History for April 8

History for April 8 - On-This-Day.com
Guatama Buddha 563 BC - 'The Enlightened One' in the Buddhist faith, Mary Pickford 1893 - Actress ("Coquette", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"), Elizabeth "Betty" Ford (Bloomer) 1918 - Wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Clinic


Seymour Hersh 1937 - Investigative reporter, John Schneider 1954 - Singer, actor ("Dukes of Hazzard", "Smallville"), Robin Wright (Robin Wright Penn) 1966 - Actress


1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.


1987 - Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned over remarks he had made. While on ABC's "Nightline" Campanis said that blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to hold managerial jobs in major-league baseball.

The Route to Escaping Extreme Poverty Is Through Economic Freedom

The Route to Escaping Extreme Poverty Is Through Economic Freedom:

Besides sharing a history of rapid and sustained economic growth, the 18 outperforming countries tend to have one other thing in common: They have expanded their degree of economic freedom far more, on average, than the 53 countries defined by the report as “middlers” and “underperformers.”

The way we were-----The Vogues Five O'Clock World Stereo Remastered HQ Version use 480p Yo...

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The intolerant Left thirsts for blood

The intolerant Left thirsts for blood
"The Left has won the culture war, and now it's exiling anyone with sympathy for the losing side. Two recent incidents evince a growing trend to try to ban any view on gender or sexuality from public life that is to the Right of the American Civil Liberties Union.

• The Federalist Society at Yale Law School recently incurred the wrath of students because it invited Kristen Waggoner to speak. Waggoner is a renowned attorney at a public-interest law firm who was part of a successful Supreme Court case. Why would a speaking invitation to a successful female attorney trigger the Yale lefties? Their outrage was stoked because the case Waggoner won was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which her employer, Alliance Defending Freedom, successfully protected Jack Phillips’ freedom of conscience. Phillips wouldn’t create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. Working for ADF made Waggoner unfit to speak at Yale, the students argued.
• Shortly after this, halfway across the country, the San Antonio City Council approved an expansion of the airport on the condition the airport exclude a Chick-fil-A that was in the original plan. The reason is that Chick-fil-A is deemed guilty of “anti-LGBTQ behavior” because its owners view marriage in the same way it has been viewed for all but the last few of the past few thousand years: as an exclusively heterosexual institution.

These episodes demonstrate the illiberalism and intolerance of the Left, which is now willing to use governmental and institutional power to smash those who don’t agree with it on sexual morality..."
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Democrat party KINGMAKER!

America Created 196,000 Jobs in March, Beating Expectations for 170,000 | Breitbart

America Created 196,000 Jobs in March, Beating Expectations for 170,000 | Breitbart:

The American economy added 196,000 jobs in March. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.8 percent, the government said Friday.
Economists had expected 170,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged.

Reparations? Please! | Power Line

Reparations? Please! | Power Line
"The Democratic presidential candidates are parading in front of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and the topic of the day is reparations:
Beto O’Rourke had just finished speaking about racial injustice to the National Action Network when the Rev. Al Sharpton, its president, pushed him to say a little more.
...By Friday afternoon, nearly every Democrat who has declared a presidential bid...they endorsed some form of reparations.

...But if reparations doesn’t mean that all descendants of (American) slaves get cash from the government, courtesy of the rest of us, it doesn’t mean anything.

...Reparations would be an outrageous injustice, as pretty much everyone who won’t be cashing a check recognizes.
Which leaves one wondering, whatever are the Democrats thinking? 

Is Al Sharpton–a notorious extortionist, perpetrator of fraud, and anti-Semite who is complicit in murder–so powerful in the party that presidential candidates are forced to walk the plank by supporting an issue that will be a millstone around the neck of the eventual nominee? 

Or do they assume that after getting the nomination, the Democratic candidate will be able to tack furiously toward the center, with the collusion of the press, so that reparations never get mentioned after the Democratic convention?
I don’t know what they are thinking. 

All I know is, the more the Democrats talk about reparations, the better."

