History for January 23 - On-This-Day.com: John Hancock 1737 Served as president of the First and Second Continental Congresses (1775-1777). He was the first signer of the United States' Declaration of Independence., Edouard Manet 1832, Dan Duryea 1907 Ernie Kovacs 1919, Chita Rivera 1933, Rutger Hauer 1944 1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 1960 - The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean. 1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later. 1971 - In Prospect Creek Camp, AK, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as minus 80 degrees. 1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV. 1983 - "The A-Team" debuted on TV. 2003 - North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions an act of war for North Korea's reinstatement of its nuclear program.
"It is actually remarkable that one of the things conservatism has preserved the best in the United States is a culture of life. Just as secular liberals have had to rebrand again as progressives since people stopped liking liberals, they also have to rebrand the idea of "choice" as "women's health." But the underlying issue is still the same. They want to murder children legally. And support for that proposition continues to be a minority proposition in the United States."
Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor, connects the dots on former Obama administration Justice Department and FBI officials who may have “violated the law, perhaps committed crimes” to politicize law enforcement and surveillance against political opponents. He says former FBI Director James Comey conducted a fake criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as they “followed none of the regular rules, gave her every break in the book, immunized all kinds of people, allowed the destruction of evidence, with no grand jury, no subpoenas, no search warrants. That’s not an investigation. That’s a Potemkin village. It’s a farce.”
DiGenova condemned the FBI for working so closely with the controversial Fusion GPS, a political hit squad paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign to create and spread the discredited Steele dossier about President Donald Trump. Without a justifiable law enforcement or national security reason, he says, the FBI “created false facts so that they could get surveillance warrants. Those are all crimes.” He adds, using official FISA-702 “queries” and surveillance was done “to create a false case against a candidate, and then a president.” In this highly detailed video interview, he holds up an unreported April 2017 99-page FISA court opinion that “describes systematic and on-going violations of the law [by the FBI and their contractors using unauthorized disclosures of raw intelligence on Americans]. This is stunning stuff.” DiGenova thinks Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike, the DNC’s private security firm, were among the redacted contractors of the FBI.
DeGenova states –
People that were senior career civil servants violated the law, perhaps committed crimes, and covered up crimes by a Presidential candidate [Hillary]. But more than that, they tried to frame an incoming President with a false Russian conspiracy that never existed and they knew it and they plotted to ruin him as a candidate and then destroy him as a President. That’s why this is important. That’s why connecting the dots is important, because the FBI now has to be completely reconstructed from the ground up.”
Here is the video –
hat tip ‘H’
No American can watch this video and not be enraged with the crimes committed by Obama’s FBI and DOJ to protect Hillary and frame President Trump – God bless America!"
Social Security's Death Knell Is Ringing. Can You Hear It? "...But the U.S. Treasury is currently running at a massive deficit and is over $20 trillion in debt, so, for it to repay the principal of the debt and the interest owed to the Social Security Administration when payroll tax receipts fail to meet Social Security's obligations, the Treasury has to borrow more money to pay those obligations. And how do they do that? By issuing more federal debt, of course. Billions upon billions of debt. ...Government was fine with this arrangement in decades past. In fact, government couldn't have been happier about it. It was free money in exchange for IOUs that some other schmucks (i.e., me, my kids, and my grandkids) will have to pay for. But now the reckoning for Social Security is nigh. The debt is coming due, and the fiscal irresponsibility of the past is becoming ever more exposed. No one has a perfect answer about what to do to fix Social Security. When something is so fundamentally broken, so fiscally incomprehensible, so distant from the intended form of governance among a free people, and when such a thing has existed for so long, how might one seek to fix it? Perhaps the only answer is to undo its wrongs to the greatest extent possible. Veronique de Rugy has a fairly simple suggestion:... Read on!
"Immigrants entering the United States illegally through the southern border are quietly being relocated to different parts of the country on commercial flights, high-ranking Homeland Security officials told Judicial Watch this week. In the last few days alone, groups of illegal aliens boarded planes at airports in Texas and Arizona accompanied by a taxpayer-funded government escort in civilian clothes to avoid drawing attention. The first flight originated at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas and was bound for Minneapolis. The second left from Tucson International Airport and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, federal sources said. In both locations the illegal aliens appeared to be in their late teens and were escorted by a Health and Human Services (HHS) chaperone. Judicial Watch reached out to HHS for comment but did not hear back from the agency."
