History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com
Richard Cobden 1804 - Manufacturer, English politician, Jefferson Davis 1808/1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis


Allen Ginsberg 1926 - Writer, poet, Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove"), Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player


1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.


1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.

Barr Says Official Explanation For Trump Surveillance Isn’t Adding Up | The Daily Caller

Barr Says Official Explanation For Trump Surveillance Isn’t Adding Up | The Daily Caller:

Attorney General William Barr says that official statements about the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation “are just not jiving” with information he has learned during his short stint in office.
“I assumed I’d get answers when I went in and I have not gotten answers that are well satisfactory, and in fact probably have more questions,” Barr said in an interview with CBS News, adding that “some of the facts that…I’ve learned don’t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.”

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News - Upcoming Medicare Insolvency Poses Big Challenges for Government, Individuals | Heartland Institute

News - Upcoming Medicare Insolvency Poses Big Challenges for Government, Individuals | Heartland Institute

• Medicare’s assets will be depleted by 2026, the 2019 Medicare Board of Trustees Annual Report states.

"In 2018, expenditures for Medicare Part A exceeded income by $1.6 billion, and the Annual Report projects deficits for all future years until the trust fund becomes insolvent in 2026. 
...“Those with modified adjusted gross income under $85k or $170K, single or joint [filing, respectively], will be held harmless, and their Social Security check will remain mostly the same,” said Klein. 
“Those with higher incomes will pay more.”..."
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These Ex-Congressmen Didn’t Even Have To Leave DC For Their New Jobs. Here’s Why | The Daily Caller

These Ex-Congressmen Didn’t Even Have To Leave DC For Their New Jobs. Here’s Why | The Daily Caller:

Roughly 60% of recently defeated or retired members of Congress went straight to lobbying firms and other gigs with political influence, according to a report by left-leaning advocacy group Public Citizen published Thursday.
The report examined members of the 115th Congress taking part in the so-called “revolving door of K Street” — lawmakers using their connections to join lobbying firms once they are out of office. Law mandates ex-House members must wait a year to lobby their former colleagues, while ex-senators must wait two. While there is a waiting period for congressmen, “they often engage in so-called shadow lobbying, participating in activities that might be considered lobbying but declining to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA),” according to Open Secrets.

If it walks like a crook...-----If Liberals Were Held To Their Own Standards

If Liberals Were Held To Their Own Standards
"...Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) loves to moralize about President Trump, particularly about his finances.
...a Congressman with a history of financial problems suddenly becoming flush thanks to his wife’s business coming into millions from companies his committee oversees.
Cummings had a history of financial problems – missed mortgage payments and tax debt – stemming, in part, from child support payments he owed to his ex-wife and two other women who were not his wife.
Curiously, his new wife brought financial security.
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijah’s second wife, is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party. She also has a couple of side organizations that are doing extremely well thanks to businesses with business before Cummings’ committee. 
She’s taken in millions, in fact.
...What’s even more weird, one of those organizations – the “non-profit” – has a legal obligation to provide financial records to anyone who requests them.
These records would show how much money came in and, more interestingly, how much went out and to whom.
But the groups, called the Center for Global Policy Solutions, is refusing to turn over those records..."
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MSM caught half-lying again.

Michigan Capitol Confidential - Posts:
"An MLive story on teacher salaries in Michigan reported that Fitzgerald Public Schools teacher Greg Queen was “unable to provide for his family with earnings from a high school teaching job.” 
Queen told MLive that his wife had to go back to working.
MLive did not publish Queen’s salary at the Macomb County district.
He was paid $81,968 in 2017-18."

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AG Barr: Mueller Could’ve Reached A Conclusion On Obstruction Of Justice | The Daily Caller

AG Barr: Mueller Could’ve Reached A Conclusion On Obstruction Of Justice | The Daily Caller:

Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with CBS News that he believes now-former special counsel Robert Mueller could’ve reached a conclusion as to whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.
Mueller, after completing his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, said that he did not find evidence of a conspiracy but declined to make a decision on obstruction.

