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Quote of the Month
Impeachment is not a
remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued
presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
~Charles Ruff
News of the Month
After being sidelined for two months while the Intelligence Committee assembled
a case that the president pressured Ukraine to help him in the 2020 election,
the Judiciary Committee is poised to retake the national stage this week to
swiftly draft and debate articles of impeachment and almost certainly vote to
make Mr. Trump only the third president in history to be impeached.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have conspicuously avoided
locking in a timeline for the inquiry, but privately they are said to be aiming
for a full House vote on impeachment articles before the Christmas recess,
barring unexpected developments. That would leave the Judiciary Committee with
as little as two weeks to do its work.
The
first milestone will come in the form of a written report from the Intelligence
Committee, which is to be made available to members on 12/2 in advance of its
approval on Tuesday. The handoff of the report, which will most likely form much
of the basis for articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump, will be a stylistic
and substantive turning point for the inquiry that will almost certainly inflame
a debate that has already roiled Congress and divided the country.
Large, disorderly and stacked with some of Congress’s most outspoken
progressives and conservatives, the Judiciary Committee is the polar opposite of
the small and staid Intelligence Committee, where rules drafted to facilitate
the handling of government secrets allowed Democrats to tightly control every
aspect of the impeachment inquiry. The Judiciary rules, instead, are
fundamentally democratic, designed to provide wide latitude for divisive debates
over the nation’s most pressing policy issues, many of the them cultural
hot-buttons that fuel each party’s activist base. Barring some momentous new
evidence, not a single lawmaker on either side is expected to budge.
And
while the Intelligence Committee conducted much of its investigative work behind
closed doors, the Judiciary Committee will work entirely in the public glare.
House rules dictate that the panel will give Mr. Trump and his lawyers a role in
the proceedings for the first time, allowing them to cross-examine witnesses,
suggest others for testimony and possibly present the president’s defense case
at a hearing all its own.
Articles of impeachment themselves will be drafted in private, but debated,
edited and amended out in the open - a process that could take two to three days
of public work. Privately, Democrats believe they could end up with three to
four articles of impeachment: one or two focused on the president’s alleged
abuse of power related to Ukraine, another chronicling his obstruction of
congressional requests for witnesses and documents, and potentially an article
focused on findings by Mr. Mueller charging Mr. Trump with obstructing justice
when he tried to thwart the Russia investigation.
Then and Now
12/01/1824 - The
presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives when a
deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford
and Henry Clay. Adams was the winner.
12/01/1830 -
French novelist Victor Hugo was supposed to turn in a draft of his book The
Hunchback of Notre Dame. The deadline was extended several times before
the book was published in 1831.
12/01/1913 - The
first drive-in automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
12/01/1955 - Rosa
Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a
Montgomery city bus.
12/01/1969 - The
US government held its first draft lottery since WWII.
12/01/2019 -
World AIDS Day
12/01/2019 -
First Sunday of Advent – Christian
12/02/1804 -
Napoleon was crowned emperor of France.
12/02/1823 -
President Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the
Western Hemisphere.
12/02/1859 -
Militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the
previous October.
12/02/1942 - A
self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated for the first time at
the University of Chicago.
12/02/2019 -
Cyber Monday
12/03/1947 -
Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway.
12/03/1967 -
Doctors performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa.
12/04/1783 -
General George Washington said farewell to his officers at Frances Tavern in NY.
12/04/1945 - The
Senate approved US participation in the United Nations.
12/05/1933 -
Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st
Amendment to the Constitution which repealed the 18th Amendment.
12/05/2003 - The
last Amy Glenn Show after 10 years on the air. I still miss you guys!
12/06/1790 - The
US Congress moved from NY to Philadelphia.
12/06/1889 -
Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of
America, died in New Orleans.
12/06/1923 -
Radio broadcast a presidential address for the first time as President Coolidge
spoke to a joint session of Congress.
12/06/1933 -
After being banned in the US and England on its publication in 1922, James
Joyce's Ulysses was ruled not obscene by a federal judge.
12/06/1947 -
President Truman dedicated Everglades National Park in Florida.
12/07/1941 -
Japanese forces attacked American and British territories in the Pacific,
including the home base of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
12/07/1972 -
America's last moon mission to date launched as Apollo 17 blasted off
from Cape Canaveral.
12/07/2019 -
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
12/08/1941 - The
US Congress declared war on Japan.
