Thursday – January 16, 2020

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1605 – CERVANTES’ CLASSIC, ‘DON QUIXOTE’ IS PUBLISHED 

1786 – THE COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA GUARANTEES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

1920 – THE ORIGINAL ‘DRY-UARY’ KICKED IN AS PROHIBITION TOOK EFFECT A YEAR AFTER BEING RATIFIED

1945 – HITLER DESCENDED INTO HIS BUNKER — HE WAS THERE FOR 105 DAYS

1956 – EGYPT DECLARED ISLAM THE OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION OF THE COUNTRY

1979 – THE SHAH LEAVES IRAN…ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WOULD SOON ASSUME CONTROL

1991 – THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED ‘OPERATION DESERT STORM’ AKA THE PERSIAN GULF WAR

News and The Politics out of D.C.

PELOSI FINALLY RELEASED THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP

AND, THE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS

AFTER PELOSI GRINNED, SIGNED THE ARTICLES WITH GOLDEN PENS, TED CRUZ FIRED OFF AN EPIC TWEET

LEADER MCCONNELL LAYS OUT THE SENATE’S SCHEDULE FOR THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED PHASE ONE TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA

CNN CLAIMED TRUMP WANTS TO CANCEL COVERAGE FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS… HE DOES NOT

ODDSMAKERS SAY BIDEN’S BACK ATOP THE DEM CANDIDATE LIST…BUT, WOULD LOSE TO TRUMP

AUDIO OF ELIZABETH WARREN AND BERNIE SANDERS POST DEBATE ARGUMENT IS VERY TELLING

EARLY RATINGS NUMBERS SAY 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED THE DEM DEBATE ON CNN  

(FOR A REFERENCE, THE ‘JEOPARDY GREATEST OF ALL TIME TOURNAMENT’ DREW ALMOST DOUBLE THAT NUMBER.)

CNN WON’T INTERVIEW VP MIKE PENCE IN ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY’RE ‘ALL IMPEACHMENT, ALL THE TIME’

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS DROPPED AN ‘OK BOOMER’ DURING A SCOTUS HEARING

FROM THEHILL.COM: FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM LEV PARNAS’ MSNBC INTERVIEW WITH MADDOW

General News

MEANWHILE, THE TRUMP ECONOMY ROLLS ON…THE DOW CLOSED ABOVE 29,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME

CNBC’S JIM CRAMER: TRUMP TARIFFS WORKED — FORCED CHINA TO MAKE A TRADE DEAL

VIRGINIA GUN ADVOCATES ARE CONCERNED THAT CONFISCATION AND REGISTRATION ARE COMING

JUDGE REVOKED MICHAEL AVENATTI’S BAIL — HE’S NOT GETTING OUT ANY TIME SOON

NYC IS #1 IN CITIES LOSING THE MOST PEOPLE! (YOU ALREADY KNOW WHY)

THE ‘MILITARY DIET’ (NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE MILITARY) INVOLVES EATING HOT DOGS, EGGS, TUNA HAS SOME HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CONCERNED
MOVE OVER ‘CATS’ — HERE COMES ‘DR. DOOLITTLE’

STRANGE NEWS CATCHING MY EYE

HOUSTON FAMILY SAYS THIS ‘HAUNTED’ ELSA DOLL WON’T LET GO

ALSO IN THE DOLL DEPT… OUTRAGE BREAKS OUT AS A TRANSGENDER DOLL WITH A PENIS HITS STORES

FLEA-BAGGING, DIAL TONING, WHITE CLAWING AND OTHER NEW, CURIOUS DATING TRENDS

MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER WIFE PUTS A ‘CHASTITY NUT’ ON HIS PENIS AS HE SLEPT

STUDY: LIVING TOGETHER BEFORE MARRIAGE CAN KILL YOUR SEX LIFE

ANOTHER STUDY: WOMEN PREFER MEN WITH BEARDS…SEEN AS MORE ‘DOMINANT’ AND ATTRACTIVE’
(my wife disagrees… she’s anti-beard — even for this dashing dude)