Monday – January 5, 2026

The Podcast Is Back for 2026!

National Whipped Cream Day (Cool Whip, while delicious, does not qualify.)

– Twelfth Night

– National Screenwriters Day

– National Keto Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1889 – The word ‘hamburger’ appeared in print for the first time in a Walla Walla Newspaper
1914 – Henry Ford sets a $5/day minimum wage for his employees
1920 – The NY Yankees announced they have purchased Babe Ruth’s contract
1925 – Wyoming swears in Nellie Ross as the first female governor

1933 – Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge (Finished in April ’37, opened to YOU in May.)
1949 – President Harry Truman calls his administration the ‘Fair Deal’
1952 – Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washing to meet with President Truman
1961 – ‘Mr. Ed’ debuts — “A horse is horse of course of course….”

1972 – President Nixon announced the launch of the Space Shuttle program

1980 – Sugar Hill Gang ‘Rapper’s Delight’ is the first hip-hop hit song (Bret Baier took note.)
1998 – Sonny Bono died in a snow skiing accident in Lake Tahoe

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– FROM SATURDAY’S MAR-A-LAGO PRESSER

 – THERE WERE SOME GLOWING WORDS FROM THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THE U.S. MILITARY

– PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS WE’RE GOING TO BE RUNNING VENEZUELA FOR THE TIME BEING

– THE PRESIDENT ON BEING ABLE TO WATCH THE MISSION LIVE FROM MAR-A-LAGO

–  COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT PETRO IS WARNED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, ‘HE’S GOT TO WATCH HIS ASS’

– TRUMP ON AIR FORCE ONE – TALKING THE MONROE DOCTRINE

 – REPORTER TRIED TO CAUSE TROUBLE BETWEEN CABINET MEMBERS

 – TRUMP ASKED ‘WHO’S IN CHARGE?’ (IN VENEZUELA)

 – TRUMP HINTS (BIGLY) THAT CUBA IS NEXT

 – SEC STATE RUBIO: MADURO WAS GIVEN MULTIPLE CHANCES TO LEAVE

 – MORE RUBIO — ON MEET THE PRESS – CLEARING UP THE ‘BOOTS ON THE GROUND’ CONCERN

 – SEC OF WAR HEGSETH PRAISED THE OPERATION

 – MORE FROM THE SECRETARY OR WAR

– DARREL ISSA ON THE LAW BACKING U.S. TROOPS GRABBING MADURO

– DAN SCAVINO POSTED THIS VIDEO — MADURO CALLS OUT TRUMP AND A RESPONSE IS DELIVERED

– IT WAS NOT A FAIR FIGHT — SEC OF STATE RUBIO VS MARGARET BRENNAN

–  SEN CHRIS MURPHY GETS EMBARRASSED BY DANA BASH ON CNN… YES, ON C-N-N

– ELON AND THE TRUMPS HAD DINNER AT MAR-A-LAGO

– WAIT, JOHN BRENNAN PRAISED THE CAPTURE OF MADURO AND HIS WIFE? YUP, IT HAPPENED ON MS-13 NOW

– OVER ON CNN, A MILITARY EXPERT SPEAKS GLOWINGLY OF THE U.S. MISSION

– OF COURSE JAMES CARVILLE HAS A WILD-ASS THEORY

FLASHBACKS

– BIDEN TALKED TOUGH ABOUT MADURO – NEVER DID ANYTHING

– KJP REMINDED US JUST HOW TOUGH BIDEN TALKED ABOUT MADURO

– MADDOW LUMPS TRUMP IN WITH MADURO, PUTIN, XI, KIM

– SCHUMER WAS PISSED BACK IN 2020 — WANTED TRUMP TO BRING DOWN MADURO

More News From DC

– CUBA’S LEADERSHIP IS NOT PLEASED WITH TRUMP’S REMOVAL OF MADURO

– MTG IS GOING OUT SWINGING – HERE’S HER TAKE ON THE MADURO CAPTURE

– SEN FETTERMAN WAS PRAISING THE U.S. MILITARY’S WORK IN VENEZUELA

– WHAT’S HAPPENING IN IRAN — PROTESTS, PROTESTS, PROTESTS

– DENMARK TELLS TRUMP TO STOP THINKING ABOUT GREENLAND

– KEEPING EYES ON NOKO AFTER BALLISTIC MISSILE LAUNCH

General News

– MULTIPLE OUTLETS REPORTING TIM WALZ IS DROPPING OUT OF MN GOV RACE (CAN YOU SERVE FROM PRISON?)

– NYC’s NEW MAYOR CALLED THE WHITE HOUSE TO REGISTER HIS DISPLEASURE WITH THE CAPTURE OF MADURO

– SOCIALISM’S ASCENT IN NYC HAS STATE ISLAND TALKING ABOUT SECESSION

– THE FLU IS RAGING — AND NYC HOSPITALS ARE FEELING THE SURGE

 – THERE’S A NEW VARIANT OF THE FLU — WHAT TO KNOW

– SWALWELL VOWS TO STRIP DRIVERS LICENSES FROM ICE AGENTS IF THEY WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC

Other News Catching My Eye

– SCOTT ADAMS ANNOUNCES HE’S CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY

– DON’T HAVE A REAL ID? YOU MAY WANT TO GET ONE BEFORE YOU GO TO THE AIRPORT

– BILLY JOEL SURPRISES AUDIENCE IN FLORIDA — HE’S FIGHTING – BUT, BILLY CAN STILL GET IT DONE

– UH-OH, MY FAVORITE GROCERY STORE IS WATCHING ME, TRACKING ME, USING BIOMETRIC DATA

– IS THIS THE STRANGEST GIFT TO BRING ON A FIRST DATE?

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