History for August 16

History for August 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Menachem Begin (Israel) 1913, Shimon Peres 1923 - Israeli politician, Fess Parker 1925 


Robert Culp 1930, Frank Gifford 1930 - Football player, Kathie Lee Gifford 1953 - Television host ("Today") 


James Cameron 1954 - Director ("Titanic"), Madonna Louise Ciccone 1958 - Timothy Hutton 1960 


1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812. 


1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA. They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years old and joined at the waist. 



1923 - Carnegie Steel Corporation put into place the eight-hour workday for its employees. 


1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate courses in traffic engineering and administration. 


1954 - Sports Illustrated was published for the first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses. 


1954 - Jack Paar replaced Walter Cronkite as host of "The Morning Show" on CBS-TV. 


1984 - The U.S. Jaycees voted to admit women to full membership in the organization. 


1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain. 


1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament. 

Hillary Clinton Should be Terrified That Jim Comey Is Investigating Her Email Crimes | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton Should be Terrified That Jim Comey Is Investigating Her Email Crimes | TheBlaze.com:

"To destroy classified documents is a crime.

Constitutional law professor Ronald Rotunda pointed out in the Wall Street Journal that it is a crime (18 U.S.C. section 1519) to destroy even one message to prevent it from being subpoenaed. Prosecutors charging someone with obstruction don’t even have to establish that any investigation was pending. They need only show that the documents were destroyed to make discovery more difficult for future investigators.

Mrs. Clinton already answered that question. In an interview in 2000 she said, “As much as I’ve been investigated and all that. Why would I ever want to do email?”

She gave the emails that she didn’t destroy to her attorney on a thumb drive. She gave them to the State Department in the form of 55,000 pages of printed documents. Thumb drives are searchable. Printed pages are not. Does it strike you that she was being particularly helpful in trying to get the documents out to the public?

Insane new video footage of yesterday's explosion in Tianjin, China.

The School Choice Myth That Just Won't Die

The School Choice Myth That Just Won't Die | Cato @ Liberty
The myth that there’s no evidence that school choice works has more lives than Dracula. 
Worse, it’s often repeated by people who should know better, like the education wonks at Third Way or the ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate education committee. 
In a particularly egregious recent example, a professor of educational leadership and the dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education wrote an op-ed repeating the “no evidence” canard, among others:

The committee also expands the statewide voucher program. There is no evidence privatization [sic] results in better outcomes for kids. The result will be to pay the tuition for students who currently attend private school and who will continue to attend private school—their tuition will become the taxpayers’ bill rather than a private one. Additionally, the funds for the expansion would siphon an estimated $48 million away from public schools, decreasing the amount of money available for each and every school district in the state.

It is astounding that a professor and a dean at a school of education in Wisconsin would be unfamiliar with the research on the Milwaukee voucher program, never mind the numerous gold standard studies on school choice programs elsewhere. 
Fortunately, Professor James Shuls of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Martin Lueken of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty set the record straight:

…the Wisconsin Legislature commissioned a comprehensive five-year study by researchers at the University of Arkansas. The research team matched and compared children at private schools in the choice program to similar students at Milwaukee Public Schools. The study concluded that children in Milwaukee who used vouchers were more likely to graduate from high school, enroll in four-year colleges and persist in college.

These findings are very similar to those of “gold-standard” studies done nationwide. Among 13 peer-reviewed studies on voucher programs that use research methods based on random assignment, all but one study concluded that vouchers benefit students (the other was unable to detect an impact). In addition, recent work by a Harvard economist demonstrates that giving low-income families better educational options can help improve social mobility for children.

...The 2009 study also found that the voucher program produced significant savings to the state taxpayers, as shown in the figure below:

Chart by Robert M. Costrell.

Gun Rights Group Wins ‘Big Victory’ in Court Against Anti-Gun NY Governor: ‘It Was Total Intimidation’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Gun Rights Group Wins ‘Big Victory’ in Court Against Anti-Gun NY Governor: ‘It Was Total Intimidation’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A New York state supreme court judge told Gov. Andrew Cuomo he has 30 days to turn over documents related to a gun-rights rally last year during which state troopers allegedly intimidated attendees and violated their First Amendment rights"

Another lying, moronic teacher exposed-----Teacher Quits, Rips GOP ‘Goons’ — Who Gave Her District $5.3 Million Extra Despite Fewer Students ...