12/08/1980 - A
deranged fan shot and killed John Lennon outside his NYC apartment building.
12/08/2019 -
Feast of the Immaculate Conception – Christian
12/09/1608 -
English poet John Milton was born in London.
12/09/1854 -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade was published in
England.
12/09/1907 -
Christmas seals went on sale for the first time at the Wilmington DE post
office. Proceeds went to fight tuberculosis.
12/10/1830 - Poet
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst MA.
12/10/1520 -
Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face
excommunication.
12/10/1906 -
Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for
helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
12/10/1931 - Jane
Addams became the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was a
co-recipient.
12/10/1938 - The
movie Gone With the Wind began filming in Hollywood, and dozens of
back-lot sets were set on fire for the burning of Atlanta' scene, including
those huge wooden gates from King Kong.
12/10/1950 -
Ralph J. Bunche became the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
12/10/1953 - The
first issue of Playboy Magazine went on sale. It featured the famous nude
calendar of Marilyn Monroe. What it didn't have was an issue date since Heffner
wasn't sure he'd ever have a reason to print a second issue.
12/10/1958 - The
first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the US as a National Airlines
Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers and 7 crew members from NYC to Miami in about 2
1/2 hours.
12/10/1964 - The
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.
12/10/1967 - Otis
Redding, 26-year-old R&B legend, died in a plane crash near Madison WI.
12/10/2019 -
Ganga-Bois – Voudon
12/11/1872 -
America's first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
became acting governor of Louisiana.
12/11/1936 -
Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American
divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
12/11/1941 -
Germany and Italy declared war on the US. The US said "right back at you!"
12/11/1961 - The
first American military support for South Vietnam's battle against Communist
guerrillas arrived in Saigon.
12/12/1870 -
Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker sworn into the
US House of Representatives.
12/12/1897 -
The Katzenjammer Kids, the pioneering comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks,
made its debut in the New York Journal.
12/12/1917 -
Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska.
12/12/1925 - The
first motel, the Motel Inn, opened in San Luis Obispo CA.
12/12/2000 - A
divided US Supreme Court reversed a state court decision in Florida's contested
presidential election, making George W. Bush the president.
12/12/2019 - Agou-Arroyo
(Manga la mer) through the 14th – Voudon
12/13/1577 - Sir
Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year journey
that would take him around the world.
12/13/1918 -
President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first chief executive to visit
Europe while in office.
12/13/2000 -
Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency a day after the US Supreme
Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al
Gore conceded and delivered a call for national unity.
12/13/2003 -
Saddam Hussein was captured hiding in a small cellar in Tikrit.
12/14/1799 -
George Washington died at his Mt. Vernon home at the age of 67.
12/14/1981 -
Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
12/15/1791 - The
Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification by Virginia.
12/15/1890 -
Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed in Grand River SD.
12/15/2019 - Bill
of Rights Day
12/16/1773 - The
Boston Tea Party took place in protest over British taxes.
12/17/1830 -
South American patriot Simon Bolivar died in Columbia.
12/17/1903 -
Wilbur and Orville Write of Dayton OH went on the first successful
manned-powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk NC, using their experimental
craft, the Wright Flyer.
12/17/1957 - The
US successfully tested the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for
the first time.
12/17/1989 -
The Simpsons debuted on Fox.
12/17/2001 - US
Marines raised the Stars and Stripes over the long-abandoned American Embassy in
Kabul, Afghanistan.
12/17/2019 -
Wright Brothers Day
12/17/2019 -
Saturnalia begins and runs through the Winter Solstice
12/18/1865 - The
13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, took effect.
12/18/1892 -
Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite publicly premiered in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
12/18/1944 - In a
pair of rulings, the Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of
Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese
ancestry could not be detained.
12/18/1992 - Kim
Young-sam became South Korea's first civilian president in three decades.
12/19/1732 -
Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard's Almanack.
12/19/1843 - A
Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.
12/19/1984 -
Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on
July 1, 1997.
12/19/1998 - The
Republican-controlled House impeached President Bill Clinton, later acquitted by
the Senate, for perjury and obstruction of justice.
12/20/1803 - The
Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was
transferred from France to the US during ceremonies in New Orleans.
12/20/1860 -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
12/20/1989 - The
US launched Operation Just Cause, sending troops into Panama to topple
the government of General Manuel Noriega.
