Thursday, December 31, 2015

The economic stories of 2015 with Dr. Ileana Johnson, author and economist..




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Dallas Stars are the best team in town


Let's salute the 27-8 Dallas Stars and their two months of hockey.     

We understand that the tougher part of the season is ahead but so far so good for this young and exciting team.

Go Stars!   I feel really good about this team its chances in the upcoming second half and playoffs.

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2015 was a fun year for the Rangers (specially September)


The Rangers had two seasons.   

The first one ended on July 31st with a team playing around .500 and 7 games behind Houston.     Then they made the trade for Cole Hamels and improved their bullpen immensely with Sam Dyson and Jake Dikman.

The second one ended when the aforementioned Cole Hamels clinched the AL West with a complete game victory over the Angels.

It took literally 162 games to win the division.    They celebrated on the last day of the season.

The post season was great until we got to the 7th inning in Toronto.   It was horrific to watch.   It was like watching game 6 of the 2011 World Series all over again.   So let's forget that part of the story.

We salute the Rangers for great baseball in August and September, specially that 4 game sweep of Houston to move to first place.

Looking forward to 2016!


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Hillary can’t discuss abused women without discussing Bill’s women



As we’ve grown accustomed to, Mr. Trump has once again put a topic on the political table that no other GOP candidate would dare do. I know that Senator Rand Paul mentioned this a few months ago but he can’t get on TV as easily as Mr. Trump does.  Once again, it’s Trump forcing us to talk about an uncomfortable issue, from illegal immigrants to refugees to President Clinton’s women.
Just read an interesting point by Ruth Marcus about the Clinton-Trump feud:
Trump has smeared women because of their looks. 
Clinton has preyed on them, and in a workplace setting where he was by far the superior. 
That is uncomfortable for Clinton supporters but it is unavoidably true.
Ruth Marcus is right on.
During the entire Lewinsky episode, I kept waiting for a feminist to say: “Sorry, Mr. President, but we can’t take it anymore”.
Maybe one said it but I don’t remember. Instead, I remember excuses and blaming the GOP with Hillary Clinton using the loudest megaphone. I came to the conclusion that the feminist movement would support any man as long as he supported abortion.     
Frankly, I’d rather talk about ISIS, Russia, China’s naval expansion, and the refugee crisis. However, it is ridiculous to give Mrs. Clinton a pass on her husband’s treatment of women. Also, Mrs. Clinton was the enabler. She defended Mr. Clinton. She put up with his humiliating behavior. Again, she can’t have it both ways anymore.
Yes, Mr. Clinton’s women are fair game.
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2015: The year in politics with Richard Baehr of American Thinker





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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

A political prisoner in Cuba could use a little attention from Obama


We saw an article this morning that President Obama is planning a global tour to say goodbye to the world.   
It’s sort of like his version of the Derek Jeter farewell tour of 2014. Of course, it’s not a stretch to say that Jeter had a few more successes on his record than President Obama. In other words, fans were sad to see Derek go because he was one of the greatest players of our time. On the other hand, a lot of world leaders want to see Obama go because he’s been so weak at a time when the world needs a strong U.S. more than ever. 
Cuba is on the list, although nothing has been confirmed according to news reports.
Let me make a suggestion if President Obama plans to visit Cuba. How about paying attention to the plight of a Cuban namedVladimir Morera Bacallao (via our friends at Babalu):
Back in December of last year, President Obama and the media seemed very interested in labor activist and dissidentVladimir Morera Bacallao when he was part of the list of 53 political prisoners “released” by the apartheid Castro dictatorship pursuant to their deal with Obama to “normalize” relations. 
Back then, Vladimir fit perfectly into Obama’s narrative that appeasement of the Castro regime yields positive results and the media was all too happy to push that line. However, when Vladimir was arrested and imprisoned again only four months later, he ceased to be of any use to the White House. 
He no longer provided the positive spin the president so desperately needed to defend his disastrous Cuba policy and literally became a non-person as far as Obama and the media were concerned.
Today, after nearly three months of a hunger strike in prison, Vladimir Morera Bacallao is slipping closer to death. 
But since he is no longer useful to Obama’s pro-Castro and pro-apartheid agenda, you will not hear the president, or his State Department, or his minions in the media, utter a single word about him.  
It is not that they do not know what is going on in Cuba, but that they simply do not care.
Let’s hope that someone cares. Vladimir is dying in Cuba and President Obama is planning to shake hands with the dictator who put him there.
President Reagan once called the USSR the evil empire. Maybe it’s time for President Obama to get out of the box and stand up for a man who just wants to be free to write columns and offer opinions. Isn’t that what hope and change is really about?
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2015: The national security stories of the year with Barry Jacobsen





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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

What is Europe going to look like in 5 years?