Teacher Quits, Rips GOP ‘Goons’ — Who Gave Her District $5.3 Million Extra Despite Fewer Students ... [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"A Michigan teacher is receiving national media attention for going public with her resignation, claiming that “Gov. Rick Snyder and his Republican goons took over Michigan and declared war on teachers.”
Plymouth-Canton teacher Stephanie Keiles penned her resignation “Why I Can No Longer Teach In Public Education,” which was picked up by MLive, The Washington Post and Huffington Post.
She claims there has been a “chronic, purposeful underfunding of public schools” and that she barely scrapes by on a $63,000-plus salary.
However, her district has received $5.3 million more in state funding spread over the last four budgets approved by the GOP-controlled Legislature than what it received in Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s last budget in 2010-11, according to the Michigan Department of Education.
The Plymouth-Canton school district received that extra $5.3 million (or an average of an additional $1.3 million each year) despite seeing an enrollment decline of 1,366 students in those four years. 
In Michigan, school funding is allocated largely on a per-pupil basis.
Based on Plymouth-Canton's $7,201 per-pupil foundation allowance, a loss of 1,366 students in 2014-15 would equate to a loss of $9.9 million. 
But instead, the state pumped an extra $5.3 million into the district over those four years — a swing to the good of $15.2 million over the baseline of the last Granholm budget.
Also, Keiles claims “my take-home pay has been frozen or decreased for the past five years.” However, the school district said teachers received a pay raise in 2014-15.
Keiles made a salary of $63,171 in 2013-14, according to a Freedom of Information Act request put in to the state.
A Plymouth-Canton official confirmed all teachers received some sort of raise in 2014-15.
In Keiles’ case, that would have been a half-step raise, which amounts to about $1,300.
Keiles’ starting salary in 2006 would have been $39,954.
In her nine years, Keiles’ pay would have increased by an estimated $24,500.
MLive, The Washington Post and Huffington Post all carried the op-ed.
But none checked to see if the claims made by Keiles were accurate, or listed her teaching salary....

American Hostage Kayla Mueller Was Repeatedly Raped by Islamic State Leader Before Death, U.S. Finds | TheBlaze.com

American Hostage Kayla Mueller Was Repeatedly Raped by Islamic State Leader Before Death, U.S. Finds | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. intelligence officials told her family in June.
“They told us that he married her, and we all understand what that means,” Carl Mueller, Kayla’s father, told The Associated Press on Friday, which would have been his daughter’s 27th birthday. Her death was reported in February."

Migrant crisis: Greek ship at Kos to house refugees

Migrant crisis: Greek ship at Kos to house refugees - BBC News
A passenger ship has docked at the Greek island of Kos to be used as a registration centre and accommodation for migrants and refugees.
The vessel could provide temporary shelter for up to 2,500 people.
Greek authorities hope it will help them cope with the influx of migrants - many of them Syrian refugees - who have arrived on the island.
Clashes broke out this week as police tried to contain people being held inside a football stadium.
More police have been drafted in and efforts are being made to speed up the registration process to try to prevent stop further unrest.
Correspondents say the Greek government is calling the ferry a reception facility, but critics view it as a detention facility.
The Eleftherios Venizelos will be the place where migrants can apply for the documents they need to travel to other parts of Europe.
Thousands of migrants have arrived this year on Kos, an island with a population of just 33,000.
EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said in a statement on Friday that the world was facing the "worst refugee crisis since the Second World War."...

Four Social Security myths

Four Social Security myths | Washington Examiner:
"Myth Three
The government guarantees that it will pay you back what you have invested in Social Security when you retire.
Congress calls Social Security a "benefit;" and as such it can change the laws affecting what, if anything, you will receive — at any time.
In the government's view, it only owes the checks that it has written — not the ones it has promised to write.
It is "the government's right and ability to alter potential future benefits," testified Goss.
"Until benefits become due and payable, there is no binding commitment over which a worker has control and so no liability can be recognized.""

