Thursday, December 27, 2018

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1831 – Charles Darwin’s HMS Beagle leaves Plymouth — headed to the Galapagos Islands

1932 – Radio City Music Hall opened in NYC

1945 – The World Bank was created — (Can I open a checking account there? No…here’s what the World Bank does.)

2001 – China is granted permanent, normal trade relations with the US

News and The Politics out of D.C.

PRESIDENT TRUMP PULLS OFF A SURPRISE VISIT TO THE TROOPS IN IRAQ AND GERMANY

SOLDIER TELLS PRESIDENT TRUMP, ‘I CAME BACK INTO THE MILITARY BECAUSE OF YOU’

AFTER VISITING IRAQ, PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITED A BASE IN GERMANY

AS THE PRESIDENT WAS FLYING TO IRAQ, NBC NEWS AND OTHERS WERE MOCKING HIM FOR NOT GOING

NOT TO BE OUTDONE, MSNBC PANELIST SLAMS TRUMP FOR GOING TO VISIT THE TROOPS

PRESIDENT SIGNING ‘MAGA’ HATS FOR TROOPS HAS SOME COMPLAINING AND CALLING IT AN ETHICS VIOLATION

SCHUMER AND PELOSI TWEET OUT THE SAME ANTI-TRUMP MESSAGE — WHO COPIED???

IS HILLARY HINTING? HER CHRISTMAS TWEET FEATURED A PHOTO FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

SUPERCUT: MSNBC AND THE WORST OF THE LEFT-LEANING NETWORK

IS THERE A NEW ARMS RACE COMING? RUSSIA CLAIMS ITS NEW HYPERSONIC ROCKETS CAN HIT THE US FROM ANYWHERE

General News

THE FATHER OF THE GUATEMALAN CHILD WHO DIED IN U.S. CUSTODY HAD REFUSED TREATMENT HOURS BEFORE 

WALL STREET — THE BIGGEST ONE-DAY JUMP EVER

WAS IT THE RETAIL SALES SURGE THAT CAUSED THE MARKET SPIKE?

GAS PRICES ARE LOW… BUT, FOR HOW LONG?

MERRY CHRISTMAS — THE FEDERAL DEBT IS ON THE RISE, UP $1.37 TRILLION SINCE LAST YEAR

YES, THERE IS A FLU OUTBREAK

CT PARENTS MUST HAVE THEIR CHILDREN VACCINATED AGAINST THE FLU — BY DEC 31ST

BUUUUUT, YOU GUYS…CLIMATE CHANGE — 2018, THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT VIOLENT TORNADOES

CREEPY — FORMER WALMART SANTA ARRESTED AFTER TWO BODIES OF CHILDREN FOUND IN HIS BACKYARD

THE SEX CASE AGAINST KEVIN SPACEY HAS VIDEO EVIDENCE

Strange News Catching My Eye

NO SHOCK… POPULAR CHRISTMAS GIFT IN CALIFORNIA? POT AND POT PRODUCTS

CANNABIS COURSE IS CREATING A ‘BUZZ’ ON CAMPUS

BOX OFFICE BOMB? STEVE CARELL’S ‘WELCOME TO MARWEN’ SET TO LOSE $60 MIL

COMIC ARTIE LANGE REVEALS A PHOTO OF HIS COLLAPSED NOSE FROM DECADES OF DRUG ABUSE