Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Wednesday: The media & Biden, Canada elections and more


The media is trying to explain how they missed the Biden story.  Did they miss it on purpose to hurt the Trump candidacy?  The liberals win a narrow victory in Canada but there are many pending problems.   President Washington 1789.  Hitler dead 1945.......

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What happens now that Canada voted against Trump?

What happens now that Canada voted against Trump?: Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well north of the border. To paraphrase something I heard on a Canadian podcast, Americans don’t realize how much we (i.e., Canadians) hate Trump. Actually, we do. It’s the radical wing of the…
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well north of the border. To paraphrase something I heard on a Canadian podcast, Americans don’t realize how much we (i.e., Canadians) hate Trump. Actually, we do. It’s the radical wing of the Democrat party or the people that we see on TV.

So, PM-elect Carney will soon take over. As I understand, it’s a narrow victory:

Carney’s party had about 43% of the national vote, but may fall short of the 172 seats needed for a majority in the House of Commons, meaning the government would be forced to work with other parties to pass budgets and other legislation. Under the tightest scenarios, the Bloc Quebecois, which runs candidates only in French-speaking Quebec, might hold the balance of power.

OK, I guess that’s what they call a narrow victory.

Some Canadians may be using 4-letter words to describe what’s coming.

It’s hard to see how future PM Carney will fix housing costs, the lack of investment, and over-taxation. Even their much-talked-about health care program is not clicking well, as people wait longer periods for treatment.

Let’s check out things:

The real measuring stick of a country’s economy, Osberg said, is real GDP per capita, an economy’s production per person. Canada’s real GDP per capita in the third quarter declined for the sixth consecutive quarter, falling by 0.4 per cent. The unemployment rate in November rose to 6.8 per cent, up one percentage point from the same time last year.

“In terms of GDP per capita, we’ve been in a recession for some time now and the increase in the unemployment rate reflects that,” Osberg said.

Beyond economic numbers, just talk to Canadians about their country. They are fed up with the cost of living, crazy immigration, and crime. They know deep inside that their country’s future is in danger. Again, just talk to real people stuck in a Toronto traffic jam because some “foreign guests” are having a prayer moment on a busy street.

So, Canada’s problem is not Trump, but it’s so easy to blame the Orange Man, who exposed just how weak their economy is.

And did I tell you that they can’t meet their NATO commitments?

So, PM Carney has his work cut out for him. We wish him well.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Monday: The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda


Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Iran-US talks continue...Can the media come clean and Biden...Lots of 100-day polls...Canada elections all about Trump...Immigration raids and judges gone wild....plus other stories...


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


Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Iran-US talks continue...Can the media come clean and Biden...Lots of 100-day polls...Canada elections all about Trump...Immigration raids and judges gone wild....plus other stories...

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JB wants to debate JD in 2028?

JB wants to debate JD in 2028?: Who wants to be the 2028 Democrat nominee and face likely GOP candidate VP Vance? You say AOC, Senator Sanders, or Senator Booker. I'm sure that my fellow Texan Beto is thinking about it. He doesn't have a job now and another run for pre...
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Who wants to be the 2028 Democrat nominee and face likely GOP candidate VP Vance? You say AOC, Senator Sanders, or Senator Booker. I’m sure that my fellow Texan Beto is thinking about it. He doesn’t have a job now and another run for president may just be what he needs.

So your guess is as good as mine. 2028 is a long way off. However, let me put a name on the list: Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois. Over the weekend, the governor was talking:

If JB Pritzker runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, he will be betting his party’s best prospect is a political punch-throwing heavyset billionaire who inherited massive wealth. While that sounds like President Trump, the two-term Illinois governor would be wagering on himself.

Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, has become one of the most-outspoken critics of Trump at a time Democrats are struggling to counter him. Wealth has long opened doors for Pritzker and there are signs he wants the next one to be into the Oval Office.

