History for June 19

History for June 19 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversaries of Abe Fortas (1910-82), Lou Gehrig (1903-41), Moe Howard (1897-1975)

In 1879, General William Tecumseh Sherman told the graduating class at Michigan Military Academy that “War is hell.”

Happy Birthday! Paula Abdul, Salman Rushdie, Kathleen Turner

1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories. 


1864 - The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France. 


1865 - Juneteenth (Emancipation Day in Texas). Commemorates the day in 1865 when Union general Granger proclaimed the slaves of Texas free.


1903 - The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. 


1910 - The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. 


1933 - France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum. 

1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later). 






1952 - "I've Got a Secret" debuted on CBS-TV. 


1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for espionage at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, NY.


 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an DEMOCRAT PARTY 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.  


1968 - 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor People's Campaign. 






1998 - A study released said that smoking more than doubles risks of developing dementia and Alzheimer's. 


1998 - Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low. 

Something Pretty Remarkable Happens When Hillary Clinton Fans Are Asked About Benghazi | Video | TheBlaze.com

Something Pretty Remarkable Happens When Hillary Clinton Fans Are Asked About Benghazi | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"None were more surprising than the ones coming from several people who had no idea what Benghazi was, despite the fact that many argue it is Clinton’s biggest failure as secretary of state.
“Do you guys know what Benghazi is?” Watters asked two women.
“Nope,” one of them responded.
“I have an idea, but not a very strong one. I’m not going to lie,” another woman said.
Another respondent called Benghazi a “bump in the road.”

The U.S. Patent Office Just Ruled That This NFL Team’s Name Trademarks Must Be Canceled (UPDATE: Team Responds) | TheBlaze.com

The U.S. Patent Office Just Ruled That This NFL Team’s Name Trademarks Must Be Canceled (UPDATE: Team Responds) | TheBlaze.com:
"Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has refused to change the team’s name, citing tradition, but there has been growing pressure including statements in recent months from President Barack Obama, lawmakers of both parties and civil rights groups."

Armed Mexican Troops Have Crossed the U.S. Border More Than 300 Times Since 2004 | TheBlaze.com

Armed Mexican Troops Have Crossed the U.S. Border More Than 300 Times Since 2004 | TheBlaze.com:
"In fact, a 2006 DHS map obtained by this reporter revealed that the Mexican military had crossed into the United States 216 times from 1996 to 2006. One of the maps had the seal of the president’s National Drug Control Policy."

The new oil crisis: Exploding trains - Kathryn A. Wolfe and Bob King

The new oil crisis: Exploding trains - Kathryn A. Wolfe and Bob King - POLITICO.com:
Communities throughout the U.S. and Canada are waking up to the dark side of North America’s energy boom: Trains hauling crude oil are crashing, exploding and spilling in record numbers as a fast-growing industry outpaces the federal government’s oversight.

In the 11 months since a runaway oil train derailed in the middle of a small town in Quebec,incinerating 47 people, the rolling virtual pipelines have unleashed crude oil into an Alabama swamp, forced more than 1,000 North Dakota residents to evacuate, dangled from a bridge in Philadelphia and smashed into an industrial building near Pittsburgh. 

‘You’re Not Answering’: Pay Attention to How State Dept. Official Responds to Reporter’s Simple Benghazi Question | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘You’re Not Answering’: Pay Attention to How State Dept. Official Responds to Reporter’s Simple Benghazi Question | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Fox News reporter James Rosen pressed State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Tuesday over why it took such a long time to apprehend Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala when he wasn’t even in hiding. In fact, the suspect has conducted several press interviews since the deadly Benghazi terror attacks."

Always hungry after eating?-----China dog-eaters dodge activists with early feast

My Way News - China dog-eaters dodge activists with early feast:
"BEIJING (AP) — Residents in a southern Chinese city that has come under fire for an annual summer solstice festival in which thousands of dogs are slaughtered for food have held their feasts early to avoid attention.
Some residents of Yulin started gathering last weekend and eating dog meat and lychees to celebrate the longest day of the year, ahead of Saturday's actual solstice, state media reported this week. The residents wanted to avoid protests by animal rights activists."

