History for June 29

History for June 29 - On-This-Day.com:
George W. Goethals 1858, William Mayo 1861, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900
 

John Toland 1912, Slim Pickens 1919, Stokeley Carmichael 1941


1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.


1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.


1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.


1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.


1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.


1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.


1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.


1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/06/liberatingdocuments-bytammy-derouin_28.html

Liberating Documents

By Tammy Derouin

I look at the current state of our country and how those in government have manipulated the American people, over the past several years, into thinking that a strong, centralized power is what's best for the United States. That's exactly why we declared our independence.

Our government has way too much power and control over our lives. But, it's our own fault. We stopped paying attention and tyranny slowly began to take hold. We've watched as government has increased regulations, deceived the public and it certainly appears that our country was intentionally made vulnerable to our enemies for eight long years.

Why do so many Americans want to walk back into enslavement? Chances are, they have not read the liberating documents which establish their freedom and protect their God-given rights as free individuals.

We are currently living in a great divide, a divide caused by individuals, a prior administration which attempted to undermine the American way of life.......

The way we were-----Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Kingston Trio

What a dollar could buy the year you were born

What a dollar could buy the year you were born

"Uprising"??!!-----Special report: Detroit 1917 / 1967 / 2017 | Crain's Detroit Business

Special report: Detroit 1917 / 1967 / 2017 | Crain's Detroit Business:
"To recognize the 50-year anniversary of the 1967 uprising in Detroit, Crain's looks back 50 years before the turbulent summer of '67 and the 50 years since to explore its impact on Detroit's business community.
Peruse an interactive timeline of the last 100 years of Detroit's history, learn about the economic roots that contributed to the city's worst summer, experience five days during the unrest from the viewpoint of a surgical resident at Detroit General Hospital, explore the impact of the riots on three generations of entrepreneurs and more."

White House slams media for dishonesty, Sarah Huckabee Sanders spars with reporter - Washington Times

White House slams media for dishonesty, Sarah Huckabee Sanders spars with reporter - Washington Times:

"President Trump’s spokeswoman bashed the media for its coverage of the White House Tuesday and got into a spirited exchange with a reporter who accused her of “inflaming” the public against the press.
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Mr. Trump has been frustrated by a “constant barrage of fake news,” citing an erroneous CNN report for which the network apologized and three journalists resigned."

The Federal Government Owns 61 Percent Of Idaho, 64 Percent Of Utah And 84 Percent Of Nevada

The Federal Government Owns 61 Percent Of Idaho, 64 Percent Of Utah And 84 Percent Of Nevada
"Did you know that the federal government owns 28 percent of all land in the United States?  
Today, the feds control approximately 640 million acres of land, and after decades of very poor management, many are calling on the states to take a larger role.  
This is particularly true in the 11 western states where the federal government collectively owns 47 percent of all land.  
East of the Mississippi River, the feds only own 4 percent of all land, and there is no reason for such a disparity to exist.  
In Connecticut and Iowa, the federal government only owns 0.3 percent of all land..."

Important!-----Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe? | Circa News - Learn. Think. Do.

Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe? | Circa News - Learn. Think. Do.:
"Secret memos show Trump adviser roiled bureau by intervening in agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.
The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.
Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf. 
His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks.
The FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for the agent, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case, memos obtained by Circa show.
Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn.
The EEOC case, which is still pending, was serious enough to require McCabe to submit to a sworn statement to investigators, the documents show..."
Lots here, read it all!

Leon Drolet - I chaired an organization listed by the Southern...

(1) Leon Drolet - I chaired an organization listed by the Southern...
Leon Drolet shared WSJ Opinion's post.

"I chaired an organization listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the 1990s as a "hate group" when I helped lead a group called the Macomb Coalition of Republicans. 
The basis for our "hate" listing was we organized a several peaceful rallies in support of the 2nd Amendment in response to Bill Clinton's gun bans.

The SPLC profits when it reports as much "hate" as possible and their highly partisan donors are exactly that - highly partisan. 

I wish there existed a credible, reputable organization that took their mission seriously but the SPLC is not that.

WSJ Opinion

June 22 at 2:11pm · 

While the SPLC rightly condemns groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Westboro Baptist Church and New Black Panther Party, it has managed to blur the lines, besmirching mainstream groups like the FRC, as well as people such as social scientist Charles Murray and Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of Islamic extremism, writes Jeryl Bier.

The Insidious Influence of the SPLC

Its branding of ‘hate groups’ and individuals is biased, sometimes false—and feeds polarization.

WSJ.COM

Noon-toon

The Unbearable Smugness Of Being…A Democrat - Derek Hunter

The Unbearable Smugness Of Being…A Democrat - Derek Hunter:

"Actually, there is a way to get incredibly rich off the poor – it’s by claiming to be their champion. How many liberals have become fabulously wealthy by claiming to be “working for the poor”? They haven’t made a dent in the number of poor people -quite the contrary - but Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and countless other leftists have ensured their families won’t miss a meal for generations thanks, in large part, to their “championing of the poor.”"

How CNN’s Fake News Machine Ran | Frontpage Mag

How CNN’s Fake News Machine Ran | Frontpage Mag:
"In April, media types were crowing that CNN had brought in Eric Lichtblau who had been, in the Washington Post’s words, at “the forefront of the New York Times’s reporting on the relationship between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.”
It was “an investment in investigative reporting and the sprawling Russia story”.
It didn’t take long for the investigative investment to sprawl badly.
Lichtblau has resigned from CNN in a growing scandal over a Fake News story about a Trump associate.
"Eric will guide our coverage and thinking," Lex Haris, executive editor of CNN Investigates, had boasted.
"And when he’s onto a investigation, he’ll still be reporting and writing too.”
Not for long. And Haris has joined Lichtblau on the unemployment line after the Fake News scandal.
CNN Investigates had been announced after President Trump’s inauguration.
Its hit pieces had followed the same pattern as the Scaramucci attack that would be its undoing.
Go after a personality tipped for a job with the new administration.
CNN Investigates had previously targeted Monica Crowley and Sheriff Clarke with plagiarism accusations.
But this time around, CNN’s anti-Trump unit had made a big mistake.
Unlike K-File’s petty harassment of Trump associates, the Scaramucci hit piece came from the heavier hitters poached by CNN from mainstream media papers who were supposed to bring down Trump.
The men behind the disaster were no lightweights..."
Read on!