1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial.
1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.
1947 - The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.
1967 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
At the end of his speech, Cardona channeled his inner Ronald Reagan to summarize his motivations.
"I think it was President Reagan who said, 'We're from the government. We're here to help!'" the secretary recounted.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is a despicable con artist who is organizing Arab and European countries, along with the United Nations, around the backs of our Congress and Israel to carve up the Jewish state and gift the Palestinians massive swaths of Israel’s country, including Judea and Samaria. That is his response to the Palestinians’ murderous slaughter of Israelis!
"The stance of the Arabs and Muslims is yet another indication of their disillusionment with the Palestinians in general and Iran's proxies -- Hamas, Hizballah and the Houthis -- in particular.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan are as opposed to Hamas as they are to Israel. Hamas is another branch of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, which has long posed a threat to their national security.
In 2017, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar after accusing it of providing support for Islamist terrorists, including Hamas and the Taliban, as well as Iran...
Because they think he’s smarter this time and he has just cause to really get angry because of what they did to him.
...but deep down inside they know that if the right ever did that to Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, they could have really made something out of the fact that Barack Obama had a hot mic expose where he told the president of Russia, “You tell Vladimir that I will be flexible on missile defense that’s the security of the United States of America if he gives me space in my last election.”
And Putin did do that.
That’s an impeachable offense IF a phone call to Ukraine is.
So they didn’t understand then that the right could have done that to them and they understand now the right probably will do that to them for their own survival...
Conservative lawmaker Jeremy Patzer responded to the report, writing, "This is ridiculous. Christmas is celebrated all around the world by people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. This is another example of woke ideology fomenting within the federal government. I for one will be celebrating Christmas whole heartedly. Merry Christmas!"
John Rustad, the leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, wrote on X, "The Trudeau Liberals have lost their minds to woke culture. There is nothing discriminatory about Christmas."
The more we learn about the case of the cop who was convicted for George Floyd’s death, the more we’re convinced that it was a gross miscarriage of justice.
It’s been an awful stretch of days for Derek Chauvin... It wasn’t just jury bias that plagued the Chauvin case, though.
As we noted last month, when a key witness says “the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on,” you know you have problems.
How so?
The chief medical examiner in the case says that Floyd had a severely enlarged heart; that the autopsy showed no physical signs of neck injury or strangulation; and that if Floyd had been found alone in an apartment building, his death would be certified as an overdose without a second thought due to the lethal level of methamphetamines in his system.
Adding injury to that constitutional insult, Chauvin was stabbed and gravely injured Friday afternoon by a fellow inmate at a federal prison in Arizona...
A city in Sweden has apparently come up with a plan to inject some life into what has been characterized as post-pandemic loneliness, and the whole process beginning with simply greeting another person.
"...A new law in Kentucky, for example, allows for students to be suspended for profanity, “willful disobedience or defiance of the authority of the teachers or administrators,” “defacing school property” and alcohol and drug use, The Sentinel Echo reports. It also mandates a year’s expulsion (ONLY 1 YEAR?!!)for violent threats and/or bringing a weapon to school...
These are drag and lift forces. The drag force is a force that occurs on the body in the flow direction. For example, when the maximum drag force that can occur on a flat plate is when the air flow is 90o perpendicular to the object; The minimum drag force occurs when the air flow is parallel to the surface of the object...
UN Women has called for an investigation into reports of violence against women carried out by Hamas during the attacks on October 7. This comes after a number of anti-Israel activists have questioned the reports of Hamas brutalizing women and children during the attacks.
"Prisoners, like Infowars reporter and War Room host Owen Shroyer, are spending extended periods in solitary confinement, often without explanation. John Strand was sentenced to 32 months in prison and despite the Bureau of Prison’s own scoring system, he was sent to prison and placed in isolation.
J6 political prisoner Barry Ramey, who was stabbed in the face for watching Tucker Carlson, shared the malnutrition they face, the mail discarded over political views, medical care being denied, and more...
Zach Rehl and his fellow Proud Boys Joe Biggs, Zach Rehl, Dominic Pezzola, and Ethan Nordean, and Enrique Tarrio received ruthless and politically motivated sentences. Zach has shared experiences from his arrest to his treatment in prison.
Honorably discharged Marine and J6 political prisoner Zach Rehl.
Jenn Baker from CondemnedUSA.com shares more on the disturbing accusations.
1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.
1922 - Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public exhibition of skywriting. He spelled out, "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times Square.
1963 - U.S. President Johnson announced that Cape Canaveral would be renamed Cape Kennedy in honor of his assassinated predecessor. The name was changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973 by a vote of residents.
1979 - An Air New Zealand DC-10 flying to the South Pole crashed in Antarctica killing all 257 people aboard.
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
1994 - Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton signed a $6 billion road bill that ended the federal 55 mph speed limit.
A legal team from the Alliance Defending Freedom has submitted a filing to the Oklahoma Supreme Court opposing a state official's insistence that the state discriminate against one charter school because it is Catholic.
"Despite having a relatively small student population and budget concerns over the years, Kentucky State University’s ratio of administrators to students grew nearly 18 percent over the last decade, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found. There were 235 administrators for every 1,000 students at the historically black college in the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available... There were also 2.5 times more administrators than teaching staff during the 2021-22 school year, The Fix analysis found...