History for April 6

History for April 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Rose Schneiderman 1882 - U.S. women’s rights activist, Lowell Thomas 1892 - Broadcaster, journalist, Merle Haggard 1937 - Country musician, songwriter


Billy Dee (December) Williams 1937 - Actor ("Brian's Song", "The Return of the Jedi", "Batman"), John Ratzenberger 1947 - Actor ("Cheers"), Vince Flynn 1966 - Author


1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon Church in western New York.


1830 - Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when Mexico would not allow further emigration into Texas by settlers from the U.S.


1862 - The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee.


1896 - The first modern Olympic Games began in Athens, Greece.


1903 - French Army Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a conviction for Alfred Dryfus.


1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson claimed to be the first men to reach the North Pole.


1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.


1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard took the middleweight title from Marvin Hagler.

More than a million illegal immigrants scored California driver's licenses, state DMV announces | Fox News

More than a million illegal immigrants scored California driver's licenses, state DMV announces | Fox News:

"More than one million illegal immigrants living in California have received driver's licenses, according to a new report.
The state's Department of Motor Vehicles announced that as of March 31, 1,001,000 illegal immigrants have received licenses, The Sacramento Bee reported on Wednesday."

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Medicare Advantage Can Solve Bureaucratic Bumbling | Economics21

Medicare Advantage Can Solve Bureaucratic Bumbling | Economics21:

"Anyone who has ever received an “Explanation of Benefits” statement has likely been struck by the complexity of medical billing. 

Even relatively simple consultations can yield a list of separate charges for physician work, facility costs, and diagnostic tests. 

For hospitalization, many additional payments (for anesthesiology, radiology, drugs, rehabilitation, and so on) may accompany the direct costs. 

Yet, all are often bound together as parts of the same course of treatment.

...Fortunately, the objectives of the law can be achieved through Medicare Advantage – an insurance plan embraced by a third of Medicare beneficiaries. 

Medicare Advantage protects patients and taxpayers from high medical costs, while encouraging innovation and reducing micromanagement.

Medicare costs have risen steadily from $8 billion in 1970, the program’s inception, to $679 billion in 2017. 

...Thankfully, there is a better alternative – Medicare Advantage, which already protects taxpayers and patients from providers claiming reimbursement for inflated volumes of low-value care without government micromanagement. 

Medicare Advantage provides a single payment for its beneficiaries to receive healthcare coverage from their choice of private insurers. 

Its plans must bear any costs incurred treating patients, regardless of whether they operate with tight managed-care networks or as fee-for-service benefits without networks. 

All have an incentive to deliver the best quality of care for the lowest cost..."

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New FCC Rules Will Accelerate 5G Rollout | Economics21

New FCC Rules Will Accelerate 5G Rollout | Economics21:
"The stakes for a prompt and successful rollout of the 5G network, the fifth generation wireless broadband network, are high.
This next generation will require a substantial amount of infrastructure in order to be deployed but will require a dense network of many small cells rather than the 100-foot tall towers that previously supported wireless networks.
Despite these differences in the types of infrastructure, until recently, small cell deployments were subject to the same environmental and historical review processes as the massive towers.
These requirements imposed substantial delays and additional costs that slowed the 5G rollout, with a range of adverse spillover effects.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to update its rules on March 22nd so these small cells should no longer be required to go through the old regulatory framework, which will accelerate deployment of the 5G network.
...These new rules should reduce the time to deploy small cells by months and lower associated costs for carriers.
This would incentivize a more comprehensive and swift rollout of the infrastructure needed to support the 5G network..."
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U.S. Arrests 99 MS-13 Gangsters Who Entered as ‘Unaccompanied Minors’

U.S. Arrests 99 MS-13 Gangsters Who Entered as ‘Unaccompanied Minors’:

"Ninety-nine confirmed MS-13 gang members arrested over the last eleven months as the result of a joint operation conducted by the federal Department of Homeland Security and local New York law enforcement agencies came across the border into the United States as “unaccompanied minors,”"

FBI closing in on 'pernicious' infiltration by Chinese government in U.S. schools and universities---Spero News

