Guest: Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...US in the Middle East, Musk-Tesla crazy, Trump and tariffs this week, The NY Times and Democrats, Trump approvals, NPR and the CEO who can't remember, Happy # 91 Shirley Jones plus other stories.
Monday, March 31, 2025
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda
Guest: Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...US in the Middle East, Musk-Tesla crazy, Trump and tariffs this week, The NY Times and Democrats, Trump approvals, NPR and the CEO who can't remember, Happy # 91 Shirley Jones plus other stories.....
The U.S. Navy on the border
The U.S. Navy on the border: Everybody's talking in the Mexican news media about U.S. warships navigating close to Mexico. The ships are travelling in international waters, but it raises all kind of speculation south of the border about a U.S. attack. Here is the story:...
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My guess is that the crew of the USS Gravely will do whatever they normally do. I don't see any attacks on fentanyl plants anytime soon. Nevertheless, it shows just how sensitive all this is.
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 31, 2025
The U.S. Navy on the border - American Thinker https://t.co/bQKW0R8wTd
Everybody’s talking in the Mexican news media about U.S. warships navigating close to Mexico. The ships are travelling in international waters, but it raises all kind of speculation south of the border about a U.S. attack. Here is the story:
According to a spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States has sent a missile destroyer, the USS Gravely, to the Gulf of Mexico to bolster its border security operations and prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States.
“It’s vital for the United States to control not only our land border but also our territorial waters. This deployment directly supports U.S. Northern Command’s mission to protect our sovereignty,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Monday, March 17, referencing the ongoing U.S. initiative to curb illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The destroyer, which was recently stationed in the Red Sea to combat Houthi rebels, will reportedly support the U.S. Coast Guard on its anti-narcotics missions in the area.
Its duties include “maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration,” detailed the Pentagon.
“The USS Gravely will be deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas participating in the mission of interdicting drugs and other things headed to our country,” General Alexus G. Grynkewich said Monday.
“It will work closely with the U.S. Coast Guard, and of course, we won’t share their maneuver plan, but know that this is the mission they’ll be deployed for. We’ll see what they can do,” added Grynkewich.
Well, I guess we’d call it Gulf of America and they call it Gulf of Mexico.
Maybe the Trump administration is sending a message. Your guess is as good as mine, but I’m sure that we can use more efficient sources to track cartel activity from satellites, drones, or human contacts.
As we see in Canada, President Trump’s tariffs have sparked a nationalist reaction. They’re ready to fight up there but someone should remind them that this is real trade war, not a hockey game.
As with Canada, President Trump has exposed vulnerabilities in the Mexican economy. Too much dependence on U.S. trade and remittances. Mexico has overprotected its agricultural and energy sectors. It means that they have to send their crude oil to Houston so that it gets refined into gasoline. Yes, it’s true and Mexicans get really angry when they hear that. It’s another demonstration of how inefficient PEMEX is, and they know it.
My guess is that the crew of the USS Gravely will do whatever they normally do. I don’t see any attacks on fentanyl plants anytime soon. Nevertheless, it shows just how sensitive all this is.
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March 1969: Remembering "Odessa" by The Bee Gees!
Some of us are old enough to remember the original copy of The Bee Gees' Odessa LP. It had a luxuriant red velour sleeve and an international best seller.
It was a very creative LP with great tunes like "First of May", "Lamplight", "Melody Fair", and a few others.
Odessa was the story of a shipwreck in the North Atlantic years before the latest Titanic release.
It was great and now available in a digital format.
The amazing 1,160 letters written by John and Abigail Adams
We remember John Adams as one of The Founding Fathers, first Vice President and second president (1797-1801). We remember Abigail Adams as one of the amazing women of her time. They were married October 25, 1764.
We also emember them for their amazing letters. They told us about the struggles of the young nation as well as their incredible love for each other.
The letters are a treasure. Historians have relied on them to learn a great deal about those early days of the country.
