History for June 28

History for June 28 - On-This-Day.com
Henry VIII 1491 - King of England from April 21, 1509 until his death, known for his six marriages and his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, John Wesley 1703, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 


Richard Rodgers 1902, Mel Brooks 1926 - Writer, director, actor, Gilda Radner 1946 


Kathy Bates 1948 - Actress, John Cusack 1966 - Actor, Kellie Pickler 1986 - Country singer ("American Idol") 


1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat. 


1902 - The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama. 


1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.


1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations. 


1939 - Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service. 


1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers. 


1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea. 


1960 - In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil refineries without compensation. 



2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list. 


2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live. 

What you probably never knew about the word ‘assassin’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

What you probably never knew about the word ‘assassin’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"TheBlaze’s national security adviser Buck Sexton on Thursday revealed the fascinating history behind the word “assassin,” which he said “has its roots in Islamic terror.”

The biggest story of the week--------The Supreme Court's Disparate-Impact Decision Is a Disaster

The Supreme Court's Disparate-Impact Decision Is a Disaster | National Review Online
The Supreme Court’s breathtaking upholding of the constitutionality of Obamacare’s exchanges wasn’t the only case they got badly wrong Thursday.
In both cases, ordinary Americans may be hurt in ways they don’t yet realize.
In its second case yesterday, the Supreme Court had to decide the scope of the Fair Housing Act, a law passed in 1968 that makes it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of race and other factors in connection with the sale or lease of housing.
The question before the court was:
Can you be found guilty of racial discrimination if you never engaged in policies that had any intent to discriminate? 
Roger Clegg of the free-market Center for Equal Opportunity lays out just such a scenario: “Suppose, for example, that the owner of an apartment complex decides that she does not want to rent units to individuals who have been convicted of drug offenses.
She makes that decision without regard to race, her policy on its face does not treat people differently because of race, and indeed she enforces it in an evenhanded way, so that it applies equally to all applicants, without regard to race.
Should she be liable for racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act if it turns out that the policy in her neck of the woods has a disproportionate effect on this or that racial or ethnic group?”
In Texas Department of Housing v. The Inclusive Communities Project, the anti-segregation group ICP sued the Texas housing authority. ICP claimed that federal tax credits to developers who build low-income housing projects were disproportionately allocating too many of the tax credits to properties in minority areas and too few in suburban areas. 
But the housing authority responded that the purpose of federal tax credits is to help underprivileged residents of rundown areas in an effort to improve their blighted status. 
Such credits have a far less positive effect in more well-off neighborhoods. 
No evidence was presented that Texas officials were trying to discriminate. 
Liberal civil-rights groups say that any disproportionate effect of a policy on minorities represents a “disparate impact,” and that lawsuits based on this are essential in order to fight subtle forms of discrimination.
...Since then, disparate impact has been expanded in unimaginable ways, including Obama-administration agency action making it extremely difficult for employers to screen out job applicants based on their criminal record. 
In addition, in those increasingly rare situations in which the employer does decline to hire an applicant because of his criminal record, the latest guidance from the Obama Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to employers in this regard all but forces the employer to inform the job applicant that this has happened. 
This dramatically increases the chances employers will be hit with a discrimination lawsuit.  
Martin Luther King Jr. famously looked forward to the day when his children would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
As Gail Heriot of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission points out, “The content of one’s character, at least as revealed by one’s criminal record, cannot be taken into account without risking litigation.” 
This turns the original goals of King’s movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 upside down. Indeed, the result is similar to how the court had to turn logic and language upside down in order to reach its bizarre upholding of the Obamacare exchanges.
I fear the Rule of Law took a double blow yesterday.
Read it all and consider another country.

U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan

U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan | The Weekly Standard
A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them during Ramadan. 
According to a report by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs, Brig. Gen. John Quintas, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing commander in Southwest Asia, said that the U.S. is "committed to the concepts of tolerance, freedom and diversity."
But he added that soldiers should "become more informed and appreciative of the traditions and history of the people in this region of the world...
[R]emember we are guests here and that the host nation is our shoulder-to-shoulder, brothers and sisters in arms, risking their lives for our common cause to defeat terrorism."
During the 30-day religious celebration of Ramadan, even non-Muslims are expected to obey local laws regarding eating, drinking, and using tobacco in public. 
Violators can be fined up to $685 or receive two months in jail. 
...For military personnel outside of U.S.-controlled areas, the only exceptions for the rules are for those "performing strenuous labor." 
Such personnel are "authorized to drink and consume as much food as they need to maintain proper hydration and energy."
It is unclear what constitutes "strenuous labor" or whether additional exceptions might be made during a heatwave affecting some areas of the region that has taken hundreds of lives. ...

