History for January 17

History for January 17 - On-This-Day.com

Benjamin Franklin 1706, Al Capone 1899 - Gangster, Nevil Shute 1899 Betty White 1922 - Actress, James Earl Jones 1931 - Actor, "Star Wars" trilogy as the voice of Darth Vader, Shari Lewis (Hurwitz) 1934 Muhammad Ali 1942 - Boxer, Jim Carrey 1962 - Actor, comedian ("Batman Forever," "Liar Liar," "The Mask"), Michelle Obama 1964

1893 - Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. 


1912 - English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole. Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. Scott and his party died during the return trip. 


1913 - All partner interests in 36 Golden Rule Stores were consolidated and incorporated in Utah into one company. The new corporation was the J.C. Penney Company. 


1934 - Ferdinand Porsche submitted a design for a people's car, a "Volkswagen," to the new German Reich government. 


1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody. Wallenberg was credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews. 


1961 - In his farewell address, U.S. President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex." 


1966 - A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refuelling tanker. The bombs were released and eight crewmembers were killed. 


1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against him. He was the first U.S. President to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil lawsuit. 


2001 - The director of Palestinian TV, Hisham Miki, was killed at a restaurant when three masked gunmen walked up to his table and shot him more than 10 times. 

PHOTOS: Muslims Around the World Burn Flags, Clash with Police During Protests Against Latest Charlie Hebdo Issue | Video | TheBlaze.com

PHOTOS: Muslims Around the World Burn Flags, Clash with Police During Protests Against Latest Charlie Hebdo Issue | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Demonstrators clashed with police Friday in Pakistan, Jordan and Algeria as anger flared among Muslims over a French satirical weekly’s latest caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. A photographer with Agence France-Presse was shot and wounded, one of four people hurt in the Pakistan melee.

Supporters say the cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo is a defiant expression of free speech following a terrorist attack on the publication’s Paris offices that killed 12 people on Jan. 7, but many Muslims viewed it as another attack on their religion."

Does it get any clearer?  

Pelosi GOES OFF on Republicans, Says We Should Support Executive Amnesty Because of Paris Attacks

Pelosi GOES OFF on Republicans, Says We Should Support Executive Amnesty Because of Paris Attacks:

"In keeping with this obnoxious mantra, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi used the recent terrorist attacks in France to jab Republicans who worked to thwart the continued funding of Obama’s executive amnesty.
 On Wednesday, Republicans in the House voted to separate the funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a move designed to ultimately allow Obama’s executive amnesty to stand, but without a single dollar allocated to fund the massive government project.
 On Tuesday night, as Republicans were set to defund Obama’s illegal amnesty granted via executive edict, Pelosi took to the House Floor and connected the executive amnesty order to the terrorist attacks in France."

Watch: The Slightly Awkward James Taylor Performance John Kerry Organized After Missing the Paris Unity Rally | TheBlaze.com

Watch: The Slightly Awkward James Taylor Performance John Kerry Organized After Missing the Paris Unity Rally | TheBlaze.com:

"The Obama administration on Friday tried to make up for its blunder of not attending France’s unity rally last weekend, by having James Taylor sing “You’ve got a friend” in France.

Taylor and Secretary of State John Kerry are reportedly old friends, and Kerry stood by as Taylor sang his signature song. Kerry said earlier in the week that he would travel to France, a scheduling change that was announced hours after the Obama administration was widely criticized for failing send anyone to France on Sunday."



Really?  

Buck Sexton, Who Used to Brief President Bush, Says This Is What He Would Say Today | Video | TheBlaze.com

Buck Sexton, Who Used to Brief President Bush, Says This Is What He Would Say Today | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"TheBlaze’s national security adviser Buck Sexton used to brief President George W. Bush during his days at the Central Intelligence Agency, and Glenn Beck asked him on Thursday what he would say if he was in the same role today.

