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Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau): There are always lessons in failures.
Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg): Yes. You must be very wise by now.
— Game of Thrones, Season 7, Episode 3 (“The Queen’s Justice”), original airdate 30 July 2017
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Today is Wednesday, November 9th, the 313th day of 2022. There are 52 days left in the year. It is Carl Sagan Day, Go to an Art Museum Today Day, National Chaos Never Dies Day, National Scrapple Day, World Adoption Day, and World Freedom Day.
On This Day
In 1620, as their ship approached Cape Cod, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower spotted land.
In 1780, a force of British and Loyalist troops unsuccessfully attacked the South Carolina militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter at the Battle of Fishdam Ford.
In 1862, Union General Ambrose Burnside assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, replacing George B. McClellan.
In 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, and Germany was proclaimed a Republic.
In 1960, Robert McNamara was named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in the post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected president John F. Kennedy.
In 1965, several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours.
In 1979, NORAD missile-warning display screens spuriously indicated an attack by 1,400 Soviet ICBMs, information that simultaneously appeared on warning consoles at the Pentagon and Strategic Air Command.
In 1985, Garry Kasparov, 22, became the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov.
In 1989, East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
In 2020, an armistice agreement was signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Today's Birthdays
National Baseball Hall of Famer “Whitey” Herzog is 91. Bodybuilder and actor Lou Ferrigno is 71. Actor, director, and producer Robert Duncan McNeill is 58. Actor Eric Dane is 50.
The Links
“[You] are not Included on the List”: Florida Warns the Justice Department on Positioning Federal Monitors Inside Florida Polling Places (Jonathan Turley)
“McVay correctly notes in the letter that DOJ has not explained ‘the need for federal monitors in these counties. None of the counties are currently subject to any election-related federal consent.’”
3 Takeaways From Ron DeSantis’s Blowout Win For Every GOP Governor In America (The Federalist)
“America’s constitutional system is predicated on a balance of power between state and federal governments, not just between federal branches. State leaders who don’t pull punches are a deterrent against the excesses of Washington, creating a healthy tension that curbs government power. If every state that elects a Republican governor … goes on the offensive against the Biden administration’s abuses of power as forcefully as Florida has, it could do more for the country than any changes in Congress.”
No, Stacey Abrams Is Not Losing Because of ‘Misinformation’ Aimed at Black Men (Reason)
“Neither Abrams nor her campaign surrogates have identified specific falsehoods or misleading statements. This speaks to a much larger problem with Democratic, progressive, and mainstream media discourse on misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation — concepts that have increasingly captivated Team Blue, but are now so broadly applied as to be almost useless. Pundits and political figures complaining about misinformation might as well be saying that they don't like speech that is critical of them.”
Meet Biden’s Deep State DEI Enforcers (The American Conservative)
“In 2021, Wing co-authored a number of children’s books as part of a “Racial Justice In America” series, with titles such as, What is Anti-Racism?, What is White Privilege?, What Does it Mean to Defund the Police?, What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?, and How Can I Be an Ally?”
CBO Reports $83 Billion Deficit in First Month of Fiscal Year (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)
“We’re just one month into the new fiscal year, and we’ve already borrowed $2.7 billion per day.”
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