Friday – August 18, 2023

WHERE’S MIKE TODAY??? — 3-7PM ET FOR RICH ZEOLI ON WPHT – LISTEN VIA AUDACY

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1587 – Virginia Dare is born in Roanoke Island the first British child born in the “new world”

1872 – The mail order catalog is born — thank you, Montgomery Wards

1920 – The 19th Amendment is ratified 
1939 – “The Wizard of Oz” opening in NYC 
1974 – The Soviets had a soft landing on the moon with Luna 24 
(Yeah… we did that last decade, Vlad)
1988 – The GOP nominates George Bush and Dan Quayle as their ticket for the upcoming election
1991 – Soviet hardliners launch a coup against Gorbachev
2004 – It reportedly rained fish in the middle of the afternoon in Shropshire, England
2011 – Gold hit a (then) record price of 1826/oz 
(yesterday it hit 1889/oz)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

IS JOE BIDEN ‘ROBERT L PETERS?’ (WILL SOMEONE IN THE MEDIA ASK?) 

BIDEN PROBE SHIFTS TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES AS EMAILS BETWEEN HUNTER AND JOE SURFACE

FORMER DNI RATCLIFFE SAYS BIDEN DOCS ARE THE ‘SMOKING GUN AND A BLOODY KNIFE’

HOW COULD HUNTER BIDEN STAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS AND ALMOST NOBODY NOTICED?

MR PRESIDENT, ANY COMMENTS ON THE MAUI FIRES??? ‘NO, NOT NOW’ (WALKS AWAY)

IS TRUMP PLOTTING FOR COUNTER PROGRAMMING NEXT WEEK ON DEBATE DAY?

 – KARL ROVE URGES TRUMP TO JOIN THE DEBATE ON WEDNESDAY

 – AND WHAT ABOUT MONDAY’S SCHEDULED PRESS CONFERENCE??? TRUMP HAS CANCELLED IT

 – TRUMP LEGAL TEAM REQUESTS A TRIAL DATE — IN TWO AND HALF YEARS

 – BILL BARR WON’T RULE OUT VOTING FOR TRUMP, BUT ALSO SEES POSSIBLE CONVICTIONS FOR HIM

 – GOP REP (AND FORMER NFL STAR) BURGESS OWENS IS ENDORSING DONALD TRUMP

TUCKER DROPS AN INTERVIEW WITH VIVEK — 45 MINS AND 10 MIL VIEWS IN LESS THAN A DAY

FUN TO WATCH: KRISTI NOEM LIGHTS UP HILLARY CLINTON

NINTH CIRCUIT COURT CANCELS ORAL ARGUENTS IN FBI LAWSUIT, BLOCKS J6 DEFENDANT’S CHANCE TO SPEAK

IF THIS GATEWAY PUNDIT STORY IS TRUE, SOMEONE’S GOT SOME SERIOUS ‘SPLAINING TO DO

CHECK OUT THIS NEW PROTOTYPE FROM THE AIR FORCE – IS THIS THE JET OF THE FUTURE?

General News

FORMER FEMA HEAD FREAKS WHEN LEARNING HAWAII OFFICIALS WERE FOCUSED ON EQUITY AHEAD OF THE FIRES

 – CRISIS MANAGER WHO OPTED NOT TO DEPLOY THE SIRENS HAS RESIGNED

 – OFFICIAL WHO IGNORED REQUEST FOR WATER DURING FIRES WAS TALKING ABOUT ‘EQUITY’

WE HOPE YOU LOCKED IN A RATE ON YOUR HOME LOAN… NEW RATES ARE THE HIGHEST SINCE 2001

‘POOR MAN’S COCAINE’ CAPTAGON IS COMING… $3 PILL IS LIKELY HEADED HERE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

WOKE

THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS MOCKED FOR PARTNERING WITH BUD LIGHT

COLLEGE TELLS STUDENTS POLYAMORY HAS ‘BENEFITS’ — LAKE EXTRA PETS

Other News Catching My Eye

WANNA ROOT OUT DISINFORMATION??? ELON MUSK IS HIRING

CHAOS AT PROJECT VERITAS AS ALMOST ALL EMPLOYEES AT LET GO

DRIVERLESS CAR GETS STUCK IN WET CONCRETE IN SAN FRANCISCO

GREEK TENNIS STAR WANTS WOMAN REMOVED FROM STANDS FOR ‘IMITATING A BEE’