History for April 28

History for April 28 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversary of 5^th president of the US, James Monroe (1758-1831).

Birth anniversaries of Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) and Oskar Schindler (1908-1974).

Happy Birthday! Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Mary McDonnell

1686 - The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathamatic" was published. 


1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift. 


1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner. 


1919 - The League of Nations was founded. 





1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country. 


1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds for his refusal.


1974 - The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon. 


1988 - In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the fuselage of a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.


1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a (bogus, unscientific) pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners. 


1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign. 

The Bill Obama Says Would Help Millions of Americans ‘Right Now’ — and Why Republicans Don’t Support It | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Bill Obama Says Would Help Millions of Americans ‘Right Now’ — and Why Republicans Don’t Support It | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Republicans contend a minimum wage hike would have undesired effects, including eliminating thousands of jobs.
In an April 1 report, the Senate Republican Policy Committee cited a Congressional Budget Office report that estimated that “once fully implemented in the second half of 2016, the $10.10 option would reduce total employment by about 500,000 workers, or 0.3 percent.”"

Meet the Army Veteran Who Could Once and for All Destroy One of the Left’s Key Gun Control Arguments | TheBlaze.com

Meet the Army Veteran Who Could Once and for All Destroy One of the Left’s Key Gun Control Arguments | TheBlaze.com:
"Since the 1950s, all but two mass shootings have occurred in locations where victims were restricted from carrying weapons for self-defense, his work says. This stunning statistic led the university to question the effectiveness of so-called “gun free zones.”
The methodology of the research is fairly simple and rooted in common sense, Dietz claims. It takes into account four separate scenarios involving an active shooter:"

Ex-DHS watchdog put on leave after critical report | CNS News

Ex-DHS watchdog put on leave after critical report | CNS News:
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson put his agency's former internal watchdog on leave within hours of the publication of a Senate report that concluded the employee was too cozy with senior agency officials and delayed or classified some critical reports to accommodate President Barack Obama's political appointees.
Charles K. Edwards had been allowed to quietly resign as acting inspector general and transfer to another post within the Homeland Security Department in December, just before Johnson took office. But after Johnson reviewed the 27-page report from a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs oversight subcommittee Thursday he put Edwards on leave."

U.S. electricity prices may be going up for good - chicagotribune.com

U.S. electricity prices may be going up for good - chicagotribune.com:

Experts warn of a growing fragility as coal-fired plants are shut down, nuclear power is reduced and consumers switch to renewable energy.
.....But it exposed a more fundamental problem.
There is a growing fragility in the U.S. electricity system, experts warn, the result of the shutdown of coal-fired plants, reductions in nuclear power, a shift to more expensive renewable energy and natural gas pipeline constraints. 
The result is likely to be future price shocks.
And they may not be temporary.
One recent study predicts the cost of electricity in California alone could jump 47% over the next 16 years, in part because of the state's shift toward more expensive renewable energy.
"We are now in an era of rising electricity prices," said Philip Moeller, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who said the steady reduction in generating capacity across the nation means that prices are headed up.
"If you take enough supply out of the system, the price is going to increase."

More to come?------Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare

Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare (Video) | Space.com

The sun erupted with a massive solar flare late Thursday (April 24), triggering a temporary communications blackout on some parts of Earth.

The powerful flare peaked at 8:27 p.m. EDT Thursday (0027 April 25 GMT), and ranked as an X1.3-class solar storm, one of the strongest types of flares the sun can experience, according to a report from the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center. 

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Obama's Economic Policies will Bring a Second Great Depression

Obama's Economic Policies will Bring a Second Great Depression:
"One oddity of the current economic debate is that the more Barack Obama’s incompetent income-redistribution policies have failed, the more the left calls for more government-intervention policies to correct for the deficiencies of the earlier rounds. American middle-income families have lost nearly $3,000 in purchasing power since 2007, and the left’s only solution to get us out of the rut is more debt, more social-welfare spending, more income redistribution and higher taxes on the rich and big business."

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 353

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 353:
"Letter From Darrell Issa to Eric Holder (Apr. 23, 2014):
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform continues to examine the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants. "

NAACP Set to Give Lifetime Achievement Award to L.A. Clippers Owner — But That Plan Appears to Be Unraveling

NAACP Set to Give Lifetime Achievement Award to L.A. Clippers Owner — But That Plan Appears to Be Unraveling | TheBlaze.com

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, allegedly caught on an audio recording making repeated racist remarks, is scheduled to receive an NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award next month from the organization’s Los Angeles chapter, Deadspin reported.

White House “big data” study to reveal potential for discrimination

White House “big data” study to reveal potential for discrimination | Ars Technica
Next week, White House counselor John Podesta is set to present the results of a 90-day "big data" study, commissioned by President Barack Obama in January as part of a wave of NSA reform announcements.
According to the Associated Press, Podesta's study will hinge largely on the discriminatory potential of the mountains of data accumulated by public and private firms alike.
The study's results could mean changes to federal anti-discrimination laws, particularly in the case of financial and employment policies.
The AP report used private data clustering as an example of potential abuse, describing customers lumped into an "Ethnic Second-City Struggler" category.
Loan applicants could be lumped into that category based on geographic and social-media information, flagging them for higher-interest loans than they'd be offered as anonymous, off-the-street customers.
.....That speech also hinted at the kinds of discrimination stories we may expect from Podesta's report, including the story of a crowd-sourced pothole detection app launched in Boston.

"Because poor people and the elderly were less likely to carry smartphones, let alone download the app, the app wound up systematically directing city services to wealthier neighborhoods," Podesta said.
"We need to pay careful attention to what unexpected outcomes the use of big data might lead to, and how to remedy any unintended discrimination or inequality that may result."

This morning!------Affirmative Action Debate - Jennifer Gratz vs. Shanta Driver

University Takes Action Against Students, Free Speech Endangered

University Takes Action Against Students, Free Speech Endangered:
"Another day, another outrageous report to emerge from the sad state of liberal academia…
 The University of Hawaii at Hilo has prohibited students from passing out forbidden literature on school grounds.
What was this forbidden literature? Was it radical propaganda? Was it hate-filled tirades of madmen?
 No- it was the U.S. Constitution.
 In typical fashion more in-line with a despotic dictatorship than something that could occur in America, UH-Hilo prohibited students from handing out our nation’s laws that enumerate our rights as citizens.

Obama been boss for almost 5 1/2 years. How's it workin' out for ya?-------Great divide: Low-priced home sales sink; high-priced ones rise

Great divide: Low-priced home sales sink; high-priced ones rise | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Tuesday’s report on existing home sales last month highlights how tough the market is for buyers of lower-priced homes, especially in parts of the high-priced West.
March sales of previously owned homes fell to their slowest annual pace in 20 months, down 0.2% from February to 4.59 million, the National Association of Realtors reported. It was the third straight monthly decline.
Year over year, the sharpest drop-offs are at the low end of the housing market, continuing a trend visible for two years.
Sales of homes under $100,000 fell nearly 18% from March 2013 and those in the $100,000-$250,000 range fell about 10%.
But sales of homes over $1 million rose almost 8%......"

At Dartmouth Word Fiesta Is Racist White People Can't Use It

At Dartmouth Word Fiesta Is Racist White People Can't Use It | The Daily Caller
Another ridiculous politically-correct brouhaha has broken out at Dartmouth College, America’s most hopelessly and disturbingly fragile Ivy League school.
This time, the fracas is over a fundraiser for cardiac care that the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Alpha Phi sorority had planned to jointly sponsor, reports Campus Reform.
Problems arose because a single student, junior Daniela Hernandez, was offended by the party’s theme of “Phiesta.”
As a result, the soiree, which was scheduled for Saturday, has been canceled by the presidents of the respective Greek organizations.
Had the party happened, it would have included a live band as well as virgin piña coladas and strawberry daiquiris. There would also have been burritos, chips and salsa, and guacamole.
The cash raised at the event would have gone to benefit cardiac treatments.
However, Hernandez’s deep offense about racial insensitivity was enough to call it off.
The self-proclaimed “Mexican-born, United-States-raised, first-generation woman of color” declared in an angry email that “there are various problematic structures and ideologies regarding a Cinco de Mayo-inspired event,” according to Campus Reform.

Superintelligent AI Could Wipe Out Humanity, If We're Not Ready for It

Superintelligent AI Could Wipe Out Humanity, If We're Not Ready for It | Motherboard:
"There’s a danger that sci-fi pulp like Transcendence is watering down the real risks of artificial intelligence in public discourse.
But these threats are being taken very seriously by researchers who are studying the existential threat of AI on the human race.
Dismissing hyper-intelligent machines as mere science fiction “would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake ever,” wrote Stephen Hawking "

Still Don’t Believe Barack Obama Lies A Lot? WATCH This

Still Don’t Believe Barack Obama Lies A Lot? WATCH This:
"Here is video proof that Republican Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-2) was right. Wilson came under tremendous fire for two words that he uttered during Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in September 2009.  During that speech, Obama said, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”

Tax increases coming cuz we're not giving government enough-----Tax cut plans dim as focus shifts to Michigan's potholes

Tax cut plans dim as focus shifts to Michigan's potholes | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Now plans for a tax reduction are waning and shifting instead to addressing pothole-ridden roads.
 Snyder, who said he's open to dropping his tax plan to set aside more money for transportation, attributes the shrinking interest in tax relief to drivers who voiced their frustration.
"Much of it came about because of how serious the pothole season's been," he said. 
"I appreciate the general public speaking up more and more — they see a need to solve this problem in terms of transportation.""

History for April 27

History for April 27 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of 18^th president of the US, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85).

Birth anniversary of Coretta Scott King (1927-2006).

Happy Birthday! Sheena Easton, Sally Hawkins, Casey Kasem

1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. 


