Friday – September 20, 2019

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1881 – CHESTER A. ARTHUR IS SWORN IN AS OUR 21ST PRESIDENT FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD WHO DIED FROM INJURIES AFTER AN ASSASSIN SHOT HIM EARLIER IN THE YEAR (BY THE WAY, ARTHUR WAS THE THIRD PRESIDENT TO LEAD THE COUNTRY IN 1881 — PRESIDENT HAYES FINISHED HIS TERM, GARFIELD WAS SWORN IN AND MET AN UNTIMELY DEATH, FOLLOWED BY ARTHUR.)

1952 – SCIENTISTS CONFIRM OUR DNA HOLDS HEREDITARY INFORMATION

1973 – BILLIE JEAN KING BEATS BOBBY RIGGS IN THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES TENNIS MATCH1998 – CAL RIPKEN JR SAT OUT A GAME…AFTER 2,632 CONSECUTIVE GAMES

2001 – PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH ADDRESSED A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS AND DECLARED THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’

News and The Politics out of D.C.

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS CALIFORNIA LAW THAT WOULD FORCE TRUMP TO REVEAL HIS TAXES

IS THERE ANY ‘THERE, THERE’ ON THE WHITE HOUSE WHISTLEBLOWER STORY?

DEMS ARE TRYING TO FORCE TRUMP’S HAND ON WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGATION

PRESIDENT TRUMP MEETS WITH MARK ZUCKERBERG IN THE WHITE HOUSE

WHY YES, DONALD TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING IS AHEAD OF OBAMA’S AT THE SAME POINT IN HIS 1ST TERM

PELOSI UNLOADS ON ‘THE NADLER’ – TELLS HIM TO DROP THE ‘MOBY DICK’ LIKE IMPEACHMENT OBSESSION

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON WANTS VOTERS TO FORGET ABOUT ‘DATA’…’THINK WITH YOUR HEARTS’ 

GOP SENATOR THANKS BETO FOR HIS HONESTY ABOUT GUN CONFISCATION

COMIC BILLY CRYSTAL SLAMS DEBLASIO’S CAMPAIGN, ‘COME BACK, CLEAN UP THIS CITY’

‘TREAT WEALTH LIKE WAGES’ — THIS SENATE PROPOSAL SHOULD SCARE YOU

General News

EAST TEXAS HIT BY LIFE-THREATENING RAINFALL FROM TROPICAL STORM IMELDA

FIREARMS MAKER COLT IS SUSPENDING PRODUCTION OF ITS AR-15…BUT, IT’S A MARKET BASED DECISION

TRUDEAU’S CACHE OF BLACKFACE PICS IS INCREASING

WAR ON GUNS: INSTAGRAM BANS PICS OF PEOPLE AT GUN RANGES…CLAIMS THESE PICS PROMOTE VIOLENCE

FIRED SNL CAST MEMBER IS BACK ON STAND UP TRAIL — AND HIS TRUMP JOKE SHOCKED SOME

HAPPY ‘CLIMATE STRIKE’ DAY (OR WEEK) — HERE ARE THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO CLIMATE STRIKERS

Strange News Catching My Eye

AREA 51 IS PREPPED AND READY THIS WEEKEND’S ‘INVASION’

OHIO MAN GOES TO ER FOR BUG BITE…GETS A CANCER DIAGNOSIS, JUST IN TIME

CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR BREAKFAST IS GOOD FOR YOU

DENNIS RODMAN CLAIMS MADONNA OFFERED HIM $20 MILLION IF HE WOULD DO THIS TO HER

ARE YOU A ‘SAPIOSEXUAL?’   MUSIC PRODUCER MARK RONSON CLAIMS HE IS ONE

KID DRAWS ALL OVER DAD’S PASSPORT — DAD GETS STUCK IN SOUTH KOREA