September 7

70 – The Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders the rest of Jerusalem.

1191 – In the 3rd Crusade, the army of Richard I of England defeats the army of Saladin at Arsuf.

1228 – Beginning the 6th Crusade, the army of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre.

1630 – Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1776 – Commanding the Turtle, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor

1778 – France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France’s involvement in the Revolutionary War.

1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil’s independence from Portugal

1857 – Mormon settlers slaughter most members of an emigrant wagon train in the ‘Mountain Meadows’ massacre

1863 – Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore occupy Battery Wagner and Morris Island, South Carolina, previously abandoned by Confederate forces.

1864 – Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1876 – The James–Younger Gang attempts to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but are driven off by armed citizens.

1907 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation under the Federal Employers Liability Act 

1921 – The first Miss America Pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey

1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.

1940 – The Luftwaffe begins The Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.

1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

1977 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the U.S. on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the U.S government for a $1.5 billion loan to avoid bankruptcy.

1997 – The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor flies for the first time

2002 – Gotthard Glas, better known as Uziel Gal, designer of the UZI and the Ruger MP-9 submachineguns, dies while being treated for cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2008 – Due to the collapse of the Mortgage Backed Security business, caused by fraudulently making  sub-primes mortgages appear to be better risks, the U.S. government takes control of the 2 largest mortgage financing companies in the country, FNMA -Fannie Mae, and FHLMC -Freddie Mac.

2017 – Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting over 145 million U.S. consumers.

I Can’t Stop Laughing: Biden Thinks He’s Treated Like a Toddler.

Joe Biden is a man who likes his ice cream and routinely needs the White House to clean up his messes. He could be in diapers at this point, too. Who knows? If he is, I’m sure the White House is doing everything possible to keep that under wraps.

But I digress. According to a new book by Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic and former editor of the New Republic, Joe Biden feels like his White House staff is babying him, and he’s not particularly happy about it.

The book recalls the incident where Biden riffed after the conclusion of a speech about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, making a statement that appeared to call for Putin to be overthrown. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said. According to Foer’s account, the White House was walking back the statement by the time Biden had reached his motorcade.

“Suddenly, the press wasn’t marveling at his rhetoric or his diplomatic triumphs; it was back to describing him as a blowhard lacking in self-control,” Foer writes in his book, and Biden was deeply upset over the media coverage of the gaffe and “left for home, ending his triumphalist tour, feeling sorry for himself.” The president “resented his aides for creating the impression that they had cleaned up his mess.”

“Rather than owning his failure, he fumed to his friends about how he was treated like a toddler,” Foer writes.

Naturally, the White House disputed this story when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked about it.

“President Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history. Why does White House staff treat him like a baby?” Doocy asked.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre might have needed a diaper of her own when she got that question, as she was none too pleased by it.

Doocy then quoted the book and asked, “Was John [F.] Kennedy ever babied like that?”

“So, look, I’ll say this,” she began. “There’s going to be a range — always — a range of books that are — about every administration, as you know — that’s going to have a variety of claims. That is not unusual. That happens all the time. And we’re not going to litigate those here. That’s something that we’re not going to speak to.”

Cute story. I wonder if Jean-Pierre would dismiss all the outlandish claims made about Trump in various books the same way.

Back to *Home* School: 5 Lessons I’ve Learned

It’s back to school time, and for some of us that means back to home school.

In recent years homeschooling has enjoyed a fairly well-publicized upswing. But the surge in interest has also sparked some narrow-minded backlash. Like the other areas I cover, education suffers from plenty of groupthink.

My family of three is a homeschool family. My wife and I have one child, an eight-year-old son, and having an “only” makes homeschooling sometimes harder and sometimes easier. We live in an area where homeschooling is quite common, and being part of a larger community has been very helpful.

We experimented with four different types of more traditional schooling and exposed ourselves to an array of less conventional models. After some back-and-forth between schooling and homeschooling (courtesy of California’s lockdowns), we settled on homeschooling as the best fit for our son. As much as we tout it, we’re not dogmatic. If we come across something better, we’ll switch.

