Editors of National Review:
The Flynn Case Is a Travesty
Saturday, May 2, 2020
On this day 2011,
OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED BY
NAVY SEAL TEAM SIX
Team Six Members Later Ambushed in Afghanistan in Suspected Revenge Killing After Biden Discloses Identity
On this day in 2011, Osama bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces during a daring raid on his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. At a press conference days after, Vice President Biden broke from protocol and identified the U.S. forces as part of Navy SEAL Team Six. Three months later, 30 Team Six members, including some who had participated in the bin Laden raid, and other special forces were ambushed and killed in Afghanistan in what many believe was a revenge killing abetted by disloyal Afghans with insider knowledge regarding Team Six’s presence and activities. The ambush remains the worst loss of Americans in a single incident during the Afghan campaign.
Mark Penn, Democrat pollster and former Bill Clinton pollster:
Flynn documents are the 'smoking gun' on Comey's FBI
Friday, May 1, 2020
Tucker Carlson (video)
Gen. Flynn Offended Permanent Washington, so the FBI Created a Crime Against Him
On this day in 1960, 60 years ago:
U.S.S.R. Shoots Down U.S. U-2 Spy Plane
Flown By Gary Powers
Did Lee Harvey Oswald tip off the Russians?
Video summary
On this day in 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a U.S. spy plane over Russia. The CIA told Republican President and former general Dwight Eisenhower that the Soviets did not possess anti-aircraft weapons sophisticated enough to reach the high-altitude plane but, if they did, the plane would self-destruct and the pilot would kill himself. As a result, the U.S. initially said the plane was a weather plane, had wandered off course, and crashed. Soviet leader Khrushchev responded by not only displaying the wreckage but also pilot Powers. At a later major summit of the super powers, Khrushchev blasted the U.S., prompting Eisenhower to walk out. Eisenhower privately called the “stupid U-2 mess” one of the worst episodes of his presidency. Powers spent about two years in a Soviet prison before being exchanged for a Soviet spy. Until the day he died, Powers believed Lee Harvey Oswald had tipped off the U.S.S.R. to the U-2 spy flights during the time Oswald was in Russia.
On this day in 1863,
More background here from Civil War Trust
LEE ROUTS UNION FORCES AT CHANCELLORSVILLE
Stonewall Jackson Mistakenly Shot By Own Troops, Dies
On this day in 1863, Robert E. Lee cemented his reputation as a tactical genius by outsmarting and routing Union General Joseph Hooker at the Battle of Chancellorsville despite the fact that the Union forces outnumbered the Army of Northern Virginia by a 2:1 ratio. During the battle, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, while returning from a reconnaissance mission beyond Union lines, was mistaken for a Union soldier as he returned and shot three times by his own troops. One of Jackson’s arms was amputated but he died several dies later from pneumonia.
More background here from Civil War Trust
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Liberal Law Prof Jonathan Turley:
The FBI was not investigating a crime committed by Flynn, they were trying to create a crime committed by Flynn.
Liberal Law Prof Jonathan Turley:
Michael Flynn case "an utter travesty of justice" and should be dismissed to preserve justice
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Law Prof Jonathan Turley:
MSNBC Attacks Trump For Using The DPA After Criticizing Trump For Not Using The DPA
MSNBC Attacks Trump For Using The DPA After Criticizing Trump For Not Using The DPA
On this day in 1992
On this day in 1992, riots broke out in South Central L.A. after an all-white Simi Valley jury acquitted four police officers who had been videotaped beating Rodney King. King suffered a broken face bone, a broken ankle, and many bruises and cuts.
The riots continued for four days, during which L.A.P.D. officers pulled out of several areas, leaving law-abiding citizens and local businesses completely at the “mercy” of the rioters. 55 people died, thousands were injured, there were dozens of fires, and over a billion dollars in damage.
Korean-owned businesses were especially targeted by the rioters.
The riots ended only after the National Guard was called in to restore order.
Among those seriously hurt was Reginald Denny, who was pulled from his truck, severely beaten by several rioters, and then left lying on the street, all while a TV helicopter crew caught the incident on camera and broadcast it live on local television. The rioters struck Denny in the head with a cinder block and fractured his skull in 91 places. Four heroic local residents saw Denny’s beating on TV, rushed to the scene, grabbed Denny, put him into a cab, and drove him to a nearby hospital. Denny’s ability to speak and walk is impaired to this day despite years of rehabilitative therapy.
Rodney King was represented by Johnnie Cochran in his civil suit against L.A. and was awarded $3.8 million.
Rodney King Criminal Trial Verdict Acquitting Four Police Officers Announced
Police Desert L.A. Inner City
Four Days of Riots
55 Deaths, $1 Billion in Damage
Koreans Targeted
Reginald Denny Beaten
CBS News with Mike Wallace Video Retrospective
On this day in 1992, riots broke out in South Central L.A. after an all-white Simi Valley jury acquitted four police officers who had been videotaped beating Rodney King. King suffered a broken face bone, a broken ankle, and many bruises and cuts.
The riots continued for four days, during which L.A.P.D. officers pulled out of several areas, leaving law-abiding citizens and local businesses completely at the “mercy” of the rioters. 55 people died, thousands were injured, there were dozens of fires, and over a billion dollars in damage.
Korean-owned businesses were especially targeted by the rioters.
The riots ended only after the National Guard was called in to restore order.
Among those seriously hurt was Reginald Denny, who was pulled from his truck, severely beaten by several rioters, and then left lying on the street, all while a TV helicopter crew caught the incident on camera and broadcast it live on local television. The rioters struck Denny in the head with a cinder block and fractured his skull in 91 places. Four heroic local residents saw Denny’s beating on TV, rushed to the scene, grabbed Denny, put him into a cab, and drove him to a nearby hospital. Denny’s ability to speak and walk is impaired to this day despite years of rehabilitative therapy.
Rodney King was represented by Johnnie Cochran in his civil suit against L.A. and was awarded $3.8 million.
On this day in 1862,
UNION TAKES NEW ORLEANS
Splits Confederacy - Disrupts Supply Lines
On this day in 1862, Union forces, led by Admiral David Farragut, took the City of New Orleans in a surprise attack from the Gulf of Mexico rather than via the Mississippi River to the north, where most of the Confederate forces were massed. Farragut secured the Union’s takeover of New Orleans by taking the last two Confederate forts between New Orleans and Vicksburg, 400 miles to the north. The Union’s control of New Orleans and the Mississippi split the Confederacy into two and severely hampered its ability to supply its troops.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Heather Mac Donald/American Spectator
The public health establishment is desperate to maintain hysteria in the populace
On this day in 1970, 50 years ago:
U.S. Invades Cambodia
Video: Nixon announces invasion on national TV two days later
On this day in 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia, a decision which caused the resignation of key aides, led to protests and the murder of protesters by the National Guard and local police, and caused Congress to restrict the president’s war powers.
On this day in 1965,
U.S. INVADES DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
TO PREVENT COMMIE TAKEOVER
Video of LBJ's announcement
Monday, April 27, 2020
On this day in 1865,
THE WORST MARITIME DISASTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE SULTANA SINKS DROWNING 1,700 UNION VETERANS AND SURVIVORS OF CONFEDERATE P.O.W. CAMPS
On this day in 1865, just days after the end of the Civil War, the worst maritime disaster in American history occurred when the steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,100 passengers, exploded just north of Memphis and sank in the Mississippi River, killing all but 400 of those aboard. To make this tragedy even worse, all but 100 of those killed were Union veterans, and most were survivors of Andersonville and other brutal Confederate prisoner of war camps.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Andrew Sullivan
We Can’t Go on Like This Much Longer
"Just because Trump has argued that the cure could be worse than the disease doesn’t mean it isn’t potentially true."
On this day in 1954,
THE SALK POLIO VACCINE TRIALS
"The Greatest Public Health Experiment in American History."
There was a terrifying polio epidemic going on. Parents were worried that their kids might be infected with crippling and incurable polio, that they may never walk again, and that they might even die. Then this. A discovery that changed life for the better for millions. There was no FDA pre-approval - kids were used as human guinea pigs.
Great background story here from CBS News:
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-salk-polio-vaccine-greatest-public-health-experiment-in-history/
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-salk-polio-vaccine-greatest-public-health-experiment-in-history/
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