History for August 27

History for August 27 - On-This-Day.com
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770, Theodore Dreiser 1871 - Novelist, journalist, Charles Rolls 1877 - Motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce car manufacturing company


Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) 1908 - 36th President of the United States, Ira Levin 1929 - Writer ("Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives"), Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952 - Actor ("Pee Wee's Playhouse")


1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.


1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.


1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.


1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)


1928 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed by 15 countries in Paris. Later, 47 other nations would sign the pact.


1938 - Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.


1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.


1962 - Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.


1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.


1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.

Obama sneaking in more Syrian refugees? | Fox News

Obama sneaking in more Syrian refugees? | Fox News:

"A discrepancy in statistics provided by the Department of Homeland Security has led an attorney for a Washington-based legal group to question whether administration officials are waiving Syrians into the United States by other means.

Ian Smith, of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, obtained the data through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. It shows that U.S. officials as of Jan. 25 had interviewed 9,800 refugee applicants since fiscal year 2014. That is nearly twice as many people as the combined number of approvals (4,774) and denials (417) during that time.

“The discrepancy is very, very large, and they go back quite a ways.”"

The Clinton Foundation: Hopelessly Corrupt Or Just A Lousy Charity?

The Clinton Foundation: Hopelessly Corrupt Or Just A Lousy Charity? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Public Corruption: As the unseemly ties between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's State Department become more glaring and disturbing, the rhetoric from the Democratic side is getting more desperate.
Now Clinton hatchet man James Carville says critics of the foundation are going to hell.
Over the past two weeks, it has become painfully obvious to anyone but the most hard-core Clinton loyalist that the Clinton Foundation was little more than an influence-peddling operation designed to exchange cash for favors from Bill and Hillary Clinton.
We noted in this space yesterday that a fresh batch of emails showed how the foundation intervened to get a meeting arranged between Clinton and Crown Prince of Bahrain after attempts to work through normal channels failed.
The prince's country was a major foundation donor.
Now there are reports that a senior foundation executive left 148 phone messages for Clinton's top aide at State from 2010 to 2012 -- more than any other caller.
The Associated Press reports that "more than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money -- either personally or through companies or groups -- to the Clinton Foundation..."

BIAS ALERT: Professor says Trump is so bad, class doesn't have to be balanced

BIAS ALERT: Professor says Trump is so bad, class doesn't have to be balanced | Fox News
"Critics have accused academia of subtly indoctrinating students with a liberal agenda for years, but the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency has brought one Pennsylvania political science professor out into the open.
Gettysburg College Prof. Kathleen Iannello announced in an Op-Ed penned for Philly.com that she will not even try to treat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP choice Trump equally because, in her mind, Trump is a “lightning rod for promoting further hate.”
“My approach for the fall semester will be boldly honest: It is a disservice to students to attempt to provide balance when I know that balance is an offense to the truth,” Iannello wrote.
In the column, titled “Balanced Presentation A Dishonest Exercise In Presidential Race,” Iannello admits that, “as a liberal, [she has] no problem extolling the virtues of Democrats.”
To prove her fairness, Iannello notes that she has assigned readings of moderate Republicans and has even offered praise for Ronald Reagan.
But Trump is another story, she claimed.
“His harsh and distasteful commentary regarding religious and ethnic groups, as well as women, only serves as a lightning rod for promoting further hate,” Iannello wrote.
“He displays neither a record of public service nor an understanding of the word statesmanship.
In the history of our country, it is hard to recall anyone less prepared to take office...”

Many More Huma Abedin Email Bombshells Likely To Come | The Daily Caller

Many More Huma Abedin Email Bombshells Likely To Come | The Daily Caller:

"Approximately three-and-a-half years worth of Huma Abedin’s emails during her tenure at the State Department have yet to be released by the agency, suggesting that many more examples of the Clinton aide’s interaction with Clinton Foundation donors have yet to surface.

Abedin used several different email accounts while she worked as Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department. Her tenure stretched from Jan. 2009 through Feb. 2013, when Clinton left office."

Palin: Climate Change Activists Want Us to Think We Can Change the Weather by Growing Government

Palin: Climate Change Activists Want Us to Think We Can Change the Weather by Growing Government:
"People pushing the climate change agenda “are smart enough to understand the link between energy and national security and energy and prosperity,” said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during a panel discussion about Climate Hustle, a film that takes the skeptics’ side of the climate change debate.
 The film, which premiered at the Sorbonne in Paris during the United Nations’ climate change conference last December, will be shown in 400 theaters nationwide on May 2nd.
 It features a number of scientists who previously believed in man-made climate change, but have since become skeptical of such claims, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever.
... "There is a definite political agenda… to make us think we can somehow change the weather by growing government,” Palin replied."