The 60-year-old is visiting New Hampshire, traditional home of the nation’s first presidential primary, to speak April 27 at a party fundraiser about what he sees as Trump’s authoritarianism and to call Democrats to action. The trip is likely to boost speculation that Pritzker, among those vetted by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign as a possible running mate, is interested in the 2028 nomination.

“There is no doubt that he is going to run,” said Chicagoan Bill Daley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s commerce secretary and President Barack Obama’s chief of staff. “The real question is whether he runs for re-election first or just runs for president.”

Another governor from a state losing population who wants to run for President? I guess that’s the way it goes. It must be in the DNC water.

Governor Pritzker has one big advantage in a presidential primary. He can literally buy it with all that money as an heir to the Hyatt fortune. Also, he is not afraid to go woke on Trump or call for people to demonstrate. He seems to have a criticism for every Trump policy.

Go for it, JB. We can’t wait for you to debate JD.

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Happy # 78 Tommy James



We say happy birthday to Tommy James who was born in Ohio on this day in 1947.

In the 1960's, Tommy James & The Shondells had a ton of hits, from "Hanky Panky" to "Crimson and clover", both reached # 1 in the US.    




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Remembering "Respect" by Aretha Franklin



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"Respect" was released on this day in 1967 and hit # 1 by mid-June.  

Over time, "Respect" became one of the most popular records of the 1960s and a frequent addition to movie soundtracks.

The story of "Respect" is rather interesting.  It was ranked # 5 in Rolling Stone's Top 500 all time songs.

"Respect" was written by Otis Redding, another one of my favorite performers.

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1968: The musical "Hair" opened in Broadway

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 We remember "Hair", the musical that opened in Broadway on this day in 1968.     

 There were two angles to "Hair".    

 The first was "political" and it did nothing for me.   It still doesn't.     

 The second was the music and that was great, including "Aquarius/Let the sunshine in" by The Fifth Dimension, "Easy to be hard" by Three Dog Night and "Hair" by The Cowsills.

 The music was good but everything else was not that important.
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2011: Happy anniversary Prince William & Kate






Happy anniversary to Prince William and Kate.  

Back in 2010, we hoped that their wedding would serve as a revival of marriage in Europe.    Today, we hope that their beautiful kids put having babies on the European "to do list".

 Unfortunately, Europe is a very different continent than the one that saw Diana and Prince Charles get married in back in 1981.

 First, "birth rates" are insufficient to maintain population: The EU's baby blues---Birth rates in the European Union are falling fast.

Why do "having babies" matter?  Babies are the future!  You can't maintain your population, and culture, without babies carrying your name, traditions and identity.

 Second, marriage is also undergoing a huge crisis across the ocean: 
"Marriage is in decline across much of northern Europe, from Scandinavia to France, a pattern some sociologists describe as a "soft revolution" in European society -- a generational shift away from Old World traditions and institutions toward a greater emphasis on personal independence." (Washington Post)
Why does marriage matter?  It is the central institution in a society.  It is the foundation of the family unit.

 Third, the churches are empty:  Religion takes a back seat in Western Europe.

 It's sad to see how Europe has changed.

 Let's hope that the royal couple puts marriage and babies back in style!

 The Europeans need to rediscover religion, get married and have babies or we won't recognize the land of our grandparents.

About 10 years ago, George Weigel wrote about Europe and its demographic problems.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Monday's video: Sanders & NFL draft plus Pritzer 2028


The NFL draft got controversial over the weekend because a young man named Sanders was not drafted until much later.  It got ugly because someone played the race card but it was more complicated than that.  Judges as immigration activists.  Is Governor Pritzer of Illinois running for President in 2028?   JB vs JD?   Happy # 84 Ann Margaret
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Judges acting like immigration activists

Judges acting like immigration activists : Did you hear the story of the judges who dreamed of being immigration activists? In fact, they decided to write their own version of immigration laws. Here is a quick guide as to how it works: Trump says yes, I say no, Trump says stop and I say go go...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Democrats talking future & more

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When the center-fielder saved the flag

When the center-fielder saved the flag: How about talking about something other than district judges and injunctions?  Yes, I’m angry about that, too.  But today let’s remember one spring day in Wrigley Field, or when they used to play day….
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The Orioles 1979-83, the best team in the AL



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We remember one of the best teams in recent AL history, the 1979-83 Orioles.    There were future Hall of Fame players on that squad:  Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray & Cal Ripken.   There were some great players, like Mark Belanger, Al Bumbry, and Ken Singleton.   The pitching staff included Scott McGregor, Dennis Martinez & Mike Flannagan.

 They were a great team..

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

The music of Ernesto Lecuona and other Cuban composers.

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

 This is a show from 2012.

 We reviewed the career of Ernesto Lecuona, one of the greatest composers of the Spanish speaking world, plus Moises Simons, Rene Touzet among others..

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Maybe woke has been

Maybe woke has been : The Democrats are in crisis, or so they say. So the latest…
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We remember Mariel 1980



Mariel 1980......with Marcos Nelson Suarez, author….
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Friday, April 25, 2025

Friday's video: RIP Pope Francis and bad judges


The world is headed to Pope Francis' funeral.  Democrats and woke.  Bad judges in New Mexico & Wisconsin.  Rick Monday saved the US flag 1976.


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From 'Trump is Hitler' to dark woke?

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The good news is that the Democrats have finally figured out that calling Trump "Hitler" is a loser. The bad news is that they are switching to "dark woke," a new strategy based on throwing everything they have at the President. Here it goes:

"Resistance" Democrats are starting to abandon civil politics in favor of a new provocative and combative "dark woke," a new report says.

The term "dark woke" refers to an online meme that gained popularity in January amid President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Under the "#darkwoke" tag, left-leaning X users share jokes and memes delighting in or wishing for the suffering of Trump supporters.

Though the term is largely an online phenomenon, some members of the Democratic Party are beginning to see some benefits to the "crass" and "rude" attitude.

"Republicans have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison," Bhavik Lathia, a communications consultant and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, told the New York Times on Monday. "There is an extreme imbalance in strategy that allows Republicans to say stuff that really grabs voters’ attention, where we’re stuck saying boring pablum. I see this as a strategic shift within Democratic messaging -- I’m a big fan of ‘dark woke.’"

So it's dark woke now! It looks like the face of this new movement is Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a lady who represents the one district in the Dallas-Ft Worth area that everybody wants to move out of. Just take a car ride around the district and tell me if that's where you want to settle down. Texas is leading the nation in relocations but no one is looking for a property in that district.

The Democrats think that "dark woke" will make it easier for them to communicate with young people and recover all those votes that they used to count on election day.

Time will tell, but using four-letter words to talk about Trump and Musk is probably not going to turn their fate around. Recent polls show that the party leadership has reached a historic low. I hope that the Democrats don't interpret those "lows" as not using enough bad words or turning up their name calling. My guess is that people who will buy into that new approach are already voting for them.

David Hogg, the DNC #2 who started this conversation, is right about one thing. The party is not doing well when poll after poll shows approval ratings in the 20s.

So wait for Jasmine and the gang to unleash profanity and whatever else they come up with. Will it work? Probably not, but I hope that we sit back and let them have the microphones for a while. Let them talk because the country needs to see what the other side is all about, i.e. nothing of substance.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Thursday's video: "Dark woke" plus other stories


The latest from the Democrats is "dark woke" or a more intense anti-Trump campaign.  Incumbent Democrats afraid of primary challenges.  Parents vs school districts in The Supreme Court.  DHS Secretary Noem and TV messages about crossing the border.   We remember the Iran hostage rescue that failed 1980..........click to watch:

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No Kristi on my TV channel

No Kristi on my TV channel: Over the last few days, Secretary Noem’s announcements about immigration have been shown on TV.  They go like this: ‘Thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for securing our border and putting America first…”
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Over the last few days, Secretary Noem’s announcements about immigration have been shown on TV.  They go like this:

‘Thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for securing our border and putting America first. President Trump has a clear message: if you are here illegally, we will find you and deport you. You will never return. But if you leave now, you may have an opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American Dream,’ said Secretary Kristi Noem. ‘If you are a criminal alien considering entering America illegally: Don’t even think about it.  If you come here and break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States.’

They don't like the message down in Mexico.  In fact, Presidenta Sheinbaum wants to cancel them on Mexican TV.  Here is the story:

Mexico’s president said Monday that her government has asked television stations to pull a commercial produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration to the United States.

Calling the ad ‘discriminatory,’ President Claudia Sheinbaum also vowed to send legislation to Congress that would ban the commercial and others that are similar.

In the ad, which has aired periodically on major TV stations here, including during the broadcast of two major soccer games over the weekend, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shares a message that she says comes from President Trump.

During a recent morning press conference, Presidenta Sheinbaum expressed concern that this type of TV message was an attack on the dignity of migrants. Her concern is that it sends the message that migrants just carry drugs and traffic people. They don’t show how much migrants contribute to the U.S. economy or all the jobs that that they do that Americans supposedly won’t do.

So how is the Trump administration going to react to having Secretary Noem cancelled on Mexican TV? I don’t know, but Secretary Noem’s message is pretty straightforward. It simply encourages people to cross the border legally or face the consequences of deportation, or never be permitted to come back to the U.S.

The Mexicans argue that they’ve been very helpful in keeping fentanyl from crossing the border. It may be true but I think that President Trump’s border policy has a lot more to do with that than what Mexico has done.

So let’s see how this one plays out.

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1980: The Iran rescue mission failed

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Wednesday's video: Deportations, due process and more

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The last Austrian standing

The last Austrian standing: Over in Austria, a country that I've always associated with the waltz and beautiful women dancing in elegant gowns, people are a bit shocked to read the news today.  Here it goes: 41% of children in Vienna's….
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Over in Austria, a country that I've always associated with the waltz and beautiful women dancing in elegant gowns, people are a bit shocked to read the news today.  Here it goes:

41% of children in Vienna's elementary and middle schools are Muslim. Within living memory, Vienna will become a Muslim city.

Yes, it turns out that way.  As someone told me, the last guy standing usually wins the battle.  It's hard for Austrians to compete if they are old or dead and the last guy standing is young and has lots of kids. It's a brutal truth, but it is that way.

Austria's problem didn't start today. As a good friend from Austria told me years ago when he came to Texas, their birth rates have been below replacement for a while. The latest one is 1.5 per woman and it takes 2.1 per woman to keep future Austrians dancing the waltz.

The problems gets more complicated when mass immigration meets the generous welfare state. Can you say California?

How much longer will Austria survive? I don't know, but reality does have the last word and I see a big clash coming. It's also one of those "ghosts of the future" moments. As the ghost told Scrooge, these are images of things that may happen but you can change your ways. I think that the ghost is telling Austrians to start having babies if they want girls in pretty gowns dancing the waltz in the future.

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1993: The Bee Gees & Blue Island


Image result for bee gees size isn't everything imagesBack in 1993, The Bee Gees released "Size isn't everything".

 Time flies and it's hard to believe that so many years have flown by.

"Blue Island" is a beautiful song recorded in an acoustic style.  We understand that the song was dedicated to the children of Yugoslavia.  By the way, I love The Bee Gees when they do their acoustic medleys.


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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Tuesday's video: The Pope and other stories


We remember Pope Francis (1936-2025).  Who will follow him and what's the profile?  The Supreme Court will likely support President Trump's deportations but issue some guidelines on due process.  Earth Day 1970.  Blues Brothers and Saturday Night Live 1978.  President Nixon died 1994........................

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The answer is not blowing in the wind

The answer is not blowing in the wind: It was 55 years ago that Earth Day happened. The founders did it on Lenin’s birthday (April 22), and maybe Senator Sanders can explain that the next time he talks about oligarchs. I’m sure that it was a big coincidence. Don’t get me…
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 It was 55 years ago that Earth Day happened. The founders did it on Lenin’s birthday (April 22), and maybe Senator Sanders can explain that the next time he talks about oligarchs. I’m sure that it was a big coincidence. Don’t get me started with conspiracy theories. We’ve had enough of those from the Russia hoax to Trump is Hitler.

And all of the predictions about cooling, warming, and famine came and went. It never got cold, hot, and running out of food has more to do with bad government than the climate. Agrarian reform, not the climate, made people hungry. It’s amazing how the countries inspired by Lenin are the ones with food shortages.

What were we saying back in 1970? I was there, so I remember a lot of what they said because a few of my high school buddies went to the parade.

Let’s go back in time and hear the news:

Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.

3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [by 1980].”

5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

Note: The prediction of famine in South America is partly true, but only in Venezuela and only because of socialism, not for environmental reasons.

9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).

14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say,`I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”

Note: Global oil production last year at about 95M barrels per day (bpd) was double the global oil output of 48M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so [by 2005], it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”

18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age.”

MP: Let’s keep those spectacularly wrong predictions from the first Earth Day 1970 in mind when we’re bombarded again this year with dire predictions of “gloom and doom” and “existential threats” due to climate change.

Yes, they got it wrong over and over again. I guess that the only thing they got right back in April 1970 is that The Beatles never got back together again. The Fab Four never recorded again, but the Earth is still floating around. Just remember that the next time they tell you that the oceans will rise or dry up, depending on what book they’re trying to sell you.

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Monday, April 21, 2025

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


Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Pope Francis (1936-2025) and the future of the Catholic Church...the conflict within the Democrat Party between the left and center...Iran and US talks...Ukraine and Russia still fighting...Earth Day and all of those predictions...Trump and deportation of El Salvador....plus other stories.....
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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda

 


Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...Pope Francis (1936-2025) and the future of the Catholic Church...the conflict within the Democrat Party between the left and center...Iran and US talks...Ukraine and Russia still fighting...Earth Day and all of those predictions...Trump and deportation of El Salvador....plus other stories....

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It’s not really about Abrego Garcia

It’s not really about Abrego Garcia: Why have Democrats decided to die on another barren hill? I'm talking about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case in El Salvador, also known as the story of the…
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Why have Democrats decided to die on another barren hill? I'm talking about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case in El Salvador, also known as the story of the "Maryland dad" who got deported without cause. Why fight for such a man when the evidence is overwhelming that he was here illegally and should have deported before?

I think that the answer lies in the civil war occurring on the Democrat side. It's also a generational war, a fight between the 20-year-olds and the 80-year-olds.

This is from The Hill:

Calls for generational change among Democrats are growing louder as the party seeks to chart a path forward going into the 2026 midterms.

On Wednesday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg’s group Leaders We Deserve PAC launched a $20 million effort aimed at launching primary challenges against House Democratic incumbents in safe seats in hopes of electing younger candidates. A number of young progressive candidates have already launched primary bids against longtime incumbent House Democrats.

The efforts come as young, progressive figures in the party like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are playing a central role in galvanizing the party’s grassroots in large-scale rallies across the country.

“The Democratic Party says over and over again ‘we have to care about democracy, we have to care about democracy,’ and we do,” Hogg said in an interview with The Hill. “But the best way to do that is not just to say we need to care about democracy, it is to use democracy to actively help people improve their lives and show them how democracy is the best vehicle to do that.”

