Thursday, August 31, 2017

Houston after the storm with Frank Burke, author & businessman


Frank Burke, author, businessman and contributor to American Thinker, joins me for a chat about the future of Houston.........what opportunities does Houston have to rebuild its infrastructure and prevent these floods in the future.............and other stories....

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Maybe the Southern Poverty Law Center was looking for a place that did not have Robert E Lee statues!







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The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has nothing to do with ending poverty or the rule of law, has been in the news lately.     

We just learned that the SPLC has money offshore:      
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.
Well, isn't that cute?    Wonder if any Democrats will scream like they did with then candidate Mitt Romney or others?

My guess is that the SPLC opened up these accounts because they were looking for places that did not have a single statue of Robert E. Lee.

It begs the question:   Why are they doing this?   Didn't their leadership understand how problematic such investments offshore would be?

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Houston proves it: The race-hustlers are wrong about the US

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Yesterday, I saw an article by Jonah Goldberg.  He related a story about two men helping each other.  It indeed confirmed that Houston revealed the best of America, and he is so right:
And yet, I couldn’t help but notice that there is a “feel good” aspect to the whole catastrophe. 
The best example is the hyper-viral story of two men loading up their boat and driving into the storm. 
CNN’s Ed Lavandera found them under a highway overpass readying the vessel.
“You guys just jumping in to help out?” Lavandera asked.
 
“Yes, sir,” says one of the men.
“What are you going to do?” Lavandera asks him.
“Go try to save some lives.”
That man was African-American. His partner appeared to be Caucasian or maybe Latino. 
But it doesn’t matter at all. 
We don’t know if they’re Republican or Democrat, pro-Trump or anti-Trump, NRA members or fans of gun control. (Though let’s be honest: This is Texas, so we can guess on that one.) All they wanted to do was help. 
While it was a journalistic faux pas not to get the men’s names, it almost made the story more endearing that we didn’t get them, because it reinforced the idea that they were just normal Americans.
My brother lives in South Houston, and he told me about the volunteers, the people going door to door checking on their neighbors.
On top of that, you may have noticed Houston has an black mayor, a Hispanic police chief, a Hispanic fire chief, and several other minorities in positions of leadership.  These three men, and Governor Abbott and President Trump, are all working together to make things happen.
Of course, this is not the U.S. the race-hustlers want you to think of.  They want you to believe that everyone is at each other’s throat and nothing gets done.
That’s not what we see in Houston.  We see people working together for the common good.
The race-hustlers are hurting the country and not helping the Democrats between the coasts.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

President Trump in Texas, approval polls and other stories of the day


We will look at the storm in South Texas.....President Trump and polls..........the Democrats in disarray....................and other stories............ 

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Do polls even matter with President Trump?


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How would you like to be President Macron of France?  Not long ago, Mr. Macron was the darling of the anti-Trumps.  Today, he is down under like Mr. Trump.
Newt Gingrich has an interesting post about polls and today’s world leaders.  It looks as though most of them are underwater, as they like to say in news analysis.
Let’s take a look at the post:
Macron was at 64 percent approval in June. Now, less than two months later, he has fallen to 36 percent….BELOW TRUMP.
How can the elite media explain this collapse?
 
How can the elite media rationalize that their young, moderate, sophisticated technocrat is now below President Trump?
They can’t.
So, they don’t.
However, Macron is not alone. The elite media has also failed to inform viewers that the approval ratings of other world leaders have been recorded at similarly low levels in recent months.
For example, British Prime Minister Theresa May earned a 34 percent satisfaction rate, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had a July approval rating of 34.2 percent, and the Democratic Party in the United States received 38 percent approval in June.
All of these approval ratings are lower than President Trump’s – but you don’t see the elite media fighting to break that news story.
Mr. Gingrich is right.  Mr. Trump is down under like a lot of others.
At the same time, what does this mean for President Trump?  Not much, as far as I can see.
President Trump has one thing going for him that makes today’s polls somewhat irrelevant.
First, he’s always beaten the polls.  I was one of those who kept writing here about his negative polls, and look who is sitting in the White House.  So polls and President Trump make great talking points but may not really mean much when people actually cast a ballot.  It raises the question: are the pollsters even reaching Trump voters?  My gut feeling is no.  I can’t prove it, but my senses tell me that Trump voters don’t get calls or talk to pollsters.  It’s the hidden vote that showed up in 2016 to all the experts’ surprise.
Second, President Trump’s greatest ally is a Democratic Party stuck in and consumed by identity politics, from being the party of “transgenders” to sanctuary cities.  According to a recent report by Guy Benson, the Democrats are disconnected from the white working class over culture and the economy.
The problem is more acute when you travel between the coasts.  Call it growing cultural disconnect!
And that’s where their problem is.  They can’t connect with people who like the U.S. and feel that the Democrats don’t.  Or people who believe in traditional values and don’t think the Democrats do.  Or people who are not racists but keep hearing that they are because they disagreed with President Obama’s executive orders, the health care law, or using the EPA to push an anti-manufacturing agenda.
So let me say it again.  The Democrats will need more than Trump-bashing, Civil War monument replacement, and support for sanctuary cities to win back enough seats to change the U.S. House in 2018.  It may all change, but this is how I see it a year before the campaigning starts.
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Forgive me fellow Rangers fans but it'd be cool if the Astros brought a baseball title to Houston in October!



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Viva Houston! Let's celebrate the work of volunteers, churches, police, fire department....we stand with Houston!



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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Texas storms plus left wing violence with George Rodriguez


We will look at the storm in South Texas.....Governor Abbott and the recovery efforts........President Trump in Texas.....What happened to common sense in California.................also the growing evidence of left wing violence....................and other stories......

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Houston flooded and media types talking about Melania's shoes...then they wonder why nobody watches or reads them!



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Jim Brown may have saved the NFL from stupid players......the legendary running back was unhappy and everyone stood up last weekend.


China? NK shot one over Japan....maybe China doesn't care or can't stop it...At some point, we will have to



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Bozell has a point about the slow death of the GOP...Taken a look at Dems? Stuck & Consumed by identity politics!



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Did all of California’s common sense move to Texas, too?

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We’ve noticed a lot of California license plates in Texas recently.    
The reason is simple:  Californians are moving to Texas!     
According to a story from 2016, it has the makings of a trend as a my old Korean statistics professor used to say with that thick accent:  
The number of Californians leaving the state and moving to Texas is at its highest level in nearly a decade, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service.
According to IRS migration data, which uses individual income tax returns to record year-to-year address changes, over 250,000 California residents moved out of the state between 2013 and 2014, the latest period for which data was available. 
 
We are glad. Who wouldn’t welcome people who want to work and live in your state?
We may see more, specially after reading a story like this:  
A bill that passed the California state senate and is now moving through the Assembly could threaten jail time for anyone who refuses to use a transgender person’s preferred pronoun.
The law is currently limited in its effects to nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities, but if passed, those who “willfully and repeatedly” refuse “to use a transgender resident’s preferred name or pronouns” could be slapped with a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison, according to the California Heath and Safety code. 
The state senate passed the bill 26-12 at the end of May. 
Since then, the Assembly Judiciary committee recommended the bill unanimously and the General Assembly held its first hearing on the legislation Wednesday.
“How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?” 
Greg Burt of the California Family Council testified in July. 
“This is not tolerance. This is not love. This is not mutual respect. True tolerance tolerates people with different views. We need to treat each other with respect, but respect is a two-way street. It is not respectful to threaten people with punishment for having sincerely held beliefs that differ from your own.”
Titled the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Long-Term Care Facility Residents Bill of Rights,” the legislation also requires nursing homes and care facilities to allow residents to use the bathroom of their choice, regardless of biological sex. 
The bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Weiner, argues that religious views don’t hold weight in public areas.
So in the name of “gender something” we’re going to slap someone with a $1,000 fine?   
I have to believe that there are Democrats in California who see the insanity of this. I understand that it only applies to Long Term Care facilities but what happens next?
Common sense is usually the first thing to go when you get afflicted by “Identity Politics.”   
Maybe I’m right. Maybe common sense indeed moved to Texas and left the state in the hands of people who are out of touch with reality, to say the least.
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Monday, August 28, 2017

An update about Europe from Joao Cerqueira, author


Guest:  Joao Cerqueira, author.........we will discuss the immigration crisis and threats of terror in Europe.........and other stories........

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Mexico looking beyond Pemex


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For years, Pemex has been one of the biggest sacred cows in the world. It’s no coincidence that the Pemex tower stands in Mexico City for everyone to see.   
For some it is a symbol of the Mexican revolution.   
For many others, it is a symbol of corruption and ineffectiveness. Please add me to this group. 
In recent years, President Pena-Pieto has been trying to reform Pemex. It appears that he may have found a way of going around Pemex’s rigid rules and bringing much necessary foreign investment.
It looks like Mexico’s promising Shale Region is showing the way, according to this interesting article by Jamie Horgan:    
 
Don’t look now, but Mexico is hoping that its recent energy reforms will turn the shale boom from a uniquely American phenomenon into a uniquely North American one. This summer, Mexico opened up onshore blocks of its Burgos basin region, just south of Texas.
To date, the country’s state-owned oil company Pemex has been unable to successfully start commercial production in the basin, in part due to geology but certainly also the result of the company’s lack of expertise in shale. 
Now that Mexico’s oil and gas reserves are being opened up to private (and foreign) companies, there’s an opportunity for firms with the personnel, the experience, the equipment, and the culture necessary to get the country’s shale production up off (or maybe more accurately out of) the ground.
Prior to Mexico’s market reforms, Pemex was in a tailspin. The company was running the Red Queen’s race, spending more money and hiring more personnel while seeing production fall precipitously as fields matured. President Enrique Peña Nieto pushed through unpopular reforms to open Mexico’s struggling oil and gas industry up to competition, and after some fits and starts he’s seen that effort rewarded: on one day in July, there was a “world-class” oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico by a group of private companies, a major increase in the estimated potential of another offshore field, and the successful sale of 21 out of 24 other offshore blocks on auction. 
In other words, there’s a lot of momentum building up in Mexico’s offshore hydrocarbon industry.
Onshore, progress has been slower, but Mexican shale — especially in the Burgos basin — looks to be a winner.     
We hope that it is a winner indeed.   
Mexico is the ultimate underachiever when it comes to energy. It started in the 1930s when President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized foreign oil companies. Unfortunately, Pemex grew over the years into a corrupt enterprise. It is not very good at finding oil, as just about any Mexican will privately admit. Instead, it is a state agency that abuses small companies, hires for purely political reasons and has kept Mexico as an undeveloped country.
As I told a group of Mexicans at a U.S.-Mexico Chamber meeting a few years ago: “Privatize PEMEX and you will quickly run out of hotel rooms in Mexico. In other words, you won’t be to lodge all of the investors looking to invest in Mexico.”    
After my talk, a couple of Mexican businessmen shook my hand and agreed with my assessment. However, one whispered in my ear: “Vaca sagrada, amigo, vaca sagrada”. (In Spanish, sacred cow, my friend, sacred cow)
Hopefully, shale oil will start the crackup of Mexico’s sacred cow. It would be the start of turning Mexico into the economy that most of us believe it should be.    
Of course, it will be hard but shale oil development may just be the light at the end of the tunnel.    
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

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



Guest:   Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.........we will look at another turbulent week for President Trump.......a pardon for the Sheriff in Arizona......another person leaves the Trump team........is this chaos or is President Trump listening to Chief Of Staff Kelly..........North Korea back with a few missiles this week...........the Democrats and the politics of Confederate symbols plus identity politics...............and other stories...........

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Saturday's show: The storm in Texas and a few other thoughts




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Friday's show: A look at the politics of Washington with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor




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Thursday's show: What happened to those US diplomats in Cuba and other stories of the day.




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Wednesday's show: Lee & ESPN, Trump in Phoenix, the Browns and other stories..



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Tuesday's show: Afghanistan speech, Clinton 2016 & Post Office plus others




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Monday's show: A refugee surge in Canada with Brian Lloyd French




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Terror in Barcelona & other thoughts with Javier Hurtado-Mira




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Down goes Macron, down goes Macron


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A few months, I predicted that President Macron’s approvals would drop in a year.    I was wrong:  They’ve dropped in months.    More people disapprove than approve!
According to news reports, President Macron is facing public backlash over “…labor reform, a standoff with the military and cuts to housing assistance.”  
To be fair, governing is hard and France faces serious structural problems, i.e. too many taxes and regulations!
How can you create jobs for young people with such high taxes and regulations?  The simple answer is that you can’t.   
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Too much “identity” in Democrats’ politics these days

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We’ve been talking about “identity politics” for some time.   We’ve seen how “identity politics” has divided Americans and made conversation impossible.
Well, it’s good to see that one Democrat is warning his party about it in a brand new book by Professor Mark Lilla.
In a recent book review by Peter Berkowitz, he summarizes the thesis like this:   
Last November, shortly after the election, he called in the New York Times for fellow liberals to face up to their party’s portion of responsibility for Trump’s victory, which Lilla traced to the rise “identity liberalism.”
His contention that “American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing” provoked outrage on the left
Let’s hope that serious Democrats take a little time off from “the resistance” or bringing down monuments, and read this book.     It may help them win a few elections.
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Saturday, August 26, 2017

The storm in Texas and a few other thoughts


We will look at the storm in South Texas, specially the Gulf areas.....more headlines out of the Trump White House..........LBJ was born in 1908 but would he recognize today's Democrat Party?........more fights over symbols and history............and other stories.......

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A stadium full of refugees


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Not long ago, Justin Trudeau was the darling of the PC crowd.   
Today, PM Trudeau has a big mess in his hands and he’s struggling quite a bit.   
Let’s check this from Harriet Alexander:   
Justin Trudeau has sought to tone down the warm welcome he promised to migrants, after arrivals at the Canadian border hit 250 a day, leaving immigration officials struggling to cope with the influx.
The Canadian prime minister tweeted shortly after President Donald Trump announced the halt of the US refugee programme that Canada would still be a haven. 
“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada,” he said   
But since the start of the year more than 11,300 people have crossed into Canada by foot from the US, with the surge due in large part to fears about Mr Trump’s immigration policy.
Canada is on track to record the most refugee claims in a decade.
The majority — around 85 per cent, according to Canadian officials — are from Haiti. In May Mr Trump floated the idea of rescinding a long-standing agreement to allow Haitians to remain in the country, meaning that a possible 58,000 Haitians could be deported in 2018.   
And then 6,000 came and something hit the fan north of the border.     
We are watching a couple of things here:
1) This is a bit reminiscent of then candidate Bill Clinton pandering for Haitian votes in Florida. He hit President Bush hard on the issue in the 1992 campaign and then had to back down when Haitians took him seriously and started “boating” to the U.S. Be careful what you promise because some people may believe it.   
2) PM Trudeau decided to be anti-Trump in the world scene. Unfortunately for PM Trudeau, being anti-Trump on immigration was understood by many as an unconditional welcome sign to Canada.     
So PM Trudeau had to back down just like President Clinton had to do in early 1993.
The moral of the story is that liberals love to pander for votes. Unfortunately, they end up disappointing Haitian refugees desperately looking for a better life or the millions of Mexican-Americans who voted for Senator Obama promising immigration reform.
Be careful voting for a liberal:  He is likely telling you what you want to hear!   
In the meantime, they are not playing baseball where the Expos did for so many years in Montreal!
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Friday, August 25, 2017

A look at the politics of Washington with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor


Guest: Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor.......we will look at the state of the Trump presidency......the GOP Congress.........the Democrats and their party divisions.....the media and President Trump.....and other stories...

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From Cuba with sonic love?

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The story of U.S. diplomats injured in Cuba gets more weird every day. According to what we hear, it was an apparent attack with a sonic weapon that targeted their homes.
We just saw this update from CBS and the nature of the injuries:   
According to medical records reviewed exclusively by CBS News, a U.S. doctor who evaluated American and Canadian diplomats working in Havana diagnosed them with conditions as serious as mild traumatic brain injury, and with likely damage to the central nervous system.
The diplomats complained about symptoms ranging from hearing loss and nausea to headaches and balance disorders after the State Department said “incidents” began affecting them beginning in late 2016. 
A source familiar with these incidents says officials are investigating whether the diplomats were targets of a type of sonic attack directed at their homes, which were provided by the Cuban government. 
 
The source says reports of more attacks affecting U.S. embassy workers on the island continue.
The doctor, one of several who reviewed their cases, included a warning in the medical records about the health risks of future exposures. The diplomats underwent comprehensive audiological evaluations and a battery of other tests.
So what happened? How did this happen?
We don’t know for sure but I have a couple of theories:
First, the attack may have come from another country in Cuba, such as Russia or North Korea. After all, the Castro regime and the family in North Korea have been buddies for a long time. I would not put it beyond the North Koreans to do something like this.
Second, the Cuban government may be sending President Trump a message, although I am not sure that attacking U.S. diplomats was smart on their part. I would not be surprised to see the Trump administration use this incident to stop or delay contacts with the island.    
We will wait for more details. However, this is not the U.S.-Cuba relationship that President Obama started at the end of 2014.    
Something’s gone wrong since President Obama and Dictator Raul did the wave in Havana in 2016.
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When are we bringing down symbols to Nancy Pelosi’s father?


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Let me introduce you to Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr, former Mayor of Baltimore and Representative Nancy Pelosi’s father.
In a powerful oration before a crowd of more than 3,000, Mayor D’Alesandro made the case for remembering and studying the lives of Lee and Jackson: “World Wars I and II found the North and South fighting for a common cause, and the generalship displayed by these two great men in the War Between the States lived on and were applied in the military plans of our nation and the Pacific areas.”
Referring to contemporaneous efforts by Communists to undermine the U.S. from within, D’Alesandro said “Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”
With Soviet Russia gobbling up Eastern Europe and the Cold War beginning, D’Alesandro called on Americans “to emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.” (Baltimore Sun, May 2, 1948)
A few days ago, his daughter, Representative Pelosi, called for removing all of those confederate symbols in the US Congress.     She said that they should be removed “if Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy.”
We have two questions for Representative Pelosi:
  1. Why didn’t you remove when you were The Speaker and had Democrat majorities?  and,
  2. Was your father invested in “white supremacy” when he made those remarks many years ago?
Don’t expect to hear from Representative Pelosi.  Her office is on “mute mode” about her father’s speech or history of support for those confederate symbols.
To be honest, I’d rather forget all of this history and let dead people rest in peace, from Pelosi’s father to Robert E. Lee.   We don’t gain a thing by fighting battles from the past when there is so much to do today.
Nevertheless, Representative Pelosi and Democrats have opened a very ugly door by calling for these symbols to be removed.   You can’t remove some and forget about the Democrats, like her father, who made segregation possible.
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