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Houston won their first game in 1962

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/9/2026 10:05:00 PM

        On this day in 1962, the expansion Houston Colt-45, who later became the Astros, played their first game.  It was also the first major league game played in Texas.     (The Rangers moved to the Dallas Ft Worth area in 1972)Houston beat Chicago, 8-1:   Veteran Bobby Shantz pitched a complete game and Cuban Roman Mejias was the batting hero:    Shantz ended his Opening Day complete-game victory by getting Ron Santo to fly out to right field. The Colt .45s had won their first game And Roman Mejias, with two three-run home runs, a single, and six runs batted in, was the days hitting star.And so Colt-45 got off to a winning start in 1962.Roman Mejias led[...]

Remember the Sugar Kings (1954-60)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/9/2026 10:04:00 PM

                Once upon a time, there was a team in Cuba: The Havana Sugar Kings of the AAA International League. Back in April 1954, 25,000 fans showed up to watch the Sugar Kings battle the Toronto Maple Leafs in the opening game of the International League season.Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Havana were cities from 3 countries (US, Canada and Cuba) in that AAA league.  Future major-leaguers like Leo Cardenas, Mike Cuellar and Cookie Rojas played in those Havana teams.In the late 1950s, as the owners were seriously looking at expansion, there was a lot of talk about putting a major league team in Havana.  Its an important[...]

Pre-Secession Feeling

K T Cat
4/9/2026 7:54:36 AM

 Dig this.  Across the country, at least ten states, including Washington, are now exploring or have already passed an exit or wealth tax to combat revenue losses from residents fleeing to lower tax areashttps://t.co/rSrea03PNm KOMO News (komonews) April 8, 2026   And this.The past five years have seen a massive migration of Americans out of heavily Democratic counties and into ones where Donald Trump won majorities in each of the past three elections. Thats according to an exclusive analysis by Issues & Insights of the latest Census Bureau and election data.Most analyses of internal migration patterns look only at state-level data. And what they show is that blue states are losing population to red states,[...]

Beatnik Prayers

K T Cat
4/7/2026 4:39:25 PM

Between work, family commitments, Cursillo commitments, parish activities and more, I'm redlining most days right now.    For Cursillo, I'm one of the assistant leaders for this coming weekend retreat. As such, I've got to write a short letter to each of the 25 newbies who will be coming up with us. Naturally, I asked AI to help. Here's the anodyne letter it wrote for me.Dear Brother in Christ,I have been praying the Rosary and have fasted in preparation for your retreat, asking the Lord to open your heart to His grace. You are not walking into this weekend alone. Christ is already there, waiting to meet you in a powerful and unexpected way.Simply receive whatever the Lord wishes to give you. There is nothing you[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

Los Angeles Battles Record Typhus Cases as City Prepares to Host 2028 Games 

Leslie Eastman

Despite mounting hospitalizations and growing concern over flea-borne typhus, local and state leaders have largely avoided confronting Los Angeless worsening sanitation issues head-on.The post Los Angeles Battles Record Typhus Cases as City Prepares to Host 2028 Games first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Zeldins EPA Overhaul Signals End of Federal Push for Start-Stop Engines 

Leslie Eastman

By removing climate-based micromanagement from everyday life, the EPA has opened the door for consumer preference and market demand to reclaim their rightful place in shaping innovation.The post Zeldins EPA Overhaul Signals End of Federal Push for Start-Stop Engines first appeared on Legal Insurrection.