The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda....we will look at the start of Trump and the end of Biden......the hostage deal underway......click to listen:
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda....we will look at the start of Trump and the end of Biden......the hostage deal underway......click to listen:
All in the family
All in the family: It was quite a political day, and I don't mean President Trump outlining all those executive orders coming. It was…
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All in the family - American Thinker https://t.co/OBWpGv4Leu
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) January 21, 2025
It was quite a political day, and I don’t mean President Trump outlining all those executive orders coming. It was “banana republic day,” and lots of family members got pardoned. What for? What crime did they commit? I don’t know, but they got pardoned before a jury got to hear the evidence. Nice work if you can find it, to paraphrase my late father.
Here is the story:
President Biden pardoned his siblings just minutes before leaving office on Monday.
The pardon applies to James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden, the White House announced. The president argues that his family could be subject to “politically motivated investigations” after he leaves office.
“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” Biden said in a statement.
He said that he believes in the rule of law? Funny way of showing that.
The impact of these last-minute pardons will stain the Biden record like nothing else.
First, it will be a cloud over these family members even if they didn’t break the law. People will always ask: Why did he pardon you if you did nothing wrong? That’s a bad cloud to live under for the rest of your life.
Second, it devalues the pardon powers. What Founding Father had this in mind when they debated pardons a long time ago? It’s disrespectful even if it’s totally legal for the president to issue a pardon.
So goodbye President Biden. Enjoy the rest of your life. I wonder what your next family gathering will be like?
We thought that we’d remember President Biden for inflation and a chaotic border. As Steven Hayward posted today:
“Proof that Joe Biden really liked inflation is how he hyper-inflated the pardon power, which the founders intended for rare cases of misjudgment.”
Hyperinflating the pardon powers? It’s his legacy along with the price of eggs etc.
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Happy # 56 to Rusty Greer
We say happy birthday to Rusty Greer who was born in Arkansas on this day in 1969.
He played his first game back in May 1994. I don't think that the Rangers expected Rusty to blossom into the major league hitter that he became: .305 career batting average, 1,166 hits in 1,027 games!
From 1996 to 1999, a four year span, Rusty hit .332, .321, .306 and .300. He drove in 396 RBI over those four seasons. The Rangers won the AL West in 3 of those years.
Unfortunately, injuries caught up with Rusty's aggressive style. He retired after the 2002 season. Can you imagine what his numbers would have looked like if he had played 15 seasons?
Rusty is one of my all time favorite players and continues to work with the organization.
Happy # 84 Placido Domingo
We say happy birthday to Placido Domingo born on this day in Madrid, Spain, in 1941.
Domingo made his US debut in Dallas in 1961. I did not know that.
He's been on stage for 50 plus years: over 3,800 performances of 147 roles plus many audio and video recordings and films.
It's hard to pick a favorite. I love "Siempre en mi corazon", his 1983 LP of Ernesto Lecuona songs. It'd make a great gift for Valentine's Day.
Domingo made his US debut in Dallas in 1961. I did not know that.
He's been on stage for 50 plus years: over 3,800 performances of 147 roles plus many audio and video recordings and films.
It's hard to pick a favorite. I love "Siempre en mi corazon", his 1983 LP of Ernesto Lecuona songs. It'd make a great gift for Valentine's Day.
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We remember Sam Mele (1922-2017)
We remember Sabath Anthony Mele who was born in Queens on this day in 1922. We remember him as Sam Mele.
As a player, he hit .267 over 1,046 games. He led the AL with 36 doubles in 1951 and had 331 RBI over a 4-year period.
As a player, he hit .267 over 1,046 games. He led the AL with 36 doubles in 1951 and had 331 RBI over a 4-year period.
In 1965, Mele led the Minnesota Twins to the World Series.
The Twins lost a tough 7-game series to the LA Dodgers. Mele had some good seasons with the Twins, coming in second a couple of times before winning the AL pennant.
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January 1964: We remember "Meet the Beatles"
It ranks #53 in the ROLLING STONE TOP 500 ALBUMS:
The album is a combination of the first two UK albums plus "I want to hold your hand", the big single released in the US."For Americans in the full grip of Beatlemania, this was the first album they could buy. Meet took the Fab Four's second British record, With the Beatles, dropped five covers and added three tracks, including the singles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There." (This may have made a hash of the Beatles' artistic intentions, but it made for a much better record.) John Lennon and Paul McCartney were on a songwriting roll that would be unmatched in rock history, and at this point they were still a real team. They wrote "I Want to Hold Your Hand" together on a piano in the basement of Jane Asher, McCartney's actress girlfriend – as Lennon put it, "eyeball to eyeball."
It was not their best album in retrospect but it was exactly the kind of debut that the group needed.
In my opinion, the best albums were RUBBER SOUL & REVOLVER. They were a couple of years in the future!
MEET THE BEATLES is a classic rock album.
Most painful Super Bowl loss: Pittsburgh beats Dallas in # 13!
This week, the NFL channel brought back Super Bowl 13, Dallas vs Pittsburgh.
Roger Staubach vs. Terry Bradshaw
Coach Landry vs Coach Knoll.
It was the last post-season game played in the 1970s.
It was also a game between the two best teams of the 1970's.
Coach Landry's Cowboys played in the 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978 and 1979 SB's. They won two of them.
Pittsburgh blossomed in the 1970's with great draft picks. They played in the 1975, 1976, 1979 and a year later in 1980. They won all 4 SB's.
Super Bowl 13 went down to the last minute. It was really worth watching the NFL channel rerun!
Pittsburgh was up 35-17 but Dallas scored twice and made it 35-31 with seconds left:
"Although the game seemed decided, the Cowboys refused to give up.
On their next drive, Dallas drove 89 yards in 8 plays to score on Staubach's 7-yard touchdown pass to Dupree.
Then after Dallas' Dennis Thurman recovered an onside kick at 2:19, Drew Pearson caught 2 passes for gains of 22 and 25 yards as the Cowboys drove 52 yards in 9 plays to score on Staubach's 4-yard touchdown pass to Butch Johnson.
With the ensuing extra point, the score was cut to 35–31 with just 0:22 left in the game.
But the Cowboys' second onside kick attempt was unsuccessful.
Bleier recovered the ball and the Steelers were able to run out the clock to win the game."
SB 13 will always be remembered for Jackie Smith dropping a "certain" Cowboys' TD in the end zone:
It was a great game. I still feel bad for Jackie Smith.
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