Sebelius Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Obamacare Failures

Sebelius Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Obamacare Failures | The Daily Caller:
"Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took aim at her “hostile” right-wing opponents Tuesday, in her first speech after resigning her top post.
.....“We had right-wing media, leadership in Congress who was determined on the House side to stop this law at any cost, shadow political organizations, hostile governors, hostile legislators, all working to make sure you couldn’t do the job that was so important,” Sebelius gushed, only once mentioning “our well-known issues with the website” putting a damper on customers getting coverage.
Sebelius even hit states for putting limits on navigators at all, seemingly, despite reports that personal information has already been put at risk.
She hit back at the “relentless obstruction” of those who would put a check on Obamacare staffers asking for customers personal information — “people who were forced with getting fingerprints and paying a fee in order to help people access health insurance.”
She wasn’t alone.
President Obama pre-taped a message for the conference, taking the opportunity to snipe at those who continue to oppose the health-care law in a short video.
“We cannot let up now,” Obama said.”"

Greta Van Susteren Presses Hillary Clinton on the Constitution: ‘We Have This Funny Little Thing Called the Fourth Amendment and It’s Actually Quite Plain’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Greta Van Susteren Presses Hillary Clinton on the Constitution: ‘We Have This Funny Little Thing Called the Fourth Amendment and It’s Actually Quite Plain’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“Madam Secretary, you’re a lawyer, President Obama is a lawyer, I’m a lawyer and NSA spying on Americans violates the Fourth Amendment. It couldn’t be plainer. If you want to spy on Americans you get a warrant,” Van Susteren said. “What do you think about that?”

Our moron president wins another one-------Canada OKs oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast

Canada OKs oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast:
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government on Tuesday approved a controversial pipeline proposal that would bring oil to the Pacific Coast for shipment to Asia, a major step in the country's efforts to diversify its oil exports if it can overcome fierce opposition from environmental and aboriginal groups.
Approval for Enbridge's Northern Gateway project was expected as Canada needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production. 

The project's importance has only grown since the U.S. delayed a decision on TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline that would take oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The northern Alberta region has the world's third largest oil reserves, with 170 billion barrels of proven reserves.

Enbridge's pipeline would transport 525,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta's oil sands to the Pacific to deliver oil to Asia, mainly energy-hungry China. 

About 220 large oil tankers a year would visit the Pacific coast town of Kitimat and opponents fear pipeline leaks and a potential tanker spill on the pristine Pacific coast.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said Canada's national interest makes the pipelines essential.

He was "profoundly disappointed" that U.S. President Barack Obama has delayed a decision on the Texas Keystone XL option, and spoke of the need to diversify Canada's oil industry. 

Ninety-seven percent of Canadian oil exports now go to the U.S.

Sports story of the day-----Man tried to throw football stuffed with drugs into prison yard

Man tried to throw football stuffed with drugs into prison yard | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"LANSING — A Detroit man is facing felony charges after he allegedly tried to throw a football containing drugs, cell phones and other contraband into the yard of a state prison in Jackson on Sunday.
The throw came up short and the football landed between two fences at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility and did not land in the yard where prisoners exercise, said Trooper Toby Baker of the Michigan State Police Jackson post.
A prison officer who was in the parking lot saw the man throw the football — which contained heroin, marijuana, tobacco, three cell phones and chargers — and he was apprehended at the scene."

Exclusive: USAF General Running for Congress Calls for ‘Aggressive Leadership’ After Tea Party Surge

Exclusive: USAF General Running for Congress Calls for ‘Aggressive Leadership’ After Tea Party Surge:
"While America’s enemies circle, the Obama Administration’s foreign policies (or lack thereof) have been a focus point for conservative (and some liberal) critics. When asked about Obama’s foreign policy, Rayburn quipped,
 “Oh, I’m sorry; you said that the Obama Administration has a foreign policy? I must’ve missed that…”
 With a hint of disgust, General Rayburn hammered away, saying, "

"Come-back city Detroit" story of the day-----Man Killed In Detroit Carjacking Attempt

Man Killed In Detroit Carjacking Attempt - WDTK AM:
(Detroit, MI) -- A Detroit man is dead and a woman is recovering after both are shot in an attempted carjacking.
It happened Saturday evening at a gas station on 8 Mile Road at Dequindre and it was all caught on the surveillance system.
Police say video shows the suspect following 21-year-old Shaneqwa Carr back to the vehicle she was a passenger in, and when the driver of the vehicle tussled with the suspect five shots were fired. 
The driver, 47-year-old Leslie White, was pronounced dead on the scene. 
Investigators are hoping the surveillance system can help them get a positive identification on the suspect."

Conundrum-------Even The Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment

Even The Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment | Zero Hedge:

Minimum wage doesn’t apply to everyone.

When Congress first established minimum wage in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, it left a loophole for businesses that employ people with disabilities.

