1492 – Crewman on Pinta sights “land”-a few weeks early. Wanting something really bad isn’t the same as having it.

1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights were ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution. Does anyone really think that the government goes out of its way to follow the Constitution?

1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible. Anybody who’s done his first flight under a hood knows what a feat this is. I do.

1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. The name translates in Hebrew to “targets”.

1990 – Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience. In 2003, America’s Left, with the complicity of the mainstream media, does its darnedest to relive its happy days in the seventies.