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Christian Cross Has No Place On Los Angeles County Seal, Judge Says
by Tammy on April 7, 2016This is ridiculous. California was initially developed by the Spanish leaving it with a rich cultural and architectural history reflective of its founding, including beautiful missions throughout the state. But, of course, the left remains fixated on not just wiping away God from the public square but erasing our history, as well. I hope the county appeals. Via Los Angeles Times. In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who argued it was unconstitutional for Los Angeles County supervisors to place a Christian cross on the county seal. A divided Board of Supervisors voted in 2014 to reinstate the cross on top of a depiction of the San Gabriel Mission, which appears on the seal among other...
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‘Astonishing’ Shakespeare First Edition Found In Scottish Castle
by Tammy on April 7, 2016I love this story. Via Deutsche Welle. A rare First Folio has been discovered in Scotland, the University of Oxford announced on Thursday. A First Folio is a scarce collection of 36 of William Shakespeare’s plays published in 1623. It is not only in essence a “first edition,” of the Bard’s work but also the only reliable source for twenty of his most famous pieces, such as Macbeth and Julius Caesar. The tome was uncovered at Mount Stuart, a large manor house on the Isle of Bute off the western coast of Scotland. The find makes a total of 234 known copies of the First Folio in the world, with nearly all the others are held by libraries and available...
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Shirley Temple’s Blue Diamond Ring Goes Up for Auction
by Tammy on March 28, 2016Wow, it’s amazing! Via LA Times. Sotheby’s is pulling some nostalgic heartstrings as the auction house markets the sale of a blue diamond ring that belonged to the late Shirley Temple Black. The child star received the 9.54-carat fancy deep blue diamond ring as a gift from her father, according to the auction house, sometime around her 12th birthday. That fell a few weeks before the release of her 1940 film “The Blue Bird.” Sotheby’s is calling the ring the star of its April 19 “Magnificent Jewels” auction. When Temple was 22 she discovered the fortune she had made in the movies — $3.2 million, which is the equivalent of about $31 million today — had dwindled to just $28,000....
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Thomas Sowell on Obama: Socialist or Fascist
by Tammy on March 25, 2016As usual, fantastic insight from Dr. Sowell. Via Townhall. …One of the reasons why both pro-Obama and anti-Obama observers may be reluctant to see him as fascist is that both tend to accept the prevailing notion that fascism is on the political right, while it is obvious that Obama is on the political left. Back in the 1920s, however, when fascism was a new political development, it was widely — and correctly — regarded as being on the political left. Jonah Goldberg’s great book “Liberal Fascism” cites overwhelming evidence of the fascists’ consistent pursuit of the goals of the left, and of the left’s embrace of the fascists as one of their own during the 1920s. Mussolini, the originator of...
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Cruz Knocks Trump Over “Palestine”
by Tammy on March 22, 2016Good, as there is no “Palestine.” Trump supporters should also want their favorite to get the technical things right. Via The Hill. Sen. Ted Cruz landed an immediate blow on GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, who spoke before him Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, for how the front-runner referred to the Palestinian people. “Let me say at the outset, perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948,” Cruz said to lead off his speech in Washington. Trump repeatedly referred to the Palestinian people as “Palestine” during his remarks just minutes before Cruz. Neither the United States nor Israel recognizes Palestine as a country, and some pro-Israel supporters believe that...
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Has Nefertiti Been Found? New Chambers Discovered in King Tut’s Tomb
by Mutnodjmet on March 18, 2016**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted By Mutnodjmet** Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities announced on Thursday that two previously un-discovered chambers were revealed by scans of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Via Egyptian Streets. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities announced on Thursday that two previously un-discovered chambers were revealed by scans of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. In a press conference, the Ministry said that the two chambers, on the North and Eastern walls of the tomb, contain either metal or organic material, as according to scans carried out by Japanese radar specialist Hirokatsu Watanabu. New scans will be conducted later this month to determine the exact dimensions of the chambers, said the Ministry. The revelations come months after Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities said there was...
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WWII Hero Killed at Pearl Harbor Finally Getting Official Burial
by Tammy on March 8, 2016Green Bay native Vernon Luke, pictured in his United States Navy uniform, will receive full military honors when his remains are buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu on Wednesday. The ceremony comes more than 74 years after he was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma battleship in the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II on Dec. 7, 1941. (Photo: Courtesy of Vernon Luke Family) Finally indeed. May he Rest in Peace. Via Green Bay Press Gazette, HT Newser. LeeAnn Michalske never met her uncle, whom she has always known as a hero. Nearly 75 years after Vernon Luke’s death in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on...
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January 24,1984: Steve Jobs Introduces Macintosh
by Shifra on January 24, 2016Doesn’t it seem like yesterday? Via CBS News: January 24th, 1984, 32 years ago today … the day Apple delivered on a promise it made in a Super Bowl commercial just two days earlier…. At $2,500, consumers found that original Macintosh too expensive for what it could actually do. Sales fell short of expectations. And in little more than a year, Jobs was effectively forced to leave the company…. On the verge of bankruptcy in 1997, Apple brought Jobs back — and what followed was a seemingly endless succession of successful Apple products, continuing up to Jobs’ death in 2011 — and beyond…. By the way, the early 1984 Macintosh computer had 0.13 MegaBytes of memory. The iPhone 6S, introduced...
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The Story Behind The Iconic Menorah Photograph
by vitadMD on December 10, 2015**Bumped up from December 2013. Posted by VitadMD** Dear, dear Shifra… Thank you for sharing this remarkable photograph – an image with a profound message and interesting story of defiance. Fortunately, the provenance of the photo is known and is deserving of proper attribution. For anyone interested… Via JSpace.com: Tracing the Roots of the Famous Holocaust Menorah In 1931, a woman snapped a photograph of her family’s menorah in a windowsill. It was the eighth night of Hanukkah and nine white candles stood along the candelabra, set off by the German courtyard seen through the glass of the window. Just in the distance, a Nazi flag hung. The image, freezing in time a notorious piece of the past, has grown...
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Ben Franklin’s Answer to a Govt Program that Sent Criminals to America
by Maynard on November 18, 2015In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the colonists came to see themselves as subjugated by a powerful, unrepresentative government. In a 1751 letter to the Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin (signing himself "Americanus") satirically attacked the British practice of emptying their prisons and sending criminals to the colonies. He expresses sentiments that are remarkably similar to our modern distrust of and disgust with today's Washington: Smug superiority, indifference to the will of the people or the fate of the people, and the arbitrary and overriding exercise of power.
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Video Flashback: Bill Clinton Claims ’94 Nuclear Deal With N. Korea ‘Good For U.S.’
by Shifra on July 14, 2015Déjà vu, all over again… Via IJ Review: The Iranian nuclear deal just struck by the Obama administration as part of theP5+1 negotations has led to rosy appraisals that have a precedent: Bill Clinton’s boast after the U.S. struck a nuclear framework with the North Koreans. The Washington Post’s columnist Marc A. Thiessen reminds us: In announcing his nuclear framework, the president declared: “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.” He said the deal requires them to “freeze [their] existing nuclear program and to accept international inspection of all existing facilities.” He said the agreement “does not rely on trust. Compliance will be certified by the...
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D-DAY==> In Honor of All Who Served: President Reagan’s Normandy Speech 6/6/84
by Tammy on June 6, 2015Another reminder of what a president actually sounds like. Jeez, I miss him. A great man speaking of other great men. May God bless them all.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Story Of Hannah Senesh
by Shifra on April 16, 2015To most Americans, the name ‘Hannah Senesh’ is unknown. But to several generations of Israelis, Hannah’s name immediately evokes sorrow over the loss of six million lives. And pride in the bravery of this heroine of Israel. Here is her story: Hannah Senesh (Anglicized from the original Hungarian ‘Szenes’) was born in 1921 in Budapest, to an affluent, secular Jewish family. Her father was a well-known playwright. He died when Hannah was six years old. Hannah was enrolled in a prestigious Protestant girls’ school in Budapest, where she stood out as a gifted student. She had been elected to the school’s Literary society as her grade representative, and it was a severe blow to her when she was informed that...
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*Amazing* Photographs==> WW II Scenes 1944 vs 2014
by Rob_W on February 16, 2015**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted By Rob W** Here are some places Tammy may have visited on her D-Day tour. Left click and hold on each photo, and then drag your mouse gently from left to right on the original photograph and it will fade to become a photo of the exact same location and view today. Drag it back to the left and you are back in 1944! Stop in the middle of the transition and 1944 will appear as a ghostly image. Scroll down for the next view. Via The Atlantic: Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now
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Normalizing Relations With Cuba Is Bad For The Environment
by Pat_S on December 17, 2014In the spirit of Hilaryism, i.e., empathizing with the enemy, as far as psychologically possible I offer this precautionary note to 21st century Leftists. Since it was of such pressing urgency, Obama decided to take a step toward normalizing relations with Cuba. The embargo is a relic of the Cold War so they say. Actually a relic of the Cold War is old time Lefties who have a soft spot in their hearts for Marxist Cuba and the Castro regime. Modern day Leftists have other priorities and Shepard Smith curiously has hit on one. The Left has always been enamored of despots like Castro and “peoples republics” that inevitably oppressed people in the name of “the people”. In the first...