History for November 14

History for November 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Robert Fulton 1765 - Engineer and inventor (steamboat), Claude Monet 1840 - French impressionist painter, Aaron Copland 1900 - Composer, writer 


Fred Haise 1933 - Engineer, former NASA astronaut, P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - Political satirist, journalist, writer, Condoleezza Rice 1954 - U.S. Secretary of State 


1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S. 


1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service. 


1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked. 


1951 - The first telecast of a world lightweight title fight was seen coast to coast. Jimmy Carter beat Art Aragon in Los Angeles. 


1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising. 


1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests. 


1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections. 


2012 - The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for smartphone

Speaking at the Paris Concert Hall, French President Delivers Brazen Message to the Terrorists | TheBlaze.com

Speaking at the Paris Concert Hall, French President Delivers Brazen Message to the Terrorists | TheBlaze.com:

"French President Francois Hollande promised early Saturday morning to lead a “pitiless” war against the terrorists responsible for the deadly attacks on Paris.

“We are going to lead a war, it will be pitiless,” he said at the scene of the Bataclan convert venue, according to NBC News reporter Katy Tur."

Mark Levin Reacts to Paris Attack: Seal Our Borders, ‘Thank God for the Second Amendment’ - Breitbart

Mark Levin Reacts to Paris Attack: Seal Our Borders, ‘Thank God for the Second Amendment’ - Breitbart:

"Levin argued what happened in Paris could happen here and called out a number of so-called “front groups” in the United States.

“You know ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know about you, but I am so sick and tired of politicians telling us we can’t control our border, we can’t determine who is coming into this country. I’m so sick of these ethnic front groups — groups like CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups in this country pretending to be civil rights groups and using our laws against us and using our freedom against us. I’m so sick of it.”

“What is going on in France is going to happen here — I truly believe it,” he continued."

Obama: ISIS Is Not Getting 'Stronger,' We Have 'Contained' Them - Breitbart

Obama: ISIS Is Not Getting 'Stronger,' We Have 'Contained' Them - Breitbart:

"Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” President Barack Obama seemingly downplayed the threat of ISIS in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Good Morning America.”

Stephanopoulos asked Obama if ISIS was gaining in strength, to which Obama denied they were."

WOW!

Hillary Clinton Retells Military Story That CNN Reporter Admits ‘Seems So Unusual’ — Guess What Happened When He Asked Questions | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton Retells Military Story That CNN Reporter Admits ‘Seems So Unusual’ — Guess What Happened When He Asked Questions | Video | TheBlaze.com:

 "Hillary Clinton recently retold a story about how she supposedly tried to join the U.S. Marines in the 1970s, but was turned down because of her gender. She claims the Marine recruiter gave her fake reasons for why she couldn’t enlist."

‘Afrikan Black Coalition’ Reveals 2 Shocking Goals: ‘Stop White People’ and…

‘Afrikan Black Coalition’ Reveals 2 Shocking Goals: ‘Stop White People’ and… | RedFlag News:

A multi-campus black college student group has two goals it seeks to implement in the United States: overthrow the Constitution and “stop white people.”

The goals are related, according to Campus Reform, which reported on the movement.

The Afrikan Black Coalition, lists the University of California, Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and San Diego State University as “partner schools,” where presumably supporters of the group attend. UC Santa Barbara is slated to host the coalition’s next annual conference in February 2016.

In an article titled, A New Constitution or the Bullet, published on Nov. 4 on its website, the group pronounces, “It is our human right to overthrow a government that has been destructive to our people.” 

“A Constitution written by only white men will never serve the interests Black [sic] people. The Constitution was written for the ruling class of white men which constructed whiteness to be more valuable than any other race,” the Coalition argues. “When we discuss institutional racism, it is essential that we realize the Constitution created it...”

New Muslim Majority City Council Member in Michigan Issues Warning - Breitbart

New Muslim Majority City Council Member in Michigan Issues Warning - Breitbart:

"Yet everywhere Muslims have held political power, non-Muslims have suffered – suffered loss of life, or property, income, social standing, or equal rights before the law. Nowhere in any majority-Muslim country today do non-Muslims enjoy full equality of rights with Muslims. Everyone assumes that the Muslims in the U.S. are different and don’t believe in the Islamic laws that lead to that discrimination, but there is no basis for that assumption: there is no American form of Islam that is different from the form that prevails in the rest of the world.

