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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, May 6, 2014

May 6, 2014420, Bob Beckel, Cosmos, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Neil deGrasse Tyson, News Corp., Orson Welles, Outer Space, Rupert Murdoch, SCOTUS, Tucker CarlsonHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday boy is Orson Welles, who never bettered his first film, Citizen Kane. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union and Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 – At California‘s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.

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

On Cosmos, Tyson Makes Climate
Connections That Fox News Mocks

FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Carlson: Men Understand That Getting Sexually Harassed By A Female Teacher Is The “Greatest Thing That Ever Happened”

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Beckel Bashes GOP on
Benghazi: Turned ‘Four
Dead Bodies Into a Political Act’

IN INNER SPACE:

Finally, Neil deGrasse
Tyson and “Cosmos”
Take on Climate Change

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA seeks help to save
Earth from killer asteroids

Astronomers use supernovae to gauge power of cosmic lenses

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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