Sexton warned that there are extremist cells in “every western country — including America — around the world,” and a series of terror attacks like the one suffered at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in France last week could “tear Europe asunder.”

"Study"-Evil college men got rape on their minds!-----Think ‘1 in 5′ is bad? Try ‘1 in 3!’

Think ‘1 in 5′ is bad? Try ‘1 in 3!’
A University of North Dakota study purports to show that one out of every three men would rape if they could get away with it.

As you may surmise, there are quite a few issues with the study.
The first is that the study’s sample was quite small: 73 men from one university (UND) who, for what it’s worth, were given extra credit for participating.
Second, 13 percent — nine men — said flat-out they would actually rape a woman.

The Washington Examiner reports:

The study is further tainted because it begins with a false premise — the often-repeated but thoroughly debunked statistic that one in five women will be raped during their college years. Researchers also “debriefed” participants after the study by “address[ing] rape myths.” Given the researchers’ propensity to believe the one-in-five myth, it’s anyone’s guess what sort of “rape myths” they were addressing and whether they were myths or just facts.The study’s lead researcher, Sarah Edwards, an assistant professor of counseling psychology, told Newsweek that her study shows men would rape if it’s not called rape. “The No. 1 point is there are people that will say they would force a woman to have sex but would deny they would rape a woman,” Edwards said.

Examiner writer Ashe Snow is quite skeptical: “Even in a world where college men take everything seriously, nine guys does not equal a mass epidemic of would-be rapists. A more sound reading is that nine college boys didn’t take the survey too seriously.”

Further, the margin of error in the study is quite significant......"

University Students DEMAND Authorities ‘PROSECUTE Defamatory Speech’

University Students DEMAND Authorities ‘PROSECUTE Defamatory Speech’:

"Today’s academic institutions are hardly salons of intellectual thought and curiosities; instead, the focus seems to be to indoctrinate and warp the thirsty minds of new adults who are experiencing the world for the first time without the watchful eyes of mom and dad.

Case-in-point: Clemson University students are demanding that their school “prosecute defamatory speech.”

Does Clemson University not have a single Constitution in their library for reference?

Campus Reform reports:

A group of Clemson students are demanding that the university “prosecute defamatory speech” to help correct a “pattern of social injustice” at the school."

Say this word and you might get vandalized

Say this word and you might get vandalized | The Black Sphere | TheBlackSphere.net | The Black Sphere | TheBlackSphere.net:
In case you weren’t aware, the Left wants to TELL you what to say. Whether it’s African-American when referring to black people, or calling taxes, “investments,” the Left want to control your speech.

So when a California paper had the nerve to say this, they were vandalized.

As reported at Fox News,

A California newspaper will continue to use the term “illegals” to describe people who enter the U.S. without permission, despite an attack on its building by vandals believed to object to the term.

The Santa Barbara News-Press’s front entrance was sprayed with the message “The border is illegal, not the people who cross it” in red paint, sometime either Wednesday night or early Thursday, according to the newspaper’s director of operations, Donald Katich. The attack came amid wider objections to a News-Press headline that used the word “illegals” alongside a story on California granting driver’s licenses to people in the country illegally.

Renewable Energy Advocate Falsely Claims Industry is Not Supported by Taxpayer Dollars [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Renewable Energy Advocate Falsely Claims Industry is Not Supported by Taxpayer Dollars [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:

"An advocate of renewable energy claimed in a recent Detroit News op-ed that Michigan does not subsidize "clean energy." Dan Scripps, president of an industry trade association called the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, wrote: “It is important to clear up another point: Michigan does not subsidize renewable energy. Clean energy, including wind and solar, receives no subsidies from the state of Michigan.”

The claim is contradicted by several sources."

