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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, CPAC, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Outer Space, Racism, Rand Paul, The SimpsonsHeadly Westerfield

Good morning, Headliners. It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday and it can beat up your birthday — with one hand tied behind its back. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Watch The ‘Not-Racist’ Crowd React
To ‘Annie’s’ Blackness In Remake

TODAY IN VOTER FRAUD NEWS:

How Much Voter Fraud Is There?
A state-by-state map reveals the answer: almost none.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

REMEMBERING CARL SAGAN,
THE ORIGINAL COSMOS HOST

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 5, 2014

March 5, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Cuba, Dean Stockwell, Free the Weed, GOP, Harvard, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Joe Arpaio, LGBT, News Corp., Outer Space, Pat Robertson, Racism, Religion, SearsHeadly Westerfield

In order to best celebrate Dean Stockwell‘s 78th birthday, let’s take some look at Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War
(also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a
subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by future U.S. president John Adams.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1933 – Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

Texas Republican official: Founding fathers would never allow ‘sodomites’ to marry

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OUT OF TOUCH:

Opportunity for Democrats:
68% Think the Republican
Party is Out of Touch

Lindsey Graham Spends His Tuesday On Twitter Blaming Everything On Benghazi

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

KKK flag draws
criticism in West Boca

Sears worker fired after racial exchange with customer

Read The Program And
Listen To The Full Audio Of
The Racist Roast For Joe Arpaio

63 Black Harvard Students Share Their
Experiences In A Powerful Photo Project

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pat Robertson on marrying first cousins: ‘Go for it,’ but don’t have ‘mongoloid’ kids

Kentucky Church: Come
to Jesus, Get a Free Gun

This Is What A Legitimate
Religious Liberty Claim Looks Like

WET FOOT/DRY FOOT:

Opening up Cuba: Is it
time to end the embargo?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Watch The ‘First Ever’ Marijuana Commercial To Air On Major Television Stations

NEWS CORP. IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Top News Corp. Executive Admits
Unethical Behavior In Third
Month Of Phone Hacking Trial