Now Leftists Want Military Bases Named After Confederate Generals to Be Renamed | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Now Leftists Want Military Bases Named After Confederate Generals to Be Renamed | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"It’s not enough for liberals to do everything they can to get the confederate flag banned. They apparently won’t rest until everything that has anything to do with the Confederacy is destroyed, and their latest target is military bases named for Confederate generals."

Jeb Bush: I would fire OPM director over hack attack

Jeb Bush: I would fire OPM director over hack attack - The Washington Post:
"The recently disclosed breach of the Office of Personnel Management’s security-clearance computer system took place a year ago and is now believed to have affected the personal data of more than 18 million current, former and potential federal workers.
...[Looking for help after the federal employee hack? Prepare to spend a few hours on hold.]
Bush also called on Obama to fire Katherine Archuleta, the head of OPM, who has led the agency since Nov. 2013.
Previously, she served as national political director of Obama's 2012 reelection campaign."

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Republican Governor Issues Defiant Statement to Obama: We ‘Will Not Comply’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Republican Governor Issues Defiant Statement to Obama: We ‘Will Not Comply’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana will not comply with President Barack Obama’s plan to battle climate change by requiring reductions in emissions from coal-fired power plants, Republican Gov. Mike Pence said Wednesday."

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The fading of the teen summer job

The fading of the teen summer job | Pew Research Center:
"In the 1970s and ’80s, most teens could expect to be working at least part of their summer vacation. But the share of teens working summer jobs has dwindled since the early 1990s; last summer, fewer than a third of teens had a job."

College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President

College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President - FIRE
CHICAGO, June 8, 2015—Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president.
Lawyers for the Chicago-area college argue that the email, which noted that May Day (May 1) is a traditional time for workers to remember the riot, threatened violence.
Last month, OCC demanded that the now former faculty member “cease and desist” from similar communications in the future or face potential legal action.
May Day is celebrated every year on May 1 by the international labor movement to commemorate the fight for workers’ rights.
The celebration is historically associated with the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
...On May 1, Chester Kulis sent an email to OCC colleagues that read, “Have a happy MAY DAY when workers across the world celebrate their struggle for union rights and remember the Haymarket riot in Chicago.” The email, titled “May Day – The Antidote to the Peg Lee Gala,” was written in response to a reception hosted by OCC in celebration of the retirement of college president Margaret B. Lee.
...In response to Kulis’s email, an attorney representing OCC wrote a cease-and-desist letter to Kulis on May 7, arguing that Kulis’s reference to the Haymarket Riot was a threat of violence because the famous workers’ rally in Chicago “resulted in 11 deaths and more than 70 people injured.” The attorney, Philip H. Gerner III, went on to say that similar future communications could result in legal action..."

‘The Country As You Know It…Is Done’: Beck’s Withering Reaction to Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘The Country As You Know It…Is Done’: Beck’s Withering Reaction to Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“I don’t know how you get around it, guys,” Beck’s co-host Stu Burguiere agreed, arguing that the Supreme Court has become both judicial and legislative. “They’re freaking inserting words into laws after they’re passed. They’re putting words into laws that aren’t there. The design of this country with this system is completely gone.”

Beck said America needs a “reset” because there is “nothing left” of the system as it was created."

The White House Tells Doctors To Warn About Global Warming

The White House Tells Doctors To Warn About Global Warming | The Daily Caller
Americans trust their doctors, so the White House wants these medical professionals to be a mouthpiece for President Obama’s global warming agenda.
“We also need doctors, nurses and citizens, like all of you”President Obama said in a taped speech presented to medical professionals gathered at the White House, “to get to work to raise awareness and organize folks for real change.”
...The central message: doctors should warn their patients that global warming could make their health worse.
...The Commission’s report funding included support from the ClimateWorks Foundation and the European Climate Foundation — organizations that fund environmental groups and projects aimed at tackling global warming.
Critics of the White House summit argued the event highlighted the collusion between the Obama administration and activist groups.
The pro-business Center for Regulatory Solutions (CRS) called out the White house for teaming up with the American Lung Association (ALA) to promote the tenuous link between global warming and public health..."

