Tuesday – December 26, 2023

Radio – Join me from 9-noon (Eastern) as I sit in for Chris Plante all across America (Listen here)

National Candy Cane Day, Boxing Day (UK)

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1776 – After crossing the Delaware on Christmas, Washington leads an attack on the Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, NJ and captures 900 men
1878  – John Wanamaker has electric lights installed at his store in Philly (a first)
1917 – As WWI rages, the US Gov’t takes over control of the railroads
1982 – TIME’s ‘man of the year’ is the personal computer
1996 – 6-yr-old “beauty queen’ JonBenet Ramsey is found murdered in her family’s home  
2004 – More than 230,000 died after a tsunami hits Indonesia

News and The Politics out of D.C.

NATIONAL DEBT HAS INCREASED TWICE AS FAST UNDER BIDEN AS IT DID UNDER TRUMP

 BTW – WE DON’T HAVE A REVENUE PROBLEM — THE IRS COLLECTED $4.9 TRILLION

SEC DEF’s HOME GETS A CHRISTMAS VISIT FROM ANGRY PROTESTERS

MTG IS TARGETED FOR SWATTING, AGAIN – ON CHRISTMAS!

CBS NEWS’ HERRIDGE PREDICTS ‘INCREDIBLE LEGAL EXPOSURE’ FOR HUNTER BIDEN

 HERRIDGE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HER FEARS OF A ‘BLACK SWAN’ EVENT

AOC’s TAKE ON JESUS’S BIRTH IS BEYOND THE PALE

TRUMP ASKS APPEALS COURT TO DISMISS JACK SMITH’S CASE

MN SEC OF STATE PREDICTS TRUMP WILL BE ON ALL BALLOTS OR NO BALLOTS

 – GAVIN NEWSOM RESPONDS TO EFFORTS TO BUMP TRUMP FROM CA BALLOT

LINCOLN PROJECT RELEASED ‘LIMBURGER’ AD SAYING DONALD TRUMP SMELLS

NH GOV SUNUNU CONTINUES HIS ATTACKS ON TRUMP

STILL NO SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR RFK JR

UKRAINE CLAIMS TO HAVE DESTROYED OUT A RUSSIAN NAVAL SHIP

ISRAEL / HAMAS

BIDEN ORDERS STRIKES ON IRAN PROXIES AS THREE U.S. TROOPS INJURED

EGYPT’S PROPOSAL TO END THE ISRAEL/HAMAS WAR GETS A COOL RECEPTION

BY THE WAY — THIS WAR COULD GO ON FOR MONTHS

NETANYAHU VISITS GAZA — VOWS NO END TO FIGHTING

IRANIAN OFFICIAL KILLED BY IDF STRIKE IN SYRIA

 IRAN VOWS REVENGE

General News

ICYMI – ALL TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARDS GO DARK — THEN, THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS IS TOLD

WHICH STATES HAVE THE MOST AND LEAST CREDIT CARD DEBT?

CO GOV POLIS POSTS A CRINGEY VERSION OF ‘FELIZ NAVIDAD’

COULD WASHINGTON STATE ELECT A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR???

CNN HOSTS PRIEST SAYING JESUS WAS A ‘PALESTINIAN JEW’ BORN IN AN ‘OCCUPIED’ COUNTRY

WOKE

NEVADA IS SPENDING MILLIONS ON TRANS SURGERIES AND MEDS FOR CHILDREN

WHO WOKE UP AL GORE? HE’S WARNING CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CREATE 1 BIL REFUGEES

JANE GOODALL WANTS HUMAN POPULATION REDUCED BY 95%

Other News Catching My Eye

OOPS.  SPIRIT AIRLINES PUTS UNACCOMPANIED 6-YR-OLD ON THE WRONG PLANE

TOTALLY AI-GENERATED NEWSCAST? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

KEVIN SPACEY’S BIZARRO INTERVIEW AS FRANK UNDERWOOD (WITH TUCKER)

CRAZY $5 NFL PARLAY WINS ALMOST $500,000

IS IT CHEAPER TO LIVE ON A CRUISE SHIP THAN ON LAND? (THESE TWO SAY (‘YES’)