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We remember The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Barry Jacobsen
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
The latest on US-Mexico issues with Allan Wall, blogger...
Guest: Allan Wall, blogger....We will look at border issues, talk of military intervention in Mexico and the Jalisco ranch scandal....and other stories......
We remember those who served in Vietnam
We remember those who served in Vietnam: At a church Friday fish fry, I had the chance to chat with a couple of fellow parishioners. One was a Vietnam veteran and the other the grandson of a Vietnamese military man who managed to escape after 1975. It took me back to a time when...
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 30, 2025
At a church Friday fish fry, I had the chance to chat with a couple of fellow parishioners. One was a Vietnam veteran and the other the grandson of a Vietnamese military man who managed to escape after 1975. It took me back to a time when Vietnam was all we talked about.
It’s hard to believe, but U.S. troops left Vietnam in 1973, or 52 years ago this week. It ended a war that began when President Kennedy sent some advisers, was later escalated under President Johnson to 500,000 troops, and finally was ended by President Nixon.
As you may know, the parties signed a ceasefire in January 1973. It followed the famous Christmas bombing, when President Nixon forced the communists to sign the agreement. We called it “Operation Linebacker,” and it was effective. The bombing missions were so good that the communists were shortly begging for a paper to sign.
Twenty-seven months later, or May 1, 1975, the North walked into Saigon, and we’ve known it as Ho Chi Minh City ever since.
Did it have to turn out that way?
President Nixon did not think so. He wrote about it in No More Vietnams, a book that gets better with age. The point is that we choose to win wars or lose them, the latter of which we did in Vietnam. To win would not have required a single soldier — just a few B-52s to remind the North that we meant to enforce the ceasefire. We should remember that North Vietnam was devastated in 1973.
The tragedy of Vietnam is that the USSR could not believe that we had let South Vietnam collapse in 1975, as Stephen J. Morris wrote on the 30th anniversary of the disintegration of Saigon:
If the United States had provided that level of support in 1975, when South Vietnam collapsed in the face of another North Vietnamese offensive, the outcome might have been at least the same as in 1972.
But intense lobbying of Congress by the antiwar movement, especially in the context of the Watergate scandal, helped to drive cutbacks of American aid in 1974.
Combined with the impact of the world oil crisis and inflation of 1973-74, the results were devastating for the south.As the triumphant North Vietnamese commander, Gen. Van Tien Dung, wrote later, President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam was forced to fight “a poor man’s war.”
Even Hanoi’s main patron, the Soviet Union, was convinced that a North Vietnamese military victory was highly unlikely.
Evidence from Soviet Communist Party archives suggests that, until 1974, Soviet military intelligence analysts and diplomats never believed that the North Vietnamese would be victorious on the battlefield. Only political and diplomatic efforts could succeed.
Moscow thought that the South Vietnamese government was strong enough to defend itself with a continuation of American logistical support.
The former Soviet chargé d’affaires in Hanoi during the 1970’s told me in Moscow in late 1993 that if one looked at the balance of forces, one could not predict that the South would be defeated.Until 1975, Moscow was not only impressed by American military power and political will, it also clearly had no desire to go to war with the United States over Vietnam.
But after 1975, Soviet fear of the United States dissipated.
No kidding that fear of the U.S. dissipated.
The post-Vietnam years contributed to the perception that the U.S. was weak and unwilling to defend its interests. From Nicaragua to Iran to the Soviets in Afghanistan and Cuban troops in Africa, it was a time of U.S. weakness. Thankfully, it ended with the Reagan presidency, and the good guys were on top again.
Yes, there were many mistakes in Vietnam, from using the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to send 500,000 soldiers to war to not fighting to win. I believe that the biggest mistake was not preserving our gains, or a South Vietnam that would have looked a lot like South Korea today. Again, it could have turned out very different, especially for the many who served in Vietnam. They won the battles, and the politicians lost the peace.
Let’s remember again all of those who served and the ones who died. They were the heroes.
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The Texas report with George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative
Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative. We will look at the announcement that Senator Cornyn is seeking reelection plus talk of Collin Allred trying again. The "leak" scandal. The Democrats in disarray plus other stories......
The world today reminds us of the post-Vietnam era
(My new American Thinker post)
If you remember Vietnam, then you may ask a simple question: Where did 50 years go?
Better than that, you may look around today and see a lot of international conflicts like we did after our embarrassing departure from Saigon.
It was 50 years ago this week that U.S. troops left Vietnam. It ended a war that began when President Kennedy sent some advisers, then was later escalated under President Johnson to 500,000 troops, and finally was ended by President Nixon. As you know, the parties signed a ceasefire in January 1973. It followed the "famous Christmas bombing" when President Nixon forced the communists to sign the agreement. We called it "Operation Linebacker" and it was effective. The bombing missions were so good that the communists were shortly begging for a paper to sign. Where do I sign Mr. Kissinger?
Twenty-seven months later, or on May 1, 1975, the North walked into Saigon, and we’ve known it as Ho Chi Minh City ever since.
Twenty-seven months later, or on May 1, 1975, the North walked into Saigon, and we’ve known it as Ho Chi Minh City ever since.
Did it have to turn out that way? No it did not.
Yes, there were many mistakes in Vietnam, from using the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to send 500,000 soldiers to war to not fighting to win. I believe that the biggest mistake was not preserving our gains, or a South Vietnam that would have looked a lot like South Korea today. Again, it could have turned out very differently, especially for the many who served in Vietnam. They won the battles, and the politicians lost the peace.
And last but not least, Vietnam promoted the idea that the U.S. was weak and the bad guys jumped on the opportunity. Weakness inviting aggression is not a cliché. It's the truth.
By the way, doesn't that look a bit like walking out of Afghanistan last year? The world looks a bit like it did in the late 1970s when U.S. weakness in Vietnam and the Carter presidency made the world very unsafe for U.S. interests. It took the election of Ronald Reagan to put things back in order. It will take another election in 2024 to put things back to order again.
Let me say it again, remember the Vietnam veterans. They did their jobs and did it well. We salute all of them and honor the 60,000 who did not make it home.
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
The Texas report with George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative
Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative. We will look at the announcement that Senator Cornyn is seeking reelection plus talk of Collin Allred trying again. The "leak" scandal. The Democrats in disarray plus other stories.....
If they only had knife control....
If they only had knife control....: Have you ever talked with a European friend and heard something like this: You need gun control to stop all the shootings.
Another day and another stabbing over there. This is the story:
Five people were injured, two seriously, after…
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If they only had knife control.... - American Thinker https://t.co/Ub2ICuXwK6
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 29, 2025
Successful Cuban American businesswomen in the US
Guest: Fernando Hernandez, author of 'The Cubans'. Our topic today is 'Successful Cuban-American businesswomen'. Some of the names include Julie Stav, Isabel Toledo, Lucila Jimenez, Aida Levitan, Maricela Presilla and Tere Zubizarreta.
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Friday, March 28, 2025
60 days of Trump with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor.
60 days of Trump with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor.
Well excuse me, I don't remember
Well excuse me, I don't remember: It was fun, if maybe a bit sad, to watch Katherine Maher facing Congress. She forgot so many things that one wonders if she remembers what she had for breakfast. A CEO with such a bad memory? I guess that's what happens when you go to Congress to...
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Well excuse me, I don't remember - American Thinker https://t.co/MikftBNCMV
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
More NPR and opening day is here
The NPR CEO did not make a very good presentation before Congress. The scandal that never was is over. Baseball opening day......
And Big Bird can’t sing
And Big Bird can’t sing: Well, every bird has his time and this bird can’t sing anymore, at least not on airwaves paid for by taxpayers. It looks like the days of NPR and PBS as “public stations” are coming to an end. Click to read:
Well, every bird has his time and this bird can’t sing anymore, at least not on airwaves paid for by taxpayers. It looks like the days of NPR and PBS as “public stations” are coming to an end. And I couldn’t be happier.