Another Obama Administration Official Is Facing Scrutiny Over Private Emails | TheBlaze.com

Another Obama Administration Official Is Facing Scrutiny Over Private Emails | TheBlaze.com:

"Separately, the CEI filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain records on a video Holdren did claiming the severe 2014 winter was caused by climate change. This prompted several scientists who believed climate change was a threat to challenge the scientific claims of the video. The CEI request records on the science used to back up the claims. There has been no action on this case in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

Map: What a year of Islamic State terror looks like

Map: What a year of Islamic State terror looks like - Washington Post:
"The Islamic State has grown beyond its original home in Syria and Iraq, extending its operations into other parts of the Middle East and North Africa by establishing alliances and absorbing other terrorist groups.
Data from IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center reveals how the group has claimed responsibility for carrying out attacks across the region.
The map(s) below reflects a year of Islamic State attacks following the capture of Mosul, one of Iraq's most important cities.
Since then, the militant group has carried out many attacks including a suicide bombing in Abha, Saudi Arabia, a beheading in Egypt, and most recently, a blast in Baghdad Thursday that left at least 60 dead."

Tianjin Explosion Pictures - Explosions in China

Tianjin Explosion Pictures - Explosions in China:
"At least 44 were killed in the series of explosions that rocked the northern China city of Tianjin on Wednesday.
The initial explosion went off at a warehouse in an industrial part of the port city.
By Thursday, 12 firefighters were among the dead and dozens more remained unaccounted for.
The following pictures show the extent of the damage."

A "must read" example of classic liberal delusion.... always funded by other-people's-money-----Few bite on taxpayer-funded cruise ship lure in Detroit

Few bite on taxpayer-funded cruise ship lure in Detroit:
Taxpayers anted up $22 million for a new Detroit riverfront building to entice Great Lakes cruise ships and other passenger traffic. 
They built it — but the ships never came.
Instead, four years after construction of the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority public dock, the building is used almost exclusively by a politically connected catering company for deluxe weddings and other parties.
Only one cruise ship has docked this year at the sleek, 21,000-square-foot building near the Renaissance Center — an improvement from zero in 2014.
The Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority building, meanwhile, gets plenty of party use by its caterer, Troy-based Continental Services.
On its website, the building is marketed as Waterview Loft@Port Detroit, a venue combining “indoor sophistication and outdoor chic” where wedding parties for up to 100 people start at $18,500.
Continental also owns a luxury yacht, the Ovation, that offers party cruises from the port for about $100 per passenger.
The caterer pays $500 docking fees for every cruise, and the arrangement strikes waterfront business owner Gregg Ward as wrong.
“Turning a $22 million taxpayer-funded Port Authority building into a glorified catering hall and political fundraising venue is inappropriate and scandalous,” said Ward, who operates a truck ferry on the Detroit River.
Ward referred to a $1,000-a-plate birthday party last July for Mayor Mike Duggan that public records indicate raised at least $40,000 for his nonprofit.
John Loftus, the authority’s current executive director, put an end to such fundraisers when he arrived last August, saying rules are “very clear” about about such events on public property. “You don’t do political functions,” he said.
...Continental Services is a well-known company that also has a contract to serve inmate meals at the Wayne County jail.
Its founders, Alex and James Bardy, donate heavily to Democrats and local officials.
A political action committee affiliated with their company, Sterling PAC of Continental Services, was formed by longtime Democratic fundraiser Ron Thayer, campaign records show.
It has donated tens of thousands of dollars over the years to local officials including Duggan, Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon and Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel.
Weddings and corporate events provide the authority with one of its few consistent revenue sources, almost $140,000 in 2014.
Continental pays the authority 15 percent of event sales, with a $1,500 minimum per event.
That’s not much more than the $128,000 the authority spent on office expenses that year, according to an audit of the agency.
Almost all of the authority’s $1 million budget comes from federal grants and subsidies from the state, city and Wayne County.
...Continental’s estimate was $38,000 for 150 guests, more than twice that quoted at comparable venues, Mongo said.
“This is supposed to be a public building.
Instead, we spent $22 million to host parties and for a private yacht,” Mongo said.
“The symbolism of it is awful.”
Loftus said he’s working to bring in ferry service to Windsor and cruise ships but cites problems, including resistance from U.S. Customs officials.
The cruise ship St. Laurent docked in Detroit two weeks ago after an unexpected route change.
“They liked it so much they decided to come back,” Loftus said.
But when the ship returned last week, U.S. Customs officials refused to staff the terminal so passengers could disembark: they landed in Windsor instead.
“I have been going back and forth with (Customs) and I am at my wit’s end,” he said.
Kris Grogan, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, responded in an email that the agency “has never refused to service passenger/cruise ships in Detroit.”
“The facility in question has not been completed and does not meet the IT and security requirements necessary to properly process cruise vessels and/or cruise passengers,” Grogan wrote in the email.
“These and other issues were discussed with the Detroit Port Authority over 4 years ago.”
Another former frequent user of the port, The Yankee Clipper, was seized by a German bank in 2013.
...“Detroit had to make this investment to become a viable port of call,” Conlin said.
“Is it a build it and they will come situation? 
I think it is.”

Beck Shocked by This ‘Disturbing’ John Kerry Quote: ‘Where the Hell Is the Press!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Beck Shocked by This ‘Disturbing’ John Kerry Quote: ‘Where the Hell Is the Press!’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Kerry was speaking at a Reuters event when he warned that if the deal doesn’t pass, “That is a recipe very quickly, my friends, business people here, for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world – which is already bubbling out there.”

“For him to say that, that’s a very big deal!” Beck remarked. “Remember when I said the United States dollar would not be the … economic reserve currency? What did they say about me? … I was a kook for seven years for saying that! Now you have the head of the State Department coming out and saying, ‘If you don’t go with that vote, the dollar will lose its reserve currency.’”

The truth shocks!!-----Hillary's Cribs Shock Young People

History for August 15

History for August 15 - On-This-Day.com
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769, Sir Walter Scott 1771, T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") 1888 


Julia Child 1912, Phyllis Schlafly 1924, Ben Affleck 1972 




1848 - The dental chair was patented by M. Waldo Hanchett. 


1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone. 


1911 - The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company. 


1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon. 


1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK. 


1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. 


1948 - CBS-TV inaugurated the first nightly news broadcast with anchorman Douglas Edwards. 


1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices. 


1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina. 


1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up. 

Why Some Economists Think China’s Currency Devaluation Could Be the ‘Start of Something Big, Something Ugly’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Why Some Economists Think China’s Currency Devaluation Could Be the ‘Start of Something Big, Something Ugly’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Economist Albert Edwards with the French bank Societe Generale had strong words along these lines.
“Make no mistake, this is the start of something big, something ugly,” Edwards told the Guardian, adding that he believes the devaluation could result in a “a tidal wave of deflation” across the world.

Here’s more from the Guardian on what this could mean:"

Mexico hands out free TVs to the poor in massive giveaway

Mexico hands out free TVs to the poor in massive giveaway - The Orange County Register:
"MEXICO CITY – Cradling a flat-screen television set in her arms, Tomasa Lopez beamed at her good fortune:
She’d just taken part in the world’s biggest distribution of free digital televisions.
Lopez, a domestic servant, was among thousands of people who’ve thronged a cavernous tent in the populous working-class Iztapalapa district, one of hundreds of venues across Mexico where the poor are receiving some of the 10 million digital television sets the government is giving away at no charge.
It’s a program costing the Mexican treasury $1.6 billion in a push to convert the nation from analog television signals to a digital format. The United States made the switch in 2009.
“I am happy,” Lopez said. “We’ve always wanted a digital television. We’ll see more channels. The kids will see cartoons.”
Other nations, such as Argentina, have given away digital television sets, but none on the scale of Mexico, and the program has proved controversial.
Critics question why the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto is giving away 24-inch flat-screen televisions, each costing around $145, when decoder boxes that allow older analog televisions to remain in use - the U.S. solution - cost only about $40.
It’s not just the recipients of TVs who benefit.
Television manufacturers clustered along Mexico’s northern border also profit, as do the two powerful media conglomerates that are moving quickly into digital services.
The two companies will soon face competition from a third television network mandated into existence in 2013 with a constitutional reform to bring greater competition to the industry.
At the entrance to the delivery tent, a recipient of a television set, Jose Luis Rodriguez, reproached a government official for suggesting the sets were free.
“Stop using that word. It’s paid for with our taxes. It’s not free,” sputtered Rodriguez, who works for the federal social security institute..."

