Saturday, August 15, 2026
History for August 15
History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com 
Edna Ferber 1887
- 1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
- 1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.
- 1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
Friday, August 14, 2026
Trump's Fraud Division takes the gloves off in fight against foreign nationals, others | Blaze Media
Trump's Fraud Division takes the gloves off in fight against foreign nationals, others | Blaze Media:
The Government Accountability Office puts annual losses from fraud somewhere between $233 billion and $521 billion.
McDonald called the numbers “shocking” and said the damage hits “the hearts and souls of Americans” just as hard as their wallets.
Coffee & Covid News--Crossfire Hurricane and all its little helpers were the workshops where the FBI created preposterous “Russia collusion allegations” against President Trump and lots of other Republicans.
Round River was the drain, the whirlpool where the FBI sank real, worrisome foreign collusion evidence against the Biden Crime Family and Democrats.
The operation to drown inconvenient evidence started in 2019, right after Rudy Giuliani began probing Ukrainian oil giant Burisma, which happened to be paying Hunter Biden $1 million a year to do work Hunter was clearly incapable of doing.
The operation to drown inconvenient evidence started in 2019, right after Rudy Giuliani began probing Ukrainian oil giant Burisma, which happened to be paying Hunter Biden $1 million a year to do work Hunter was clearly incapable of doing.
- Get this: the operation only finally ended in 2025, after Trump took the oath, when FBI Director Kash Patel hauled the log raft out of the water.
- The Round River trip took five+ years to go nowhere on purpose.
- It was the Red Scare Redux.
Let me help you all figure out where this "Measles Outbreak" came from..
84% of measles cases between 2020 and 2025 were in Texas. - Christopher Smith
- The CDC will not tell you the immigration status of any of the cases.
- They will only tell you that 16 of the cases this year were tied to international travel and 96% where unvaccinated or UNKNOWN vaccination status...
What happened in the last 5 years that could account for these STRANGE pieces of statistical data....
Oh... 10-15 MILLION undocumented people entered the US across the southern border (HINT... right where 84% of the first round of cases occurred)...
Oh... 10-15 MILLION undocumented people entered the US across the southern border (HINT... right where 84% of the first round of cases occurred)...
11 face charges in sham marriage green card scheme for Chinese nationals | Fox News
11 face charges in sham marriage green card scheme for Chinese nationals | Fox News:
Nearly a dozen people tied to a decade-long marriage fraud network allegedly involving more than 1,000 sham unions face federal charges related to a scheme that charged Chinese nationals up to $100,000 to participate in fake marriages to U.S. citizens in an effort to secure green cards, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
A federal indictment unsealed in New York City names 11 defendants — all naturalized U.S. citizens from China and one green card holder — for their roles in the marriage and immigration fraud scheme.
CNN couldn’t resist the chance to dangle a horrific modern-day lynching narrative in front of its audience after a black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi.
The network’s coverage leaned hard into the racial imagery and historical baggage, carefully omitting the one detail that ruins the entire storyline: her black boyfriend is the person of interest who’s already been arrested and questioned by police.
Nothing says “responsible journalism” quite like omitting the most relevant fact so the preferred narrative can remain intact...
Nothing says “responsible journalism” quite like omitting the most relevant fact so the preferred narrative can remain intact...
CNN: Former SPLC Executive Heidi Beirich Arrested on Fraud Charges
CNN: Former SPLC Executive Heidi Beirich Arrested on Fraud Charges:
Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) chief financial officer Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and charged in the Justice Department’s case alleging that the organization secretly used donor money to pay informants inside white supremacist groups, CNN exclusively reported Wednesday.
And dems tell us they had no clue??!!-----Owner of suspiciously vacant adult daycare billed Medicaid $32M while donating to Kathy Hochul, other Democrats
Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show. - Chadwick MooreAlmost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week...
- Zhang’s various businesses have claimed at least $32 million from Medicaid since 2018, on behalf of tens of thousands of patients...
One party control=An environment of corruption!-----James O’Keefe and Cam Higby just dropped another undercover operation targeting election integrity.
The pair went into Minneapolis polling locations dressed as Muslim women. - Conservative Twins
- According to the footage they captured, poll workers were prepared to let them cast ballots under other people’s names.
- The workers also offered to vouch for eight unregistered foreigners so those individuals could vote too...
They're still the party of OPEN BORDERS!-----House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries arrived in New Jersey on Tuesday with a simple message: President Donald Trump’s immigration and deportation agenda is “unjust and inhumane.”
Jeffries came to Morristown at the invitation of Rep. Analilia Mejia, a progressive Democrat who won a special election in an upset earlier this year on a message of abolishing ICE.
- “We’ll have a conversation about what dramatic change looks like” after November, Jeffries said.
- “Once we are in the majority, we can compel the kind of investigation and oversight that these issues in fact entail,” Mejia said. “So we would have more bite and reach in what we’re aiming for.”...
Russia Releases American Military Veteran Who Was Taken Prisoner During Biden Administration
Russia Releases American Military Veteran Who Was Taken Prisoner During Biden Administration:
Gilman was among the Americans left in Russian prisons when the Biden administration engineered a prisoner swap to free WNBA star Brittney Griner in December 2022 after she was convicted on drug charges, as noted by NPR.
If U.S. States Were Countries, Texas Would Rank #4 in Oil Production
The United States is the world’s largest crude oil producer, but several individual states produce volumes comparable to major oil-producing nations. - Niccolo ConteKey Takeaways:
- Texas alone would rank fourth globally in crude oil production, behind only the U.S., Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
- New Mexico would rank 12th, producing more crude oil than Kazakhstan, Norway, Mexico, and Nigeria.
- Even smaller U.S. producers stand out globally, with Wyoming and California both surpassing Australia’s 250,000 barrels per day...
History for August 14
History for August 14 - On-This-Day.com 
Russell Baker 1925 - Newspaper columnist
- 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tunis was signed on board the USS Constitution.
- 1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was the end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
- 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
- 1945 - It was announced by U.S. President Truman that Japan had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II.
- 1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.
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