The Union News.: 05/01/2014

5/31/14

The Worst Choice for 2016

Meet the face of Obama's foreign policy fiascos

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Graham Wallas Born, Gregor Strasser Born, Túpac Amaru Shoots

On This Progressive Day: May 31

The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War and ensures British control of South Africa (1902)

The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China" whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect (1924)

A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto (1989)

Si Newhouse's Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat (2005)

President B. Hussein Obama denounces the killing of radical abortionist George Tiller, saying he was "shocked and outraged" (2009)

b: Graham Wallas (1858), Alois Hudal (1885), Gregor Strasser (1892); d: Walther Funk (1960), Adolf Eichmann (1962), W.A. 'Tony' Boyle (1985), Timothy Leary (1996), George Tiller (2009)

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5/30/14

U.S. Over The Hill, Not Buying It

Failed Progressive policies of the past cast long shadows over post-Obama Era

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"At the end of the day ... what difference does it make?"

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(via "Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Sign Unveiled" at tonyphyrillas.blogspot.com)

Mikhail Bakunin Born, Paris Commune Fails, Lod Airport Massacre

On This Progressive Day: May 30

The Paris Commune falls (1871)

The Angry Brigade anarchists go on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom (1972)

In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others (1972)

Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled by student demonstrators (1989)

President B. Hussein Obama announces plans to appoint a CyberSpace Czar (2009)

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage (2013)

b: Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Georg von Küchler (1881), Zacarias Moussaoui (1968); d: Georgi Plekhanov (1918), Leó Szilárd (1964), Ezra Taft Benson (1994)

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5/29/14

Hard-Prog 'Lost Decade' Transforms U.S.

To The Left, tradition is regressive

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(via "Obama Gripes That Constitutional Structure of Our Government Works to His Disadvantage" at moonbattery.com)

Black Hand Anarchy, JFK The Unspeakable Born, Erich Honecker Dead

On This Progressive Day: May 29

Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th state (1790)

Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization (1903)

The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1990)

France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution (2005)

President B. Hussein Obama takes his White House entourage for a photo-op to Joplin, Missouri, the site of recent tornado destruction (2011)

b: John F. Kennedy (1917), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932); d: Bahá'u'lláh (1892), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1946), Erich Honecker (1994), Barry Goldwater (1998), Archibald Cox (2004), Samuel Dash (2004)

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5/28/14

Progs Against The Constitution

Defending America isn't as easy as it used to be

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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon - Saul Alinsky

Bonus links:

• Summary of Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals'
• Rules for Radicals at amazon.com

Neville Chamberlain Rises, PLO Forms, Hillary's Crooks Convicted

On This Progressive Day: May 28

Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister (1937)

The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed (1964)

The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War (1991)

U.S. FLOTUS and President Hillary and Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal scheme, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud (1996)

NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance (2002)

b: Sepp Dietrich (1892), Rob Ford (1969), Abdulaziz al-Omari (1979); d: August Eigruber (1947)

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5/27/14

Progs Struck Down, FDR Declares Unlimited Emergency, Clinton Harassed

On This Progressive Day: May 27

The SCOTUS declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. (1935)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency" (1941)

The SCOTUS rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office (1997)

A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 35 people and injures at least 250 in Lahore, Pakistan (2009)

37 days after the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill, President B. Hussein Obama finally holds a news conference in the East Room to answer some questions (2010)

b: Hans Lammers (1879), Henry Kissinger (1923), Christopher Dodd (1944); d: François-Noël Babeuf (1797), Ernst Niekisch (1967)

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5/26/14

Another Lamestream Makeover for Hillary Looms

Rodham-Clinton's failed hard-prog policies of the past mirror Obama's, creating a problem for 2016

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(via "Quiz: Is this Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren?" at iowntheworld.com)

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(via "Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign Sign Unveiled" at tonyphyrillas.blogspot.com)

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Moondog Born, Tupolev Honey, Sonia Sotomayor Rising

On This Progressive Day: May 26

The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote (1868)

Russia and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state (1879)

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2 (1970)

President B. Hussein Obama nominates the hard-prog federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring soft-prog Supreme Court justice David Souter (2009)

b: Moondog (1918), János Kádár (1912); d: Theodore Morell (1948), Martin Heidegger (1976)

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5/25/14

Raging Progs H8 U.S.

When it comes to our fundamental transformation, anything goes!

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(via gocomics.com)

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Walter Duranty Born, Josip Broz Tito Born, PRC Spies on U.S.

On This Progressive Day: May 25

The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins (1936)

The first public television station in the U.S. officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston (1953)

The U.S. House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades (1999)

North Korea tests its second nuclear device and conducts several missile tests (2009)

President B. Hussein Obama sends a wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day (2009)

b: Walter Duranty (1884), Josip Broz Tito (1892), Amy Klobuchar (1960); d: Chester Bowles (1986)