"There are many news items these days that recall that great line from Randall Jarrell’s comic novel about academia, Pictures from an Institution, that runs: “President Robbins made a speech that—a Gertrude said, you had to hear it not to believe it.” This week brings one that is off the chart for this category. From The Telegraph:
Women who identify as men are not being routinely offered potentially life saving NHS screening for breast and cervical cancer, amid fears it might offend them it is claimed.
However men living as women are being invited for cervical smear tests even though they do not have a cervix, an official guidebook states.
I suppose if an unscreened “woman” gets breast cancer, we can just identify it as prostate cancer. Problem solved!
There are other lines in the news article that threaten to put The Onion out of business:
Studies have reported most trans men have not had their wombs removed. . . A video accompanying the guidance explains that smear tests can be “uncomfortable” for trans men, as “it is often a procedure designed for women.”
Looks like the people who say political correctness kills have a point.
"Many people whine that using the Electoral College instead of the popular vote and majority rule is undemocratic. I'd say that they are absolutely right. Not deciding who will be the president by majority rule is not democracy. But the Founding Fathers went to great lengths to ensure that we were a republic and not a democracy. In fact, the word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution or any other of our founding documents.
How about a few quotations expressed by the Founders about democracy? In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wanted to prevent rule by majority faction, saying, "
Fans of Best of the Web Today: Michael Smith Fans of Best of the Web Today "The various interviews I saw from the assorted "Women's" marches indicated a few things: 1) Most women there couldn't see beyond their ideology, denying facts and attributing successes to people who had nothing to do with them. 2) They exhibited zero intellectual honesty. They acted as though they forget their first protests were BEFORE Trump took office. If they experienced issues, would those issues not have been created/maintained during the prior 8 years? 3) The reason most were there was not for the progress of women, rather they were there because "I hate Trump." 4) In a continuing pattern of progressive child abuse, they dragged children along who either had no idea why they were there (other than mommy brought them) or recited clearly coached statements of concepts far beyond what their state maturity and intellect would allow them to comprehend. 5) The marchers proved, as any gathering of progressives always do, there are people who believe government exists to protect inalienable rights and those who believe government exists to force people to believe rights are constructed via fad and whim. These marchers are the latter. Long story short - same old, same old."
FBI Mysteriously “Loses” Five Months of Text Messages Between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page… | The Last Refuge: "The Daily Caller journalist Chuck Ross has some extremely interesting information released today surrounding former top FBI Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI liaison attorney Lisa Page which includes a disclosure by top FBI officials that text messages between Strzok and Page have gone missing. Peter Strzok was the head FBI Agent in charge of the ‘Clinton Operation’ (exoneration), and ‘Trump Operation’ (political surveillance)..." Read on!
"If you search USASpending.govyou should be able to find out how much government money is going to your local Catholic Charities.
Be sure to check off grants and contracts and select years... These are the nine federal contractors, for six of them the same message applies----religious groups should not be getting federal dollars!... The number in parenthesis is the percentage of federal funding each received in 2015 or 2016, see here:
"According to Fox News, the four-page memo currently circulating among the nation’s top legislators allegedly shows “alarming” and “troubling” abuses of FISA Courts by the Department of Justice to intentionally spy on American citizens.
“It is so alarming the American people have to see this,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said.
“It’s troubling. It is shocking,” added Rep. Mark Meadows. “Part of me wishes that I didn’t read it because I don’t want to believe that those kinds of things could be happening in this country that I call home and love so much.”
“I believe the consequence of its release will be major changes in people currently working at the FBI and the Department of Justice,” said Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz."
Glenn K. Beaton: Good reasons to be sleepless in Seattle | AspenTimes.com: "...But Seattle's insecurity is still there nonetheless and so is their compensating progressivism. To wit: Many homeless people over time made their home in San Francisco. I hope it's not yet politically incorrect to observe that homeless people don't have houses. They defecate and sleep where they can. Naturally, Seattleites were envious. So they recruited homeless people. A lot. They spent a billion dollars over 10 years to attract them. They put up 6,000 units of taxpayer-subsidized housing and homeless shelters — instant slums. They're opening a "heroin park" for addicts to shoot up legally with illegal drugs. They recently passed a law prohibiting landlords from running background or even credit checks on prospective tenants. They think this law will result in more tenants, though any economist will tell you it will result in fewer landlords — with fewer tenants..." Read all!