We’ve been lucky that the vast majority of our friends and family support our decision to homeschool. In general, the better they know us, the more supportive they are. That’s because they see that it’s working for our son.

But we’ve also experienced some rather bewildered reactions. Such reactions typically come from people who have experienced nothing but traditional schooling. One person asked if our son had any friends, but nobody who knows him well would ask that. Although many worry that homeschooling hampers socialization, our experience has been quite the opposite.

Maybe I’ll address socialization at some point, but for now I’ve focused on five lessons my family has learned from our experience with homeschooling.

I wanted to avoid more common topics (like why a family might choose homeschooling in the first place) in order to focus on some lessons that might be rather hidden at the beginning of one’s homeschooling journey. Continue reading “”

MEDIA WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BLAME FIREARM INDUSTRY

By Larry Keane

There’s peril when media sets out to confirm a narrative instead of reporting facts. Whether it’s criminal violence in America perpetrated by a deranged lunatic, or by violent drug cartels in countries beyond our borders, some media outlets will find the flawed logic to argue it is American companies that should be punished.

This results in a disservice to readers and erodes public trust not just in their subjects but also in the Fourth Estate.

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Missouri has state preemption of any and all gun control laws, except they let cities ban open carry if a person doesn’t have a concealed carry permit. Strange, but that’s how permitless carry worked out when the different bills were combined and passed.

Gov. Mike Parson criticizes Kansas City’s new gun rules: ‘You can’t supersede state law’

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson spoke to KCUR’s Up To Date about the case of Kansas City Police officer Eric DeValkenaere, the expansion of I-70, the 2024 gubernatorial race, and Kansas City’s new gun ordinances.

Criminal justice advocates across Kansas City have speculated that Gov. Mike Parson might pardon Eric DeValkenaere, the former Kansas City Police detective who was convicted in 2021 for killing Cameron Lamb.

Parson told Up To Date’s Steve Kraske that he hasn’t sat down to discuss a potential pardon. He said that the legal process has to work out before he comes into play — DeValkenaere is currently appealing his conviction.

“It’s been unfortunate,” Parson said of the speculation. “I think a lot of people got spun up by that, elected officials up there are kinda claiming that. But the reality of it is that I haven’t had a conversation about that.”

Parson also criticized the new gun laws recently passed by Kansas City Council, outlawing certain modified firearms and prohibiting the transferring of weapons and ammo to minors.

“You can’t supersede state law, just like I can’t supersede federal law. I wish I could sometimes, there’s lots of things I’d like to change,” Parson said. “The reality is that it needs to go in front of the General Assembly or needs to be voted on by the people to make those changes.”

In 2021, Parson signed into law the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” which penalized law enforcement for enforcing federal gun restrictions. However, that law was ruled unconstitutional.

September 6

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 – The Pilgrims finally set sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America

1628 – Puritans settle Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1767– Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, later General Lafayette of the Continental Army, is born at Château de Chavaniac, France

1781 – Revolutionary forces under Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard suffer defeat and are massacred by British forces under traitor General Benedict Arnold at Groton Heights Connecticut.

1861 – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Paducah, Kentucky, gaining control of the mouth of the Tennessee river where it enters the Ohio

1863 – Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina after being under siege by Union forces for over 60 days.

1901 – At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and mortally wounds President William McKinley, who dies of gangrene 8 days later.

1915 – During World War I, the first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given its first test drive.

1939 – Lacking equipment to identify friend from foe (IFF), a flight of British fighters scramble to intercept what they believe are incoming Nazi planes, resulting in the first British fighter pilot loss of World War II in a ‘friendly fire’ incident , shooting down 2 of their own returning fighters, killing one of the pilots, Flight Officer Montague Hulton-Harrop RAF

1946 – U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.

1966 – Racial eugenicist and abortion advocate, Margaret Sanger dies in Tucson, Arizona.