As we look back at 2015, it’s easy to get wrapped in Trumpmania or the Clinton emails story.  
In 5 years, pundits may look back at 2015 and call it the year that Europe changed.    
According to the BBC, one million people walked into Europe:
The number of migrants and refugees crossing into Europe by land and sea this year illegally has passed one million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
This represents a fourfold rise on the total last year.
Most crossed by sea, with more than 800,000 travelling from Turkey to Greece. Half are migrants from Syria.
Eleven more migrants drowned on Tuesday, adding to the IOM toll of 3,695 dying or missing at sea.
Seven people were rescued by Turkish coast guards after the craft went down, apparently en route from Kusadasi in Turkey to the Greek island of Samos. One report said the dead were Syrians.
Europe could have absorbed one million people over a 10-15 year period, specially if they bring special skills that make them employable immediately. On the other hand, I don’t know of a way of absorbing that many people in one year without creating chaos across society.
How will Europeans react? They could complain and do nothing.   
They could fight back to protect their culture as we’ve seen in the rise of political parties. According to a USA Today story:
Hard nationalist and xenophobic politicians across Europe are gaining popularity as sections of their society become afraid and angry over immigration. The Economist calls it “The march of Europe’s little Trumps.”
Hungary has probably been the best example. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s vehemently anti-immigrant rhetoric, his country’s border fence with Serbia, as well as his pandering to the far-right Jobbik party has long caused concern in Europe. Among Hungarians, however, Orban’s approval has grown.
More recently, Poland’s new right-wing government — though not radical — pledges it will crack down on immigration. 
By the way, this article is unfair to call these people anti-immigrant. It’s more accurate to say that they are anti-illegal immigration, specially given the potential for terrorism. Also, many of these “immigrants” have very different attitudes about freedom, and specially women, than Europeans do.
As an immigrant, who eventually became a U.S. citizen, I sympathize with people who yearn for a better life. My parents did and that’s we left Cuba for the U.S. in the 1960s.
At the same time, immigration must be orderly. You can’t have a million foreigners walk into a society without creating major disruptions and a backlash from the locals.
How will Europe change? I will change, but the question is how?
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Monday's political thoughts and a word about the weather in North Texas




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Monday, December 28, 2015

Why are young Cubans coming?


(My new Babalu blogpost)

We’ve read several news accounts about Cubans in Central America or heading to the US.

It’s true that some want to get to the US before the Cuban act or law changes.

However, there is another reason.    They want to leave Cuba period, as we read in this article at The Telegraph:
Yenis Rojas should be a symbol of Cuba’s future. A doctor, she has worked all her life for the state, and is full of drive, energy and ambition.And yet, despite the announcement a year ago that America and Cuba were re-establishing ties after half a century of hostilities, she sees no promise in her homeland and has fled. “I had to get out,” she said, speaking from the Costa Rica, close to the border with Nicaragua, where she is camped out. “I couldn’t stand it any more.”
And that’s the story!

They want to leave because they “can’t stand it anymore”.

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Congratulations to Fausta's Blog, American Thinker & Babalu

It's nice to hang around with the best of the best.   

We are delighted to report that Doug Ross has named American Thinker, Fausta's blog and Babalu as 3 of the best 50 blogs of 2015.    

Fausta covers Latin America and she also joins us once a week to look at US-Latin America stories of the week.

Babalu is the place to go for Cuba stories.

American Thinker is listed as one of the best general group blogs.

It's a treat to be associated with these three winners!

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Maybe a little ‘capitalismo’ is what Latin America really needs

We just had two important elections in Latin America.   
In Venezuela, the center-right opposition took over the legislature. They plan to challenge, and perhaps, reverse President Nicolas Maduro’s populism. To be fair, there was more to that election than ideology. In other words, corruption, crime, chaos and simple bureaucratic arrogance were behind the anger in Venezuela.   
In Argentina, newly-elected President Mauricio Macri is committed to moving the country to the right and improving the damage that left-wing policies have done to Argentina.   
Will the trend continue? Yes and my guess is that “king of crony capitalism” Brazil is next! How can the 8th largest GPD in the world be so inefficient and corrupt? More and more Brazilians are asking that question!
I think that the Latin America middle class is finally figuring out that “populismo” is a scam and not a good economic development policy. It benefits three groups: big business, corrupt public sector unions and the politicians who carry their water!
Maybe the time has arrived to give “capitalismo” a chance, as James Pethokoukis reminds us.
The bad news is that there are entrenched interests from Mexico to Argentina to protect “crony capitalism”. We saw the left’s reaction in Mexico when President Enrique Pena-Nieto tried to reform PEMEX and the teachers’ union. We saw in Mexico the same kind of childish demonstrations that Governor Scott Walker faced in Wisconsin.
The good news is that voters in Venezuela and Venezuela turned the ships of state. In Peru, President Ollanta Humala, a former leftist, is talking sense with economic reforms intended to invite more foreign investment.
We see small steps but steps in the right direction.  
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RIP: Meadowlark Lemon died at age 83


We just learned that Meadowlark Lemon died at age 83.   

He was one of the most popular members of The Harlem Globetrotters........they were fun to watch on TV and at arenas all over the world.   

RIP Meadowlark! 




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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda




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Sunday, December 27, 2015

We pray for our neighbors in North Texas


It was a very rough night for our neighbors in Garland and elsewhere.   

The storms were rough and many families are assessing the damage.   The storms happened on the day after Christmas when many families had visitors or were outside celebrating the holidays.

So let's keep these people in our prayers when we go to church today.

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We will miss Randy Galloway

Since moving to Dallas, I've followed Randy Galloway.   

He used to be on WBAP every night, often right before the Rangers' game when they were on that station.

He moved to ESPN and his show moved to afternoon drive time.   It was not as good as it was on WBAP.   

Galloway wrote for The Dallas Morning News and then took the trip west to The Ft Worth Star Telegram.  Always checked his column!

I didn't always agree with him but it's a free country.   Randy was a man of many opinions and his radio show was always fun to listen to.  

This weekend, Randy wrote a farewell column.   It was fun to read.   We will miss him.

Randy is right about thing:   Game 6 of the 2011 World Series did "fry our brain"!   



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The New York Times, covering Rubio, decides that experience matters

It’s time for another article by The New York Times versus Senator Rubio.  Who else would be so negative against Cuban Americans?
Maybe the folks at The New York Times think that Marco can beat Hillary.   Yes he can, according to a series of polls.   Rubio beats Clinton in the RCP average of polls: he is up 2 points!
The New York Times is now saying that Senator Rubio is like then-Senator Obama of 2008.
The article calls him “The Republican Obama”.
In other words, the newspaper has discovered that experience matters in a presidential candidate.
Of course, the analysis is silly because Marco Rubio got to the US Senate with more political experience: Rubio started as a City Commissioner for West Miami before being elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, and then was elected Speaker in November 2006. He had successfully served in the Florida legislature as House leader, whereas Obama was a back-bench state senator from a safe seat.
Also, Senator Rubio has developed a reputation as a serious person on foreign policy.   Does anyone remember anything that Senator Obama did in Washington or Springfield, Illinois?
I wonder if The NY Times’ editorial page will write an editorial saying that endorsing a first term Senator Obama with zero executive experience was a mistake?   They should, after questioning Senator Rubio’s experience for president.
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Cruz and Rubio: the two Cuban Americans running for president




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Saturday, December 26, 2015

The Cruz cartoon: And it wasn’t even funny!

What happens when liberals can’t defend President Obama’s foreign policy anymore or the fact that ObamaCare is going broke one exchange at a time?   
Or that they voted for “hope and change” but black districts from coast to coast are not doing very well in the 7th year of our first black president?  
Or that they party of diversity has two old white people running for president plus the mayor of Baltimore? (Frankly, there ought to be a Constitutional Amendment saying that no mayor of modern Baltimore should be taken seriously as a candidate for president!)
I guess that they call you a racist or homophobic, or they take a cheap shot at Senator Cruz’ daughters.    
Mollie Hemingway has a great post about the cartoon. This is my favorite of the 10 reasons:
It’s Not Funny
This is actually quite important. The Washington Post has always been a bad page for editorial cartooning. For something like 60 years they featured the ghastly work of HERBLOCK, whose distinctions were drawing like a particularly uncreative five-year-old and labeling literally everything in said drawings. Partly he needed to label because he lacked any imagination at all and kept pushing out the same clichéd metaphor for…everything. Partly, some suspected, it was because he was huffing airplane glue. If you’d like some delicious take-downs of HERBLOCK (his name was Herbert Block, so this all-block-letter-combo-name thing gives you an indication of his dazzling intellect), I’d recommend “Cartoons Without Humor: The underwhelming oeuvre of Herblock, America’s worst political cartoonist” and “Washington’s Blockheads: The perpetual adulation of Herblock.” From the latter, by the great Andy Ferguson:
Vampire bats sweep across a skyline, their bellies covered in writing: “takeover tactics,” “raiders,” “greenmail specialists,” “junk bond finances,” and “stock manipulations.” (This must be Wall Street!) And there’s always a caption, too, another 15 or 20 words. “If you don’t get my meaning,” Block seems to be saying to his reader, “I’m going to make you sit here until you do.” It was his politics, mostly, that lifted Herblock above his lack of technical skill to the Pulitzers and the medals and the honorary degrees. His ideas were as simple as his draftsmanship, and perfectly matched to the prejudices of the powerful journalists he hoped to please.
All of which to say, Telnaes reminds me a lot of HERBLOCK. She can draw better than he could (all humans can), but her ideas are just as predictably progressive, clichéd, hyper-partisan, and so on. She obsesses over the same, few causes (supporting abortion is her favorite and disdaining Christians is right up there, too). In fact, herattacks on pro-lifers are so hackneyed that nobody will be surprised that she’s been given awards by the country’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. (Interestingly, this pro-abortion cartoon, which passes for perceptive at the WashingtonPostalso features children on strings, which says nothing about pro-lifers but a great deal about Telnaes.)
That’s very important: It wasn’t even funny.   
The cartoonist had to know that portraying the girls as monkeys would not be funny. Furthermore, did she ever consider doing a cartoon of Mr Obama saying to his daughters (as monkeys) that you could keep your insurance under ObamaCare? Or that ISIS was the JV team?  
My good guess is that the cartoonist would not dare publish a cartoon with Obama’s daughters as monkeys. All hell would break loose and the Washington Post would apologize for its editorial insensitivity.
Moral of the story: Don’t take cheap shots at the kids. After all, they are not responsible for what their fathers say. It wasn’t the Obama girls who told us that Obama Care would translate into cheaper premiums for all!
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The NY Times makes a new argument against Senator Rubio


For the record, I have not endorsed a candidate for the GOP nomination.   With all due respect to my friends who support Senator Rubio or Senator Cruz (“los cubanos”), I prefer governors for president.   I think that a governor has more appropriate experience for the presidency.
Nevertheless, let me come to Senator Rubio’s defense from another article by The New York Times……who else?
Maybe the folks at The New York Tmes think that Marco can beat Hillary.   Yes he can, according to a series of polls.   Rubio beats Clinton in the RCP average of polls: he is up 2!
The New York Times is now saying that Senator Rubio is like then Senator Obama of 2008.
The article calls him “The Republican Obama”.
In other words, the self appointed newspaper of record has discovered that experience matters in a presidential candidate.
Of course, the analysis is silly because Marco Rubio got to the US Senate with more political experience:   Rubio started as a City Commissioner for West Miami before being elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000, and then Speaker in November 2006.
He had successfully served in the Florida legislature whereas Obama was a State Senator of a safe Democrat district, the home of a loudmouth reverend and 1960’s terrorist.
Also, Senator Rubio has developed a reputation as a serious person on foreign policy.   Does anyone remember anything that Senator Obama did in Washington or Springfield, Illinois?
Wonder if The NY Times’ editorial page will post that endorsing first term Senator Obama with zero executive experience was a mistake?   They should after questioning Senator Rubio’s experience for president.
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Happy Christmas Eve



Happy Christmas Eve......or Noche buena as we say in Spanish.  

