History for February 7

History for February 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Sir Thomas More 1478, John Deere 1804, Sinclair Lewis 1885 


Gay Talese 1932, Garth Brooks 1962, Ashton Kutcher 1978 


1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.


1893 - Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.


1913 - The Turks lost 5,000 men in a battle with the Bulgarian army in Gallipoli.


1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.


1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.


1944 - During World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy.


1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.


1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City.

Glenn Beck Explains Why He Believes California Flipped From a Red State to a Blue State | Video | TheBlaze.com

Glenn Beck Explains Why He Believes California Flipped From a Red State to a Blue State | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Beck believes the reason President Barack Obama has not aggressively pursued immigration reform is because he has to “flood this country with people” for the upcoming presidential election.

“With what this president is doing, he knows now, the amnesty thing is in trouble. I’ve got to flood this country with people. So now he’s telling people, ‘Stand down,’ and he’s flooding our nation. Our culture is at stake,” Beck concluded."

Little Evidence That Unions Make Workers Safer

Little Evidence That Unions Make Workers Safer [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Are workers safer when they’re forced to pay union fees in order to have a job?
Repeating a talking point used in Michigan and other states, union leaders at the AFL-CIO are warning West Virginians a right-to-work law would lead to more injuries and deaths on the job.
Right-to-work prevents unions from having workers fired for refusing to pay union fees. 
Right-to-work doesn’t restrict union membership or negotiations over safety equipment, training, or anything else.
Recent federal data show workplace injury and fatality rates continuing a decades-long decline in right-to-work and forced unionization states alike.
The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics nonfatal work injury figures are from 2014, just one year after Michigan implemented right-to-work and two years after Indiana did so.
Michigan’s nonfatal occupational injury rate was 4.1 per 100,000 full-time employees in 2012, the year before right-to-work took effect.
The state’s nonfatal work injury rate declined to 3.8 in 2013 and 3.7 in 2014.
In 2011 – the year before Indiana’s right-to-work law took effect – Indiana had a nonfatal work injury rate of 4.3 per 100,000 full-time employees.
That rate dropped to 4.0 in 2012, dropped again to 3.8 in 2013, and was 4.0 in 2014.
Not only have new right-to-work states reported declining workplace injury rates,  in many cases right-to-work states are statistically safer than forced unionization states..."

If We’re All So Connected, Why are Our Kids so Lonely?

If We’re All So Connected, Why are Our Kids so Lonely? | Intellectual Takeout:
"Heading out on an overnight school trip, my daughter spent 90 minutes each way on the bus with her classmates.
Before the trip, the school laid out the electronic use policy—students would be allowed to use iPhones and iPads on the drive to and from their retreat but not during their stay.
A few parents questioned the need for devices at all—can’t they talk to each other for 90 minutes?—but the policy stood.
 I sent my daughter off with a few books, a journal, and pens.
When she returned, the review was glowing: the place where they stayed was awesome, she loved having roommates (“Maybe we can look at some sleep-away camps this summer?”), the food was yummy, and the classes were fun.
Everything was great—except for the bus ride. 
“I was one of only a few kids who didn’t have an iPhone or iPad,” she told me.
I shrugged my shoulders as if to say, “That’s OK.”
But clearly it wasn’t.
“It’s lonely when everyone else is on a device except you,” came her serious reply."

Fiery ‘Christian Patrol’ Group That Clashed With Muslims Takes to the Streets Again for ‘Victims of Terror’ March. Here’s What Happened. | TheBlaze.com

Fiery ‘Christian Patrol’ Group That Clashed With Muslims Takes to the Streets Again for ‘Victims of Terror’ March. Here’s What Happened. | TheBlaze.com:

“I’ve had enough of no-go zones. I’ve had enough of Muslim appeasement. I’ve had enough of burqas and being told I look like an [inaudible] because my eyes aren’t the only thing you can see,” group leader Jayda Fransen shouted from a podium. ”I’ve had enough of going to every eating establishment and being told they’re selling halal. Why are they selling halal? This is Britain! We don’t eat halal meat in Britain!”

She continued, “Their ideology prevents integration into our way of life. It does not conform with western values. It never will.”

The Ethanol Mandate Is Literally Impossible

The Ethanol Mandate Is Literally Impossible | Foundation for Economic Education
The fantastic, scandalous, contradictory history of ethanol
In recent years, politicians set impossibly high mandates for the amounts of ethanol motorists must buy in 2022, while also setting impossibly high standards for the fuel economy of cars sold in 2025.
To accomplish these conflicting goals, motorists are now given tax credits to drive heavily-subsidized electric cars, even as they will supposedly be required to buy more and more ethanol-laced fuel each year.
Why have such blatantly contradictory laws received so little criticism, if not outrage? 
Probably because ethanol mandates and electric car subsidies are lucrative sources of federal grants, loans, subsidies and tax credits for “alternative fuels” and electric cars.
Those on the receiving end lobby hard to keep the gravy train rolling while those paying the bills lack the same motivation to become informed, or to organize and lobby.
Read on!

Karl Marx the Most Assigned Text at Michigan Colleges

Karl Marx the Most Assigned Text at Michigan Colleges [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
According to the Open Syllabus Project, a database of over 1 million college course outlines from the past decade, Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto” is the most frequently assigned book on Michigan college campuses.
The book appears in the syllabi of 90 Michigan college courses, nine more than “Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley.
One book is about a grotesque experiment thrust upon the world with tragic consequences, and the other is the classic novel “Frankenstein.”
The Open Syllabus Project is not fully comprehensive.
It notes, “Our matching algorithms also have some difficulty with short titles based on commonly-used words, and more so when these lack an author. This affects a very small number of works, but some significant ones like 'The Bible' and 'The Constitution.' ”
The book (Marx not Shelley) calls for the “abolition of individuality and freedom” and an end to the capitalist system, and can be purchased on the website www.MarxistBooks.com.

Lunch video-----Sanders Supporters Have No Clue What Socialism Is

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How Much Do Bernie Sanders Supporters Really Know About the Socialist Candidate? Jesse Watters Finds Out | TheBlaze.com

How Much Do Bernie Sanders Supporters Really Know About the Socialist Candidate? Jesse Watters Finds Out | TheBlaze.com:

"During a segment on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday, Jesse Watters asked students at the University of Oregon why they support Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who describes himself as a Democratic socialist."

Super-EMP Missile Launch Window Approaches: "A Mortal Nuclear Threat To The United States – Right Now"

Super-EMP Missile Launch Window Approaches: "A Mortal Nuclear Threat To The United States – Right Now":
As of this writing, North Korea intends to launch another Unha-3 rocket, or a larger and more efficient version in a launch window falling between 8 – 25 February.  
This launch follows on the heels of a nuclear test conducted by North Korea on January 6, 2016, and the claim by Kim Jung-Un that the bomb was a hydrogen bomb.  
The MSM pundits and their positivist quacking “experts” all state the bomb was not a hydrogen bomb; however, experts such as Peter V. Pry disagree.

What was discussed by Dr. Pry was the intentionally low-yield weapon test that would have been optimal for a miniaturized EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) device, that range being 5-10 kilotons.  

...Let us return to Dr. Pry, who explained the details of the reality of just how far along North Korea truly is, as he wrote:

“…North Korea is a mortal nuclear threat to the United States – right now.  North Korea has already successfully tested and developed nuclear weapons.  It has also already miniaturized nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery and has armed missiles with nuclear warheads.

Any nuclear weapon detonated above an altitude of 30 kilometers will generate an electromagnetic pulse that will destroy electronics and could collapse the electric power grid and other critical infrastructures – communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water – that sustain modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans.  All could be destroyed by a single nuclear weapon making an EMP attack..."

First Woman to Enlist in Combat? Yeah, She's AWOL...

