Wednesday, August 19, 2026
History for August 19
History for August 19 - On-This-Day.com 
Malcolm Forbes 1919
- 1909 - The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- 1919 - Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
- 1929 - "Amos and Andy," the radio comedy program, made its debut on NBC starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.
- 2004 - Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
And Canada's COMMUNISTS love Communist China!-----Beijing’s Voyage Through Frozen Waters Could Change Shipping Forever
China is preparing to establish a regular commercial shipping route through the Arctic, potentially giving Beijing a dramatically shorter path to Europe while reducing its dependence on some of the world’s most volatile maritime chokepoints. - Francis Kapper
- The company’s China-Europe Arctic Express plans to use seven ships across eight sailings, according to a Sea Legend schedule published by China-based maritime outlet Xinde Marine News in July...
- The route would send Chinese cargo north through the Bering Strait and across waters along Russia’s vast Arctic coast before vessels enter European waters, bypassing the traditional journey through Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal...
Here’s a point that many Canadians don’t want to admit.
For decades, Canada has benefited from privileged access to the United States. Economically, militarily, and through trade, we’ve depended on our closest ally while often pretending the relationship was an entitlement. - real.CTZN
- Now the rules are changing. President Trump is saying America will put America first, and Canada’s response has often been outrage instead of self reflection.
- Maybe it’s time to stop acting like we’re owed special treatment and start building a stronger, more self sufficient Canada.
Mark Cuban warns California billionaire tax could hurt investment | Fox News
Mark Cuban warns California billionaire tax could hurt investment | Fox News:
California voters are set to decide whether to slap a new tax on the state's billionaires as IRS data show thousands of taxpayers, and billions of dollars in income, are already flowing out of the Golden State.
The outflow is adding fuel to the debate over California's proposed billionaire tax, with Mark Cuban warning Saturday the measure could drive not only wealthy residents but investment and startups out of the state.
Cuban's warning came amid a heated back-and-forth with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who has defended the proposed tax. The billionaire investor threatened to steer future investments away from California if the measure moves forward.
"Tom Homan on anti-ICE Democrats: "So you want to abolish an agency that found 151,000 children.
"...You want to abolish an agency that seized enough fentanyl to kill every American three times over again. - Open Source Intel@Osint613
You want to abolish an agency that is attacking sex trafficking"
You want to abolish an agency that is attacking sex trafficking"
Collins and Fauci and the GOP's Missed Opportunity
Collins and Fauci and the GOP's Missed Opportunity:
Sometimes history affords actors in its dramas multiple opportunities to do the right thing to achieve success or ward off disaster. Other times that opportunity comes but once, and missing it has fateful consequences. That truism comes to mind with the unfolding tale — or trial, perhaps — of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Imagine today's "American" media in WW2!-----I’m calling out the BS being reported about the USS Abraham Lincoln.
I spent nearly four years on that same ship. - Trent Leisy@realTrentLeisy
- The food sucked most days but no one complained.
- We had our occasional ice cream, steaks, crab legs, and beer days, and we knew what we signed up for.
- Link to the full article in the comments
It's a fake-parent "jobs" program with zero success in its fake "goals"-----Head Start Has Never Worked
The Trump administration should have stood its ground in its earlier effort to zero out the failed Great Society program.Heather Mac Donald
Since its inception in 1966, Head Start has spent more than $240 billion in taxpayer dollars on early education and anti-poverty services for low-income children up to the age of five.
- Now at a median annual cost of $20,000 per child in Early Head Start (for infants, toddlers, and pregnant mothers) and $15,000 per each pre-K student, it imposes detailed requirements for class size—one teacher cannot supervise more than four two-year-olds, for example—medical screenings, and in-home visits...
- A randomized controlled trial found that any early gains in school readiness among enrollees had faded by the end of first grade and were absent by third grade. The results were published by HHS in 2010 and 2012.
- Academic attempts to discredit this “fadeout” effect have failed...
Old news is fake news!-----USS Lincoln: Performance For the Ages - WSJ
On Saturday I addressed the crew, congratulated them on a magnificent job, and sent them home. - Admiral Brad Cooper
It was an amazing visit.
- I was blown away by this strong group of high-achieving Americans standing tall with justified pride in everything they have accomplished.
- I also saw the reality of more than 260 days at sea with more than 150 days in a combat zone, while speaking with sailors in spaces most guests don’t see.
Recent media reporting has portrayed varying perspectives on operational tempo, crew morale and the realities facing our deployed forces.
What I found aboard the Lincoln is that many elements of those stories are old news...
The crew is tired, but they continue to fire on all cylinders.
The crew is tired, but they continue to fire on all cylinders.
- History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era...
'Not true': Watch Todd Blanche drop the mic on network news anchor pushing 'false narrative' * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs
'Not true': Watch Todd Blanche drop the mic on network news anchor pushing 'false narrative' * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs:
"I swore to the Constitution of the United States like every Cabinet secretary before me has done and like every attorney general before me has done, and so this narrative that's mostly pushed by the left and pushed by the media, that the president's gonna pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is a completely a false narrative, not true, will not happen and hasn't happened."
Fake News, Part I: The Long History | RealClearPolitics
Fake News, Part I: The Long History | RealClearPolitics - John Maxwell HamiltonIn 1896, a daring journalist covering the Cuban revolution against their colonial masters crossed the Spanish lines three times to interview insurgent leaders.
William Francis Mannix...scored a journalistic triumph...
His three trips over enemy lines and his stories, including the Cisneros appeal, were all fakes.
Mannix wrote them while sitting in the bar of the Moscotte Hotel in Havana or – for a change of scenery – on the hotel’s veranda....
History for August 18
History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com 
Caspar Weinberger 1917
- 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.
- 1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.
- 1966 - The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back to the U.S.
- 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.
Monday, August 17, 2026
'Ride a rage wave into power': Hakeem Jeffries alludes to doing violence to Supreme Court * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
'Ride a rage wave into power': Hakeem Jeffries alludes to doing violence to Supreme Court * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Democrats in Washington want to do what they want to do, when they want to do it, how they want to do it, and to the victims they choose.
And that's why they have launched an agenda to destroy the nature of the U.S. Supreme Court by deliberately staging it with a far-left majority, even throwing out the sitting members.
"It is simply about power," explains Jonathan Turley
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