History for January 29

History for January 29 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Paine 1737, William McKinley (U.S.) 1843, W.C. Fields 1880


Paddy Chayefsky 1923, Tom Selleck 1945 - Actor (Television: "Magnum P.I."), Oprah Winfrey 1954


1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror."


1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.


1856 - Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, was founded by Queen Victoria.


1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.


1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.


1958 - Charles Starkweather was captured by police in Wyoming.


1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 1,292.62.


1999 - The U.S. Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial.

The Sad Decline of the FBI: You Read It Here First [Updated] | Power Line

The Sad Decline of the FBI: You Read It Here First [Updated] | Power Line:

"To say that the FBI has lost the confidence of the American people is an understatement. But it isn’t just the FBI; Barack Obama corrupted the Department of Justice from the top down. Those who were paying attention have known this for a long time. We started writing about the DOJ scandals early in Obama’s administration. I haven’t done a thorough search, and this may not be the first such instance, but on September 7, 2010, a year and a half into Obama’s first term, I wrote:"

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Boob-tube-----President Ronald Reagan's Best Debate Moments

Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit?

Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit?:
"Scientists at the University of Manchester have found a surprising global warming culprit – sandwiches.
In the first study of its kind, the researchers carried out an in-depth audit of various sandwiches throughout their life cycles and found the triangular meals could be responsible for the equivalent annual carbon emissions of 8.6 million cars in Britain alone.
...What the researchers found was that not all sandwiches are created equal and that some varieties have larger carbon footprints than others.
...According to the team, a number of factors affect the sandwich's carbon footprint. Ingredients is one of them, with items like meat in general and pork in particular, cheese, prawns, lettuce, and tomatoes being particularly large footprint culprits..."

Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson

Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson
Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson

By John Dale Dunn

Who is this man, this Jordan Peterson, academic clinical psychologist, tenured at the University of Toronto with hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, who has made a splash recently as a voice of reason, battling the political correctness elites and upsetting the academic grandees?

Less than a week ago, we got a stormy weather alert in an article that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled "What's So Dangerous about Jordan Peterson?" by Tom Bartlett, with the tease "Not long ago, he was an obscure psychology professor.  Now he leads a flock of die-hard disciples."  One might suppose, considering Mr. Bartlett's choice of words, that Peterson is a Jim Jones-style cult-leader, but instinctively, I knew I would like to find out about anybody described as dangerous by the trade paper of American higher education.

Mr. Bartlett considers Dr. Peterson a threat because Peterson deviates from the leftist academic canon – a conservative, traditionalist, moralist anti-political correctness psychologist academic.  He objects to the speech police and the tyranny of the left.  He that a totalitarian-speech police state is developing in Canada, and, by instinct and conviction, he objects strongly to the "good speech" laws demanding the use of concocted or inapposite pronouns and labels preferred by the little darlin's of the newly concocted gender-identity claxon, cowbell, and tin drum army.

Peterson objects to speech police tactics, and he does it eloquently.  That's a threat to and dangerous for the academic poobahs who live and breathe censorship and intellectual tyranny.  Bartlett's essay is an alert: watch out for this conservative who has a bad attitude on lots of things and opposes our new pronoun gender identity group project and our promotion of the grievance status of the newly formed sex-gender-dysmorphist deviant group.

After I wrote to others about my discovery of Peterson, I was directed by one reader to a recent Peterson media splash, a YouTube interview cum debate by a feminist firebrand interviewer Cathy Newman at Britain's Channel 4.  Ms. Newman, a veteran U.K. TV personality, engaged Dr. Peterson on her claim that unequal female pay and power in business and other organizations are an example of gender persecution and oppression by patriarchal Western societies.  Ms. Newman came, all armed up, shouting her flinty-edged argument that gender job inequalities are due to bias and abuse by men.  Then came a well deserved Peterson social sciences buzzsaw refutation of her arguments, delivered with a smile to the visibly frustrated and increasingly desperate Newman, who seemed relieved when the 30 minute "interview" ended.

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The MSM Faces the Truth About Sweden | Homeland Security

The MSM Faces the Truth About Sweden | Homeland Security:

"Yes, some of us have been writing about these things for a long time. But we've done so in non-mainstream media, at “alternative” websites, and our reports have been routinely smeared in established news organs as exaggerated, hysterical, apocryphal, racist, and/or Islamophobic. We may wish that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and the news divisions of CBS, NBC, and ABC – and their equivalents abroad – didn't matter. But they do. To millions of folks who still buy dead-tree newspapers or turn on the TV at dinnertime to get their news, those traditional sources of information, however full they are of fake news, remain their windows on the world. And so when a paper like the Telegraph runs a piece that at least begins to tell the truth about Sweden, it's a big deal."

Report: Here’s What The Classified FISA Memo Could Show The American Public | The Daily Sheeple

Report: Here’s What The Classified FISA Memo Could Show The American Public | The Daily Sheeple:
"When the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence votes to release the classified Russia memo, according to one journalist, it will be because the committee found such disconcerting practices by intelligence officials that the public has a right to know.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway — a senior editor at The Federalist and Fox News contributor who spoke with The Daily Caller New Foundation — discussed how the media narrative is collapsing with new facts showing the misbehavior of certain FBI officials. 

Besides not showing any collusion, we can now look back to see “inappropriate” briefings by intelligence officials and the Congress using this discredited information.
Hemingway calls the use of the dossier to obtain surveillance on Trump administration officials a “scandal of epic proportions.” 

In addition, America is also learning of the post-election whisper campaign to delegitimize President Donald Trump..."
...At the end of this exclusive video, Hemingway also discussed the #MeToo movement, giving extreme guidance to sexual mores that have been fostered in a morally relativistic time.

PRAGER: Male Sexual Nature: A Primer For The College-Educated | Daily Wire

PRAGER: Male Sexual Nature: A Primer For The College-Educated | Daily Wire: 
"Few subjects elicit as much confused, or even nonsensical, commentary as sex.
There are three major reasons for this.

• First, few forces are as powerful as the sexual drive, yet in no area of human life are the sexes so different. If they try hard, men and women can understand almost everything about one another. But regarding male sexual nature, unless girls and women are taught about male sexual nature -- and few are, especially in our time -- there is no way they can understand male sexual nature. It may be the one area of life wherein men are more capable of understanding women.
• The second reason is modern feminism -- and leftist doctrine in general. Each has contributed to an unprecedented female ignorance -- denial, actually -- of male sexuality. And that is the result of a basic impulse of feminists and leftists: the denial of truths that make them uncomfortable.
• And third, an unprecedented number of Americans have attended college where feminist and left-wing thought are the reigning orthodoxies.

...Which brings us to "sexual objectification."
Largely because of the power of the visual, men sexually objectify women. 
...There are no commensurate websites for women to stare at men's thighs or crossed legs, let alone men's feet or armpits.
All of which means that sexual objectification of women is natural to men. 
It is not the product of a patriarchal, "Playboy," sexist or misogynist society..."
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The Enduring Awfulness of Hillary Clinton | National Review

The Enduring Awfulness of Hillary Clinton | National Review:

"This is classic Clinton. First, she notes the date — as if that’s remotely relevant to whether she did the right thing. I know the #MeToo movement is grabbing headlines, but sexual harassment has been a prominent public issue for decades, and no one should know that better than a Clinton.

Then, she moves on to basic progressive word salad."

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Missing texts between FBI officials trashing Donald Trump recovered - Washington Times

Missing texts between FBI officials trashing Donald Trump recovered - Washington Times

"Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Congress that his investigators had managed to recover messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were both ousted from the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
Republicans had wondered how the messages disappeared — particularly after another batch between the reported lovers revealed a number of curiosities about the investigations of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump."

Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California's Stonehenge? - Victor Davis Hanson

Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California's Stonehenge? - Victor Davis Hanson:
"Nobody quite knows who built Stonehenge some 5,000 years ago in southern England. 
The mysterious ring of huge stone monoliths stands mute.
Californians may leave behind similarly enigmatic monuments for puzzled future generations. 
Along a 119-mile pathway in central California from Bakersfield to Madera, there are now huge, quarter-finished cement overpasses. These are the totems of the initial segment of a planned high-speed-rail corridor.
Californians thought high-speed rail was a great idea when they voted for it in 2008. 
...Planners assured voters that the cost for the first 520 miles was going to be an "affordable" $33 billion. 
...But projected coasts have soared even before one foot of track has been laid. 
The entire project's estimated costs, according to various projections, may have nearly doubled. 
...There is no assurance that enough Central Valley riders will wish to use the line..."
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Can California Save Itself From A Pension Disaster? | Hoover Institution

Can California Save Itself From A Pension Disaster? | Hoover Institution:
"The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and other pension systems in the Golden State might be celebrating their recent investment returns, but don’t be fooled. 
Their problems are nowhere close to solved — and those problems are taxpayers’ problems.
Unfunded pension liabilities continue to represent a colossal fiscal burden for both the state government and local governments within California. 
They’re the reason that taxes are higher than ever, crowding out the services that the state and cities deliver.
And it’s getting worse..."
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#1 This day 1968-----Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

The Islamization of Germany in 2017: Part II

The Islamization of Germany in 2017: Part II:

• "We must expect further attacks by individuals or terror groups. Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing the BfV and we see it as one of the biggest threats facing the internal security of Germany." — Hans-Georg Maaßen, President of Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency.
• Nearly half (45%) of all crime suspects in Berlin in 2016 were migrants, according to official statistics published by the Berliner Morgenpost.
• Thieves broke into an immigration office in the Moabit district of Berlin and stole up to 20,000 blank passports and other immigration documents as well as official stamps and seals.
• Around 30,000 rejected asylum seekers have disappeared and the government has no idea where they are, according to Bild.
• "One cannot kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place." — German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

The following is a chronological survey of some of the main stories about Islam and Islamism in Germany during the second half of 2017. 
Part 1 of this series can be found here..."
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Illegals commit crimes at double the rate of native-born: Study - Washington Times

Illegals commit crimes at double the rate of native-born: Study - Washington Times:

"His findings also challenge the general narrative that immigrants commit fewer crimes. Those past studies usually don’t look at legal versus illegal populations, Mr. Lott said.
Mr. Lott said the Arizona data is able to peek behind that curtain, and the differences between the populations were stark.
“There appears to be a huge difference between the two groups,” Mr. Lott said. “The type of person who goes through the process to legally immigrate in the United States appears to be very law-abiding versus even the U.S.-born population. The reverse is true for undocumented immigrants — they are committing crimes, and more serious crimes.”"

Maxine Waters Is Giving A National Address On BET After Trump’s State Of The Union

Maxine Waters Is Giving A National Address On BET After Trump’s State Of The Union:
"Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, will speak at the top of a BET News special after Trump delivers the State of the Union, a BET spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
...The spokesperson said activists and some elected officials will analyze Trump’s first year in office on the program, and will talk about "building black politics and the value of engagement across today’s socio-political landscape." 
A Democratic source familiar with the production on Friday night told BuzzFeed News that it wasn't immediately clear if the program would air on Tuesday or Wednesday night."...
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