Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili) 1879 - Georgian Marxist revolutionary and later dictator of USSR (1928-53)
1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
1898 - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
1913 - Arthur Wynne published a new "word-cross" puzzle in the "New York World" in England. The name was later changed to "crossword."
1978 - Police in Des Plaines, IL, arrested democrat John W. Gacy Jr. and began unearthing the remains of 33 men and boys that Gacy was later convicted of killing.
1988 - 270 people were killed when Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
1991 - Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1998 - A Chinese court sentenced two dissidents to long prison terms for attempting to organize an opposition party. A third man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on December 22, 1998.
With no signs of slowing, the latest migrant surge into Texas’ busiest border sector forced the agency to suspend operations at highway checkpoints. Nearly all Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector have been redirected from border enforcement duties to focus on processing, transporting, and providing humanitarian care for more than 7,000 migrants in custody at local facilities and at a temporary outdoor staging site near Eagle Pass, according to a source within CBP.
Ann Arbor just passed a new law that will ban all gasoline-powered leaf blowers across the city by 2028. According to MLive , the Ann Arbor city council voted to ban these leaf blowers in a 10 to 1 vote after a public hearing on December 18.
Their reasoning: noise, pollution, and health risks for operators.
Starting next summer, the penalty fine for using a gas-powered leaf blower will be $100 (and all year-round starting in 2028). Should you be caught using the tool twice, you could be fined up to $250...
"So the Colorado Supreme Court says Trump can’t be on the ballot for causing an insurrection on Jan 6 and claiming a fraudulent election which much evidence proves,
but Biden who has committed treason by taking money from foreign countries and encouraging illegals to cross our border, suing states from trying to stop it, can be on the ballot.
We are living in perilous times of a mafia government, crooked judges and and DOJ that needs an enema for justice to prevail.
The courts are corrupt from judges put in by Biden.
"Since 2009, this has been 100 percent artificial, unprecedented money printing and deficits: $27 trillion over 15 years, to be exact," Harry Dent told Fox Business on Tuesday.
"This is off the charts, 100 percent artificial, which means we're in a dangerous state.
I think 2024
is going to be the biggest single crash year we'll see in our lifetimes."...
"Things are not going to come back to normal in a few years. We may never see these levels again.
And this crash is not going to be a correction.
It's going to be more in the '29 to '32 level.
And anybody who sat through that would have shot their stockbroker,"
Mr. Dent added, making references to the stock market crash in 1929 that led to the Great Depression throughout the 1930s...
The high court's abandonment of speech rights drew a rebuke from Justice Clarence Thomas, who stated, "A law that restricts speech based on its content or viewpoint is presumptively unconstitutional and may be upheld only if the state can prove that the law is narrowly tailored to serve compelling state interests."
She failed to credit me for sections of my book, ‘Black Faces, Black Interests.’
"Harvard’s governing fellows last week decided to stand behind President Claudine Gay despite her disastrous congressional testimony and multiple allegations of plagiarism.
In a statement, they dismissed the latter as “a few instances of inadequate citation” that constituted “no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct.”
I write as one of the scholars whose work Ms. Gay plagiarized...
The damage to me extends beyond the two instances of plagiarism identified by researchers Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet.
Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and the Workforce Committee in Washington, Dec. 5. PHOTO: WILL OLIVER/SHUTTERSTOCK
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) and 40 Republicans called on Defense Secretary Austin in a letter last week to suspend all removal activities related to the Reconciliation Monument until Congress finalized the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024.
Clyde stressed that the memorial is exempt from the removal requirement because it "does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy and that it commemorates reconciliation and nation unity." Additionally, "the Naming Commission's authority explicitly prohibits the desecration of grave sites."
The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling.
"They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now that they’re doing the utter opposite.
And they assume we are to discount their hypocrisy and self-absorption simply because they self-identify as erudite and moral and assume their opponents are irredeemable and deplorable.
Impeachment
The Left is saturating the airwaves with outrage over the current House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry...
"...hundreds of hours of GoPro and cell phone footage filmed by the perpetrators,
forensic reports,
exposed the gruesome aftermath of dead bodies,
and burned out towns,
brought in international media and organizations to document, released cell phone conversations between terrorists,
released an entire film documenting the Nova massacre in real time from party to massacre to victims hiding for their lives...
But yeah all of that was fake. Made it up. All AI or whatever. This whole war doesn't exist. HamISIS doesn't exist. You don't exist. You're all in a simulation. Lavinia Colzani @lavinia_colzani
As if Hamas itself wouldn't have proved all of these things with their own propaganda material, as well. Any half-decent journalist/military analyst must have noticed, but competence is scarce, and many lie wilfully here (for one reason or another).
The Hamtramck City Council last week passed a resolution to rename a mile-stretch of Holbrok Street "Palestine Avenue."
"The all-Muslim council voted 4-3 in support of Palestinians in the Gaza, reports Violet Ikonomova of the Detroit Free Press.
Last month, the council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, where, according to the (criminal) Gaza healthy ministry, more than 18,000 people have been killed in a war that began after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 200 people, mostly Israelis, but some Americans...
At least 20 people were shot, one of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
CBS News reported the weekend’s shooting fatality occurred Sunday at 10:42 a.m. A ShotSpotter alert signaled officers, who went to “the 3800 block of West Gladys Avenue,” where they found a 28-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds.
Planners’ forecast for Ford plant was comically wrong; will anybody be held to account?
Michigan seems to be ending 2023 the way it began, with surprise news about Ford Motor Company’s $1.7 billion, taxpayer-subsidized deal to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall.
In February, the head of a local development authority predicted the plant would directly employ 2,500 people.
In late November, Ford announced a scaled-down version that would employ just 1,700.
That’s a 32% reduction – just in the number of promised jobs, not even jobs that may ultimately exist. The Ford case is more evidence that Lansing politicians and state officials should not be in the corporate handout business...
Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America.
1790 - The first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.
1803 - The United States Senate ratified a treaty that included the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million. The transfer was completed with formal ceremonies in New Orleans.
1879 - Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent lightat Menlo Park, NJ.
1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire.
1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has hit a new low during his presidency, a Monmouth University poll found Monday, highlighting fears among Democrats who are unhappy the president, 81, is the party’s presumptive nominee.
...“Beginning December 18 2023 at 8:00 AM local time, CBP’s Office of Field Operations will temporarily suspend operation at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas in order to redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody,” continued CBP...
From dams to cities to children, they demolish everything
"I see in the papers that Kanye West went off his meds. TMZ reported, “Kanye West is apparently in the grips of a serious mental health episode...Hates Trump. Hates Jews. Blames others for his problems... What liberals appear to support changes constantly.
Liberals who once embraced feminism now dismiss it as a movement by suburban white women. Men in dresses replaced real women who are now called TERFs, an acronym for women without testosterone.
I recall how women in the 1960s objected to being called broads and dames. Abracadabra, feminism came along. Liberals now call them bitches and ho’s. Problem solved.
Liberals recently downgraded mothers to birthing people. A woman now is just a bonus hole in liberal land, which further downgrades women, as well as normal sex.
These changes came so rapidly that people cannot keep up, but people nonetheless must instantly pledge allegiance to whatever the core beliefs of liberalism are this week...
"Since 2009, this has been 100 percent artificial, unprecedented money printing and deficits: $27 trillion over 15 years, to be exact," Harry Dent told Fox Business on Tuesday. 
...“Beginning December 18 2023 at 8:00 AM local time, CBP’s Office of Field Operations will temporarily suspend operation at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas in order to redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody,” continued CBP...
