History for July 17

History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com
James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian



Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor, Diahann Carroll 1935 - Actress, singer, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor


1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.


1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.


1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.


1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.


1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."


1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.


1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.


1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.

EXCLUSIVE: Cartel Violence Spills into Texas as Gunmen Storm Past U.S. Border Security

EXCLUSIVE: Cartel Violence Spills into Texas as Gunmen Storm Past U.S. Border Security:

"PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Two cartel gunmen fleeing from a raging gun battle with Mexican authorities ran through U.S. border security measures twice as they crossed into Texas and back; using their vehicle to ram barriers. "

The way we were-----Brooks & Dunn - Only In America

24 Republicans Vote 'No' On Amendment to Pay for Transgender Surgery for U.S. Soldiers

24 Republicans Vote 'No' On Amendment to Pay for Transgender Surgery for U.S. Soldiers:
"Twenty-four Republicans banded together on Thursday to defeat an amendment which would have ended former President Barack Obama’s 2016 policy of funding “gender-reassignment” surgery for soldiers who want to live as members of the opposite sex.
The amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act was offered by Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R, Mo.).
It would have prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for the non-military medical task of converting healthy soldiers into “transgender” soldiers who face lifelong dependence on hormones and surgery.
...Amendment supporters say the Pentagon’s financial bill for accepting transgender claims could reach $3.7 billion over the next ten years."

Analysis: If We Really Want to Get to the Bottom of the Russia Matter, Trump Isn't the Only Story - Guy Benson

Analysis: If We Really Want to Get to the Bottom of the Russia Matter, Trump Isn't the Only Story - Guy Benson:
"Before you start calling me a Trump apologist on Russia, read this post and this one.
I emphatically am not, much to the chagrin of some our our readers.
...Nevertheless, there are other elements to this story -- and the wider controversy -- that ought to be explored, even if Democrats aren't as eager to talk about them.
If we are genuinely concerned about learning all the facts about foreign interference in our elections, we can't exclusively focus on the (ample) parts of the story that reflect poorly on Donald Trump and his associates.
For instance, what were the motivations of the female lawyer who was central to that infamous June meeting?
Why did the Obama administration grant her access to the country, even though her expired visa extension was rejected?  
...what should we make of her known connection to Fusion GPS, a Democratic opposition research firm responsible for commissioning the notorious and dubious anti-Trump dossier primarily compiled by a former British spy?
Here's Erick Erickson:
Prevezon [a Russian company hit by US sanctions despised by Putin] hired Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who subsequently met with Donald Trump, Jr. Prevezon also hired Rinat Akhmetshin, described by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who specialized in disinformation and propaganda campaigns. 
Akhmetshin also retained Veselnitskaya as lawyer for a third party group that claims to be a Human Rights group. 
Prevezon and Akhmetshin also worked with a Democrat opposition research group called Fusion GPS...
According to Senator Grassley, who wants Fusion GPS’s executives to testify to Congress, “Fusion GPS was apparently simultaneously working on the unsubstantiated dossier alleging collusion between Trump presidential campaign associates and Russia” while also working with Prevezon to overturn the Magnitsky Act. 
Suddenly it seems more than a coincidence that Prevezon’s lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has a meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. at the time Fusion GPS is putting together a dossier claiming the Trump campaign had been meeting with Russians..."
Read on!!

The vote fraud that Democrats refuse to see | New York Post

The vote fraud that Democrats refuse to see | New York Post:

"This fuzzy math sums up Democrats’ orthodoxy on vote fraud: As the bulletproof evidence of fraud adds up, they still claim, “There’s nothing to see here.” Not even these hard numbers, based on verified vote-fraud cases, move their acceptance of this reality into the realm of positive integers.

This pathological denial is even more intense, now that President Trump has taken vote fraud seriously enough to appoint a bipartisan panel to get to the bottom of it."

Media Ignores Virginia Gov. McAuliffe’s Role in Green Car Scandal that Fleeced Taxpayers out of Millions - Judicial Watch

Media Ignores Virginia Gov. McAuliffe’s Role in Green Car Scandal that Fleeced Taxpayers out of Millions - Judicial Watch:
"An electric car company that folded after taking millions of taxpayer dollars was founded by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, but the mainstream media is ignoring this pertinent fact.
The Mississippi-based company, GreenTech, shut down in January but is back in the spotlight because this week the state’s auditor demanded the firm repay $6.4 million in public funds.
Only a small Richmond, Virginia newspaper prominently reported McAuliffe’s ties to the scandal, stating in the headline that “Mississippi auditor demands $6.4M repayment from McAuliffe’s former electric car company.”
Most mainstream news outlets ignored the story altogether and a few kept McAuliffe’s name out the minimal coverage. 
Washington D.C.’s mainstream newspaper went with a lengthy wire service story that matter-of-factly mentions McAuliffe in the very last sentence.

Social Security on track for 'large, abrupt' cuts in 17 years unless Congress acts

Social Security on track for 'large, abrupt' cuts in 17 years unless Congress acts: 
"A root cause for the financial woes for Medicare and Social Security is the aging baby boomer population, and the trustees estimate the cost jumps will be higher than any GDP growth that could potentially offset things. 
Meanwhile, lawmakers have not made progress addressing the difference between these two numbers by raising more money, raising the retirement age or dialing back payments.
“The gap is getting bigger, and politicians have their heads in the sand,” said Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Politically, the available options are incredibly explosive. 
Raising taxes is unpopular, and restricting payments to seniors is also unpopular. 
This leaves both Democrats and Republicans at an impasse."

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Another Victim of Clinton Arkancide? Man Set to Testify Against Clinton Foundation Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

Another Victim of Clinton Arkancide? Man Set to Testify Against Clinton Foundation Found Dead of Apparent Suicide:

"Former Haitian government Klaus Eberwein was found dead in a motel room earlier this week from a gunshot wound to the head. The Miami-Dade medical examiner is ruling it a suicide."

Who they are!-----Flashback: Watch a Crazy Lady Verbally Assault Iowa Police Officers

Flashback: Watch a Crazy Lady Verbally Assault Iowa Police Officers:
"This is a video from back in November, but it’s making its way around the interwebs again. Old or not, people who act this nastily, like this women did toward two Iowa police officers, should be shamed...

Meet Melyssa Jo Kelly. 

She was so proud of herself, she live streamed this on Facebook.

There’s a reason this women, and people of her ilk, need to be put on blast. 

Look at the most recent incident in New York where a cop was assassinated by an activist (see Anti-Cop Convict Shoots, Kills Black Police Officer and NYPD Commissioner at Slain Cop’s Funeral: ‘Why is there NO Outrage?!’). 

This leftist attitude toward the police, spurned in many cases by digital mobs who see random stuff on the internet and the politicians who pander to them, fuels this kind of nasty behavior. 

This woman believed she was justified. 

When really she simply needs someone to remove the broom from her rectum..."

Read on!!

GOP Guest Hits MSNBC Host With Stat of Journalists Donating 96% to Clinton

GOP Guest Hits MSNBC Host With Stat of Journalists Donating 96% to Clinton
"On Friday's MSNBC Live, host Craig Melvin denied that the dominant news media have a liberal bias after Republican Congressman Dave Brat started hitting him with reports that over 96 percent of journalists who made political donations chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. 
A bit later, Melvin denied biased reporting as he declared, "Even if that bias did exist -- which, I mean, Dave, it doesn't -- even if it did --" Brat zinged him: "If it exists? Now, you got to come clean with me on that one."

At about 1:32 p.m. ET, after the MSNBC host began the interview by asking the Virginia Republican about Donald Trump Jr.'s emails and Russia collusion, Brat began complaining about the media's history of going soft on Democrats, and tied in their tendency to donate overwhelmingly to the liberal side. Brat:

No one gets to play the innocent here. Hillary raised $2 billion in the Hillary foundation from foreign money, and CNN and all the biggies never found anything on that. The Washington Post is great on Watergate, but they missed Clintongate altogether. Why is that? Well, maybe it's because 97 percent of the donations from mainstream (media) folks go to the Democrat party. Gee, I wonder if that could, you know, influence the news at all..."

Read on! 

#1 This day 1983-----The Police - Every Breath You Take

Watch to the end!-----Powerful don't text-and-drive PSA gets laughs before gut-punch - Roadshow

Powerful don't text-and-drive PSA gets laughs before gut-punch - Roadshow:
"The latest attempt to make people stop and think comes from South Africa's Western Cape government.
Instead of attempting to employ pathos or extreme drama, the Western Cape PSA offers humor.
We think we're watching a bloopers show."

You ought to know!

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Judicial Watch: New Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Donors Receiving Special Treatment from Clinton Department of State - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: New Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Donors Receiving Special Treatment from Clinton Department of State - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch today released 448 pages of documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing new incidents of Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, providing special State Department treatment to major donors to the Clinton Foundation and political campaigns.

The heavily redacted documents from Abedin’s non-government account include an email from Hillary Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, to Abedin revealing that he acted as a go-between for a Clinton Foundation donor, Richard Park. And they reveal Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band instructing Abedin to “show love” to Clinton donor Andrew Liveris."

No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists

No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists:
"K Street lobbyists are the symbol of Washington influence-peddling as they push government for favors, subsidies, exemptions, and other special treatment for their clients.
Their customers include, in addition to domestic clients, foreign governments, oligarchs, fugitive speculators, and a rogue’s gallery of questionable figures.
Washington lobbyists trade on their access to power.
Many are former administration officials or members of Congress.
If Trump fulfills his promise to “drain the swamp,” these influence peddlers would have nothing to sell.
They are under attack.
The media has focused not on K Street but on the Russian ties of President Donald Trump’s associates.
They list the reprehensible Kremlin-associated figures for whom members of his inner circle worked, the most notorious being Viktor Yanukovich, the deposed president of Ukraine, and fugitive oligarch, Dymtro Firtash.
But both of these “repulsive” figures were also advised by Democratic top dogs, who likely earned large multiples of what the “small fry” Trump associates took home.
In pushing its Manchurian-candidate-Trump narrative, the media fail to mention the much deeper ties of Democratic lobbyists to Russia..."

