He 'Screwed Up' by Dismissing Lab Leak Theory 5 Years Later: 

Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler admitted Thursday that he was “completely wrong” to label the COVID lab leak theory as “doubtful” in 2020, conveniently coming clean five years later after recently leaving the publication.

During an interview with The Editors, Kessler’s 2020 Washington Post fact-check article entitled, “Was the new coronavirus accidentally released from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful,” was discussed.

Opposing points of view.

 

NewsBusters Turns 20: The Most Absurd and Obnoxious Outbursts

NewsBusters Turns 20: The Most Absurd and Obnoxious Outbursts - Geoffrey Dickens
This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of NewsBusters, so as part of this momentous event we are looking back at some of the most outrageous outbursts of bias captured by our analysts and bloggers over the years....

Hajime Miura just clinched his 8th 3A World Yo-Yo Championship title at the World Yo-Yo Contest 2025 in Prague...

...cementing his legacy as one of the most dominant players ever. - Massimo@Rainmaker1973

National Suicide Is Better Than Rudeness | Frontpage Mag

Would Europe rather be polite than alive? - Daniel Greenfield 

“A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem,” a New York Times story recently reported. The story clarified that the small nation was the Netherlands, it never did clarify who was behind the over 700 bombings so far this year. 

• Saying it out loud would have been impolite.

European nations, small and great, have all sorts of mysterious unexplained problems that they never used to before. 

• The Netherlands has a rash of bombings. 
• In the UK, acid attacks are up 75%...
• “Sweden’s new normal: Bombs in the suburbs on a weeknight,” Politico reported in 2023. This January, there were 30 bombings. An Economist story blamed the attacks on “teens”. Sweden’s National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh warned that 14-year-olds are being recruited for “murder assignments” by gangs and foreign countries. 

Which teens? 

Which countries?

#1 This day 1964-----Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (1964)

NO DICE: Thread Shows Just How WOKE the Smithsonian Has Become, and Why Trump Is Right to Overhaul It Amy Curtis Amy Curtis

Now here's a thread that shows how bad things are at the Smithsonian.

Read it all!

Fig leaf!

 

'Very much by design': U.S. Armed Forces provide no training in the Constitution that all service members swear to defend * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

'Very much by design': U.S. Armed Forces provide no training in the Constitution that all service members swear to defend * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps: 

Why don't service members know the Constitution? Why don't Americans, in general, understand it? These are two questions that heightened Spears' interest in the topic, compelling him to write an article titled "The Case for a Constitutional Training Culture in the Military." For Spears, the answer lies in a lack of "institutional instruction." He explained to WND, "Many schools are deliberately not teaching civics in elementary education, and the worst offenders are in the public school system."

Excellent with sources!-----The global EV boom is not revolution—it’s engineered illusion.

China leads the charade with centralized ambition, while the West oscillates between populist realism and dogmatic fantasy.

All paths underscore the basic truth: 

• This revolution is strategically hollow, economically reckless, and socially extractive. 
• We are not heading toward a cleaner future—we are racing toward a collapse of trust, assets, and industrial integrity...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 17

History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com 

Davy Crockett 1786 - Frontiersman, soldier and politician. He died at the Battle of the Alamo

1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.

1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.

1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.

1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.

'We made some headway': Trump, Putin make 'progress' on goal of ending Ukraine war * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'We made some headway': Trump, Putin make 'progress' on goal of ending Ukraine war * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

President Donald Trump, after a roughly three-hour summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, confirmed that there was significant progress made on the agenda of getting the killing in the Ukraine war halted, but it's not completed. Yet. "There's no deal until there's a deal," Trump confirmed.