The Secretary, to the extent necessary to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulation or order provide for the employment, under special certificates, of individuals ... whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury, at wages which are lower than the minimum wage.

These special certificates are known today as 14(c) permits, and thousands of employers have one. Some studies claim that more than 300,000 Americans work for subminimum wage under the auspices of such permits.

This isn’t well known. Advocates of minimum wage often base their support for the measure on ethical grounds, claiming that all workers deserve a degree of compensation regardless of their productivity. Such was the reasoning of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, who raised his city’s minimum wage last week to the unprecedented level of $15 per hour under the guise of “equal access and opportunity for all.”

Yet minimum wage advocates rarely address the issue of minimum wage exemptions. 

‘A Rabid Foe’: Catholic Leader Blasts Pelosi Over Her Letter Urging Archbishop to Pull Out of Anti-Gay Marriage Event | TheBlaze.com

‘A Rabid Foe’: Catholic Leader Blasts Pelosi Over Her Letter Urging Archbishop to Pull Out of Anti-Gay Marriage Event | TheBlaze.com:
"The civil rights leader also said that Pelosi has no problem when gays and lesbians insult her faith, instead choosing to speak out when Catholic leaders embrace church teaching.
“When gays go naked in the streets of San Francisco, and mock Catholicism in patently obscene ways, Pelosi is never offended,” he wrote. “What offends her is her archbishop’s public defense of the Church’s teachings on marriage. Nice to know what her moral compass looks like.”

Audit: Michigan improperly spent $160M on Medicaid

Audit: Michigan improperly spent $160M on Medicaid | Crain's Detroit Business:
LANSING — Michigan improperly spent $160 million over three years caring for Medicaid recipients needing in-home services primarily because it failed to obtain invoices and other required documentation from service providers, a damning state audit found today.
...The audit found that the state:

• overpaid 80 agencies $6.8 million by not making sure they met requirements to get higher fees than individual aides.


• hired a contractor in 2008 for $1.4 million to visit DHS county offices over three years to review home health cases, yet the case file reviews were not forwarded to the offices for corrective action on time. The Community Health Department blamed a lack of staff for the delay.

• inappropriately paid $3.5 million for home services when the patients were instead being hospitalized or in nursing homes.

• did not review thousands of W-2 forms returned as undeliverable, missing a chance to crack down on clients fraudulently getting services or their relatives providing a false address to avoid cuts in the clients' authorized service level.

• failed to create a process for caseworkers to refer suspected fraud to the attorney general's office.

Auditors said nearly 3,800 home health providers had felony convictions, including 572 convictions for violent crimes. The state said it has been considering background checks for years, but clients can hire family members to care for them and may be fully aware and accepting of their criminal history.

History for June 18

History for June 18 - On-This-Day.com:

International Sushi Day

Birth anniversaries of Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Cahn (1913-93), financial journalist Sylvia Porter (1913-91), explorer and mountaineer George Mallory (1886-1924) 

Happy Birthday! Lou Brock, Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini

1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans. 


1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions. 


1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22. 


1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President. 


1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University. 


1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson. 


1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president. 


1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2. 


1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 


2009 - Greenland assumed control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenlandic became the official language. 

Read These Tweets About the ‘Inevitable’ Return of the ‘Caliphate’ — the Bigger Story Could Be Who Actually Wrote Them | TheBlaze.com

Read These Tweets About the ‘Inevitable’ Return of the ‘Caliphate’ — the Bigger Story Could Be Who Actually Wrote Them | TheBlaze.com:
"A senior adviser to the Department of Homeland Security claimed on Friday that the takeover of Iraqi cities by a deadly terrorist group is evidence that the return of a Muslim “Caliphate” is “inevitable.”

Want to Know Just How Close the Muslim Brotherhood Is to the Obama Admin? | Video | TheBlaze.com

Want to Know Just How Close the Muslim Brotherhood Is to the Obama Admin? | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"The following is an overview of each of the Islamist figures who have found their place — in some way, shape or form — at the Obama administration’s table."

Hopee, changee still workin' for ya?--------Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High

Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High | CNS News:

"The seasonally-adjusted price index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs hit an all-time high in May, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)."

VIDEO: Marine Arrested and Institutionalized for Facebook Posts Critical of the Government

VIDEO: Marine Arrested and Institutionalized for Facebook Posts Critical of the Government: "Brandon Raub, a decorated Marine who was forcefully admitted to a mental health institution for posting Facebook posts that were at-odds with the Obama Administration’s political agenda, is now suing the federal government for the apparent civil rights violation."