The Muslim city council of Hamtramck, Michigan has already gotten off to a confrontational, divisive start. Perhaps their first order of business will be rename the town Hamtramckistan. Does anyone who is genuinely informed about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat really think that from here on out it is going to get better?"

BIG! You should know what's happening here-------The war against Exxon Mobil

The war against Exxon Mobil - The Washington Post
If you care about free speech, you should pay attention to the campaign now being waged against Exxon Mobil.
More than 50 environmental and civil rights groups have written Attorney General Loretta Lynch urging her to open a “federal probe” of the giant energy firm.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have also joined the chorus.
The charge is that Exxon Mobil “systematically misled the public” on climate change, even as its executives recognized the dangers.

New York’s attorney general has already launched an investigation.
What’s behind the latest assault are two recent pieces of investigative journalism that, based on company documents, concluded that Exxon Mobil played a double game.
In the 1970s, when global warming began attracting scientific attention, the firm “assembled a brain trust [that deepened] the company’s understanding” of climate change, reported InsideClimate News. But in the late 1980s, the company switched to “climate denial,” manufacturing “doubt about . . . global warming its own scientists” had confirmed.
Stories in the Los Angeles Times told a similar tale.
...The advocates of a probe into Exxon Mobil are essentially proposing that the company be punished for expressing its opinions.
These opinions may be smart or stupid, constructive or destructive, sensible or self-interested. Whatever, they deserve protection.
An investigation would, at the least, constitute a form of harassment that would warn other companies to be circumspect in airing their views.
Matters could be worse if the government somehow imposes monetary penalties or opens the floodgates to suits by plaintiffs’ attorneys, a la the tobacco industry. 
Significantly, the letter to Attorney General Lynch does not allege any violation of law.
Exxon Mobil (2014 earnings: $32.5 billion) does not command our sympathy.
But free speech does not belong only to the sympathetic.
Casting Exxon Mobil as the scapegoat for global warming’s dilemmas is historically inaccurate and a political cheap shot with troubling constitutional implications.

What the Common Core Will Do to Colleges

What the Common Core Will Do to Colleges | National Association of Scholars

This article originally appeared on Minding the Campus on March 16, 2014.

Changes in the SAT, announced on March 5 by the College Board, adjust the test to the ongoing decline in the nation's public schools. The new test lightens vocabulary and math and eliminates the penalty for bad guessing. The new SAT grows out of and accommodates the Common Core State Standards, the controversial set of K-12 standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

The Common Core's standards amount to an assault on the college curriculum. That's because colleges will have to adapt to what the Common Core teaches—and what it fails to teach. It teaches a mechanical way of reading that is poorly suited to literature, philosophy, history, and the rest of the liberal arts.  It also fails to teach the math students need to begin a college-level curriculum in the sciences.  

COMPLAINTS

The Common Core has aroused a broad-based and sometimes furious reaction among Americans across the political spectrum. The furor, however, isn't yet focused on what the Common Core does to a college education. Rather, the complaints focus on the immediate harm to students and to schools. The arguments against Common Core have proliferated almost beyond counting, but the short version is something like this: 

Read on and think about our children

Literal Speech Police

Literal Speech Police - WSJ:
Reader Tim McAleenan, a third-year law student at the University of Missouri, forwards an announcement he received by email this morning from the campus police, with the subject line “Reporting Hateful and/or Hurtful Speech”:

To continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe, the MU Police Department (MUPD) is asking individuals who witness incidents of hateful and/or hurtful speech or actions to:

• Call the police immediately at [phone number redacted]. (If you are in an emergency situation, dial 911.)

• Give the communications operator a summary of the incident, including location.

• Provide a detailed description of the individual(s) involved.

• Provide a license plate and vehicle descriptions (if appropriate).

• If possible and if it can be done safely, take a photo of the individual(s) with your cell phone.

Delays, including posting information to social media, can often reduce the chances of identifying the responsible parties. While cases of hateful and hurtful speech are not crimes, if the individual(s) identified are students, MU’s Office of Student Conduct can take disciplinary action.

