Running New York City must be boring and complicated, because Mayor Mamdani wants to do something else, such as running our foreign policy.
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Saturday, July 11, 2026
July 11, 1967: Tony Perez hit a 15th inning HR to win marathon All Star Game
On this day in 1967 millions watched on TV one of the greatest All Star Game pitching duels ever. The final score was National League 2, American League 1 in 15 innings.
In this game, all three runs came on solo homers by third basemen: Dick Allen, Brooks Robinson and Tony Perez. It was also the longest game in All-Star history, a mark tied in 2008.
The 1967 rosters included 21 future Hall of Famers: Tony Perez, Tom Seaver, Don Drysdale, Ferguson Jenkins, Bill Mazeroski, Jim Hunter, Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal, Joe Torre, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew, Mickey Mantle, Rod Carew, Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Tony Oliva, Al Kaline and Carl Yastrzemski.
It was a great night for Tony Perez of Ciego de Avila. Tony replaced Dick Allen in the 10th. He struck out against Catfish Hunter in the 12th, then hit the game-winner to deep left field with one out in the top of the 15th.
Along with Perez, there were two other Cubans: the aforementioned Tony Oliva and Mike Cuellar.
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July 11, 1962: The first "Telstar" was launched and then came the classic song
It was the beginning of something big, as someone said. A few days later, a news program started with a picture of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower side by side, each coming from different sides of the world.
And then Tornados put it to music. The Tornados became the first British band to have a # 1 in the US, or about two years before The Beatles.
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July 11, 1968: We remember Earl Weaver today!
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July 11, 1914: Babe Ruth made his major league debut
George Herman "Babe" Ruth made his major league debut on this day in 1914. Ruth pitched 7 strong innings to lead the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory against the Indians.
The Babe was sold to the Yankees and turned into an outfielder in 1920. The rest is major league history and 714 home runs.
The Babe was sold to the Yankees and turned into an outfielder in 1920. The rest is major league history and 714 home runs.
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Friday, July 10, 2026
Money can’t buy reading
Money can’t buy me love, and apparently not an education either (at least when Democrats run the show).
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Money can’t buy me love, and apparently not reading either. Let’s check the latest from the public schools in New York City:
New York City, like so many other big, blue cities, serves as an excellent model for how spending overwhelming amounts of taxpayer money can get so much less than underwhelming results.
A recent report created a damning picture of New York City public schools as mass factories of educational failure.
New York Success Academy, a charter school network in New York, dug through public data to show “New Yorkers how deep this failure runs” and how long it has been running.
The results are both sad and infuriating.
The study found that 906 schools in the city, roughly half of the total number, ‘had fewer than half their students passing math, reading, or both on state exams last year.’
‘Those 906 schools enroll 409,379 students: 43 percent of all NYC public school children. In 503 of those schools, the majority of students failed both math and reading,’ the report noted.
It said the data came from ‘NYS Education Department school accountability records, NYC Department of Education school quality and expenditure data, federal school improvement designation databases, and standardized test results spanning more than a decade.’
Not only are the schools failing by national test metrics, but according to the report, many of the public schools have been trying to hide their bad report cards from the public with methods like grade inflation, lowering test cut scores so it appears more students are passing, and ‘a school survey designed to measure satisfaction rather than learning.’
Failing by national test metrics? I don’t know exactly what that means, but I have a different reaction: How do these people keep their jobs? I mean the administrators, who run these schools. Can you think of another enterprise in the real world where the people running something into the ground still keep getting a paycheck?
We don’t live in New York City, but some friends who live there tell me that public education is a disaster. One family took an extra job just to send their kids to Catholic schools, where at least they graduate reading at grade level.
Seriously, what’s the point of paying public education taxes if you have to get an extra job to send your kids to a private school?
What is Mayor Mamdani going to do about this? He’ll probably blame the rich and tell us that they need to pay their fair share, or whatever that means. Or he will say something like we need another billion dollars to fund the system...it’s always about more money isn’t it?
Good luck to New York City parents, but there is not much hope unless there is some change in your voting patterns first.
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1925: Adam & Eve vs evolution!
It started when John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
The trial consumed the country. At the end, Adam & Eve won.
Later, in 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a similar Arkansas law on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment.
It did give us a great movie, "Inherit the wind" from 1960.
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July 10, 1934: Carl Hubbell made baseball history
The second All Star game was played on this day in 1934.
Future Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx in the first inning. Then Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second!
It must have been something to watch!
Future Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx in the first inning. Then Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second!
It must have been something to watch!
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