History for March 15

History for March 15 - On-This-Day.com
Andrew Jackson 1767, Judd Hirsch 1935 - Actor ("Taxi"), Jimmy Lee Swaggart 1935 - Pastor 


Mike Love 1941 - Musician (The Beach Boys), Sly Stone 1944 - Musician (Sly & the Family Stone), Fabio 1961 - Model 


44 BC - Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the "Ides of March."


1892 - Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was the first escalator.


1937 - In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank to preserve blood for transfusion by refrigeration was established at the Cook County Hospital.


1938 - Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.






1956 - The musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.


1964 - In Montreal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married.


1990 - The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.


1998 - CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said U.S. President Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.

A Clear Path to Victory for Ted Cruz | Glenn Beck

A Clear Path to Victory for Ted Cruz | Glenn Beck:

"Rubio and Kasich Must Drop Out
Glenn has been saying this for weeks now, but head-to-head, Cruz destroys Trump — so narrowing the field to a two-man race is critical. Should this occur, Glenn even suggested the Cruz camp should be fine with losing every race on Tuesday."

BREAKING! Admiral Issues Dire Warning To America - "Why Would An American President Embrace The Muslim Brotherhood?" [VIDEO] ⋆ US Herald

BREAKING! Admiral Issues Dire Warning To America - "Why Would An American President Embrace The Muslim Brotherhood?" [VIDEO] ⋆ US Herald:

“Why would an American President embrace the Muslim Brotherhood?”

That question no doubt as been asked (in various forms), perhaps a thousand times, and the speculations as to “why” is perhaps just as many. However one thing is certain Obama has no doubt “transformed America, and not for the good!"

Sheriff Clarke - Don't Blame Trump, Obama Stoked Racism For 8 Years

Sheriff Clarke - Don't Blame Trump, Obama Stoked Racism For 8 Years | RickWells.US
Clarke – Anarchists See Trump As A Threat – That’s Why They’re Attacking Him
Sheriff Clarke identifies the disrupters that are targeting Donald Trump as riot starters who show up for the express purpose of creating chaos.
He says, “This is a threat to ordered liberty in the United States of America.
Look, these presidential candidates and their supporters have every right to participate in this process in our democratic state here in the United States of America.”
“And for that to be thwarted by these bullies, these goons, is downright wrong.” Clarke says,
“Look, the Chicago police, the officers were under-resourced last night.
Shame on the Chicago Police administrators for not putting their line officers in a position to be able to accomplish their mission, which was to have this rally go on.”
He says, “This rally was cancelled in the name of public safety?
Why don’t we cancel these rebellions in the name of public safety? 
These people had their civil rights violated, who showed up at this rally and wanted to participate, as the Constitution allows, in our presidential election politics.
Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights were squashed last night because of the cancellation of this rally.”...

Feel-good story of the day-----Hatchet Swinging Robber Gets Gunned Down By Concealed Carry Customer

Hatchet Swinging Robber Gets Gunned Down By Concealed Carry Customer
A concealed carrier shot and killed a masked man armed with a hatchet after seeing a robbery in progress at his favorite convenience store.
“There’s a chair that sits really close to the clerk’s counter.
He was sitting back there having his morning coffee,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West said. “The guy came in with a mask just swinging the hatchet at both of them.”
One of the stores regulars, a customer with a concealed carry license, saw the man go into the store and knew he had to act. 
He entered and engaged the attacker, mortally wounding him.
“[The] customer, the shooter, is shaken up but from everything that we see right now from the scene – there’s no wrongdoing on his part,” West said.
“In fact, he probably saved a life in this case.”
“Fortunately, because of this customer with his weapon, this could have been a lot worse,” said West. “The clerk could be the one laying there dead on the floor right now and fortunately he’s not, thanks to the customer.”

Obama Just Sank To An Absolute New Low With What He Said About His Presidency...Wow

Obama Just Sank To An Absolute New Low With What He Said About His Presidency...Wow:

"The United States certainly seems to be much more divided now than it has been at any time since the race riots of the 1970s. While the tensions appeared to fade, starting in the Reagan era, the presidency of the nation’s first African American chief executive seems to have sparked up old resentments and created quite a few new ones. Not that any of that is his fault, apparently.

During a White House press conference with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Obama claimed that conservative politicians and media are exclusively responsible for the current tone of American politics, claiming it’s something “which I certainly have not contributed to.”

Have All the Income Gains Gone to the Top 1 Percent?

