History for February 21

History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Zachary Scott 1914, Sam Peckinpah 1925 - Director, Erma Bombeck 1927 - Humorist, columnist, writer


Alan Rickman 1946, Kelsey Grammer 1955 - Actor ("Cheers," "Frazier"), Charlotte Church 1986 - Singer, actor


1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.


1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.


1878 - The first telephone directories issued in the U.S. were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a single page of only fifty names.


1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.


1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France. The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.


1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.


1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.


1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.

Miami-Dade Drops 'Sanctuary' Protections For Illegals | The Daily Caller

Miami-Dade Drops 'Sanctuary' Protections For Illegals | The Daily Caller:

"Miami-Dade is the first locality to reverse its status as a sanctuary city in response to Trump’s administration. Gimenez defended the decision Friday, pointing out most of the immigrants affected are prior offenders, and that local authorities would not be actively seeking out and detaining illegal immigrants."

Analyst: Feminists ‘useful idiots’ in coalition with Islamists

Analyst: Feminists ‘useful idiots’ in coalition with Islamists:

"And it’s not just liberal women’s groups aligning with Islamists. Gabriel says it’s happening more and more with the liberals seemingly oblivious to what their lives would be like if people like Sarsour get their way. One example is the ACLU working hand-in-hand with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

“You scratch your head and you think to yourself, ‘How can these two people have anything in common?’ But the ACLU, just like the feminists in this country are being used as useful idiots at the hands of Islamists like Linda Sarsour who have an end goal. They are using them simply to get to that goal,” said Gabriel."

The other side of the Toronto mosque protest - The Rebel

The other side of the Toronto mosque protest - The Rebel:

On Friday, an anti-Islam protest took place outside a mosque in Toronto.
Global News published this report, but did not interview protesters, show any video of it or even clear pictures.
A small group of protesters demonstrated outside of a mosque in downtown Toronto Friday with signs, banners and megaphones calling for the banning of Islam while people prayed inside.
Toronto Police Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said protesters gathered outside the Masjid Toronto, a mosque near Dundas Street West and Chestnut Street, for an “anti-Islamic protest” with signs just after noon.
CBC reports that this protest will now be investigated as a hate crime.
What neither the media nor the police seem concerned about, however, are calls by the mosque's Muslim imam and congregants to exterminate the Jewish people one by one, and vanquish all non-Muslims.
A call to genocide is a criminal code offence in Canada.
Here are the three videos of preaching within this same Toronto mosque from 2016:
Click link for videos-worth your time!

R.I.P. JANE ROE/NORMA MCCORVEY: And this bit underscores the ethical issues involved in getting tog…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » R.I.P. JANE ROE/NORMA MCCORVEY: And this bit underscores the ethical issues involved in getting tog…:
"R.I.P. JANE ROE/NORMA MCCORVEY: 
And this bit underscores the ethical issues involved in getting together plaintiffs for public interest litigation:

Years later, Ms. McCorvey expressed bitterness at what she described as her attorneys’ unwillingness to help her find what she needed — an abortion, even an illegal one.

“Sarah sat right across the table from me at Columbo’s pizza parlor, and I didn’t know until two years ago that she had had an abortion herself,” Ms. McCorvey told the New York Times in 1994. “When I told her then how desperately I needed one, she could have told me where to go for it. But she wouldn’t because she needed me to be pregnant for her case.”

“Sarah saw these cuts on my wrists, my swollen eyes from crying,” she continued, “the miserable person sitting across from her, and she knew she had a patsy. She knew I wouldn’t go outside of the realm of her and Linda. I was too scared. It was one of the most hideous times of my life.”

It’s not like Sarah Weddington would have become a heroine of feminism if she’d actually helped the woman sitting across the table from her."

When Obama’s National Security Advisor Lied, Media Laughed

When Obama’s National Security Advisor Lied, Media Laughed:

"Buried deep beneath the Michael Flynn hysteria this week was Judicial Watch’s release of newly obtained State Department documents related to the Benghazi terrorist attack on September 11, 2012. One email confirms—again—that the Obama administration knew the day after the attack it was not a random act of violence stemming from an anti-Muslim video. That was the excuse shamefully propagated by top Obama administration officials (including the president himself) and swallowed whole by a media establishment desperate to help Obama win re-election six weeks later.

According to the summary of a call on September 12, 2012 between State Department Under-Secretary Patrick Kennedy and several congressional staffers, Kennedy was asked if the attack came under cover of protest: "

Moon Wars

Articles: Moon Wars:
"Many less than delectable looking bare bottoms were aimed at the Trump towers in recent days. 
In the White House briefing room, the media tried to follow suit and got a lesson in how Trump trumps haters.

For a full week, the press stories -- funny how they all seem alike -- charged that the White House was a scene of “turmoil and chaos.” 
Once again, they prematurely pronounced Trump dead. 
Rasmussen told another story altogether. 
Voters indicated by 45% that we were heading in the right direction, “a higher level of optimism than found during any week of the Obama presidency.” 
He had a higher approval rate than Obama had for his entire second term and most of his first term, save for the few first months of his honeymoon period and the last 10 days of his term, (when apparently under cover he was planting IEDs for his successor). 
One Wednesday’s tracking poll showed “53% of likely voters approve of his performance.” 
A day after his solo press conference his ratings soared higher: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 55% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.” 

And well his ratings should improve. 
He’s made remarkable progress in his first month of office. 
At the NY Sun, Conrad Black details how much Trump has already accomplished, and looks ahead to what will come next:

The president is running well ahead of the Democrats in the polls, has twice the approval rating of the Congress, which has risen since the end of gridlock, and three times the approval rating of the media. If he can produce a tax system that enriches the lower-income families while spurring business reinvestment, he can generate between 3% and 4% percent economic growth, which would itself reduce the deficit by $400 to 500 billion a year..."

Much more, read on!