Warren Caught Telling Another Tall Tale About Composite Grandmother
On Friday, Breitbart News caught Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in one of her many tall tales of family lore, forcing her to walk back her September 2011 story about her maternal grandmother, Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed, through whose ancestral line she falsely claims Native American heritage. Today, we’re reporting yet another tall tale Ms. Warren told about her maternal grandmother. We look forward to seeing how Ms. Warren will walk back this most recently discovered tall tale.
As we reported on Friday:
A recently discovered video shows Elizabeth Warren telling another tall tale about her family. The day after she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston: "My grandmother drove a wagon in the land rush to settle territory out west. It was 1889, she was 15 years old…She lived to be 94, to see her youngest grandchild--that's me--graduate from college…". The only problem with this story is that it’s not true.
Warren's maternal grandmother died in 1969, the year before Warren graduated from college, and her paternal grandmother was only 2 years old in 1889.
Later that day, Ms. Warren was forced to “correct the record.” In an interview with the Boston Herald, she told a new and different story about her grandmother Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed: “My grandmother lived to know that I would graduate from college and that I had a teaching job."
Having corrected one tall tale from that September 2011 speech to the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Breitbart News would like to give Ms. Warren an opportunity to “correct the record” once more on another tall tale told that day. In the speech, she stated that her grandmother’s mother had died before the 1889 land rush story took place.
My grandmother drove a wagon in the land rush to settle Oklahoma Territory out west.. It was 1889, she was 15 years old, and she had her little brothers and sisters in the back of the wagon. Her mother had died, and her father had ridden ahead on horseback to try to find land near water. [emphasis added]
The only problem with that claim is, once more, it isn’t true.
Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, was born in Missouri in April 1860. Her father, John H. Crawford, was born in Missouri in March 1858. When Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed was born in Missouri in October, 1875, her mother “Pliny” was 15 years old, and her father John H. Crawford was 17 years old.
Shortly after Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford’s birth, the family moved to Texas, where sister Louisa was born in 1877. The family, with daughters Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford, age 5, Louisa, age 3, mother Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, age 20, and father John H. Crawford, age 23, were living in Arkansas as shown in this 1880 census document posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter. Information for the children shows that both parents were born in Missouri. (The family’s surname is spelled “Crofford” in both the 1880 census and the 1900 census, but subsequent to 910 records of the family revert to the original “Crawford” spelling. It is not unusual to see spelling variations on surnames in records during this period.)
Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, and her father, John H. Crawford (Crofford) had three children born in Oklahoma Indian Territory after 1889, as another 1900 census document from Oklahoma Indian Territory posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter shows.
Son Edie Crawford was born in 1894, son Rosco Crawford was born in 1896, and daughter Bessie Crawford was born in 1897. When Rosco Crawford died in San Joaquin County, California in 1984, the California Death Index listed his mother’s maiden name as Bowen.
Note that neither mother Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford (presumed deceased between 1897 and 1900) nor daughter Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed (married to Harry G. Reed in 1893) were living with father John H. Crawford and the younger siblings, according to the 1900 census document.
A careful viewing of the 1900 census document reveals that John H. Crawford’s marital status was listed as “Wd”—widower.
Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford’s whereabouts between the birth of her last child with John H. Crawford in Oklahoma Territory in 1897 and the 1900 census that lists her husband as a widower are unknown. Her ultimate resting place appears to be the Oakland Cemetery, 402 Cemetery St, Clarksville, Arkansas, where she was interred in January 1905. This detailed and documented genealogical study of Elizabeth Warren’s maternal side of the family listed at the North Shore Journal website states that her parents, George Washington Bowen and Bethania Clark Bowen, were living there at the time. George Washington Bowen died there in 1907, and Bethania Clark died there in 1924. Records indicate that both were buried at the Oakland Cemetery where their daughter is buried.
The burial headstone of Ms. Warren’s great-grandmother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, reads as follows:
Pliny Ann Crawford
Dau of George and Bethanie Bowen
Born April 7 1860
Died January 1905
Gone from our Home but not from our memory
The specific date of Paula (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford’s death is uncertain. Whether she was first buried in Oklahoma at the presumed time of her death between 1897 and 1900, then re-interred in the Clarksville, Arkansas cemetery in January 1905 after her widower husband John H. Crawford moved to Missouri and married Sarah E. Smith in September 1904, documented here in this marriage certificate posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter, is not known. Alternatively, she died and was buried in Clarksville, Arkansas in January 1905, having lived apart from her husband and family subsequent to 1899.
