1945: The BBC and Hitler is dead

According to reports, Hitler was shocked when he got reports that Mussolini had been executed in Italy.    Mussolini’s body, along with Clara Petacci, was put on display for Italians.

He did not want the same ending.   

On this day in 1945, he was reported dead by the BBC.  Later, we learned that it was a suicide and that his ashes were allegedly found along Eva Braun, his wife.  

The European war ended a few weeks later when Germany surrendered.    (Of course, the Pacific side of the war went on until Japan surrendered in September 1945)

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April 30, 1789: George Washington became the first President of the US

On this day in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the US.  

How do you recommend a book about President Washington?   You can't.   My suggestion is that you read one from time to time.   He was an amazing man who generated tremendous loyalty among the men who served under him.

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April 30, 1961: Willie Mays hit 4 home runs against the Braves

As far as I’m concerned, Willie Mays is the most complete player in baseball history.   He was the ultimate 5-tool player and could do everything well.  

Mays also stayed free of injuries, unlike Mickey Mantle who battled bad knees for his entire career with the Yankees.

Willie Mays had many big games in his glorious career, specially April 30, 1961.    

Mays hit 4 home runs at the old County Stadium in Milwaukee.   He went 4 for 5 with 8 RBIs.   

The Giants beat the Braves, 14-4.     

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

 

Guest:   Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.  Iran blockade working. Kimmel and Mrs. Trump.   OPEC out.  

They got ‘The Gardener’ in Mexico

They got ‘The Gardener’ in Mexico:

The leader of Mexico’s most powerful criminal business is now facing the music

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/they_got_the_gardener_in_mexico.html

They captured another narco in Mexico.  The Mexican authorities got a guy named “The Gardener” this time.  Let’s read it about it:

Mexican special forces ​have arrested Audias Flores, known as ‘El Jardinero’ and one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in the western state ‌of Nayarit, security minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday.

Flores - a regional commander in control of swathes of CJNG territory along Mexico’s Pacific coast - was considered a potential successor to Nemesio Oseguera, alias ‘El Mencho,’ who ran the cartel and was killed in a security operation in February.

Security forces surrounded a cabin in El Mirador, some 20 km (12 miles) north of the popular resort ​city of Puerto Vallarta, where Flores was being protected by a perimeter of some 30 pickup trucks and over 60 gunmen, according to ​a press release from Mexico’s Navy, which led the operation.

Flores’ escorts scattered as a diversion but he was located as he ⁠tried to hide in a drainage ditch, it added.

‘The operation was carried out with surgical precision without a single shot being fired,’ the Navy said ​in a statement.

Congratulations to Mexican authorities for catching another one.  You probably agree with me that these narcos have great names:  “El Mencho” and now “El Jardinero” or, the gardener.  Where do they get these names?  I don’t know, but keep it coming.

Another question:  Did the Mexican president know?  The article mentions that there was cooperation with the U.S.  Really?

I hate to be nasty, but we’ve had that problem before.  There are rumors south of the border that sometimes the good guys who arrest these narcos are afraid of “leaks” if they tell too many people up the chain of command.  I don’t know if that's the case with this narco, but the rumors fly.

I can’t wait to learn the name of the next guy.

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We remember Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

We remember Duke Ellington who was born in Washington DC on this day in 1899.    He died in 1974.

Duke was a jazz giant.   However, I first heard of him many years ago when my father used to listen to The Voice of America in Cuba.

Duke’s “Take the A train” was the intro-music for Willis Conover’s jazz show broadcast to the world on short wave.     

Conover broke the Iron Curtain, The Berlin Wall and came into Communist Cuba, too. 

It was a very catchy tune and millions around the world came to know Duke that way.

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We remember Tammi Terrell (1945-1970)

Tammi Terrell was born Thomasina Montgomery in Philadelphia on this day in 1945.  

She died in 1970.    Tammi died from complications of a brain tumor.

Along with Marvin Gaye, they were the romantic duo of Motown with hits like "Ain't no mountain high enough" and "Your precious love".

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Kimmel and the "expectant widow" joke. The shooting in Washington. We remember Carolyn Jones.

 

Kimmel and the "expectant widow" joke. The shooting in Washington. We remember Carolyn Jones.

There is nothing funny about an ‘expectant widow’

There is nothing funny about an ‘expectant widow’:

I miss the decent days of Johnny Carson.

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Once upon a time, a fellow named Carson dominated late night TV.  It was more than a show.  My father told me that men would be talking about his lines in the coffee break room.  Even people who didn’t watch it knew about his one-liners, because that’s the way it was.

Who is repeating Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes these days?  Probably not a lot of people, unless you like a joke about an expectant widow or the current First Lady losing her husband, the president.

Let’s check this out:

So this is funny?  Some writer actually presented this to Kimmel for his nightly show?  Maybe Kimmel made it up, but a joke about a woman becoming a widow is not the kind of thing that you’d associate with comedy.

So what’s the joke anyway?  I could understand a joke about a woman becoming a football widow during the NFL playoffs.  I’ve heard women say that and it can be funny, especially when the husband just becomes your neighbor that you watch games with.

So again—who thinks that this is funny?  If you do, then you need to see a doctor and get Trump out of your head.

Kimmel answered back saying something about the president’s age rather than an assassination.  He is 80 you know, but Kimmel reminded us that he’s against gun violence.  No matter what, it was a bad choice of words, given the two previous assassination attempts.

Will ABC fire him?  I don’t care, but a little decency might be in order.  

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If you tell a lie big enough...

If you tell a lie big enough...:

By all indications, Cole Allen was aboard the Trump Derangement Syndrome train and believed every lie coming from the conductor.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/if_you_tell_a_lie_big_enough.html

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We’ve studied the manipulation of public opinion.  A good example was Joseph Goebbels who purportedly said:  “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Enter Cole Allen, the man arrested Saturday night who allegedly wanted to kill some Trump administration officials.  By all indications, Cole was aboard the Trump Derangement Syndrome train and believed every lie coming from the conductor.

This is from The New York Post:

For the third time, an assassin Saturday night came far too close to killing President Donald Trump.

And in what’s starting to seem like a pattern, the suspect was clearly a radicalized lefty.

Thank God, no one was seriously injured this time. But is this what the left wants?

Because sane, democracy-loving Americans are beginning to wonder: What will it take to get lefty pols and media to quit their sick, dangerous accusations about Trump, which are surely fueling the hostility and deadly violence?

‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,’ ranted suspected would-be assassin Cole Allen in his manifesto — with its clear reference to Trump.

So here we go again.  A well educated young man with a huge future ahead of him gets addicted to a wild radical idea that Trump is this or that.  What you read in this “manifesto” is about what you would expect to hear from the craziest wing of the Democrat party.  Mr. Allen’s message was full of all of the unfounded accusations we’ve heard before, plus his conclusion that it’s time to save the land by killing everything Trump and as many helping him to govern.

It’s sad but that’s where the country is.  Once upon a time, one could count on the late Senator Lieberman to push back on this garbage.  Today, it’s Senator Fetterman, but how much can a junior senator do?  It would be nice if a candidate for president, such as a Governor Shapiro, would raise a voice and end this, but he is probably afraid of a primary too.

So the country moves on and who knows where the next one will come from?  I don’t know, but I’m sure that there is a manifesto somewhere full of all of this garbage coming from their side.

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