On this day in 1862, the first fiat paper money became legal tender in America after the Legal Tender Act was passed. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops. And Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin in 1956.
In 1950 “Your Show of Shows” with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premiered on NBC, and in 1957 Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded their smash hit “That’ll Be the Day” in Clovis, New Mexico.
It’s international sword swallowers day, chocolate covered nut day, pistol patent day, and if you are named Billy, Jessica, Kathy, or Nicholas, Feb 25th is your day too. But don’t get too rowdy; it’s also “Quiet day.”
Feb 25 also “commemorates the Soviet Red Army “Occupation” of Georgia in 1921.
The Morning Mail
CULTURE
- Tennessee passes bill prohibiting performances such as drag shows and strippers ‘in the presence of children’ – Leo Terrell
- Children’s book series about ‘inspiring women’ to publish biography on transgender Rachel Levine – FoxNews
- The Age of Social Media Is Ending – The Atlantic
- Vimeo Restores ‘Affirmation Generation’ Documentary Exposing Transgender Medical Scandal – The Daily Signal
LOCAL FLAVOR
- Democrats Vote to Strip Education Freedom and raise Granite Staters’ Electric Bills – NHGOP
- Illegal immigrants are now using the northern border, too – True North Reports
- Did NHDems Use Stolen Bankman-Fried Funds in Rochester Special Election? – NH Journal
- NH Dems Propose Taking Responsibilities Away From Adolescents – Liberty Block
B-B-B-BIDEN
- FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources – Just the News
- Mysterious White Dust Blankets Parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland – Gateway Pundit
- Tucker Carlson Outlines the Biden Plan to Support Ukraine for “As Long as It Takes” – The Last Refuge
- It’s Okay; You Can Clap – Twitter
- Toxic wastewater from Ohio train derailment headed to Texas … – Strange Sounds
- Biden Border Crisis: NYC Hospitals Spend Almost $100M to House Illegals – Gateway Pundit