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Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad 2015......A Christmas message to all of our friends.


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A Christmas message to all of our friends


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Not much of a ‘feliz Navidad’ in Cuba again


Raúl Castro went on TV recently to remind the world that change is not coming to Cuba any time soon.   
My friend Mike Gonzalez brought this to our attention:
And on Friday, Castro took to the airwaves again, this time wearing the uniform of general, to make demands: “During this year we have not advanced to resolve the issues that are essential if Cuba is to have normal relations with the United States.”
Among the demands are ending U.S. broadcasts to Cuba (the only break in the Communist news monopoly in Cuba) ending the trade embargo, and the handover of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay to the Castros.
In an interview with Yahoo News, Obama last week eerily left open the possibility that this might happen. “There’s no doubt they’d love to have Guantánamo back,” Obama said. “And I suspect that will be a long, diplomatic discussion that will outlast my administration.”
Then again, he also seriously misjudged Castro, saying, “I do see in him a big streak of pragmatism. In that sense, I don’t think he is an ideologue.”
Not an ideologue?  I guess he is not an ideologue.  He just wants the U.S. to make all the concessions.
He wants to be compensated for the embargo, the return of Guantánamo, the cancelation of Radio/TV Marti broadcasts to the island, and then he wants U.S. tourists to flood the island with dollars so that he can put more money in the family business (Castro Inc).    
It’s quite a family business (or racket), as Heather McDonald explained:
There is a price that the Cuban regime will exact from American companies to do business there if U.S.-Cuba relations are fully normalized, a price that likely won’t benefit the country’s lower classes, but will instead line the pockets of Castro & Co., experts on Cuba warn.
Because of its tight grip, the Castro regime has kept Cuba’s GDP hamstrung. It’s economy is now at a tiny $72.3 billion, less than half that of the state of Iowa, notes Richard J. Peterson, senior director at S&P Capital IQ. In fact, the average worker earns less than $25 a month.
Cuba is in crisis, it needs a bailout. Its crony communism has failed, it is steeped in debt, and its money is running low.
A year after the change, and Castro has Cuba stuck in the same hole.  The bad news is that he is dealing with a president who may just give him anything he wants!  Or everything that he needs to keep the family running everything, from the prisons to the media to the hotels.
And Raúl Castro will keep asking.  He’s got 13 months to get what ten U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Bush 43, didn’t give him.   
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Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad 2015......A Christmas message to all of our friends




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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Should Obama read about the Christmas bombing of 1972?

By Christmas 1972, most U.S. troops were out of Vietnam. There were some pending issues, but the fighting was done.   

President Nixon had two objectives: Get a peace accord signed and arrange for the release of POWs.
Suddenly, North Vietnam began to play games with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. They would argue about this and that to delay the accords.  
It frustrated the U.S. side and President Nixon decided to send a message to North Vietnam. It was called Operation Linebacker II. We call it the Christmas bombing of 1972:
President Nixon initiated the full-scale bombing campaign against North Vietnam on December 18, when the North Vietnamese — who walked out of the peace talks in Paris — refused an ultimatum from Nixon to return to the negotiating table. 
During the 11 days of the operation, 700 B-52 sorties and more than 1,000 fighter-bomber sorties dropped an estimated 20,000 tons of bombs, mostly over the densely populated area between Hanoi and Haiphong. 
President Nixon was vilified at home and abroad for ordering the “Christmas bombing,” but on December 28, the North Vietnamese did agree to return to the talks in Paris. When the negotiators met again in early January, they quickly arrived at a settlement. 
The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 23 and a ceasefire went into effect five days later.
President Nixon was called every name on the book, from war criminal to Hitler to whatever else the left could come up with.  
However, the bombing worked and the accord was signed ending the war and recognizing South Vietnam.   
Also, a timetable for releasing POWs was accepted. They started coming home in March.
There are two lessons here for President Obama:
1) American power works. It delivers a message when one must be delivered.
2) A bold president is respected by our adversaries. As I  heard one POW say in a radio interview, he knew that he was going home when those B-52s hit Hanoi very hard over Christmas.
There are limits to air power and military activities. However, it can work if you have a president who understands that he is the leader of the free world and commander in chief of the greatest armed forces in history.
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