Friday – January 16, 2026

National Fig Newton Day

Intl Hot & Spicy Food Day

National Religious Freedom Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1605 – Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote’ is published 
1786 – The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom
1920 – Prohibition began in the U.S. — criminals loved it!
1942 – Actress Carol Lombard dies in a plane crash
1945 – Hitler takes to his bunker — he spent 105 days there before blowing his brains out

1956 – The government of Egypt makes Islam the official state religion
1963 – The Whiskey A Go-Go opened in LA (It’s in the R&R Hall of Fame)
1973 – NBC aired the 400th and final episode of “Bonanza”
1979 – The Shah flees Iran

1991 – The Persian Gulf War begins (It would end on Feb 28th of the same year.)
1997 – Bill Cosby’s 27-yr-old son Ennis is murdered along thee highway in Los Angeles

2019 – The city of Cairo, Egypt is engulfed in a sandstorm that turned the city orange

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– TRUMP ANNOUNCED THE ‘GREAT HEALTH CARE PLAN’ – (5:14)

– PRESS SEC – IF TRUMP’S PLAN IS PUT IN PLACE, HEALTH CARE COSTS WILL GO DOWN

– THE PLAN, IN WRITING

– MORE ON THE ‘GREAT HEALTH CARE PLAN’

– PRESS SEC LEAVITT UNLEASHES ON REPORTER FOR HIS OBVIOUSLY BIASED QUESTION

– BORDER CZAR TOM HOMAN HAS SOME CHOICE WORDS FOR PHILLY’S IDIOTIC SHERIFF

– SCOTT JENNINGS ON CNN WITH MORE CLARITY ON ICE THE JOB THEY’RE TRYING TO DO

– HARRY ENTEN (A PERSON, NOT A SKIN CONDITION) AND CNN REVEL IN TRUMP’S LOW APPROVAL NUMBERS

– KAMALA HARRIS IS UPSET THAT TRUMP GAVE THAT RUDE WORKER THE FINGER

– COLBERT IS STILL RANTING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

– FOX NEWS REPORTS THE U.S. IS MOVING MILITARY ASSETS TO THE MIDDLE EAST

– SEN BLACKBURN REVEALS THE STAGGERING AMOUNT OF MONEY STOLEN FROM US BY FRAUDSTERS

– $700 MILLION OF THE STOLEN MONEY FLEW OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS

– I THINK I NEED TO SIP FROM RFK JR’s GLASS — YES, HE POSTED THIS

– WILL CAIN SHOWS THE FINANCIAL TRUTH ABOUT ILHAN OMAR’S WEALTH — IT APPEARS TO BE SUBSTANTIAL

– KEVIN HASSETT HAS MORE GOOD NEWS ON THE ECONOMY

– A GOOD REPORT CARD ON UNEMPLOYMENT FILING — ‘APPROACHING THE BEATLES ERA IN HOW LOW THEY ARE’

– BEN SHAPIRO TRIED TO GET GAVIN NEWSOM TO ANSWER — ‘CAN BOYS BECOME GIRLS???’

– TIM WALZ WANTS TO TURN DOWN THE TEMP — THE WHITE HOUSE RESPONDED

– FLASHBACK: YET ANOTHER OBAMA THE DEPORTER CLIP

WAIT, CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION, HOW DO YOU SPELL GOVERNOR???

More News From DC

– PRESIDENT TRUMP SORT OF GOT A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

– FOX NEWS CONFIRMED IT

– IS THE ‘INSURRECTION ACT’ ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED BY THE PRESIDENT? (HE WOULD BE THE 14TH PRES TO DO IT)

– MSM AIN’T COVERING THE NEWS ABOUT THE THIRD CIRCUIT’S DECISION REGARDING PRO-HAMAS ACTIVIST

– THE U.S. OPENED A GRAPHITE MINE — THE FIRST ONE WE’VE OPENED SINCE THE 1950s (suck it, China)

 — HOLD ON A SECOND — THE GUY WHO WAS SHOT IN THE LEGAL WAS AN ILLEGAL FROM VENEZUELA

General News

– MINNEAPOLIS UPDATES (LIVE) FROM NBC NEWS

– GOV WALZ KEEP DECLARING WAR ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

     – MEMBER OF THE LATIN KINGS GANG ARRESTED FOR STEALING WEAPON FROM FEDERAL VEHICLE

     – TOM HOMAN WANTS TO MAKE ARRESTED PROTESTERS FAMOUS – PUBLISH THEIR NAMES

     – MN MAN WANTS THE CITY TO SUMP SNOW TO BLOCK ICE, TICKET ICE AGENTS TO ‘MAKE IT EXPENSIVE’ FOR THEM

     – THE MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR APPEARS TO BE PIVOTING

     – OMG – IF YOU WORK FOR THE MINNEAPOLIS’ CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE – THEY’RE BRINGING IN THERAPY GOATS

– LUNATIC PROTESTERS STOP WHITE GUY WITH A BIG SUV — THEY MADE HIM PROVE HE’S NOT ICE

– FL SHERIFF GRADY JUDD SHUTS DOWN REPORTER OVER ‘ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT’ OBJECTION

– FL GOV DESANTIS WARNS PROTESTERS HARASSING TROOPERS OR ICE AGENTS, ‘THIS IS NOT MINNEAPOLIS’

– FIN TECH COMPANY OFFERS CREDIT CARD WITH 10% INTEREST

– WHO SAW THIS COMING? POINT SHAVING SCANDAL HITS COLLEGE BASKETBALL

– DON’T WORRY ABOUT JIM HARBAUGH – HE JUST SIGNED A MASSIVE, FIVE YEAR DEAL WITH THE NY GIANTS

Other News Catching My Eye

– REMEMBER ALL THE NOISE ABOUT MICROPLASTICS? (IT MAY HAVE BEEN OVERBLOWN)

– ALL SIGNS POINT TO COFFEE AS A BIT OF A MIRACLE DRINK

– WHICH COUNTRY BOASTS THE HIGEST IQ? (IT’S NOT THE U.S.)

– NEW, HIGH-RES VIDEO AND PICS OF AN ISOLATED, ‘UNCONTACTED’ TRIBE IN THE AMAZON

– CONGRATS TO CALIFORNIA, YOU OWN THE #1 SPOT ON THE GLOBE’S WORST TOURIST LOCATION