History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com
John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter, Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party, Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes


Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories, Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian, Jessica Lynch 1983 - U.S. Army soldier, she was the first successfully rescued POW since the Vietnam War and the first ever of a woman


1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.


1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

Lee Edwards: THESE are the most telling failures of socialism | Fox News

Lee Edwards: THESE are the most telling failures of socialism | Fox News:

Conservatives must step forward to tell the truth about capitalism: the better life it has brought to billions of people, the diversity and freedom of choice it celebrates, the individual responsibility it encourages, the continuing miracle of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” its rejection of government planning that always leads to dictatorship.
Which brings us to the urgent task of exposing the chimera that socialism is just another political system. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their fellow socialists carefully omit any mention of the principles laid down by Karl Marx, the founding father of Socialism, such as the abolition of private property and the centralization of the means of production and of decision-making. But make no mistake: there are radical socialists waiting in the wings to promote these extreme initiatives.

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California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’s $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices – Reason.com

California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’s $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices – Reason.com:

• What could possibly be increasing California's gas prices?

As lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom supported a 2017 bill increasing the state's gas taxes. 
When running for governor in 2018, he opposed a ballot initiative that would have repealed that same increase. 
It's 2019, and Newson, now the state's governor, is demanding an investigation into why the state's gas prices are so high.

On Tuesday, the governor sent a letter to the California Energy Commission (CEC) asking that the state agency investigate the Golden State's roughly $4.03 per gallon gas prices, currently the highest in the country (and well above the national average of $2.86 per gallon).

...California currently imposes the second-highest gas taxes in the country. 
A state excise tax currently adds $.417 per gallon, a rate that will increase to $.473 come July. 
On top of that, the state imposes a 2.25 percent gasoline sales tax.

In addition, California has adopted a low-carbon fuel standard and a cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions which together increase the state's gas prices by $.24 per gallon above the national average, according to a 2017 state government report..."
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HE DID BETTER WITH THE ACTUAL MAO THAN WITH THE LITTLE MAOISTS INFESTING UNIVERSITIES TODAY

Instapundit Blog Archive-- HE DID BETTER WITH THE ACTUAL MAO THAN WITH THE LITTLE MAOISTS INFESTING UNIVERSITIES TODAY
"Henry Kissinger, Shouted Down at NYU, Addresses Yale’s WFB Society.

Kissinger’s student critics say he is a war criminal who had a role in “multiple atrocities worldwide,” most especially his “well-known role in prolonging the Vietnam War.” Those are quotations from an article published this February by students at MIT, who were then running their own (unsuccessful) disinvitation campaign. But the students who object so strenuously to Kissinger’s “war crimes” are the same students who wear Che Guevara t-shirts and quote Mao. They do not criticize (or are unaware of) North Vietnam’s mass-murder campaign following the American withdrawal.

So what these students really object to is not anything Kissinger has done or is supposed to have done — they object to him as a representative of Western culture, and of the belief that Western culture and civilization are a positive good to be protected and preserved.

They’re trash. 
Plus:

In his remarks at the Disinvitation Dinner, Kissinger pointed out that the First World War destroyed Europe’s confidence and sense of purpose, and that Europe has never recovered. A society needs great objectives to which it can apply itself with conviction, instead of being “obsessed with its own shortcomings.”

The students who object to Kissinger’s presence on campus are emblematic of this loss of confidence, and of that obsession. They hate the West (and in particular the United States) for suppressing and oppressing other cultures, ranging from the American Indians to the Communist Chinese.

It’s just a projection of their — generally quite justified — self-loathing. 
They deserve neither respect nor deference. 
What they need is to face consequences.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

Human Smugglers Made Up To $2.3 Billion In Year From Smuggling Illegals Into US, Study Finds | The Daily Caller

Human Smugglers Made Up To $2.3 Billion In Year From Smuggling Illegals Into US, Study Finds | The Daily Caller:

Illegally smuggling Central American migrants into the United States is an industry that may be worth billions of dollars, according to a study released Monday.
Human smugglers transporting migrants into the U.S. from Central America’s Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — brought in an estimated $200 million to $2.3 billion in revenue in 2017, according to the study.