Mueller Russia Hoax: Keep Yer Eye On The Ball | The American Spectator

Mueller Russia Hoax: Keep Yer Eye On The Ball | The American Spectator
"...Specifically, in this case, Andrew is right to ask the question, “How long has Mueller known there is no collusion?” 
That is the question.
Imagine being accused of treason and the exonerating information has been known for two years, maybe more, and has been sat on by the District Attorney investigating so that he could investigate and harass friends to 1) mollify the slobbering mobs to show that at least there are some heads on pikes and 2) to settle some scores for the cops and other dirty AG’s and 3) to take the spotlight off of the evil done to bring the spurious charges.
It’s my view that Mueller sat on the exoneration for all three reasons.
Why do I believe this?
...The Democrats, after two years, are still in the Rage Stage of Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief.
It’s like anger, but more violent.
They cannot let it go.
Robert Mueller knows this.
A bone can’t be thrown to these people. 
There has to be some meat..."
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Reps. Steve Scalise and Ann Wagner: Critical abortion bill needs only a little Dem support for a House vote | Fox News

Reps. Steve Scalise and Ann Wagner: Critical abortion bill needs only a little Dem support for a House vote | Fox News:

The Born Alive Act is not only common sense, it has strong bipartisan support among voters: 86 percent of Republicans, 70 percent of Democrats, and 75 percent of independents support this legislation. The effort to protect newborns transcends the abortion debate. No matter how you feel about abortion, we should be able to agree that when a baby is born alive and outside the womb, we should do everything in our power to keep it alive. We cannot discriminate between children who are wanted and children who are unwanted; all newborns deserve the opportunity to lead a long, happy life.

This is happening everywhere climate loons have prevailed------Increasing Electricity System Fragility in the UK | Watts Up With That?

Increasing Electricity System Fragility in the UK | Watts Up With That?
"The UK’s electricity network is likely to become significantly weaker within five years... and also make it more likely that asynchronous sources of electricity such as wind, solar and High Voltage Direct Current interconnectors will disconnect during a fault. 
Ironically, Short Circuit Levels are falling because of a rising input from asynchronous sources. 
A remedy for this problem is unlikely to be cheap. 
Who will pay?
...The strength of the system must be continually monitored to ensure that it will be stable under stress, a precaution that would be necessary at any time, but has particular relevance in the UK at present due to the rapid and dramatic changes in the electricity supply industry being driven by climate change policy...

Figure 2: Regional Phase Locked Loop (PLL) Risk, 2020, 2025, and 2030. Source: National Grid ESO, System Operability Framework: Impact of Declining Short Circuit Levels(December 2018), p. 3.

...Read the full article there."

Imagine if a "connected" republican had done this?-----Former Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of ‘High Value’ Data | The Daily Caller

Former Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of ‘High Value’ Data | The Daily Caller
"A former IT aide to New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan mounted an “extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme” against the office, the culprit’s plea agreement states.

...The theft occurred after Cosko was fired from Hassan’s office in May 2018 for undisclosed reasons, then hired by Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, giving him access to the House computer network. 
...In October 2018, he used information stolen from Hassan’s office to doxx Republican Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee as well as Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. 

...Cosko, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, was born to a California family with ties to Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. 
Republicans suggested the California Democrat leaked a letter soon before Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing that alleged the Supreme Court justice sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford.

The suspect’s father, Greg Cosko, is the CEO of Hathaway Dinwiddie, a construction company that built a university building named after Feinstein’s husband. 

He serves on the board of San Francisco State University alongside Willie Brown, the California politician who said he helped make the career of Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris, with an illicit affair.

As former chairman of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Greg Cosko hobnobbed with then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Feinstein and others. 

The elder Cosko’s adult son appears to have made inroads in Washington via an internship with Feinstein..."