ABC, CBS Censor Link Between Democrat Senator and EpiPen Outrage Despite 18 Mins of Coverage

ABC, CBS Censor Link Between Democrat Senator and EpiPen Outrage Despite 18 Mins of Coverage:
"Despite over 18 minutes of coverage of the past week on the skyrocketing cost of EpiPens by over 400 percent, ABC and CBS have failed in their duties to note that the pharmaceutical company CEO being called out for raising the price while hiking her own compensation to almost $19 million is also the daughter of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (W.V.).
Further, the two networks and NBC have collectively neglected to reveal that Mylan Pharmaceuticals has partnered in the past for medical aid with the Clinton Foundation and given money as well to the scandal-ridden foundation.
CBS This Morning was the first network newscast to cover the massive price increase from $90 for a two-pack to an exorbitant $608 back on August 16 and, along with the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, have spent 12 minutes and 52 seconds over four segments.
However, none have mentioned either link to Manchin or the Clinton Foundation.
The story has been much the same on ABC..."

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The Rogue EPA's Shocking Disregard For The Law | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

The Rogue EPA's Shocking Disregard For The Law | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"Having been given sweeping and near-dictatorial powers by President Obama and the Supreme Court, the EPA has routinely exceeded its bounds and veered off into criminal behavior in some of its activities. In a report released this week, the EPA's own inspector general claims the agency has not sufficiently studied the environmental impact of blending ethanol with gasoline, as required by law.

The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, signed into law by President Bush, required the increased production of biofuels, in particular ethanol, and mandated it to be blended with gasoline.

It was a bad law to begin with, one that unfortunately was bipartisan in nature. As any mechanic worth his salt will tell you, ethanol use can do serious damage to car and truck engines.

More seriously, an Associated Press investigative report in 2013 found that corn-based ethanol was having far nastier impacts on the environment than predicted by the EPA and Energy Department. "

'Climate Change' Named As One of Biggest Threats to America's National Parks

'Climate Change' Named As One of Biggest Threats to America's National Parks:
""Climate change" and "staying relevant" are two of the biggest challenges for the National Park Service as it celebrates its centennial this month, a park service official told CSPAN on Thursday.
"So climate change is one of our very large threats," said Mike Reynolds, deputy director of NPS operations.
"So climate change; staying relevant to our constituents, to the American people, making sure we tell the stories, the full diverse story, of the American experience..."

America’s worsening retirement problem

America’s worsening retirement problem:
"When a crisis ends, not everyone recovers equally.
And in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, though the stock market has long recovered, there is an important group that was hit badly – and hasn’t bounced back.
This is Americans nearing retirement.
People aged 50-64 are supposed to be building wealth and getting ready for retirement.
But the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on wealth last Thursday that found that median family wealth dropped for Americans aged 50-64 from around $250,000 in 2007 to just under $200,000 by 2010—and then, troublingly, continued to fall to around $150,000 in 2013.
That’s a 40 percent drop in six years."

Clothing tycoon’s tacky ‘Mexican’ party enrages Latino staffers

Clothing tycoon’s tacky ‘Mexican’ party enrages Latino staffers | New York Post:
"As a rabbi ensured kosher purity at the taco station, hired entertainers — including topless and G-stringed women — gyrated next to partiers.
One woman wore a pink posterboard that read “Immigrant Day Worker” on the front and “Where’s the Wall” on the back, while another female guest’s shirt read “Immigrant Mushroom Picker” alongside a Mexican flag.
...“If they insulted someone, I would apologize to whoever was insulted,” she said. Joseph speculated that the charged election-year atmosphere and Trump’s controversial candidacy heightened sensitivity.
...The hired party staffers — primarily Latinos — were outraged, according to a disturbed guest.
Joseph’s daughter, Sarah Joseph, acknowledged that some of the outfits were unseemly.
“We had a private party honoring Mexico and had no intention of ever offending anyone,” she said. “We cannot control everyone’s costumes.”
Joseph Joseph runs an urban clothing empire that launched in Bushwick in 1977 and now boasts more than 30 locations across New York City, Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester...."

