History for January 14

History for January 14 - On-This-Day.com
Benedict Arnold 1741, Albert Schweitzer 1875, William Bendix 1906


Andy Rooney 1919, Tom Tryon 1926, Jack Jones 1938


1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.


1907 - An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica.


1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months.


1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation.


1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama.


1972 - NBC-TV debuted "Sanford & Son."


1998 - Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.


1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC.

Felony charges dropped against protesters accused of topping Confederate statue in Durham, N.C. - Washington Times

Felony charges dropped against protesters accused of topping Confederate statue in Durham, N.C. - Washington Times:

"Felony charges will be dropped against eight protesters accused of dismantling a Confederate statue in North Carolina last summer, Durham District Attorney Roger Echols said Thursday.
The prosecution has decided against pursuing felony rioting charges against the defendants and will drop them in lieu of lesser counts, the district attorney told reporters.
“I only plan to try them on the misdemeanors,” Mr. Echols told The Associated Press. He declined to comment further, AP reported.
The eight defendants appeared before a judge Thursday and scheduled to face trial starting Feb. 19, the report said."

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Boob-tube-----CBS Newsflash From Nov. 22nd 1963 Re: The JFK Assassination

Entire class punished for 'microaggressive' comments

Entire class punished for 'microaggressive' comments:

• Three Columbia University professors recently described how an entire class was punished after some students used “microaggressive” language in an online chat.
• After requiring students to read two articles on microaggressions and "racial identity," the instructors separated the white students from the "People of the Global Majority" for a debriefing.

...Matthea Marquart, who teaches online classes for graduate students studying social work, noticed that some students used unspecified “racially microaggressive” language during the live chat of a recent online class..."

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WELL, IT’S AN EXAMPLE OF WHY, ANYWAY: Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ is why Americans don’t trust …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WELL, IT’S AN EXAMPLE OF WHY, ANYWAY: Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ is why Americans don’t trust …:
"WELL, IT’S AN EXAMPLE OF WHY, ANYWAY: Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ is why Americans don’t trust the media.

Wolff’s account of the White House is, however, literally unbelievable. His account implies that President Trump did not know who John Boehner was at a time when Boehner and Trump were frequent golfing buddies. Multiple members of the White House have disputed what he quoted them saying, while the way that Wolff’s account is written makes it impossible for readers to discern if Wolff was actually there or is recreating conversations based on interviews with unnamed sources. Wolff recreates situations that some subjects have disputed ever occurred... But the way that Wolff has apparently played fast and loose with quotes, facts, and more in his work of nonfiction is a reason that can be used to dismiss his entire account.

"Personally, I’m more and more inclined to judge Trump by what he actually does in office, not by what he allegedly says behind the scenes. And that’s looking pretty good."--Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 8:30 am

Feds Raid 20 Chinese Immigrant 'Birth Hotels' In Los Angeles | Daily Wire

Feds Raid 20 Chinese Immigrant 'Birth Hotels' In Los Angeles | Daily Wire:

"A day after the Trump administration launched the largest immigration raids in nearly a decade, federal agents stormed 20 "birth hotels" in California.

Chinese nationals use the so-called birth hotels in order to win citizenship for their children — in most situations, a child born in the United States or one of its territories will automatically receive American citizenship. Women often pay as much as $100,000 to get into one of the hotels."

Why Doesn't Aid Work? | Cato Unbound

Why Doesn't Aid Work? | Cato Unbound:
"...UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown recently gave a compassionate speech about the tragedy of extreme poverty afflicting billions of people, with millions of children dying from easily preventable diseases.
...However, Gordon Brown was silent about the other tragedy of the world’s poor.
This is the tragedy in which the West already spent $2.3 trillion on foreign aid over the last 5 decades and still had not managed to get 12-cent medicines to children to prevent half of all malaria deaths. 
...Economic development happens, not through aid, but through the homegrown efforts of entrepreneurs and social and political reformers.
While the West was agonizing over a few tens of billion dollars in aid, the citizens of India and China raised their own incomes by $715 billion by their own efforts in free markets.
Once aid agencies realize that aid CANNOT achieve general economic and political development, they could start concentrating on fixing the system that fails to get 12-cent medicines to malaria victims..."
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NY Gov calls for mandatory food pantries on every campus