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 27, 2025
And Big Bird can’t sing - American Thinker…
1942: The Pride of the Yankees, my favorite baseball movie
What a great movie.
This is the story of Lou Gehrig and I have to watch it every year. You can catch Babe Ruth playing himself.
Gehrig died in 1939 at age 36, a couple of months short of his 37th birthday.
His numbers are legendary: .340 career batting average, 494 HR & 1,995 RBI. Add to this 2,721 hits in 2,164 games PLUS the 2,130 consecutive game streak. Lou played in 7 World Series and was the clean up hitter of the 1927 Yankees!
This is a Hollywood version. However, it depicts Lou correctly. Lou was a gentleman and a team player.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The ‘agua’ battle on the border
The ‘agua’ battle on the border: Things have changed a bit down at the U.S.-Mexico border. Things are settled for now, no more people crossing over like before. So what do you when you are not arguing about human trafficking and chaos on the border? You argue about….
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 26, 2025
Happy # 63 to Kevin Seitzer
Kevin broke with the Royals in 1986 and hit .323 with 207 hits in 1987. He was a very consistent hitter and played first and third base very well.
He retired after 12 seasons: .295 average, 1,557 hits and a couple of All Star selections.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Democrats and their digging
Democrats and their digging: Our friend Ruy Teixeira is back with another message for Democrats. My guess is that they won’t like it. It ain’t pretty, to say the least. Teixeira is telling Democrats that Trump may be underwater in some polls….
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Our friend Ruy Teixeira is back with another message for Democrats. My guess is that they won’t like it. It ain’t pretty, to say the least. Teixeira is telling Democrats that Trump may be underwater in some polls, but they are more like 20,000 leagues under the sea (to…
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 25, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
The JFK files.....anything new? Tesla madness. Trump vs Middle East. Dems in trouble............
All we need is Joe, Joe is all we need?
All we need is Joe, Joe is all we need?: Does President Trump understand how lucky he is with respect to his enemies? He probably does, which is why he keeps making traps and they jump in with gusto.
We learned that Governor Tim Walz (Kamala's VP) sort of admitted that he made you…
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We remember Clyde Barrow (1909-34)
Clyde Barrow was born on this day in 1909 in Texas.
We remember him as the Clyde of Bonnie & Clyde. They turned into a deadly couple who robbed banks and killed a lot of policemen.
In 1967, a movie starring Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway made them famous all over the world.
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March 24, 1980: "Nightline" on ABC
Before 24-hour cable news channels, we had shows like "Nightline".
It started on this day in 1980, or in the early stages of the Iran hostage crisis. The show then moved into the 1980 campaign and stayed around for quite a few years.
It was a good show and Ted Koppell's face was everywhere.
Stalingrad 1944 & other national security issues with Barry Jacobsen
Monday July 31: Stalingrad 1944 & other national security issues with Barry Jacobsen....click to listen....
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Sunday's video: Tesla madness and Biden coming back?
Tesla madness, what did Biden know and are they really talking about Biden making comeback. Plus we remember March 1978 and Saturday Night Fever......click to watch
How much did Joe know?
How much did Joe know?: The autopen story and all of the talk about Biden’s cognitive decline raises a question. How much did President Biden know? Did he understand just how far to the left he was being pushed? I am not trying to make...
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The autopen story and all of the talk about Biden’s cognitive decline raises a question. How much did President Biden know? Did he understand just how far to the left he was being pushed? I am not trying to make excuses for Mr. Biden, but this leftist tilt was not what I thought would happen. Maybe I’m alone, but I actually did think that President Biden would be more centrist and stay away from extremes.
I am thinking about all of this because of an article by Mark Penn and just how far left the Biden presidency went. This is what he wrote:
Back in the late 90s, Democrats stood for a balanced budget, expanded health care benefits, tough immigration policies, and smaller government. Bill Clinton declared “the era of big government is over.” Boy was he wrong.
Step by step, Democrats drifted from these policies that produced near 75% approval ratings for Clinton. Tax and spend came back in the Obama years as tax rates went up and Obamacare kicked in, and he moved decisively to the left in the last two years of his presidency.
The groundwork for DEI was laid with the attacks on the police and calling out other institutions as racist. Climate change moved up to the top of the agenda as pipelines were shut down and regulations were issued to slow energy producers and the idea took root that climate change, not ISIS, was the biggest “existential” threat we faced.
The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the election of Donald Trump pushed Democrats further to the left on cultural and economic issues as the chief goal of the party was to lay down resistance to Trump and everything he stood for. The point was to rip it all down and prevent him from shifting away from the Obama policies.
This culminated in the surprise nomination of Joe Biden even after losing Iowa and New Hampshire. He struck a grand bargain with the left so he could go into the election with a united Democratic Party. After his election, he seemed to abandon virtually every position he ever took in his over 50 years as a moderate senator.
That’s right. He abandoned a moderate approach and turned into the most left-wing president on record.
Biden opened the border. He appointed judges on a mission to impose radical ideas, from abortion on demand to men stealing girls’ trophies in sports. Climate change went from science to religion. Last, but not least, the man who authored tough crime bills was now pardoning criminals.
It was quite a shift, and that’s why I’m not sure if he was totally aware of what was going on. Or maybe it was all the pact with the left that he made to get the nomination and support.
As Mr. Penn points out, President Biden left his party in “ruins.” Mr. Penn is hoping for a Bill Clinton in the party’s future. Let’s see what happens, but I’d love to know who was calling the shots, or managing the “autopen.” I fear that someone was the puppet master, and I’d like to know who it was.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
The other cartel
The other cartel: We hear about cartels pushing drugs and trafficking people over the border. Let me tell you about another cartel or the one wearing robes to go to work.
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The other cartel - American Thinker https://t.co/z0ITN4NfeG
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 22, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Governor Walz is back and he looked silly, waiting for Chief Justice to push back on district judges and their injunction fever, too many extremes in the Democrat side plus Iraq 2003.
Governor Walz is back and he looked silly, waiting for Chief Justice to push back on district judges and their injunction fever, too many extremes in the Democrat side plus Iraq 2003.
Tim Walz, manly man
Tim Walz, manly man: Just in time, the governor of Minnesota and candidate for Vice President who did not deliver his state in flying colors, decided to return to the front pages. I don't know why, but maybe he thinks that he can help his side. After all, we do hear ...
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Tim Walz, manly man - American Thinker https://t.co/k3pniiRGWv
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 21, 2025
Saddam Hussein is dead and gone
It was March 19, 2003 or the day that President Bush led military forces into Iraq. At the time, I supported the military decision because the US could not give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt after 9-11.
Everything changed in 1998 when Saddam kicked out the inspectors and gave everyone the finger. By late '98, it was clear that Saddam Hussein had no intention of respecting any international agreement or the cease fire that ended the First Gulf War.
Between '93, when the cease fire when into effect, and 1998, Saddam shot at US planes, did not allow UN inspectors access to Iraq's labs and military bases plus tried to kill the first Bush during a private visit to Kuwait. Last but not least, he did not comply with any of the cease fire requirements. This is why the Clinton administration supported The Iraq Liberation Act or making regime change the policy of the US.
Saddam was given one more chance in September 2002. This is when President Bush went to the UN and enumerated all of the violations. The UN then passed one more resolution calling on Saddam to do his duty or face consequences. The inspectors went back in after a 4 year absence. Once again, Saddam did not allow the inspectors to move freely and do their work.
So President Bush acted and Saddam was removed! The bottom line is that the world is better off without Saddam in Iraq.
Everything changed in 1998 when Saddam kicked out the inspectors and gave everyone the finger. By late '98, it was clear that Saddam Hussein had no intention of respecting any international agreement or the cease fire that ended the First Gulf War.
