How many scandals can one administration take?

We spoke today with Richard Baehr, Chief Political Correspondent, American Thinker.  
Richard just wrote an article about the scandals and the ramifications.   This is what he wrote about the scandals:

"Politics is not beanbag, and this administration plays hard, the "Chicago way," according to one Chicago writer, John Kass. What we have learned the past few weeks is that the Chicago way means finding a way to win, the law be damned."

The real question is this:  How many scandals can this administration manage?  The answer is that time will tell.  

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Obama scandals by the minute!

Have you seen anything like this before?  The Obama administration is in a scandal-a-day mode.  Again, I have never seen this before and I remember Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Clinton Oval Office scandals.

Today, we learned that the scandals expanded to "Fast & Furious".   It looks like the DOJ tried to undermine a whistle-blower by leaking some documents.    Wonder if we will hear from the "civil lilibertarians" about that?

The other "new scandal" is about 2 Fox News reporters.   

Last, but not least, there are now some doubts as to when the White House learned of the IRS story.  There are some reports that some key people knew about the IRS investigation but did not tell President Obama.

Does it make any sense that key White House staffers would keep an IRS story away from President Obama?  It makes no sense to me and we need an independent prosecutor to cut through the crap.

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Sunday: A chat with Humberto Fontova & Henry Gomez at Cuba Nostalgia

We did two shows this weekend from Cuba Nostalgia.

On Sunday, we spoke with Humberto Fontova about his new book, "The longest romance".  This book is about the US media and Fidel Castro.

In segment 2, Henry Gomez discussed his involvement with The Babalu Blog.

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Saturday: A chat with Valentin Prieto & Alberto De La Cruz at Cuba Nostalgia

We spoke with Valentin Prieto about the story of The Babalu Blog.   Val started the blog 10 years ago.  

In segment 2, Alberto De La Cruz, Managing Director, discussed the current status of the blog.

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Cuba Independence Day

On this day in 1902, Cuba became an independent country.   I recall my grandmother, born in 1892 when Cuba was still a Spanish colony, told me stories of celebrations, parties, Cuban flags hanging from windows and a general sense of happiness around the island.

Of course, independence did not fix Cuba's problems.  The island went through several ups and downs, government changes and the communist takeover of 1959.

Cuba did enjoy a lot of success in the first half of  the 20th century.   The island nation achieved macro-economic success, from per capita income to literacy.   Unfortunately, Cuba's political problems made it difficult for country to enjoy a stable political climate.

Maybe Cuba will eventually celebrate another independence day as a democratic country.  We hope so!
 

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Remembering Robin Gibb who died a year ago

Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees died a year ago.    In recent years, Robin had been very active in supporting World War II veterans:

"There has been much talk about Robin Gibb's contribution to popular music since the announcement of his death.

But he will be remembered by a much older group of men for a very different reason. This was another side to the former Bee Gees singer that many people rarely saw."

Today, we remember one of the group's songs.

Click here for "Alone again":

"'Leaving' that's all you ever seem to say and I'm tired
The wants you have me for have expired
Sleeping and reading ev'ry book I can find to get my mind off
In all I was a soul you were using

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

People, the sun is going down on your heads so read your paper
There's no one there for you to confide in
It's instinct to always to have a shoulder to cry on and to rely on
Someone there to share and to shine on

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train..."

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Frank Sinatra died 15 years ago this week

Time flies and we recall that Frank Sinatra died 15 years ago this week.  It seems like it was yesterday that I was driving and heard the story about Sinatra's break on the radio:

"Sinatra emerged from an Italian-American family in Hoboken, New Jersey, to become the first modern superstar of popular music, with an entertainment career that spanned more than five decades. In the first incarnation of his singing career, he was a master of the romantic ballads popular during World War II. After his appeal began to wane in the late 1940s, Sinatra reinvented himself as a suave swinger with a rougher, world-weary singing style, and began a spectacular comeback in the 1950s.

In addition to his great musical success, Sinatra appeared in 58 films; one of his earliest was Anchors Aweigh (1945). Playing a cocky Italian-American soldier who meets a violent death in From Here to Eternity (1953), co-starring Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift, Sinatra won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film career flourished after that, as he starred as Nathan Detroit in the movie musical Guys and Dolls (1955) and played a heroin addict in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), for which he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor. He also starred in the musicals High Society (1956) and Pal Joey (1957) and turned in a memorable performance as an Army investigator in the acclaimed film The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
By the late 1950s, Sinatra had become the epitome of show-business success and glamorous, rough-edged masculinity. He even headed up his own entourage, known as the Rat Pack, which included Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. The group had originally formed around Humphrey Bogart, who died in 1957. The Rat Pack first appeared together on the big screen in 1960’s casino caper Ocean’s Eleven. They would go on to make Sergeant’s Three (1962), Four for Texas (1963) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). Onscreen and in real life, the Pack’s famous stomping grounds included Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York (notably the Copacabana Club).

Sinatra worked steadily in film throughout the 1960s, though many of his performances seemed almost perfunctory. His last major Hollywood role came in 1980’s The First Deadly Sin. A famous heartthrob, Sinatra married four times, divorcing his longtime sweetheart Nancy Barbato after a decade and three children (Nancy, Frank Jr. and Christina) to marry the actress Ava Gardner in 1951. Their marriage lasted less than two years, and in 1966 Sinatra married the 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior; they were divorced in 1968. In 1976, he married Barbara Blakely Marx (the former wife of Zeppo Marx), and they remained together until his death."

Click here for Frank Sinatra's  "THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT": 

"Some day, when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.
Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft, There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.
With each word your tenderness grows, Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.
lovely ... Never, ever change. Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.
Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm, Just the way you look to-night...."

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