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History for January 30

History for January 30 - On-This-Day.com
Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882, Gene Hackman 1931, Louis Rukeyser 1933


Dick Cheney 1941 - U.S. Vice President for George W. Bush, Phil Collins 1951 - Singer, drummer (Genesis), Christian Bale 1974 - Actor


1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.

1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.

'No way to dress that up': Trump lawyer’s Biden-Burisma arguments draw praise from even CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin - TheBlaze

'No way to dress that up': Trump lawyer’s Biden-Burisma arguments draw praise from even CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin - TheBlaze:

Pam Bondi's breakdown of the corruption concerns surrounding Hunter Biden's business dealings in the Ukraine during the Senate impeachment trial were so effective, that even CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin had to give her credit for it.
During the White House defense team's opening arguments Monday, the former Florida attorney general argued that questions about potential corruption surrounding the Bidens' dealings in the Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president and Hunter Biden was employed as a board member at the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma were indeed legitimate.

The way we were-----The Homefront 1940 to 1941 - Volume 1

Boob-tube-----The Clampett's Strike Oil

Yes, they HATE FREE SPEECH!-----Democrats pressure Google to censor climate skeptics on YouTube – JunkScience.com

Democrats pressure Google to censor climate skeptics on YouTube – JunkScience.com

Democrats pressure Google to censor climate skeptics on YouTube

Totalitarian Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) demands Google censor climate skeptics on YouTube. 
Not only are we winning the debate… we are forcing our opponents to show who the actual would-be-dictators are. 
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Watchdog: Illinois fiscal health 2nd worst in nation

Watchdog: Illinois fiscal health 2nd worst in nation

• Illinois politicians have too often ignored the necessity of true pension reform and instead opted for tax hikes.

A government accounting watchdog has slapped Illinois with an F grade in finances, ranking the state’s fiscal health second worst in the nation.
Truth in Accounting’s annual “Financial State of the States” report ranks Illinois 49th in the nation for fiscal health, earning the designation of “Sinkhole State.”
...Chicago ranked worst in the nation, with each Chicago taxpayer on the hook for nearly $120,000.
Unsurprisingly, pensions were also the biggest chunk of city taxpayers’ debt burden..."
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Ken Starr: Partisan Impeachment Was 'Evil' that Founders Warned About

Ken Starr: Partisan Impeachment Was 'Evil' that Founders Warned About:

President Donald Trump’s Lawyer Ken Starr reminded senators on Monday that the Founders were concerned by the possibility of partisan impeachment, which is why there should be a high threshold for the proceedings.
Starr, the former independent counsel during the Clinton impeachment, opened up the president’s defense on Monday afternoon in a speech detailing the threshold of impeachment.

The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns - Minding The Campus

The Trans Agenda Could Make You Choose Your Pronouns - Minding The Campus
"In early December, Merriam-Webster named “they” the 2019 Word of the Year.
...At my own university, one can choose to have their personal pronouns displayed in the public directory: choices include “they/them” and “ze/hir.”
For students, these selected pronouns also appear on class rosters.
Speakers at meetings and on panels often introduce themselves as “Jane Doe, she/her.”
...In short, in higher education, pronouns are everywhere.
Pronouns are, of course, just one part of the larger transgender movement, and that movement itself finds an accommodating home on college campuses.
...But within this larger movement, pronouns have come to represent more than just lexical items. Rather, they’ve transformed into ideological shorthand that signals to one’s audience support for transgender rights, that one is on the “right” side of history.
Their ubiquity renders them a powerful cudgel to beat down any dissenters. 
If stating one’s pronouns has become unquestioned dogma, then it follows the omission of these statements signals something too: perhaps a touch of heterodoxy, a public confession that one may not toe the acceptable party line..."
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A warning from 2018-----What is 'ballot harvesting' and how was it used in California elections? - The San Diego Union-Tribune

What is 'ballot harvesting' and how was it used in California elections? - The San Diego Union-Tribune--DEC. 4, 2018

"In the wake of last month’s blue wave that wrested control of the House from Republicans and transferred it to the Democratic Party, some members of the GOP are complaining about the results and and the practice of so-called “ballot harvesting” in California.
In the most high-profile example, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said last week that California “defies logic” and that he “can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”
What is it, and why should you know? 

Read on, but first some context as the question is not unique to California.

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Paul Ryan: "California just defies logic to me... We were only down 26 seats the night of the election & 3 weeks later, we lost basically every contested CA race. This election system they have - I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is." http://hill.cm/x25jGqF 

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The issue of “ballot harvesting” also captured the media spotlight this week in North Carolina where the practice is not allowed ... Read all!

Lunch video-----Fireside Chat Ep. 118 — Why Millennials Support Communism

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Virginia Sheriff Richard Vaughan Explains Why He Won’t Enforce Gov. Ralph Northam’s Gun Control Laws | The Daily Caller

Virginia Sheriff Richard Vaughan Explains Why He Won’t Enforce Gov. Ralph Northam’s Gun Control Laws | The Daily Caller:

Virginia Sheriff Richard Vaughan went viral at the Richmond gun rights rally earlier in January for refusing to enforce the Democratic Party’s gun control laws. Now he’s telling the Daily Caller exactly why.
Roughly 22,000 gun-rights advocates demonstrated at the Virginia capital. More than 100 localities in the state that have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. City governments and sheriffs like Vaughan of Grayson County have vowed not to use their resources to enforce the gun control laws Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is currently pushing through the state legislature.

They Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm

They Will Still Hate You Even If You Disarm
"...Remember, everything the mainstream media tells you at the behest of the liberal elite is a lie and a scam designed to increase their power and wealth by diminishing your power and wealth.
...Weird how the liberal solution to every problem is always to make you less free.
One of their tactics is exhaustion - to exhaust the weak among us and get them to say, “Gosh, if we just give in we can put this unpleasantness behind us.”
But you can’t put anything behind you with these people, because there is nothing to put behind you. It’s all a lie.
You are not a racist.
Your guns won’t hurt anyone but criminals and aspiring tyrants.
And the leftists know it.
They know they are spewing skeevy slanders, and if you give in on this one - handing over your AR-15 and hanging your head over prejudices you don’t possess - the libs and their newsprint lackeys will just club you with another set of grievances that you can only atone for through further submission.
It will never end. 
They will always hate you.
Always.
Nothing you can do will change that.
Nothing.
So get used to it and invite them to pound sand..."
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This is the best the democrats can buy?

Ron M. on Twitter: "Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005.

Ron M. on Twitter: 

• Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005.
• Astounding numbers as US heads into 2020 election season..
• Nation strongly more satisfied re: Economy, Security, Social Issues, Race Relations etc under President Trump/Pence than under President Obama/Biden.

#1 This day 1985-----Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is (Official Music Video)

President Trump - If you want your children to inherit the blessings...

Janet Shagam - If you want your children to inherit the blessings...
If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died to secure—then we must devote everything we have toward victory in 2020. 
Only this way, can we save the America we love – and drain the Washington Swamp once and for all!
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2020

“If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died to secure—then we must devote everything we have toward victory in 2020. Only this way, can we save the America we love – and drain the Washington Swamp once and for all!”

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Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died to secure—then we must devote everything we have toward victory in 2020. Only this way, can we save the America we love – and drain the Washington Swamp once and for all!”