Oxford University Press bans use of pig, sausage or pork-related words to avoid offending Muslims - Telegraph

Oxford University Press bans use of pig, sausage or pork-related words to avoid offending Muslims - Telegraph:

"The Oxford University Press has warned its writers not to mention pigs, sausages or pork-related words in children's books, in an apparent bid to avoid offending Jews and Muslims.
The existence of the publisher's guidelines emerged after a radio discussion on free speech in the wake of the Paris attacks."


A discussion involving free speech ended with the banning of words?

Oh goody............Obama to Senate Dems: ‘I’m going to play offense’

Obama to Senate Dems: ‘I’m going to play offense’ - Manu Raju - POLITICO
The president said he’s prepared to veto hostile legislation, including an Iran sanctions package.
President Barack Obama made clear Thursday in a closed-door session with Senate Democrats that he’s prepared to veto hostile legislation from the GOP-controlled Congress, including an Iran sanctions package on the front-burner of Capitol Hill.
According to several sources at the Thursday summit in Baltimore, Obama vowed to defend his agenda against Republicans in Congress, promised to stand firm against GOP efforts to dismantle his agenda and called on his Democratic colleagues to help sustain his expected vetoes.
The president also was explicit over his administration’s opposition to an Iran sanctions bill, promising to veto legislation with his administration in the midst of multilateral nuclear negotiations with the Middle Eastern regime.
Even though Obama’s position on Iran sanctions differs from a number of powerful Democrats, the session, several sources said, was more of a pep rally than confrontation.
Despite his lame-duck status, the president promised that he would not sit on the sidelines in the next two years.
He vowed more executive actions to implement his agenda, something bound to prompt anger from Republicans who have called the president’s unilateral moves, particularly on immigration, an unconstitutional power grab.
“I’m not going to spend the next two years on defense; I’m going to play offense,” Obama said, according to two attendees.

New York Times Editor: Depicting Muhammad is More Offensive than Anti-Semitic or Anti-Christian Cartoons

New York Times Editor: Depicting Muhammad is More Offensive than Anti-Semitic or Anti-Christian Cartoons:
"Though some have bravely stood up for free speech, many cowards in the mainstream media have refused to print the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that have inspired jihadists to murder in the name of their prophet and their supposed “religion of peace.”

One such cowardly institution is the New York Times who have, in the past, printed anti-Semitic cartoons or other pictures offensive to Christians. This hypocrisy, they explain, is because, somehow, depicting Muhammad is more offensive than degrading Jews or Christians.
Even the left-leaning POLITICO has a hard time buying the justification for this glaring hypocrisy.
They write,"

Awarded Millions, Wind Turbine Company Defaults on State Loan

Awarded Millions, Wind Turbine Company Defaults on State Loan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"In 2009, Ventower Industries issued a press release with the headline, “Another ARRA Success Story – New Funds Mean More Jobs in Monroe.”
The news was that Ventower, which was supposed to make wind turbine towers and bases, had been given $2.5 million by the federal government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or the "stimulus" package.
U.S. Congressmen John Dingell called it a “watershed moment.”
In 2010, the News Herald newspaper in Southgate called Ventower Industries “another successful project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” because it had received a $2.3 million grant and $1.2 million loan from the state of Michigan.
Yet, five years later, the state has said little about the project, and those “success” claims remain unsubstantiated.
The only official information is a 2014 state report stating that as of Sept. 31, 2013, Great Lakes Towers, doing business as Ventower Industries, completed construction of a factory in Monroe to build commercial wind turbine towers.
The only other information revealed by the one paragraph update was that the company was in default on the loan and had qualified for benefits offered by three other state programs..."

Obama's Paris snub wasn't an oversight | WashingtonExaminer.com

Obama's Paris snub wasn't an oversight | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"The uproar over whether President Obama or another top administration official should have attended the massive unity rally in Paris has obscured an important point about the White House's reaction to the latest terror attacks in Europe. The administration no-shows were not a failure of optics, or a diplomatic misstep, but were instead the logical result of the president's years-long effort to downgrade the threat of terrorism and move on to other things."

More Surveillance and a 'Euro PATRIOT Act'? "France just passed new regulations in November, now more will be necessary"

More Surveillance and a 'Euro PATRIOT Act'? "France just passed new regulations in November, now more will be necessary":
The irony is almost worse than 9/11.

Then, President Bush responded by stating, with bravado, that they attacked us because they hate our freedoms.

This time, the attack against the publication of satirical Mohammed cartoon, was not only an act of terrorism, but an attack on the spirit of free speech.

And the government response this time? 
After staging a photo op of world leaders, various heads of state have proposed new waves of surveillance and repressive attempts to ban encryption and violate the freedom of speech in communication devices through new spy policies and laws.

On Sunday, as more than 3 million people flooded the streets of Paris in support of the free speech principles that Charlie Hebdo embodied, a group of 12 European ministers issued a joint statement calling for internet service providers to more swiftly report and remove online material “that aims to incite hatred and terror.”

Establishing a framework to enhance police work and intelligence sharing concerning the actions of alleged terrorists and extremists, the joint statement from 12 European ministers and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declares the intent to: “counter violent extremism” and “fight against radicalization, notably on the Internet,” in part through the “swift reporting [and removal] of material that aims to incite hatred and terror.” 
Meanwhile, it aims to beef European border control, “step up the detection and screening of travel movements” and enhance law enforcement, particularly in “working to reduce the supply of illegal firearms throughout Europe.”

10 Reasons Why U.S. Military Members May Hate Obama | The Sean Hannity Show

10 Reasons Why U.S. Military Members May Hate Obama | The Sean Hannity Show:

"The Military Times recently published a poll that showed only 15 percent of the U.S. military approves of President Obama. Meanwhile his disapproval rating went from 40 percent in 2009, to 55 percent in 2014.

Below is a list of some of the reasons why members of the U.S. military might not be such big fans of the Commander in Chief:

1)Sending Pink Slips to Soldiers Serving in War Zones"

Must read of the day!-----Controversy over 'offensive' Fox News broadcasts at public recreation center in Ann Arbor

Controversy over 'offensive' Fox News broadcasts at public recreation center in Ann Arbor | MLive.com:
"A couple's objections to Fox News broadcasts at the Meri Lou Murray Recreation Center in Ann Arbor has Washtenaw County officials considering a new policy for what types of programs should be allowed on TV screens inside the center.
Ypsilanti Township residents Dave and Sue Weber argue a county-run facility is no place to be showing what they consider offensive, right-wing political propaganda.
They said they started going to the county's recreation center on Washtenaw Avenue last fall and were dismayed to see Fox News show up on four of the 12 television screens in the cardio area during election season.
"In September, when we toured the facility before joining, we didn't notice Fox on at all," Dave Weber said.
"But now October comes around, pre-election time, that's when it multiplied onto four screens, four out of the 12 in the cardio room."
Though there's no volume on the TVs, they said, they got tired of seeing offensive closed-caption blocks with remarks such as "Young women aren't capable of voting" and "We have enough illegals here, we don't need more."
They also have been offended by attacks against President Barack Obama and Democrats, and they say there's no programming offering a counter viewpoint.
....On a recent morning, MSNBC wasn't on any of the TV screens inside the center, while one of the screens was showing Fox News.
Other televisions were tuned to channels such as CNN, HGTV, ESPN and the Weather Channel."

Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014

Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014:

"They picked them up by their arms and legs and held them over the brick furnace until their clothes caught fire. And then they threw them [alive] inside the furnace." — Javeed Maseeh, family spokesman, concerning a Christian couple in Pakistan murdered on rumors they had burned verses from the Qur'an.

"I would appeal to your honor to put pressure on the government of Pakistan to end misuse of blasphemy laws against Christians, Ahmadiyyia and other religious minorities and condition US Aid on human rights and repeal of blasphemy laws." — From a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama by Dr. Nazir S. Bhutti, President of the Pakistan Christian Congress, expressing surprise that the U.S. did not even bother to condemn the burning of Christians alive."

