President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Ugly Betty.

Plus: The Golden Globe winners! The government gets its spy on! Condi goes to the Middle East! And where is Jack Bauer when we need him? It’s Tuesday, January 16 and this is Mic Check. Is this thing on?

Celebration Excuse

1896

The precursor to March Madness! The very first five-player college hoops game is played between the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. Final Score? 15-12.

1919

America goes on the wagon! Prohibition, the constitutional ban on booze, goes into effect today!

1976

Frampton Comes Alive drops. The album would go on to sell 19 million copies in its first year. Or as Wayne from Wayne’s World 2 put it, “Frampton Comes Alive? Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of ‘Tide’.”

1988

Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder get fired as CBS sports commentator after making racists comments on the air.

1991

The deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait expires, and at 7PM, the United States commences Operation Desert Storm

SCARY BIRTHDAYS!

Happy birthday to horror director John Carpenter (“Halloween”); coke-addled supermodel Kate Moss; and right-wing radio host Laura Schlessinger. We are afraid. We are very afraid!

Daybook

POTUS

1:15PM

President Bush meets with the new United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

COURT

Did he or didn’t he? Vice President Cheney’s former CoS Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s trial is scheduled to begin.

SENATE

5:45PM

Vote on amendments to the ethics and lobbying overhaul bill.

10AM

Senate Health/Education/Labor/Pensions committee will hold a hearing on economic opportunity and working families.

2pm

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee holds hearing on Iraqi Refugees. On Tap: Asst.State Dept. Sec. Ellen Sauerbry; President of Refugees International, Ken Bacon.

HOUSE

2PM

Vote on the resolution to commend the University Florida Gators for their 2006 Bowl Championship.

3PM

House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on protection equipment for the Marine Corps in Iraq.

 

Popularity Contest

Chickens That Lay The Healing Eggs

  • The lab that cloned Dolly the sheep has genetically engineered chickens to produce cancer-fighting proteins in their egg whites. [ABC]
  • The proteins, a monoclonal antibody and human protein that fights cancer cells, are very difficult to produce in a laboratory. So scientists have turned chickens into “animal factories.”
  • Researchers at the Roslin Biocentre in Edinburgh inserted genes for the desired proteins into egg whites, the chicks then incorporated the genes into their semen, passing the ability to produce the proteins to their offspring.
  • The scientists have bred several hundred of these cancer-fighting super-chicks. Next, the world!

Masthead

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