First Woman to Enlist in Combat? Yeah, She's AWOL... » Louder With Crowder:
"Everyone was happy when the Obama Administration declared that women could serve in combat. This was a major stepping stone in equality and social justice!
Take this one heartwarming story in Tennessee…
Great story, right?
Uplifting. Girl power. #YesAllWomen, etc.
Here’s the rub…she went AWOL.
The first woman in Tennessee to enlist as a combat engineer in the Army went AWOL according to a military spokesperson.
Local 8 News was first to tell you about Erika Lopez back in July of 2015.
She made headlines when she enlisted for a job that could involve fighting on the front lines. 
The U.S. Army had just lifted its ban on women in combat roles when she walked into a recruiting office in Knoxville and decided to enlist as a combat engineer.
Lopez was in basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
An Army spokesperson tells Local 8 News that Private Lopez was scheduled to return from convalescent leave on January 4th. 
She was reported absent without leave (AWOL) on January 5th after she failed to return..."

As Men Go, So Goes the Future

As Men Go, So Goes the Future | PJ Media:
"In the wake of repeated and escalating Muslim attacks on women throughout Europe, Popular Danish columnist Iben Thranholm dares to state the obvious: the problem lies not only with the violent sexism of immigrant Muslim males but also with the weakness of the boys from home. 
In a column called "Europe's Tragedy: Too Much Angela Merkel, Too Little Masculinity," Miss Thranholm writes:
Pundits and politicians assure the public that refugee males now storming the gates of Europe from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia will be required to learn that Western women are independent and sexually liberated. 
Such arguments, however, are obviously too weak to have any impact on the male cultures representative of certain refugee groups.
To these individuals, strong European women are ‘easy’ and easy victims; they have respect only for strong men – and strong men aren't exactly thick on the ground in Europe.
The deficiency of masculinity in European culture renders it impotent in the face of the political and cultural chaos that has escalated along with growing immigration..."

Judicial Watch: Judge Wants Explanation from State Department on ‘Newly’ Discovered Clinton Records - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: Judge Wants Explanation from State Department on ‘Newly’ Discovered Clinton Records - Judicial Watch:

"The newly identified files that need to be searched in this case consist of office files that were available to employees within the Office of the Secretary during former Secretary Clinton’s tenure as well as individual files belonging to Jake Sullivan and Cheryl Mills.

Judge Contreras responded with a January 15 order that states:

Defendant [State Department] shall complete its additional search and file a status report (1) disclosing the volume of potentially responsive documents that must be reviewed, (2) containing a detailed description of how and when these files were located and why they had not been previously identified, and (3) proposing a revised schedule for the production of the non-exempt portions of responsive documents subject to the Freedom of Information Act."

LIAR!!-----Obama to propose $10-a-barrel oil tax

Obama to propose $10-a-barrel oil tax
"President Barack Obama is about to unveil an ambitious plan for a “21st century clean transportation system.”
And he hopes to fund it with a tax on oil.
Obama aides told POLITICO that when he releases his final budget request next week, the president will propose more than $300 billion worth of investments over the next decade in mass transit, high-speed rail, self-driving cars, and other transportation approaches designed to reduce carbon emissions and congestion. 
To pay for it all, Obama will call for a $10 “fee” on every barrel of oil, a surcharge that would be paid by oil companies but would presumably be passed along to consumers..."

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History for February 6

History for February 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Aaron Burr 1756, Babe Ruth 1895, Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 Actor, 40th President of the United States-Today in Ronald Reagan History 



Zsa Zsa Gabor 1919, Tom Brokaw 1940, Bob Marley 1945 - Musican (The Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers) 


1778 - The United States gained official recognition from France as the two nations signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris. 


1926 - The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated. 


1932 - Dog sled racing happened for the first time in Olympic competition. 


1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January. 


1952 - Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him. 


1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon. 


1973 - Construction began on the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 


1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history. 

Know Liberals Who LOVE Talking Up Socialism? Next Time Hit Them With These 5 Facts

Know Liberals Who LOVE Talking Up Socialism? Next Time Hit Them With These 5 Facts:

"Anyone that has paid even the slightest bit of attention to the presidential campaign of self-declared socialist and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders knows that he is rather fond of the type of socialism practiced in Northern Europe.

In fact, Sanders has made it quite clear that if he is elected he will do everything he can to further transform America politically and style it after the “democratic socialism” of alleged utopias like Scandinavian countries, such as Denmark.

The economically illiterate supporters of Bernie Sanders like to refer to Denmark as a perfect example of how socialism can be successful, but there are a few problems with their claims, according to Mad World News."

