Volume 269 | No. 12

2004—UN weapons inspectors report that Saddam Hussein didn’t have any WMD after all. Oops… . 1991—At Ramaila, Iraq, under future-MSNBC military analyst Barry McCaffrey, the U.S. 24th Infantry Division kills about ten percent of the 7,000-man 1st Hammurabi Armored Division, two days after the Gulf War cease-fire. 1955—The Screen Actors Guild votes to expel any member who takes the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination. 1948—The KKK parades and burns crosses in Wrightsville, Ga. None of the town’s 400 Black voters show up for a primary election the next day. 1942—The U.S. Army tells all Japanese-Americans to move away from the West Coast, for their own good. …

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1991—“By God,” President George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush tells Koch-heads, “we’ve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all.” 1985—President Reagan insults the Founding Fathers, saying the Contras are their “moral  equivalent.” 1978—The late Charlie Chaplin’s tomb is raided by corpse-nappers. 1973—Kissinger tells Nixon, “…if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.” Nixon replies, “I know.” 1971—The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. Capitol. 1954—The “Justice” Department agrees to let the CIA decide which of its crimes should be prosecuted. 1954—H-bomb test Castle Bravo delivers thrice its expected yield at Bikini Atoll. Unanticipated winds spread millions of …

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2024—Nine Free Staters help Dustin Duren, his partner Lyn Naffziger, and their two children to Berlin. The next day he’s arrested for murdering her. 2003—A former gay male escort begins attending White House press briefings with his official pass issued under the pseudonym “Jeff Gannon.” 1997—That blue dress gets soiled. 1993—The ATF tries to serve a warrant on a religious community in Waco. It does not go well. 1947—Hooligans in Taiwan riot over routine government corruption. Koumintang troops—brave anti-Communists—justly massacre thousands. 1921—The Kronstadt Rebellion against bolshevism begins in Russia. “Shoot them down like partridges,” orders Leon Trotsky. 1913—Denied information and cooperation, Congress’ Pujo Commission nevertheless …

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2019—“I fear that if [Trump] loses the election in 2020,” says his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, “there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” 2014—Senate Republicans block a bill to fund veterans health care because it would cost too much. 2001—Rep. David B. Vitter [R-La.] skips a House vote honoring 28 Desert Storm KIAs to take a call from Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the D.C. Madam. 1975—The FDA recalls a batch of 1,241 GE pacemakers—after they’ve all been implanted. 1973—The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, S.D. 1970—New York Times stenographers report that the U.S. Army no longer conducts illegal domestic surveillance. Wasn’t true then, probably …

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2020—“Within a couple of days, [Covid will be] close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” – #45 2015—Sen. James Inhofe [R–Okla.] conclusively proves that global warming is a hoax—or that he’s an idiot—by brandishing a snowball in the Senate. 1993—A truck bomb explodes beneath the World Trade Center in NYC; six are dead, 1,000 injured. 1991—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush admits the U.S. has been supporting the Khmer Rouge. 1979—A 328-year old faith which holds that God pays no attention to Earth, and won’t until He ends it, dies out along with Philip Noakes, of Kent, England: the last Muggletonian. 1974—A Senate …

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2020—“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here,” says Dolt #45’s Kayleigh McEnany. “Isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful [Obama] presidency…?” 2011—“[A]ny future Defense Secretary who advises the President to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined,” says Defense Secretary Gates. 1968—“I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war,” says Gen. William “Clueless” Westmoreland. 1953—President Ike advises vigilance, lest communist teachers sneak propaganda into math problems. 1913—The IWW’s Paterson, N.J. strike begins. One organizer: Concord, N.H.’s Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. 1906—Pianist Nikolay Burenin …

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