Radio Update: I’m guest hosting on WHO Radio in Des Moines, IA today and tomorrow 6-10am eastern – Listen live here.
Don’t forget – it’s Memory DayIt’s also National Common Courtesy Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1788 – A massive fire almost destroyed all of New Orleans1804 – Napoleonic Code approved in France (Trying to give everyone legal rights)
1910 – The Senate grants Teddy Roosevelt an annual pension of $10,000 (The average manager in a factory made $2000/year)
1928 – Calvin Coolidge present the Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh
1939 – Kate Smith records “God Bless America” (She’s since been canceled)
1963 – Alcatraz Island penitentiary closes (It would become an attraction)
1965 – MLK begins march from Selma to Montgomery
1980 – Jimmy Carter announces the US team is not going to Moscow for the upcoming olympic games
1980 – Someone shot JR (The famous season finale of ‘Dallas’ aired)
News and The Politics out of D.C.
BIDEN’S BRACKET EMBARRASSMENTS (NOT SHOCKING OR EARTH-SHAKING)
HUNTER BIDEN DID NOT TESTIFY YESTERDAY – BUT, THERE WAS A HEARING
– COMER IS INVITING BIDEN TO TESTIFY (IF HUNTER DIDN’T SHOW, WILL JOE?)
– DEM REP FROM FLORIDA THOUGHT THE HEARING WAS A COSTUME PARTY
– AOC GOT WORKED UP, GOT TENSE WITH TONY AND SAID SOME SILLY THINGS
DON’T WANT AN EV, BIDEN ADMIN STILL PUSHING YOU TO BUY ONE BY 2032
– TRUMP CAMPAIGNS ON KILLING GOV’T EV MANDATE
– ANOTHER EV START-UP HALTS PRODUCTION BECAUSE IT AIN’T SELLING CARS
US SUBMITS DRAFT TO UN DEMANDING IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE, HOSTAGE RELEASE
ANOTHER BIDEN RECORD: MORE EMBASSIES CLOSED UNDER JOE THAN UNDER ANY PRESIDENT
JOE’S LATEST RACIST COMMENT — THIS ONE WAS ON A RADIO SHOW
– KINDA REMINDS ME OF JOE’S ‘POOR KIDS ARE JUST S SMART AS WHITE KIDS’
FORMER NBC EXEC HAS AN ODD OBSESSION WITH JUST-TURNED-18 BARRON TRUMP
WATCH: SEN KENNEDY ASKS BIDEN JUDICIAL NOMINEE TO DEFINE AN ‘ASSULT WEAPON’
RAND PAUL VOWS TO HOLD UP ‘MINIBUS’ BILL NEEDED TO PASS BY FRIDAY OR ELSE
JOE MANCHIN VOWS TO HOLD HIS OWN ‘MINI-FILIBUSTER’ OVER JUDICIAL NOMINEES
ELIZABETH WARREN IS NOT GIVING UP ON HER WEALTH CONFISCATION MISSION
REPORT: U.S. TROOPS IN TAIWAN STATIONED ON BORDER WITH CHINA
HOUTHIS CRUIZE MISSILE HITS ISRAEL
CANADA VOTES TO HALT ARMS SHIPMENTS TO TEL AVIV — ISRAEL IS NOT PLEASED
General News
ONLY 30% OF NYERS ARE HAPPY WITH QUALITY OF LIFE – 50% PLAN ON LEAVING WITHIN 5 YRS
NY ASKED JUDGE NOT TO LET TRUMP OFF THE HOOK, WANTS HIM TO POST THE ENTIRE BOND
PASSED OUT PARENTS ARRESTED AFTER KIDS WALK FROM THE BEACH
TN FISHERMAN THOUGHT HE HAD CAUGHT ‘THE BIG ONE’ — IT WAS A GATOR
– MEANWHILE, A NY MAN HAD HIS GATOR CONFISCATED — HE WANTS IT BACK
NBA LEGEND PAUL PIERCE HIT BY L.A. CRIME SPREE – CROOKS GOT OVER $100K IN CASH AND WATCHES
HARVARD CLOSES A LIBRARY, CITING FINANCIAL CONCERNS
TARGET IS LIMITING SELF-CHECKOUT TERMINALS (THEFT IS THE REASON)
COULD A PILL REPLACE WORKING OUT? SCIENCE IS GETTING CLOSER TO IT
CHECK OUT THE THREE CITIES WITH THE FASTEST GROWTH OF MILLIONAIRES
SO, HOW DID FINLAND BECOME THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY???
2024’s ‘DIRTY DOZEN’ – FRUITS AND VEGGIES WITH THE MOST PESTICIDES
WOKE
JUDGE ORDER RELEASE OF TRANS-IDENTIFYING NASHVILLE SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO
BRITISH MUSEUM PUTS TRIGGER WARNINGS ON LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS
MANHATTAN’S LARGEST SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT VOTES TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORT
Other News Catching My Eye
LONDON HOSPITAL IS DEALING WITH ‘DATA BREACH’ – KATE MIDDLETON’S INFO LEAKED?
