Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda. The story of an Israeli plane. Judge stops Mamdani. Iran and the midterms.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Hey hey, we're the migrants
Mexico made a big mistake by letting them in.
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The migrants are coming. They apparently walked into Mexico without a visa and are now walking to "el norte" as they call the U.S.-Mexico border. Let's get the story:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a strong warning to a major migrant caravan that crossed into Mexico and was moving north with hopes of reaching the U.S.-Mexico border.
"USBP is closely engaged with its international partners to monitor their movement and any additional developments," DHS told Fox News in a statement. "[United States Border Patrol] USBP reminds migrants that under the leadership of President Trump and Homeland Secretary Mullin, the border has remained closed and secured for the last 16 months."
The caravan, numbering in the hundreds as of Monday, is predominantly made up of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians.
As a Mexican friend told me last night, let's hope that the Mexican government understands that these "caravanistas" are not entering the U.S. So, he added, I hope that the people in North Mexico understand that they have new neighbors.
The question is simple: Who is behind this? Am I the only person who believes that someone planned and financed a multinational caravan like this? Are we supposed to believe that people from these countries casually decided to meet up wherever and walk north? Who is paying for “los sandwiches y refrescos” (the sandwiches and refreshments) as my late Cuban parents used to say?
Mexico made a big mistake by letting them in. The "caravanistas" probably think that they will enter the U.S. Mexico should have told them to go home and brought this to a peaceful resolution.
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1958: "The Rifleman" made its US TV debut
Chuck Connors used to play baseball. In fact, he played with the Dodgers and Cubs in 1949-51. Connors, who was 6'5 and 190 pounds, never hit much: .238 in 67 major league games!
On this day in 1958, "The Rifleman" made its debut on US TV and an entire generation of boys like me grew up watching it. Even now, I catch episodes on Saturday mornings over at AMC.
The show's message was simple: right and wrong, a widowed father who was a good role model and a cast of characters that we enjoyed every week.
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Happy # 83 to Marilyn McCoo
Happy birthday Marilyn McCoo, a neat lady who was born in New Jersey on this day in 1943.
Do you remember 'One less bell to answer", "Last night I didn't get to sleep at all" and other great songs by The Fifth Dimension?
It was Marilyn McCoo as the lead female vocal in some many of the group's hits!
In the 1970's, Marilyn and her husband Billy Davis Jr had several hits. In the 1980s, she hosted "Solid Gold" on TV.
Beautiful lady with a beautiful voice!
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1972: Clemente and # 3,000
The great Roberto Clemente got # 3,000 on this day in 1972. It turned out to be his last major league hit and at-bat because he died in a plane crash 3 months later.
I recall reading about # 3,000 the next day in the sports pages.
Sadly, I recall hearing about that plane crash too. It was a shock!
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September 30, 1927: Babe Ruth hit # 60!
Ruth was arguably the greatest professional athlete of the 20th century. He saved baseball in the 1920's after the White Sox World Series scandal. It was Ruth and his majestic home runs that put people back in the seats.
Ruth set the all time record home run record, a mark that stood until Aaron passed him in 1974. We remember # 60 in 1927!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2026
From ‘ObamaCare’ to ‘JesusCare’?
Paxton will win, and he can thank Talarico for saying a bunch of weird things.
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They tell us that State Rep. James Talarico and AG Ken Paxton are in a tough fight here in Texas, within the margin of error, as the pollsters say. Paxton will win this, and he can thank Talarico for saying a bunch of weird things. Let's check this from Nick Arama:
We've seen a lot of wild statements from Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico.
But Talarico posted a screed on Sunday about how his healthcare positions were based on "biblical grounds," then misused Jesus to justify his takes.
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.
When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.
When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.
When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
On Biblical grounds? Well, that's just crazy. Where does this guy come up with this stuff?
What Talarico doesn't say is that millions of Americans are subsidized and receive health care. We are already taking care of our fellow Americans with public services, food stamps, and free this or that. And don't forget all the work of charities across Texas. For example, our church has a pantry where people can come and get free food.
In fact, I think that Jesus would look at our federal government and say that we destroyed families by creating dependency, and God only knows what he'd say about abortion. I don't think that Jesus would say that there are six genders or refer to some as our "neighbors with a uterus."
Talarico is a phony and a fraud. I don't have a problem with his church, but I would love to hear more about the real issues that a U.S. senator will have to work on.
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We remember Gene Autry (1907-1998)
Gene Autry was born in Tioga, Texas and grew up here and Oklahoma. Where else?
We remember him for songs and movies. "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" is the second all-time best selling Christmas single, i.e. 30 million copies. He is the only entertainer to have all five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one each for Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television, and Live Theater performances.
And he owned the Angels, the AL baseball team in Los Angeles. Sadly, he never saw his Angels win the 2002 World Series.
Autry was one of the most famous people of the 20th century.
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"My Three Sons" made its debut in 1960
What can I say? I used to love this show not realizing that I would have 3 sons someday.
The original series was about widower Steve Douglas raising three sons with the help of the one and only Uncle Charlie.
The show ran until 1972. The family expanded when Douglas remarried and new characters came into the story.
By the way, McMurray died in 1991. He had a long film career before this show. Don Grady, who played Robbie, died in 2012. William Demarest, who played Uncle Charlie and served in World War I, died in 1983. The other two sons are still living.
A great show now available for sale..........
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Happy # 77 to Steve Busby
Happy birthday Steve Busby who was born in Burbank, CA, on this day in 1949.
Some of us are old enough to remember Steve Busby the pitcher not just the man who called Rangers' games on TV and radio.
Steve played at USC. He broke with the Royals in 1972 pitching a complete game against Minnesota.
In the early 1970's, or before injuries cut short his career, Busby seemed like a man headed for the Hall of Fame: 54 wins over first three full seasons along with 45 complete games and 2 no-hitters before he was 24!
In fact, Sporting News had him on the cover: "Unlimited future"!
After baseball, Steve became an excellent radio and TV play by play analyst.
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World War II: The outbreak of war and the invasion of Poland in 1939
The story of World War II, part 3 of our series.........the outbreak of war after the invasion of Poland...
We remember Jerry Lee Lewis. (1935-2022)
We remember Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the first rockers in rock history. He was born on this day in 1935 in Louisiana and died in 2022.
In the early days of rock, Lewis recorded with Sun Records, or the same studio that featured a young Elvis. His music was raw rock, a killer piano and lots of energy.....
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1954: Willie Mays and "the catch"
Willie Mays took playing center field to a new level in game 1 of the 1954 World Series. He made an amazing over-the-shoulder catch of a shot hit by Cleveland Indians first baseman Vic Wertz. It would have likely been a triple or even an inside of the park depending on how the ball bounced around in deep centerfield. Instead, it was a long out!
"The catch" started the legend of Willie Mays, from playing defense to being perhaps the most complete player ever.
Monday, September 28, 2026
"Inconvenient" truths 20 years later plus a word about polls
"Inconvenient" truths 20 years later plus a word about polls.....
The truth got Gored
They used to lie with statistics, but now they write books or make alarmist predictions about climate change.
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They used to lie with statistics, but now they write books or make alarmist predictions about climate change. I’m so happy that I didn’t sell everything and look for a cave 1,000 miles from the ocean. The oceans didn’t rise and turn the coastal cities into lakes, and the Earth was not grilled out of existence by overwhelming heat.
All we can do now is enjoy reading how Stephen Moore mocks the alarmists:
“It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient -- for Al and his band of apocalyptics.
Hang in there because Mr. Moore is only getting started:
“Claim: Kilimanjaro's snow would disappear within a decade.
Truth: The mountain still has ice/snow, although its glaciers have shrunk.
Claim: Glacier National Park's glaciers will disappear by 2020 or so. Truth: No, they have not disappeared. Maybe his timing was just way off.
Claim: Sea levels could rise by about 20 feet.”
Pure trash is all you can say about that.
As someone who loves the environment and doesn’t alarm people like former VP Gore did, let me say that I’m delighted that the predictions turned out to be false. We need convenient truths, not all this crazy stuff about polar bears that scared little children.
Remember all these lies the next time that some clown is slowing down traffic about climate change.
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We remember Grant Jackson (1942-2021)
We remember Grant Jackson who was born in Florida on this day in 1942 and died February 2021.
Jackson broke with the Phillies in 1965. He had a very good year in 1969: 14-18 with 13 Complete games, a 3.38 ERA and 180 K's.
In 1971, Grant was traded to the Orioles and Earl Weaver turned him into a bullpen specialist. He saved 12 games for the AL East champions in 1974.
In 1977, Jackson went to the Pirates and continued his great work out of the bullpen.
He played for Pittsburgh when they beat Baltimore in the 1979 World Series. In fact, he won game 7 and retired 7 Orioles to keep the Pirates in the game.
A great pitcher and very nice man as well.
September 28 and Ted Williams
Ted Williams is featured twice on this day in history.
On this day in 1941, Williams was batting .399955 when he woke up in the last day of the season. He decided to play a double header against the A's. Williams went for 6-for-8 and finished the season at .406.
On this day in 1960, Williams hit a home run in his last at bat in the major leagues.
Let me add this note: Williams also hit .388 in 1957!