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THIS is education!-----The High School Kids from Kansas Who Found the Female Schindler | Intellectual Takeout

The High School Kids from Kansas Who Found the Female Schindler | Intellectual Takeout
"...Kansas students to achieve acclaim for uncovering a story that the rest of the world missed.
That honor goes to a handful of girls from Uniontown High School who introduced the world to Irena Sendler, the female version of Oskar Schindler, of Schindler’s List fame.
According to a mini-documentary produced by the Kansas State University College of Education, Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. 
Through her work in the Polish Resistance, she saved 2,500 Jewish children from the hands of the Nazis. 
She was eventually caught, tried, and sentenced to death for her efforts, but managed to escape due to a bribed executioner.
Following the war, she used carefully preserved records to return the children she had rescued to their surviving relatives.
As student Megan Felt explains, Sendler’s name intrigued the girls in her history project group.
Yet despite extensive searching, they were unable to find out much about her, due to Communist suppression of the story after the war.
Perseverance and extensive research finally led them to the discovery that Sendler was still alive and living in Poland..."
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Uniontown High School

The descent into madness and hate.

The Top 5 Investigations Obstructed by the Obama Administration | Trending

The Top 5 Investigations Obstructed by the Obama Administration | Trending:

Obstruction of justice was integral to the entire operation of the Obama administration. Whenever a scandal erupted, the kneejerk reaction by Obama and his cronies was to cover-up and obstruct.  Below are the top five examples of investigations obstructed by the Obama administration.

Michigan State Students Filed Bias Incident Reports Over Some Really Petty Things - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Michigan State Students Filed Bias Incident Reports Over Some Really Petty Things - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

• "A student complains twice in three days that someone posted a cartoon making fun of liberals in a residence hall and it offended her."

"A Michigan State University student filed a bias response complaint because she read an offensive comment on an Instagram post: Someone had asked whether the women depicted in the photo looked "Indian."
Another student reported his roommate for watching a Ben Shapiro video on his laptop.
"Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community," the student wrote in his complaint.
"I thought hate had no place on MSU's campus yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speach [sic]."
One student filed a report because they overheard someone misgender Caitlyn Jenner, referring to her by her former name, Bruce Jenner.
A Christian student was told that conducting a door-to-door survey of other dormitory residents was making people uncomfortable, and so she filed a bias incident report as well, complaining that she had been humiliated by this criticism.
These were just a few of the reported incidents highlighted in an investigation by The College Fix, which obtained a list of bias incidents filed in the fall 2018 semester..."
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History for April 7

History for April 7 - On-This-Day.com
W.K. Kellogg 1860 - Industrialist in food manufacturing, most known for founding of the Kellogg Company, Walter Winchell 1897 - Vaudeville performer, journalist, radio commentator, Percy Faith 1908 - Orchestra leader, composer


James Garner (James Scott Bumgarner) 1928 - Actor ("Rockford Files", "Maverick"), Jackie Chan 1954 - Actor ("Rush Hour", "Rush Hour 2"), Russell Crowe 1964 - Actor ("A Beautiful Mind," "Gladiator")



1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway. 


1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.

Rush Limbaugh: Why was Mueller investigation launched? - WND

Rush Limbaugh: Why was Mueller investigation launched? - WND:

Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh noted Thursday that Democrats are insisting Attorney General William Barr is covering up derogatory information about Trump.
He pointed to Simon’s column, which reasons that “40 FBI agents, 19 anti-Trump, pro-Hillary lawyers, $30 million produce 400 pages alleging no collusion and no obstruction.”
“The next obvious question, what the hell was this, then? Why was this done? Why was this investigation launched? Who did that, why, and when? You mean, after 40 FBI agents, over two years, $30 million, 19 Hillary-loving lawyers on Mueller’s team, and nothing?” said Limbaugh.
“So his point is the obvious question’s gonna be, why the hell did this happen? And that means that people are gonna demand to know why it happened, which will then facilitate and launch an investigation to answer those questions.
“He believes that to get to the bottom of this, which people are then gonna demand, we’re gonna have to go to the Obama administration,” Limbaugh said.

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Worthy read. Hateful bitch, and she's not alone!-----Everything wrong with academia in two pictures

Everything wrong with academia in two pictures
"Dr. Catlyn Collins is an assistant professor of sociology and of women, gender, and sexuality studies​ at Washington University in St. Louis.  
She is also a published author of a book titled  Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.

