Thursday – March 5, 2026

World Cheese Doodle Day (Is this a holiday?)–  Name Tag Day (I think we should all be wearing, “HELLO, MY NAME IS _______” tags)

– National Absinthe Day (It’s not like it was.)

H/T Jen Ohman

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1770 – The Boston Massacre – Five colonists were killed by the Brits
1821 – James Monroe is inaugurated on March 5th because March 4th was a Sunday

1946 – Winston Churchill delivers his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Missouri
1956 – Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court affirms ban on segregation in schools

1984 – The Supreme Court approves cities right to display Nativity scenes

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– BEFORE HE TALKED DATA CENTERS AND POWER, TRUMP TALKED ABOUT IRAN

– TRUMP EXPLAINS THE ‘RATEPAYER ACT’ — GOOD NEWS FOR YOUR POWER BILL

     – THIS MEANS JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY TRADESPEOPLE

 – ELON MUSK’S XAI IS ANNOUNCING SOME BIG PLANS FOR POWER GENERATION

– PRESS SEC ON THE OIL PRICES

– PRESS SEC VS. CAITLIN COLLINS (GUESS WHO WINS THIS ONE?)

– SENATE LEADER THUNE WANTS TRUMP TO ENDORSE CORNYN

– SEN SHEEHY JUMPS IN TO HELP CAPITOL POLICE DEAL WITH A VIOLENT DEMOCRAT PROTESTER

– SEN FETTERMAN’S SLOW WALK AWAY FROM HIS PARTY CONTINUES (HE SEES THE DEMS’ TDS)

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– SEC NOEM AND DEM REP RASKIN FACED OFF IN HOUSE HEARING

– KRISTIE NOEM IS PRESSED ON WHETHER OR NOT SHE IS SLEEPING WITH COREY LEWANDOWSKI

– ELIZABETH HASSELBECK SHOULD BE THE SPOKESPERSON FOR SEC NOEM

– GOV WALZ SPENT TIME IN THE HOT SEAT — HE FACED OFF WITH BRANDON GILL

– NANCY MACE BROUGHT PESKY FACTS ABOUT MINNESOTA FRAUD – WALZ COULDN’T ANSWER

 – REP NANCY MACE STARTED WITH ‘WHAT IS A WOMAN?’ THEN PROGRESSED TO ‘MINNESOTA MATH’

 – REP JIM JORDAN ALSO TOOK HIS TURN AT THE WALZ GRILL — WHY DID YOU RE-START THE FRAUD PAYMENTS?

– TIM BURCHETT IS PISSED THAT CONGRESS IS PROTECTING SEXUAL HARASSERS

– IS GAVIN NEWSOM REALIZING HIS PRESIDENTIAL CHANCES ARE DIMINISHING?

TEXAS VOTERS THINK THIS GUY IS A BETTER CHOICE THAN JASMINE CROCKETT

– AFTER WINNING THE PRIMARY, HE TRIED TO TELL THE GOP HOW TO ATTACK HIM

– THE CANDIDATE BELIEVES ‘PRISON IS VIOLENCE’

– TALARICO: ‘WOMEN ARE NEIGHBORS WITH A UTERUS’

– 2028 DEM HOPEFUL STEPHEN A. SMITH SAYS TRUMP’S ATTACK ON IRAN IS CONSTITUTIONAL

–  FLASHBACK: MARCO RUBIO WAS ALWAYS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE IRAQ PROBLEM

More News From DC

– IRAN UPDATE FROM THE NY POST

– WAR POWERS MOVE FAILED IN THE SENATE (FETTERMAN VOTED WITH GOP)

– CENTCOM UPDATES ON WHAT IRAN IS TELLING ITS PEOPLE (LOTS OF FAKE NEWS)

– HERE COME THE NEW TRUMP TARIFFS — 15% FOR EVERYONE!

– JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMIN TO START PROCESSING TARIFF REFUNDS

– EPSTEIN FILES:  BILL GATES, FORMER OBAMA WH LAWYER AMONG NEXT TO TESTIFY IN THE HOUSE

– I GET IT… HILLARY CLINTON DEMANDED ‘BEAUTY LIGHTING’ FOR HER DEPOSITION

General News

– COACHING LEGEND LOU HOTZ HAS PASSED AWAY… I LOVE HIS SON’S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DAD’S LIFE

– WOULD YOU RATHER PAY SALES TAX OR INCOME TAX? MISSOURI IS TALKING ABOUT IT

– SEN STEVE DAINES DROPS OUT OF MONTANA SENATE RACE, TRUMP ENDORSES STEVE ALME

– KEN PAXTON SAYS HE’S NOT DROPPING OUT OF TEXAS SENATE RACE

– OBVIOUS: STRICT PARENTS PRODUCE CONSERVATIVE KIDS, LIB PARENTS CREATE YOUNG DEMOCRATS

– REF KNOCKED OUT AT COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME – EIGHT EJECTIONS

WUT?

Other News Catching My Eye

– ABOUT THAT CANNIBAL JELLYFISH WITH THE DISAPPEARING ANUS THAT’S TERRORIZING VENICE

– ‘SEXUAL MARKET VALUE?’ OR ‘SMV’ — WHAT IS IT?

– BEN SHAPIRO IS CALLING OUT MEGYN KELLY (AND HE GIVES TUCKER CARLSON SOME ATTENTION TOO)

– UNITED AIRLINES MOVES TO FIX A PROBLEM THAT PISSES OFF PASSENGERS