Monday's podcast: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda

Monday's podcast:     

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

The China balloon.....Migrants in New York City......FBI under scrutiny.....President Reagan (1911-2004)...Babe Ruth (1895-1948)...

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Monday's video: We remember Babe Ruth and Ronald Reagan....Professor Beto O'Rourke and other stories

We remember Babe Ruth and Ronald Reagan....Professor Beto O'Rourke and The University of Chicago....The Beatles 1964.......and other stories.....

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Beto the professor

 (My new American Thinker post)

We learned that Robert F. O'Rourke, or Beto with the RFK hairdo, is going to teach at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. They've hired him as a fellow.  I hope that Beto's supporters don't regard that title of “fellow" as too "male centric." 

Here is the story:    

Anthony Fowler, a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, told The Fix that although “there have probably been more fellows from the political left than the right” he believes the program “gives students the opportunity to learn from and make connections with these prominent and accomplished individuals.”

“Former members of Congress are not, by and large, academic scholars, and we’re bringing them to campus for reasons largely unrelated to their intellectual contributions,” Fowler said. “So students should not think of IOP events as substituting for their work in the classroom.”

Other fellows include former Michigan Congressman Pete Meijer, a Republican who lost his primary in 2022. One of Meijer’s first votes as a new congressman in 2021 was to impeach President Donald Trump.

Former Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who lost his re-election bid in 2022, will also join as a fellow.

Okay.  So we wish Beto all the luck in the world. Honestly, I'd rather have him teaching far away from Texas than as president, U.S. senator or governor.  

Let me suggest a couple of ideas for the courses.

First, should candidates for the U.S. Senate be funded primarily by leftists outside your home state?

Second, should presidential candidates just make statements to get clicks on Twitter; and,

Third, should a candidate for governor of Texas spend so much time hoping that the power grid breaks down?

Stay up there for a while, Beto.  You may find Cook County more suitable for your ideas anyway,

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1920: Babe Ruth in Cuba

We remember that Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore on this day in 1895.   Like other major leaguers, he visited Cuba.   

It was quite a story, as we see in this post.  

He was paid $2,000 per game and played 10 exhibition games:

On October 30, New York defeated Havana 4-3. Ruth hit a double and a triple in 3 at-bats.

October 31: New York won 3-0 against Almendares. Ruth had a triple.

November 3 : New York won 7-1 at Havana and Ruth struck out three times against Jose Acosta.

November 4 : New York defeated 10-0 to Almendares. Ruth had a hit and a double.

November 6 : The Cuban team trounced New York, 11-4. Ruth failed  to get a hit but pitched in relief.  The hero of the game was Cuban outfielder and future Hall of Famer Cristóbal Torriente, who hit a double and three homers!

Ruth came back in 1921 and loved visiting Cuba.

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