National Pasta Day!
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1835 – Texans approved the formation of the Texas Rangers (Not a baseball team.)
1931 – Al Capone found guilty of tax evasion (He was sentenced to a case of syphilis.)
1937 – Donald Duck’s nephews (Huey, Dewey & Louie) appeared in a newspaper comic
1973 – OPEC imposed an oil embargo on the U.S.
1974 – President Ford explains his pardon of Richard Nixon to Congress
1985 – Penn & Teller release hundreds of live cockroaches on David Letterman’s desk
1989 – Game three of the World Series is postponed by a 6.9 earthquake in northern California
2006 – The U.S. population hits 300mil (Last time I checked, we were sitting at 342,661,753 people.)

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– PRESIDENT TRUMP RESPONDS TO NEWS OF BOLTON INDICTMENT
– CNN’s COVERAGE OF THE BOLTON INDICTMENT WILL MAKE TRUMP HAPPY
– WATCH MSNBC’s NICOLE WALLACE REPORT THE NEWS — SHE’S VISIBLY DISTURBED BY THIS
– THE SHUTDOWN — TRUMP WANTS TO OPEN THE GOV’T, DEMS JUST WANT TO SPEND SPEND SPEND
– PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE? IT COULD HAPPEN – TRUMP ON HIS PUTIN CONVO
– THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO HAMAS IS NOT CHANGING
– CNN IS STILL GETTING THE GREEN WEENIE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP
– WAIT – ICE ARRESTED AN ILLEGAL WORKING AS AN IL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER?
– WATCH THE COVERAGE FROM REAL AMERICA’S VOICE
– VP VANCE ON THE DEMS AND THE SHUTDOWN AND WORKING ACROSS THE AISLE
– CA GOV NEWSOM SAYS TRUMP APPEARS TO BE DECLINING COGNITIVELY AND PHYSICALLY
– IL GOV PRITZKER IS ALSO DEPLOYING THE ‘TRUMP’S DECLINING COGNITIVELY’ CARD
– PRITZKER IS ALSO A SUCCESSFUL POKER PLAYER – WINNING $1.4 MIL IN VEGAS LAST YEAR
– SEN McCONNELL TAKES A PRETTY BAD FALL (WHY IS HE STILL WORKING?)
– AND, SEN McCONNELL IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING THE OLDEST MEMBER OF CONGRESS
– DEM REP ILHAN OMAR IS NOT HIDING HER LOVE FOR SOMALIA OR ITS PRESIDENT
– DR OZ TALKS ABOUT THE SURGE IN ‘TRUMP BABIES’
– GUTFELD ON ‘NO KINGS’ PROTEST – ‘IT’S VERY EXISTENCE PROVES THAT ITS NOT NECESSARY’
– KATHY GRIFFIN IS BACK AND MORE DERANGED THAN EVER BEFORE
– FLASHBACK: MARGARET THATCHER ON SOCIALISM

More News From DC
– JOHN BOLTON IS INDICTED – 18 COUNTS
– A DISTURBING ‘FIRST’ – INTEREST ON OUR DEBT IS BIGGER THAN OUR DEFENSE SPENDING
– TARIFFS DRIVE SEPTEMBER’S MASSIVE BUDGET SURPLUS
– VP VANCE TO HEADLINE A TPUSA CAMPUS EVENT
– DEMOCRATS APPEAR TO BE LINING UP TO GET RID OF FETTERMAN
– FORMER DC CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF REMINDS NANCY PELOSI OF HER JAN 6 FAILURE
– MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN FACES 10 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER CALLING FOR VIOLENCE ON ICE
– SIXTH CIRCUIT RULES IN FAVOR OF SCHOOL ON BANNING ‘LET’S GO BRANDON’ SHIRT
– HARVARD COURSE ON ‘BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICS’ OMITS ONE PARTY — WANNA GUESS WHICH ONE?

General News
– OVERREACH? MOM PLACED ON CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY FOR ALLOWING 13-YR-OLD TO BABYSIT
– ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CURIOUS TENANT STAYING IN A TISH JAMES RENTAL PROPERTY
– NYC MAYORAL DEBATE WAS LAST NIGHT – HERE ARE FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM THEHILL.COM
– DID MAMDANI VOTE FOR KAMALA??? HE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT, KINDA DODGED IT
– VA AG DEBATE HAPPENED LAST NIGHT TOO — AND THEHILL.COM WATCHED THAT ONE TOO
– BARI WEISS IS CUTTING OUT THE WOKE AT CBS NEWS
– HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE STATE TURNING DOWN YOUR AC OR HEAT? OH MAY FIND OUT
– BREWERS FAN TELLS HUBBY, ‘CALL ICE’ WHEN ARGUING WITH A DODGERS FAN
– SHE’S BEEN FIRED AND ALSO STEEPED AWAY FROM HER CHARITY WORK
– IT’S NOT A ‘FIRST CLASS’ CABIN — BUT, SOUTHWEST IS DEFINITELY UPGRADING THINGS

Other News Catching My Eye
– ACE FREHLEY, FOUNDING MEMBER OF KISS, IS DEAD AT 74
– TOP OF THE ‘THINGS I DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT’ — ROSIE’S LIST OF WORST TV SHOW GUESTS
– LUIGI MANGIONE’S COMMISSARY HAS OVER $40K IN IT, AND HIS ‘FAN MAIL’ IS STEAMY
– FL WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED — BUT, THE ACCUSER’S PIC WAS A-I
– IT TAKES A SPECIAL PERSON TO OWN A CYBER TRUCK — WIRED MAGAZINE PROFILED THEM