Between '93, when the cease fire when into effect, and 1998, Saddam shot at US planes, did not allow UN inspectors access to Iraq's labs and military bases plus tried to kill the first Bush during a private visit to Kuwait. Last but not least, he did not comply with any of the cease fire requirements. This is why the Clinton administration supported The Iraq Liberation Act or making regime change the policy of the US.
Saddam was given one more chance in September 2002. This is when President Bush went to the UN and enumerated all of the violations. The UN then passed one more resolution calling on Saddam to do his duty or face consequences. The inspectors went back in after a 4 year absence. Once again, Saddam did not allow the inspectors to move freely and do their work.
So President Bush acted and Saddam was removed! The bottom line is that the world is better off without Saddam in Iraq.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Voz Media interview
📹 | ENTREVISTA a @silvio_canto, analista político: Primeros dos meses de Trump como presidente
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312 is 323 the next time around?
312 is 323 the next time around?: We don’t know for sure, but 11 electoral votes could be turning red when we count them in 2032. What am I talking about? Well, it’s the census, or that thing that we do every ten years to count the population.
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312 is 323 the next time around? - American Thinker https://t.co/IoMjtTeIzj
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 20, 2025
World War II: The road to Stalingrad & US Marines land on Guadalcanal with Barry Jacobsen
World War II: The road to Stalingrad & US Marines land in Guadalcanal.....
On August 7, 1942, the U.S. 1st Marine Division begins Operation Watchtower, the first U.S. offensive of the war, by landing in Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda
Guest: Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Judges vs Trump, Ukraine, Russia plus Trump, Israel attacks, Democrats 2025, Dodgers open baseball season in Japan plus other stories.....click to listen:
The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda
Guest: Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Judges vs Trump, Ukraine, Russia plus Trump, Israel attacks, Democrats 2025, Dodgers open baseball season in Japan plus other stories
Who will stop the judges?
Who will stop the judges?: We've been watching federal judges playing President or Commander in Chief. I guess that these judges, coincidentally appointed by President Obama or President Biden, have concluded that Article 2 powers apply to a presidency only if a judge….
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So come on, Mr. Chief Justice. Stop this or the integrity of your judiciary will continue to deteriorate.
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) March 19, 2025
Who will stop the judges? - American Thinker https://t.co/3m7oWNa18Z
We’ve been watching federal judges playing President or Commander in Chief. I guess that these judges, coincidentally appointed by President Obama or President Biden, have concluded that Article 2 powers apply to a presidency only if a judge in some blue island agrees with his decision.
Glenn Reynolds asserts that this is not going to end well for the judiciary. Let’s check out what he wrote:
Now Trump is drawing out the nation’s partisan district judges, causing them to overextend themselves in ways that will cost them — and the judiciary itself — a lot.
Lower-level federal judges have been issuing orders against the administration, aiming to block Trump-ordered spending cuts, halt layoffs of government employees and more.
In the latest incident, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Saturday tried to block Trump’s deportation of more than 250 illegal aliens tied to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, a federally designated foreign terrorist organization.
Trump was relying on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a venerable statute that allows the president to order the deportation of “alien enemies” in times of war, invasion, incursion or threat thereof.
Trump’s deportation order declared that Tren de Aragua members were specifically exported here by the hostile Venezuelan government, as he placed them on airplanes and sent them to points south.
Though the law dates back to the 18th century, it has been employed regularly in modern times. A 1948 Supreme Court case, Ludecke v. Watkins, interpreted presidential authority under the law very broadly, holding that it precluded judicial review of the removals.
Another partisan Democrat wearing a robe invested in Trump Derangement Syndrome? Or another Democrat willing to do whatever it takes to save the nation from President Trump? I don’t know but it sure looks to me like some of these judges are crossing a line.