The Obama Era Just Hit Another Amazing Low Point! - Eagle Rising

The Obama Era Just Hit Another Amazing Low Point! - Eagle Rising:

"Let's face it, we are being led by a Marxist administration that has the downfall of America in mind. At the rate things are moving, it won't be long until we find ourselves under full-blown fascism.

Derrick Wilburn wrote about the BLS statistics release in light of the current Trump/Kelly ongoing saga and reminded his fellow Americans, "I'm a little tired of pulling. But until we get more people paying attention to the substance than the flash, we have little chance of turning this nation around."

Women Wearing Makeup - Sexist Makeup Tax

Women Wearing Makeup - Sexist Makeup Tax | National Review Online:
IT’S COME TO THIS: The Fact that Most Women Wear Makeup Is Now Being Called a Sexist ‘Makeup Tax.’

Huh — I thought the left likes more and more taxes. If the “makeup tax” is bad, please tell me more about what other taxes you’d like to cut along with it.

(Headline via Hot Air.)

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"The fact that most women spend more time and money on beauty products than men do isn’t just a reflection of the two sexes’ different priorities — it’s now being called a “makeup tax” and “another form of pay inequality.”
The discussion began when Facebook staffer Libby Brittain asked about it during Hillary Clinton’s July 20 Facebook Q&A:
Every morning, as my boyfriend zips out the door and I spend 30+ minutes getting ready, I wonder about how the ‘hair-and-makeup tax’ affects other women — especially ones I admire in high-pressure, public-facing jobs.
Clinton attempted to look really cool in her reply (it literally began with “Amen, sister!”) but she didn’t actually answer the question about whether or not she considered it a “tax.”
...For example, one piece titled “Women’s health is taxed by makeup, too,” in a liberal blog called Treehugger, explains that the burden goes beyond time and money.
“There’s another way that women pay the makeup tax, one that’s much harder to quantify,” the author, Margaret Badore, continues. “I’m taking (sic) about the price women pay with their health in the pursuit of looking ‘put together.’”...

Post office: Mailmen can assess health of elderly to ease budget woes

Post office: Mailmen can assess health of elderly to ease budget woes | The American Mirror: "According to the Postal Service, your mailman can not only deliver your letters and packages, but can be a handy helper, too.
That’s the latest idea for the giant bureaucracy that’s bleeding money everyday.
A new report from the Inspector General proposes several ways for the financially struggling agency to help its budget situation.
Among them: turn letter carriers into handy helpers.
The IG outlines a plan “to have the mailman stop in to help the elderly, by assessing their health and even setting up their new TV,” WSB reports.
The IG wrote, “The postal service could coordinate and collaborate with wellness organizations to offer new and far-reaching services to older Americans nationwide.”
The report also proposes the postal service could deliver groceries and medications to the elderly.
...The Postal Service has had chronic budget problems for years.
According to the news station, the agency has lost $586 million dollars in the past three months alone.
Some aren’t buying the idea that the agency could branch out into such areas.
“They aren’t even, right now, able to deliver the mail effectively without losing money and yet they now are on this new kick where they’re looking at new businesses,” Leslie Paige with Citizens against Government Waste says..."

