We start with The Bulwark as Kim Wehle writes of the stolen election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio) and Samuel J.Tilden (D-New York) that drives historians and history buffs to compare 1876 to the possibility of what many believe may happen in the upcoming presidential election.
Hayes-Tilden is the forgotten stolen election in our country's history and while the personal dislike between Hayes and Tilden doesn't seem to approach that of Trump and Biden, some other parallels are pretty dead on- economic depression and a split legislative branch, but I see one potential difference between the two years.
In the dispute over the nineteen electoral votes from Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, that would decide the Presidency, a committee was created to decide who would receive those votes with five members each from the House of Representatives, Senate, and Supreme Court.
That committee would create the "Compromise of 1877" which would give the Presidency to Hayes, but it was done so through an agreement- that agreement would see the removal of federal forces from the South and "home rule" to be accepted in the southern region.
In return, Democrats would accept the legitimacy of the Hayes Presidency without further dispute.
The end result, which is fascinating to me to this day?
The immediate return of the Jim Crow South because Reconstruction had lost the muscle behind it.
Politico writes of Joe Kennedy III and his recent defeat to Ed Markey in the Democratic primary in Massachusetts for Senator.
It is a story about Kennedy and his background, but it's also a story of days in the past when the name Kennedy meant automatic victory and opponents tended to melt away in defeat.
It's an odd thing in politics as name recognition is a double-edged sword.
It can get attention quickly and put you in contention for offices well-above what you could be ready for.
It can also end a career when the name recognition that puts you in one spot becomes a hindrance to another.
The Los Angeles Times writes of a new challenger to the nightly news game and perhaps eventually a new news network.
WGN America, based in Chicago with the original WGN, has launched a three hour evening news block with News Nation and the goal being a "just the news without an idealogical slant" program.
While that type of program is what I've been looking for quite a while, industry watchers warn of the difficulties in a down the middle offering in times with such rancor and opinion no matter the side of the street that you support.
Should News Nation become a success, it's not out of the question for WGN America to consider investing more time into news programming for the network.
WGN America mostly televises syndicated programming of comedies and dramas and it wouldn't be difficult for them to make space if the ratings warrant it.
ABC News (As in the Australian Broadcasting Company) brings news of the Parkes Radio Telescope moving onto the list of Australia's National Heritage list
The telescope, built in 1961, is shown often from the air, helped keep track of the Apollo missions when transmissions to the Northern Hemisphere were more difficult and was the topic of the 2000 film "The Dish".
CSIRO is still in use today and is the first operational instrument to be listed on the National Heritage list.
We wrap with Capiche.com and their article on web browsers.
It's basically an entire history of web browsers and how they changed the world- and boy, have they changed our world.
It covers the start of browsers with MOSAIC through Netscape to Internet Explorer, etc. throughout the age of the internet.
Just thinking back to the days of the beginning of the internet and of this-Think of all the companies that have been at the top of the heap for search engines, browsers, and everything else and imagine the money gained and lost.
Has to be staggering.
Next time, we will have a PPM and the boxing challenge for the weekend.
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