Talarico under attack. Germany elections. We remember the Nixon pardon 1974.
Tuesday, September 08, 2026
Talarico’s cynical rebranding is here
Talarico’s cynical rebranding is here:
Talarico is now claiming that those are old videos and that he has “changed.”
Click to read:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/talarico-s-cynical-rebranding-is-here/
September 8, 1965: Campaneris played all 9 positions!
We remember the great Bert Campaneris, one of the greatest Cubans to play in the major leagues.
On this in 1965, Bert played all 9 positions. Campy, as he was known as, pitched one inning and gave up a run. Overall, a very rare performance for a major league player.
On this in 1965, Bert played all 9 positions. Campy, as he was known as, pitched one inning and gave up a run. Overall, a very rare performance for a major league player.
During his great career, he had 2,249 hits and 646 stolen bases. His batting average of .259 was quite respectable for a shortstop of that era, or a time when most of them were known for their glove and legs rather than bat.
He played in many post-season series (1971-75) and was always in the middle of everything as any Oakland A’s fan will tell you.
He played in many post-season series (1971-75) and was always in the middle of everything as any Oakland A’s fan will tell you.
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We remember Patsy Cline (1932-1963)
Patsy Cline was born on this day in 1932. She was only 30 when killed in a plane crash in 1963.
In the 1980’s, I discovered “Crazy”, a great country song. It got me to read and inquire about Patsy’s music.
Today, I’m a big fan of her music. She also recorded “I fall to pieces” and several other country hits!
In the 1980’s, I discovered “Crazy”, a great country song. It got me to read and inquire about Patsy’s music.
Today, I’m a big fan of her music. She also recorded “I fall to pieces” and several other country hits!
The man with the most wisdom to offer on the Trump indictment
(My new American Thinker post)
What else can I tell you? D.A. Bragg's indictment smells of pure political vengeance. Even former A.G. William Barr calls it "a pathetically weak case." We've heard the words "pathetic" and "weak" about this case quite a bit.
We've crossed a line, and my guess is that former presidents Obama, Clinton and incumbent Biden know that what goes around comes around. Not a threat — just reality. In baseball, you hit my star, and I'll nail yours. In politics, we investigate each other, and the country suffers.
Let's go back to the Nixon pardon, or the last time that a U.S. president was facing criminal charges. Enter President Ford, or a man who understood how dangerous it was to go after a former president. It became President Ford's biggest and most courageous decision.
September 8, 1974 was the day that President Ford announced a pardon for President Nixon, his predecessor. As I remember, it happened on a Sunday morning. My parents and I saw the TV coverage as we ate lunch. My father's initial reaction was that it made sense, but it would be politically difficult with the midterms two months away. He was prophetic, because the Democrats pounded the pardon and scored big.
President Ford won in the end. Years later, the JFK Library Foundation presented him its "2001 Profile in Courage Award." The award celebrated the fact that President Ford put country over his political ambitions. And he did.
President Ford left politics in 1977 and died in 2006. The pardon looks better and better with age, and so does the 30-month "accidental" Ford presidency. He put the nation first, and we need something like that today, no matter how you feel about Trump.
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Monday, September 07, 2026
September 2008: Live from the GOP convention with Adryana Boyne
A post from September 2008:
We spoke with Adriana Boyne and Mona Bailey, Texas delegates to the Republican convention in St. Paul.
The Cubans: The music of Ernesto Lecuona & others with Fernando Hernandez, author
Guest: Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans". We will review the career of Ernesto Lecuona, one of the greatest composers of the Spanish speaking world, plus Moises Simons, Rene Touzet among others.....
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We remember the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Frank Burke
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Guest: Frank Burke, businessman, author and contributor to American Thinker........we remembered The Cuban Missile Crisis on a podcast from 2016........He was in the US and I was in Cuba..........
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2014: We remember 1964 New York World's Fair
2014 has been an interesting year for 50-year anniversaries:
1) The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show;
2) The Ford Mustang; and
3) The New York World's Fair.
It was a showcase for companies and future technology, such as "a touch tone phone"! It was also an exhibition of US confidence and self esteem! It was the US telling the world "we are #1" rather than meaningless "hope and change" speeches!
One big development in the last 50 years is that we were a manufacturing nation in 1964 as you can appreciate in this tour of the facilities recently published in The New York Times.
We made cars, telephones, TV's and lots of other things. Check out the industrial area from the aforementioned article:
Let me ask you a couple of questions:
1) How many of those companies are still making anything in the US? Who is hiring American workers in US plants?
2) How can you maintain a middle class if everything is made by cheap labor elsewhere?
I am not peddling "doom and gloom" this morning. I understand that 2014 is different than 1964.
However, a great nation has to make things and we are making less of everything these days.
1) The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show;
2) The Ford Mustang; and
3) The New York World's Fair.
It was a showcase for companies and future technology, such as "a touch tone phone"! It was also an exhibition of US confidence and self esteem! It was the US telling the world "we are #1" rather than meaningless "hope and change" speeches!
One big development in the last 50 years is that we were a manufacturing nation in 1964 as you can appreciate in this tour of the facilities recently published in The New York Times.
We made cars, telephones, TV's and lots of other things. Check out the industrial area from the aforementioned article:
"In the part of the fairgrounds closest to the Van Wyck Expressway, more than 45 pavilions devoted to industry (with some religious organizations sprinkled in) surrounded a pool around which was held a nightly fireworks show.We don't do make products like this anymore and that is something to think about.
Anchored by the General Electric Pavilion’s Progressland, the Industrial area was a collective advertisement for corporate America, with the Kodak Pavilion’s roof designed like the surface of the moon, and Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen’s egg-shaped IBM Pavilion, where visitors sitting on grandstands were lifted swiftly into a theater.
At the Bell System exhibit, visitors previewed phone technology that is now commonplace.
Perhaps the biggest hit: The Pepsi-Cola Pavilion’s Unicef-Disney production of “It’s a Small World,” with a song, in rounds of several languages, that became forever lodged in people’s minds."
Let me ask you a couple of questions:
1) How many of those companies are still making anything in the US? Who is hiring American workers in US plants?
2) How can you maintain a middle class if everything is made by cheap labor elsewhere?
I am not peddling "doom and gloom" this morning. I understand that 2014 is different than 1964.
However, a great nation has to make things and we are making less of everything these days.
Listen to "We remember 1964 New York World's Fair with Frank Burke, author" on Spreaker.
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