History for January 22

History for January 22 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Francis Bacon 1561, André Ampère 1775, Lord (George) Byron 1788
   

David (D.W.) Griffith 1875, Bill Bixby 1934, Linda Blair 1959


1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain.


1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her.


1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.


1941 - Britain captured Tobruk from German forces.


1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.


1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison.


1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion.


1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII.

'Dreamer' shutdown halts E-Verify, a key illegal immigration enforcement tool - Washington Times

'Dreamer' shutdown halts E-Verify, a key illegal immigration enforcement tool - Washington Times:

"One of the ironies of the immigration-fueled shutdown is that the government’s most powerful tool for weeding out illegal-immigrant workers was also shut down.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said E-Verify, the electronic system the government offers to businesses to check their employees’ work eligibility, is a casualty of the shutdown.
The shutdown was spurred by Democrats’ demands to legalize millions of illegal immigrant “Dreamers” in exchange for allowing the government to be funded for another four weeks. Efforts to strike a compromise on immigration stalled, so Democrats, joined by four Republicans, filibustered Friday to make good on their threat."

Hannity: Bombshell Memo on FISA Surveillance Shows Abuse of Power 'Far Worse Than Watergate' | Fox News Insider

Hannity: Bombshell Memo on FISA Surveillance Shows Abuse of Power 'Far Worse Than Watergate' | Fox News Insider:

"In his opening monologue Thursday night, Sean Hannity called for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to end his "witch hunt" following new revelations about U.S. government FISA surveillance abuses.
He pointed to a four-page memo circulating in Congress that allegedly reveals FISA abuses within the Department of Justice and FBI, which has been described by lawmakers as “shocking,” “troubling” and “alarming.”
"Our sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far bigger than Watergate," Hannity said. "Remember, Watergate was a third-rate break-in. What we're talking about tonight is the systematic abuse of power, the weaponizing of those powerful tools of intelligence and the shredding of our Fourth Amendment constitutional rights.""

The way we were-----Mungo Jerry - In the summertime

Boob-tube-----1950s MIGHTY MOUSE PLAYHOUSE Saturday Morning cartoon show

Winner Of Most Ignorant Sign At The Angry Women’s March-Steve Russo

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 "Winner Of Most Ignorant Sign At The Angry Women’s March
Alright dammit! I want to know who is to blame, I was never told we were burning witch grandmothers, where was I when all this was going on?
Let's count how many things are wrong with this. 

• First off, witches were never burned in the US or even in the Americas...
• If they're referring to the Salem Witch Trials, they were hanged not burned and that was done for political reasons not for witchcraft. 
• It was the #metoo of its time. Where the rule was that the accuser MUST be believed and the accused is automatically guilty..."

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STEPHEN L. CARTER: Amazon’s Utterly Predictable Game of Musical Chairs: The same cities that alway…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » STEPHEN L. CARTER: Amazon’s Utterly Predictable Game of Musical Chairs: The same cities that alway…:
"STEPHEN L. CARTER: Amazon’s Utterly Predictable Game of Musical Chairs: The same cities that always get a seat are still in the competition for HQ2. Yawn.

Amazon released the list this week. And, like lots of people who’ve taken a look, I was left underwhelmed. Because what immediately struck me is how conventional it is. Amazon has pretty much picked the same finalists that any company with an eye toward building a new headquarters would pick..." Read on!

"State tax abatements and other “incentives” should be treated as taxable income at the federal level. 
States should be encouraged to have low taxes for every company, not just the favored few."--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal More Instances of Classified Information on Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure, Non-‘State.gov’ System - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal More Instances of Classified Information on Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure, Non-‘State.gov’ System - Judicial Watch:

"“The fact that Hillary Clinton and her agents tried to destroy or hide emails shows how she flagrantly and knowingly violated the laws that protect classified information and government records,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And these new emails refute Hillary Clinton’s repeated claims of having little or no knowledge about her email system.  She clearly was fully in charge of setting up her outlaw email system and overseeing its use. When will the Justice Department act?”
Last year, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Until the court intervened and established a new deadline, the State Department had been slow-walking the release of those documents at a rate that would have required Judicial Watch and the American people to wait until at least 2020 to see all the releasable Clinton material."

Powerful!-----Trump Releases New Ad: Democrats 'Complicit in Every Murder Committed by Illegal Immigrants' - Breitbart

Trump Releases New Ad: Democrats 'Complicit in Every Murder Committed by Illegal Immigrants' - Breitbart:
"Democrats are “complicit” in illegal immigrant violent crime and murder so long as they continue blocking funding for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and hold up negotiations on pro-American immigration reforms, President Trump’s new campaign ad states.
The ad was released a day after Senate Democrats voted to shut down the federal government because the spending bill to keep the government open did not include amnesty for at least 3.5 million illegal aliens, as Breitbart News reported....
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