We spoke with Maj. Brian Weimer, the campus police’s public information officer, who confirms the email is genuine. It’s also very troubling..."

Read on!

Noon-toon

Mark Levin Reacts to Paris Attack: Seal Our Borders, ‘Thank God for the Second Amendment’ - Breitbart

Mark Levin Reacts to Paris Attack: Seal Our Borders, ‘Thank God for the Second Amendment’ - Breitbart:

"Levin argued what happened in Paris could happen here and called out a number of so-called “front groups” in the United States.

“You know ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know about you, but I am so sick and tired of politicians telling us we can’t control our border, we can’t determine who is coming into this country. I’m so sick of these ethnic front groups — groups like CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups in this country pretending to be civil rights groups and using our laws against us and using our freedom against us. I’m so sick of it.”

“What is going on in France is going to happen here — I truly believe it,” he continued."

U.S. state draws line in sand against Islamization

U.S. state draws line in sand against Islamization:

"The Berkeley County Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday that bars any refugee funds from flowing into that county.

The resolution calls for “all South Carolina public officials to immediately cease and desist” from helping to resettle Middle Eastern refugees anywhere in the state until the legislature can act on the issue and pass legislation reflecting the will of the people.

Anderson and Pickens counties already passed similar resolutions.

Two more counties – Greenville and York – are expected to vote soon on similar resolutions."

Man who ran over Dallas cop outside nightclub had been deported 3 times

Man who ran over Dallas cop outside nightclub had been deported 3 times | Fox News Latino:
"The man accused of running over a Dallas, Texas, police officer Monday night is in the United States illegally and had been deported three times, immigration authorities say.
Eduardo Gonzalez-Rios, a 29-year-old Mexican national, had no prior criminal history in Dallas County, according to the Dallas Morning News, before a Monday night encounter with Senior Corporal Ed Lujan, who was working an off-duty job in uniform when Gonzalez-Rios ran over him twice outside the Kalua Discotheque.
Police say Lujan, who is in stable condition, suffered numerous broken bones and cuts on his scalp. The attack by Gonzalez-Rios prompted Sgt. Shannon Browning and Senior Corporal Antonio Barrientos to fire at Gonzalez-Rios.
...U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok says Gonzalez-Rios had been deported numerous times.
According to the local TV station WFAA, he was first caught in the U.S. illegally in 2004 near Harlingen, Texas, and was deported the same day. He tried again in May 2005, but was caught once more and returned the same day.
In September 2011, he made it to Kansas City, Missouri, and was deported a third time..."

Obama Blames Global Warming For Wildfires...Which He Caused

Obama Blames Global Warming For Wildfires...Which He Caused | The Daily Caller
Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama’s policies, not global warming.

“Our nation’s forests are sick and flammable, but they don’t have to be. Proper management would increase their resilience to wildfires.” said Julia Slingsby, Press Secretary of the House Committee on Natural Resources to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Unfortunately, radical environmental groups are hold our nation’s forests hostage. The President should move beyond forums and solve the wildfire problem by supporting the Resilient Federal Forests Act which was passed by the House this summer. This legislation stops lawsuits which derail forest management and treats the real cause of wildfires, the sick state of our nation’s forest.”

The Obama administration released a wildfire prevention plan Tuesday that blamed global warming for worsening fires, but environmental lawsuits and Obama’s own policies, not global warming, have made the recent fires worse these experts contend.

Scientists who study global warming and fire behavior doubt the link between recent wildfires and global warming. University of Colorado climate change specialist Roger Pielke Jr. even told the Los Angeles Times in October that other Democrats, specifically California’s Governor Brown, is engaging in “noble-cause corruption” to make a political, rather than scientific, case against global warming. Pielke goes on to say that attempts to attribute recent wildfires to climate changes goes against the findings of scientists.

Black-only meeting of Klein students stirs segregation concerns

Black-only meeting of Klein students stirs segregation concerns | abc13.com
Parents from one local high school now say school officials are stirring up problems where there aren't any.

This morning, Klein Oak High School held what it called a Unity meeting. Some parents say they're upset because only African-American students were allowed to attend.


"I asked my child not to attend the meeting," said parent Latanya Rhodes.

Rhodes is not happy that Klein Oaks would hold a Unity meeting solely for African-American students, a meeting she knew nothing about until our reports this morning.

...All African American students were invited to today's celebration meeting, termed Unity, Understanding the Needs and Interest of Today's Youth but they were not required to attend. Topics revolved around how they can be successful academically and included motivational speakers followed by open dialogue. ..

FBI Probe of Hillary Clinton is Now a FULL BLOWN Criminal Investigation! - Eagle Rising

FBI Probe of Hillary Clinton is Now a FULL BLOWN Criminal Investigation! - Eagle Rising:

"While Richard Nixon left office over the threat of impeachment for his Watergate tapes, Clinton has been missing five months' worth of emails!

Recently, Clinton said that she pushed for the ban the box so that presidents would not have to disclose their criminal history. Is she planning something in the future to get out of this? Is her political allies going to come to her aid and justice not be brought to bear on her?

According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, he believes this will inevitably tank any hopes she has of even having her name on the ballot."

Climate Change: The Hoax That Costs Us $4 Billion a Day

Climate Change: The Hoax That Costs Us $4 Billion a Day:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair.
The global climate change industry is worth an annual $1.5 trillion, according to Climate Change Business Journal.
That’s the equivalent of $4 billion a day spent on vital stuff like carbon trading, biofuels, and wind turbines. 
Or — as Jo Nova notes — it’s the same amount the world spends every year on online shopping.
But there’s a subtle difference between these two industries — the global warming one and the online shopping one.
Can you guess what it is?..."

History for November 13

History for November 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850- Author, best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oskar Werner 1922- Actor ("Jules and Jim," "Ship of Fools"), Richard Mulligan 1932- Actor ("Soap") 


Garry Marshall 1934- Producer, director, Jimmy Kimmel 1967- Comedian, talk show host ("Jimmy Kimmel Live"), Gerard Butler 1969- Actor ("The Ugly Truth," "The Bounty Hunter") 


1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal. 


1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." 


1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter." 


1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC. 


1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union. 


1998 - Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton. 


2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action. 


2009 - NASA announced that water had been discoved on the moon. The discovery came from the planned impact on the moon of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).

Indianapolis pastor's wife dies following shooting

Indianapolis pastor's wife dies following shooting:





INDIANAPOLIS -- Amanda Blackburn, a pregnant pastor's wife shot in her home Tuesday morning during an apparent robbery, was removed from a ventilator Thursday and has died, officials said.

The Marion County Coroner's office confirmed Blackburn, 28, was moved from the hospital and pronounced dead after her organs were donated. An autopsy will be performed.

The church founder and young mother was critically injured in the shooting around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Her imminent death spurred a surge of sympathy and prayers on social media Tuesday and Wednesday as friends, family members and strangers mourned with public posts. Blackburn had been shot in the head, officials said.

Blackburn and her husband Davey Blackburn moved to Indianapolis in 2012 from South Carolina to start the independent Resonate Church on the city's north side. They have a toddler son, Weston.

The Christian family was growing, as the couple had just announced Amanda Blackburn was 12 weeks pregnant with her second child.

"My wife was such a beautiful, gracious, loving woman of God. I have not only lost my ministry partner and support but also my very best friend," Davey Blackburn said in a statement Wednesday. "There is no way to prepare yourself for circumstances like these. As deeply as I am hurting I am hopeful and confident that good things will come of this."

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police detectives are investigating the shooting as a robbery, but police have revealed few details about the attack. No suspect information has been released to the public.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Sgt. Kendale Adams said detectives are "following up on several leads."

Yale Student Protester Needs 'Safe Space' Because of Politically Correct Parenting | National Review Online

Yale Student Protester Needs 'Safe Space' Because of Politically Correct Parenting | National Review Online:



Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids (Loganban/Dreamstime) It seems like every week there’s a new horror story of political correctness run amok at some college campus. A warning not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes sparked an imbroglio at Yale, which went viral over the weekend. A lecturer asked in an e-mail, “Is there no room anymore for a child to be a little bit obnoxious . . . a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?” Students went ballistic. When an administrator (who is the lecturer’s spouse) defended free speech, some students wanted his head. One student wrote in a Yale Herald op-ed (now taken down): “He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain.” Washington Post columnist (and Tufts professor) Daniel Drezner was initially horrified by the spectacle but ultimately backtracked. Invoking Friedrich Hayek’s insights from “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” Drezner cautions outside observers that “there is an awful lot of knowledge that is local in character, that cannot be culled from abstract principles or detached observers.”

