Thursday's podcast: Texas takes over Houston School District, The abortion pill and Texas and more

Texas takes over Houston School District....The abortion pill and Texas.....Inflation and food...West Point 1802.......and other stories.......

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Thursday's video: Texas takes over Houston School District, The abortion pill and Texas and more

Texas takes over Houston School District....The abortion pill and Texas.....Inflation and food...West Point 1802 and other stories..

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Will AMLO tell Mexicans to stay home and not vote in 2024?

 (My new American Thinker post)

Last week, President Andres Lopez-Obrador was a bit irate, or "molesto" as they say in Mexico.  He reacted to Senator Lindsey Graham's call to name the cartels as terrorist organizations.  AMLO threatened to tell Mexican Americans to punish the GOP for saying stuff like that. How dare you, gringo?

Well, let's hear what AMLO is saying this week because a Democrat is now calling out his "hugs rather than bullets" approach to national security.  This is from Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey via Pulse News Mexico:    

Menendez’s criticism comes on the heels of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham presenting an initiative to add Mexican drug cartels on the list of foreign terrorist organizations, and Republican lawmakers Dan Crenshaw and Michael Waltz proposing a bill to give U.S. President Joe Biden the authority to use the U.S. Army against Mexican drug cartels.

López Obrador called these proposals “propaganda” and “aggression by the Republicans against Mexico.” However, Menéndez adding his voice to the growing international clamor for Mexico to take security, drug trafficking and democracy seriously makes it complicated for AMLO to pin the blame on mere “Republican aggression.”

“Mexico has a responsibility, first and foremost, to its own citizens to establish safety and security within its own territory -- and to those who visit its own country as well,” Menéndez said on Sunday, in an interview with American news-based television channel MSNBC.

“And so we need to up dramatically with Mexico. It can’t be all about economics, it has to be about safety and security as well. And I am afraid that we are headed in the wrong direction in Mexico on that, and on democracy questions as well. So this is a present danger that we have to deal with, and we have to engage the Mexicans in a way that says, ‘You’ve got to do a lot more in your security.’ We can help them -- we have intelligence, we have other information we can share. But we need them to enforce security in their own country.”

Okay -- so Mexico is headed in the wrong direction?  To be fair, Senator Menendez does not want to name the cartels as terrorist organizations. He did not specify how Mexico can do more for their security.  I thought that we were already sending them weapons and more under the Merida Plan from 2007.  Maybe we need to upgrade the weapons or try something else.

Senator Menendez' statement puts AMLO in a tough place.  He is getting criticism from both sides of the Senate chamber.  Is he going to call on Mexicans up here to stay home and not vote for either party?  The only difference between Senator Graham and Senator Menendez is that the former wants to name the cartels as a terrorist organization.  Both are raising doubts about Mexico's ability to defend itself and being critical of AMLO's approach.

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Happy # 80 to Rick Reichardt

Big money in baseball started with Judge Seitz and the free agency opinion of 1975.  It set the table for players to negotiate after the 1976 season.  As we know, they’ve been negotiating ever since Dave McNally and Andy Messersmith won their “freedom”.

There is another chapter in baseball history that we cannot overlook.

Rick Reichardt was born in Madison, Wisconsin on March 16, 1943.  He was a baseball star in Stevens Point High School and the University of Wisconsin.

In 1964, the Los Angeles Angels paid Rick Reichardt the biggest bonus in baseball history: $205,000!

Rick never met expectations, although he did hit the first home run in the new Anaheim Stadium in 1966.

His best season was in 1968: 21 HRs and 73 RBI.  Overall, he hit .261 with 116 HR and 445 RBI.

We remember him for one big reason.  His bonus in 1964 shook up the owners, and they created a draft.  The owners were afraid that Rick’s contract would create the money battles that made Joe Namath a Jet in the AFL rather than a Lion in the NFL.

So the major league owners created the draft, hoping to keep young stars like Rick under control rather than going for the big money.

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Roberto Goizueta, a Cuban American story, with Fernando Hernandez, author

GUEST:  Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans".   

We will discuss the story of Roberto Goizueta, President, Chairman of the Board,  and Chief Financial Officer of Coca Cola..........

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