Lost and Found – January 22nd Edition

What to remember about January 22nd…

• 1740  Patriot General and spy Noah Phelps is born in Simsbury, Connecticut; infiltrated Ft. Ticonderoga alone to help plan its capture
• 1840  1st British settlers arrive in New Zealand near Auckland
• 1879  Battle of Rorke’s Drift; 139 British troops hold off over 4000 Zulu warriors
• 1890  United Mine Workers of America is founded in Ohio
• 1901  Queen Victoria of Great Britain dies ending her 63-year reign
• 1917  In his address to the U.S. Senate, President Woodrow Wilson proposes “peace without victory” in effort to end World War I
• 1957  George P. “Mad Bomber” Metesky arrested in Connecticut; planted more than 30 bombs in New York area over 16 years
• 1970  Boeing 747 “jumbo jet” makes 1st scheduled commercial flight
• 1973  Supreme Court rules to decriminalize abortion with their decision in Roe v. Wade; over 50 million abortions since this decision
• 1973  Former President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at home in Texas (b. 1908)
• 1998  Murderer and serial bomber Theodore “Ted” J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to 17 years of Unabomber attacks; sentenced to life in prison
• 2008  Australian-born, Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger dies abusing prescription medications
• 2009  President Barack Hussein Obama II announces he will sign an order to close Guantanamo Bay detention center for terrorist suspects within the year UPDATE At the end of Obama’s 8 years in office, Guantanamo Bay facility remains in operation.

Lost and Found – December 10th Edition

What to remember about December 10th…

• 1778  John Jay, delegate from New York, is elected president of the Continental Congress
• 1817  Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state in the Union
• 1830  American poet Emily Dickenson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
• 1864  General Sherman’s March to the Sea ends when he arrives outside Savannah, Georgia; low on supplies he lays siege to the city
• 1869  Wyoming territory votes to grant women the right to vote
• 1898  Spanish-American war ends with signing of Treaty of Paris
• 1901  1st ever Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1904  Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded at College of Charleston; founders of Push America service organization
• 1941  Imperial Japanese troops invade Philippine mainland
• 1948  United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Rights; anniversary is International Human Rights Day
• 1999  Wen Ho Lee is arrested for stealing nuclear secrets from Los Alamos weapons laboratory and providing them to China
• 2009  President Barack Hussein Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize after less than one year in office

Lost and Found – November 4th Edition

What to remember about November 4th…

• 1842  Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois
• 1864  Confederate raiders destroy millions in supplies with bombardment of supply base at Battle of Johnsonville
• 1879  American Humourist Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma
• 1922  Howard Carter discovers entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt
• 1924  Nellie Tayloe Ross is wins election in Wyoming; becomes 1st elected female governor of a U.S. state
• 1946  Former First Lady Laura Lane Welch Bush is born in Midland, Texas
• 1956  Soviet tanks and troops invade Hungary; thousands of protesters killed as revolution is crushed
• 1979  Hundreds of Iranians storm U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran; 52 of the hostages taken will not be released for 444 days
• 1995  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by Jewish student opposed to concessions with Arabs
• 2008  Barack Hussein Obama II becomes the 1st half African-American to be elected President of the United States

Lost and Found – October 9th Edition

What to remember about October 9th…

• 1635  Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; he and his followers go on to found Rhode Island and the 1st Baptist church in America
• 1701  Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in Old Saybrook; later renamed later as Yale University
• 1888  Washington Monument opens to the public for the 1st time; construction began in 1848
• 1936  Hoover Dam begins generating electricity for California
• 1967  Communist rebel and murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna is executed by the Bolivian army
• 2001  Second mailing of letters in the Anthrax Attacks
• 2009  Awards committee announces that President Barack Hussein Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize

UPDATE:  Due to popular demand, the above pic is now available as a shirt, hat, or button to make it easier to torment the commie-loving hipsters in your life.  Go to cafepress.com to check it out.

Labor Day Lies

Labor Day marks the end of lots of things – summer is over, no more backyard barbeques, swimming pools close, and you have to put away your white shoes.  What the holiday also marks is a declining free market and fair labor practices in America.

“Labor Day is an occasion upon which highly paid union men have the day off to do some shopping at retail stores staffed almost exclusively by non-union workers (if you’re in retail, you’re working on Labor Day), to have cookouts in backyards maintained by non-union (and often illegal) workers, and to otherwise enjoy the delectable fruits of hypocrisy.”, Red Monday

Why we have this love affair with a Canadian-born, crypto-Communist holiday that would more appropriately be held on May 1st is beyond me.  Everyone likes a day off, but why should we honor union bosses that have betrayed their members by being bought off in Obama’s race for socialized medicine.  Why do we perpetuate the myth that Democrats care about the welfare of the American people when their agenda is all about maintaining control by buying off constituencies or enslaving them to the welfare plantation?  You mean to tell me that refusing black children vouchers that allow them to escape failed government schools and have a hope of a better life celebrates the spirit of hope and opportunity that this nation was founded on?

Bull!

Forget celebrating big labor and their union thugs.  Forget about celebrating the “failed everywhere it’s been tried” socialist ideas and programs of the Democrats.  Forget the politics of racial division and identity.

Instead, let’s celebrate freedom.  Let’s celebrate the courage of the American entrepreneur.  Let’s take a day and celebrate the hope of a better life for everyone through equal opportunity, equal access, and equal freedom.

For more on the history of Labor Day, what it celebrates, and it fails to represent the ideals and aspirations of a freedom loving American people, check out “Red Monday” By Kevin D. Williamson at National Review Online.

Picture credit to Tom Burns, illustrator / graphic designer.

