LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/07/supreme-instigator-by-tammy-derouin-our.html

Supreme Instigator

By Tammy Derouin

Our society has been ignoring their gut feelings.  We began to make excuses and tried to rationalize what was happening to us.  Maybe it was because we couldn’t handle the fact that we were being targeted and abused by our very own government.  The people we elected turned against us. Much like being in an abusive relationship, we ignored the signs, covered up what we did see and then made excuses for what we were seeing and could not hide. 

It can take time to come to terms with the facts, especially when a trust has been broken. It’s difficult to admit that someone you thought had your best interest in mind actually used his power to undermine your independence and possibly your existence.  If you are a survivor, you come to terms with reality and then you do something about it.  But until we, as a nation, are ready to admit we have a problem, life is only going to get worse.

 

The Constitution is an annoying obstacle for the executive. It doesn’t give him free will to do what he wants, so he pretends it doesn’t exist.  We have allowed this to happen.  He acts like a king or a dictator rather than a president.  He does not wish to share power with the other branches.  He certainly doesn’t like it when his power is challenged.   

We have become too accustomed to the overreach of power by the executive.  We now fear him and the oppressive government we have allowed him to put into place.  We have yet to learn that ignoring his actions will not make them go away.  We should be learning that ignoring such overreaches only makes him stronger.  Many have become targets because they speak out against his actions or work to prevent his party from staying in power.,,

Top-ranked university for LGBTQ students now lets them self-segregate in their own dorm

Top-ranked university for LGBTQ students now lets them self-segregate in their own dorm - The College Fix:
‘A safe space for those people who feel they need it’
One of the most gay-friendly universities in the country is becoming even friendlier, by offering to shelter its LGBTQ students from the rest of the school.
Indiana University-Bloomington is opening a “thematic residence hall” this fall for students who don’t identify as straight men or women.
It will have a particular emphasis on transgender students and those who don’t “subscribe to conventional gender distinctions,” the Herald-Times reported, citing GLBT Student Support Services Office Coordinator Doug Bauder.
...Students who live in the dorm will enjoy opportunities such as forming a delegation to the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference and attending campus events “such as a campus film screening, guest speaker, Kinsey art exhibit, etc.,” RPS says.
Recent winners in the Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show include an artist who made a “self-portrait” of her own sexual intercourse and climax, and another who designed a wooden sculpture of male genitalia in the posture of a rodeo bull.

Listen to John Kerry’s Response When Democrat Asks If He’ll ‘Follow the Law’ Should Congress Override Veto to Kill Iran Deal | Video | TheBlaze.com

Listen to John Kerry’s Response When Democrat Asks If He’ll ‘Follow the Law’ Should Congress Override Veto to Kill Iran Deal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Iran has cheated on every agreement they’ve signed,” said Rep. Ed Royce, the panel’s chairman. With Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew waiting to testify, he asked if Tehran “has earned the right to be trusted” given its history."

Our long national nightmare continues-----TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 809

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 809:
"Rasmussen Reports, Voters Aren’t Buying Obama’s Story About IRS Scandal:
President Obama told comedian Jon Stewart earlier this week that the Internal Revenue Service didn’t target Tea Party and other conservative groups on his watch and that a lack of funding by Congress was to blame for any problems at the tax-collecting agency. 
But voters still think something criminal was going on and are even more suspicious of what the president knew about it.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters continue to believe the IRS broke the law when it targeted the groups, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just 24% say the IRS didn’t break the law when it went after Tea Party and other conservative groups, while just as many (24%) are not sure."

Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State

Commentary: Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State:
“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority.
For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail official. 
The framers would be appalled.”—Herman Schwartz, The Nation

Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly.
The odds weren’t in Walter L. Scott’s favor.
Reportedly pulled over for a broken taillight, Scott—unarmed—ran away from the police officer, who pursued and shot him from behind, first with a Taser, then with a gun. 
Scott was struck five times, “three times in the back, once in the upper buttocks and once in the ear — with at least one bullet entering his heart.”
Samuel Dubose, also unarmed, was pulled over for a missing front license plate.
He was reportedly shot in the head after a brief struggle in which his car began rolling forward.
Levar Jones was stopped for a seatbelt offense, just as he was getting out of his car to enter a convenience store.
Directed to show his license, Jones leaned into his car to get his wallet, only to be shot four times by the “fearful” officer.
Jones was also unarmed..."
Read on.

