When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.
46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.
🇺🇸 The 50 star American flag flying today was designed in 1958 by 17 year old Robert G. Heft as a high school class project.
He got a B-minus on it.
The teacher claimed the design "lacked originality" and jokingly remarked that if Heft didn't like the grade, he should get the flag accepted in Washington.
Heft called his teacher's bluff. He sent his physical prototype to his congressman, Walter Moeller, who forwarded it to the design pool.
Out of more than 1,500 submissions, President Eisenhower picked his design.
His teacher later changed his grade to an A.
Thank you, Robert! The flag is beautiful! 🇺🇸
I am proud to be teaming up with Karen Bass' brother in suing his sister for her reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes. I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn't too awks. I know ours hasn't been the same since last year...
🚨 WOW! Black contractors are FUMING at Barack Hussein Obama saying they have NOT EVEN BEEN PAID for the abomination of a "library" set to open Friday in Chicago
"You can file that with 'you can keep your doctor.'" 😭
Construction costs surged to nearly a BILLION DOLLARS
"So many of our black contractors are complaining they have not got their money. A lot of the black community and newspapers do not know."
What a disgrace!
Here’s a full at bat from Mickey Mantle during Game 3 of the 1957 world series vs the Milwaukee Braves. You won’t see this pop up very often.
Best baseball video you’ll see today
Joshua James King ( a Black man) brutally assaulted Andrea Puerta ( a white woman )who was riding Miami Public Transportation. Surveillance cameras captured the attack..
She suffered multiple injuries and was hospitalized.
King was released on $1,500 bond...
The riots tonight left Times Square looking like a total WARZONE.
Millions of dollars in property damage.
Several people injured, including officers.
Teenager shot.
All while Mamdani and Hochul were out partying
They didn’t left a FINGER to help the overwhelmed NYPD.
Shame.
On this day in 1944, the single deadliest 15 minutes in the history of tank warfare unfolded on a country road in Normandy. Here is exactly how it happened.
It is the morning of June 13. The British 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats, has pushed deep behind German lines and rolled into the town of Villers-Bocage. The advance has gone almost too smoothly. A long column of Cromwell tanks, Shermans, half-tracks, scout cars and supply vehicles is strung out nose to tail along the road and up onto the high ground at Point 213. The vanguard belongs to the 4th County of London Yeomanry, the Sharpshooters.
The crews believe the area is clear. Engines are idling, hatches are open, men are stretching their legs and brewing tea in the sun. It is the kind of relaxed pause that wins or loses wars.
Just off the road, hidden in the trees, sits a single German Tiger tank of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. Its commander is Michael Wittmann, already the most decorated tank ace alive. Through his optics he watches the entire British column lay itself out in front of him, completely exposed, with no idea he is there.
He has seconds to decide. Wait for the rest of his Tigers, or strike now while the enemy is blind. He chooses to attack immediately, and alone.
The Tiger lurches out of cover and its 88mm gun fires. The first shell smashes into a tank at the head of the stalled column and it erupts in a tower of flame, throwing burning debris across the road. Seconds later Wittmann puts a round into a vehicle at the rear. Now the column is trapped between two blazing wrecks on a narrow road, hemmed in by hedgerows, unable to advance, reverse, or turn.
Then the Tiger begins to roll down the line.
It moves almost unhurried, the long gun traversing from target to target. Every few seconds the cannon barks and another British tank brews up. Cromwells try to return fire at point blank range and watch in horror as their shells strike the Tiger's thick frontal armor and simply ricochet away. Their guns cannot penetrate it from the front at any range that matters. The crews that can bail out are diving into ditches as their vehicles cook off behind them.
Wittmann works his way through the carriers and the support vehicles too, shredding half-tracks and overrunning anti-tank guns before they can be brought to bear. Smoke blankets the road. The proud spearhead of one of Britain's best divisions is being dismantled one vehicle at a time by a single tank.
In roughly 15 minutes it is finished. A dozen or more tanks are burning, along with numerous half-tracks, carriers and guns. By any measure it is one of the most lopsided actions ever fought by a single armored vehicle.
Then Wittmann pushes his luck. He drives the Tiger into the town of Villers-Bocage itself, into a maze of narrow streets where a tank loses every advantage. A British anti-tank crew with a 6-pounder gun is waiting. They hold their fire, let the Tiger close the distance, and then put a round straight into it. The great machine grinds to a dead stop in the middle of the street.
Beaten at last, Wittmann and his crew throw open the hatches, abandon the Tiger, and escape on foot through the town, slipping away to fight again.
One tank. One column. 15 minutes. Eighty years later historians still argue over the exact number he destroyed, because the truth of what one machine did that morning is almost impossible to believe.
🚨 Rioters not only destroyed school buses in Times Square tonight — they also tried taking over a CITY BUS while the DRIVER was still in it
Broke glass, kicked the door in, and then boarded.
Their faces on camera. But they don’t care, because there will be ZERO CONSEQUENCES