New Hampshire Predicts 78% of GOP Nominees Despite Only 82% Resemblance with U.S.

New Hampshire Predicts 78% of GOP Nominees Despite Only 82% Resemblance with U.S. | WalletHub®:
It’s primary season, and New Hampshire is first on the electoral docket — as usual.
Like the Iowa caucuses that precede it, the New Hampshire primary routinely invites a storm of media attention both for what some criticize as “unfairly” holding the earliest position in the primary-election cycle as well as reliably forecasting the Democratic and GOP nominees — with 56 and 78 percent accuracy, respectively.
The mystery that baffles most about the impressive predictive abilities of the New Hampshire primary is grounded in the fact that the state is largely rural with a relatively tiny and demographically homogeneous population.
New Hampshire’s roughly 1.3 million residents are 94.0 percent white, compared with the nation’s 77.4 percent.
Those two simplifications summarize why critics so readily dismiss the state as “unrepresentative” of the U.S. and therefore unworthy to serve as the first litmus test for effectiveness of a candidate’s platform.

Feds Spend $156,340 to Talk About Food Deserts

Feds Spend $156,340 to Talk About Food Deserts
The National Endowment for the Humanities is spending more than $300,000 to talk about “food deserts” in Pennsylvania and sea level rise in Miami.
The projects are part of the federal agency’s “Humanities in the Public Square” initiative, which awarded $3.6 million worth of grants in December.
“The pressing challenges facing our nation call for dialogue and understanding,” said the agency’s chairman, William D. Adams.
“There is ample evidence that communities across the nation are eager to come together to discuss the critical issues that face them as citizens and neighbors.”
“Using the unique insights of the humanities, these projects address a diverse range of subjects in order to bring new audiences and organizations together,” Adams said.
Those diverse topics include “food deserts,” environmentalism, and the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri..."

PROOF: Uncovered Documents Confirm MASSIVE Obama Lie to Americans and Congress

PROOF: Uncovered Documents Confirm MASSIVE Obama Lie to Americans and Congress:

“These internal documents show the Obama administration took the nation’s creditworthiness and economy hostage in a cynical attempt to create a crisis so the president could get what he wanted during negotiations over the debt ceiling,” committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said in a statement.

It’s no shock that President Obama was willing to hold America hostage to get his way during the debt limit negotiations and avoid a government shutdown. However, the sheer extent of it is almost unprecedented."

The Peace of Submission :: SteynOnline

The Peace of Submission :: SteynOnline
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union funded "peace movements" throughout the west - because for the Soviets "peace" meant "the absence of opposition".

In our time the new peace movement is Islam. 
And so we are told today, from the podium of a mosque with "extremist" "links", that the very word Islam means "peace". 
Actually, it means "submission" - ie, the absence of opposition.

The only difference between then and now is that instead of being chanted by scrofulous hippies protesting outside a Nato air base the old line's being peddled to us by the President of the United States. 
Odd.

~At the end of September, I spoke in the Danish Parliament on the tenth anniversary of the Mohammed cartoons. (See my speech here.) 

Afterwards I was hustled off-stage and, a little weary and the worse for wear, gave an interview in a rather handsomely appointed ante-room on the subject of Chancellor Merkel and her Million Muslim March. 

You might be interested in what I had to say - remember this was two months before the Paris attacks and three months before the New Year sexual assaults and the cover-up by German police and media. 

Click below to watch:

Thanks to Frau Merkel, everything old is new again:

‘Multicultural Toilets’ For ‘Global Defecation’ Seek To Stop Migrants Pooping On The Floor

‘Multicultural Toilets’ For ‘Global Defecation’ Seek To Stop Migrants Pooping On The Floor:
German bathroom manufacturers are developing “multicultural toilets” to help ensure Middle Eastern migrants need not adapt to European sanitation norms.
Multiple reports have emerged of recent arrivals finding themselves utterly “mystified” by Western loos. 
Some have resorted to doing their business on the floor or outdoors, others
The issue caused some serious confusion last year, with one small German village being accused of racism after issuing leaflets politely asking migrants to use to the correct facilities.
With 1.5 million migrants from the Middle East and North Africa arriving in the country last year, solving the problem without facing such accusations of bigotry presents a sizeable business opportunity.
Enter the Global Fliegenschmidt toilet manufacturers based in Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt, who have announced their plans to develop a mobile “multicultural toilet” complete with a squatting platform and water hose for migrant friendly sanitation.
The design was shown to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung national newspaper, who gave a gloriously politically correct write up of the new product, branding it, “Universally applicable: the refugee toilet is ideal for the globalised defecation.”
have used showers, and many migrants will have never seen toilet paper before.