Was Williams the greatest hitter ever? He is #1 on my list and I never saw him play.
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September 28, 1941: Williams showed some real character playing that doubleheader
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1941 was the year of DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, the last summer before Pearl Harbor changed everything and Ted Williams ended up with a .406 batting average.
It is remarkable to go back and see Williams' consistency:
The eventual seventeen-time All-Star began the season going one-for-one with a 1.000 batting average. Over the rest of the season, his average never fell below .308, and was almost always over .400. In fact, on July 24, it stood at .397. It would never again fall below .400. Williams wrapped up 1941 at 185-456, good for an average of .406. While Williams’ batting average garnered all of the attention in 1941, he also led the league in home runs (37), base on balls (147), runs (135), slugging average (.735), and on base percentage (.551).
But here is the best part of the story. This is where this goes from another baseball story to a triumph of character.
This is where Ted Williams' talent and tenacity was displayed, as remembered in this article by Bill Pennington years ago:
Inside his room at Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 27, 1941, Ted Williams was jumpy and impatient.That might have been an apt description of the mercurial Williams at most times, but on this evening he had good cause for his unease.His batting average stood at .39955 with a season-finale doubleheader to be played the next day at Shibe Park, home of Connie Mack’s Athletics.
Since batting averages are rounded to the next decimal, Williams could have sat out the final two games and still officially crested baseball’s imposing .400 barrier.At the time,
Williams said, “If I’m going to be a .400 hitter, I want more than my toenails on the line.”
So he went 6 for 8 and crashed through the .400 barrier.
As we learned later, Williams had many character flaws. He wasn't the nicest guy in the clubhouse or with the media. He couldn't even return a salute to the fans at Fenway who cheered his last at bat, a home run, naturally.
Nevertheless, his performance in the last game of 1941 is a lesson for us all. He could have sat out the double header and hit .400, or the rounded version of .3995.
Instead, he put everything on the line and came out with a .406 average.
Love him or hate him, I have to love that he was not afraid to put everything on the line.
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The great Brooks Robinson (1937–2023)
(My new American Thinker post)
One of my favorite memories was hearing my late father say that he saw Brooks Robinson play in Cuba. Back then, many young players from Willie Mays to a young lefty Tommy Lasorda, played in the Cuban winter league hoping to impress their organization before spring training.
As you probably know, Brooks Robinson died on Tuesday, at age 86. His story is wonderful:
Although he eventually became synonymous with Baltimore during his playing career and following his retirement, Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was born on May 18, 1937, in Little Rock, Ark., where he attended Little Rock Central High School and went on to play baseball at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 1955, Robinson signed with the Orioles for $4,000, and he made his debut for the team later that year at the age of 18.
From 1955-59, Robinson played only 304 games for the O’s, spending some time in the Minor Leagues and dealing with numerous injuries. But soon after, Robinson became a fixture in the Orioles’ lineup, where he’d be a stalwart for the better part of two decades.
Robinson’s breakout year came in 1960, when he was named an All-Star for the first time and captured his first Gold Glove. He was then an All-Star every year through ’74 and a Gold Glover every year through ’75.
While Robinson more than held his own at the plate, it was his glovework that always had everybody in amazement.
‘He was the best defensive player at any position,’ the late Frank Robinson, a fellow Hall of Famer and Orioles legend, once said. ‘I used to stand in the outfield like a fan and watch him make play after play. I used to think, 'Wow! I can’t believe this.’
Well, I agree with the late Frank Robinson. I had the pleasure of watching a lot of Orioles baseball when I went to school in Maryland. Brooks was a daily highlight film, from his amazing catches, to running in to pick up the ball and throw out a runner at first, or all the double plays that he started by going to his left. It was so automatic that you expected every other third baseman to do that but they couldn’t. They were not Brooks.
It wasn’t just his glove. He was a good hitter with a reputation for hitting in the clutch. In other words, you did not want Brooks at the plate with the winning run in second base. He usually drove that run in. He retired with 2,848 hits and 1,357 RBI in 2,896 games.
My favorite memory was Brooks Robinson Day in September 1977. The stadium was full and I was lucky to get in. Baltimore was playing Boston, and in the middle of a pennant race that went to the last weekend, when the Yankees got in. Brooks went around waving at the fans and the affection for this man was something unbelievable. I saw a father pick up his young son and wave at Brooks. There were tears and cheers as this man went around the stadium.
Over the years, I asked myself why is this man so loved and respected? He was great off and on the field.
Last, but not least, I remember watching the 1970 World Series at school. I looked at the screen and Brooks was making one amazing play after another. It was like he was playing at another level.
Rest in peace Brooks. Thanks for all the plays we get to watch on YouTube.
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