- 1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain.
- 1871 - British Columbia joined Confederation as a Canadian province.
- 1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
- 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
- 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
- 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
- 1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
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Zohran Mamdani casually says he would support the abolition of property in resurfaced video | Blaze Media
Instapundit - TIMES CHANGE
Previously, from P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores:
Not long after Andy [Ferguson] and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration.
“How come,” I asked Andy, “whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?”
“We have jobs,” said Andy.
- We still have jobs, but the Left finally pushed normies into activism. They had thought that was exclusively their turf. - Stephen Green
Wherefore, Cincinnatus? A Tale of Staggering American Political Corruption. By Ward Clark
Cincinnatus had retired to a farm, but when Rome called, he answered. He was appointed Dictator by the Roman Senate, giving him absolute power over the city - and the army. He oversaw a quick victory over the Aequi; the Roman historian Livy puts the time at sixteen days. With that done, Cincinnatus surrendered the dictatorship and went back to his farm.Livy and other Roman scribes of the time held Cincinnatus up as a model of civic virtue, an example for any who would serve the republic...
- We have no Cincinnatus among us today.
Well, the Trump administration is getting in on the action with their own Friday afternoon document dump—and their dump also does not reflect well on Barack Obama and his administration. The documents in question are newly-declassified materials released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showing how deeply involved Obama and members of his administration were in helping to devise and perpetuate the Russia collusion hoax against Donald Trump.
A clearly-irate Gabbard took to X Friday afternoon to detail what was found in the documents—i.e., Obama & co. made the whole thing up—and what she plans to do with the information.
- If you haven't yet read Teri's account of this disaster, do so.
- Make sure you're sitting down, and I'd recommend a good stiff belt at your elbow; you're going to need it...
Federal agents tackle, mace anti-ICE protester who slashed their tires * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit
No Evidence of Harm? A “Garbage In, Garbage Out” Analysis of the Aluminum Vaccine Study
- But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find a textbook case of how to spin noise into confidence. Let’s walk through it.
- This is a textbook case of GIGO (“Garbage In, Garbage Out”).
Taxpayers poised to save $9 billion as deadline looms for congressional recissions * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
But, but, but those Up-Northers seemed so nice!-----Canada Slaps Higher Tariffs on Chinese Steel | The Epoch Times
- Canada will implement an additional 25 percent tariff on steel imports from China before the end of July, among new measures aimed at bolstering Canada’s steel industry and preventing steel dumping in the Canadian market, Prime Minister Mark Carney says...
Who's funding/buying the violent rioters??!!-----CEO claims he rejected $20M offer to recruit anti-Trump protesters | Fox News
- The CEO of advocacy group Crowds on Demand, Adam Swart, says his organization turned down an offer that he said would have been worth around $20 million to help recruit protestors for a national rally against President Donald Trump...
- "Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us and, in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million dollars," Adam Swart, the CEO and founder of Crowds on Demand, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin in an interview that aired on Tuesday...
MI state Board of Canvassers recently approved petition language for Ranked Choice Voting. Petitions will soon be circulation to put RCV on the 2026 election ballot.
- If passed, this will drastically change the way we vote.
- Do NOT sign any petition for Ranked Choice Voting!
- Complex and confusing process– RCV requires voters to rank candidates and triggers multiple elimination rounds.
- That complexity leads to more spoiled or uncounted ballots if you miss or mis-fill a ranking.
- Voter ballot exhaustion– Many votes go uncounted if someone fails to rank every candidate. So your vote might never count at all...
BUSTED: Video shows J&J scientist admitting vaccine unsafe | Blaze Media
History for July 19
- 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
- 1870 - France declared war on Prussia.
- 1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
- 1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
- 1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
- 1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
- 1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.