On this day: November 21World Television Day The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four (1979) U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is...
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On this day: November 20Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg (1945), In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S....
On this day: November 19International Toilet Day National Review publishes its first issue (1955) Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on...
On this day: November 18George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have...
On this day: November 17 The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority") (1903) U.S. recognizes...
On this day: November 16International Day for Tolerance The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens (1914) LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the...
Anyone who is a fan of Churchill know that he was a super-intelligent, deeply knowledgeable, and greatly experienced politician who was written off for higher office because he was a cranky old man,...
On this day: November 15First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva (1920) Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial (1939) German SS leader Heinrich...
On this day: November 14The Communist Party of Spain is founded (1921) Jimmy Carter issues Executive order freezing all Iranian assets in the U.S. in response to the hostage crisis (1979) A budget...
xOn this day: November 13Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB (1961) Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against...
On this day: November 12Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union (1927) The Oregon Highway Division attempts to...
To me there are three holidays. Christmas, Easter and Veterans Day. Heck I don't even celebrate my own birthday. But I ALWAYS will take Veterans Day off and go hunting. This morning started out...
On this day: November 11Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed (1887) In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, three American prisoners...
In this piece on Iran policy in the Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney continues to demonstrate the steadiness, experience, maturity, and common sense that our nation desperately needs in these very...
On this day: November 10Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for...
Wow and this story continues to grow. I just published a post this morning about how silly it is to take this Bialek woman seriously. She is a young woman, had one bankruptcy when she was really...
Noooo... This is not about the sham Herman Cain story. This is about the rash of Sex Attacks and Violent Crime that is plaguing the OWS protests. Once again, don't forget, these people are Barack...
Ok so let's get this straight. Yesterday's accuser , Bialeck, claimed bankruptcy TWICE in her life? Really? Who does that as young as she is? So she made enough poor decisions in life to have...
On this day: November 9Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR (1917) The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City by eight trade unions belonging to the...
HT: NRO's The Corner It always helps to put a face to a name, even if it is a bruised and bloodied one. Here is such a face. It belongs to Bruce Fancher, a hobbyist photographer who lives “a...
Veteran's Day is my holiday. So periodically this week I'll post things about Veteran's Day. That is before I head out for my annual Veteran's Day hunt with my lifelong buddy (we grew up together and...
On this day: November 8The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin (1917) Beer Hall Putsch: Hitler's Nazis fail to overthrow the German government...
Because he made the Mule Deer rut to happen during the week of Veteran's Day!
With all due respect to the "refusnik" stand of the esteemed Coyote, I am growing warmer toward Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney may not be as "right" as I would like, but he may be "right enough." Also,...
We just love to point out the hypocrisy of the moonbats on the left and as such the Democrat party that is controlled by the moonbats. Right now you have moonbats hanging out in lice infested parks,...
I don't want to just post a LINK TO THIS ARTICLE. It is that good. Mark Steyn just nails the moral bankruptcy of the OWS crowd. I remembered seeing a story about the Men's Warehouse saying...
On this day: November 7The New Republic magazine is published (1914) In Petrograd, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government...
On this day: November 6Memphis became the first major city to enter the TVA (1934) Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, for use in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki...
On this day: November 5In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time and is later fined $100 (1872) In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anwelt leads...
I just wanted to reiterate my support for Mary Verner as Spokane Mayor. I think that the argument against her by her opponent and his supporters is really pretty weak soup. During tough economic...