Brunei Writes Letter To EU Asking For ‘Tolerance’ Of New Sharia Punishments Including Amputation, Whipping, And Stoning | The Daily Caller

Brunei Writes Letter To EU Asking For ‘Tolerance’ Of New Sharia Punishments Including Amputation, Whipping, And Stoning | The Daily Caller:

Homosexuality has been illegal in Brunei since the nation gained its independence from Britain in 1984, became a sovereign Islamic sultanate. Prior to the new penal code, homosexuality was punishable only by imprisonment, not by death as is now permissible by the new laws.

Lara Logan tells riveting untold story: My Benghazi report was buried to protect the Obama admin and Hillary Conservative News Today

Lara Logan tells riveting untold story: My Benghazi report was buried to protect the Obama admin and Hillary Conservative News Today
"In 2013, then-CBS reporter Lara Logan had an investigative report on the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that was buried and “discredited,”... the report was disparaged because it was critical of the Obama administration’s failure to come to the defense of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his compound when it was attacked by Islamist terrorists.
Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on September 11, 2012...

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...“What they were trying to do was bury the substance of that story,” she added.
Logan went on to describe the horrific moment when Stevens and others realized that “the cavalry” wasn’t coming to help them.
“Greg Hicks, Chris Stevens’ deputy, looked at us on ’60 Minutes’ and he said what he had said on ‘the Hill’ but it was much more powerful in our cameras when he said that he asked the defense attache, just a few minutes into that attack, if the cavalry was coming. 

The defense attache looked at him … [Hicks was] the last person to speak to Chris Stevens. 

When Chris Stevens was under attack, a terrorist attack in his compound, he called Greg Hicks. 

Greg Hicks looked at the defense attache and he said, ‘well?’ [The defense attache responded] ‘I’m sorry, Greg, the cavalry ain’t coming.'”
She continued, “Greg Hicks said, ‘I felt sick in the pit of my stomach because those of us who go out on the end of the line for our country, we believe our country has our back,’ and in that minute, in that moment, I knew they didn’t.”
She said Hicks looked at the defense attache and said, “We better tell the boys at the annex.”
“Two of those boys died that night,” she said..."

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Osundairo Brothers Say Jussie Smollett ‘Directed Every Aspect Of The Attack’ In New Lawsuit | The Daily Caller

Osundairo Brothers Say Jussie Smollett ‘Directed Every Aspect Of The Attack’ In New Lawsuit | The Daily Caller:

The two Nigerian brothers connected to “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged fake hate crime claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the actor organized every aspect of the attack, which was designed to help him cultivate an image as a successful gay, black actor.
“Mr. Smollett’s motivation was simple. He wanted his employer and the public to notice and appreciate him as a successful Black, openly gay actor,” Ola and Abel Osundairo said in a defamation lawsuit filed in federal court against Smollett’s legal team.

Adopted!--Child abuse!!-----Charlize Theron: My 3 Year-Old Boy Said She’s a Girl, 'So, There You Go!'

Charlize Theron: My 3 Year-Old Boy Said She’s a Girl, 'So, There You Go!'
"Actress Charlize Theron has been raising her biologically-male son as a girl even since the child told her he wasn’t a boy when he was three years old.

That’s all it took for Theron to start raising her son Jackson, now seven, as a girl, the actress told The Daily Mail:

'Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,' Charlize agrees, briskly. 'Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: 'I am not a boy!'

'So there you go!'”

Theron clothes young Jackson in dresses because “Who they (children) want to be, is not for me to decide..."

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READ IT!!-----Reminder: The Russia Collusion Hoax Was Hatched By Hillary Clinton and Her Aides Just Hours After Her Loss, and Fed to a Supportive Media to Explain Away Her Failure -- and Theirs--Ace of Spades HQ

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Reminder: The Russia Collusion Hoax Was Hatched By Hillary Clinton and Her Aides Just Hours After Her Loss, and Fed to a Supportive Media to Explain Away Her Failure -- and Theirs

Larry O'Connor with a reminder that this was an info op from the start.

The Russian Collusion mythology is the most dominant story in the news media and has been for the past eighteen months... dating back to November 7, 2016. And when one examines the contemporaneous reporting by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in their excellent book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign. Allen and Parnes had incredible access to the entire Clinton campaign infrastructure because their book was really meant to be a historical account of the triumphant campaign for the first female president in American history.
As we know, it didn't work out that way. And the authors' account of the immediate aftermath tells us much about how the media were spoon-fed the collusion narrative: (emphasis added)

"She's not being particularly self -reflective," said one longtime ally who was on calls with her shortly after the election. Instead, Hillary kept pointing her finger at Comey and Russia. "She wants to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way," this person said.

Of course, the plan would only work if the media took the bait. They had that angle knitted up. All they had to do was focus their anger and ire at their friends in the press and accuse them of being at fault for Trump's victory.

They also decided to hammer the media for focusing so intently on the investigation into her e-mail, which had created a cloud over her candidacy. "The press botched the e-mail story for eighteen months"” said one person who was in the room. "Comey obviously screwed us, but the press created the story."

"It was all your fault," they'd say to their pals in the press. And now, they had to make good.

More at the link, including audio of Larry O'Connor discussing this on his radio show.

And this is interesting -- John Sexton writes up Bob Woodward's appearance on Fox, where he claimed that "the CIA" fought strenuously to get the Hot Garbage Dossier included in the official intelligence community assessment on Russian interference.

And Rand Paul says he heard that it was specifically John Brennan fighting to have this unverified pack of Russian disinformation entered into the records of US intelligence.

...From the Washington Examiner:...

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If We Cancel Kate Smith, We Must Cancel The New York Yankees

If We Cancel Kate Smith, We Must Cancel The New York Yankees

"The Yankees have banished Kate Smith to the dustbin for singing silly songs. Let's banish the Yankees for their decades of racism.--By David Marcus

It was announced this week that both the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers would stop using their traditional recorded version of Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” during their games. 

This happened after it surfaced that Smith had performed songs now considered racist during  during her hey day in the 1930s. 

The Flyers, with whom Smith is more closely aligned as the good luck charm for their 1974 Stanley Cup run, even removed a statue of her from the Philadelphia sports complex..."
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This is damn well said by @WhitlockJason on insane “God Bless America” singer controversy. "

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Italian Town to Cover Crosses at Cemeteries So as Not to Offend Muslims (Video)

Italian Town to Cover Crosses at Cemeteries So as Not to Offend Muslims (Video)
"Pieve di Cento is a town of 7,000 inhabitants near Bologna, Italy.
Recently the town leaders decided to cover Christian symbols in the local cemetery so as not to offend Muslim migrants.
The debate in the town is still ongoing and the mayor now understands he may have made a blunder."

Video here:

Italian town to cover Crosses in cemetery so as not to offend muslims

County Project Imposes Illegal Union Wage Mandate On Bidders – Michigan Capitol Confidential

County Project Imposes Illegal Union Wage Mandate On Bidders – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"A group of nonunion construction firms has mounted a challenge to Muskegon County’s policy of requiring union-level wages on major building projects it financially supports.
The group is threatening to file a lawsuit if the policy is applied to bids for work on an upcoming $17 million convention center in the city of Muskegon...
...County Commissioner Zach Lahring said he believes he is in the minority on the county board in supporting an end to the prevailing wage policy.
Requiring union-level wages results in higher costs and shuts out competent, nonunion contractors, he said..."
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History for April 25

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader, Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system), Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist


Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella", Al Pacino 1940 - Actor, Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)


1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.

FBI admits Hillary emails found in Obama White House - WND

FBI admits Hillary emails found in Obama White House - WND:

“This astonishing confirmation, made under oath by the FBI, shows that the Obama FBI had to go to President Obama’s White House office to find emails that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or hide from the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement Tuesday.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated – Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme,” he said.
Fitton was referring to the more than 30,000 emails under subpoena that were thoroughly deleted through an application called BleachBit by order of Clinton’s State Department team.