News to ME with Ken & Mike Redux

Let's catch up on Donald Trump's legal woes, as well as some other current issues. Caitlin Clark became the leading scorer in women's basketball history, soon to surpass Pete Maravich. Also the five best and five worst presidents of all time. Happy President's Day!

It wouldn't have mattered if Nikki Haley had won NH. Donald Trump will be the nominee of the Republican party. But, hopefully, she can continue to be a thorn in his side (and it is good to know she has abandoned her quest to be the vice presidential nominee). Also, eight African Americans who made life easier with their inventions (in anticipation of Black History month).

The Iowa caucus is tomorrow. Ho hum. Next up New Hampshire. May be a little closer. But fantasize all you want we are still heading to two old white men having a rematch. And neither of them are the loser. We are.

Colorado and Maine have attempted to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot for president. Let's chat about the 14th Amendment: What it says, means, can do, and who can do it. And the six individuals who have been disqualified under the 14th Amendment.

Where does freedom of speech end? Why are we giving George Santos one penny? Why do we pretend there will be any new restrictive gun laws? And kudos to Time Magazine for selecting Taylor Swift as Person of the Year.

My take on the expulsion of George Santos, the status of the Israeli / Hamas conflict, and where we stand with the republican primary. My Top Five is the other five representatives expelled from the House in the history of the US.

Eighteen people dead, thirteen wounded, in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, just a few miles from my home. And still people are saying it is not about guns, it is about mental health. Well it is about people with mental illnesses owning guns, but if you can't identify and isolate everyone with a mental illness can we at least make it harder to get a lethal weapon?

My annual description of our utter destruction of the Native American culture in the US. I do NOT support Hamas, or ISIS, or the Taliban, but we need to understand how others view us as the terrorists. The atrocities we inflicted on Native Americans in the US are IDENTICAL to what we describe as the barbaric practices of Hamas. From massacring women and children to Andrew Jackson taking a Native American child home to his wife to raise, let's be careful to not suggest we are more moral or ethical than those people we call terrorists.

Kudos to Speaker McCarthy for standing up to the radical right. It is about time we have some adults in the room. Senator Menendez time for you to do the right thing and resign. And, yes, I love Taylor Swift, but enough of Traylor for a while. And the KC Chiefs (misappropriation of the indigenous people whom we decimated).

So if Joe will not leave the ticket, should we be focusing on Kamala Harris leaving the ticket for "the good of the party." Would Biden enforce that action? Would Harris leave? What if, what if, and more what if. Also, four incidents in our history when a vice president was dumped from the ticket after a previous tenure as vice president.