History for March 23

History for March 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Erich Fromm 1900 - German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher, Joan Crawford 1905 - Actress, Born: Lucille Fay LeSueur, Akira Kurosawa 1910 - Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter (Sugata Sanshiro, Madadayo)


Wernher Von Braun ((Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun)) 1912 - Rocket scientist, generally regarded as the father of the United States space program, Craig Breedlove 1937 - First to reach 400 mi/h, 500 mi/h and 600 mi/h using turbojet-powered vehicles, Keri Russell 1976 - Actress ("Felicity," "The Americans")


1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"



1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.


1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.


1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.


1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.


1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.


1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government under democrat president Roosevelt began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.


1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.

ACLU: Shield illegal immigrants from deportation by not enforcing low-level crimes - Washington Times

ACLU: Shield illegal immigrants from deportation by not enforcing low-level crimes - Washington Times:

"Civil rights groups said Wednesday that sanctuary city policies aren’t enough to thwart President Trump and called on state and local governments to stop enforcing what they deemed low-level crimes in order to keep immigrants off the Trump administration’s radar altogether."

The way we were-----Brotherhood Of Man - United We Stand (The original group from 1970)

Boob-tube-----Phyllis Diller with Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life

Ain't got nothin' better to do-----FBI probes signs defending white privilege found at Vermont universities - The College Fix

FBI probes signs defending white privilege found at Vermont universities - The College Fix: "Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigations are expending resources to probe a series of signs and stickers left at some Vermont universities recently that defend white privilege.
Offering slogans such as “White Privelaged [sic] And Proud of It,” “Innocent Lives Matter Not Guilty Ones” and “it’s OK to be white,” they were found at the University of Vermont, St. Michael’s College and Champlain College, reports Vermont Public Radio.
Authorities, including local police and the FBI, launched an investigation to determine the culprits behind the messaging...
The investigation uncovered that it was more like a bunch of malicious mischief makers, mostly from out of state and not affiliated with the schools, not some sort of band of extremist white nationalists bent on violence.
But the FBI continues to monitor the situation..."
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1995!--We were warned!-----Mascots Of the Anointed | Archives | tulsaworld.com

Mascots Of the Anointed | Archives | tulsaworld.com:
Thomas Sowell Nov 16, 1995
The "New York Times" recently ran a front-page story dripping with sympathy for a multiple murderer who is now very old and who, on some days, "cannot remember" why he is in prison. 
His victims, however, cannot remember anything on any days.
There are also photographs of him and other prisoners. 
One prisoner is described as having a disease that "brings mental deterioration." 
Another, with his legs amputated, is shown trying to catch a baseball on his knees. 
Yet another prisoner is shown in a wheelchair.
All sorts of heart-tugging stories are told about elderly inmates who are succumbing to various diseases and infirmities of age. 
There are, however, no stories at all about their victims, or their victims' widows or orphans, or how tough their lives have been.
Although the Times runs this as a "news" story, it is in effect a long editorial on how terrible it is to keep these prisoners locked up, years after they have ceased to be dangerous to society.
This one-sided presentation includes the views of the American Civil Liberties Union and prison officials who would like to use the space taken up by these elderly prisoners. 
But there is not one word from a victim or from police who have had to deal with these killers.
Bias shades off into propaganda when the Times quotes ACLU figures that there are more than 30,000 prisoners who are 50 or older in the nation's prisons. 
Note that we started out with stories about people so old and infirm that they are supposedly no 
danger to anyone. 
Now we get statistics that are not about such people at all but about people "50 or older."
I don't know what would make the New York Times or the American Snivel Liberties Union suggest that people cease to be dangerous at 50. 
I am older than that and I fired a rifle and a shotgun just a few days ago. 
We old codgers can still pull a trigger.

One of the murderers featured in the Times' own story was 74 years old when he began serving his life sentence. 
What a shame he did not realize how harmless he was after age 50.
The propaganda game of talking about one thing and citing statistics about something else has been used in many other contexts. 
Stories about violence against women often begin with terrible individual tragedies and then move on to numbers about "abuse," which include such things as a husband's stomping out of the room after an argument. 
Statistics about serious violence against women are less than one-tenth as large as the numbers that are thrown around in the media by feminist activists. 
Moreover, serious violence against men is about twice as high.
In technique, as well as in bias, the Times story about criminals is classic liberal propaganda for one of their mascot groups. 
But this is not something peculiar to the New York Times.
You can find the same kinds of stories in the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times, or on any of the leading television networks.
Criminals are just one of the groups adopted as mascots of the media. 
All sorts of parasites and predators have been displayed as if they were ocelots or other exotic creatures that adorn the world of the anointed. 
The deeper question is: 
Why is it necessary for the anointed to have human mascots? 
And why do they choose the kind of people that they do?
Whoever is condemned by society at large -- criminals, bums, illegal aliens, AIDS-carriers, etc. -- are eligible to become mascots of the anointed, symbols of their superior wisdom and virtue. 
By lavishing concern on those we condemn, the anointed become morally one-up on the rest of us.
Is that important? 

To some it is paramount. 
A quarter of a century before the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said in a speech in Springfield, Ill., that the greatest danger to the future of the United States would come, not from foreign enemies, but from that class of people that "thirsts and burns for distinction."
These people could not find that distinction "in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others," according to Lincoln. 
In other words, there is not nearly as much ego satisfaction in building up this country as in tearing it down.
Our schools and colleges are today turning out more and more people who have been taught to want to "make a difference," "save the planet" or "reinvent government" -- in short, to treat policy-making as an ego trip.
Journalism is just one of the professions being prostituted to this self-indulgence."

Reconsidering the Constitutionality of Obamacare | The Heritage Foundation

Reconsidering the Constitutionality of Obamacare | The Heritage Foundation:

"Yet what the Supreme Court settled in 2012 Congress unsettled in 2017 when it passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.4
Pub. L. No. 115-97 (2017).
That new law eliminated the tax on which the Supreme Court had relied when it upheld Obamacare under Congress’s authority to impose taxes.5
See § 11081, reprinted in the Appendix.
The result was to remove the only justification that the Court found available to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform."

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Students’ visit to gun range ‘none of your damn business,’ parents say. A…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Students’ visit to gun range ‘none of your damn business,’ parents say. A…:
"K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: 
Students’ visit to gun range ‘none of your damn business,’ parents say.

Angered by word of the disciplining of two Lacey High School students for a gun-related social media post, 200 parents, community members and other supporters of the Second Amendment on Monday let the Board of Education know they don’t want the district trampling on their rights or meddling in their home lives.

“You guys are reaching into our private life, the private life of our children,” said one parent, Lewis Fiordimondo, who has twins in pre-kindergarten and a daughter at the high school. “It’s not your place. It’s not the school’s place.”

Another dad, Frank Horvath, whose son is a senior at Lacey High, put things in blunter terms.

“It’s none of your damn business what our children do outside of school,” Horvath told the seven board members toward the end of a four-hour meeting, most of it occupied by speaker after speaker venting anger and frustration at school officials largely unable to respond due to confidentiality rules.

The unusually large turnout for Monday night’s board meeting in the high school auditorium was prompted by a five-day in-school suspension of two senior boys after one of them posted a photo of themselves with guns at a local shooting range, away from school property and not during school hours.

Punch back twice as hard.---Posted by Glenn Reynolds "

The Penn Law School Mob Scores a Victory - WSJ

The Penn Law School Mob Scores a Victory - WSJ:
"The campus mob at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has scored a hit.
Prof. Amy Wax will no longer be allowed to teach required first-year courses, the school’s dean announced last week.
Now the leader of Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania wants Ms. Wax’s scalp.
According to a weekend newspaper report, if she isn’t fired within a week, “he plans to make things on the West Philadelphia campus very uncomfortable.”
Ms. Wax’s sin this time was to discuss publicly the negative consequences of affirmative action.
Her punishment underscores again the dangers of speaking uncomfortable truths in a university setting.
The academic left has been gunning for Ms. Wax since last August, when she co-wrote a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed calling for a return to the “bourgeois culture” of the 1950s.
She was branded a white supremacist for advocating personal responsibility, even though the op-ed criticized “the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites.”

Lunch video-----The Korean War (1950–53)

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Why Are We Only Now Talking About Facebook And Elections?

Why Are We Only Now Talking About Facebook And Elections?:

"Yet, perhaps of greatest relevance to the controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica is how the Obama campaign leveraged Facebook. As Carol Davidsen, former Director of Integration of Media Analytics for Obama for America put it last night in a series of tweets reflecting back on the 2012 campaign: “Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing. They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.” Yet, she caveated the campaign’s use of the data noting that the project “felt creepy” but that they “played by the rules.”"

"What was McCabe accused of? Leaking...

Janet Shagam - Wretchard - "What was McCabe accused of? Leaking...:
Wretchard - 
"What was McCabe accused of? 
Leaking and lying under oath. 
There are more details, which may be exculpatory or damning, that may emerge in the coming days. 
But that's the gist of it."

"...the Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions."

Statement by Attorney General on firing of FBI's McCabe

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced late on Friday night that he was firing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, after the Justice Department's…

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Forgotten Words That Need To Come Back

Forgotten Words That Need To Come Back:

You ought to know!

#1 This day 1967-----The Turtles - Happy Together - 1967

Student Protests and the Constitution – Da Tech Guy Blog

Student Protests and the Constitution – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"As the media applauded the student protests against guns, most reporters failed to understand the nature of constitutional law and the First Amendment.

Simply put, students who are not 18 years old don’t, for the most part, have many rights under the Constitution during the school day. 

Schools can ban websites and social media. 

Cellphone usage can be restricted. 

Free speech is limited. 

Moreover, those who participated in the recent protests could be legally disciplined.

But most news organizations used an advisory from the “always-ready-to-help-and-misinform” ACLU promoting the protests rather than digging into the legal issues. 

...But the opinion went much further, restricting a number of rights. 

School administrators could restrict protests if the actions significantly disrupted or interfered with the normal activities during school hours.
...But many school administrators, toeing the leftist line, decided to use the protest as a “teachable moment.”...

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Illegal immigrants, who dodged California ICE raid after Dem mayor's tip-off, re-arrested for new crimes | Fox News

Illegal immigrants, who dodged California ICE raid after Dem mayor's tip-off, re-arrested for new crimes | Fox News:

"Three illegal immigrants, who avoided capture after Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf blew the whistle on a raid by federal immigration authorities last month, have since been re-arrested for new crimes including robbery and spousal abuse, ICE officials said.
Schaaf tweeted out a warning ahead of the raid in northern California last month, infuriating Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and the Trump administration. "

News - Emotional Learning Will Be the Downfall of Society | Heartland Institute

News - Emotional Learning Will Be the Downfall of Society | Heartland Institute:
"Critics of the public school system, myself included, often disparage government schools for failing to teach kids.
Yes, it’s alarming U.S. students continue to lag academically behind their international peers (only about one-third of high school graduates are prepared for college), and it’s pathetic most students test very poorly in geography, civics, reading, and math. 
As bad as it is that schools aren’t teaching our kids important areas of learning, it’s what they are teaching that should really frighten us.
Increasingly, more schools are adopting an aggressively progressive curriculum.
In Minnesota, “School leaders adopted the ‘All for All’ strategic plan—a sweeping initiative that reordered the district’s mission from academic excellence for all students to ‘racial equity,’” 
The Weekly Standard reported in February. Children in kindergarten are expected to become “racially conscious” and examine their “white privilege.”
And leftists’ radical agenda is taking hold in a less blatant but no less toxic way in the rise of social and emotional learning (SEL), which presents just as much danger to parents, kids, and the education system as Common Core..."
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