History for July 9

History for July 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Ann Radcliffe 1764, Elias Howe 1819, Richard Roundtree 1942 - Actor, Dean Koontz 1945 - Author


O.J. Simpson 1947 - Football player, actor, Tom Hanks 1956 - Actor, Fred Savage 1976 - Actor ("The Wonder Years")


0118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.


1755 - General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia. He died on July 13.


1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.


1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.


1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.


1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.


1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.


2015 - The South Carolina House of Representatives approved taking down the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds. The flag was removed the next day and taken to a state military museum.

Linda Sarsour Called For ‘Jihad’ Against Trump. Here Are 5 Things You Need To Know About It. | Daily Wire

Linda Sarsour Called For ‘Jihad’ Against Trump. Here Are 5 Things You Need To Know About It. | Daily Wire:

" tape emerged on Thursday of Leftist icon, anti-Semite, Shariah-law advocate and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour calling for “jihad” against President Trump and his administration, the Leftist media immediately sprang into action. Sarsour, they said, was blameless in this debacle — after all, she wasn’t advocating violence. The context of her remarks had to be taken into account.
Obviously, the context of Sarsour’s remarks matters. So, let’s look at the context. For reference, here is the entire video (which, by the way, we posted in our original story on this matter):"

The way we were-----We Five - Beyond The Sea

The original fake news source-----NY TIMES DISCOVERS SOVIET COMMUNISM NOT SO GOOD: Earl Browder concluded that the American-Soviet al…

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JULY 8, 2017

NY TIMES DISCOVERS SOVIET COMMUNISM NOT SO GOOD:

Earl Browder concluded that the American-Soviet alliance of World War II would continue after the defeat of Nazi Germany. For this reason, in 1944, he boldly engineered the transformation of the C.P.U.S.A. into a pressure group designed to work within the Democratic Party.

What’s oddly missing in this all-too-late discovery? 
You can start with any mention of Walter Duranty,  the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times from 1922 to 1936. 
The New York Times would not admit to his being a pawn of the U.S.S.R. and publishing Stalinist propaganda in The Times until 1990.
Posted by Charles Glasser at 2:35 am

Trump administration has fired more than 500 VA employees since January

Trump administration has fired more than 500 VA employees since January:
"Department of Veterans Affairs officials have fired more than 500 misbehaving employees since January, according to data posted online Friday.
VA Secretary David Shulkin touted his agency's decision to publish its efforts to hold VA employees accountable, unveiling new requirements for updating the public on personnel actions.
"Veterans and taxpayers have a right to know what we're doing to hold our employees accountable and make our personnel actions transparent," Shulkin said in a statement.
"Posting this information online for all to see, and updating it weekly, will do just that..."
Read on!

Study Targets Adjusted Climate Data | The Daily Caller

Study Targets Adjusted Climate Data | The Daily Caller:

"A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.”

“Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published [global average surface temperature (GAST)] data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician."