Volume 270 | No. 9

2018—So-called President Donnie Trump tells the Pentagon he wants a parade just like Emmanuel Macron’s. 1990—Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is busted in a drug sting. 1983—Ronald Reagan hosts Roy Cohn and Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office. That’s it: we’re doomed. 1983—Taking time out from dissing gays in the Dartmouth Review, Laura Ingraham pleads nolo to shoplifting. 1969—Peace talks begin in Paris between U.S. and Vietnam. 1968—At the White House, Eartha Kitt has the gall to speak her mind about the Vietnam War. Her career begins to recover a decade later. 1943—The Red Army breaks the 890-day Nazi siege of Leningrad. 1909—The National Guard …

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2014—NRA Board Member Ted Nugent, on TV, calls President Obama a “mongrel,” and says liberals should be prosecuted for treason. 2003—George W.[MD] Bush tells wounded troops at Walter Reed we “must provide the best care” for veterans—the same day the VA cuts off health care for 164,000 veterans. 2003—Gertrude Janeway, the last known widow of a Union Civil War veteran, dies at 93. When they married, he was 81 and she was 18. 1986—Ronald Reagan, 74, has polyps removed and authorizes the secret (and illegal) sale of weapons to Iran. 1969—COINTELPRO pays off: two Black Panthers die in an ambush set by rivals encouraged by …

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2020—The Senate starts trying The Former Guy, but the jury’s in the tank. 2018—White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson claims Donald Trump a) passed a cognitive test, and b) might live to be 200 if he had a healthier diet. 2014—Unable to acquire their standard poison, Ohio’s official kill team tries a new drug combo. A witness later says seeing Dennis McGuire gasp and snort for 15 minutes was “ghastly.” 2008—Bushian “Point of Light” Earl Paulk confesses to perjury and adultery: he did sleep with his sister-in-law. Also,  his “nephew” is really his son. 1986—The DOE announces a seven-year, 26-contestant game show: loser gets a …

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2001—Wikipedia goes live. 1992—Veepster George H.[H.]W. Bush, trolling for votes in N.H., says “[W]e are blessed. So don’t feel sorry for… don’t cry for me, Argentina.” 1989—TV guest Donald Trump asks host Larry King, “Do you mind if I sit back a little…your breath is very bad.” 1989—The Gipper, on MLK Day, says some civil rights leaders are “doing very well… keeping alive the feeling that they’re victims of prejudice.” 1977—Bill Murray makes his debut on SNL; the host is Ralph Nader. 1970—The Washington Monthly tells U.S. citizens 1,000 U.S. Army spies have been watching them since 1965. 1968—SP/5 Dwight H. Johnson earns the Medal …

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1990—Guy Chichester blocks Rt. 1A in Seabrook for safety, then chainsaws a 60-foot pole. A pointless nuke emergency warning siren bites the dust. 1969—After warnings from enlisted men aboard the nuke-powered USS Enterprise go unheeded, the exhaust of a flight deck tractor cooks off a Zuni rocket. It hits an F-4’s fuel tank, causing a fire which detonates 4.5 tons of bombs. This goat rodeo kills 27, injures 85, and nearly sinks the ship. 1967—The First Human Be-In is held—in San Francisco, of course. 1963—Standing on a gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy, George Wallace, …

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2021—Just for starting a violent riot and attempting a coup, Democratic scolds try again to impeach Trump. 2018—Hawaiian authorities issue an alert: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND … THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” Ooops. Authorities issue a retraction 38 minutes later. 2017—N.H. State Rep. Carolyn Halstead [R-Milford] drops a loaded handgun on the floor during a packed public hearing at the State House. 1987—Lee Atwater calls Reagan’s drug war a “fad issue, a classic really. It came and went in three weeks, max.” 1975—The N.Y.Times reports that USAF Maj. Harold L. Hering was discharged for asking, during Minuteman training, “How can I know that an order…to …

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