Let’s hope that Chief Justice Roberts can see how this is going to hurt the judiciary. I remember an incident where Roberts objected to calling judges as Obama or Trump judges. I don’t like it either, but these judges are making it a lot easier to conclude that they are not calling balls and strikes fairly.
So come on, Mr. Chief Justice. Stop this or the integrity of your judiciary will continue to deteriorate.
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2003: What if President Bush had not invaded Iraq?
It was March 19, 2003 or the day that President Bush led military forces into Iraq. At the time, I supported the military decision because the US could not give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt after 9-11.
Everything changed in 1998 when Saddam kicked out the inspectors and gave everyone the finger. By late '98, it was clear that Saddam Hussein had no intention of respecting any international agreement or the cease fire that ended the First Gulf War.
Between '93, when the cease fire when into effect, and 1998, Saddam shot at US planes, did not allow UN inspectors access to Iraq's labs and military bases plus tried to kill the first Bush during a private visit to Kuwait. Last but not least, he did not comply with any of the cease fire requirements. This is why the Clinton administration supported The Iraq Liberation Act or making regime change the policy of the US.
Saddam was given one more chance in September 2002. This is when President Bush went to the UN and enumerated all of the violations. The UN then passed one more resolution calling on Saddam to do his duty or face consequences. The inspectors went back in after a 4 year absence. Once again, Saddam did not allow the inspectors to move freely and do their work.
So President Bush acted and Saddam was removed! The bottom line is that the world is better off without Saddam in Iraq.
Everything changed in 1998 when Saddam kicked out the inspectors and gave everyone the finger. By late '98, it was clear that Saddam Hussein had no intention of respecting any international agreement or the cease fire that ended the First Gulf War.
Between '93, when the cease fire when into effect, and 1998, Saddam shot at US planes, did not allow UN inspectors access to Iraq's labs and military bases plus tried to kill the first Bush during a private visit to Kuwait. Last but not least, he did not comply with any of the cease fire requirements. This is why the Clinton administration supported The Iraq Liberation Act or making regime change the policy of the US.
Saddam was given one more chance in September 2002. This is when President Bush went to the UN and enumerated all of the violations. The UN then passed one more resolution calling on Saddam to do his duty or face consequences. The inspectors went back in after a 4 year absence. Once again, Saddam did not allow the inspectors to move freely and do their work.
So President Bush acted and Saddam was removed! The bottom line is that the world is better off without Saddam in Iraq.
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Remember when Democrats supported the Iraq War?
President Obama recently said that ISIS is the consequence of our invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately, the interviewer did not challenge him or ask a couple of follow-up questions.
For example, why didn't ISIS exist when we had troops as late as 2011? Is it just a coincidence that ISIS filled the vacuum that our departure created?
Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of President Bush starting the 2nd Iraq War:
On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”After President Bush spoke that night, a bunch of Democrats ran to the microphones and news shows to support the invasion. These are the same Democrats who looked at the information and came to the same conclusion about weapons of mass destruction.
By the way, where was Barack Obama that night? I don't know, but he had the luxury of not having to make a decision about the war, unlike Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who had to vote one way or the other on the issue.
The tragedy of the Iraq War is that it was shamefully politicized by Democrats and the postwar period terribly mishandled by President Obama.
We did not leave a military force and created the vacuum that ISIS filled and continues to fill.
What if we had walked away from Korea after the 1953 truce? Or Germany after the war ended in 1945?
The answer is that we would have lost South Korea to the communists, and Europe would have drifted into chaos and potential intervention of Soviet troops. The bottom line is that the Korean peninsula and Western Europe would have had a very different timeline if we had come home too soon to fulfill some misguided campaign promise.
Thankfully, we had leaders and statesmen like Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, who saw the big picture rather than just telling people what they wanted they hear.
Last but not least, we remember today the sacrifice of the soldiers and their families, especially those who were killed. What's worse than a war? The answer is ending a war irresponsibly, as President Obama did with Iraq.
One of these young men was Nathan Aguirre, from our community and church.
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