12/21/1620 - The
first of the Mayflower pilgrims came ashore at Plymouth Rock, in
present-day Plymouth MA. Although historians are certain that the Pilgrims set
foot in the New World on the 26th, not the 21st, no one bothered to set an exact
date for the celebration of the event until 275 years later, by which time the
original date had been obscured.
12/21/1898 -
Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the radioactive element radium.
12/21/1913 - The
first crossword puzzle was published in the New York World.
12/21/1968 -
Frank Bormann, James Lovell Jr. and William Anders became the first astronauts
to orbit the moon, completing 10 orbits in Apollo 8.
12/21/2019 -
First day of Winter
12/21/2019 -
Yule/Winter Solstice – Wicca, Celtic
12/22/1989 - A
popular uprising toppled from power Romanian President Nocolae Ceausescu, the
last of Eastern Europe's hard-line Communist rulers.
12/22/2019 -
Chanukah begins at sunset and ends on the 30th at nightfall – Judaism
12/23/1823 -
Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas was first published.
12/23/2001 -
Israel barred Yasser Arafat from making his annual Christmas Eve visit to
Bethlehem.
12/23/2019 -
Festivus
12/24/1524 -
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, who had discovered a sea route around Africa
to India, died in Cochin, India.
12/24/1851 - Fire
devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, destroying about 35,000
volumes.
12/24/1865 -
Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski
TN called the Ku Klux Klan.
12/24/1961 -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight became the first African song to hit #1 on the
American Pop chart. The Tokens performed the American version of Wimoweh.
12/24/2019 -
Christmas Eve – Christian
12/25/2019 - Bain
de Noël (Frotte feuilles) or Fete des Membres – Voudon
12/25/2019 -
Christmas Day – Christian
12/26/1606 -
Shakespeare's play King Lear was performed for the first time at the
court of King James I.
12/26/1893 -
Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was born in Hunan province.
12/26/1941 -
Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint
meeting of the US Congress.
12/26/1944 -
Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie was first performed publicly
at the Civic Theater in Chicago.
12/26/2019 - St.
Stephen’s Day – Christian
12/26/2019 -
Kwanzaa begins and runs through January 1st. Each of the seven nights of Kwanzaa
emphasizes one of seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work
and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
12/27/1831 -
Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS
Beagle. His discoveries during the trip helped to form the basis of his
theories on evolution.
12/27/1900 -
Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of
a bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita KN.
12/27/1904 -
James Barrie's play Peter Pan opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in
London. The play was written in the same year as its production. None of
Barrie's other plays would ever enjoy as much success as this one.
12/27/1932 -
Radio City Music Hall opened in NYC.
12/27/1947 -
Howdy Doody debuted on NBC.
12/27/1985 -
American naturalist Dian Fossey was murdered at a research station in Rwanda.
12/28/1897 -
Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premiered in Paris.
12/28/1945 -
Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. It did not include the
words "under God."
12/29/1845 - The
Union admitted Texas as the 28th state.
12/29/1851 - The
first American YMCA was organized in Boston.
12/29/1890 - The
Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota when US troops, sent to disarm
them, killed over 300 Sioux.
12/30/1922 -
Vladimir Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics.
12/30/1993 -
Israel and the Vatican agreed to recognize each other.
12/31/1946 -
President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in WWII.
12/31/1974 -
Private US citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more
than 40 years.
12/31/1974 -
Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle went gold.
12/31/2019 -
Omisoka – Shinto
12/31/2019 - New
Year's Eve
Online Resource Links
What ISIS Really Wants: The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths.
It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is
a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy
and for how to stop it |
ISIS
Claims Responsibility, Calling Paris Attacks First of the Storm |
Syria Iraq: The Islamic State Militant Group
| Isis:
The Inside Story |
Frontline: The Rise of ISIS |
Council on Foreign Relations: A Primer on ISIS Iraq
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Cracks in ISIS Are Becoming More Clear
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How ISIS’ Attacks Harm the Middle East
What it’s like to live on $2 a day in the United States (PDF)
Check out
Today's Front Pages. Each day, you can see the front pages of more than 800
newspapers from around the world in their original, unedited form.
Whether or not you noticed, the earth's population passed 7 billion a while back.
You might enjoy NPR's wonderful video,
Visualizing How a Population Grows to 7 Billion.
