ESPN analyst Jalen Rose is attempting to cancel the term "Mount Rushmore" because he believes it is "offensive." However, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is fighting back
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."
1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
Even more important, Dershowitz emphasized the government's action against Trump has the optics of using a different standard of justice against Trump from the standards levied against other individuals — like Hillary Clinton — who have also been accused of possessing classified information outside the proper channels.
"You must have a single standard of justice," Dershowitz said. "I'm a friend of both Sandy Berger, who was the former national security adviser ... and a friend of Hillary Clinton. What they were accused of was exactly comparable. And there were no searches of their houses."
A video clip has gone viral of U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine calling for laws to "support and empower" youths by not limiting their "participation in activities or sports" or "their ability to get gender affirmation treatment" in their state.
Half the nightmare bill, some $369 billion, will be dedicated to green new deal boondoggles, subsidies for the rich, and crony shovel-outs of the kind that brought us Solyndra.
The other half, some $300 billion, will be dedicated to IRS enforcement, surveillance upgrades, and audits against small businesses, who have now been re-labeled "the rich."
Could this be "the tipping point" we hear about all the time? Food for thought.
This has never happened in American history:
"BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME RAIDED BY JOE BIDEN’S FBI — BREAK INTO HIS SAFE! Question: if you were trying to foment a Second Civil War in America, what would you do different from what these street thugs are doing right now?..."
On August 5, the Department of Defense denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for the National Guard to help her with the thousands of illegal aliens that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused into the city since April.
Official NOAA temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots
"Nationwide study follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat-bias distortion problem is even worse now ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (July 27, 2022) – A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be “acceptable” and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards..."
Billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and climate activists share fame, fortune, and a profile they work hard to control. All of which is why so many are calling on a public company not to track their flights and expose their carbon footprints.
AFP reports flight-following websites and Twitter accounts that offer real-time views of air traffic are on the end of regular pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures by those who would rather their movements are not in the public domain.
"Walt Disney has been cancelled by Walt Disney. Here’s the back story: When Disneyland first opened in 1955, Walt Disney delivered a speech welcoming people to the happiest place on Earth. To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. Thank you. Walt Disney For 67 years that speech was delivered – but not this year..."
"Americans are sharing their plans to vote for Republicans as crowds flock to Mar-a-Lago to demonstrate support for Donald Trump after FBI agents raided his property in Florida."
The latest iteration of the Senate Democrats’ reconciliation bill, known as the “Inflation Reduction Act,” would raise taxes on thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across the country, according to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).
1842 - The U.S. and Canada signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which solved a border dispute.
1859 - The escalator was patented by Nathan Ames.
1910 - A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine.
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
Former President Donald Trump confirmed in a statement on Monday that the FBI raided his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
"These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents," read the statement from the former president.
Elon Musk is countersuing Twitter over his scrubbed $44 billion deal, claiming that the social media company withheld critical information and provided misleading data about the actual size of its user base.
This countersuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court last week and unsealed August 4, alleges that Twitter's statements in its SEC disclosures "were far from true. Instead, they contain numerous, material misrepresentations or omissions that distort Twitter's value and caused the Musk Parties to agree to acquire the company at an inflated price."
