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…On this day in 1919 the U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. This was one of the worst laws ever passed in the United States. …
…On this day in 1964 Ronald Reagan gave his famous "Time For Choosing" speech in support of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was the start of the conservative movement in the United States for the Republican Party.…
…On this day in 1881 the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place in Tombstone, Arizona.…
…On this day in 1854 the Light Brigade charged at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Those of you who had English literature in school should remember this from the poem by Tennyson.…
…On this day in 1932 the George Washington Bridge opened to public traffic.…
…On this day in 1850 the first National Women's Rights Convention began in Worcester, Massachusetts.…
…On this day in 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.…
… On this day in 1954 Texas Instruments announced the first Transistor radio.…
…ON this day in 1933 Albert Einstein left Nazi Germany and moved to the United States.…
…On this day in 2015 Vic slept like a baby all night and did not collect news links.…
…On this day in 1917 dancer Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad for spying for the German Empire after a kangaroo court convicted her. The French had no evidence of her spying and her lawyer was not allowed to put up a defense. …
As we get closer to the actual primary voting which begins in February… Screen Shot 2015-10-11 at 7.26.53 PMthe GOPe (GOP establishment) and their partners in the media are becoming more and more shrill…. and more and more desperate. …
…On this day in 1656 Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism made them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. …
United States military aircraft dropped fifty tons of ammunition to the Syrian “rebels” today. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia sent 500 TOW anti-tank missiles to the Free Syrian Army to help them in their fight against the Russians and the Assad regime.
In other news, twenty “asylum-seekers” filed a lawsuit against Berlin’s main refugee registration center for taking too long to register them. The plaintiffs asserted that they waited more than a week without being registered, and were therefore unable to collect essential social benefits.…
…On this day in 1307 hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a confession of heresy. This is said to be the origin of Friday 13th bad luck.…
The “refugee” crisis boosted the vote tally for the anti-immigration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) in today’s local elections. The party received 31% of the vote in the Viennese election, which was more than five points ahead of its previous showing, but still less than the 39% the Socialists scored.
In other news, a would-be car bomber detonated her vehicle at a checkpoint near Jerusalem when police demanded that she get out of her car. A policeman was badly burned by the explosion.…
Nice Deb's Saturday Movie Matinee: Obama’s “Kindergarten Version of Warfare”
…A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up in downtown Ankara today, killing almost a hundred people and wounding more than two hundred more. The explosions occurred in the midst of a pro-Kurdish demonstration. Angry crowds, suspecting state involvement with the attacks, clashed with police afterwards.
In other news, as temperatures dropped below freezing in Finland, donated winter clothes were distributed to “refugees” in major cities and towns.…
…Spencer Stone, one of the American heroes who foiled a jihad attack on a French train in August, was attacked by several assailants outside a liquor store after leaving a gay bar in Sacramento. He was stabbed four times and sustained serious injuries, but is expected to survive. Mr. Spencer was reportedly protecting a female companion when he was stabbed.
In other news, four cruise missiles launched by Russia and aimed at targets in the Islamic State reportedly went off course and landed in Iran instead.…
One senator out of 100 stood against funding Obama’s Marxist Wish List… just one. And our Republican Majority has struck yet once again…
…On this day in 1996 the Fox News Channel began broadcasting.…
…On this day in 1889 Thomas Edison showed his first motion picture.…
…On this day in 1921 the World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.…
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