Is Hillary Clinton wearing a wig? Matt Drudge alleges she has fake hair on Twitter | Daily Mail Online

Is Hillary Clinton wearing a wig? Matt Drudge alleges she has fake hair on Twitter | Daily Mail Online:

Is Hillary Clinton wearing a wig?

Matt Drudge has claimed the Democratic presidential candidate's hair is fake because she never appears to show her scalp - but one of the two stylists known to do Mrs Clinton's hair told Daily Mail Online that the allegation is 'ridiculous'.

In a series of tweets on Wednesday morning, Drudge, who runs The Drudge Report, one of the leading news aggregation websites in the world, posted pictures of Clinton to more than 320,000 followers, with captions including: 'Can we talk about Hillary's wig?'

Cold sun rising - The Nation

Cold sun rising - The Nation:

New studies flip climate-change notions upside down

The sun will go into "hibernation" mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it - the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova's model is said to have near-perfect accuracy.

So what is a "solar minimum"?

Our sun doesn't maintain a constant intensity. Instead, it cycles in spans of approximately 11 years. When it's at its maximum, it has the highest number of sunspots on its surface in that particular cycle. When it's at its minimum, it has almost none. When there are more sunspots, the sun is brighter. When there are fewer, the sun radiates less heat toward Earth.

But that's not the only cooling effect of a solar minimum. A dim sun doesn't deflect cosmic rays away from Earth as efficiently as a bright sun. So, when these rays enter our atmosphere, they seed clouds, which in turn cool our planet even more and increase precipitation in the form of rain, snow and hail.

Solar cycles

Since the early 1800s we have enjoyed healthy solar cycles and the rich agriculture and mild northern temperatures that they guarantee. During the Middle Ages, however, Earth felt the impact of four solar minimums over the course of 400 years.

The last Maunder Minimum and its accompanying mini-Ice Age saw the most consistent cold, continuing into the early 1800s.

- See more at: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Cold-sun-rising-30272650.html#sthash.hP91pvGb.dpuf

Music to Our Ears – Ted Cruz To Repeal Common Core and Dump the Dept. of Education | Education News

Music to Our Ears – Ted Cruz To Repeal Common Core and Dump the Dept. of Education | Education News:

"Ted Cruz’s statement is music to the ears of millions of Americans who are watching their children (1) lose their confidence, (2) cry and fret over their Common Core homework, and (3) become indoctrinated into Obama’s social justice agenda.

Ted Cruz’s statement is also music to the ears of millions of American teachers who know instinctively that their students are being deprived of a well-rounded education and that their students’ knowledge level is going down while their indoctrination level is going up."

Rand Paul Introducing Bill To Stop Refugees From Countries With 'Significant Jihadist Movements' | Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM

Rand Paul Introducing Bill To Stop Refugees From Countries With 'Significant Jihadist Movements' | 

Paul, running for president as a Republican, made the announcement during an afternoon call with reporters. The legislation is set for release later Monday, an aide said.

“Today I’m introducing a bill that will call for an immediate moratorium on visas for refugees,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters. “My bill will also stop all refugees as well as others from obtaining visas to immigrate, visit, or study in the U.S. from about 30 countries that have significant jihadist movements. This bill will be paid for with a special tax on arms sales to any of these countries.”

It’s been revealed that at least one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks entered France with migrants from Syria.

Abedin Email: Hillary Clinton 'Often Confused' | Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM

Abedin Email: Hillary Clinton 'Often Confused' 



 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “often confused,” according to an email made public Monday from former co-chief of staff Huma Abedin to frequent Clinton companion Monica Hanley.

In a Jan. 26, 2013, email, Abedin asks Hanley if she has “been going over calls with [Clinton] for tomorrow? So she knows Singh is at 8?”