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April 25, 1976: Rick Monday saved the US flag

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/25/2024 3:26:15 AM

            We remember Rick Monday, a pretty good outfielder who played for the As, Cubs, and Dodgers.    His best years were with the Cubs (1972-76), when he hit 106 home runs and was a very tough out.    Later he moved to the LA Dodgers and hit a 9th-inning HR to beat Montreal in the 1981 NLCS.    However, his greatest baseball moment had nothing to do with hits or home runs.    It happened on April 25, 1976.    You may remember that it was the Bicentennial year, and Watergate and Vietnam were behind us.  The economy was a bit sluggish, but people were looking forward to July 4 and all of the patriotic parades and celebrations. [...]

We remember Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/25/2024 3:25:17 AM

      The great Ella Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1917.   She is known to many as "The First Lady of Song", a well deserved title in my opinion.Ella had lots of problems as a young woman.  She was an orphan by 15 and had trouble with the law.    Eventually, she left that and became a very successful performer.P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page. 

Mein Kampf Mad Libs

K T Cat
4/23/2024 4:21:00 PM

Peachy Keenan wrote a powerful blog post on her Substack blog this morning where she both revealed her Jewish roots and wagged her fingers at the Jewish progressives who were only too happy to throw whites into the DEI meat grinder, thinking they were safe from modern racial hate. Here's a snippet.This month I heard reports of tsuris and schpilkas all over L.A. as rich private school kids got denied from their parents Ivy League alma maters, thanks to the DEI regime they welcomed with open arms in 2020. Elite Jews are finally feeling the sting of anti-white racism.This betrayal is, at least for many of the Jews I know, the hardest to bearthe reversal of privilege inside networks that Jews themselves made.John Podhoretz[...]

Columbia Isn't About The Jews

K T Cat
4/22/2024 11:46:24 AM

 ... it's about success.From the Catican Archives: One of the questions raised in (The Strange Death Of Europe) was, why are the Europeans uniquely guilty when everyone else did the same thing? The Ottoman Empire is a good example. I don't see Erdogan making an apology tour for the conquest and enslavement of Europeans perpetrated by the Ottomans. Dittos for the descendants of the Mongols...I'd suggest that instead of hating slavery, racism and imperialism, we hate success. To borrow this tidbit again from Hilaire Belloc,Whatever happens we have gotThe Maxim Gun, and they have not.It's hard to imagine that the Turks, the Mongols or even the peaceful, living-in-harmony-with-nature Apache would have eschewed the use[...]

CalPERS Fail

W.C. Varones
8/4/2023 5:59:23 AM
Despite the awesome bull market this year, CalPERS again missed its return target, earning only 5.8% vs. its required 6.8%.CalPERS has missed its return targets for the trailing 1-, 3-, 5-, 15-, and 20-year periods.When CalPERS fails to make its' required returns, California taxpayers are liable for making up the difference for California's uber-generous public pensions.

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Biden-Trump Gaffe Tracker: Biden Reads Pause From Teleprompter

Biden, 81, is the oldest president in history and Trump, 77, would be the second-oldest if he wins in November. And theyre increasingly frequent misspoken comments have drawn increased scrutinyand ...

A resilient global economy masks growing debt and inequality

That buoyant narrative will be reflected in what are expected to be upgrades to growth forecasts for most major economies by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during this weeks spring meetings in ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Arizona Grand Jury Indicts Giuliani, Meadows, and Other Trump Allies in 2020 Election Probe 

Mary Chastain

The indictment identifies Trump as "Unindicted Coconspirator 1."The post Arizona Grand Jury Indicts Giuliani, Meadows, and Other Trump Allies in 2020 Election Probe first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

In the Name of Equity, California Proposes to Ban Popular TSA Skipping Program 

Leslie Eastman

California politicians find it so much easier to create even more rules for rule-followers to follow, then to do the hard work of directing efforts and resources to infrastructure, crime-prevention, and protection of our borders.The post In the Name of Equity, California Proposes to Ban Popular TSA Skipping Program first appeared on Legal Insurrection.