The government offered to buy my guns from me. But after a thorough background check of the buyer, I am not comfortable with selling weapons to organized crime.
— Jon Caldara
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Today is Monday, April 15th, the 106th day of 2024. There are 260 days left in the year. It is Jackie Robinson Day, Anime Day, Father Damien Day (in Hawaii), McDonald’s Day, National Rubber Eraser Day, National Take a Wild Guess Day, National That Sucks Day, National Glazed Spiral Ham Day, National ASL Day, National Laundry Day, National Griper’s Day, and World Art Day.
On This Day
In 1755, Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.
In 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1892, the General Electric Company was formed.
In 1923, insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes.
In 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by U.K. and Canadian forces.
In 1952, the B-52 Stratofortress flew for the first time.
In 1967, Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy started a four-week run at No. 1 with “Somethin’ Stupid.” They became the only father-daughter act ever to score a top single.
In 1986, the U.S. conducted bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two American servicemen.
In 2013, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure-cooker bombs, which detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The terrorists killed three people and injured hundreds of others, including 17 who lost limbs.
In 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was seriously damaged by a fire.
Today’s Birthdays
Actress Claudia Cardinale is 86. Former actress Lois Chiles is 77. Actress and left-wing dope Emma Thompson is 65. Actress and feminist nitwit Emma Watson is 34. Actress and “progressive” moron Maisie Williams is 27.
The Links
What Happened to Bitcoin? (Brownstone Institute)
“Does this story seem familiar? Indeed it does. We’ve seen this trajectory in sector after sector. Institutions born and built by ideals are later converted by various forces of power, access, and nefarious intent into something else entirely. We’ve seen this happen to digital tech in particular and the Internet generally, not to mention medicine, public health, science, liberalism, and so much else. The story of Bitcoin follows the same trajectory, a seemingly immaculate conception turned toward a different purpose, and serving again as a reminder that on this side of heaven, there will never be an institution or idea immune to compromise and corruption.”
US media organisations push Biden and Trump for TV debate pledge (BBC News)
“Mr Trump, who skipped all four Republican primary debates, has said he is keen to debate President Biden.”
The Battle Begins: Trump’s Trial Tests American Justice (American Greatness)
“In a non-Banana Republic, the law works by uncovering a crime and then prosecuting those guilty of the crime. In a certified Banana Republic, the regime finds someone it dislikes and then calls out the legal bloodhounds to discover or, if need be, to manufacture a crime as a pretext to take out the undesirable person. The latter is what is happening here.”
A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system (Jonathan Turley)
“Cohen has a long record as a legal thug who has repeatedly lied when it served his interests. He has a knack for selling his curious skill set to powerful figures like Trump and now Bragg.”
Austin’s Mayor Oversees a Completely Changed City (Governing)
“Austin is now America’s 10th-largest city and has big-city problems to contend with: stifling traffic, expensive housing and a homelessness crisis. These were all issues Watson worked on the last time he was mayor. Now, he says, they’ve ‘gone to scale.’”
U.S. homes face costly retrofits for induction stoves, EV chargers (Bloomberg)
“[U]pgrading an existing home is costly. When Boyce looked to install an induction stove in her 19th-century home, she was told it would require both an upgrade to her electrical panel and a wiring installation in the kitchen. ‘So in order to get an induction stove, I was quoted $4,000 — without the stove,’ Boyce said, adding that these upgrades can not only be costly but disruptive, as ‘you might be ripping out drywall, or flooring.’”
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