Yes Virginia, there is a liar.....in government-----Mind-Blowing Temperature Fraud At NOAA

Mind-Blowing Temperature Fraud At NOAA | Real Science
The measured US temperature data from USHCN shows that the US is on a long-term cooling trend.
But the reported temperatures from NOAA show a strong warming trend.

Measured : ushcn.tavg.latest.raw.tar.gz
Reported : ushcn.tavg.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz

They accomplish this through a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering, which corrupts the US temperature trend by almost two degrees.

The biggest component of this fraud is making up data. Almost half of all reported US temperature data is now fake. They fill in missing rural data with urban data to create the appearance of non-existent US warming.

The depths of this fraud is breathtaking, but completely consistent with the fraudulent profession which has become known as “climate science”

Obama Scraps 'Oath Of Allegiance' For Immigrants, But Why He Did It Is Even More Shocking

Obama Scraps 'Oath Of Allegiance' For Immigrants, But Why He Did It Is Even More Shocking:

"Why are we acting like these people have any place in this country? Yes, give us your poor, your tired, your hungry… so long as they want to contribute to the cultural fabric and become an American. Immigrants once created a great nation of makers; now many want to come in as professional takers.
These immigrants who object to the Oath of Allegiance are not coming to the United States to take part; they’re coming to take over.

President Obama’s obliging them."

Pizza Parlor Owners Face Prison Time

Pizza Parlor Owners Face Prison Time | Economics21:
"Pizza makers could face fines and prison time under a new Food and Drug Administration rule for failing to provide calorie counts for their billions of combinations of pizza orders.
Under FDA regulations, chain restaurants, retail stores with 20 or more locations, movie theaters, and vending machines are required to provide calorie information for every menu item.
Pizza parlors will be hit hardest because of the unfathomable combinations of pizza that customers can order.
FDA’s menu labeling rule will go into effect on December 1st, 2016, much to the chagrin of pizza lovers across the nation.
If a company does not perfectly comply with the mandate, food may be rendered “misbranded” under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a violation that carries criminal penalties.
Failure to comply with the regulation could lead to government seizure of food, a maximum $1,000 fine, and a one-year prison sentence.
A second violation carries a penalty of $10,000 and up to three years in prison..."

Documented Irresponsibility

Documented Irresponsibility | The American Spectator:
"People who entered the United States illegally may be called “undocumented” in politically correct circles, but what is all too well documented is the utter irresponsibility of both political parties in dealing with immigration issues.
Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the border with Mexico porous for years — porous not just for Mexicans but for anybody else, including terrorists from the Middle East.
Two very different issues have gotten jumbled together in the political stew called “comprehensive immigration reform.”
The first and most fundamental issue is whether we are going to have an immigration policy at all. 
The second issue is: Just what should that immigration policy be?
If we do not control our own border, then we do not have any immigration policy.
We may have immigration laws on the books, but if anybody can cross the border that wants to, those laws are just words on paper and a bad joke.
Polls showing the surprisingly favorable reactions of some Republican voters to Donald Trump’s irresponsible generalities about immigrants probably reflect many people’s frustrations with politicians’ weasel words on the subject, and politicians’ failure to do anything about a festering problem..."

Fake but true......Important read!-----How an Influential Campus Rape Study Skewed the Debate

How an Influential Campus Rape Study Skewed the Debate - Hit & Run : Reason.com
The public debate over the extent and causes of the campus sexual assault crisis is fraught with misleading information.
The previously acclaimed work of psychologist David Lisak deserves that distinction as well.
The federal government, universities, and members of Congress have all used Lisak’s theories to justify rape adjudication policies that are biased against accused students.
They should reconsider those policies in light of new discoveries about the inapplicability of Lisak’s work.
Lisak has cultivated a reputation as one of the nation’s foremost authorities on sexual assault, and his thinking undergirds the most vexingly anti-due process policies currently mandated by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
His authority on the subject is so uncontested that even critics of draconian anti-rape policies feel obligated to grapple with his assertions, according to Slate’s Emily Yoffe, who described Lisak’s work as foundational "in the movement to curb campus sexual assault."
...The 2002 Lisak study that supposedly makes that case—"Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists"—is fundamental to the activist campaign to reduce campus rape.
But despite the study’s prominence, its assertions about the serial nature of campus rapists are dubiously sourced, according to a thorough investigation conducted by Reason contributor Linda LeFauve.
The study pooled data from four separate surveys of interpersonal violence that were conducted at the University of Massachusetts-Boston during the ‘90s, at which time Lisak was employed as an associate professor.

Lisak’s study had a total sample size of 1,882 men, 120 of whom gave responses in the surveys indicating that they were predators.
Of the 120 rapists, 76 were judged to be repeat offenders, leading to the oft-cited claim that the majority of campus sexual assault is the work of serial predators who remain "undetected," i.e., are never convicted for their crimes.
The claim suffers when scrutinized.
For reasons left unclear, the four surveys that contributed data are never actually identified in the study.
In fact, Lisak struggled to recall which ones he used when asked about them during the course of a telephone interview with LeFauve.
When LeFauve suggested to him that the data in question came from his doctoral students’ dissertations and masters’ theses, he agreed that this was "probably" the case.
...None of which is to say that the campus rape crisis is made up. Women are assaulted on college campuses all the time. But if we want to do anything to stop this, we might look for solutions outside the lens of a study that was never about campus violence in the first place.
Read it all.

Video: Cleveland Officer Pepper Sprays ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters After They Surround Cop Car to Prevent It From Leaving | Video | TheBlaze.com

Video: Cleveland Officer Pepper Sprays ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters After They Surround Cop Car to Prevent It From Leaving | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Transit Police followed normal procedure, which is — after police collect pertinent information, juveniles are transported to police headquarters to await release to a parent or legal guardian,” the statement said.
However, a crowd reportedly surrounded the police cruiser within minutes and “attempted to remove the juvenile from the car, police said. When the crowd stopped the police cruiser from leaving the area, an officer used a “general burst of pepper stray in an attempt to push back the crowd, to no avail.”

Iran Nuclear Deal-Germany making $$billions!

Iran Nuclear Deal | Germany | Business:
"Before the ink could barely dry on the Iran Deal, Germany’s Economy Minister Sigmar Garbiel flew to Tehran, making him the first leading Western figure to do so after the nuclear agreement was reached Vienna earlier this month.
Gabriel who is also Germany’s Vice-Chancellor met with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and other top Iranian leaders described the moods of the visit as “being with old friends.”
Germany’s leading newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote [translation by me]:
Germans many not have been at the center of the talks, but as go-betweens for Iran, they were considerably important.
Amongst all parties working to bring about a negotiated deal, Germans enjoyed [Tehran’s] special trust.
Germany had tremendous economic interest in ending sanction on Iran and it is not making any secrets of it.
In June, just as the Iran deal was nearing its final phases, the Bavarian Chamber of Commerce (BIHK) noted in its newsletter[translation by me]:
The German media landscape agrees on one point: lucrative deals worth billions are waiting to be made in Iran. As soon as the sanction are lifted, the run on the markets begins...."

History for July 29

History for July 29 - On-This-Day.com
Benito Mussolini 1883, Marcel Bich 1914 - Manufacturer and co-founder of Bic, Martina McBride 1966 


1588 - The English defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. 


1874 - Major Walter Copton Winfield of England received U.S. patent for the lawn-tennis court. 


1950 - Disney's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" was released. 
Disney movies, music and books 


1957 - Jack Paar began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. The name of the show was changed to "The Jack Paar Show." Paar was host for five years. 


1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established. 


1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress. 


1968 - Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control. 


1981 - England's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married. 


1985 - General Motors announced that Spring Hill, TN, would be the home of the Saturn automobile assembly plant. 


1998 - The United Auto Workers union ended a 54-day strike against General Motors. The strike caused $2.8 billion in lost revenues. 

After Latest Developments, MSNBC Host Makes Big Admission About Hillary Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

After Latest Developments, MSNBC Host Makes Big Admission About Hillary Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Look, you have two inspectors general, and they are referring this to the Justice Department. Now, you can try to confuse and there’s been a lot of misdirection, there’s been inaccurate reporting,” she said. “What they are suggesting is that there were classified — four out of the forty randomly selected [emails] had classified information.”

Exodus from Puerto Rico could upend Florida vote in 2016 presidential race

Exodus from Puerto Rico could upend Florida vote in 2016 presidential race - The Washington Post
"KISSIMMEE, Florida — Puerto Rico’s economic crisis meant Jeffrey Rondon, 25, struggled to find even part-time work, so he recently joined the growing exodus from his Caribbean island to Florida. Now he holds a full-time restaurant job and something that could upend the 2016 presidential election — the right to vote in Florida, the biggest of all swing states.
“It’s important to vote and be heard — it’s a privilege,” said Rondon, who is one of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have moved to Florida in the past year.
As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans are relatively easy to register to vote, and they are attracting unprecedented attention because they could change the political calculus in a state that President Obama won by the thinnest of margins in 2012: 50 percent to 49.1 percent.
“It’s a potential game changer for the state,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic Research at the Pew Research Center.
“It’s the biggest movement of people out of Puerto Rico since the great migration of the 1950s.”
Puerto Rican voters tend to lean Democratic, but a great number of the newcomers do not identify with any party, making them appealing targets for politicians and recruiters on both sides.
Like those living in other U.S. territories, people in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president in the U.S. general election..."