Her areas of research are gender inequality, work, families, and social policy. 
According to Glassdoor, the average salary of an assistant professor at Washington University is $105,700. 

Add in speaking fees and book sales and it’s clear that she is in at least the top 5% of American incomes. 

On Wednesday, she wanted to show the world how virtuous of a person she is, so she Tweeted this:

If you are at all curious, the average salary for an MoDOT highway maintenance worker is $31,788. 

So here is this professor, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, shaming a road crew worker who she probably makes four times the salary of and most likely only has a high school diploma and on the job training, about a sign that he did not create and is required by law to put up.I have a couple of thoughts on the matter..."
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Hate-Based Faith - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine

Hate-Based Faith - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine
"The recent upsurge among white liberals of their quasi-religious belief that racial differences in average behavior can’t possibly be real—“the Great Awokening”—is on a collision course with the routine workings of the criminal justice system, which finds that, say, blacks are several dozen times more homicidal per capita than are Asians.
Something’s got to give.
...the number of murdered human beings in the U.S. went up 22 percent from 2014, the Year of Ferguson, to 2016.
...a lot of people these days consider it inconceivable that blacks deserve to be incarcerated more than other races. 
Research by Zach Goldberg of Georgia State shows that white Democrats are now more woke than blacks or Hispanics on how white racism is to blame for everything.
...With its furious hunger for hate hoaxes, wokeness is a hate-based faith dependent upon demonizing whites..."
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After Farah suffers stroke, Washington Post launches major attack on WND - WND

After Farah suffers stroke, Washington Post launches major attack on WND - WND:

Finally, regarding that Post headline gloating over “the spectacular fall” of WND: To paraphrase Mark Twain, “Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.” WND is still here. And we’re committed to doing what we’ve been doing since before Amazon, Google, Facebook and others even existed – to boldly report without fear or favor on all the corruption, lies, fraud, abuse, attacks on the Constitution, and outright delusions that increasingly dominate our great country. As the 2020 election nears, count on us to focus on underreported but life-and-death issues like voter fraud in all its forms, the left’s disastrous and flat-out insane agenda, Big Tech’s intended election rigging and much more – oh yes, and exposing fake news.

• Chart: 90 Percent of Indian Engineers Lack Key Skills | Statista

• Chart: 90 Percent of Indian Engineers Lack Key Skills | Statista
"Indian software engineers and other IT workers are sought after around the globe. 
Now a report by talent assessment company Aspiring Minds shows a grimmer picture of the ability of IT engineering graduates in India. 
Only 10 percent, the report claims, have adequate coding skills. 
Only between 3 and 4 percent are fit to fill roles like product engineer or startup engineer..."
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A national tragedy-----Why Millennials Are So Much Lonelier than the Greatest Generation

Why Millennials Are So Much Lonelier than the Greatest Generation:

• A new study found that young people are far likelier to report being lonely and in poor health than the elderly.

"USA Today recently reported on a study commissioned by the Cigna insurance company which examined the impact of loneliness on health.
The results are striking: young people are much more likely to report being lonely and in bad health than the elderly. 
...The study asserts that loneliness has the same effect on health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. 
...What then is the difference between my parents’ generation and the Baby Boomers and the Millennials?
The Boomers and their children are far less likely to be joiners. 
In his famous study “Bowling Alone,” Robert Putnam shows  that membership in civic organizations like the Kiwanis or Rotary declined by 58 percent between 1975 and 2000.
There are multiple causes.

...Although I am not sure that I can fully explain the causes of Millennial loneliness, I am certain that the rise of divorce plays an important role. 
...Their parents’ divorce probably destroyed whatever social network they had.
My parents provided me with good role models.
I am afraid that many 20 somethings never learned any of this.
Not only are they lonely.
They don’t know what to do about it."

Lunch video-----WHY JOHNNY CAN'T THINK: Progressive Education's Toll on Millennial Minds