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History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911


Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.


1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.


1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.


1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.


1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.


1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Articles: The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Articles: The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions:

"...and the madness of their crowd. “Collective obsessional behavior” is defined as a “condition in which a large group of people exhibit similar physical or emotional symptoms, such as anxiety or extreme excitement. Also called epidemic hysteria.”

There is no longer any doubt that the American left, especially those who dominate our media and academia, are indeed suffering from the above disorder.  Since their candidate lost the election that they were so terribly confident she would win in a landslide, they have descended deeper and deeper into psychosis."

The way we were-----Jay And The Americans.....Only In America

Ohio’s Medicaid-Expansion Freeze Faces Hospital Resistance | National Review

Ohio’s Medicaid-Expansion Freeze Faces Hospital Resistance | National Review:
"They’re fighting hard against an effort to freeze enrollment in the state’s Medicaid expansion. Hospitals that are using Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to siphon billions from federal taxpayers fiercely oppose an effort to scale back the policy in Ohio.
While the American Hospital Association (AHA) works to keep Congress from reducing the Medicaid expansion’s federal funding below the 90 percent rate promised in Obamacare, Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) member CEOs are pressuring state legislators to give up on freezing enrollment among Ohio’s Medicaid-expansion population — which is to say, among able-bodied, working-age Ohioans who earn up to 138 percent of the poverty level. 
... The expansion has put 725,000 able-bodied, working-age Ohioans on Medicaid at a total cost of $13.5 billion in just three and a half years.
Kasich projected in 2013 that 447,000 would enroll at a cost of $13 billion by 2020.
...Medicaid expansion in Ohio costs state taxpayers roughly $20 million every month and costs federal taxpayers $380 million more..."

Police seize $15M in Michigan, some cases without criminal charges | MLive.com

Police seize $15M in Michigan, some cases without criminal charges | MLive.com
"Police agencies reported $15.2 million in cash and property seized over 11 months of 2016, according to a new report from the Michigan State Police.
In about 10 percent of the 5,290 cases reported, no one was charged with the violation for which the forfeiture was authorized, the report states.
"Many persons accused of crimes cooperated with authorities, resulting in criminal charges not being pursued," the report notes, and that a new category for those cases will be added to subsequent annual reports.

Obama Administration Let Natalia Veselnitskaya Stay Past Her Visa Expiration. But Why? | Buck Sexton

Obama Administration Let Natalia Veselnitskaya Stay Past Her Visa Expiration. But Why? | Buck Sexton:

"The plot of the lost Russian opera Natalia Veselnitskaya went through another strange turn Thursday as members of Congress honed in on information suggesting the Russian attorney had overstayed her visa well past its expiration date, enabling her to attend the disputed meeting with the Trump, Jr. campaign team which, rather than receiving the damning information on Hillary Clinton that it sought, got a lecture on the lifting of sanctions against Russia.

Journalists at Fox News have examined Veselnitskaya’s social media accounts and discovered pictures taken in New York City and elsewhere that were well past the Jan. 7th, 2016 expiration date of her visa."

Canada's Multi-Million-Dollar Pay-Out to a 'Foreign Terrorist Fighter'

Canada's Multi-Million-Dollar Pay-Out to a 'Foreign Terrorist Fighter'

• "Has any soldier who fought FOR Canada ever received as generous a reward as this soldier who fought against us?" — Canadian Senator Linda Frum.
• In 2003, Khadr confessed to throwing the grenade that killed U.S. Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer and caused Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris to lose an eye. Years later, he retracted his confession, claiming it had been extracted under duress. In fact, it was part of a plea deal that enabled him to be extradited to Canada to serve the rest of his sentence there.
• "There was a Canadian flag flying along with the American flag at our base there, so it's quite a thing that now Canada is giving millions to a guy who would attack a compound where Canadians were serving. I don't see this as anything but treason. As far as I am concerned, Prime Minister Trudeau should be charged." — Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris, who lost an eye from the grenade thrown by Omar Khadr.

The government of Canada recently issued an official apology -- and acknowledged awarding an "undisclosed" sum of money -- to Toronto-born Islamist terrorist Omar Khadr for his "ordeal" at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and "any resulting harm" he was caused by the "torture" (specifically, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and threats) that led to his confession.

...With news of the large settlement he received -- 10,500,000 Canadian dollars (approximately USD $8,000,000) -- he gave an extensive interview..."

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