Volume 270 | No. 13

1999—The “Hockey Stick” graph shows that global warming’s real; corporate demand for expert liars soars. 1989—To flatter veterans without incurring any actual additional expenses, the Veterans Administration is elevated to Departmental status. 1982—Donald Trump gets a New Jersey casino licence—normally a months-long process—in hours. 1980—A Boston Globe editorial about a speech by Jimmy Carter is headlined, “Mush from the Wimp.” 1969—The National Security Council OKs the Nixon/Kissinger plan to illegally bomb Cambodia. 1962—Flying Tiger Flight 739 from Travis AFB to Saigon disappears with 107 soldiers and crew on board. 1948—“Without superior air power America is…easy prey to any yellow dwarf with a pocket knife,” says …

Read more

2020—Dolt #45 states the obvious: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” 2019—Gambino family mob boss Frank Cali is whacked in front of his Staten Island home by a QAnon follower who thought “he was enjoying the protection of President Trump.” 2002—George W.[MD] Bush says, “We haven’t heard much…I don’t know where [bin Laden] is…I truly am not that concerned about him.” 1979—In N.Y.C., P.M. Eric Gairy asks the UN to investigate UFOs. In Grenada, the New Jewel Movement leaders whom he had ordered jailed or killed overthrow his government. 1968—A leaky nerve gas dispenser on an F-4 Phantom lets VX nerve gas drift from the …

Read more

2014—Austin Ruse, head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, says on American Family Radio, “the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities…should all be taken out and shot.” 2013—Jim Clapper, Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence, swears to Congress citizens aren’t being spied on. He’s lying. 2003—News reports say VP Dick “Dick” Cheney is still being paid up to $1 million a year by Halliburton. 1990—ADA activists visit the Capitol the only way they can: leaving their wheelchairs and crawling up the steps. 1956—Bill Fulbright, Sam Ervin, Hale Boggs—Cokie Roberts’ dad—and 98 other Congressmensign a “Southern Manifesto” pledging to maintain school segregation. 1947—President Harry …

Read more

2025—The White House is turned into a Tesla dealership for a day. 2020—Dolt #45 announces a travel ban; infected U.S. citizens turn airports all over into super-spreader sites. 2012—Freedom, Maine’s Town Meeting votes to amend the Constitution, nixing corporate “personhood.” 2011—An earthquake knocks Earth 10 inches off its axis, brings Japan four feet closer to the U.S., causes a tsunami that kills 15,850 people, and triggers three nuclear meltdowns. 2008—SEC Chair Chris Cox says “We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms,” days before Bear Stearns collapses. 2002—Fox military expert Lt. Col Joe Caffasso, who boasts a Green Beret …

Read more

2020—“Just stay calm,” says Dolt #45. “It [Covid] will go away.” 2004—Pres. George W.[MD] Bush is surprised to learn that 1) his Terrorist Surveillance Program expires that day, 2) his lawyers won’t renew it, and 3) his A.G., who will renew it, has been in the ICU for a week. In a bedside standoff, Bush’s team loses. 1993—A Florida man stands up for the sanctity of life by putting three fatal slugs in Dr. David Gunn’s back. 1974—With police corruption “systematic at all levels,” Philly Mayor Rizzo tries to block an investigation. 1968—At remote Lima Site 85 in Laos, 13 radarmen die: the greatest single …

Read more

2007—Newt Gingrich admits, as he runs for president, that he committed adultery while impeaching B. Clinton. 1992—Donald Trump files his second bankruptcy in eight months. 1986—Divers locate the crew compartment of the Shuttle Challenger. 1982—It’s revealed that the Contras have gotten $19 million in covert aid. 1969—Terrified CBS execs nix the Vietnam drama “Sticks and Bones.” 1969—Terrified CBS execs cancel “The Smothers Brothers.” 1965—Racists fatally beat Boston minister James Reeb in Selma, Ala.; a white jury soon acquits the suspects. 1954—WMUR-TV does it live. 1954—Ed Murrow dismantles Joe McCarthy on CBS. The network assures nothing like that happens again. 1941—Writer Sherwood Anderson dies of peritonitis …

Read more