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Sunday, April 05, 2026
Thinking of Christians under siege around the world
Thinking of Christians under siege around the world:
Happy Easter Sunday
Many years ago, our family came to the U.S. and learned a few things about how Easter was celebrated here.
First, we called it "Holy Week" or "Semana Santa." It was Holy Monday to Holy Thursday, and then it got really holy on Friday and Saturday. I remember one time my mother in utter shock that we play baseball on Good Friday. We grew up listening to religious music and meditating on "Viernes Santo" or Good Friday. Everything was so solemn as I recall.
Second, we were completely surprised to see women wear all of those hats on Easter Sunday. Add to that bunnies and chocolates, and we were caught off guard. We were sitting at church, looking at the spring dresses and hats and wondering where all of that came from.
Over time, I came to love watching all of those pretty girls and ladies wearing those fancy Easter hats. I was especially fond of the girls from our school wearing their attire.
On Easter Sunday, I am going to dedicate this Perry Como song to all of our faithful lady readers who will make the world great again by being "the grandest lady" on Easter:
In your Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it,
you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade!
I'll be all in clover, and when they look you over
I'll be the proudest fella in the Easter Parade!
On the Avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us
and you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
and of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade!
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
and of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade!
Second, let's hope the woke companies keep their hands off this tradition. In other words, Easter hats for girls, or females, as we have to call them.
Happy Easter Sunday.
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Happy # 76 Agnetha Fältskog
We love ABBA's music. We love their sound and those wonderful harmonies.
So we send a very happy birthday the the very beautiful Agnetha of ABBA. She was born in Sweden on this day in 1950.
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1614: John Rolfe and Pocahantas got married
She was the daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy and he was a tobacco planter. The marriage gave us their son Thomas Rolfe and peace between the settlers and the Powhatans for years.
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The Scarlet and the Black
War is hell but "The Scarlet and the Black" is a different sort of World War II movie.
The story is about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) who saved Allied POW's and airmen in Nazi-occupied Rome.
His German rival is Colonel Herbert Kappler played by Christopher Plummer of "The Sound of Music" fame.
It's worth watching. The story has an amazing ending but you need to watch it.
The story is about Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) who saved Allied POW's and airmen in Nazi-occupied Rome.
His German rival is Colonel Herbert Kappler played by Christopher Plummer of "The Sound of Music" fame.
It's worth watching. The story has an amazing ending but you need to watch it.
1950: Gregory Peck and Joan Collins in "The Bravados"
We remember Gregory Peck who was born in California in 1916 and died in 2003.
Peck and a very young Joan Collins are the two key players in this rather good western, "The Bravados" from 1950.
Peck is Jim Douglass, a man chasing the four outlaws who killed his wife. Collins plays Josefa Velarde, a woman he met five years before and now runs her father's ranch.The rest is up to you: Watch it because you will love the film's intensity.
And Joan Collins looks beautiful!
We remember Gregory Peck (1916-2003)
One of his movies was “Roman Holiday” and it opened on this day in 1953. It was Audrey Hepburn’s first major role, a European princess who dumps royalty and falls for an American journalist (played by Gregory Peck) while on tour in Rome.
One hell of an April in 1968
Maybe it’s me, but certain events are frozen in my memory, and I remember them as though it was yesterday.
As I recall, I was reading my brand new The Sporting News, the weekly sports newspaper that we used to read before ESPN or the internet. My parents had given me a birthday subscription, and I loved rushing to the mailbox to consume every bit of information.
At I read all of the columns, I asked myself the classic pre-season questions: would Yaz and the 1967 Miracle Red Sox repeat?
Are the Cardinals now a dynasty?
After all, St. Louis had won the World Series in 1964 and 1967 and had Bob Gibson on top of their rotation.
And then the phone rang. It was my school buddy Harvey with the news that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis.
Then President Johnson spoke to the nation! By a crazy coincidence, he had just announced days before that he would not be running for re-election in 1968.
Then all hell broke loose. Cities were burning from coast to coast. I shared the frustration about Dr. King’s assassination but did not understand what looting businesses had to do with the shooting. My guess is that all of the chaos boosted Governor Wallace’s campaign, or the “law and order” man that election.
Over the last years, we’ve created a national holiday to remember Dr. King, and his words are heard over and over again.
Nevertheless, I’ve asked myself a simple question: what would Dr. King say of the state of black America today? the collapse of the black family? the black on-black crime? the terrible black Democrat leadership that runs cities like Baltimore and Chicago? the dependence on government programs?
We will never know, but I’ll submit that Dr. King would have mixed emotions. Yes, lots of progress here and there, but too many problems everywhere.
I can’t believe Dr. King would be very happy looking at the state of black America today. I’m sure he’d be reminding the “identity politics” Democrats to judge people on their character, not the color of their skin.
Saturday, April 04, 2026
From the Marshall Plan to NATO
From the Marshall Plan to NATO:
It’s been 81 years since the end of World War II, and things seem to be coming full circle: Europe is in shambles again.
To say the least, the plan saved Europe. Most countries were devastated and vulnerable to communist intervention. The Plan, plus the U.S.’s commitment to defend European borders, gave Europe the time to get back on its feet.
Click to read: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/from_the_marshall_plan_to_nato.html
Memories of "Semana Santa" in Cuba
A podcast from 2013: Memories of "Semana Santa" in Cuba with Carmencita Romanach, ex-President, Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc. & Carmen Valdivia, Member of Board of Directors, & Historic Committee with host Silvio Canto Jr
Listen to "Memories of "Semana Santa" in Cuba" on Spreaker.
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