Have All the Income Gains Gone to the Top 1 Percent? | Economics21
To read the full report, click here.

"Some on the political left have used analyses by French economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez to argue that the "top 1 percent" have captured all of America's post--Great Recession economic gains. 

This claim has no basis in fact. 

Focusing only on the recovery leaves out vital context, too: higher-income households see the largest losses during recessions and largest gains during recoveries. 

Painting an accurate picture requires a time frame that includes both.

Saez releases new inequality estimates every year, along with a summary of inequality trends and levels. 

The claim that all gains have gone to the top 1 percent of U.S. households comes from his January 2015 summary, where he noted that 91 percent of the income growth in the U.S. between 2009 and 2012 went to the top 1 percent of tax units. 
But Saez's June 2015 summary updated his data through 2014 and reported that the top 1 percent had received 58 percent of income gains from 2009 to 2014.

...All told, in 2014, the top 1 percent was still poorer, by 18 percent, than it was in 2007, compared with a 9 percent decline for the bottom 90 percent. 

None of this is to deny that income inequality has risen in America in recent decades. 

But all the gains have not gone only to the top, and the rise in income concentration has been considerably less severe than widely acknowledged. 

Indeed, claims that only the very top earners benefit from economic growth--or that the rich are unaffected by recessions--are patently false. 

U.S. income data reveal that an economy that works for those at the top is also one that works for everyone."

This is an excerpt from the new Manhattan Institute report, "Reality Check: The Top 1 Percent Have Suffered Nearly Half of All Losses in This Business Cycle." To read the full report, click here.

Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam Hates Us” More Than You Know

Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam Hates Us” More Than You Know:
Donald Trump’s latest politically incorrect comment concerning Islam is much truer than most know.

After being asked last week on CNN if he believed the West was at war with Islam, the Republican presidential candidate simply said...

While millions of Americans undoubtedly agree with Trump’s assertions—at least those who have eyes and ears to see and hear with—few realize that this “tremendous hatred” is not a product of grievances, political factors, or even an “extremist” interpretation of Islam; rather, it is a direct byproduct of mainstream Islamic teaching.

According to the ancient Islamic doctrine of al-wal’a wa al-bara’, or “loyalty and enmity”—which is well grounded in Islamic scriptures, well sponsored by Islamic authorities, and well manifested all throughout Islamic history and contemporary affairs—Muslims must hate and oppose everyone who is not Muslim, including family members.

Koran 60:4 is the cornerstone verse of this doctrine and speaks for itself: “You [Muslims] have a good example in Abraham and those who followed him, for they said to their people, ‘We disown you and the idols which you worship besides Allah.  
We renounce you: enmity and hate shall reign between us until you believe in Allah alone’” (Koran 60:4, emphasis added).

...Because enmity for non-Muslims is so ironclad in the Koran, mainstream Islamic teaching holds that Muslim men must even hate—and show that they hate—their non-Muslim wives, for no other reason than that they are “infidels.”… Keep reading

Lunch video-----Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement - Attack On 1st Amendment & Trump ...

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Should kids be held back if they can't read in third grade?

http://www.wxyz.com/news/should-kids-be-held-back-if-they-cant-read-in-third-grade

Teachers Union Spends Little of Its Funds on Bargaining-MEA spends only 10 percent of funds on 'representational activities'

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/22245

World Watch: Michigan companies doing business in China

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160313/NEWS/160309884/world-watch-michigan-companies-doing-business-in-china

Hell, MI is for sale

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2016/03/11/hell-mi-is-for-sale

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2016/03/09/michigan-loses-more-citizens-to-overdoses-than-to-car-accidents

More airports calling out TSA for long lines

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2016/03/09/more-airports-calling-out-tsa-long-lines/81532494/

How we die: 8 trends in Michigan deaths

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/how_we_die_10_top_causes_of_de.html#incart_river_home

Look up top causes of death in your Michigan county

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/look_up_top_causes_of_death_in.html#incart_river_home

Too Bad Flint Wasn’t Run Like a Business

http://www.economics21.org/commentary/flint-water-crisis-business-logan-billman-03-14-2016

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Islamic State Is Giving Birth Control to Female Captives to Keep Them Fit as Sex Slaves — NYT | TheBlaze.com

Islamic State Is Giving Birth Control to Female Captives to Keep Them Fit as Sex Slaves — NYT | TheBlaze.com:

"Islamic State fighters have forced the women and girls they have kidnapped as sex slaves to take contraceptives in order to ensure they are fit for continued sexual abuse, the New York Times reported Saturday. The claim was based on interviews with more than three dozen former Yazidi captives.