Lunch video-----Politically-Challenged: Texas Tech Edition

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Expert: North Korea prepping EMP attack on U.S.

Expert: North Korea prepping EMP attack on U.S.:

"Former Ambassador Henry Cooper – who was President Ronald Reagan’s chief representative in the “Star Wars” initiative negotiations with the Soviet Union and SDI director under President George H.W. Bush – said North Korea is preparing its Sohae satellite complex for a launch on a southern trajectory, which is said to be a test.

Cooper told G2 Bulletin the United States lacks sufficient anti-ballistic missile defenses in the southern part of the U.S., especially if the satellite turns out to be a nuclear device that could orbit above the U.S. and explode at a high altitude, affecting the lives of all Americans."

The New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy

The New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy | HeterodoxAcademy.org
John McWhorter recently noted the resemblance between religious fervor and anti-racist activism:

An anthropology article from 1956 used to get around more than it does now, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” Because my mother gave it to me to read when I was 13, of course what I remember most from it is that among the Nacirema, women with especially large breasts get paid to travel and display them. Nacirema was “American” spelled backwards—get it?—and the idea was to show how revealing, and even peculiar, our society is if described from a clinical distance.

These days, there is something else about the Nacirema—they have developed a new religion. That religion is antiracism. Of course, most consider antiracism a position, or evidence of morality. However, in 2015, among educated Americans especially, Antiracism—it seriously merits capitalization at this point—is now what any naïve, unbiased anthropologist would describe as a new and increasingly dominant religion. It is what we worship, as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and, among most Blue State Americans, more so.

To someone today making sense of the Nacirema, the category of person who, roughly, reads The New York Times and The New Yorker and listens to NPR, would be a deeply religious person indeed, but as an Antiracist. This is good in some ways—better than most are in a position to realize. This is also bad in other ways—worse than most are in a position to realize.

One of the rituals of this quasi-religion is the acknowledgment of white privilege. It was demanded of the University of Missouri president. As McWhorter explains:

The Antiracism religion, then, has clergy, creed, and also even a conception of Original Sin. Note the current idea that the enlightened white person is to, I assume regularly (ritually?), “acknowledge” that they possess White Privilege. Classes, seminars, teach-ins are devoted to making whites understand the need for this.

McWhorter notes that several private schools in New York are now offering courses in White Privilege. There are also college courses and a conferences on White Privilege and people far to the left of McWhorter, like Corey Robin, have written about the emptiness of some of these conferences. If you look at anti-racism as a religion, however, this collective ritual makes sense as a symbolic religious gesture..."
Read on!

Feel-good story of the day-----Man Ejected From Hole in Plane was Actually the Bomber Who Made the Hole

Man Ejected From Hole in Plane was Actually the Bomber Who Made the Hole | Mediaite:
"Ever since news broke that a man was ejected from a hole in the side of a Somali plane, we’ve been hearing two things:
1. the hole was probably caused by a bomb but we don’t have details on that bomb; and
2. there were no details on the person who was flung from the plane.
As it turns out, it’s all probably the same thing.
The guy who was sucked from the plane is most likely the one who detonated the bomb, according to some reports.
 According to Heidi Vogt at The Wall Street Journal, the man was allegedly able to get through security with no incident by showing up to the airport in a wheelchair.

Once he and his chair were loaded onto the aircraft by staff and the plane took off, he moved to a regular seat.
 Then, he attempted to blow up the plane.
 She got her information from a “Western diplomat briefed on the situation.”
It was already known that only the man died, while two other passengers were injured.
Everyone else onboard remained unharmed and the plane made an emergency landing.
As awful as it is that we live in a time when this is almost normal enough to warrant me saying this, it could have turned out worse."