The Alleged Editor

2016—During W.Va.’s worst flooding in 100 years, a burning house is filmed floating down a creek. 2008—James Hansen warns Congress about global warming—again. 2005—Roller coaster safety expert Richard H. Brown, 64, dies of injuries received in a fall in his own driveway. 2001—“Dark Winter”—a war game simulation of a smallpox outbreak in the U.S.—shows lack of preparation for pandemic would result in chaos. 2001—CNN reports on threat of “imminent attack” by bin Laden. 1988—NASA’s James Hansen warns Congress of the seriousness of the threat of global warming. 1976—Edwin Walker, former Army General and Lee Harvey Oswald target, is arrested for fondling an undercover cop in …

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2009—Republican Governor Mark Sanford’s spokesman says South Carolina’s Chief Executive is hiking the Appalachian Trail. 2005—The Republican-led House, undeterred by futility, passes a Flag Protection Amendment.® 2004—On the floor of the Senate, Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney tells Sen. Pat Leahy, “Go f__k yourself.” 2004—In Iraq, yet another cash-laden C-130 arrives. This one’s got the biggest load, though: $2,401,600,000. 2002—Enron execs admit they hid $1.5 billion in illegal profits gouged from California ratepayers. 1977—Nixon’s ex-AG John Mitchell begins a 19-month prison sentence. 1972—UPI’s Helen Thomas gets a call from Martha Mitchell: “I’m a captive…”; the phone goes dead. On the scene, Nixon’s lawyer orders that the …

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2006—Fox News, citing Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), reports that WMD have been found in Iraq. 2005—Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is found guilty of manslaughter in the case of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. 2004—SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of 100 kilometers; Mike Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut. 1994—As Jose Martin and his wife drive near Madrid, a 3-lb. meteorite crashes through their windshield, bends the steering wheel, and lands in the back seat. She is unscathed, he gets a broken finger. 1989—The U.S. Supreme Court rules flag-burning is legal. 1964—Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are murdered in Mississippi by the KKK. 1942—A Japanese sub …

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2005—Veep Dick “Dick” Cheney tells Larry King the insurgency in Iraq is “in the last throes.” 1970—The Soviet sub K-108, diving off Kamchatka, bashes into the sail of the U.S.S. Tautog giving it a permanent 2-degree bend. 1965—Navy Lts. Clinton B. Johnson and Charles Hartman, flying prop-driven Douglas A-1 Skyraiders, down a MiG jet fighter over Vietnam. 1963—The White House-Kremlin “Hot Line” is installed. 1962—For the second time in less than a fortnight, a Thor rocket malfunctions and drops an A-bomb into the South Pacific. 1953—Lt. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike” O’Daniel arrives in Saigon to confer with French General Henri Navarre on how to …

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