History for March 13

History for March 13 - On-This-Day.com 

L. Ron Hubbard 1911

• 0607 - The 12th recorded passage of Halley's Comet occurred.
• 1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
• 1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
• 1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.
• 1930 - It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.
• 1940 - The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in Moscow.
• 1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.
• 1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.

'Where's the handcuffs?' Rubio says THOUSANDS of USAID contracts now canceled * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Where's the handcuffs?' Rubio says THOUSANDS of USAID contracts now canceled * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Rubio announced, "After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform."

The way we were-----What was: The Anschluss: German annexation of Austria

Douglas Murray Addresses The Absurdity of Our Age

Great site!-----FACT CHECK: President Trump Will Always Protect Social Security, Medicare The White House March 11, 2025

The Trump Administration will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits. President Trump himself has said it (over and over and over again).

Elon Musk didn’t say that, either. The press is lying again.

• Here is Musk’s direct quote: “The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements — so, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate. That’s the, sort of half-trillion, maybe $6-700 billion a year.”

And he’s exactly right.

• FACT: The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates taxpayers lose as much as $521 billion annually to fraud — and most of that is within entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
• FACT: Over the past two decades, the federal government has made an estimated $2.7 trillion in “improper payments” — the majority of which come in the form of “payments to deceased individuals or those who no longer [are] eligible for government programs.”
• FACT: The Social Security Administration made an estimated $72 billion in improper payments between 2015 and 2022.
• FACT: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimated it made $140+ billion in improper payments in 2024 alone.

What kind of a person doesn’t support eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending that ultimately costs taxpayers more?

Very Interesting: SWC--Autopen DoJ Pardon Attorney Firing = Investigation

Very Interesting: SWC--Autopen DoJ Pardon Attorney Firing = Investigation - Mark  

I’m sure readers have seen the stories over the past week or more about the discovery that virtually all White House docs were not signed by Zhou—they were signed by a machine, an autopen machine. Naturally that discovery has led to speculation about the validity of such “signatures,” the identity of the person(s) operating the machine, whether Zhou had knowledge of all, most, or only a few of the docs that were executed in this manner...

Shipwreckedcrew has written an article for Red State that raises a very specific issue with regard to the autopen ops, in combination with the final Zhou pardons. 

Of course, there’s the issue of whether pardons signed in this manner are even valid. 

• However, a very recent firing raises that issue more sharply, and that is the firing of the DoJ Pardon Attorney, Liz Oyer, who was in charge of the pardon process. 
• Specifically, the manner of the firing suggests that DoJ was anxious to prevent Oyer from destroying evidence, which would only be the case if there was an active investigation:

But there was a noteworthy aspect of her dismissal that was reported by the Wall Street Journal the day after her firing – she was immediately escorted from the building by security.

This is done when there is an ongoing investigation that the individual is likely unaware of, and those conducting the investigation want to preserve all electronic records that might be available on a computer and cell phone. Asking her to leave immediately prevents any attempt to delete such records.

There’s more in the article. If this interests you, follow the link.

ICE deports illegal immigrant wanted for human smuggling that led to the deaths of 3 minors | Blaze Media

ICE deports illegal immigrant wanted for human smuggling that led to the deaths of 3 minors | Blaze Media: 

"The return of this fugitive to the Dominican Republic is a prime example of how ICE works closely with our international law enforcement partners to identify, locate, and remove criminal aliens who are wanted in their country for allegedly committing crimes," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Miami acting Field Office Director Juan Lopez Vega. "ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of criminal alien fugitives. As a result, our communities are safer and more secure."

Ralph Ellis: Ice Ages modulated by ice-sheet albedo, not by CO2

Send this to your kids!

 

Lunch video-----"The Biggest Threat Of Our Century Will Happen In The Next Month!" — VDH

Noon-toon

 

Teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten gets annihilated on social media for hysterical meltdown: 'I'm really angry!' | Blaze Media

Teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten gets annihilated on social media for hysterical meltdown: 'I'm really angry!' | Blaze Media: 

"A reminder that Randi Weingarten vigorously opposed reopening schools during COVID. Her union made absurd demands that had nothing to do with the virus, like canceling teachers' student loans. And now she wants us all to forget. I can't imagine a worse surrogate for her cause," replied Billy Binion of Reason. "It is difficult to think of someone who's done more to discredit teachers unions than Randi Weingarten herself," he added. "She took a monopoly on a public good & weaponized it against the people she was supposed to be serving: kids. She's a case study in why public unions need to go."

Who allowed this to happen??!!

 

MUSK: DOGE Will Cut $1 TRILLION in Spending 'Unless We’re Stopped.' - Stephen Green

Savings generated by DOGE during the first two months of Trump 47 "exceed $4 billion per day," Musk told Fox News on Monday afternoon. - Stephen Green 

In the last seven-plus weeks, DOGE has exceeded its seemingly impossible goal, though only barely. 

This is maybe the best news you'll read all week, even though the legacy dinosaur media insists that it's all doom and gloom and starving uneducated children who can no longer get their nads hacked off at taxpayer expense...

But she's just fine with crooked IRS and Chinese agents poking around??!!

 

The Death of Europe

Years ago, America's economy grew neck and neck with the European Union's. Then, about 15 years ago, Europe stopped growing. - John Stossel 

• Today, the USA is 50% richer -- even though the European Union has 100 million more people.
• Europe is kind of like a big museum. 

In Sweden, he says, "Average workers pay (a higher percentage of) taxes than you do if you make $400,000 here in the United States."

• But at least their health care is free.
• "No!" he replies. "You get the right to free health care, but whether you get health care is a different story. I have friends who died in the Swedish health care system because they couldn't get treatment in time."

Still, Europe offers generous welfare benefits.
"They take care of people!" I tell Larson.

• "But it also entraps you," he says. "People get stuck in low-end jobs. They don't start businesses like we do."...

#1 This day 1961-----Chubby Checker - Pony Time

VA Secretary Doug Collins: We Saved 'Roughly $900 Million After Reviewing Just 2% of Contracts

“...The days of kicking the can down the road and measuring VA’s progress by how much money it spends and how many people it employs, rather than how many veterans it helps, are over,” he said, providing one example of what they are doing differently. -Hannah Knudsen

“VA will always fulfill its duty to provide veterans, families, caregivers and survivors the health care and benefits they have earned. That’s a promise, and while we conduct our review, VA will continue to hire for more than 300,000 mission critical positions to ensure health care and benefits for VA beneficiaries are not impacted,” he said, discussing the department’s goal of reducing the number of VA employees.

“Here’s just one example. We’re conducting a comprehensive review of the VA’s 90,000 contracts, which are worth more than $67 billion,” she said, revealing that after reviewing just two percent of these Veterans Affairs contracts, they were able to cancel “nearly 600 non-mission critical or duplicative agreements that will save the department roughly $900 million.”

• “Just imagine how much more we’ll be able to save after we review the rest of [the] VA contracts...

Terrorists!

 

White House official says Zelenskyy apologized to Trump, calls it 'progress' toward a deal | Blaze Media

White House official says Zelenskyy apologized to Trump, calls it 'progress' toward a deal | Blaze Media: 

A special envoy of the Trump administration said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had apologized in a letter to President Donald Trump and called it "progress" toward a minerals deal. Special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told Fox News that Zelenskyy had reached out to make amends after an explosive disagreement between him, the president, and the vice president over a proposed minerals deal.

Since Democrats are in meltdown over the fired Inspectors General, remember that Norm Eisen fired IGs for clearly political reasons under Obama.

The Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) Gerald Walpin was fired by Eisen after his tough oversight efforts to hold senior officials accountable for excusing a friend/Obama crony who mismanaged charter school funds and was sexually inappropriate towards students. 

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Finance Committee put out a 62 page report, “The Firing of the Inspector General for the CNCS,” outlined how Obama allies and Eisen were able to remove Walpin without a formal review.

• The White House Counsel’s Office withheld information from Congress and misled investigators after Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley questioned the President’s methods and motives for removing Walpin.
• There was sizable evidence the removal was motivated by a desire to protect a friend and political ally of the President, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 12

History for March 12 - On-This-Day.com

Jack Kerouac 1922

• 1496 - Jews were expelled from Syria.
• 1755 - In North Arlington, NJ, the steam engine was used for the first time.
• 1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
• 1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
• 1938 - The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria.
• 1947 - U.S. President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
• 1987 - "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
• 1989 - About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.

