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August 8, 2025
Did You Know? On August 8, 1786, the U.S. Congress unanimously chose the dollar as America’s official monetary unit.
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Congressman Tom McClintock of California’s 5th District discusses illegal immigration, the realities of repatriation and deportation, and his forestry bills, the Put Out the Fire Act and the Proven Forest Management Act, which aim to improve wildfire response and expand successful forest management practices nationwide. Congressman Addison McDowell of North Carolina’s 6th District shares his work to combat the fentanyl crisis, including the HALT Fentanyl Act and the BIDEN Act to end the use of automated signing devices for key presidential actions. Finally, Financial expert Gary Gygi joins with insight on whether the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates and what that could mean for the economy.
AZ School Officials Ran One On WAPO
Arizona school officials ran one on Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler. They planted a seed - or rather a time bomb - in Meckler’s piece about Arizona K-12 public school closures.
The article is actually pretty decent, giving both sides of the school choice issue room to air their views, but near the end of the piece the education establishment hid their trap. The article closes with a bit about a parent, Rose Burney, who decided to send her kids to a Basis Charter School after the closest K-12 public school was closed instead of sending them to another school in the district. Burney made the decision, according to the article, after finding out her kids were falling behind in both math and reading. Seems reasonable.
54% Can't Read Past 6th Grade
In a striking conversation on the Breaking Battlegrounds podcast, Daniel Buck, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of the Conservative Education Reform Network, didn’t hold back when asked what he would do if handed the reins to American education.
With 54% of U.S. adults unable to read beyond a sixth-grade level and 18% considered functionally illiterate, Buck called the situation a “travesty.” His solution? Begin by eliminating the federal Department of Education altogether.
DESIGNER, 33, FOUND DEAD ON HAMPTONS YACHT
Just after midnight, the calm over the serene Montauk Yacht Club is shattered by the sounds of a man’s anguished scream. Passersby rush to a boat in the marina, where a man is standing over an unconscious woman begging for help.
Soon, the marina is filled with the sound of sirens, but the woman isn’t rushed to the hospital—first responders declare the woman dead on the scene.
After the East Hampton Town Police and first responders pronounce Martha dead, the county’s Homicide Squad arrives on scene around 4am and takes over the investigation. The preliminary investigation and exam were inconclusive regarding the cause of death, and an autopsy was performed by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
Wisconsin Bear with Snack Jug Stuck on Head Freed, Relocated and Released
Wisconsin residents called in by the dozen: “there’s a bear in my yard,” they said.
But wildlife authorities were taken aback at the next detail, “it has a jar on its head!”
The Winnie the Pooh wannabe was a 2-year-old female black bear who had obviously followed her nose about 18 inches too far. Feasting on cheese balls, pretzels, or something else that’s sold in those massive plastic snack jugs, the animal couldn’t extract its head after it had finished.
“My immediate neighbor was like, ‘hey, just heads up, here is what’s heading towards your house,'” said Jayme Morey, coordinator for the Chequamegon Humane Association in Ashland, Wisconsin.
Used to spreading the word about missing dogs and cats, this emergency was rather more different. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had been tracking the bear for a week, as Morey’s call wasn’t the only one they had received.
They were finally able to find it, tranquilize it, and remove the jug from its head. Clearly skinny, the bear had been trapped for at least 11 days based on the record of sightings by locals. It could still get water by dunking its head and slurping up what entered through the sides of the jug.
“We’ve seen this come up from time to time, often with a bear, occasionally a deer,” Randy Johnson, a large carnivore specialist with the Wisconsin DNR, told CBS News. “The good news is this is the time of year when food is the most abundant in the woods, and she’s got two months to kind of get back into healthy shape going into winter.”
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