History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com
Sylvia Porter 1913 - Economist, journalist, Paul "Red" Adiar 1915 - Oil well firefighter, Richard Boone (Richard Allen Boone) 1917 - Actor


Tom Wicker (Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker) 1926 - Journalist, Paul McCartney 1942 - Musician (Beatles, Wings), Roger Ebert 1942 - Film critic, screenwriter


1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.


1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.


1863 - J.J. Richardson received a patent for the ratchet wrench.


1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.


1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.


1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.


1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

Democratic Rep. Admits The Child Migrant Crisis ‘Was Kept Very Quiet Under The Obama Administration’ | The Daily Caller

Democratic Rep. Admits The Child Migrant Crisis ‘Was Kept Very Quiet Under The Obama Administration’ | The Daily Caller:

Cuellar added that the number of children being held at the border right now is similar to the amount during the Obama administration.
“We still see the numbers,” he said, adding that “not all of them are being separated. Some of them are coming alone.”
“Keep in mind that under the law, you can separate a child if that person, the adult, is not the real parent or the custodian because sometimes we see situations where they’ll bring a child because they know of the policy that we have over here with children.”

The way we were-----Bobby Vee - Devil Or Angel

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With FBI's boiling hate for voters exposed, America dodged a bullet by electing Trump

With FBI's boiling hate for voters exposed, America dodged a bullet by electing Trump
"One of the biggest takeaways from the Department of Justice's 500-page inspector general report is how deep the contempt for voters is among the Federal Bureau of Investigation's leadership elite.

The text messages are incredible.  According to the gleanings of J. Christian Adams over at Pajamas Media:

One FBI agent on the Hillary investigation wrote in an FBI text:

Trump's supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.

"POS" is the agent's acronym for "Pieces Of S‑‑‑."

There's also this from Adams:

In another FBI communication, Strzok says he visited a rural Virginia Walmart – and the customers had a political odor:

Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support....

Strzok does not say he could see Trump support, or hear it discussed.  Rather, he smelled it among the customers.

And this:

Other FBI agents on the Hillary investigation ridiculed the "average American public."  Others referred to Donald Trump as "Donald Drumpf" on FBI instant messages repeatedly.

Even after the election, FBI agents complained about being on duty on Inauguration Day.  "F‑‑‑ Trump," wrote one agent on the Hillary investigation in an FBI communication.

It's so bad that the I.G. report said these remarks, just oozing with contempt for the American public, led to an atmosphere that "has brought discredit to themselves, sowed doubt about the FBI's handling of the Midyear investigation, and impacted the reputation of the FBI."...
Read on.

American woman!-----Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hands

Hart County grandmother kills rabid bobcat with bare hands:
“...They go for your jugular ... because when they can get the vein you’re dead in a couple of minutes,” she said.
This bobcat did go for her upper body.
“It caught me slightly on my face, but I got him before he could do much damage there,” she said.
“I took it straight to the ground and started inching my hands up to its throat.
I knew that was the only way I was getting out of this.”

With both hands around the bobcat’s neck she began squeezing, but she never shouted for help because her 5-year-old granddaughter was in the house.
“I was scared if I screamed for help that my granddaughter would come out and I didn’t want that to happen,” she said.
“Once I got him where he wasn’t moving I started screaming for my daughter-in-law to call 911,” she said.
Phillips’ son was also called after the 911 call and he showed up with a gun.
But Phillips would not release her grip on the crazed animal as she feared it might not truly be dead.
She didn’t want her son to fire the gun because she was so close, so he pulled a knife.
“My son stabbed it four or five times, but it never budged so I knew it was completely dead,” she said..."
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Power to the people!-----Fed Up in Seattle | City Journal

Fed Up in Seattle | City Journal:
"...Fortunately, the head tax fight has revealed that some of the core constituencies of the progressive coalition—affluent liberal neighbors, labor unions, and blue-collar workers—are starting to turn against the politics of the far Left.
Over the past few months, members of the Iron Workers Local 86 shouted down Socialist Alternative councilwoman Kshama Sawant at a political rally in front of the Amazon Spheres, fed-up neighbors in the wealthy Green Lake neighborhood exploded against four councilmembers at a public town hall, and dockworkers in the Ballard neighborhood physically collared councilman Mike O’Brien and threw him out of a party at the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard..."
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FBI Official: Clinton’s Testimony Was ‘Hard To Impossible To Believe’ | The Daily Caller

FBI Official: Clinton’s Testimony Was ‘Hard To Impossible To Believe’ | The Daily Caller:

The FBI officials who interviewed Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server found some of her claims “hard to impossible to believe,” according to the Department of Justice’s inspector general’s.
Clinton repeatedly claimed ignorance when�pressed by�FBI agents in a July 2016 interview about�receiving multiple emails�with a “(C)” classification marker, according to the IG’s report on the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private server. She said she did not know that the marker denoted classified information and “speculated it was a reference to paragraphs ranked�in alphabetical order.”

Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says - The Washington Post

Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says - The Washington Post: January 28, 2016--The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services..."
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Delingpole: Shock! Antarctica Still Doing Just Great

Delingpole: Shock! Antarctica Still Doing Just Great:

This has been the global warming scare story of the week, heavily promoted by the usual suspects, including Time, CBS, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times and, inevitably, the BBC.
Here is the BBC version:
Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate.

Salon Writer: Shun Friends and Family Who Support Trump

Salon Writer: Shun Friends and Family Who Support Trump
"Here’s a shocker.
Leftists aren’t all too crazy about riders of the Trump train.
Progressive types are known for denying MAGA people real estate transactions.
Banning them from their concerts.
Attempting to crater their skulls with 2x4s.
Then there’s this.
A writer over at salon is recommending you shun all of your Trump-loving friends and family until they repent.
Yeah, for reals:
If you have friends or relatives who support Donald Trump you should confront them. 
Explain to them that they are complicit with Trump’s cruelty and sadism. 
Then communicate that you will no longer speak with them, nor will you offer them emotional, financial or other types of support until they denounce Donald Trump and what he represents — and make amends through speech and action.
This will not be easy. 
Doing what is right rarely is. 
But it is necessary..."
Read on.

The goal ain't education, it's indoctrination-----Identity Warriors Have Infiltrated the Sciences. Here's the Damage They're Doing.

Identity Warriors Have Infiltrated the Sciences. Here's the Damage They're Doing
"In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians, and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips.
Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well.
This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. 
We’re told how it’s doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.”
Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses.
Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math.
...Universities and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in order to attract more minorities and women.
Some of the arguments for doing so border on insanity.
A math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that “mathematics itself operates as whiteness.”
She says that the ability to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates “unearned privilege” among whites..."
Lots here, read all!

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A reasonable assessment-----Separating Kids at Border: The Truth | National Review

Separating Kids at Border: The Truth | National Review
"Some economic migrants are using children as chits, but the problem is fixable — if Congress acts.
The latest furor over Trump immigration policy involves the separation of children from parents at the border.
As usual, the outrage obscures more than it illuminates, so it’s worth walking through what’s happening here.
For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. 

Over the last decade, the flow has shifted to women, children, and family units from Central America.
...The aministration isn’t changing the rules that pertain to separating an adult from the child. 

Those remain the same. 

Separation happens only if officials find that the adult is falsely claiming to be the child’s parent, or is a threat to the child, or is put into criminal proceedings.
It's the last that is operative here. 

The past practice had been to give a free pass to an adult who is part of a family unit. 

The new Trump policy is to prosecute all adults. 

The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and to create a deterrent against re-entry. (Illegal entry is a misdemeanor, illegal re-entry a felony.)

...Needless to say, children should not be making this journey that is fraught with peril.
But there is now a premium on bringing children because of how we have handled these cases.
They are considered chits.

In April, the New York Times reported:

Some migrants have admitted they brought their children not only to remove them from danger in such places as Central America and Africa, but because they believed it would cause the authorities to release them from custody sooner.

Others have admitted to posing falsely with children who are not their own, and Border Patrol officials say that such instances of fraud are increasing.

According to azcentral.com, it is “common to have parents entrust their children to a smuggler as a favor or for profit.”...

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Victoria Nuland, Obama official linked to anti-Trump dossier, to testify before Congress - Washington Times

Victoria Nuland, Obama official linked to anti-Trump dossier, to testify before Congress - Washington Times:

Former State Department official Victoria Nuland, who reportedly connected FBI officials to the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Trump dossier, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.
Ms. Nuland, a longtime State Department official who served in the George W. Bush administration as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, served during the Obama administration as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs.

Are these worst US cities to live in? Study looks at quality of life

Are these worst US cities to live in? Study looks at quality of life:
"Where Americans live can have a considerable impact on their quality of life. In some U.S. cities, everyday comfort and happiness is much harder to attain than in others.
Quality of life is subjective, and difficult to measure.
...24/7 Wall St. created an index with measures in eight categories -- crime, economy, education, environment, health, housing, infrastructure, and leisure -- to identify the 50 worst cities to live in..."
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37. Kalamazoo, Mich.

• Population: 75,988
• Median home value: $98,000
• Poverty rate: 30.9%
• Pct. with at least a bachelor's degree: 31.3%

Air quality in Kalamazoo is nearly the worst of any U.S. city. The city's air is considered hazardous for about 15% of days in a given year, a far larger share than the 6% average nationwide. The city is also among the most dangerous nationwide. There were 1,217 violent crimes in 2016 for every 100,000 residents, more than triple the U.S. violent crime rate of 386 per 100,000.

As is often the case among cities on this list, Kalamazoo is poor. Over 30% of the population lives in poverty, more than double the U.S. poverty rate of 14%.

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History for June 17

History for June 17 - On-This-Day.com
John Wesley 1703 - Cleric, Christian theologian, Igor Stravinski (Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky) 1882 - Composer, John Hersey (John Richard Hersey) 1914 - Writer, journalist
   

Newt Gingrich (Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich) 1943 - Politician, historian, author, Barry Manilow 1946 - Musician, Venus Williams 1980 - Tennis player


1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England. (California)


1837 - Charles Goodyear received his first patent. The patent was for a process that made rubber easier to work with.


1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.


1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.


1928 - Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.


1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.


1942 - Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.


1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

‘Willingness’ To Impact The Election: IG’s Clinton Report Is Loaded With Bombshells | The Daily Caller

‘Willingness’ To Impact The Election: IG’s Clinton Report Is Loaded With Bombshells | The Daily Caller:

The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog released a much-anticipated report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
The report contained several bombshells.
Anti-Trump FBI agent showed “willingness” to impact election
Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok showed a “willingness to take official action” to impact the presidential election, according to the new report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz.