On this day:
1673
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course
1775
American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.This was a significant encounter, a planned battle, and the British famously bayonetted the American wounded. It became a focal point and rallying cry. The important Patriot leader, Dr. Joseph Warren, was also killed.
1930
U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1939
Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
1940
The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944
Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1972
Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1994
Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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Can Israel (and the world) be successful against Iran without U.S. air strikes?
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Some ask with outrage, Why are ICE agents masked? Because some in this country are so crazy, they will identify their opponents, hunt them down, and kill them and their families.
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Some ask with outrage, Why are ICE agents masked? Because some in this country are so crazy, they will identify their opponents, hunt them down, and kill them and their families.
That's the reason to identify them, right? So they can be intimidated? Even harmed? And their families? Right?
And masked criminals in demonstrations are ok?
And masked criminals in demonstrations are ok?
Is the idea here that the government's agents cannot be held responsible for their acts if they are masked? In a country that can read a license plate from space?
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Some publicity was gained when a Canadian Indigenous leader who greeted world heads of state arriving for the Group of Seven summit said he was “filled with rage” and considered leaving before Donald Trump arrived, saying the U.S. president has “caused much pain and suffering in the world.”
Why this man felt this way or deserved this publicity was not explained.
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No Kings
The No Kings marches are over. It was a tough sell, being held on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. military responsible for separating the U.S. from England and...its king. And, of course, America doesn't have a king. And had a democratic election 4 months ago as mandated by its federal constitution. And a Supreme Court. Maybe they don't know how monarchies work. It was especially difficult in Canada, which has a king, so they bravely called it No Tyrants.
The No Kings marches are over. It was a tough sell, being held on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. military responsible for separating the U.S. from England and...its king. And, of course, America doesn't have a king. And had a democratic election 4 months ago as mandated by its federal constitution. And a Supreme Court. Maybe they don't know how monarchies work. It was especially difficult in Canada, which has a king, so they bravely called it No Tyrants.
But at least Canada has a monarchy to protest, albeit fecklessly. The U.S. is a constitutional republic with a Supreme Court, not a monarchy. But these are the same people who did not care at all that the last president was non-compos and was surreptitiously substituted for by a masquerading cabal. That is an aristocracy. That is treason. One would think those supporting the anti-autocracy No Kings would be outraged.
One might look at the considerable contribution of teachers' unions. This probably means the No Kings moniker is poetic, but with 40% of the country's 8th graders unable to read, it might be that the teachers really don't know America doesn't have a king, any more than they know what a woman is. They clearly have little regard for the American Revolution.
At the dark heart of the protests is Indivisible, a far-left activist group that has reportedly received $8 million in funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation between 2017 and 2023. Soros is not a king. Nor is he just one of the boys.
And big contributions from billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton, who is hard at work trying to put the "ditz" in "philanthropy."
At the dark heart of the protests is Indivisible, a far-left activist group that has reportedly received $8 million in funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation between 2017 and 2023. Soros is not a king. Nor is he just one of the boys.
And big contributions from billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton, who is hard at work trying to put the "ditz" in "philanthropy."
One particularly galling bit of information includes a list of non-profits receiving federal grants contributing to this embarrassment. It is linked below for the impending furious (don't know the link):
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