Lombardi inherited a 1-10-1 team but he turned the organization around quickly."On January 28, 1959, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) sign Vince Lombardi to a five-year contract as the team's coach and general manager."
The life and times of Jose Marti with Jorge Ponce, Professor Lopez and others....click to listen....P.S. Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.
Listen to "The life and times of Jose Marti with Professor Alfred Lopez" on Spreaker.
His book traces the contributions that Cuban immigrants have made in the United States from as far back as the 1800s until the present time.
We will remember today the life and times of Jose Marti, who died on this day in 1895. How significant is he to those of us Cuban Americans who grew up in the US?
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If the United States had provided that level of support in 1975, when South Vietnam collapsed in the face of another North Vietnamese offensive, the outcome might have been at least the same as in 1972.But intense lobbying of Congress by the antiwar movement, especially in the context of the Watergate scandal, helped to drive cutbacks of American aid in 1974.Combined with the impact of the world oil crisis and inflation of 1973-74, the results were devastating for the south.As the triumphant North Vietnamese commander, Gen. Van Tien Dung, wrote later, President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam was forced to fight “a poor man’s war.”Even Hanoi’s main patron, the Soviet Union, was convinced that a North Vietnamese military victory was highly unlikely.Evidence from Soviet Communist Party archives suggests that, until 1974, Soviet military intelligence analysts and diplomats never believed that the North Vietnamese would be victorious on the battlefield. Only political and diplomatic efforts could succeed.Moscow thought that the South Vietnamese government was strong enough to defend itself with a continuation of American logistical support.The former Soviet chargé d’affaires in Hanoi during the 1970’s told me in Moscow in late 1993 that if one looked at the balance of forces, one could not predict that the South would be defeated.Until 1975, Moscow was not only impressed by American military power and political will, it also clearly had no desire to go to war with the United States over Vietnam.
But after 1975, Soviet fear of the United States dissipated.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/heard_anything_lately_about_climate_change.html
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It'sfreezing down in North Texas. It's so cold that we've been locked inside for a few days. The only good news (knock on wood) is that our electricity is running. The second bit of good news is that I’m reminded that my wife can make some nice hot soup.
So stay warm wherever you are and remember that we will soon have 100-degree days around here.
Here is a funny one: Have you heard anyone blame any of this on climate change? I haven't, although I heard that former VP Al Gore was in Davos. I don't know why he was there, but I guess his predictions did not come true either.
What happened to the climate? The guys at the I&I editorial board have some thoughts. Let's hear from them:
Over the weekend, USA Today reported that northeast states were experiencing an unusual winter problem -- a shortage of salt.
It seems that there have been so many snowstorms this winter that even states like Michigan and Vermont -- which are quite accustomed to them -- are running short of the snow-melting chemical.
“An official from Monroe County, [Michigan] located between Detroit and Ohio, told the news station that local crews used more salt in December than in the past four Decembers combined,” says USA Today.
But what’s curiously missing from this and other accounts of the winter storm is the obligatory mention of “climate change” as the cause. It seems that bad winter weather is just weather. Whereas bad summer weather is always -- always -- and prominently blamed on our burning fossil fuels.
Burning fossil fuels? Aren't we doing that anymore? Maybe not, because suddenly winter storms in January are just that, i.e. winter storms in January!
Where did climate change go? Maybe it was all a big hoax after all. I don't mean that the climate doesn't change. In fact, it's been changing since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
The hoax was the hysterical reaction and stories of bears dying. That's when climate change, as the editorial points out, went from science to a pagan religion.
That's when people with reasonable doubts became heretics and the heroes vandalized works of art at museums.
Anyway, the bad news is that we are freezing in Texas. The good news is that we are blaming it on winter and not climate change. That's progress, as someone said.
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