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Weather: Areas of dense fog in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon and again from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd Street. The board takes up Veranda Bay’s latest proposal. For agendas and minutes, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: January 6 anyone? But first: Albert Beveridge (1862-1927) was a historian and U.S. Senator from Indiana. “We are a conquering race,” he had said. “We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands. […] In the Almighty’s infinite plan … debased civilizations and decaying races” were to disappear “before the higher civilization of the nobler and more virile types of man.” It is why the map below is so colorfully American, as opposed to just Latin and Central American. From Statista: “The United States’ intervention in Venezuela is hardly the first in the region’s history. As the following chart illustrates, several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced direct U.S. involvement, though to varying degrees. Among these are Mexico, which was invaded in 1846 during the Mexican-American war following the U.S. annexation of Texas. Panama was invaded in 1989, when Washington sought to depose the country’s de facto ruler, General Manuel Noriega. Cuba was invaded and occupied by U.S. forces in 1898, during the Spanish-American War and later became the site of the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Elsewhere, U.S. involvement took different forms. In Guatemala, the CIA orchestrated Operation PBSuccess in 1954, a covert coup that overthrew the democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz. In Chile, the United States supported the military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende in 1973. Other countries experienced more indirect forms of involvement. During the 1970s, the U.S. supported Operation Condor, a regional campaign of coordinated political repression carried out across Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay with Brazil, Peru and Ecuador joining later. Many of the areas shown in blue on this map are not sovereign states, but rather territories and dependencies of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France.”
Now this: (It cuts off, but worth the two minutes.)
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
It will become clear, and may as well be stated at the outset, that this is written by a political opponent of Henry Kisinger. Nonetheless, I have found myself continually amazed at how much hostile and discreditable material I have felt compelled to omit. I am concerned only with those Kissingerian offenses that might or should form the basis of a legal prosecution for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture. Thus, I might have mentioned Kissinger’s recruitment and betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds, who were falsely encouraged by him to take up arms against Saddam Hussein in 1972-75, and who were then abandoned to extermination on their hillsides when Saddam Hussein made a diplomatic deal with the Shah of Iran, and who were deliberately lied to as well as abandoned. The conclusions of the report by Congressman Oris Pike still make shocking reading and reveal on Kissinger’s part a callous indifference to human life and human rights. But they fall into the category of depraved realpolitik and do not seem to have violated any known law.
–From Christopher Hitchens’s “The Case Against Henry Kissinger: The making of a war criminal,” Harper’s February 2001.
Skibum says
I’m put out my American flag this morning on this solemn day, January 6. A day which I recall every year in remembrance of all the brave Americans who played a part in preventing one man’s mob of insurrectionist rioters from succeeding in their goal to overturn American democracy by stopping the certification of the 2020 presidential election by Congress and the Vice President.
I salute and respectfully thank all of the brave U.S. Capitol police officers, Metropolitan D.C. police officers, U.S. Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officers who were vastly outnumbered by the insurrectionists, the 140 law enforcement personnel who were beaten, spit on, pummeled, kicked, and assaulted with all sorts of weapons and bear spray, many of whom received serious, debilitating or career ending injuries.
I respectfully remember and mourn the few law enforcement personnel who committed suicide afterward because they were so traumatized by the extreme violence they witnessed and were forced to endure by hundreds of Americans who gave up their right to be called American citizens and instead will always be known by me and others by what they are… violent criminal anti-American insurrectionists belonging to the maga trump cult.
I remember and honor the singular act of courage and patriotism displayed by Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to bow down to a hideous, unpatriotic man’s unconstitutional and illegal effort to install himself as president for the next four years when the American people had cast their ballots instead for his opponent, who won by a majority of the electoral votes. I remember that the Vice President and his family were traumatized and had to be hidden and secretly taken to safety by U.S. Secret Service agents while the maga insurrectionist rioters stormed through the building in search of the V.P. to lynch him outside on the U.S. Capitol grounds at a gallows with a hangman’s noose, where many of the rioters repeatedly yelled in unison “HANG MIKE PENCE!”
There were so many acts of bravery that day by individual Americans who vowed not to let one unhinged, orange-faced, mob boss like maniac destroy hundreds of years of peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected president simply because that despicable example of humanity could not bear or accept the fact that he lost the election.
I proudly stand in front of my home today in Palm Coast FL, watching the U.S. flag waive in the morning breeze, not dwelling on what could have been but standing in awe and respect for the Americans who preserved American democracy five years ago today, January 6, 2021.
Americans should NEVER forget this important day in the history of our nation.
Laurel says
I’m with you, Skibum. Perfectly stated.
Sherry says
Thank you so much Skibum! We must NEVER FORGET!
Brian says
Agreed Skibum. Never forget or comply.
Pogo says
@Look out below!!!
Eat up — you asked for it
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Pod people for any occasion
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Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sherry says
Maduro kidnapping analysis from Rachel Maddow. . . Maga, I dare you to watch this!
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show
Sherry says
trump/hegseth trying to take away Mark Kelly’s military retirement benefits because of Kelly’s reminder to military personnel that they should not obey “illegal” orders! Is this petty retribution against veterans what you voted for Maga? Fascism at its best:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mark-kelly-pledges-fight-hegseth-092853570.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Sherry says
Incompetency is the very least of trump’s horrific actions:
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Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Pipe Bomber
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard
“As many in Washington were easing into the new year, there was a flurry of activity last week in the prosecution of Brian Cole Jr. — the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department obtained an indictment from a grand jury and, following a court hearing, persuaded a judge to keep Cole detained pending trial,” Politico reports.
“But there may be a serious problem on the horizon: Trump may have pardoned Cole last year as part of the sweeping clemency that he gave to Jan. 6 offenders on his first day back in office.”
Sherry says
Jan. 6th ,. . . INSURRECTION! WE MUST NEVER FORGET!:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/never-forget-jan-6-five-152239886.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall