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Monday, August 07, 2023
All the news that wasn’t fit to print
(My new American Thinker post)
One of the most interesting articles that I’ve read in some time comes from Holman W. Jenkins Jr. of The Wall Street Journal. He asked a key question:
How different would our world be if the American people had been able to rely on their national press for dispassionate, skeptical and honest reporting and analysis of both Mr. Trump and his enemies?
If, in holding Mr. Trump accountable for his election lies, it had also been seen holding his enemies accountable for their lies?
And that’s so correct.
What if the media had actually treated then-senator Obama like a presidential candidate rather than a political version of Harry Belafonte doing the latest calypso to fawning reporters? Seriously, did Senator Obama get a serious question in 2008? Or was he too smart to question?
What if the media had been outraged when President Obama used the IRS to eliminate his critics or use executive orders to issue diktats around the Congress?
What if the media had called for someone to fire Director Comey for allowing Mrs. Clinton to get away with violating all the rules on the books over files? Private server?
What if the media had been outraged that so many Democrats were questioning the 2016 results—and let’s not forget 2000 or 2004. Remember when it was fashionable to call the president illegitimate?
What if all of those “sources” familiar with the Russia investigation would have been ridiculed publicly for lying? And what about the 51“intelligence officials” who signed the infamous Hunter-Biden-laptop-is-Russian-disinformation letter? Any reporters showing up at their homes asking for an explanation?
It’s a little too late now to turn into investigative journalists; the target is, and always has been, President Trump. The public is skeptical of the whole thing, and they should be. This is what happens when some news is not fit to print because it does not fit the narrative.
So we are here, and don’t expect the storm to end anytime soon.
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Sunday, August 06, 2023
Sunday's podcast: Remembering funny lady Lucy...US team eliminated...and more
Remembering funny lady Lucy...US team eliminated...The politicization of justice...and other stories.......
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Remembering funny lady Lucy...US team eliminated...and more
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki 1945 with Barry Jacobsen, military historian
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Saturday, August 05, 2023
Thursday's video: Biden vs Thurmond....LA City Council vs Texas....and more
Biden vs Thurmond....LA City Council vs Texas....Open borders and terrorists.....Senator Cruz 2024....Frank Robinson (1935-2019)....and other stories....
The gas is high
(My new American Thinker post)
Back when we had gas lines and inflation, Blondie (a.k.a. Deborah Ann Harry, who turned 78 last month) scored a big hit singing "the tide is high but I'm holding on." Well, let me tell you that millions of Americans are singing that tune today and saying the gas is high and not really holding on.
I just paid $3.49 to buy gas yesterday. I drove by 24 hours later and it was $3.59. And everybody tells me that gas is cheaper in Texas.
So what's going on? Well, this is the AP version of the story:
Beyond the heat, Kloza pointed to crude supply cuts from major producing countries in the OPEC+ alliance. In July, for example, Saudi Arabia starting reducing how much oil it sends to the global economy by 1 million barrels each day. Russia is also exporting less, he said.
So there you have it, or at least one explanation. It's hot here and some countries are cutting back on production.
The heat is the heat and I've lived plenty of it in Texas. In fact, I remember when our second son was baptized back in 1988 that it was 108 around here. That holy water must have felt great on that baby’s head. I remember 1980 when we had a whole 30 days of 100-plus temperatures. What I don't remember was gasoline going up.
So what's the other reason? Countries cutting back production. Of course, why is that even an issue when Texas and Alaska could take care of our energy needs?
Why are we suddenly depending on countries for one drop of oil? The answer is the Biden administration listening to the climate-change fanatics who want to attack the problem by having American families paying more for energy.
It's funny but I don't remember worrying about production in Saudi Arabia when Trump implemented a more realistic energy policy that put consumers first and the climate-change fanatics in the closet.
So how much will I pay the next time? I don't know, but the gas is high.
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Friday, August 04, 2023
Friday's podcast: The Texas report with George Rodriguez
Guest: George Rodriguez, South Texas conservative....We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....and other stories.....
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Friday's video: The Texas Report: We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....
The Texas Report: We will look at Texas and national stories of the week....
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On the street where you sleep
(My new American Thinker post)
It’s amazing talking with someone who lives in New York City. They are angry at the Mets, the Yankees, and the “migrants on the streets.”
This is the story:
Images of migrants forced to sleep on Manhattan sidewalks in recent days are hammering home a point New York City Mayor Eric Adams has long been trying to make to President Joe Biden.
‘We need help,’ Adams said Monday. ‘And it’s not going to get any better. From this moment on, it’s downhill.’
Photos, videos and interviews from the street outside the midtown Manhattan hotel doubling as an intake center are circulating online and in the national media. Groups of newly arrived men resigned to sleeping on cardboard boxes have found that, as Adams has repeatedly warned the White House, there is no room for them.
We need help? I guess that they do. However, they need to do something more than complain or point out the disaster on the streets.
In other words, the Democrats are angry at the outcome but don’t have the courage to direct their anger at the source, or the Biden administration that opened the border.
Yes, they blame Governor Abbott for sending the migrants to New York City or keep calling for immigration reform, or something that is never going to happen in this political climate.
In the meantime, the locals are angry…and getting angrier.
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