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Sun, May 31

2009—Dr. George Tiller, while ushering in a Wichita, Kansas church, is shot dead to uphold the sanctity of life. 1989—As Newt drives him from the Speakership, Jim Wright [D-Texas], denounces “mindless cannibalism.” 1948—Two years after Palestinians in Huj hid Haganah fighters from British forces, Israeli troops flatten Huj and drive out Palestinians. 1927—Fred Trump, Donald’s dad, is arrested at a KKK rally in Queens. 1921—A Black WW I veteran in Tulsa refuses a demand to surrender his pistol. During a struggle it fires; a massive “race war” ensues. 1921—The mistrial of Sacco and Vanzetti begins under Judge Webster “Did you see what I did with …

Sat, May 30

2024—A certain former U.S. President is found guilty of 34 felonies. 2019—The state Senate overrides Gov. Sununu’s veto: New Hampshire’s out of the killing business—except for that one Black guy on death row. 2007—Florida man Dale Rippy, a ’Nam vet, is attacked by a rabid bobcat. He strangles it with his bare hands. 1962—Missionary Archie E. Mitchell, sole survivor of a Bly, Ore. picnic devastated by a Japanese fire balloon, is captured, along with two others, by the Viet Cong. He’s never seen again. 1961—Plotters using CIA-supplied weapons assassinate Rafael Trujillo. They fail to neutralize his secret police, though, and will pay with their lives. …

Stand Up, People!

To the Editor: When President Trump started the war with Iran, he said it would last two to four weeks. Then it was four to six weeks. Now he said it will not last as long as the ten-year long Vietnam war. He also said he does not care about the economic pain this war is causing the American people. The pain is real, not just in the price of gasoline. Food, energy, electricity, rents, mortgages, and health care are all rising. The cost of living in March was 1.2 percent higher than in February and April was 0.9 percent higher than in March. This …

We should be grateful. Despite our modest size, as the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™ we feel obligated to record, to the best of our ability, the essence of each fortnight as it passes. As everyone knows who has not yet retreated, for mental health purposes, to the wilderness or a bunker, current events have been, for the past decade or so, a constant barrage from every direction of the simply unbelievable. We are not complaining. As Hyman Roth said to Michael Corleone, “this is the business we’ve chosen.” We merely wish to establish how challenging it can be to winnow out, from this bizarre maelstrom of …

Volume 270, No. 19

We are not so delusional as to think that The Greatest President Ever is aware of our existence. And we are certainly not members of the charmed circle of intimates for whom he will do unseemly favors. Nevertheless, though inadvertently, he did us a favor recently. Usually it takes a bit of thought to pick a topic for the rant. Let it be known, though, there’s a $1,766,666,666 slush fund for traitors, and that question is done and dusted. To read about that, and other some shenanigans, just give this link a click.

Fri, May 29

2020—A U.S. President, scared by a protest against a Minneapolis cop’s murder of George Floyd, hides for an hour in the White House bunker. 2017—A U.S. President asks an aide, at a Memorial Day observance, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” 2015—The Washington Post prints ex-Gov. John H. Sununu’s confession that in 1988 he bartered state assets—low-numbered license plates—to buy support for G.H.[H.]W. Bush. 2008—Senator (and candidate) John McCain [R-Ariz.] says “Mosul is quiet” on a day when 30 die there. 2002—FBI head Robert Mueller says 9/11 might have been preventable. 2001—The Bush twins, charged with underage boozing, plead nolo. 1992—In …