This much, however, is certain: Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, was not dead in 1889 as Ms. Warren claimed, and the three children she subsequently bore her husband John H. Crawford absolutely prove that fact.
Breitbart News has sent this information to Ms. Warren’s campaign. We will report her response when we learn of it.
Michael Patrick Leahy is a Breitbart News contributor, Editor of Broadside Books’ Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, and author of Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement.
Warren Caught Telling Another Tall Tale About Composite Grandmother
On Friday, Breitbart News caught Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in one of her many tall tales of family lore, forcing her to walk back her September 2011 story about her maternal grandmother, Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed, through whose ancestral line she falsely claims Native American heritage. Today, we’re reporting yet another tall tale Ms. Warren told about her maternal grandmother. We look forward to seeing how Ms. Warren will walk back this most recently discovered tall tale.
As we reported on Friday:
A recently discovered video shows Elizabeth Warren telling another tall tale about her family. The day after she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston: "My grandmother drove a wagon in the land rush to settle territory out west. It was 1889, she was 15 years old…She lived to be 94, to see her youngest grandchild--that's me--graduate from college…". The only problem with this story is that it’s not true.
Warren's maternal grandmother died in 1969, the year before Warren graduated from college, and her paternal grandmother was only 2 years old in 1889.
Later that day, Ms. Warren was forced to “correct the record.” In an interview with the Boston Herald, she told a new and different story about her grandmother Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed: “My grandmother lived to know that I would graduate from college and that I had a teaching job."
Having corrected one tall tale from that September 2011 speech to the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Breitbart News would like to give Ms. Warren an opportunity to “correct the record” once more on another tall tale told that day. In the speech, she stated that her grandmother’s mother had died before the 1889 land rush story took place.
My grandmother drove a wagon in the land rush to settle Oklahoma Territory out west.. It was 1889, she was 15 years old, and she had her little brothers and sisters in the back of the wagon. Her mother had died, and her father had ridden ahead on horseback to try to find land near water. [emphasis added]
The only problem with that claim is, once more, it isn’t true.
Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, was born in Missouri in April 1860. Her father, John H. Crawford, was born in Missouri in March 1858. When Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed was born in Missouri in October, 1875, her mother “Pliny” was 15 years old, and her father John H. Crawford was 17 years old.
Shortly after Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford’s birth, the family moved to Texas, where sister Louisa was born in 1877. The family, with daughters Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford, age 5, Louisa, age 3, mother Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, age 20, and father John H. Crawford, age 23, were living in Arkansas as shown in this 1880 census document posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter. Information for the children shows that both parents were born in Missouri. (The family’s surname is spelled “Crofford” in both the 1880 census and the 1900 census, but subsequent to 910 records of the family revert to the original “Crawford” spelling. It is not unusual to see spelling variations on surnames in records during this period.)
Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, and her father, John H. Crawford (Crofford) had three children born in Oklahoma Indian Territory after 1889, as another 1900 census document from Oklahoma Indian Territory posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter shows.
Son Edie Crawford was born in 1894, son Rosco Crawford was born in 1896, and daughter Bessie Crawford was born in 1897. When Rosco Crawford died in San Joaquin County, California in 1984, the California Death Index listed his mother’s maiden name as Bowen.
Note that neither mother Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford (presumed deceased between 1897 and 1900) nor daughter Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed (married to Harry G. Reed in 1893) were living with father John H. Crawford and the younger siblings, according to the 1900 census document.
A careful viewing of the 1900 census document reveals that John H. Crawford’s marital status was listed as “Wd”—widower.
Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford’s whereabouts between the birth of her last child with John H. Crawford in Oklahoma Territory in 1897 and the 1900 census that lists her husband as a widower are unknown. Her ultimate resting place appears to be the Oakland Cemetery, 402 Cemetery St, Clarksville, Arkansas, where she was interred in January 1905. This detailed and documented genealogical study of Elizabeth Warren’s maternal side of the family listed at the North Shore Journal website states that her parents, George Washington Bowen and Bethania Clark Bowen, were living there at the time. George Washington Bowen died there in 1907, and Bethania Clark died there in 1924. Records indicate that both were buried at the Oakland Cemetery where their daughter is buried.