Lost and Found – August 14th Edition

What to remember about August 14th…

• 1848  An act of Congress establishes the Oregon Territory
• 1935  President Roosevelt signs into law the Social Security Act
• 1945  American actor and comedian Steve Martin is born (L.A. Story and Roxanne are my favorites)
• 1965  7th Marines land in Chu Lai to begin combat operations in South Vietnam
• 1980  Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk shipyards leading to strikes across Poland; Solidarity movement takes hold
• 1994  International terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal is captured in Sudan
• 2003  Massive blackout in northeast U.S. and parts of Canada leave an estimated 55 million without power
• 2006  Journalists Steve Centani and Olaf Wiig kidnapped by Palestinian Hamas gunmen; they are released only after they convert to Islam under threat of death
• 2010  President Barak Hussein Obama states his support for the building of a mosque at Ground Zero in New York

Lost and Found – July 27th Edition

What to remember about July 27th…

• 1775  Benjamin Rush begins his term as the 1st Surgeon General of the Continental Army
• 1929  Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War is signed by 53 countries; known as Geneva Convention
• 1938  American author and game designer Ernest Gary Gygax is born in Chicago (d. 2008); co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
• 1940  The first Bugs Bunny cartoon “A Wild Hare” is released
• 1953 Armistice is signed ending the Korean War, memorial in Washington D.C. dedicated on same day in 1995
• 1974  U.S. House of Representatives begins impeachment proceedings against President Nixon
• 1981  6-year-old Adam Walsh is abducted and killed; his father John Walsh becomes victims rights advocate and later hosts America’s Most Wanted television show
• 1996  Eric Robert Rudolph sets off a bomb at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia
• 2003  American actor and comedian Bob Hope dies at 100 (b. 1903)
• 2004  Barack Hussein Obama give keynote address at Democratic National Convention; launches national political career

Lost and Found – June 7th Edition

What to remember about June 7th…

• 1776  At Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduces resolution for independence; John Adams seconds the motion
• 1863  Rebel effort to relieve siege of Vicksburg fails at Battle of Milliken’s Bend despite severe losses amongst new African-American regiments
• 1917  In Battle of Messines Ridge, British forces detonate over 1 million pounds of explosives in tunnels under German positions to end stalemate
• 1929  Vatican City becomes sovereign state with signing of Lateran Treaty
• 1939  King George VI becomes 1st British monarch to visit the U.S.; entering at Niagara Falls he goes on to visit New York and Washington, D.C.
• 1942  Fierce fighting that began June 4th ends today with U.S. victory over Imperial Japanese Navy at Battle of Midway
• 1965  SCOTUS rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that “penumbras” and “emanations” of other constitutional protections constitute a right to privacy; lays groundwork for result of 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling
• 1965  NASA’s Gemini IV mission ends after 1st successful American space walk
• 1966  Former Democrat and actor Ronald Reagan is elected as Governor of California; later elected 40th President of the United States
• 1967  Israeli paratroopers enter and capture Jerusalem ahead of U.N. cease-fire in Six-Day War; Bethlehem also liberated
• 1981  Israeli Air Force conducts Operation Opera destroying Iraqi Osiraq nuclear power plant and weapons facility
• 1998  3 white supremacists in Texas drag James Byrd, Jr. to death behind their pickup truck; attack leads to “hate crime” legislation in U.S.
• 2008  Senator Hillary Clinton D-NY) formally ends her presidential campaign and endorses Barack Hussein Obama II

Lost and Found – May 19th Edition

What to remember about May 19th…

• 1795 American patriot, physician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence Josiah Bartlett dies in Kingston, New Hampshire (b. 1729)
• 1795  American entrepreneur and philanthropist Johns Hopkins is born in Maryland (d. 1873); founder of hospitals, universities, and schools
• 1848  Mexico ratifies Treaty of Hidalgo ending Mexican-American War; United States is ceded most of the Southwest for $15 million
• 1864  President Lincoln writes to Congress urging that widows and orphans should be treated equally regardless of race
• 1943  President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill set May 1, 1944 as date for Allied invasion at Normandy; D-Day set in motion
• 1962  Actress and singer Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday Mr. President” at gala celebrating upcoming 45th birthday of John F. Kennedy
• 1986  President Reagan signs Firearms Owners Protection Act prohibiting federal government from keeping a registry of firearms owners
• 1994  Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies at home of cancer (b. 1929); wife of President John F. Kennedy
• 2001  The 1st Apple stores open their doors; they are located in Tysons Corner, Virginia and the same day in Glendale, California
• 2011  President Obama gives speech stating that Israel must revert its borders back to the pre-1967 borders to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Lost and Found – May 13th Edition

What to remember about May 13th…

• 1607  100 colonists land on the James River in Virginia to found 1st permanent English colony in North America; Jamestown will be its name
• 1861  Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues proclamation declaring neutrality and recognizing rebellious states
• 1863  General Grant splits his army to win control of the Mississippi; half advance to take Jackson while the rest pin defenders in Vicksburg
• 1865  More than a month after surrender of the Confederacy, last skirmish of the civil war ends with rebel victory in Battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas
• 1940  In accepting position as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill declares Britain will “wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny”
• 1963  SCOTUS rules in Brady v. Maryland that the prosecution in a criminal trial must reveal exculpatory evidence; “Brady disclosure” is established
• 1971  11-year-old Steveland Hardaway Morris signs contract with Tamla Records; “Stevie Wonder” will become Motown Records defining artist
• 1981  Turkish assassin attempts to murder Pope John Paul II
• 1985  Police confront radical cult MOVE in Philadelphia dropping bomb on building roof to end siege; ensuing fire kills 11 and destroys a city block
• 2010  State of Hawaii enacts law permitting officials to ignore requests to view the birth certificate of  President Barack Hussein Obama II