Netflix Continues Production In Egypt, Where Abortion Is Illegal, While Considering Georgia Boycott Over ‘Heartbeat’ Bill | The Daily Caller

Netflix Continues Production In Egypt, Where Abortion Is Illegal, While Considering Georgia Boycott Over ‘Heartbeat’ Bill | The Daily Caller:
"Netflix plans to step up production in the Middle East, notably Jordan and Egypt, where abortion is illegal, after mulling a company boycott in Georgia on account of the “heartbeat” abortion bill.
Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, stated, Tuesday, that the company would “rethink” its Georgia investments if the “heartbeat” abortion bill takes effect.
Netflix’s expressed reluctance to produce content in regions with strong anti-abortion laws seemingly does not extend to the Middle East, where recently the company has been ramping up the number of undertaken projects, according to Variety..."
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Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science - The Atlantic

Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science - The Atlantic:

• Amid heightened tensions on college campuses, well-established scientific ideas are suddenly meeting with stiff political resistance.

"I have taught evolution and genetics at Williams College for about a decade.
 For most of that time, the only complaints I got from students were about grades. 
...The trouble began when we discussed the notion of heritability as it applies to human intelligence. 
(Heritability is the degree to which offspring genetically resemble their parents; the concept can apply not only to physical traits, but also to behavioral ones.) 

In a classroom discussion, I noted that researchers have measured a large average difference in IQ between the inhabitants of the United States and those of my home country, Brazil. 
...My approach has been to teach students...by explaining how scientists understand heritability today, and by discussing how to interpret intelligence data—and how not to.

In class, though, some students argued instead that it is impossible to measure IQ in the first place, that IQ tests were invented to ostracize minority groups, or that IQ is not heritable at all. 
None of these arguments is true. 
In fact, IQ can certainly be measured, and it has some predictive value. 
While the score may not reflect satisfaction in life, it does correlate with academic success. 
And while IQ is very highly influenced by environmental differences, it also has a substantial heritable component; about 50 percent of the variation in measured intelligence among individuals in a population is based on variation in their genes. 
Even so, some students, without any evidence, started to deny the existence of heritability as a biological phenomenon..."
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When democrats are in control-----LAPD says officers are coming down with typhoid fever, as rats and homeless multiply

LAPD says officers are coming down with typhoid fever, as rats and homeless multiply
"Cops are people who sometimes have to take on thankless dirty jobs, because someone has to take out the trash, but now that they're coming down with typhus-like illnesses, based on the multiplication of the homeless population and the accompanying rats, one wonders how fair this is — or, more to the point, if maybe leftists making policy wanted it this way..."

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Makes sense to me!

Newly Released documents Show Prosecutors Told Chicago Police To Lay Off Smollett Weeks Before Letting Actor Walk | The Daily Caller

Newly Released documents Show Prosecutors Told Chicago Police To Lay Off Smollett Weeks Before Letting Actor Walk | The Daily Caller:

Cook County prosecutors told police to lay off their investigation of Jussie Smollett weeks before his charges for reporting a fake hate crime were dropped.
Assistant State Attorney Risa Lanier had already decided in late February to drop the charges against Smollett because he made good for his actions by paying “Chicago $10,000 in restitution and doing community service,” according to police documents released Thursday.

Why vegans must not own cats | The Spectator

Why vegans must not own cats | The Spectator
"Is it ethical for vegans to own cats?
It’s an interesting question because vegans look set to take over — there are more than 3.5 million now, up from 500,000 in 2016 (in UK), and a fifth of us say we’d eat less meat if only we could be bothered.
Veganism is the life-style choice for the thoughtful and planet-conscious.
The only thing more 21st century than veganism is cats.
Cat ownership in the UK is growing at almost as impressive a rate.
A quarter of all British adults have cats.
...But does it make sense for vegans to own cats?
No, it absolutely does not.
It’s demented.
I find it fascinating that some of the most concerned and consciously moral people on the planet are also among the most deluded.
...an outdoor cat is a psychotic death machine. 
Those boneless fur balls you see draped on garden walls in the morning, yawning and snake-toothed? They spent dawn decapitating baby robins.
...Cats in this country kill more than 250 million small mammals a year — and some 11 million songbirds.
In America cats take an annual toll of three billion birds..."
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History for June 2

History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies, Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon


Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver"), Dennis Haysbert 1954 - Actor ("24"), Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving")



1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.


1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.