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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 24, 2014

February 24, 2014Cops Gone Wild, Cyber-bullying, Detroit, Domestic Terrorism, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Eubie Blake, Fox News, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Johnny Dollar, Mark Koldys, Racism, Scott Walker, Sean HannityHeadly Westerfield

Today ‘Merkins will gather in town squares all across the country to celebrate Abe Vigoda‘s 93rd birthday, as fire crews are on stand-by, watching the candles on his cake. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
• 1809 – London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
• 1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
• 1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
• 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
• 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

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

◄ ◄ From the Wayback Machine ► ►
Hannity’s Charity Under Fire

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck:
I don’t hate Obama

ALLEGEDLY CORRUPT GOVERNOR’S CORNER:

Scott Walker Falls Apart When Asked About Incriminating Emails On Fox News

TODAY IN EDUCATION:

I’m The Duke University
Freshman Porn Star And
For The First Time I’m
Telling The Story In My Words

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, February 23, 2014

February 23, 2014Bill O'Reilly, Civil War, Climate Change, Coconut Grove, Cops Gone Wild, Demolition By Neglect, Detroit, E.W.F. Stirrup House, George Takei, Gino Falsetto, Glenn Beck, GOP, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Religion, Ted NugentHeadly Westerfield

Today we honour W. E. B. Du Bois, on the anniversary of his 1868 birth. While he died in 1963, his books and articles are still avidly read around the world. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear are:

• 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
• 1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
• 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
• 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing “J’accuse“, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
• 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

Without further delay, here are today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE LATEST IN COCONUT GROVE:

Aries Development Continues To Rape Charles Avenue

SAVE THE E.W.F. STIRRUP HOUSE!!!

WAR IS HELL:

North And South
Koreans Separated
By War Finally Come
Together In Emotional Reunions

IN LGBT NEWS:

George Takei’s Ripping
Letter to AZ about
‘Turn Away the Gay’ Bill

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Democrats say ‘class warfare’
is part of the Fla GOP agenda

THE CONFEDERACY WILL RISE AGAIN:

The South still lies about the Civil War
In an ongoing revisionist
history effort, Southern
schools and churches
still pretend the war
wasn’t about slavery

TODAY IN TED NUGENT:

The Horrifying Song Ted Nugent Released in 1981
that Nobody Seems to be Talking About (VIDEO)

Ted Nugent, Gay Pirate?

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

Woman Violently Arrested
After Jaywalking

Cops hit my car, then
arrested me: suit

MORE ‘MERKIN ‘CEPTIONALISM:

‘Time to Forget the United States…’: Beck Says the ‘Fundamental Transformation’ of America Has Already Happened

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

The Pink Zone: Why Detroit is the New Brooklyn

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

No Global Warming? NOAA
Says January Was Fourth
Warmest on Record

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Tom DeLay Claims God
‘Wrote The Constitution’

Things I learned during the
Alabama Legislature’s Ten
Commandments debate today

“Hipster” Christianity:
9 hilarious attempts by
the religious right to be cool