History for January 26

History for January 26 - On-This-Day.com
Douglas MacArthur 1880, Paul Newman 1925, Bob Uecker 1935



Eddie Van Halen 1955 - Guitar player (Van Halen), Ellen DeGeneres 1958 - Actress-comedian. Television series: Ellen. She is famous for "coming out" on the television show Ellen, judge on "American Idol", Wayne Gretzky 1961 - Hockey hall-of-famer. He is known as "The Great One". He won four Stanley Cups.

1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.


1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.


1837 - Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States.


1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth.


1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.


1959 - "Alcoa Presents" debuted on ABC-TV. The show would later be renamed "One Step Beyond".


1996 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.


1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."


2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/01/freedomand-liberty-bytammy-derouin-itsa.html

Freedom and Liberty

By Tammy Derouin

It's a new day. There is optimism that the damage intentionally inflicted upon our country by a traitorous former president and his equally traitorous administration will be reversed, mended and healed. We finally stood up to the evil which had infiltrated our government and kicked it out the door. Four years was too much. Eight years of "hope and change" was paving a way to self-destruction as many Americans began to believe the propaganda being churned out by the Left. But, a second administration of unconscionable corruption and anti-American policies would have truly been suicide.

The flag seems a little brighter and waves a little higher as we begin reversing our course and moving our country back to center. We will attempt to right the wrongs committed against the American people and our homeland. The corrective course will only work if we follow the guide, brilliantly drafted, by our founding fathers.

The U.S. Constitution is a document of liberty and freedom. It was designed to restrain the government as a whole, as well as the individual branches, preventing any one entity from becoming too powerful. It protects the people and the individual states from a federal overreach of power. But, our Constitution is only as strong as the people demand its enforcement......... 

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row:
"With all this election stuff going the Religion of Peace™ must be feeling a bit left out.

Queen's chaplain resigns over cathedral Koran reading row saying he has a 'duty' to defend Christianity

A chaplain to the Queen has resigned after publicly criticising a church that allowed a Koran reading during its service as part of an interfaith project. The Rev Gavin Ashenden, who until this week was one of the 33 special chaplains to the Queen, said the reading was “a fairly serious error” and one which he had a duty to speak out about. “There are things we should not tolerate because they are destructive,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme.“I don’t accept the rather feeble accusation that intolerance is a bad thing.”

During a service at St Mary's Episcopal in Glasgow earlier this month to mark the feast of the Epiphany, there was a reading of a passage from the Koran which said that Jesus was not the son of God.

When first reading about this I instantly thought of life imitating art, as in the old "Not The Nine O'clock News" sketch, "The Devil - Is He All Bad?" 

They nearly got it right too, except for the "Pope not being Too Keen" bit. But I very much doubt that when it was made, Pope John Paul II would have been too keen.

Devastated That Trump Is President? You May Have a Dangerous Reliance on the State

Devastated That Trump Is President? You May Have a Dangerous Reliance on the State | The Daily Sheeple:
"The inauguration is behind us now, but many – millions, it seems – are still immersed in fear, anguish, and grief over the reality of President Donald Trump.

#NotMyPresident is still a very active hashtag on Twitter.

People are already calling for impeachment, claiming Trump’s presidency is “illegitimate”.

Celebrities (I refuse to mention them by name here and give them more attention) are still using their platforms to express anger, disappointment, and distress over the Trump presidency.

Protests continue, and people are venting and ranting and arguing on social media.

But maybe – just maybe – the widespread frustration and despair over the election outcome is unnecessary.

...But I believe it is time to let the shock of the election inspire something positive – true action.

Perhaps the time for lamentation has passed, and it is now time to DO the things we can to make our world a better place.

In other words, I believe that we are responsible for our own lives, and that shifting focus to what we CAN control is a much healthier and beneficial approach than continuing down a path of despair.

So, I have a question for those who are in panic mode right now and think Trump is going to ruin everything…

If you are devastated about who the president is, do you think it might be a sign that you rely on – or even worship – the State just a bit too much?..."
Read on!

Judge Nap: Obamacare Order 'Truly Revolutionary,' Exactly What Trump Promised | Fox News Insider

Judge Nap: Obamacare Order 'Truly Revolutionary,' Exactly What Trump Promised | Fox News Insider:

"Judge Andrew Napolitano said this morning that President Donald Trump's executive order on Obamacare - issued Friday right after he was inaugurated - was "truly revolutionary." 

The Fox News senior judicial analyst said the executive order instructed government agencies to use "discretion" to side with the individual over the government.

The text reads:"

Learn this!-----10 Reasons Hamas Should Not Be in Any Government

10 Reasons Hamas Should Not Be in Any Government: 
"Fatah and Hamas have formed a national-unity government following talks in Moscow. 
Here’s why that’s a bad idea."
Fatah and Hamas, which control the West Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively, concluded an agreement to form a national unity government. 
The Palestinian Authority, which is the official body that rules the Palestinian-controlled areas, as per the Oslo Accords, will now begin the process of forming a new national council. The P.A. president is Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas and Fatah also announced they will hold elections that will include members of the Palestinian diaspora. Elections were last held in 2007.

“We have reached agreement under which, within 48 hours, we will call on [Palestinian Authority President] Mahmoud Abbas to launch consultations on the creation of a government,” Fatah spokesman Azzam al-Ahmad told media.

Here are ten reasons why Hamas is not fit to be part of any government.

Hamas Is A Designated Terrorist Organization

Hamas is a terrorist group and is designated as such by Israel (obviously) but also the United States, the EU, Canada and Japan so this one should come as no surprise.

Hamas Deliberately Targets Civilians

Most recently Hamas praised the string of violent attacks that hit Israel over the past year and half.

In the last Gaza war, Hamas fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilian areas. “Deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups defies humanity and is morally and legally reprehensible” Israeli left-wing human rights organization B’Tselem said about the last Gaza war..."
Read on!

The $7 billion school improvement grant program: Greatest failure in the history of the US Department of Education?

Instapundit » Blog Archive » TO BE FAIR, THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION. The $7 billion school improvement grant program: Greatest …:
"TO BE FAIR, THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION. The $7 billion school improvement grant program: Greatest failure in the history of the US Department of Education?

Despite its gargantuan price tag, SIG generated no academic gains for the students it was meant to help. Failing schools that received multi-year grants from the program to “turn around” ended up with results no better than similar schools that received zero dollars from the program. To be clear: Billions spent had no effect.

When Washington spends billions of dollars on something, it’s reasonable to assume it will do some good, especially when the Secretary of Education promises “transformation not tinkering.” But not with SIG.

No matter how the researchers crunched the numbers, the abysmal results were the same. SIG didn’t improve math scores. Or reading scores. Or high school graduation rates. Or college enrollment. SIG didn’t improve elementary or secondary schools. It didn’t help schools in Race-to-the-Top states or non-Race-to-the-Top states.

The results are almost too much to believe.

Oh, you’ll believe them."

Lunch video-----#WomensMarch Crashed By Crowder... IN DRAG!

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Why I am a Woman Who Doesn't Support the Women's March - Trump Truck

Why I am a Woman Who Doesn't Support the Women's March - Trump Truck:


"I am a 23-year-old female, which automically thrusts me into the thriving demographics of “Millenial Feminist.”

However, I do not support feminism or the “Women’s March” that is apparently happening nationwide.

Shocked? A female who is against the very movement to “help” women? Allow me to explain:

Being a woman is not a disadvantage"

Campus free speech quashed

Column: Campus free speech quashed:
"Apparently handing out pocket Constitutions is a crime in the state of Michigan, or at least it is on the campus of Kellogg Community College.
Last fall, security officers at the Battle Creek school arrested students for doing just that.
The students were advocating for the Bill of Rights as officers ironically approached them and shut down their freedom of expression.
But this isn’t an isolated incident.
...At Young Americans for Liberty, I oversee cases similar to the one at Kellogg Community College on a daily basis.
The incident at Kellogg reflects a larger battle across the United States, and that’s why we’ve taken this case to federal court.
College speech codes like the one found at Kellogg Community College almost never hold up in court. 
Their vague nature opens the floodgates for bureaucratic handling that more often than not results in bias administration.
This often means discriminating against unfavorable opinions in pursuit of the personal agendas of college administrators.
These policies enable some of the gravest violations of the First Amendment on America’s young minds.
These speech codes rob America’s youth of freedom of thought and intellectual development..."

Quotation of the day on the doctrine of state supremacy…..

Blog » AEIdeas:
Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry

January 20, 2017 10:07 am Carpe Diem

…. is from Isabel Paterson’s book The God of the Machine (1943):

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

MP: See my related 1995 article The Educational Octopus where I conclude that:

There is no surer way to guarantee that our children continue to receive an inferior education than to continue educating 90 percent of our children in the public school system. Education is far too important a responsibility to leave in the hands of a government bureaucracy whose monopoly status allows it to be insensitive and unaccountable to parents and students.

