Monday – September 16, 2019

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1620 – THE MAYFLOWER LEFT ENGLAND FOR THE ‘NEW WORLD’

1630 – BOSTON BECAME BOSTON… CHANGING ITS’ NAME FROM SHAWMUT

1908 – WILLIAM DURANT STARTS GENERAL MOTORS (Was the strike date a coincidence?)

1940 – FDR SIGNS THE LAW ESTABLISHING THE MILITARY DRAFT FOR MEN 21-36 (TWO YEARS LATER, THE AGE WAS LOWERED TO 18)

1974 – PRESIDENT FORD GRANTED CONDITIONAL AMNESTY TO VIETNAM WAR DESERTERS DRAFT EVADERS 

News and The Politics out of D.C.

‘LOCKED AND LOADED’ — PRESIDENT TRUMP SUGGESTS THERE MAY BE A MILITARY RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON THE SAUDI OIL PROCESSING CENTER

TRUMP EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE GUN CONTROL PLANS THIS WEEK…EXACTLY WHAT IT WOULD BE IS UNKNOWN

NY TIMES’ SMEAR ARTICLE ATTACKED JUSTICE KAVANAUGH — IT WAS FLAWED AND HAS BEEN CORRECTED

THE NY TIMES HAS DELETED A TWEET ABOUT BRETT KAVANAUGH’S PENIS

2020 DEMS CALL FOR JUSTICE KAVANUAGH TO BE IMPEACHED

THE PRESIDENT WEIGHS IN ON THE LATEST ATTACKS ON JUSTICE KAVANAUGH

REPORT: NK’s CHAIRMAN KIM HAS INVITED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PYONGYANG

ODD LAUGHING AND HER DEBATE PERFORMANCE ARE HURTING KAMALA HARRIS’ FUND RAISING

REP ILHAN OMAR CALLED THE ‘EXISTENCE’ OF ISRAEL’S PM NETANYAHU PROBLEMATIC, WANTS HIM OUT

TED CRUZ TO STUDENTS: ‘UNIVERSITIES ARE TRYING REALLY HARD TO RAISE A GENERATION OF PANSIES’

PROTESTER TRIED TO SHUT DOWN SEAN SPICER AT A COLLEGE, POLICE SHUT HIM DOWN INSTEAD

WHY YES, ELTON JOHN AND DONALD TRUMP ARE STILL CONNECTED

General News

DRONE ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL PRODUCTION FACILITY COULD RATTLE MARKETS

SAUDI / ARAMCO PRODUCTION MAY NOT FULLY RECOVER FOR WEEKS

ANOTHER WILD WEEKEND OF PROTESTS IN HONG KONG

48,000 AUTOWORKERS WALK OUT OF GM PLANTS

— THE PRESIDENT HAS URGED GM TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE UNION

BUMMER: RIC OCASEK OF THE CARS IS GONE AT 75

OPIOID MAKER PERDUE PHARMA FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY

REPORT: LORI LAUGHLIN IS ‘AWARE’ OF FELICITY HUFFMAN’S SENTENCE, MAY REGRET NOT TAKING A DEAL

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HONORS THEIR BULLIED FAN BY WEARING HIS T-SHIRT DESIGN

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SLAMS SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS’ ‘RADICAL INTOLERANCE OF DISAGREEMENT’

SAINTS’ QB DREW BREES GIVES US AN UPDATE ON HIS INJURED THUMB

Strange News Catching My Eye

SOLID GOLD TOILET STOLEN FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL’S BIRTHPLACE

RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE HOPES TO CREATE ‘GARDEN OF THE GODS’ COMMUNITY IN SPACE

WOMAN HAS NIGHTMARE ABOUT SWALLOWING HER ENGAGEMENT RING…WAKES TO FIND SHE DID JUST THAT