History for June 27

History for June 27 - On-This-Day.com
Helen Keller 1880, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan 1927, H. Ross Perot 1930 


Julia Duffy 1951, Tobey Maguire 1975 


1693 - "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page." 


1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May. 


1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan. 


1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886. 


1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business. 


1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology. 


1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days. 


1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the Nixon White House. 


1985 - Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System. 

Judge Napolitano Unleashes Scathing Reaction to Supreme Court Decision — and He Doesn’t Hold Back on John Roberts | Video | TheBlaze.com

Judge Napolitano Unleashes Scathing Reaction to Supreme Court Decision — and He Doesn’t Hold Back on John Roberts | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“The court is now in the business of saving a statute in order to save its reputation,” Napolitano said, summarizing the dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia.

“I believe … [Roberts] will continue to undermine his won credibility as a fair-minded jurist, because he has reached to bizarre and odd contortions in order to save this statute twice,” Napolitano said."

How the lib-snobs "think"-----Kim Kardashian appeared on NPR and listeners are outraged

Kim Kardashian appeared on NPR and listeners are outraged - The Washington Post:
Last weekend, the producers of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” — the NPR quiz show known for its cheeky, wonkish humor — committed a horrible, no-good, sacrilegious faux pas:
They booked a particular celebrity for an interview.
The outrage was instantaneous.
“My first impulse after her introduction on the show was to question the meaning of life,” one commenter wrote.
Another listener angrily informed NPR’s ombudsman, Elizabeth Jensen, that they found the show “so misguided and offensive, I fear I will never be able to listen again.”
“I think three horsemen of the apocalypse are now fully mounted,” a third commented.
The interviewee in question?
None other than Kim Kardashian, television personality, mobile-phone game mogul, selfie aficionado, wife of Kanye, mother of North and apparent harbinger of the end of the world...
...The man who helped precipitate that shift, a researcher and radio consultant named David Giovannoni, had a name for this particular persnickety brand of NPR listener: monks.
“These types are different from the regular news consumers, the typical news consumers who like debate and ideas, depth and logic.
This different type of listener, not so dissimilar demographically, is vastly different psycho-graphically,” he said, according to Pesca.
“Sharply differentiated by their needs and gratifications,” monks seek “to escape from the troubled exterior world and seek an interior serenity.”
People who only wanted to hear classical music on NPR?
Monks.
People who find Kim K. joking about Kim Jong Un so offensive that they fear “contamination through the speakers?”
Also monks.
Here’s what Pesca had to say:
There is a type of NPR listener — and it’s a type of media consumer, it goes way beyond NPR—that defines themselves by what they are not.
To some extent, we all do this.
The bands we like, the foods we don’t eat.
But with them, it’s a much huger deal.
They’re closed-minded, they use affiliation with NPR...
A news consumer might not like the vapidity of Kim Kardashian on her e-show — but at least if they are a fan of this news comedy show, might be curious enough to see what a comedy show does with this figure, in the context of comedy.
The Monk, on the other hand, is driven by a desire to achieve the inner state that allows him or her to make sense of the world.
NPR or whatever media, for the Monk, is an escape from the sullied world. 
It’s crabby, it’s snooty and it hates the big booty.

Unintended consequences-----Supreme Court may make marriage more than just option for same-sex couples seeking benefits

Equality makes sense. 
Hopefully government and other tax associated institutions will stop taking tax dollars and gifting employee benefits to those who choose not to marry. 
Otherwise it would be terribly unfair.
Get this fixed now!
Supreme Court may make marriage more than just option for same-sex couples seeking benefits - Crain's Detroit Business:
If same-sex couples legally can marry in Michigan, then some actually might have to in order to preserve partner benefits coverage through their employers.
... Almost half of the 25 percent of employers in the survey who said they offer benefits to unmarried partners of employees today offer such plans only for unmarried same-sex couples.
That suggests the benefits picture could change quickly at some of those companies after the end of this month..."