In one case, an Islamic State jihadist tried to force the already pregnant woman he had bought to undergo an abortion."

Hell, MI is for sale

Hell, MI is for sale | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times
"...Colone, the unofficial mayor of Hell, Michigan, originally listed the five acre property for $1.3 million, then dropped it to a devilish asking price of $999,666.
But after more than a year without a buyer, he’s lowered the gimmicky price to a nice, round $900,000.
The property comes with the small businesses Colone has started to capitalize on the town’s notable name, including the Hell Wedding Chapel and Scream’s Ice Cream Shop, as well as the rights to Hell-themed merchandise and slogans.
Colone appeared in the Livingston Daily holding a shirt with the slogan “Beer in Hell is Safer than Water in Flint.” 
Other shirts available in his gift shop boast “Hell: It’s Safer Than Detroit.”... 

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents

Michigan loses more citizens to overdoses than to car accidents | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times:
"In 2014 more people in Michigan died from drug related overdoses than car accidents — and the state is not alone with this sobering stat.
Thirty five other states and Washington DC have seen drug overdoses surpass automobile-related deaths. 
In 2014, the last year the data was available, 1,745 Michiganders died from drug overdoses. 
That same year 876 people died from car crashes in the state."

Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate

Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate | The American Mirror
"President Obama provided an interesting perspective on the widening rift in American politics Thursday during a presidential news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The lame-duck Obama said he personally has “not contributed to” the increasingly partisan climate in Washington and America in general during his tenure, but rather it’s those swarmy Republicans and conservative media outlets that are really to blame.
...The president apparently came to the realization that maybe he hasn’t done all he can to bring people together, but he’s definitely not at all to blame for dividing the country.
“I do all kinds of soul searching in terms of, are there things that I can do better to make sure that we are unifying the country,” Obama said, “but I also have to say … objectively it’s fair to say that the Republican political elites and many information outlets, social media and news stations, talk radio, television stations have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed, that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal, that maximalist, absolutist positions on issues are politically advantageous, that there’s a ‘them’ out there and an ‘us’ and ‘them’ are the folks who are causing whatever the problems you’re experiencing and the tone of that politics, which I certainly have not contributed to.”...

AM Michigan Hotlinks

Removing lead pipes may not solve Flint's water crisis

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/03/removing_lead_pipes_wont_solve.html#incart_special-report

Redactions in Gov. Rick Snyder email release go beyond FOIA exemptions

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/redaction_in_gov_rick_snyder_e.html#incart_special-report

Lawsuits filed so far in Flint water crisis seek more than $40 million damages

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160313/NEWS/303139982/lawsuits-filed-so-far-in-flint-water-crisis-seek-more-than-40

 Armed Michigan woman stops burglars amid rash of home invasions

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2016/03/armed_resident_stops_burglars.html#incart_most-readnews

It's Pi Day! Celebrate with Pi Day pie photos, links and recipes

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High Five Pedal Tours launches in downtown Ann Arbor

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Flint water e-mails written to stay secret

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/03/13/flint-water-e-mails-written-stay-secret/81446450/

Michigan lawmakers exempt from public records requests

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/03/13/michigan-lawmakers-exempt-public-records-requests/81725886/

Muskegon Heights, Shelby to meet in regional semifinal

Shelby canceled regular-season game vs. Muskegon Heights after shooting

http://woodtv.com/2016/03/13/muskegon-heights-shelby-to-meet-in-regional-matchup/

Laketown Township will vote on high speed Internet project in May

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/article/20160313/NEWS/160319582

Cruz: Trump and ‘Demagogue’ Obama Are ‘Very Much the Same’ | TheBlaze.com

Cruz: Trump and ‘Demagogue’ Obama Are ‘Very Much the Same’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz likened fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to President Barack Obama, calling both men “demagogues” during a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Chuck Todd.

Calling Obama a “world class demagogue,” Cruz responded to an audio clip of the president at a recent fundraiser where he told attendees that today’s political hysteria “is not an accident” and was cultivated for years as American citizens were “told we should be angry about America and that the economy’s a disaster — and that we’re weak,” according to NBC."