The Huffington Post Just Pulled a Huge Race Card: Here’s Their Target…

The Huffington Post Just Pulled a Huge Race Card: Here’s Their Target…:

"Pulling out an 800- pound race card, “Huffpo” is accusing The Oscars of being racist. Yes, rather than follow MLK’s admonition to judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, the racial quota bean counters at Huffpo are broadcasting on their front page that, “This Will Be The Whitest Oscars Since 1998.”



See what happens when you give everyone a trophy for just being...They turn into whining liberals.  

“Knowledge starts as offendedness”: Jonathan Rauch on Free Speech

History for January 16

History for January 16 - On-This-Day.com
Andre Michelin 1853, Ethel Merman 1909, Marilyn Horne 1934 


A.J. Foyt 1935, Ronnie Milsap 1943, John Carpenter 1948 


1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia. 


1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA. 


1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment. 


1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S. 


1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London. 


1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington,DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring. 


1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. 


1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton. 

When You See What Obama Just Did, You’ll Wonder Whose Side He’s On

When You See What Obama Just Did, You’ll Wonder Whose Side He’s On:

"As the world is still in shock following the horrific Islamic terrorist events in France and around the world, Obama has just taken action that will leave millions of Americans scratching their heads and asking themselves, ‘Is Obama playing for the wrong team?”


Obama's loyalty has always been in question. 

Coming Soon to a Store Near You: Big Brother Watching You to ‘Enhance’ Your Shopping Experience

Coming Soon to a Store Near You: Big Brother Watching You to ‘Enhance’ Your Shopping Experience:

"Microsoft wants to improve your shopping experience by placing facial recognition devices at key places around a store in order to, they say, improve your shopping experience making it more personalized."

Duke Univ. to use campus chapel bell tower for ‘amplified’ Islamic call to prayer

Duke Univ. to use campus chapel bell tower for ‘amplified’ Islamic call to prayer:
"The Muslim Students Association at Duke University has been given permission to chant a weekly call-to-prayer from the Duke Chapel bell tower, the university has announced.
The chant will take place at 1 p.m. on Fridays, announcing the association’s weekly jummah prayer service.
“The chant lasts about three minutes and will be moderately amplified,” the university said in a statement.
“The adhan is the call to prayer that brings Muslims back to their purpose in life, which is to worship God and serves as a reminder to serve our brothers and sisters in humanity,” said Imam Adeel Zeb, Muslim chaplain at Duke, on the university’s website.
“The collective Muslim community is truly grateful and excited about Duke’s intentionality toward religious and cultural diversity.”

Obama to Call for Paid Leave Law, Extra Time Off for Federal Workers | TheBlaze.com

Obama to Call for Paid Leave Law, Extra Time Off for Federal Workers | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama will announce plans to force private companies to give seven days of paid leave to employees and take executive action to give federal employees six more paid time off.

Obama will propose a law to Congress for paid leave, and include in his fiscal year budget $2.2 billion to establish paid leave programs by state and local governments.

“We are the only developed country in the world that doesn’t have paid leave,” White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told reporters on a conference call Wednesday evening. “If we want to be globally competitive, we have to figure this out.”



We are the only developed country that is supposedly free. 

Saudi Cleric Bans Building of Snowmen; You’ll Never Guess Why

Saudi Cleric Bans Building of Snowmen; You’ll Never Guess Why:

"Sheikh Mohammed Saleh Al-Munajjid, an influential Saudi Arabian cleric, issued a surprising declaration following a rare major snowstorm that slammed northern Saudi Arabia this week (Maybe it was caused by “global warming,” but that’s another story). 

Sheikh Munajjid proclaimed that is is not permissable to build snowmen, “even by way of play and fun,” saying that doing so would be a “sin.”

Reuters reports:"