Tuesday, December 18, 2018

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1620 – The Mayflower docks at Plymouth Harbor

1777 – The United States celebrated the first national day of thanks following victory at the battle of Saratoga

1865  – Slavery is officially abolished in America following ratification of the 13th Amendment

1915 – President Woodrow Wilson married his second wife, Edith…she often sat in the Oval Office as he conducted business

2010 – Remember the ‘Arab Spring?’ — It started on this date in Tunisia

News and The Politics out of D.C.

PARTIAL GOV’T SHUTDOWN? DEAL OR NO DEAL?

COMEY LASHES OUT AGAINST GOP, TRUMP AFTER LATEST TESTIMONY TO THE HOUSE

FOLLOWING COMEY’S RANT AGAINST TRUMP AND THE GOP, SARAH SANDERS FLATTENS HIM

FLYNN TO BE SENTENCED TODAY, JUDGE ORDERED COMEY TO RELEASE MEMO BEFORE THAT HAPPENS

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ IS TAKING A FEW DAYS OFF BEFORE STARTING HER NEW JOB IN CONGRESS

MEET TWO SENATORS NAMED 2018’s ‘TOP ETHICS VIOLATORS’ (You know both of their names.)

REAL WITCHES ARE TIRED OF PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION A ‘WITCH HUNT’

ALEC BALDWIN’S ODD TWEET CLAIMING TRUMP IS ‘PUNISHMENT’ FOR SLAVERY AND SLAUGHTERING NATIVE AMERICANS

General News

DOW DROPS 500 POINTS, HITS NEGATIVE TERRITORY FOR THE YEAR

WOMEN’S MARCH GROUP DISBANDS AFTER REPORT DETAILS RAMPANT ANTI-SEMITISM

ISRAELI COMPANY SAYS THEIR CANCER TREATMENT DESTROYS TUMORS

CBS TELLS MOONVES HE WAS FIRED ‘FOR CAUSE’ AND WON’T RECEIVE HIS $120 MIL SEVERANCE


ARE FOUR DAY WORK WEEKS THE ANSWER TO ENDING STRESS AND BURNOUT?

TSA ESTIMATES A 5% INCREASE IN CHRISTMAS WEEK TRAVEL — 46 MILLION OF US WILL BE FLYING!

SNL SENDS PETE DAVIDSON AWAY TO GET HELP AFTER HIS TROUBLING INSTAGRAM POST

THE SUPERBOWL IS HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING A MUSICAL ACT FOR THE UPCOMING BIG GAME HALFTIME SHOW

GROWN-UPS HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING TO SLEEP? THERE’S AN APP THAT TELLS YOU BEDTIME STORIES

Strange News Catching My Eye


POPE WARNS AMERICAN POP STAR NOT TO BE TOO SEXY DURING A VATICAN PERFORMANCE

AFTER TICKETING A TEEN DRIVER OVER 100 MPH, OFFICER PENS AN EMOTIONAL PLEA TO ALL SPEEDERS

‘HAVING A VAGINA DOES NOT MAKE ME A WOMAN’ — SAYS THE FIRST TRANSGENDER MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANT

OPINION: MATT WALSH POINTS OUT THE LEFT’S HYPOCRISY ON THE TRANSGENDER MISS UNIVERSE STORY

NOT EXACTLY NEW INFO — WOODY ALLEN WAS CREEPING ON TEEN GIRLS IN THE 70S (Does anyone remember “Manhattan?”)THE NEW

LINCOLN CONTINENTAL IS BRINGING BACK ‘SUICIDE DOORS’

JUDGE SENTENCED DEER POACHER TO WATCH DISNEY’S ‘BAMBI’ EVERY MONTH WHILE HE IS INCARCERATED