Wednesday's show: A look at the Cruz-O'Rourke campaign with Sylvia Guzman

Guest: Sylvia Guzman, North Texas conservative activist......

We will look at the Cruz vs O'Rourke race for the US Senate.......The status of DACA...........and other stories.

Wednesday's video: The primaries in Florida & Arizona

Wednesday's video:  

The primaries in Florida & Arizona

The primary season is over: https://t.co/OZ3VLTn27V via @YouTube

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 29, 2018

Man, woman, and whatever

A couple of days ago, we heard that the Democrat National Committee had rewritten the rules to have equal representation, or the same number of men and women in every committee.   

Well, not so fast, as we see in news reports:  

Members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted on Saturday to modify its charter to define gender as being determined by self-identification and to include a classification for gender non-binary members.

The previous charter required that all committees be divided evenly between men and women but, under the newly adopted system, committees “shall be as equally divided as practicable between men and women (determined by gender self-identification) meaning that the variance between men and women in the group cannot exceed one (1).”

Additionally, gender non-binary members will count as neither male nor female, while the remaining, gendered members will be divided evenly between male and female.

“At the root of our diverse party is a commitment to inclusion and opportunity,” DNC Chair Tom Perez said in a statement to CNN. 

“By adopting this amendment, the Democratic National Committee is ensuring every Democrat feels welcome and embraced for who they are. This action reaffirms our solidarity with the LGBTQ community and challenges governments, employers, and organizations across the country to do the same.”

Are you confused?  I am.  Nevertheless, it is a classic example of why this party has lost so much of the country.

First, who cares what the gender makeup of a committee is?  The objective is to find a group of people who care to be involved and share some of the party’s values.  This is more diversity insanity to say the least.

Second, my own experience is that party activists are motivated by issues, not anything else. 

As a side note, they had a little celebration in South Texas to remember that President Lyndon B. Johnson was born this week in 1908.  Wonder what he’d thought of all of these rules?  

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Did the Chinese read Hillary's emails?

What happens when you conduct the business of The State Department in a private server?  

First, you are breaking State Department rules.

Second, the Chinese may read your emails:  "Chinese company reportedly hacked Clinton's server, got copy of every email in real-time..."

We need an explanation as to why President Obama did not force Secretary Clinton to shut down the private server and live by the company rules.

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Your "blue wave" update.......

Your "blue wave" update: More Republicans voted in the Florida and Arizona primaries on Tuesday.

Also, the Democrats nominated real left wingers for governor in FLA & AZ.

We will see what happens in November. 

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November 2008: It was a good win but not a landslide!

In sports, as in presidential elections, a win is a win.

First of all, we salute Pres. elect Obama. We wish him well. We want him to succeed because we want the country to do well.

Nevertheless, this is not a landslide by any means.

Nixon '72 and Reagan '84 got 60% of the popular vote and over 500 EV's.

LBJ '64 and Bush '88 got over 400 EV's.

Obama beat McCain, 52-47%, a good victory but not a landslide. He will finish with about 355 EV's, a strong number but not close to a landslide.

Obama beat McCain in Florida, Virginia, Ohio by very close margins. Also, the Dems did not get the "magic 60" in the Senate.

What does this mean? It means that Obama has to deliver and stay near the center. Obama will make a huge mistake if he governs to the left or lets Congress move him to the left.

So what now?

The Republicans have to regroup as we did after losing to Carter '76 and Clinton '92.

We must look for new leaders and remember the lessons of 1976 and 1992.

We came back very quickly in the 1978 and 1994 midterms. In both instances, we had a clear message. We also benefited from having Dems control the Congress and the White House.

Governing is hard, as the Dems learned under Carter and Clinton.

Again, we wish Pres. elect Obama well. We will support and oppose him.

We won't engage in the kind of irrational behavior that depicted the angry left during the last 8 years.

We will be back.

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Tuesday's show: The Catholic Church plus the state of the Trump presidency with Leslie Eastman

Guest:  Leslie Eastman, conservative activist and contributor to Legal Insurrection......We will look at the crisis in the Catholic Church......The state of the Trump presidency 90 days before the midterms........and other stories..

Tuesday's video: Trump holding on to his support

Tuesday's video:  Trump holding on to his support

Trump holding on to his support: https://t.co/nDTzaBARVl via @YouTube

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 28, 2018

My church in crisis……..

On Sunday, we attended mass, took communion and enjoyed coffee and donuts with fellow parishioners afterwards.  

It didn’t feel right.  There was tension in the air and everyone knew that our church is in crisis.  

The latest bomb goes right to the top or to Pope Francis himself:  

In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis” and that Viganò personally told Pope Francis about those sanctions in 2013.

Archbishop Viganò said in his written statement… that Pope Francis “continued to cover” for McCarrick and not only did he “not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him” but also made McCarrick “his trusted counselor.”  Viganò said that the former archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark. 

Archbishop Viganò, who said his “conscience dictates” that the truth be known as “the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” ended his testimony by calling on Pope Francis and all of those implicated in the cover up of Archbishop McCarrick’s abuse to resign.   

We call that allegation the Catholic version of a bombshell!  

Pope Francis is not helping by remaining silent.  I understand that you don’t want the Pope getting into a media battle of words with a nuncio but a little statement would be nice.  Maybe a “tweet” denying everything would help!

As I mentioned to a friend after mass, our Church faces two challenges:

1) We don’t understand how social media can take an allegation around the world in seconds.  Millions saw the Drudge links on Sunday and the church did not answer any of them.  We need the equivalent of Clinton’s “war room” to counter every attack as soon as they are made.

2) Despite previous scandals, we did not implement “zero tolerance” policies everywhere.  To be fair, our archdiocese did and a priest was recently put on leave for inappropriate behavior (not with kids thankfully).   

Where does this go?  The Vatican needs to come clean and put everything on the table.  Unlock the files and admit everything.  At this point, covering up behavior will only sink the Vatican further in the hole.

So come clean, Pope Francis.  Clean house and show the faithfull that you are in charge.  

This is a lot worse than climate change and income distribution.

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How did the Jacksonville killer pass a background check?

Once again, we hear the "we need gun laws" refrain.

How did the Jacksonville killer pass a background check?   

We've learned that the young man had been treated for mental illness, according to news reports:  

The suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida video game tournament had previously been hospitalized for mental illness, according to court records in his home state of Maryland reviewed by The Associated Press.
Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore say that as an adolescent he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities and was prescribed antipsychotic and antidepressant medications.
The records show Katz’s parents disagreed on how to care for their troubled son, with his father claiming his estranged wife was exaggerating symptoms of mental illness as part of their long and bitter custody battle. The couple divorced in 2007.

So we want new laws?  Why aren't we enforcing the laws we have?  Why is a young man with mental health story allowed to buy a gun?

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