Spero News

"FBI closing in on 'pernicious' infiltration by Chinese government in U.S. schools and universities
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) released a report on Wednesday on the influence of the Confucius Institutes in American colleges and universities and underwritten by the communist government of China. 
With more than 100 operating in the U.S., the Confucius Institutes offer for-credit courses in Chinese language and culture that are staffed and funded by China’s Ministry of Education and through the Office of Chinese Languages Council International (Hanban). 
In addition, Hanban also operates similarly organized Confucius Classrooms (CCs) at 501 American primary and secondary schools. 
The 604 educational outposts of the Confucius Institutes in the U.S. represent a plurality of China’s 1,579 Confucius Institutes and classrooms worldwide..."
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Doug Ducey 'welcomes' Trump deployment of National Guard to border - Washington Times

Doug Ducey 'welcomes' Trump deployment of National Guard to border - Washington Times:

"Arizona’s Republican governor is embracing President Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to deploy the military along the border with Mexico.
Gov. Doug Ducey says in a Wednesday Tweet that the state “welcomes the deployment of National Guard to the border.” He says Washington has ignored the issue and help is needed. Ducey says that for Arizona “it’s all about public safety.”"

Lunch video-----Overloaded C-5 Takes Every...Single...Inch Of The Runway To Takeoff | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines

Overloaded C-5 Takes Every...Single...Inch Of The Runway To Takeoff | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines:
WONDER WHAT THE CONVERSATION IN THE COCKPIT WAS LIKE...

In this video, you'll see a C-5 that is flying on their calculations alone with no option to abort after a certain point. Filmed at MSSS (Illapango International Airport) in El Salvador, this Galaxy crew had quite a white-knuckle takeoff. 

Probably maxed out on weight and facing a tailwind, these guys seriously took every inch of that runway to takeoff. 

Check it out. It's pretty sweat-inducing. 

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Disney Princess Rips Planned Parenthood: ‘Abortion Doesn’t Empower’ Women

Disney Princess Rips Planned Parenthood: ‘Abortion Doesn’t Empower’ Women:

"A former Disney World princess who had an abortion condemns the recent controversial Planned Parenthood tweet calling for a “Disney princess who’s had an abortion,” by slamming the feminist narrative that abortion “empowers” women."

New Study Confirms Early TV Exposure is the Gateway to Obesity and Unhealthy Habits | The Daily Sheeple

New Study Confirms Early TV Exposure is the Gateway to Obesity and Unhealthy Habits | The Daily Sheeple:

We’ve known for a very long time that watching television has a profound effect on brainwaves and states of consciousness, and that the more television people watch, the more likely they are to be obese, unhealthy and dumbed down. 
This is how TV works.

Television is part of daily life for so many people, and parents and child caregivers are often quick to use the TV as an activity for toddlers and even babies, at a time when their young brains are developing at a rapid rate. It’s one thing for adults to choose to destroy themselves with television, but kids don’t really choose, the television is so seductive that once it is on, young children cannot manage to ignore it.

Television is a drug for children, automatically gripping their minds and holding their consciousness captive.

But what is it really doing? 
...The study, entitled, Prospective associations between toddler televiewing and subsequent lifestyle habits in adolescence, notes the following highlights:

• Excessive early televiewing was associated with subsequent risks in adolescence.
• Excessive early televiewing was associated with later risk of being overweight.
• Excessive early televiewing was associated with later risk of poor eating habits.
• Excessive early televiewing was associated with later risk of skipping breakfast.
• Excessive early televiewing predicted a later risk of being less engaged at school.

