New York migrant crisis...Car insurance costs....El Salvador elections...Happy birthday President Reagan & Babe Ruth and other stories.....
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
Tuesday's podcast: New York migrant crisis, Car insurance costs & El Salvador elections
New York migrant crisis...Car insurance costs....El Salvador elections...Happy birthday President Reagan & Babe Ruth and other stories.....
Tuesday's video: New York migrant crisis, Car insurance costs & El Salvador election
New York migrant crisis...Car insurance costs....El Salvador elections...Happy birthday President Reagan & Babe Ruth and other stories.....
The Big Apple goes debit card mad
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February 6: Happy birthday to ‘The Gipper’ and ‘The Babe’
All of my conservative friends are flooding social media with birthday wishes for the late President Reagan who was born on this day in 1911 in Tampico, Illinois.
To this day, President Reagan ranks high as one of the most popular presidents of the last 50 years. We remember him as a leader, a man who stood up to the USSR, defended the US and the kind of figure that you were proud to see on stage as the US president. In fact, a 2011 Gallup ranked him as our greatest president!
Greater than Lincoln and Washington? Not so fast but it is evidence that a lot of us remember him as a successful president, a man who made us feel good about the country.
We also remember that Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore, Maryland on this day in 1895.
Like Reagan, Ruth came along at an opportune time.
Baseball was in deep trouble after the White Sox scandal and fans soured on the game. The "Black Sox" scandal was a complicated story but the Commissioner had no choice but to ban the players. The biggest tragedy of the commissioner's decision is that we never got to see "Shoeless" Jackson play a full career in the majors.
Ruth put fans in the seats, made baseball fun and became a legendary American hero.
What was God telling us by making this day a birthday for two such dynamic individuals? I think that he was saying that our leaders come from humble homes and unexpected places like Tampico, Illinois and the rough streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
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All of my conservative friends are flooding social media with birthday wishes for the late President Reagan who was born on this day in 1911 in Tampico, Illinois.
To this day, President Reagan ranks high as one of the most popular presidents of the last 50 years. We remember him as a leader, a man who stood up to the USSR, defended the US and the kind of figure that you were proud to see on stage as the US president. In fact, a 2011 Gallup ranked him as our greatest president!
Greater than Lincoln and Washington? Not so fast but it is evidence that a lot of us remember him as a successful president, a man who made us feel good about the country.
We also remember that Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore, Maryland on this day in 1895.
Like Reagan, Ruth came along at an opportune time.
Baseball was in deep trouble after the White Sox scandal and fans soured on the game. The "Black Sox" scandal was a complicated story but the Commissioner had no choice but to ban the players. The biggest tragedy of the commissioner's decision is that we never got to see "Shoeless" Jackson play a full career in the majors.
Ruth put fans in the seats, made baseball fun and became a legendary American hero.
What was God telling us by making this day a birthday for two such dynamic individuals? I think that he was saying that our leaders come from humble homes and unexpected places like Tampico, Illinois and the rough streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
P.S. You can listen to my show. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.
Hiroshima 1945: Truman and the bomb with Barry Jacobsen
We remember another anniversary of one of the most consequential days of the 20th century.
Back on this day in 1945, many people heard about Hiroshima on the radio or perhaps saw the scenes on one of those newsreels.
In the summer of 1945, President Truman was confronted with one of those decisions that only a president faces. He looked at the horrible options and made the right call, as my friend Bill Katz explained. The bomb stopped the war and the killing:
Of course we regret the lives that were lost, as we always regret death and destruction in war, but guilt is not required. In what is sometimes called the bloody arithmetic of war, the nuclear bombs reduced the ultimate death toll of World War II dramatically. And as the late historian Paul Fussell, a soldier in the Pacific at the time of Hiroshima later wrote, recalling his thoughts when he learned of the atomic bomb's use, "We were going to live. We were going to grow to adulthood after all." For that we can be grateful.
We will probably hear the usual criticism of President Truman's decision, specially from those who were not alive back then nor have taken the time to study the real options on his desk. In other words, President Truman was not choosing between war and peace but rather war and more war. He also knew that there would be huge casualties on both sides, if he decided to invade Japan.
Today's anniversary reminds us that presidents often face awfully difficult choices. In this case, President Truman made the right decision.
Click to listen to our 2015 show with Barry Jacobsen about President Truman and the decision to drop the two bombs:
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