Related: According to Glenn Reynolds, who has said this on many occasions that “sending your kids to public school verges on parental malpractice, these days.”

The ugly Americans

The ugly Americans - - Articles -:
"If your career is on the skids, try this: Join the mobs against Trump and tell them you have dreams of  “blowing up the White House.”
That was Madonna who said that amid the anti-Trump hysteria in Washington on Sunday and now she’s famous all over again.
Haven’t heard from her in years.
Ditto Gloria Steinem and so many other forlorn and forgotten figures from the women’s movement of the past.
They’re back.
They have a cause.
Nobody’s really clear on what that is, except for the fact that we took away their boy toy, Barack Hussein Obama.
Already for them Donald Trump has been in office too long – 48 hours or so.
Afflicted by a form of Mad Cow Disease, a million or so leftist women scorned Trump across the country for daring to be Trump.
They’re afraid of what Trump is going to do.
Tell you what, ladies – when he bursts past your door and snatches your rights and your puppy, then go march.
If it’s tolerance you’re really after, try it yourselves some day.
Was that really Ashley Judd up there on stage raving mad?
I guess they let her out for a day..."

Trey Gowdy's New Role In Trump's White House Has Obama Very Pissed Off ⋆ US Herald

Trey Gowdy's New Role In Trump's White House Has Obama Very Pissed Off ⋆ US Herald:

"Dust off your Constitution, brush up on the Bill of Rights, and while you’re at it, take a look at the Declaration of Independence, Congressman Trey Gowdy has been given a new role within the Trump Administration, and although it hasn’t yet been officially announced, you can bet those progressive lawmakers who subscribe to playing fast and lose with our institutions might do well to rip up the Obama/Clinton progressive playbook in how to subvert our laws."

DNC Chair Candidate: My Job Is To Tell White People When To Shut Their Mouths

DNC Chair Candidate: My Job Is To Tell White People When To Shut Their Mouths | Video | RealClearPolitics:

The DNC held a forum for candidates hoping to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Monday at George Washington University.
One candidate, Sally Boynton Brown, the executive director of Idaho's Democratic Party, urged Democrats to provide "training" to teach people to be "sensitive" and "how to shut their mouths if they are white."

"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt," Brown said.

SALLY BOYNTON BROWN: I’m a white woman, I don’t get it...

My job is to listen and be a voice and shut other white people down when they want to interrupt...

We pull people in and they are volunteers. They don’t know anything and then we send them out to have conversations with people, hard conversations. We promote them to chair of a party where they have power and they have no clue what they are doing. We have to, at the DNC, provide training. We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white. So I think I made my point.

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History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Boyle 1627, Robert Burns 1759, W. Somerset Maugham 1874


Virginia Woolf 1882, Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 - President of Georgia, Etta James 1938


1533 - England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.


1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia.


1915 - In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.


1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.


1950 - A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.


1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.


1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.


2011 - A revolution began in Egypt with the demonstrations that demanded the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule.

Governor Greg Abbott hammers a Texas sheriff after she refuses to comply with immigration laws – TheBlaze

Governor Greg Abbott hammers a Texas sheriff after she refuses to comply with immigration laws – TheBlaze:

"Texas Governor Greg Abbott has given no quarter in his war against sanctuary cities within his state. He has already made himself “abundantly clear” in making sure any towns within the state of Texas obey immigration laws, and that he doesn’t “care what jurisdiction you’re at in the state of Texas. You are going to comply with the law.”

It would appear that Abbott may have to back up his word against Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez, who has forbid anyone in her offices to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

In a letter sent to Hernandez, Abbott called her directive “dangerous” and “shortsighted,”"

Clinton donor says Hillary is '50-50' on NYC mayoral run

Clinton donor says Hillary is '50-50' on NYC mayoral run | Daily Mail Online:
Don't count her out yet! Top Clinton donor says Hillary told him she's still '50-50' on whether to run for New York Mayor 

• Supermarket CEO John Catsimatidis says Clinton might run for New York mayor
• The billionaire supported Clinton as a donor in the 2016 presidential campaign
• He said he will hold off his own decision to run for mayor until the former secretary of state decides what she will do
• Reports say Hillary and Bill Clinton are still figuring out what to do next politically
• They're currently looking into what went wrong with her 2016 presidential bid