Watch: Cruz Catches Obama Official In False Claim, Forces Her To Admit He's 'Absolutely Right'

Watch: Cruz Catches Obama Official In False Claim, Forces Her To Admit He's 'Absolutely Right':

"When I asked you how many murderers were released yesterday, you don’t know. There is a reason the American people are upset. If President Obama had the courage of his convictions, he would come and look in the eyes of these men and women who have lost their sons, their daughters, their mothers, their sisters, their brothers and the administration would stop releasing murderers and rapists. It is within your power to follow federal law. And this administration refuses to do so and that is altogether unacceptable."

The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic

Int Jnl Epid:
The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic

Abstract

Background: Several studies in the new field of cognitive epidemiology have shown that higher intelligence predicts longer lifespan. This positive correlation might arise from socioeconomic status influencing both intelligence and health; intelligence leading to better health behaviours; and/or some shared genetic factors influencing both intelligence and health. Distinguishing among these hypotheses is crucial for medicine and public health, but can only be accomplished by studying a genetically informative sample...

Conclusions: The finding of common genetic effects between lifespan and intelligence has important implications for public health, and for those interested in the genetics of intelligence, lifespan or inequalities in health outcomes including lifespan.

Key Messages

• It has been reported that brighter people live longer; we asked ‘why?'.
• We found, using data from three studies, that the small association between being brighter and living longer was mostly genetic in origin.
• This is a key finding in cognitive epidemiology; it is a further indication that intelligence is not just ‘school-smarts'.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT: Video shows Hillary Clinton …:
JULY 28, 2015

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT:
Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push – and she’s using a French aircraft that burns 347 gallons of fuel every hour!
“Its itineraries are secret because the owner has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to withhold flight plans from the public.”

Jeb Bush Snares a Democratic Moneyman on Hamptons Tour

Jeb Bush Snares a Democratic Moneyman on Hamptons Tour - Bloomberg Politics
"Behind a garden modeled on Monet's, Jeb Bush addressed a lawn-full of chief executives and hedge-fund managers at an East Hampton, New York, estate Saturday morning.
While the candidate is no stranger to courting wealthy donors, this time was different: about half the attendees were Democrats.  

"This guy sells well," said Kenneth Lipper, the money manager and registered Democrat who hosted the event, after Bush left.
“I'm sure there's a lot of poor people that like him too. It so happens there's not a lot of poor people in the Hamptons.”

Andrew Sabin

Virtually the only one who left without writing a check, Lipper said, was a buck deer that wandered past the group assembled on the wooded grounds.     

The wealthiest donors are playing an unprecedented role in the early stages of the 2016 race.
For the first time ever, most candidates are raising more money through super-PACs, which can accept donations of up to $1 million or more, than through the traditional campaign accounts that are capped at $2,700 per donor.

No one has raised as much in this new environment as Bush, who had amassed about $103 million in his super-PAC and another $11 million for his campaign by the end of June.
The Lipper event shows how widely Bush is ranging in his quest for donors..."

Two Burritos for Breakfast

Two Burritos for Breakfast - Reason.com:
"But it turns out that in the fight against obesity, labeling menus hasn't delivered on its promise. Despite the clamor for more information...
...wrote that a mandatory menu-labeling regulation imposed on Washington state's King County restaurants did not affect consumers' calorie consumption at all. 
The authors "were surprised that we could not detect even the slightest hint of changes in purchasing behavior as a result of the legislation," they wrote.
And their study is not alone.
Such findings are at odds with a report by the White House Task Force on Obesity, which claimed that "when presented with calorie information (how many calories are contained in each menu item) and a calorie recommendation (how many calories men and women of varying activity levels should consume), people on average order meals with significantly fewer calories."
First lady and benevolent food tyrant Michelle Obama likes to cite that data point when pressing for greater restaurant regulation.
But as Julie Gunlock explained at National Review Online in 2011, that claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny. 
"This study was conducted in one Subway sandwich shop on only 292 participants, the vast majority of whom were adult white males, 25 percent of whom admitted they were currently dieting," she wrote.
"This isn't exactly research upon which major policy decisions should be based."
And yet, in this administration, it was..."