1970 – 3 passenger jets bound to New York,  TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt, a Boeing 707, and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich, a Douglas DC-8,  and El Al Flight 219, a Boeing 707, from Tel Aviv, are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson’s Field, Jordan.

1972 – During a failed rescue attempt, 9 Israeli athletes,  along with a German policeman are murdered at the hands of the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day. The failure of the rescue attempt leads directly to the forming of the German counter-terrorist unit GSG-9 which leads to other nations forming such units, including the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta.

1976 – Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the U.S.

1984 – Grand Olde Opry performer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ernest Tubb dies in Nashville, Tennesee

1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport shortly after take off, killing all 31 passengers and crew aboard.

1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles, plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking the record held by Lou Gehrig since 1939.

1997 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London

2007 – Israel executes Operation Orchard, an air strike to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria, at the Al Kibar site in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria

2018 – Burt Reynolds dies. age 82, of a heart attack at the Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida.

2020 –  American baseball player Lou Brock, dies, age 81 at Mercy Hospital  St Louis.

Armed intruder killed during Slidell home invasion early Tuesday morning

SLIDELL – A home invader was killed after forcing his way into a Slidell home early Tuesday morning.

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said the attack happened around 1 a.m. at a home on Rue De La Paix. The department said a 911 call initially came in around that time, but the caller hung up before law enforcement could get details on the situation.

Authorities called the number back and a woman explained that the intruder entered the house and got into a fight with the homeowner and another person who was staying there.

All three involved in the encounter were hurt, and the unnamed burglar was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. One of the people who was inside the home at the time of the attack remains hospitalized in stable condition.

At this time, investigators believe the attacker targeted the home and that it was not a random break-in.

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‘Who You Gonna Call’ in Austin, Texas, if You Are Robbed? Cops Say Don’t Call 911

As Americans in just about every large city endure a crime wave, some of those cities have all but given up fighting crime and given the bad guys free rein over the city. Businesses are getting out of those big cities in record numbers because of rampant theft and Soros-backed prosecutors who will not charge criminals. In one city, crime has gotten so out of hand that if you get robbed, well, don’t call 911. File a report, and they’ll get back to you.

Austin, Texas, is a blue island in a fairly red state. As a result of liberal Democrat leadership that embraced the “defund the police” movement, Austin police are severely short-staffed and are asking anyone who gets robbed near an ATM to call the non-emergency 311 number instead of 911. Robbery victims also have the option of making an online police report of the incident. Austin Police took to X to inform residents what they should do if they are robbed, saying:

“Even if you are cautious & follow all the safety advice, you may still become the unfortunate victim of a robbery. Do you know what your next steps should be? Make a police report & provide as much information as possible so we can recover your property quickly and safely.” 

Police also reminded those making a report to tell them the date and time of their ATM withdrawal. So, while being robbed, possibly at gunpoint, might seem like kind of an emergency to you, Austin Police have informed citizens that they don’t have enough manpower for it to be an emergency to them.

Thomas Villarreal is the President of the Austin Police Association. He places the blame for the crime wave in the Texas state capital squarely at the feet of a seemingly uncaring city council, stating, “We just continue to have a city council that doesn’t show its police officers that [it] cares about them.”

During a recent appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Villarreal had this to say about his city’s law enforcement predicament,

We’re a growing city, a city that should be up around 2,000 officers and growing right now. I’ve got about 1,475 officers in our police department and, you know, we’re moving in the wrong direction. There’s less and less and less resources to go out and do the job. I’ve got detectives who are pulled away from their caseload to just help answer 911 calls because we just don’t have the resources to adequately police the city.

Here at RedState, we have been covering the rampant crime wave affecting Austin and other Democrat-run cities. Not only are their policing policies, post-George Floyd, affecting individual residents, but they are also affecting businesses. Business owners say they do not feel safe, and the lack of police presence or response also drives away customers. One business owner said it took ten days to get a police report, and at the same time, business owners are being asked not to have weapons for their protection in their business. Since the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, and as Austin’s homicide rate has climbed, 911 callers are often put on hold for up to half an hour.

In addition to what Thomas Villarreal sees as an uncaring city council, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson also does not appear to have any sense of urgency when it comes to crime in his city. Up until recently, Austin police had a partnership with the Texas Department of Safety, which Watson praised and stated that crime had gone down as a result. But just two days later, Watson announced the end of the Austin police/Texas Department of Safety alliance, stating that it did not reflect “Austin’s values.” No word from the mayor on whether being robbed and having no police available to handle the situation constitutes an “Austin value.”  Just last month, Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon resigned after ongoing conflicts with the city council over staffing and increasingly smaller police budgets.

So, for the foreseeable future, if you get robbed in Austin at an ATM, you’d better just call it into 311 and wait your turn. Makes you wonder what the next thing to be called a “non-emergency” will be.

September 5

1622 – A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha in the Florida Straits between Florida and Cuba. with the loss of 260 of the 265 passengers and crew aboard and over $500 million in treasure.

1774 – The First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia

1781 – A British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves is repelled from the Chesapeake Bay by a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Paul Comte de Grasse, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

1812 – During the War of 1812, Fort Wayne, Indiana is besieged by a force of over 500 Potawatomi and Miami Indians.

1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

1862 –The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White’s Ford during the Maryland Campaign.

1877 – Ogallala Chief Crazy Horse is killed while allegedly resisting confinement at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

1905 – At the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the Russo-Japanese War.

1914 – The First Battle of the Marne begins when the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing from the northeast towards Paris

1924 – Paterfamilias Fortis is born in the area near Pontiac, Missouri.

1942 – The Japanese high command orders a withdrawal at Milne Bay, New Guinea, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg form the Benelux union

1945 – In Ottawa, the Soviet embassy clerk, Igor Gouzenko defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, basically beginning the Cold War.

1969 – U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

1972 –  The Palestinian terrorist group “Black September” attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 are killed in the attack and the other 9 the following day. Consequences of the failure of German police to effectively conduct a rescue is the motivation by many nations to form specialized police and military units specifically trained and tasked for counter terrorist/hostage rescue situations.

1975 – Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.

1977 – NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral.

1978 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.

1984 – On mission STS-41-D, Shuttle Discovery lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its maiden voyage.

1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India to New York, with 358 people on board is hijacked at a scheduled stop at Karachi International Airport in Pakistan.

1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds, causing over $3 billion in damage and killing 27 people.

2016 – Actor Hugh O’Brian, dies, age 91 at his home in Beverly Hills.

Weren’t we told that getting the vaxx would stop this?

Double Vaxxed and Double Boosted Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID–Again.

The White House announced Monday evening that Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while on vacation in Delaware and is “experiencing only mild symptoms.” Jill Biden is double-vaxxed and twice boosted. Jill previously tested positive in August 2022 and again that month in a rebound case after treatment with Paxlovid. Jill’s case comes as a new wave of COVID hysteria has started with the emergence of a new variant (Pirola).

A follow-up statement by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Joe Biden tested negative for COVID Monday evening.

The Bidens were on vacation this weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Joe returned to the White House on Monday after giving a Labor Day speech in Philadelphia. Jill remained behind in Rehoboth Beach.

Woman shot after allegedly kicking in door during home invasion at north Harris County apartment complex

HOUSTON – A woman believed to be a home invasion suspect was shot after kicking in a door at an apartment complex in north Harris County Tuesday, Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman’s Office said.

Constable deputies were called to 311 N. Vista Dr.

According to investigators, a caller told them that a woman kicked in her door and she fired her weapon, striking the suspect.

EMS is at the scene for the suspect. Her condition is not known.

Woman shot after allegedly kicking in door during home invasion at north Harris County apartment complex
Woman shot after allegedly kicking in door during home invasion at north Harris County apartment complex (Harris County Precinct 4)

Constable deputies have not provided any additional information at this time.