Check out the St. Louis Fed's presentation
The Financial Crisis: What Happened?. The original video is no longer available
but you can view the power point presentation.
Want to take a survey but not sure how many responses to collect? This
Survey Calculator gives you the number for any given population size and desired
confidence level. A reverse calculator lets you enter characteristics of an existing
survey and gives the confidence interval (±X%) to apply to the results. The Survey
System site, sponsored by a survey software company, also gives clear explanations
of statistical significance, survey design and related concepts. Also check out
20 Questions a Journalist (and You, too!) Should Ask About Poll Results.
PBS's
30 Second Candidate allows you to view more political ads than you ever knew
existed. Choose the Historical Timeline link to see how political ads have changed
over the years. Start with the infamous
Daisy Ad that Lyndon Johnson used against Barry Goldwater. Click on Watch
Johnson ads. Then click on either the QuickTime link or the Real Video link
next to Daisy.
Check out
Political Compass. The site does a good job of explaining political ideologies
(although with definitions different from those I use) and gives you a chance to
discover your own political philosophy.
Law Library of Congress: North Korea: Collection of links to websites on North
Korean government, politics and law. Includes legal guides, country studies and
links to constitutions and branches of government (where available).
Council on Foreign Relations: North Korea: Background, articles and opinion
pieces about North Korea government and politics. Many of the articles focus on
North Korea's nuclear program. From the Council on Foreign Relations, "an independent
membership organization and a nonpartisan think tank and publisher."
State of the Union (SOTU): The site uses an interactive timeline to provide
a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses
by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word
occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of
SOTU addresses." The Appendices section describes the statistical methods
used. Also includes the full text of addresses.
Small Town Papers: This site provides access
to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout
the United States. Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication.
The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos and advertisements),
which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access
to the archives requires free registration.
This website serves as a centralized location to learn about the
Congressional Research Service and search for CRS
reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress. (CRS Reports
do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.) Features a
searchable database with more than 8,000 reports, a list of recently released reports,
other collections of CRS reports and a FAQ about CRS.
Stem Cell Research: See the official NIH resource for
Stem Cell Research. In 2005, NOVA aired an overview of
The Stem Cell Issue.
Instances of the Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its
armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or
for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older
lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past US military ventures
abroad, without reference to the magnitude of the given instance noted.
Government
Product Recalls
Homeland Security Knowledge
Base
If you're worried about retirement, try some of the following sites.
IRS Tax Information for Retirement Plans
Social Security Retirement Planner
Retirement Planning Resources from Smart Money
Keeping the Shi'ites Straight Based on the opinion
that no story has been more confusing for the Western news media to cover in postwar
Iraq than the politics of the country's Shi'ite majority, this article provides
a basic outline of Shi'ite religious history. Discusses the Sadr family (Muhammad
Baqir as-Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, and Muqtada as-Sadr), Muhammad
Baqir al-Hakim and other figures.
This commercial site presents brief information about dozens of
Black Inventors from the United States. Some entries
include portraits and images. Also includes a searchable timeline covering 1721-1988.
Does not include bibliographic information.
Annenberg Political Fact Check: This site describes
itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit, consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce
the level of deception and confusion in US politics. The site provides original
articles, with summaries and sources, analyzing factual accuracy in TV ads, debates,
speeches, interviews and news releases. Searchable. From the Annenberg Public Policy
Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
White House Tapes: The President Calling: Three
of America's most compelling presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- bugged
their White House offices and tapped their telephones. In this documentary project,
American Radio Works eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each
man used one-on-one politics to shape history. Includes audio, a transcript of the
documentary and background information on each president and the tapes.
The State of State and Local Finances: New studies afford a state-by-state
or city-by-city analysis of fiscal well being.
The Year of Living Dangerously: While leaders in a growing number of states
appear to believe they're serving the public good by squeezing government dry, there's
little question that minimizing management carries a host of dangers that directly
affect the lives of citizens.
Government Debt by Country Map: Shows countries' general government gross
debt as a percentage of GDP in 2012.
First Amendment Library: Provides info on Supreme
Court First Amendment jurisprudence, including rulings, arguments, briefs,
historical material, commentary and press coverage.
Community Service
If you need a presentation or workshop for your group,
use this
Community link
or the link at the top of the page.
The link will take you to a list of the topics I currently have available.
To schedule a date or for more information, feel free to contact me at
dramyglenn@gmail.com
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