The conclusions are straightforward..."
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Gun Violence Studies Biased, Used to Force Agenda | National Review

Gun Violence Studies Biased, Used to Force Agenda | National Review
"But we should not allow gun-control advocates to medicalize guns as a public-health concern.
One of the common talking points that liberals throw around in the gun debate is that Republicans have banned even studying gun violence. 
So you get headlines such as “Lift the Federal Ban on Gun Violence Research” (the New Republic), or “Why Gun Violence Research Has Been Shut Down for 20 Years” (the Washington Post’s Wonkblog), or “GOP Chairman: Congress Should Rethink CDC Ban on Gun Violence Research” (The Hill), or “What’s Missing from the Gun Debate. 
It’s Simple: Science” (an op-ed in Politico).
The reality is different, and it illustrates two contending views of how America should be governed.
To start with, nobody has been banned from anything, in the way we typically think of government bans. 
No law prohibits private citizens, universities, private foundations, or state governments from conducting studies of the subject.
 As the Federalist‘s David Harsanyi has noted:
Numerous states and private entities fund peer-reviewed studies and other research on gun violence...
...Moreover, the “ban” in question applies only to the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
Nothing bars other arms of the federal government from collecting or disseminating information about gun crimes. 
Indeed, the data collected by the federal government is often the foundation for arguments made about guns, by all sides.
 The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), which bills itself as “the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics,” has a mission:
To collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. 
These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
...But we shouldn’t be delegating such important social questions to agenda-driven advocates operating behind the illusion that they are doing disinterested scientific research..."
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CEI Commends EPA for Reviewing CAFE Rules | Competitive Enterprise Institute

CEI Commends EPA for Reviewing CAFE Rules | Competitive Enterprise Institute
"... the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the result of its mid-term evaluation. As a result of the EPA’s review and analysis, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the current greenhouse-gas emission standards for light-duty vehicles for model year 2022-2025 are not appropriate and should be revised.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) commends Administrator Pruitt for taking this step forward to ensure the future of automobiles will be cars that are safe, affordable, and what consumers want to buy. 
CEI has followed the CAFE issue for decades, which includes a major court victory in 1992 regarding CAFE's lethal effects. 
CEI experts said the following about today’s announcement.

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman on CAFE’s mandates and safety: 

CAFE’s lethal effects on vehicle crashworthiness were documented by analysts and a federal appeals court years ago. Despite this, CAFE has remained in force, getting even more stringent and more deadly over the years. We hope that the Trump Administration will finally take account of those effects and start to liberalize this program.

Director of CEI's Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on CAFE’s impact on consumer choice:

EPA’s announcement is good news for consumers who care about safety, performance, and size, as well as fuel economy in the vehicles they drive. This is the first step in many years toward reducing government control over what kinds of cars people can choose to buy. 

CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on CAFE’s costs and impact on climate:

Fuel economy mandates restrict consumer choice, add thousands of dollars to the cost of new vehicles, and limit vehicle safety. Contrary to the program's original rationale, the world is not running out of oil. And even if you worry about global warming, fuel efficiency standards are a stupendously inefficient climate change mitigation strategy. Congress should end the reign of bureaucrats and put consumers back in charge of telling automakers what kinds of cars and trucks to produce.

More from CEI on the CAFE issue here. 

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Amending the Constitution is a Hard Thing to Do | National Review

Amending the Constitution is a Hard Thing to Do | National Review:

"Article V outlines the procedure by which amendments to the Constitution may be adopted. It is, to put it bluntly, a high bar to clear:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution . . . which . . . shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof.
You read that correctly: two-thirds of both chambers plus three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve an amendment before it becomes law. Repealing the Second Amendment is not going to happen any time soon.
Of course, everybody knows it won’t be repealed — there is no need to belabor the point."

Why are they getting tax dollars from us?-----Planned Parenthood's political group failed to accurately disclose $120G in support of Clinton, Dems, FEC says | Fox News

Planned Parenthood's political group failed to accurately disclose $120G in support of Clinton, Dems, FEC says | Fox News:
"Planned Parenthood’s political arm in Wisconsin has been fined for failing to appropriately report nearly $120,000 in independent expenditures allocated in support of Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold during 2016 elections.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) found discrepancies in Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin’s October 2016 report that claimed over $133,000 worth of expenditures on political candidates, an FEC report said.
Nearly $120,000 spent in August on Clinton and Democrat Feingold -- who tried but failed to unseat Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in 2016 -- were never shown in any previous 48-hour filing up until the October report, two months later when it was required..."
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