December 17, 2025 – Wright Brothers Day
National Maple Syrup Day (suck on that, Canada)
National Device Appreciation Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1777 – France officially recognizes the United States
1892 – The first issue of ‘Vogue’ is published
1903 – The Wright Brothers decide their future is in the air and not in bicycle repair
1944 – U.S. (finally) approved ending the internment of Japanese Americans
1948 – The Smithsonian accepts the ‘Kitty Hawk’ from the Wright Brothers
1950 – 75 years ago this week, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd started exposing kids to opera (The Rabbit of Seville)
1975 – ‘Squeaky’ Fromme is sentenced to death for trying to assassinate President Ford (she was released in 2009.)
1991 – Boris Yeltsin announced the Soviet Union is going out of business on New Years Eve
2010 – Tunisian street vendor self-immolates — this was the literal flashpoint of the Arab Spring
There are some important changes coming in 2026
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA
– PRESS SEC HAS A SHORT PREVIEW OF TONIGHT’S ADDRESS
– LEAVITT FINDS SOME POSITIVE NEWS AMID YESTERDAY’S EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS
– THE VICE PRESIDENT KEEPS POINTING OUT THE LINK BETWEEN MASSIVE IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING COSTS
– JD VANCE JOINS THE PARADE SUPPORTING SUSIE WILES
– PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL NEVER FORGET TO MENTION ‘FAKE NEWS’
– 102-YR-OLD WWII VET HAS SEEN A LOT OF PRESIDENTS — HIS FAVORITE?
– DO WE REALLY THINK THAT CHUCK SCHUMER ‘STORMED’ UP TO PETE HEGSETH???
– IT ALSO SOUNDS LIKE SCHUMER IS PLANNING ON ANOTHER SHUTDOWN
– SEN JOHN FETTERMAN HAS MORE COMMON SENSE TO SHARE ON THE NARCO-TERROR BOATS
– ICYMI – HERE’S AOC’s MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND STEPHEN MILLER
– SEN TIM KAINE CALLED NARCO-TERROR DRUG BOAT ATTACK SURVIVORS ‘STRUGGLING SURVIVORS’
– SEN MARK KELLY SAYS BLOWING UP NARCO-TERROR BOATS IS NOT MAKING US SAFE, BECAUSE…COCAINE?
– BTW – SEC OF WAR WILL NOT BE RELEASING THE CLASSIFIED VIDEOS OF THE NARCO-TERRO BOAT ATTACKS
– SPEAKING OF PETE HEGSETH… MORE FROM THE SEC ON THE NARCO-TERROR BOATS
– SEC OF STATE RUBIO SUPPORTS WHAT IS BEING DONE TO END THE DRUG TRADE TO OUR COUNTRY
– SEN MARKWAYNE MULLIN REMINDS THE MEDIA THAT OBAMA WAS ATTACKING TERRORISTS TOO
– ICYMI – MARK LEVIN DECLARES TRUMP TO BE AMERICA’S ‘FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT
– DON LEMON WOULD DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING NICE MARK LEVIN WOULD SAY ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP
– MTG’s ANTI-TRUMP TIRADE CONTINUES ON CNN
– WHOOPI SLAMS TRUMP AND THEN HAS TO APOLOGIZE TO HIM MERE SECONDS LATER
– IF YOU HAVEN’T CONDEMNED TRUMP, WHOOPI IS DAMNING YOU
– WHILE WE’RE STILL TALKING ABOUT ROB REINER’S DEATH, THIS IS HOW ‘THE VIEW’ COVERED RUSH’S PASSING
– THERE IT IS – KATIE COURIC HAS ENDORSED THE DEM-APPROVED THE POTTY-MOUTHED ‘I’VE HAD IT!’ PODCAST
– MONTAGE POINTS TO A ‘TALKING POINTS’ ATTITUDE WHEN MSM COVERS TRUMP (SHARPTON SAYING ESCALATION IS $$$)
– DON JR ANNOUNCED HIS ENGAGEMENT (I HEAR THE WEDDING IS SLATED FOR MAR-A-LAGO)
H/T Jen Ohman
More News From DC
– TRUMP POSTS ‘TRUTH’ ANNOUNCING BLOCKADE OF VENEZUELA
– THE PRESIDENT DESIGNATES THE GOVT OF VENEZUELA A TERROR ORG
– BY THE WAY, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SHRINKING — SMALLEST SINCE 2014
– THE PRESIDENT IS COOL WITH SUSIE WILES SAYING HE HAS AN ‘ALCOHOLIC’S PERSONALITY’
– SEEMS LIKE THE FBI DIDN’T THINK THEY HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO SEARCH MAR-A-LAGO
– IF JD VANCE RUNS IN 2028, RUBIO WILL STEP ASIDE AND SUPPORT HIM
– AUSTRALIA’S PARLIAMENT IS COMING BACK FROM CHRISTMAS BREAK TO PLAN A GUN GRAB
– AUCTION OF THE VERY LAST U.S. PENNIES MINTED BRINGS IN MILLIONS
General News
– FBI RELEASES TIMELINE IN BROWN MASS SHOOTING
– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EMBARRASSING MOMENT FROM THE PRESS CONFERENCE
– MARK HALPERIN IS PRETTY LOCKED IN ON THEORY SAYING ELLA COOK WAS THE TARGET
– ALMOST 2000 ‘GHOST STUDENTS’ IN MN RECEIVED OVER $12 MIL
– MN GOV TIM WALZ SIGNS EXEC ORDER LIMITING AMMUNITION
– ICE PROTESTERS ARE CHAINING THEMSELVES TOGETHER AND BLOCKING BUILDINGS IN SAN FRAN
– LOOKS LIKE TEXAS MAY HAVE STOPPED THE NEW WORLD SCREWWORM AT THE BORDER
– UH-OH, BIRKIN BAG SALES ARE FALLING — IS THIS A WARNING ON THE ECONOMY?
– WOMAN HARASSED FOR WEARING A CHARLIE KIRK SHIRT WHILE WORKING AT TARGET MAY GET A NICE RETIREMENT
– HERE’S THE INCIDENT THAT TRIGGERED THE FUND RAISING
Other News Catching My Eye
– I’M THINKING… WE MAY HAVE LET BRITNEY SPEARS LOOSE ON THE WORLD A LITTLE TOO EARLY
– HOWARD STERN SIGNS NEW, THREE-YEAR DEAL WITH SIRIUS – WILL BE WORKING EVEN LESS (So, everyone wins.)
