Volume 269 | No. 7

2001—Richard Reid’s shoe-bomb fizzles, but all air passengers must still remove shoes before boarding. 1984—Asked for money on a New York subway, Bernhard Goetz dishes out some lead instead. Then he flees to—where else?—New Hampshire. 1974—Seymour Hersh exposes the CIA’s Operation Chaos in the New York Times: 10,000 Americans under illegal surveillance since 1967. 1973—“Dick” Nixon’s paranoid agitation at a Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting leaves four-stars wondering, “did he just ask us if we’d back a coup?” 1967—The CIA hands the President a second report on its illegal surveillance of anti-war activists. Again, it finds no evidence supporting his belief in foreign influence. LBJ …

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2022—“I did not believe… for one second,” says Sean Hannity in a transcript, the “stolen election” lies he let Sidney tell on his Fox News show. 2008—Todd Carmichael reaches the South Pole after 692 miles on skis and on foot, solo, in less than 40 days. 2006—Saparmurat Niyazov’s term of office ends. Turkmenistan’s President for Life leaves a legacy of many golden statues…of himself. 2001—“All in all,” says George W.[MD] Bush, “it’s been a fabulous year for Laura and me.” 1996—After two years of denial, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) admits to ethics violations. 1989—Vice President J. Danforth Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards in which …

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2020—Loser: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” 1998—As Bill Clinton is being impeached for some hanky-panky, Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigns to cover up a bit of his own. 1997—Real headline, N.Y. Times: “C.I.A. Says It Has Found No Link Between Itself and Crack Trade”. 1974—Norris Cotton finagles a bill giving New Hampshire’s senior Senator the right in perpetuity to commandeer Daniel Webster’s old desk. 1946—The Viet Minh begin kicking the French out of Indo-China. 1944—Primarily due to bad generalship, two-thirds of the 106th Infantry, comprising 8,000 men, must surrender during the Battle of the Bulge. 1941—Ex-corporal Hitler takes direct …

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2020—Dolt #45’s lame duck brain trust holds a boozy, shouty, six-hour sedition-fest in the White House. 2019—Donald Trump is impeached. 2005—“Not only can we win the war in Iraq,” says George W.[MD] Bush 962 days after Mission Accomplished, “we’re winning the war in Iraq.” 2004—“America’s Most Wanted’s” John Walsh says he most wants brothers Jahbir and Alfonso Fowle. 2000—“If this were a dictatorship,” says George W.[MD] Bush on CNN, “it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” 1996—G-Man Earl Pitts is arrested for moonlighting for the KGB. 1972—Richard Nixon begins Operation Linebacker: 12 days of B-52 strikes against …

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2010—Street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself afire, thereby igniting the Tunisian Revolution and the subsequent Arab Spring. 2006—Bill Kristol predicts on “Fox News Sunday,” “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary.” 1998—Impeachment pending, Bill Clinton wags the dog: half the Pentagon’s cruise missiles explode in Iraq. 1967—“I know this beach like the back of my hand,” says Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, before disappearing in heavy surf. 1960—A U.S.A.F. C-131 hits a Munich steeple, then falls onto a trolley. All 20 on the plane die, along with 18 in the trolley and 11 on the street. 1953—The NLRB …

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2005—The New York Times reports that the NSA has been tapping U.S. telephones without a warrant. 2001—U.S. troops at Tora Bora ask for  help catching Osama bin Laden. Donald Rumsfeld denies their request; bin Laden walks away. 1988—Bush #41 nominates notoriously boozy womanizer Sen. John Tower [R-Texas] to run the Department of  Defense. His confirmation hearings do not go well. 1988—Perennial Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche—Rochester, N.H.’s most famous native—is convicted of tax and mail fraud. 1973—Protestors celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party by hanging Richard Nixon in effigy. 1970—Big Milk offers Nixon a $2 million “campaign contribution” if he’ll cut milk imports. …

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