Wednesday – January 29, 2020

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1802 – JOHN BECKLEY IS THE FIRST PERSON TO HOLD THE TITLE ‘LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS’

1886 – KARL BENZ GETS A PATENT FOR HIS GASOLINE-DRIVEN AUTOMOBILE

1929 – ‘THE SEEING EYE’ OPENED IN NORTH CAROLINA — THE FIRST SCHOOL TO TRAIN GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND

1936 – BASEBALL’S HALL OF FAME ELECTED ITS FIRST MEMBERS (RUTH, COBB, MATTHEWSON, JOHNSON AND WAGNER) 

1979 – PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER COMMUTES THE SENTENCE OF PATTY HEARST

2002 – IN HIS SOTU ADDRESS, PRESIDENT BUSH LABELS IRAN, IRAQ & NORTH KOREA ‘THE AXIS OF EVIL’

News and The Politics out of D.C.

MCCONNELL SAYS GOP DOESN’T YET HAVE THE VOTES TO BLOCK WITNESSES

LINDSEY GRAHAM WANTS JOHN BOLTON TO HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE INSTEAD OF TESTIFYING

DID SHE OR DIDN’T SHE? FEINSTEIN REPORTEDLY LEANING TOWARDS ACQUITTAL OF TRUMP…OR IS SHE?

RAND PAUL RIPS SCHUMER FOR HIS ‘SCURRILOUS’ SLAM TO TRUMP FAMILY

TRUMP WANTS THE FED TO CUT RATES SO WE CAN PAY DOWN / REFINANCE OUR $23 TRILLION DEBT

IS THIS THE MIDEAST PEACE SOLUTION THAT WILL WORK? TRUMP UNVEILS TWO-STATE SOLUTION

HILLARY CLINTON FEELS THE URGE AGAIN (NOT THAT URGE, BILL)

MIKE BLOOMBERG VIDEO — SHAKING A DOG’S MOUTH (WHAT? YUP.)

WATCH TULSI GABBARD IN NH… SHREDDING THE SLOPES ON HER SNOWBOARD

COULD PRO-SECOND AMENDMENT COUNTIES IN VIRGINIA SECEED AND BECOME PART OF WEST VIRGINIA?

General News

THE CORONAVIRUS IS STILL SPREADING AND CASES OUTNUMBER SARS VIRUS OUTBREAK

STANDOFF: PASSENGERS REFUSE TO BOARD PLANE WITH FLYERS FROM WUHAN

WHITE HOUSE IS CONSIDERING A BAN ON U.S. AIRLINES FLYING TO CHINA

COULD CORONAVIRUS TRIGGER A ‘GLOBAL BLACK SWAN EVENT?’

WAPO REINSTATED REPORTER WHO SMEARED KOBE BRYANT IN TWEET (SHE SLAMMED HER BOSS NEXT)

FEDS ARREST S.F. HEAD OF THE HOMELESS CLEAN UP EFFORT… CHARGED WITH PUBLIC CORRUPTION

LARGE QUAKE HITS BETWEEN CUBA AND JAMAICA — IT WAS FELT IN MIAMI

‘LOST A LITTLE BROTHER’ — SHAQ IN TEARS REMEMBERING KOBE

COLLEGE MANDATES STUDENTS INSTALL TRACKING APP TO PINPOINT THEIR LOCATION

STUDENT PROPOSED PROTECTING FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL DISCOURSE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY…

Strange News Catching My Eye

FLORIDA DAY CARE WORKED FIRED AFTER MOM FINDS NOTE WRITTEN ON HER TODDLER’S BELLY

WOMAN NEEDED SURGERY TO REMOVE A STILL VIBRATING SEX TOY FROM HER BLADDER

FLYER CLAIMS UNITED AIRLINES PULLED HER FROM FLIGHT BECAUSE OF A REVEALING SHIRT