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Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1787 – Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution
1899 – African-American Dentist George F. Grant gets U.S. patent #638,920 for the first golf tee
1901 – Marconi succeeded in transmitting radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean

1913 – The stolen “Mona Lisa” is recovered in Florence

1964 – Kenya becomes a republic
1965 – Chicago Bear Gayle Sayers scores 6 touchdowns in a single game (tying an NFL record)
1977 – ‘Saturday Night Fever’ premieres in NYC
1980 – DaVinci’s notebook sells for $5 million 
1989 – Tax cheat and NYC’s unofficial ‘Queen of Mean’ Leona Helmsley is sentenced to prison

1995 – Kamala Harris’ mentor Willie Brown becomes the first African-American mayor of San Francisco

2000 – The Supreme Court announced it’s decision in Bush v. Gore – ending legal challenges to the election

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– AT THE CONGRESSIONAL BALL, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SOME WORDS FOR DEMS

– THE PRESIDENT WAS ALSO IN A GRACIOUS MOOD, THANKING HIS WIFE AND OTHERS

– I CAN’T BELIEVE THE LEFT ISN’T SAYING TRUMP STOLE BIDEN’S IDEA FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS

– PRESS SEC LEAVITT WAS NOT PLAYING WITH CAITLIN COLLINS

     – PRESS SEC GIVES CLARITY ON TRUMP’S HEALTH

– TED LIEU ECHOS DEM’S LATEST TALKING POINT – BLOWING UP NARCO-BOATS IS A DISTRACTION BY TRUMP

– MAZIE’S STILL CRAZY — HIRONO NEVER DISAPPOINTS

– SEC NOEM TELLS DEMS TO ‘QUIT BELLYACHING’

 – DESPITE WHAT THE DEMS WERE SAYING, SEC NOEM SAYS FEMA’S RUNNING BETTER NOW

 – THIS SEEMS TO BE THE NOEM LINE THAT WAS MOST LOVED BY CONSERVATIVES

– LEFTIST NUT JOBS INTERRUPT SEC NOEM HEARING

– LaMONICA McIVER VERBALLY ATTACKS SEC NOEM DURING HOUSE HEARING

– DEM REP KENNEDY TRIED TO CORNER SEC NOEM (‘TRIED’ IS THE KEY WORD HERE)

– AFTER TWO HOURS OF TESTIMONY, SEC NOEM – HOLDING HER GRANDBABY – IS MOBBED BY CRAZED LEFTISTS

  – NY POST REPORTER BRINGS THE FACTS ON ONE OF THE ‘ICE VICTIMS’ BROUGHT UP AT HOUSE HEARING

– SEN ERIC SCHMITT HAS NO MERCY ON REPORTER ASKING A RIDICULOUS QUESTION ABOUT NARCO-BOATS

– REP BENNIE THOMPSON CALLED SHOOTING OF NATL GUARD AN ‘UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT’

– JOE BORELLI IS FOLLOWING IN SCOTT JENNINGS’ FOOTSTEPS ON CNN – FACING OFF WITH ABBY PHILLIP

– I THOUGHT GAVIN NEWSOM HATED AI VIDEOS

– DON LEMON IS STILL PLAYING RACE CARDS, ONLY IF YOU’RE MAGA

– ‘THE VIEW’ THINKS WE SEIZED THE VENEZUELAN TANKER TO DISTRACT FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES

– FROM KENNEDY CENTER RED CARPET – GENE SIMMONS IS ASKED TO RATE TRUMP’S PERFORMANCE (NEEDS A BEEP)

– FRENCH POLITICIAN IS NOT HAPPY WITH TRUMP TRASHING PARIS — BUT SHE DOESN’T DISAGREE

More News From DC

– TRUMP IS PERFECTLY WILLING TO SEIZE MORE OIL TANKERS

– IF YOU’RE NOT MAD ENOUGH ABOUT THE SOMALI FRAUD IN MN – SEE WHAT THEY SPENT YOUR MONEY ON

– DEMS HAVE FILED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT ON RFK JR

– THE LEFT IS NOT GOING TO LIKE THE TRUMP ADMIN’S NEW QUARTERS

– MTG WALKS OUT OF INTERVIEW WHEN PRESSED ON HER PAST RHETORIC

– ‘MARYLAND MAN’ ORDERED TO BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY (BY A MARYLAND JUDGE)

– ISRAEL’S ‘IRON BEAM’ LASER WEAPON LOOKS PRETTY BAD ASS

General News

TIME’S PERSON OF THE YEAR? (I get it, but would have chosen differently.)

– ‘DEAR SANTA, I JUST GOT THE MEASLES’ — WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH CAROLINA?

– INDIANA REBUFFS TRUMP’S PUSH TO GERRYMANDER THAT STATE TO HELP THE GOP IN MIDTERMS

     – PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT PLEASED ABOUT IT, VOWS PRIMARY REVENGE

– UTAH COMPANY MAKES A HUGE RARE EARTHS MINERAL DISCOVERY

– MARYLAND SCHOOL BOARD IS STILL LETTING BOYS INTO GIRLS BATHROOMS

– MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS TELLS CONSTITUENTS HE DREAMS OF VISITING SOMALIA

– CHARLIE KIRK’S ACCUSED KILLER APPEARS IN COURT — BUT, THIS WAS ABOUT ALLOWING CAMERAS IN THE TRIAL

– POLITICIZING NATIVITY SCENES CONTINUES – ZIP-TIED BABY JESUS, ROMAN SOLDIERS IN ‘ICE’ VESTS

– REMEMBER THE BUD LIGHT SCREW UP? THE FALL OUT CONTINUES AS BREWERIES CLOSE

– BABY FORMULA PROBLEM – 51 BABIES HOSPITALIZED ACROSS 19 STATES

– WOULD YOU LIKE SOME LEAD WITH YOUR CINNAMON? RECALL OF THE SPICE HITS 14 STATES

– THERE’S ONLY A 1% CHANCE IT WILL HAPPEN – JAPAN WARNS PEOPLE OF A ‘MEGAQUAKE’

– IS THIS THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN  COACHING SCANDAL?

– DISNEY INVESTS A BILLION DOLLARS INTO AI TECH COMPANY — WILL MICKEY AND MINNIE BE AI GENERATED?

Other News Catching My Eye

– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER WAYMO STORY — WOMAN GIVE BIRTH IN WAYMO RIDE

– SEATTLE IS WELCOMING THE WORLD CUP DURING PRIDE MONTH… THIS ONE MATCH SHOULD BE FUN

– JET BLUE IS OPENING UP ITS FIRST AIRPORT LOUNGE — BLUE HOUSE

– WHAT’S THE FIRST NAME THAT POPS INTO YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU THINK PIZZA? (I’LL BET IT’S NOT COSTCO)