History for November 12

History for November 12 - On-This-Day.com 

Charles Manson 1934

• 1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.
• 1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
• 1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.
• 2001 - American Airlines flight 587 crashed just minutes after take off from Kennedy Airport in New York. The Airbus A300 crashed into the Rockaway Beach section of Queens. All 260 people aboard were killed.
• 2014 - NATO commander Gen Philip Breedlove reported that Russian military equipment and Russian combat troops had been seen entering Ukraine in columns over several days.

School Cannot Force Students to Use Trans Pronouns, Federal Court Rules

School Cannot Force Students to Use Trans Pronouns, Federal Court Rules: 

A federal appeals court in Ohio ruled Thursday that students cannot be forced to use preferred pronouns in school.

Defending Education filed the suit against Olentangy Local School District in 2023, arguing the district’s anti-harassment policy that requires students to use the “preferred pronouns” of others violates students’ First Amendment rights by “compelling students to affirm beliefs about sex and gender that are contrary to their own deeply held beliefs.”

The way we were-----30th Anniversary of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial

Victor Davis Hanson: The Forgotten Story Behind Veterans Day

𝐂𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐌 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓𝐐 “𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐔𝐓” 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒

Her child’s English teacher — yes, ENGLISH class — handed out a packet asking students to “analyze articles” about LGBTQ acceptance…  - M.A. Rothman
...then pushed them into questions about how to “come out” to their parents and what they think about LGBTQ couples “messing around” without family knowing.

• ⁤⁠⁤This wasn’t education.
• It was ideological grooming dressed up as homework...

⁤⁠⁤But this new packet crossed every line:
• Role-playing as LGBTQ minors
• Advice on “coming out”
• Scenarios involving sexual behavior
• Forced political and cultural framing...

Orwell Watch: The Great Canadian "Ostrich Cull"

The world may be losing its mind, but it's at least generously inviting us to watch - Matt Taibbi

• On Friday, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation anchor Andrew Nichols tossed to correspondent Caroline Barghout in Edgewood, British Columbia for one of the most uncomfortable on-site TV reports ever. 
• Barghout spends an agonizing minute and six seconds searching for creative ways to deliver a story about the Canadian government gunning down 330 ostriches without using key words like “kill” or “dead.”...

Prosecutor famous for 'Arctic Frost' scandal now in cushy tech job * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation

Prosecutor famous for 'Arctic Frost' scandal now in cushy tech job * WorldNetDaily * by Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft's president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in "Arctic Frost," a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party. "Given Lisa Monaco's leadership role in weaponizing the Biden Department of Justice against its political enemies, as evidenced in the recently released documents detailing 'Arctic Frost', it is wholly inappropriate and a risk to national security for Monaco to have any role whatsoever in the oversight of DHS contracts at Microsoft," Fitzpatrick said in a statement provided to the DCNF.

Funniest Wrong Jeopardy! Responses: Alex Trebek Edition | JEOPARDY!

More college students favor socialism than capitalism, new poll finds | The College Fix

The results found that 67 percent of students surveyed held a positive or neutral opinion of the word “socialism,” compared with only 40 percent of respondents holding the same opinion regarding “capitalism.” - Simon Olech - Franciscan University of Steubenville

“Negative views of capitalism outweigh negative views of socialism by an even greater difference: 53% v. 23%....

Weighing in on the results, Axios’ Mike Allen noted: 

“The survey reveals Gen Z’s growing disillusionment with capitalism

• fueled by high inflation, 
• surging health care and housing 
• costs, and the 
• rising influence of billionaires in politics, tech and media.”...

Lunch video-----Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate | Ben Shapiro vs. Ana Kasparian

Noon-toon

 

'One of the biggest scandals in history': Notorious Obama judge who greenlit secret subpoenas targeting Republicans gets smacked with ethics complaint * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation

'One of the biggest scandals in history': Notorious Obama judge who greenlit secret subpoenas targeting Republicans gets smacked with ethics complaint * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"Judge Boasberg enabled certain facets of what may be one of the biggest scandals in the history of the country," the ethics complaint filed by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) and exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation states. "Weaponizing the DOJ to surveil political opposition not only violates the rights of the subjects of the investigation, but also the American people who were unable to know the facts of the investigation due to the secrecy of it."

They don't want to be Americans!

 

Almost feel sorry for Chuckie.

I suspect he never wanted to do the shutdown but was forced by the hyperextreme goons to completely overplay this hand. - Sev Onyshkevych

• They had no hand, period. 
• And they lack the sense of introspection to understand it. 
• Truly vile.

"Funny".

 

‘Shadow banking’ could lead us into an apocalypse like 2008

Alarm bells are ringing about the private credit market and ‘cockroaches’ in the system — the time to act is now - Chris Blackhurst
It was inevitable really. 

• After all, the banking crash of 2008 was 17 years ago and many of the main actors have left the stage. 
• The new generation cannot be expected to pay heed to the lessons from back then. 

The world has moved on, live with it...
This time the guv’nor is referring to “shadow banking” — the private credit market where firms of money managers, not regulated banks, lend money to businesses. 

The collapse of two US companies, First Brands and Tricolor, that borrowed billions via this route...
Andrew Bailey said the Bank took ‘very seriously’ the risk that the failures could prove to be a ‘canary in the coal mine’...

#1 This day 1956-----Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (Official Audio)

The Worst News Outlet of the Week - Who Dominated in Dysfunctional Coverage?

So once again, time to tug on the hip waders and begin the slog through the past week of reporting, and see which outlet distinguished itself on this flawed media landscape. - Brad Slager 

THE CONTENDERS

• CNN – After a report implying the FBI thwarted a terror plot in Dearborn that was just an innocent prank, the site took down its story after the Bureau detailed what was actually found.
• The New York Times – Attempting to prod more conservative divisions, the paper tried to elevate Nazi mouthpiece Nick Fuentes to Charlie Kirk levels of influence...
• ABC News – Mary Bruce downplayed the systemic murder of Christians in Nigeria...
• MSNBC – The expert panel on election night tried to sell the concept that voters were swayed by the White House ballroom construction...
• THE WINNER...

Your media-of-choice miss this?

 

Glenn Beck's blueprint for true conservatism in 2026 and beyond | Blaze Media

Glenn Beck's blueprint for true conservatism in 2026 and beyond | Blaze Media: 

Conservatism isn’t about reacting to the left, obsessing over policies, or worshipping the past. “It's really about principles,” he says. “And that’s why we've lost our way because we've lost our principles.”

So what are the principles that undergird conservatism?

World War I Armistice Day Celebrations | History

AM Fruitcake

 

History for November 11

History for November 11 - On-This-Day.com 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist

• 1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
• 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
• 1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
• 1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country voluntarily.
• 1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.
• 1994 - In Gaza, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at an Israeli military checkpoint killing three soldiers.

Speaker Mike Johnson: This Is 'Beginning of the End' of Longest Shutdown in History

Speaker Mike Johnson: This Is 'Beginning of the End' of Longest Shutdown in History: 

“I’m thankful to welcome you to what appears to be the beginning of the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. As shameful as that is, I don’t think it’s coincidental,” Johnson said at the beginning of the press conference.

“It’s after 40 days of wandering in the wilderness and making the American people suffer needlessly,” he said, noting that finally some Senate Democrats have stepped forward to “end the pain.”