Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with rain & drizzle and a high of 39. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:32 PM for 9h 07m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1942, the FBI obtains the conviction of 33…
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Daily Bread for 12.22.22: Inside the Russian Unit That Killed Dozens of Civilians
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Daily Bread for 9.25.22: Putin Rigs the Vote
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be windy with afternoon thundershowers and a high of 65. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 6:45 PM for 11h 59m 24s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1237, England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing…
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Daily Bread for 4.3.22: BBC Reports Evidence Points to War Crimes on Road Outside Kyiv
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 45. Sunrise is 6:31 AM and sunset 7:24 PM for 12h 52m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, Union forces capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. . The Russian…
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Daily Bread for 3.21.22: Putin’s Torrent of Lies
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 7:09 PM for 12h 14m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1965, Martin Luther King…
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Daily Bread for 2.27.22: Ronald Harold, Donald John, and Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 37. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 5:42 PM for 11h 10m 39s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 11.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1904, Wisconsin’s second state capitol burns: On this date fire destroyed the…
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Daily Bread for 2.16.22: Of Putin and Threats Closer to Home
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 48. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 5:28 PM for 10h 39m 43s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut,…
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Daily Bread for 1.2.22: Another Fifth Columnist Heard From
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 16. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:33 PM for 9h 07m 41s of daytime. The moon is new with none of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1777, American forces under the command of George Washington repulse a British attack…
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Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
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Ron Johnson Attracts Attention
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Never Trump conservatives at the Lincoln Project aren’t going away: they have lingering Trumpism in their sights. U.S. Senator Ron Johnson – who accepts every conspiracy theory but rejects Wisconsin’s certified electoral votes for president – has caught their attention. https://twitter.com/steveschmidtses/status/1345906690902908931?s=21 One cannot overstate how necessary diligent scrutiny of Johnson is. It’s the one…
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Whether Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot, Sen. Ron Johnson Doesn’t Disappoint
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Embedded below, Sen. Ron Johnson’s nine minutes, thirty-three seconds of lunacy on Sunday’s Meet the Press. A full transcript is available at NBC News. Previously: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson: Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot?, National Reporting on Sen. Ron Johnson, and Ron Johnson’s 12.16.20 Senate Hearing on Election Security.
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Go Right Ahead…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Julia Davis, writing at the Daily Beast, reports that Russian [State] Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump: Russian state media—a reliable barometer of the mood at the Kremlin—remains fixated on election-related events in America. Affectionately referring to Donald Trump as “our Donald,” “Trumpusha” and “Comrade Trump,” Russian lawmakers, experts and pundits repeatedly have…