1861 - U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. 


1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid. 


1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan. 


1967 - In Montreal, Prime Minister Lester Pearson lighted a flame to open Expo 67. 


1975 - Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops. 


1978 - Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan. 





1982 - The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others. 


1989 - Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 


1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 





2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840.

What Do This Supreme Court Decision And Obama's BLM Land Grabs Have In Common?

What Do This Supreme Court Decision And Obama's BLM Land Grabs Have In Common?:
"What stops the federal government from merely deeding private lands to foreign governments “because they can”? Actually, nothing stops the government from doing anything, certainly not the Kelo Decision.
Without a doubt, the Supreme Court’s Kelo Decision is one of the most potentially destructive weapons a tyrant like Barack Obama has at his disposal."

New York ‘Liberal’ Opens Up About What CNN and MSNBC Haven’t Invited Her on to Say | TheBlaze.com

New York ‘Liberal’ Opens Up About What CNN and MSNBC Haven’t Invited Her on to Say | TheBlaze.com:
"Brighton said the biggest difference between Islam and Sharia-ism is the latter is a “political movement to control,” not unlike communism or fascism, and added that the only reason the ideology has been able to survive in the United States this long is because it has has the “cover of religion,” and an enormous number of “petrodollars.”
Brighton admitted many of her friends automatically disagree with her, afraid of offending Islam, but added: “If you actually get them to look at the facts and read some of it, they’ll say, ‘Oh I didn’t know that!"

Wayne LaPierre Issues Blistering Takedown of Journalists Right to Their Faces: ‘An Abomination’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Wayne LaPierre Issues Blistering Takedown of Journalists Right to Their Faces: ‘An Abomination’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"With journalists from across the country sitting in the audience, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blasted members of the national media during the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday. He argued “media dishonesty” and government misinformation have joined forces in America, and neither group has a right to tell citizens how to defend themselves."

She's spent more time in jail than ALL the Benghazi murderers. Combined!-------ALLEGED HILLARY CLINTON SHOE THROWER ARRAIGNED

News from The Associated Press:
"LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas remains in federal custody after pleading not guilty to two criminal charges.
Alison Ernst, 36, entered the pleas to misdemeanor counts of trespassing and violence against a person during her arraignment late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach then granted the government's request to keep Ernst in federal custody, saying she was a flight risk and danger to the community. She is being held at a jail operated by a federal contractor in Pahrump, 63 miles west of Las Vegas.
Ferenbach raised concerns about Ernst's residency status and mental health condition, Natalie Collins, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Nevada, told The Associated Press."

Conservative Radio Host Mark Levin Goes Off on GOP at NRA Convention…Moments After Republican He Routinely Slams Got Done Speaking | TheBlaze.com

Conservative Radio Host Mark Levin Goes Off on GOP at NRA Convention…Moments After Republican He Routinely Slams Got Done Speaking | TheBlaze.com:
"He advised the Republicans, which he described as confused, to look no further than the Constitution and the Bill of Rights when trying to figure out how to win over the nation.
To that point, Levin actually described each amendment found in the Bill of Rights, putting extra emphasis on the First and Second Amendments. He joked that the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment in such simple terms that even liberals could understand it.
“A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” Levin read."

"It's the culture, stupid"-------Kid Pretends to Order From Wendy’s Employee, Then Slaps Her as Part of Violent ‘Smack Cam’ Game

Kid Pretends to Order From Wendy’s Employee, Then Slaps Her as Part of Violent ‘Smack Cam’ Game | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Perhaps a spinoff of the disturbing “knockout game,” a Texas teen working in a fast food restaurant was the recent victim of a violent fad dubbed “smack cam.”
“Two young kids came in. 
They pretended like they were going to order. 
The first kid, he went out and came back. 
And I couldn’t hear what he was saying so I leaned in and the next thing I know, I got hit,” Calaybra Jones told KTBC-TV of the incident, which occurred Tuesday while she was working at a Wendy’s in Austin, Texas."

9 Crazy Ways the Left Tried to Make Obamacare Cool

9 Crazy Ways the Left Tried to Make Obamacare Cool

3. “Bros” and “Hos”
A controversial ad campaign depicted young men as primarily interested in keg stands, while young women were interested in getting birth control to hook up with guys. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/uv5azw/brosurance

Two Maps, Maybe You Will See A Pattern, Terrorists and Mosques in America

Two Maps, Maybe You Will See A Pattern, Terrorists and Mosques in America | Conservative Infidel Conservative Infidel:

Wisconsin Sheriff Reveals the Seven Words He Would Use to Change the Second Amendment | Video | TheBlaze.com

Wisconsin Sheriff Reveals the Seven Words He Would Use to Change the Second Amendment | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Sheriff David Clarke Jr. may not be a household name…yet. But he’s well on his way after his rousing speech at the 2014 NRA convention. Consider the standing ovation he received after revealing the seven words he would add to the Second Amendment: “Keep your hands off our guns, dammit.”"