The burial headstone of Ms. Warren’s great-grandmother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, reads as follows:
Pliny Ann Crawford
Dau of George and Bethanie Bowen
Born April 7 1860
Died January 1905
Gone from our Home but not from our memory
The specific date of Paula (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford’s death is uncertain. Whether she was first buried in Oklahoma at the presumed time of her death between 1897 and 1900, then re-interred in the Clarksville, Arkansas cemetery in January 1905 after her widower husband John H. Crawford moved to Missouri and married Sarah E. Smith in September 1904, documented here in this marriage certificate posted on the website Pollysgranddaughter, is not known. Alternatively, she died and was buried in Clarksville, Arkansas in January 1905, having lived apart from her husband and family subsequent to 1899.
This much, however, is certain: Bethanie (Hannie) Crawford Reed’s mother, Paulina (Pliny) Ann Bowen Crawford, was not dead in 1889 as Ms. Warren claimed, and the three children she subsequently bore her husband John H. Crawford absolutely prove that fact.
Breitbart News has sent this information to Ms. Warren’s campaign. We will report her response when we learn of it.
Michael Patrick Leahy is a Breitbart News contributor, Editor of Broadside Books’ Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, and author of Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement.
Parker’s Obama Ad to Air During MTV Movie Awards Tonight
President Barack Obama wants his MTV!
And he's hoping Sarah Jessica Parker will help him get it. I can exclusively reveal…That the Obama campaign will debut its first national television ad Sunday during the MTV Movie Awards.
The spot features Parker inviting Obama supporters to her house for an upcoming fundraising dinner with the president. The 'Sex and the City" star encourages people to enter a raffle to win two tickets to the shindig, cohosted by Michelle Obama and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, by donating to his reelection efforts.
Read the full article here:
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American Freedom Alliance Conference To Focus On How Global Governance Undermines National Sovereignty
Is the West’s and America’s next--and perhaps most important--ideological war between global governance and national sovereignty?
That is the provocative--and important--question that will be discussed at the “Global Governance vs. National Sovereignty” conference on June 10 and 11 in Los Angeles, California at the Intercontinental Hotel.
Avi Davis, president of the American Freedom Alliance, told Breitbart News the conference will be issuing a declaration on preserving national sovereignty that will be sent to world leaders and former world leaders, to which all of the conference’s participants have agreed upon in advance. Davis said his group has also been “working with several foreign policy advisers of the Romney campaign in an effort to feed them information about the seriousness of the global governance message” and have made efforts to reach out to the Sovereignty Caucus on Capitol Hill and to Senators such as John Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) who are concerned about the dangers of international law in undermining American sovereignty.
“We need...to expose the true motivations...of those pushing international standards in human rights, environmental regulation and the laws of war upon us,” Davis told Breitbart News. “It is not to better our lives - or anybody else's lives. It is to control us.”
Leaders such as Former Australia Prime Minister John Howard, Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus and America’s former Ambassador to the United Nations under the George W. Bush Administration, John Bolton, will deliver addresses examining “whether the forces of global governance are successfully challenging the very concept of national sovereignty in the U.S., Europe, and Israel.” The two-day conference will also focus on how the rise of transnational law at the U.S. Supreme Court, the United Nations, human rights NGOs and organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch threaten America’s national security policies and can potentially undermine American sovereignty.
“As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, an epic struggle seems to be developing between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy,” the conference’s organizers write in introduction to the conference’s agenda. “Transnationalists in the United Nations and the European Union, but more more importantly among America’s elites, are seeking to establish a ‘global rule of law’ which would make American constitutional law subservient to a global authority.”
Most importantly, the conference will seek to ask: “How can a vigorous defense of sovereign self-government be mounted so that it becomes a central issue in our foreign policy debate?”
Former Ambassador to United Nations John Bolton will keynote a speech (“What is the global governance movement and what is its agenda?”) while Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus will deliver an address on the promotion of global governance through the United Nations and global warming alarmism. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard will give a speech on why nation states still matter.
Other speakers include Davis, Breitbart News’ Stephen K. Bannon, Robert C. O’Brien, Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office of Arent Fox law firm and a regular commenter on national security issues, Roger Simon, the co-founder of Pajamas TV, and former Bush Administration Justice Department official and Berkeley law professor John Yoo, whose upcoming book, Taming Globalization, examines how “American sovereignty channels and resists efforts at global governance.”
Various breakout sessions will focus on topics such as “non-governmental organizations as purveyors of global governance,” whether Europe is a model for transnational global governance, the Green movement, Agenda 21, and global warming alarmism as fronts for global governance, and how rules governing the Internet can also be used to undermine national sovereignty.
Other breakout sessions will focus on how specific laws that purportedly deal with things such as “global warming” can be applied to undermine sovereignty. One session is titled, “Lawfar: its uses and abuses.” Other will focus on “the human rights industry and its role in undermining sovereignty,” “the demonization/diminishment of the United States and Israel as a chief global governance strategy,” and “case studies of U.S. judicial decisions which have diminished U.S. sovereignty.”
The conference will also have panels dealing with “the politicization of International Law and its impact on national sovereignty” and an important workshop on how people can “use the political process to thwart and defeat global governance activism.”
The conference’s full agenda can be seen here.
Zero Hour: Panicked European Investors Pay Germany to Take Their Money
As investors panic over the debt crisis in Greece, Italy, and Spain, Germany has emerged as a safe haven for investors--so much so that the interest rate on ten-year German government bonds dropped below zero on Friday. That means investors are so desperate for security that they are willing to accept less money at the end of ten years than they invest today; they will pay the German government to take their money.
Bloomberg News reported on June 1:
Germany's 10-year bunds, Europe's benchmark government debt securities, headed for a seventh weekly advance, driving yields to an all-time low. Austrian, Dutch and French yields also fell to records as a report confirmed euro-region manufacturing contracted in May...
The German two-year yield slid to as low as minus 0.002 percent, the first time the rate on the securities has been negative, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and was at 0.005 percent as of 9:03 a.m. London time. The price of the zero percent note due in June 2014 was at 99.99.
There is hope for Europe yet. Last week, in economically-troubled Ireland, voters voted yes--by more than a 20 percent margin--in a referendum on Europe's fiscal treaty. The vote broke a string of anti-incumbent results across Europe. The result was an immediate decline in Irish bond yields--the price, effectively, that the Irish government must pay to borrow money.
For now, Germany--which endured painful debates about pension reform and government spending a decade ago--is still the safest bet for crisis-weary investors in Europe.
Baldwin Backs Bloomberg’s Nanny State Soda Decree
Actor Alec Baldwin recently shed 30 pounds by eliminating most sugars from his diet, and now he wants to take dietary choices away from his fellow New Yorkers.
Baldwin, Emmy-winning star of the basement-rated "30 Rock" sitcom, penned an op-ed for The Huffington Post supporting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new soda size restrictions.
Food is a drug. At least in the way it is marketed today, which is significantly different from when I grew up. As a child, sweets were referred to as "treats," and were dispensed far more judiciously than they are today. The proliferation of fast food restaurants that serve high fat, high sugar meals, as well as places like Dunkin Donuts, which are simply sugar dispensaries, has evolved as well....
Many of those who cry loudest about measures like the one Bloomberg has proposed are probably sick, too: hooked on high fat, high sodium and high sugar diets who don't want their "drug" taken away. Are there people who consume these products responsibly? Of course. But that isn't the point. At least not anymore. Americans are obese, and in some areas of high concentration, morbidly obese, in numbers that are sapping the treasuries of the fifty states, undercutting U.S. competitiveness, and leaving this country vulnerable to a set of long-term health crises that we will struggle to overcome, if ever. All the while, millions will die, unnecessarily, simply because they fell victim to the marketing of unhealthy dietary choices.
Baldwin has seen the light about sugar, and now he wants the government to force the rest of us "addicts" to follow suit.
One wonders what restrictions Senator/Congressman/Governor Baldwin would place on us poor saps should he ever fulfill his promise to run for office.
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