THURSDAY – FEBRUARY 23, 2023

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1861 – President-Elect Lincoln arrives in Washington, DC in secret

1896 – The Tootsie Roll is introduced in NYC by Leo HIrschfield (Named for his 5yr-old daughter)

1921 – Air mail plane makes it from San Francisco to New York in a record-setting 33hr, 20mins

1940 – Woodie Guthrie writes “This Land In Your Land”

1945 – Marines plant the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima

1954 – Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine is given to children for the first time

1978 – It’s a tie at the Grammys — Best Song of the Year — Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” and Streisand’s “Evergreen” from “A Star Is Born”  (And yet, somehow, America survived the wimpiness.)

1991 – French forces cross into Iraqi from Saudi Arabia, unofficially starting the Gulf War

News and The Politics out of D.C.

OMG – TOM ELLIOTT’S SUPERCUT OF THE MSM ELEVATING BIDEN TO SUPERHERO STATUS OVER UKRAINE TRIP

IS POLITICO REPORTING ON BIDEN MAYBE NOT RUNNING AGAIN OR TELLING HIM NOT TO RUN?

JOE MANCHIN WILL NOT BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024

TIM SCOTT MAKES A STOP IN IOWA AND MAY BE ANNOUNCING A 2024 RUN AS WELL

 MSNBC’S ANDREA MITCHELL KINDA, SORTA RETRACTS HER ‘IMPRECISE’ LANGUAGE TARGETING DeSANTIS

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WANTS DETAILS ON WHERE ARE MONEY WENT TO IN UKRAINE

SPEAKER McCARTHY BREAKS SILENCE ON TURNING OVER J6 VIDEO TO TUCKER CARLSON

    EVERYBODY ON ‘THE VIEW’ IS PISSED TUCKER CARLSON HAS THE J6 TAPES

‘YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN’ – DONALD TRUMP TRAVELS TO EAST PALESTINE

    TRUMP DELIVERS TO EAST PALESTINE

AND SO IT BEGINS, IVANKA AND JARROD KUSHNER ARE SUBPOENAED

GRAND JURY FOREWOMAN’S STATEMENTS MAY HAVE RUINED CASE AGAINST TRUMP IN GEORGIA

TULSI GABBARD VISITS EAST PALESTINE TOO

IRAQ TO DUMP THE DOLLAR IN TRADES WITH CHINA (CHINA IS WORKING TO DO THIS AROUND THE WORLD)

PENTAGON RELEASES A ‘PILOT / SPY BALLOON SELFIE’

THIS MAY BE THE WEIRDEST SUICIDE TIED TO THE CLINTONS… AND THE DEAD MAY HAS AN EPSTEIN CONNECTION

BUSTED! FORMER BIDEN OFFICIAL CAUGHT WEARING CUSTOM DESIGNER DRESS FROM STOLEN LUGGAGE

HUNTER BIDEN’S FORMER ASSOCIATE EXPECTED TO TURN OVER DOCUMENTS TO HOUSE COMMITTEE

General News

TV REPORTER, 9-YR-OLD GIRL SHOT AND KILLED IN FLORIDA

9/11 LAWYER WARNS OF AN ‘EXPLOSION OF CANCERS’ AFTER TOXIC RAIL SPILL IN OHIO

SUPERMARKET PULLS WATER FROM EAST PALESTINE

NY TIMES HAS A ‘WELCOME TO THE PARTY PAL’ MOMENT ON MASKS NOT WORKING (h/t Rich Zeoli)

MISSOURI AG GIVES ST LOUIS PROSECUTOR UNTIL NOON TO RESIGN OR ELSE

WOKE

STUDY FINDS WOKE PEOPLE ARE NOT SMART (YOU KNEW THAT…BECAUSE YOU ARE SMART)

WATCH: 1970s RADICAL BLACK ACTIVIST LEARNS SHE’S DESCENDED FROM A MAYFLOWER PASSENGER

TEXAS A&M REVEALS THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS

ANOTHER ‘TOMBOY’ REGRETS TRANSITIONING… “THREE THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE CUTTING OFF MY BREASTS”

Other News Catching My Eye

DON LEMON SURVIVED CNN’s RE-EDUCATION CAMP, RETURNS TO AIR, STILL W/O APOLOGY TO NIKKI HALEY

THAT TIME WHEN RAQUEL WELCH SAID MAE WEST WAS A MAN IN DRAG

THREE REASONS HOW THE WORLD’S LONGEST LIVING PERSON MADE IT TO 122

PAY-PER-CHEW? RESTAURANTS ARE TESTING MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS