Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for September 27, 2025. Today’s headlines see Russia’s repeated flights over NATO countries prompting urgent calls for action and a review of defense strategies, while a year after Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina, regions still await crucial federal aid despite ongoing recovery efforts. In a move that […]

September 26

1087:
Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of
William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews
that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody
frenzy the preceded the de…

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for September 24, 2025. Today’s news is dominated by escalating tensions both domestically and internationally. In the U.S., a deadly shooting at an ICE detention center in Dallas highlights rising violence. Meanwhile, the ongoing fallout from Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension continues the debate surrounding free speech and the […]

September 23

484 BCE:  Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama
in the manner of Euripides.  During the
time of Hellenization of the Jews, a Jewish playwri…

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for September 21, 2025. Today’s news is dominated by President Trump’s return to the United Nations, this time positioned as a leader in a new era of global power competition. Domestically, ICE continues its broadened immigration arrests in Chicago, prompting concerns. Amidst this political climate, comedian Jimmy […]

September 21

19 BCE:
Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called
Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems
also known as Bucolics or “Pastorals. Written in 40 B.C., during the
consulship of…