Hillary's Corruption Is Overwhelming - Ben Shapiro

Hillary's Corruption Is Overwhelming - Ben Shapiro:

"After over two decades in the heart of America's spotlight, Hillary Clinton is still an unknown quantity for most Americans. That's thanks to one factor and one factor only: the love and worship of the mainstream media.

Over the weekend, no less than six terrible stories broke that would have crippled anyone else's campaign. First,"

Brexit Britain is booming - so what took us so long to leave the EU?

Brexit Britain is booming - so what took us so long to leave the EU? | Express Comment | Comment | Daily Express:
The stock market is expected to soar. Retail sales are up, property and car sales remain strong and unemployment is falling. Where are all the naysayers with their doom-laden warnings about what would happen if we voted for Brexit now? 

The fact remains that Britain has been held back for decades because of our membership of the EU. We have not been free to make the trade deals we would have wished for while whole swathes of industry were wrapped in red tape and bureaucracy. 

A sense of freedom and potential has been bursting through in recent weeks and it is still only the early days. We have an even more brilliant future in store. 

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History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Lee Deforest 1873, Albert Sabin 1906, Mother Teresa (Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) 1910


Jim Davis 1915, Ben Bradlee 1921 - Editor at Washington Post, Macaulay Culkin 1980 - Actor ("Home Alone")


55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.


1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."


1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.


1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.


1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.


1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.


1947 - Don Bankhead became the first black pitcher in major league baseball.


1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

‘I’m Talking to You Right Now’: Clinton Dodges Questions from CNN Host on Lack of Press Conferences | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘I’m Talking to You Right Now’: Clinton Dodges Questions from CNN Host on Lack of Press Conferences | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"During a rare live interview, Hillary Clinton brushed off her lack of press conferences after being pressed on the issue by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The Democratic presidential nominee has not been questioned by reporters in more than 260 days.

When Cooper first asked the former secretary of state about her lack of pressers on Wednesday, Clinton said, “Well Anderson, I’m talking to you now, and I’ve given way in excess of 300 interviews this year.”"

Second Amendment backers arm up with ink and paper to battle California's 'Gunmageddon' | Fox News

Second Amendment backers arm up with ink and paper to battle California's 'Gunmageddon' | Fox News:

"Barry Bahrami went from incredulous to angry last month when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a batch of firearms control laws known collectively as “Gunmageddon.”

Then, the San Diego-based CEO became determined to fight back against the laws, which take aim at so-called assault weapons, enforce ammunition background checks, mostly take effect Jan. 1 and outlaw the possession of high-capacity magazines and ban the "bullet buttons" that enable their swift replacement.

"These laws are completely insane to almost anyone with a real knowledge of firearms, and I did not think Gov. Brown would sign them," Bahrami told FoxNews.com. "Many California gun owners are still unaware they will be criminals soon.""

Here comes AUXIT: Austrian election hinges on Brussels

Here comes AUXIT: Austrian election hinges on Brussels | World | News | Daily Express
THE AUSTRIAN presidential election looks to be decided by the country’s mixed views on the European Union (EU) - with the far-right, Eurosceptic candidate surging ahead.Y

The run-off vote in October will pit two highly contrasting candidates against each other once again, following an initial vote in April and a first, annulled run-off vote in May.

Former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen is running as an independent against Norbert Hofer, the candidate for the Freedom Party (FPO) - a Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant party that is gaining ground in the country. 
...Mr Hofer had received 51.9 per cent of the initial result, not counting absentee votes - a total that was described as a “political earthquake”.

The media's anti-Trump frenzy makes history

The media's anti-Trump frenzy makes history - Washington Times
"This week I am going to do something unusual.
I am going to enter into a conversation with another columnist.
Doing so was not so unusual a few decades back. Bill Buckley and James Jackson Kilpatrick did it when provoked and it was always interesting.
Yet today a columnist is a godlike figure.
Today’s columnist communicates solely with Olympus, and the result is often a bit tedious.
I propose to address the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin and congratulate him on noting that mainstream media (MSM) have passed yet another milepost in their decline.
Michael wrote in his column this weekend that “Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.” 
And he elaborated: “The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. 
They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.” Michael writes for a Rupert Murdoch newspaper and I write for the good Times and The American Spectator.
None is a member of the MSM, but I would venture that neither of us is as tyrannized into homogeneity as the writers for the MSM. In fact, there exists more diversity of opinion about Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton where we write than within the MSM. In our audience we trust our readers to decide for themselves.
My only quibble with Michael is that I doubt the MSM had much credibility before it began its ambush of Mr. Trump, though for a certitude it has now gone beyond the point of no return..."