Desperately looking for clicks

Desperately looking for clicks:

The latest Acosta-ism is perhaps the dumbest of all.

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Growing up with CCR on the radio!

Back in March 1969, The Beatles were still enjoying the success of the "White Album".

The Rolling Stones had released "Beggar's Banquet", one of their best LPs.   

Later in the summer of 1969, they'd release "Honky Tonk Women", one of their best songs ever.

The Bee Gees were about to release "Odessa", a great album that included "First of May" and the lovely title song.

Add Creedence Clearwater Revival to the radio playlist. Everybody called them CCR because their name was too long!

CCR was "John Fogerty--lead guitar and vocals
(brother) Tom Fogerty--guitar
Stu Cook--bass, and
Doug Clifford--drums".

The band's songs were written by band leader John Fogerty.

Their sound was their sound. You could always tell that it was John Fogerty's vocals and CCR's sound.

In the spring and early summer of 1969, CCR started a long streak of hit songs.    It culminated with "Cosmo's Factory", one of my favorite rock LP's.

"Proud Mary" was a song about going up and down on The Mississippi River. I always think of this song when I cross the river.

It was also the song that put CCR on the top of the charts. It was a very long "stay" because CCR became a very popular band.

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Happy # 84 to Paul McCartney

We remind you today that Paul McCartney was born on this day in 1942.    

I am not sure what Paul is doing these days.  He may be touring but I am not sure about it.

We do wish Paul a happy birthday.     He is my favorite English speaking pop songwriter.  

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

 

Guest:   Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.    Let's talk about the new Iran deal and what happens next............

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

 

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Talarico no Lone Ranger on law and order

Talarico no Lone Ranger on law and order:

Does Talarico sound like a law-and-order Democrat?

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There must be an election coming up soon, because Texas Democrats are suddenly talking about Biden's border chaos. They remained silent for years, and now they are criticizing open borders.

Let's talk about James Talarico, who is now calling himself a law-and-order Democrat. Unfortunately, the whole thing does not add up. Just listen to what he said not long ago via Joseph Chalfant:

For Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico, the November midterms are nothing but a campaign to moderate his stance on a policy issue that Texans hold dearly: immigration. His long, radical history will make that herculean task nearly impossible.

Talarico’s about-face on the issue came one week ago after the candidate participated in a softball interview overflowing with flip-flops from his progressive past. One of the most notable instances of him retreating from his progressive priors came when he declared himself a “border security Democrat” who had “called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border.”

Talarico’s statement was nothing less than a bald-faced lie. Fox News asked the Talarico campaign repeatedly whether or not they could produce any evidence that he had ever made a statement condemning Biden’s border disaster and were unable to. The only Democrat he seems to have ever critiqued for their border policy was President Barack Obama, whom he labeled the “Deporter-in-Chief” because he believed Obama to be too conservative on the issue.

Any evidence of comments on Biden's border chaos? We are waiting. This interview was a softball job in which the reporter did not follow up or force the candidate to produce any evidence, video, or speech before the Texas House, criticizing the Biden border policy.

At the same time, James Talarico knows that his soft on illegal immigration talk is a loser and is desperately trying to change his image. I don't believe that he will succeed, but he will try. Let's remind the voters that the candidate recently called ICE a “secret police force that is terrorizing communities” and called for a “tearing down” of the agency, and attacked border wall bills."

Does that sound like a law-and-order Democrat? I don't think so.

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Happy # 78 David Concepcion

We remember David Concepcion who was born in Venezuela on this day in 1948.   He turned into one of the greatest shortstops in NL history.    

Dave broke in with the Reds in 1970 and was one of the key parts of the teams that won 4 NL titles and the World Series in 1975 & 1976.  

Dave was more than a great defensive infielder:  He hit .267 with 2,326 hits.    

In my opinion, Dave should be in the Hall of Fame, as Tyler Duma wrote in 2012:

There are 22 shortstops in the Hall of Fame as of 2012. When placed in that group of players, Concepcion ranks ninth in HR, 10th in SB, 11th in hits and RBI, 15th in SLG and 19th in AVG and OBP.

He won five Gold Gloves (four straight from 1974-77), back-to-back Silver Sluggers (1981-82) and made nine all-star teams (eight straight from 1975-82).   

Add to all of this that Concepcion was a quiet leader in a team that included Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan and Pete Rose.

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Happy # 83 Barry Manilow

We say happy birthday to Barry Manilow who was born on this day in 1943. 

Manilow started his career writing music jingles for commercials.  

In 1974, he hit the charts with “Mandy” and went to sell over 80 million records worldwide.     

We remember Manilow as a great performer and songwriter.

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June 17, 1941: Joe DiMaggio reaches # 30

 

June 17, 1941: 

Joe DiMaggio reaches # 30 and now the whole country was caught up in the streak...

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1972: We remember the Watergate break‐in

(My new American Thinker post)

The Watergate break-in happened this week in 1972. It always gets a lot of coverage from reporters every year. It's becomes a day for liberal morality rants. Nixon this and Nixon that!

To be honest, President Nixon made mistakes, from defending his staff to participating in a cover-up. He admitted many of these mistakes in his memoirs published in 1978.   

Let me add that RN is a great history book going back to Nixon's first campaign in 1946, his close relationship with fellow House member John F Kennedy, the Alger Hiss case, his run for the U.S. Senate, getting selected by President Eisenhower, the Checkers speech, the vice presidency, his loss to the aforementioned JFK, his comeback in 1968 and the almost two term presidency. It reads like a postwar history class!

Over the years, I've recommended one book for those hoping to learn about Nixon.    I am not saying that you are going to fall in love with Richard Nixon. At the same time, you will learn that he was not some kind of a monster.

The book is Tom Wicker's One of Us. This is one of the best books about Mr Nixon because Wicker was a liberal journalist. Mr. Wicker related that Nixon was a mainstream type of politician. 

His presidency was not some right-wing movement. Nixon signed the executive orders that gave us affirmative action and the EPA. It was Nixon's pen that signed Title IX, which opened up college sports for women.

Indeed, thousands of young blacks got into elite schools because of Nixon's affirmative action executive order. Robert J. Brown, Chairman and CEO of B&C Associates and former Special Assistant to President Nixon, wrote that he was very proud of President Nixon's commitment to civil rights.

Wicker also reviewed Nixon's foreign policy. He found that he had a lot in common with JFK, Humphrey and LBJ. In fact, Nixon, JFK, Humphrey and LBJ would find Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders as weird as I do.

Wicker reminded us that Nixon went to China, perhaps one of the boldest foreign policy visits in history. Only a conservative like Nixon had the domestic credibility to make that trip.

Let me repeat it. June 17th has turned into a day to hear morality rants from the liberals. However, there was a lot more to Nixon than Watergate!

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