Friday – July 11, 2025

National French Fries Day  (Which fast food outlet makes the best fries?)

– National Blueberry Muffin Day

– National Moito Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1792 – The first issue of The Farmer’s Almanac was published
1804 – Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut with the Boston Red Sox
1950 – The world population is 2.5 billion
 (it’s likely over 8 billion today)
1960 – Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is published
1972 – Honda introduces the CIVIC – an answer to the rising cost of gas
1979 – Skylab came crashing down 
(nobody was hit)

1995 – President Bill Clinton establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam
2020 – COVID: Carnival Cruise Lines sells or scraps 13 ships due to drop in business

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO IS PAYING FOR THE WEAPONS WE’RE SENDING TO UKRAINE

– SCHUMER IS HAVING TROUBLE WITH QUESTION ABOUT MAMDANI

– DERSHOWITZ SAYS HE KNOWS EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS ARE BEING SUPPRESSED

– TOM HOMAN WANTS DISTRICT COURTS TO KNOW THAT ICE IS NOT STOPPING

– SEC DEF ANNOUNCES NEW  PUSH FOR AMERICAN-MADE MILITARY DRONES

– SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY WITH SOME CLASSIC TAKES ON JAMES COMEY AND JOHN BRENNAN

– JASMINE CROCKETT HAD NO CONCERNS ABOUT BIDEN’S BRAIN — TRUMP IS HER PROBLEM

– MIKE PENCE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT TRUMP’S TARIFFS (DOES ANYONE CARE?)

– DNC CHAIR WON’T CONDEMN MAMDANI’S PUSH TO ‘GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA’

– VIDEO SHOWS PROTESTER FIRING ‘SOME KIND OF GUN’ AT ICE AGENTS IN CALIFORNIA RAID

     – WATCH PROTESTERS ‘ATTACKING’ ICE VEHICLES AT THE SAME RAID

– 90 SECOND MONTAGE OF DEMS DEMONIZING ICE AGENTS – COMPARING THEM TO GESTAPO, TERRORISTS

– GLENN BECK’S FIVE MINUTE INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN ABOUT EPSTEIN

More News Out of DC

– MTG INTRODUCES ‘NO TAX ON HOME SALES ACT’

– FOUR REPUBLICANS APPEAR TO HOLDING UP $9B IN RECISSIONS

– SEC OF STATE RUBIO IS SHRINKING THE STATE DEPT IN A BIG WAY

– SEN FETTERMAN PRAISES ICE AND STANDS AGAINST THOSE WOULD DEFUND IT

– JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S ORDER ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP – GRANTS ‘CLASS ACTION’ STATUS

– TRANSPORTATION SEC DUFFY’S DUTIES WILL NOW INCLUDE SPACE TRANSPORTATION

– THE WSJ DIGS IN ON THE EPSTEIN STORY — WAS THERE A THREAT TO EXPOSE BILL GATES’ AFFAIR?

     – ALSO THE JOURNAL: EPSTEIN’S INNER CIRCLE

– CONGRATS TO YOU CANADA – PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PUT A 35% TARIFF ON YOU

General News

– LARGEST TEACHER’S UNION NEEDS SOME TUTORING IN SPELLING (CAN’T SPELL FASCISM)

– VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN ON DEMS’ PICK TO BE THE NEXT NYC MAYOR

– WILL COMMUNITIES LIKE ‘THE VILLAGES’ BE THE ANSWER TO SAVING BREASTRAUNTS LIKE HOOTERS?

– WAS WAS MONEY FALLING FROM THE SKIES OVER MICHIGAN? IT WAS A DYING MAN’S FINAL WISH

Other News Catching My Eye

– THE ORIGINAL ‘BIRKIN’ BAG SELLS FOR $10 MIL AT AUCTION

– YES, THERE IS NOW A ‘TYPE 1 DIABETES BARBIE’ (WITH A GLUCOSE MONITOR!)

– BILLIONAIRE BILL ACKMAN PLAYED IN A PRO TENNIS TOURNAMENT – IT WAS NOT PRETTY

– OOF! LAPD TRIED TO ‘PIT’ A MB G-WAGON — IT ENDED BADLY FOR THE POLICE