 One of the incumbent Democrats hearing that call is Sen. Chuck Schumer, who may face a primary challenge from AOC, the darling of the Left. I'm sure that the Minority Leader remembers how AOC took out an established congressman. As we know, primaries are all about energy, and the energy is with AOC's side.

This is why you will see more and more incumbent Democrats scared of a challenge. They will respond by going deeper into Trump Derangement Syndrome and sign on to any attacks on the President.

Last, but not least, I would add that the Left never recovered from what the establishment did to Senator Bernie Sanders in 2016 and especially in 2020. In both cycles, the energy was with Senator Sanders because Secretary Clinton and VP Biden did not turn anyone on. The Left remembers how the rules were altered to hurt Sanders and supporters.

So Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is just another convenient case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, especially all the stuff we are hearing about anyone being deported without due process.

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Lenin and those very dirty and polluted cities of the old Soviet bloc

Coincidence?  I don’t know. We do know that there is anti-capitalism streak in the environmentalist movement.  Just check out AOC! 
Do any of the people who started “Earth Day” know what Lenin’s ideas did to the environment in communist countries? 
The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up many of those countries enslaved behind what Prime Minister Churchill called “The Iron Curtain.”   
We learned many things: 
  • The economies were really backwards compared to those on our side, i.e. East vs West Germany for example; and, 
  • Their cities were really dirty and polluted. 
While efforts to restore clean air to the United States have met with partial success, there is a far greater ecological disaster brewing in Eastern Europe, a report on worldwide air pollution said today.
The report, issued by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based environmental group, warned that gains in the West are quickly being negated by the unrestricted burning of high-sulfur brown coal and diesel fuel that is blackening cities across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
It was obvious that the communist world was polluted because of a lack of property rights as well as the absence of freedom or the rule of law. It’s no coincidence that democratic states, like the US or Western Europe, are more sensitive to pollution or dirty rivers. In general, elected representatives are more sensitive to the air that their constituents breathe or the water that they drink. 
So is it a coincidence that Earth Day and Lenin’s birthday are on the same day? I don’t know but someone forgot to check what Lenin and the gang did to the water and air in communist countries.    
Maybe they should change the date and remember someone who actually cared about clean water and fresh air. 
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Sunday, April 20, 2025

The Texas Report with George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative


Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative.   School choice and and what it shows about Governor Abbott's political strengths.  Civil War in the Democrat Party.   The Paxton-Cornyn primary goes national.   Plus other stories..

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Power to the parents

Power to the parents: The school choice news in Texas gets better. This is the story: The Texas House gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program, crossing a historic milestone and bringing Gov. Greg Abbott….
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The school choice news in Texas gets better. This is the story:

The Texas House gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program, crossing a historic milestone and bringing Gov. Greg Abbott’s top legislative priority closer than ever to reaching his desk.

The lower chamber signed off on its voucher proposal, Senate Bill 2, on an 86-61 vote. Every present Democrat voted against the bill. They were joined by two Republicans — far short of the bipartisan coalitions that in previous legislative sessions consistently blocked proposals to let Texans use taxpayer money to pay for their children’s private schooling.

“This is an extraordinary victory for the thousands of parents who have advocated for more choices when it comes to the education of their children,” Abbott said in a statement, vowing that he would “swiftly sign this bill into law” when it reached his desk.

The initial vote came more than 10 hours after the chamber gave preliminary approval to its sweeping $7.7 billion school funding package, which would give local districts more money per student and raise teacher salaries. House Bill 2, which received final passage Thursday on a 142-5 vote, also aims to improve the quality of special education services by allocating funding based on the individual needs of children with disabilities.

 Lt. Governor Patrick supports the House version, clearing the way for its Senate approval. Over at the Governor’s Mansion, Governor Abbott said that he is ready to sign the legislation.

The bill will create education savings accounts for private school tuition and school expenses.

The Democrats will argue that the bill helps the rich. In fact, it will give low-income families options to find better schools. So, power to the parents, and Happy Easter Sunday.

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