Gavin Newsom to Charlie Kirk: 'Democratic Party Brand Has Just Been Crushed'

Gavin Newsom to Charlie Kirk: 'Democratic Party Brand Has Just Been Crushed': 

Newsom was specifically referring to his unwillingness to agree with Kirk that men should not compete in women’s sports, arguing that for him it is a matter of “principle,” not politics.

“I deeply am mindful of the politics of this, which are very unhelpful personally, and unhelpful more broadly and professionally to the Democratic Party and our brand,” Newsom added. “The Democratic Party brand has just been crushed.”

The way we were-----Rise of the Goths (Fall of Western Roman Empire)

What If Everything You Thought About CO2 Was Wrong?

Was Joe Biden’s Presidency One Long, Quiet Insurrection?

virtually every one was signed by an autopen rather than by the president’s own hand. - Andrew Shirley 

Late last week, the Oversight Project, an investigatory arm of the Heritage Foundation, revealed on X that a study of presidential documents from the Biden administration showed that virtually every one was signed by an autopen rather than by the president’s own hand.
“We gathered every document we could find with Biden’s signature over the course of his presidency,” the Oversight Project wrote. 

“All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year.”
If the Oversight Project’s findings turn out to be accurate, it is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the scandal it would represent. 

• It would raise the alarming possibility (which Republicans long warned of) that the country was effectively being run by unelected Biden aides rather than the duly-elected President of the United States – a soft coup d’état that should enrage every American voter, regardless of political affiliation...

Can’t spell Triumph without Trump - Don Surber

The new Trump World Order puts freedom first 

A month ago, the Stockholm Sentinel tweeted with a video, “In 2018, Christoph Heusgen and German diplomats at the UN laughed when Trump said that green energy would make Germany totally reliant on Russia.
“Yesterday, Heusgen cried at the end of the Munich Security Conference about JD Vance’s speech on values.”...
The dummkopfs in Germany thought their windmills and solar thingies—bought with the money they didn’t spend on their military—would make them independent of coal, natural gas and other things that actually work. 

• They did not notice that Red China, which makes the solar panels, doesn’t use them.
• Then the runners up in World War 2 got involved in the Ukraine War, sending in military stuff and imposing economic sanctions on Russia. 
• Putin said fine and jacked up energy prices.

The price of electricity in German soared from 17 cents per kilowatt hour in April 2020 to $4.69 in August 2022. It is now $1.40—or 8 times what Germans once paid.

Trump saw it coming 4 years earlier. 

On September 25, 2018, Trump told the UN, “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.”...

Mike Rowe: Why Are 7.2 Million Able-Bodied Men Not Looking for Work? | EpochTV

Mike Rowe: Why Are 7.2 Million Able-Bodied Men Not Looking for Work? | EpochTV
President Donald Trump has promised that he will bring back American manufacturing during his presidency. 

• What if there aren’t enough Americans who want to work those jobs?
• “Every year for the last decade or so, for every five tradesmen who retire, two replace them,” says Mike Rowe, Emmy Award-winning TV host of the Dirty Jobs series.

“If we don’t have a workforce who is disabused of the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that have kept millions of kids from giving these jobs an honest look ... you’re going to wind up in a pretty nasty feedback loop,” he says.
“People still don’t believe me. Even when I show them, not just the stats, but the actual humans who are making $150-grand a year welding with an $8,000 certificate, they just don’t believe it,” he says...

'Wake me the [bleep] up': Potty-mouth Dems think swearing like drunken sailors will make Americans like them * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

'Wake me the [bleep] up': Potty-mouth Dems think swearing like drunken sailors will make Americans like them * WorldNetDaily * by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

Democratic members of Congress have upped their use of profanity in an effort to be more relatable to Americans, Politico reported Sunday. The upsurge in swearing comes as Democrats face criticism for their conduct during President Donald Trump's address to Congress, when they remained seated and rarely applauded during Trump's address, even when Secret Service Director Sean Curran presented Devarjaye "D.J." Daniel, who is battling brain cancer, with credentials during the speech. One Democratic strategist told Politico that some of the increased use of profanity by Democrats was an affect, rather than being "authentic."