VIDEO: Everyone Sees Trump Arrive In Texas... But Something Disturbing Is Happening VERY Close By

VIDEO: Everyone Sees Trump Arrive In Texas... But Something Disturbing Is Happening VERY Close By:

"However, to coincide with The Donald’s visit, a recently released YouTube video purports to show illegal immigrants involved with a drug smuggling ring crossing the Rio Grande near Laredo, just miles from where Trump was speaking."

Detention Ruling Leaves Sealing The Border The Last Option

Detention Ruling Leaves Sealing The Border The Last Option - Investors.com:
"Immigration: Border surgers have won another.
A federal judge has ruled that ICE can't hold illegals in federal detention centers, meaning they must be let out.
So it's down to this: Either open the borders or seal them up.
Judge Dolly M. Gee ruled that the Obama administration's detention centers for 3,500 mothers and children caught illegally crossing the border was a violation of a 1997 court settlement about the care and treatment of illegals.
Her ruling was immediately hailed as a major victory for the open borders lobby.
...If judges and left-wing lawyers can only be satisfied by big, taxpayer-paid luxury-spa vacations for illegals, such as one lavish facility planned in Texas last year, and ICE can only furnish more spartan facilities, then the real issue is whether illegals will be granted de facto amnesty or be stopped at the border before they get in.
Breitbart last summer reported that the big detention centers such as the renovated spa in Texas were really about no-bid contracts and the rewarding of political cronies for Democratic politicians. 
The politicians, in turn, benefit from reciprocal campaign donations.
...Now that illegals will be free to move about the country, Republicans have but one option when it comes to illegal immigration:
Stop it before it starts.
If illegals who make it past the border guards can no longer be detained and must be set free, then the only way to check unrestricted illegal immigration is by strictly controlling the border.
Congress should act now to cinch up our border, before it's too late.
Our porous, unenforced border isn't a mere inconvenience. 
It's a threat to our nation."

Sources: Disabled work program mired in fraud

Sources: Disabled work program mired in fraud - CNN.com:
"The nation's premier federal program that provides work for people who are severely disabled is mired in widespread corruption, financial fraud and violations of the law, numerous sources tell CNN.
And instead of helping the severely disabled find work, the taxpayer-funded agency is at times allowing jobs to be taken away from the disabled, the sources say.
AbilityOne, along with the nonprofit agency that manages its program for the severely disabled, SourceAmerica, are being investigated by authorities for illegal operations, financial fraud, mismanagement, operating in violation of the law, steering of contracts, and possibly obstruction of justice. 
Several inside sources tell CNN the program is among the worst cases of its type they've ever seen in a federal agency.
...AbilityOne is run by a commission made up of presidential appointees. 
While they must approve all contracts, sources tell CNN they are essentially a "rubber stamp," for the referrals sent to them by SourceAmerica, which essentially operates independently with contracts for the severely disabled.
So, one key allegation is that SourceAmerica, a nonprofit agency with virtually no oversight other than AbilityOne, largely decides how roughly $2.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer money is spent, according to numerous sources."

Cruz: Planned Parenthood 'A Criminal Enterprise' - Breitbart

Cruz: Planned Parenthood 'A Criminal Enterprise' - Breitbart:

"Cruz stated, [relevant remarks begin around 2:20] “I would say that I think every American should watch the videos of Planned Parenthood, just watch them, see senior officials at planned parenthood laughing over sips of wine, bargaining over the sale of body parts of unborn children. One official was so callous and cavalier to say she hoped to sell enough body parts of unborn children to buy herself a Lamborghini."

Feds Spend $222,172 Studying How Men Look at Women When They Drink

Feds Spend $222,172 Studying How Men Look at Women When They Drink | Washington Free Beacon:
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending over $200,000 to study how men drinking alcohol look at women.
In an effort to limit “male-initiated sexual aggression toward female acquaintances,” researchers at the University of Iowa will analyze the actual eye movements of young men when they are drunk and sober.
...The study began in May and has received $222,172 thus far.
The budget for the project will not expire until April 2016.
According to the grant, the project is in line with the “general NIH mission of reducing the burden of health problems in the population and to the specific [National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism] NIAAA mission of understanding and reducing the negative impact of alcohol use.”...

History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com
Beatrix Potter 1866, Joe E. Brown 1891, Rudy Vallee 1901 


Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929, Darryl Hickman 1931, Sally Struthers 1948 


1866 - The metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States. 


1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law. 


1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 


1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured. 


1951 - The Walt Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" was released. 


1973 - Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married. 


1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns. 


1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company. 


1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton. 


2000 - Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host of the ABC talk show "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee."