President Trump and elections, Little Italy and Mayor Mamdani, Maine Democrat Senate is a clown show, and 1980 Reagan acceptance speech.

 President Trump and elections, Little Italy and Mayor Mamdani, Maine Democrat Senate is a clown show, and 1980 Reagan acceptance speech.

Arrivederci, Little Italy!

Arrivederci, Little Italy!:

The new mayor of New York has subtle ways of rewarding and punishing those who support him and those who don’t.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/arrivederci-little-italy/

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The “Mamdani-zation” of New York City, and perhaps the Democrat party, is alive and well. Don’t look now, but you may not recognize The Big Apple the next time you visit there.

Let’s check this out from Townhall:

New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach - these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America’s largest city while gradually becoming part of it.

That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently released map of immigrant communities particularly striking.

Little Italy wasn’t there.

Instead, the map highlighted a series of neighborhoods identified as “Little Pakistan,” “Little Senegal,” “Little Yemen” and even “Little Palestine.” City Hall defended the project by saying it was never intended to identify religious enclaves but rather neighborhoods with substantial foreign-born populations from around the world.

That explanation raises an obvious question: If the goal was to recognize immigrant communities, how does one leave out perhaps the most iconic immigrant neighborhood in New York City?

Little Italy is more than a tourist destination. It represents one of the defining chapters in the city’s history - a reminder of the millions of Italian immigrants who arrived in America, endured discrimination, built businesses and eventually became woven into the fabric of American life. Omitting it while highlighting far newer and, in some cases, unofficial neighborhood designations sends a message, whether intended or not, about which immigrant stories deserve recognition.

Yes, this is not about the story of immigrants who built New York City. This is about deleting those immigrants we deem oppressors and replacing them with the ones whom we designate as victims. Again, this is not about telling the history of New York City, but rather another “woke” attempt to rewrite U.S. history.

The mayor is obviously looking for an excuse, from saying that it was an administrative error to blaming it on Mayor Adams. He wants us to forget two things:

1.    Back in 2020, Mamdani, then a candidate for the New York State Assembly, was seen with a “take it down” sign in front of the Columbus statue; and

2.    The creation of all these communities is the mayor’s way of recognizing who voted for him. In other words, he probably swept the precincts in Little Senegal and Little Yemen, but didn’t do so well in the Italian American ones.

Again, this is about destroying the country’s history and replacing it with a woke version that distorts it. This is what communists do. We saw this in Cuba, where new history books were published, historical photos were deleted, and my parents did not recognize what the history teachers were teaching me.

Rewriting history is what communists do. So the Italians need to stand up, and someone in the Democrat party needs to say “enough is enough.”

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Reagan's wonderful 1980 nomination speech

Where did the time go?  On this day in 1980, we watched Ronald Reagan accept the Republican nomination.  

During the speech, Mrs. Reagan sat by him looking great.  President and Mrs. Ford were in the audience and cheered along with the delegates.  Behind him were two future presidents:  Bush-41 and Bush-43.  Wonder if that has ever happened before?  

Governor Reagan, as they used to call him, had considered President Ford as VP.  It was one of those 24-hour stories that had everyone at the convention and pre-cable news TV consumed.  Thankfully, that balloon was shot down as a constitutional nightmare.   As I understand the story, President Ford pushed for Mr. Bush to be the VP nominee.   It turned out to be a great ticket.  Maybe today we would call it a marriage of the "outsider" and "establishment".

By 1980, President Ford was extremely popular.  I guess that four years of President Carter and gasoline prices will do that to any Republican, especially the one he narrowly defeated in 1976.  This is a lesson that President Trump should heed.  Let the incumbent mess it up, stay in the sidelines look good in comparison.

Back to that speech.  It was Reagan at his best:  optimistic and patriotic.  I still love this speech so many years later.   It's worth an hour of your time especially when you get frustrated with current events.

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July 1974: George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" was all over the radio and discoteques

Disco music was known as dancing music.   It became disco later in 1978 with "Saturday Night Fever".    

George McCrae may not have invented disco but he had millions dancing from coast to coast:  "Rock your baby":

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1940: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

"For whom the bell tolls" by Ernest Hemingway tells one side of the story.   It is a partisan recount of the story.   Nevertheless, it is a look back at the bloody struggle known as The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

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July 17, 1941: Joe DiMaggio's streak ended at 56

It started on May 15 and ended on July 17, or 56 consecutive games.

During the streak, DiMaggio hit .408  (91 for 223), with 15 HR  & 55 RBI. 

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July 17, 1941: The DiMaggio streak ended at 56

Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ended on this day in 1941 in Cleveland.     During the streak, DiMaggio hit .408  (91 for 223), with 15 HR  & 55 RBI. 

No one has come close except Pete Rose who got to 44 in 1978.

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Democrats and the left radicals. No "little Italy" in New York City. President Trumps speech. Happy # 83 Jimmy Johnson.

 

Democrats and the left radicals.  No "little Italy" in New York City.  President Trumps speech.  Happy # 83 Jimmy Johnson.

El-Sayed and the gang of weirdos

El-Sayed and the gang of weirdos:

The absence of a blue wave shows that, while Americans have the usual midterm malaise against the president’s party, the Democrats are a turn-off.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/el-sayed-and-the-gang-of-weirdos/

Happy # 83 Jimmy Johnson

We say happy birthday to Jimmy Johnson who was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on this day in 1943.   

As an NFL coach, Johnson was 80-64 in the regular season, 9-4 in the post-season and 2 Super Bowl victories with the Dallas Cowboys.   

Johnson lost 24 of his first 32 games in Dallas, including 1-15 in his first year.   He won 36 of the next 48 and put together the great teams who won 3 Super Bowls in 4 seasons.

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