NY Gov calls for mandatory food pantries on every campus: 
"New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his recent State of the State Address to call for mandatory food pantries on all public college and university campuses in the state.
He also touted the expansion of the "Excelsior Scholarship," which will soon cover the cost of tuition for students with a household income below $110,000.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is campaigning to reform higher education in his state by pushing for mandatory “food pantries on all SUNY and CUNY campuses.”
In his annual State of the State report, the governor proposed requiring “all [State University of New York] and [City University of New York] schools to either provide physical food pantries on campus, or enable students to receive food through a separate arrangement that is stigma-free.”..."
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Noon-toon-----Wondermark » Archive » #1370; The Avian Informant

Wondermark » Archive » #1370; The Avian Informant

Testimony Reveals Fusion GPS Tried to Kill FBI Clinton Investigation

Testimony Reveals Fusion GPS Tried to Kill FBI Clinton Investigation:

"Glenn Simpson and the intelligence firm he founded, Fusion GPS, have presented themselves as disinterested researchers when it comes to their role in the Trump dossier and the 2016 election. But Simpson’s recently released testimony shows that at the same time he was encouraging the FBI to investigate Trump, he was actively trying to steer the FBI away from further investigation of the Clintons."

As Investigations Of Misconduct Mount, Can Hillary Clinton Avoid Jail? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

As Investigations Of Misconduct Mount, Can Hillary Clinton Avoid Jail? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Clinton Scandals: As the media focus on Donald Trump's mental condition and whether he can be kicked out of office using the 25th Amendment, something far more significant is taking place: Former slam-dunk-future-first-woman-president Hillary Clinton, after avoiding any serious scrutiny for her misconduct while secretary of state, now sits at the center of a growing number of investigations — any of which might lead to a special counsel and criminal charges.

...The Department of Justice is looking into what looks like a pattern of "pay-to-play" surrounding the Russian-linked Uranium One deal and the Clinton Family Foundation.

DOJ is taking a hard look at Hillary Clinton's clearly illegal use of a home-brew email server to conduct classified State Department business, a decision that opened U.S. secrets to possible hacking by the Russians, Chinese and other potential foes..."

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Laser are getting ten times more powerful every 3 years, soon Exawatt lasers will unlock fusion and more | NextBigFuture.com

Laser are getting ten times more powerful every 3 years, soon Exawatt lasers will unlock fusion and more | NextBigFuture.com:

"...Ultra-intense lasers are lasers with capabilities exceeding 10^19 Watts per square centimeter (10 quintillion watts per square centimeter). 

...In 2015, Japan fired a 2 petawatt laser and believe this could be a pathway to commercial nuclear fusion.
Ultrapowerful lasers have been increasing in power by 1000 times every ten years for the past forty years..."

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Climate Lawsuits Against Big Oil Are Likely a Useless Distraction - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Climate Lawsuits Against Big Oil Are Likely a Useless Distraction - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"New York City has joined seven California jurisdictions in filing public nuisance lawsuits against five major oil companies. 
The suit says BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell are responsible for 11 percent of the greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere. 
The plaintiffs want to "shift the costs of protecting the City from climate change impacts back onto the companies that have done nearly all they could to create this existential threat."...
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Twitter Engineer Admits to Banning Accounts that Express Interest in God, Guns, and America - Breitbart

Twitter Engineer Admits to Banning Accounts that Express Interest in God, Guns, and America - Breitbart:

"Twitter direct messaging engineer Pranay Singh admitted to mass-banning accounts that express interest in God, guns, and America, during a Project Veritas investigation.
“Just go to a random [Trump] tweet and just look at the followers. They’ll all be like, guns, God, ‘Merica, and with the American flag and the cross,” declared Singh, who was secretly recorded by Project Veritas reporters. “Like, who says that? Who talks like that? It’s for sure a bot.”
After being asked whether he could get rid of the accounts, he replied, “Yeah. You just delete them, but, like, the problem is there are hundreds of thousands of them, so you’ve got to, like, write algorithms that do it for you.”"