Government at war with its citizens-----More airports calling out TSA for long lines

More airports calling out TSA for long lines
"...Already, Atlanta’s airport – the busiest in the world – publicly called out the agency last month for persistently long lines that it blamed primarily on staffing levels.
Now, some of the nation’s other top airports are joining the fray.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport became one of the latest.
The airport warned fliers on Wednesday via Twitter they should “expect longer wait times” because TSA “staffing (is) not keeping pace (with) passenger volumes.”
...Jeffrey Hamiel, CEO of the agency that operates MSP, fired off a letter to TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger decrying the TSA’s staffing.
In his letter, Hamiel said passenger volume at MSP has jumped more than 10% since 2011 while the number of TSA screeners nationwide had dropped about 15% over that period.
...However, AP notes the TSA may have its hands tied when it comes to addressing staffing levels.
The news agency writes “Congress has capped the number of uniformed screeners for budgetary reasons: About 42,800 screeners nationwide now, compared with a peak of about 50,000 a few years ago, (Dankers) said.”
Against that backdrop, the TSA has began conducting more thorough inspections “of people and carry-on luggage since last summer's revelation of startling security gaps at U.S. airports,” AP writes.

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History for March 14

History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com
Albert Einstein 1879, Frank Borman II 1928 - Astronaut, Quincy Jones 1933


Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond"), Eugene Cernan 1934, Billy Crystal 1948 - Actor, comedian


1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.


1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama. The Columbian Senate rejected the treaty. A deal was signed on November 6, 1903 with the newly independent Panama.


1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.


1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.


1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.


1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.


1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.


2003 - Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail. Blake had been jailed for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley.

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Hmmm-----First on CNN: U.S. says North Korean submarine missing

First on CNN: U.S. says North Korean submarine missing - CNNPolitics.com:
"Washington (CNN)The North Korean regime lost contact with one of its submarines earlier this week, three U.S. officials familiar with the latest information told CNN.
The U.S. military had been observing the submarine operate off North Korea's east coast when the vessel stopped, and U.S. spy satellites, aircraft and ships have been secretly watching for days as the North Korean navy searched for the missing sub.
The U.S. is unsure if the missing vessel is adrift under the sea or whether it has sunk, the officials said, but believes it suffered some type of failure during an exercise.
Tensions have heightened on the Korean peninsula following a fourth North Korean nuclear test and joint U.S.-South Korean military drills..."

Obama's government against McDonalds!-----McDonald's secrets spill out in trial over pay

McDonald's secrets spill out in trial over pay | Ap | nwitimes.com:
"A pivotal trial against McDonald's that began this week is providing a peek into the inner workings of the maker of the Big Mac.
The trial centers over whether McDonald's exerts control over hiring and pay decisions for employees at restaurants run by its U.S. franchises.
The National Labor Relations Board contends the company does, and should be considered a "joint employer" along with franchisees.
Such a finding would be historic because it would make McDonald's liable for the labor practices at its more than 14,000 domestic restaurants — 90 percent of which are franchised. 
And it could open a path to unionization for workers by giving labor groups a centralized target in McDonald's Corp., rather than a patchwork of more than 3,000 franchisees..."

Here Are The Radical Leftist Anti-Tump Groups Behind The Chicago Protest

Here Are The Radical Leftist Anti-Tump Groups Behind The Chicago Protest | The Daily Caller
The usual suspects of local radical leftists were instrumental in organizing the anti-Trump rally protest in Chicago on Friday.

• ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Chicago is the Chicago franchise of an international network started in the wake of 9/11 and among the first to protest against a response in Afghanistan; since then the group is involved in most of the radical left’s favorite causes: anti-capitalist, pro-union, open borders, anti-war, anti-police causes...
• Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Rights Reform This radical leftist group, specializing in immigration, is a more extreme version of the far left version of National Council on La Raza in Illinois.
• La Raza Chicago-The Chicago branch of the notoriously radical pro-illegal immigration group had people on site and detailing the events in a post on its site.

Lunch video-----Bernard Fisher, Medal of Honor, Vietnam War

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Stacey Dash Has This BOLD Message For Hollywood Megastar DiCaprio After Climate Change Rant

Stacey Dash Has This BOLD Message For Hollywood Megastar DiCaprio After Climate Change Rant:

"Stacey Dash, the outspoken actress and co-host on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” might have gotten her big break starring in the movie “Clueless,” but she’s accusing Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio of being the clueless one when it comes to the liberal fetish of global warming.

In a post on the spirituality website Patheos.com, Dash went after “The Revenant” star for using his Oscar acceptance speech to spread the propaganda of climate change."