Hillary Clinton's servergate IT company accused of illegal actions

Hillary Clinton's servergate IT company accused of illegal actions | Daily Mail Online:
EXCLUSIVE: Tech company which maintained Hillary's secret server was sued for 'illegally accessing' database and 'stealing White House military advisers' phone numbers'

• Platte River Networks was used by Clinton to maintain 'homebrew' server in her New York State house which held her State Department emails 
• She handed over the server and a thumb drive this week to FBI after emails were found to contain 'above top secret' material 
• Her White House campaign is said to be in 'panic' over the growing scandal which comes out of probe into US diplomats' deaths in Benghazi 
• Daily Mail Online can reveal Denver, Colorado, based firm was sued for illegally accessing master database of US phone numbers 
• It was also accused of causing chaos to White House military advisers when their numbers stopped working as it took their numbers 
• Case raises questions over how Platte River Networks' ability to secure server which would have been major target for foreign spy hackers

Judge Hands Down Big Ruling on Dad Who Openly Carried Gun Inside Daughter’s ‘Gun-Free Zone’ School | TheBlaze.com

Judge Hands Down Big Ruling on Dad Who Openly Carried Gun Inside Daughter’s ‘Gun-Free Zone’ School | TheBlaze.com:

"A Michigan judge has ruled in favor of a father who wanted to open carry inside his daughter’s school, despite it being a “gun-free zone.”

According to the Detroit Free Press, Kenneth Herman sued a Clio, Michigan, school district, arguing that he was denied access to his daughter’s elementary school on multiple occasions when he tried to pick her up from the school because he was openly carrying his pistol."

Good grief!-----Al Gore's Friends and Former Aides Eyeing 2016 Race

Al Gore's Friends and Former Aides Eyeing 2016 Race - ABC News:
"A one-time high-ranking political adviser to Al Gore tells ABC News that a group of friends and former aides are having a “soft conversation” about the possibility that Gore run for president in 2016.
The adviser cautions that there have been no formal or even informal moves by Gore himself -– but that the former vice president has not ruled out anything. This was first reported by BuzzFeed.
...It’s all against the backdrop of growing concern in the Democratic Party about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
A poll this week in New Hampshire had her trailing Bernie Sanders, the first time a major poll this election cycle has shown anyone other than Hillary Clinton to be leading the field."

Months ago, Colo. town resisted allowing EPA tests that caused toxic disaster

Months ago, Colo. town resisted allowing EPA tests that caused toxic disaster | Fox News:
"Five months before the Animas River toxic spill disaster, leaders from the tiny Colorado mining town of Silverton pleaded with EPA officials to not perform tests that would declare the area a Superfund site.
Yet the Environmental Protection Agency was intent on ferreting out “widespread soil contamination” from historic mines, even though the town was tested five years ago and no problems were found.
“The fact is that our mission is to protect human health and the environment and not to stick our heads in the sand and not look,” declared Steve Wharton, head of a Superfund response team.
His comments were contained in a March 27 article that appeared in the local Silverton Standard newspaper.
On Aug. 5, an EPA crew breached a debris dam at the old Gold King Mine, and 3 million gallons of water containing lead and arsenic flowed into the Animas River.
The poisons turned the water bright orange and have since flowed into Utah and New Mexico, creating an epic disaster affecting farmers, towns and the Navajo Nation, which rely on the water.
The crews had started to collect soil samples sometime after June 23."

Stand for Israel - Tell Washington -- Tell Congress Iran Cannot Be Trusted!

Stand for Israel - Tell Washington -- Tell Congress Iran Cannot Be Trusted!:

"The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are the last line of defense to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear sponsor or terror.
Iran has made their hatred of Israel and the United States very clear.
We must speak up before this disastrous agreement becomes reality.
Tell your senators and representatives to stand for Israel and the safety of America. Fill in and submit the form below to send a “No Nukes for Iran” email message to the congressman and senators from your state."

Gowdy Does Not Mince Words Reacting to Hillary Email Revelation: ‘This Is a National Security Issue’ | TheBlaze.com

Gowdy Does Not Mince Words Reacting to Hillary Email Revelation: ‘This Is a National Security Issue’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Gowdy expressed much concern over the inspector general for the intelligence community noting that emails deemed “TOP SECRET” traversed through her server.

“The IC Inspector General revealed Secretary Clinton’s emails and server contained not just ‘top secret’ classified information, but ‘compartmented’ classified intelligence not releasable to foreigners, which must be noted in the timing of this announcement,” Gowdy said."

★ U.S. Armed Forces - We Must Fight - President Reagan (HD) 2015 ★