December 20, 2024

New U.S. embassy, new U.S. ambassador in Mexico City

If you're travelling to Mexico City, make sure to stop by the new U.S. Embassy. For the record, I've been to the old one a few times. Renewed my U.S. passport there and voted too. Nice place and location. As Kellin Dillon wrote, there is...

December 19, 2024

The other guy with funny hair

If you missed it, President Javier Milei of Argentina has been in the news lately. Let's see what he is up to down in the land of tango and "empanadas." (By the way, here is a great idea for Christmas. Go to an Argentina restaurant...

December 18, 2024

Missing old-fashioned pardons

Maybe pardons will be President Biden's legacy.  In other words, he will be remembered as the president who made a mockery out of pardons. How did that happen? Well, it did as Professor Jonathan Turley points out: There a...

December 17, 2024

Does Kamala Harris really want to be governor of California?

On paper, it sounds like a great plan. Former Democrat presidential nominee becomes governor of the biggest state, with the biggest megaphone in Democrat politics and then she runs against VP J.D. Vance in 2028 and wins the big prize. It's a grea...

December 16, 2024

The strangers among us

My friend Allan Wall brought this my attention. I'm not surprised that Mexicans don't like strangers in their cities who speak various languages. Check this out from Lauren Villagran at USA Today: Marta Castillo is angry a...

December 15, 2024

Glenn Miller and the tunes of Cuba

It’s another December 15, and a time to remember the great Glenn Miller.   His career was brief but extremely consequential. The best part is that thinking of Miller’s music reminds me of my father.  He wa...

December 14, 2024

Better cheescake than CNN

If you want a good laugh, please note that the Food Network is now beating CNN in the ratings. To be honest, I'm not a Food viewer but it makes sense. I guess that their chefs and recipes must have more credibility than the news readers over at t...

December 13, 2024

I closed my store in San Francisco

Yes, I know, Tony Bennett was singing about leaving his heart in San Francisco, but I couldn't help myself. Another merchant is announcing that they are closing their store in the city by the bay. Check this one out: The Safeway superma...

December 12, 2024

We should have asked more questions about ObamaCare

As a veteran of the ObamaCare debates of 2009-10, I am not surprised that health care is more expensive. Many of us back then were calling for tax credits so that people could buy private policies and an option to cover those with medical issues. Unf...

December 11, 2024

The judge goes red

Election Day was pretty red in Texas and a Democrat is switching parties.  Check this out: A Texas judge representing a county flipped by Donald Trump in this year's presidential race announced he is leaving the Democratic Party to...

December 10, 2024

It's over, Obama

During the last campaign, former President Obama called on African American men to vote for the African American female candidate. It didn't work, and you know the rest of the story. The thrill is gone for the 44th president. He will be rememb...

December 9, 2024

Mexico cheating by using Cuban doctors

For some time, we've argued that Mexico bringing Cuban doctors to work is immoral. Why? First, these doctors are nothing but a source of foreign exchange for the communist regime. They don't negotiate their salaries or work conditions. Second...

December 8, 2024

Sanctuary cities need to listen to their citizens

We’ve come a long way from those days when Governor Abbott of Texas was called a racist for signing an anti-sanctuary city bill in 2017.  Yes, it’s very different now that Mayor Adams of New York City is talking about ...

December 7, 2024

How deep-red Republican can the Texas House get?

As we anticipate the Trump administration coming in six weeks or so, we take a look at the battle for speaker of the Texas House.  We learned that former speaker Dade Phelan is not running for the position.  This is the story...

December 6, 2024

How do they say ‘messy’ in French?

Let's admit that things are crazy over here. Just yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared a Tennessee law banning gender transitions for minors to past laws banning interracial marriage. On top of that, President Biden pardoned his...

December 5, 2024

Get a load of Fani now

It’s been a bad few weeks for the people out to get Trump.  The stars are not aligning for Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and now Fani Willis.  Check the latest from Georgia: A judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wi...

December 4, 2024

Jake discovers that Biden is a liar

Did Joe just lose Jake from CNN?  I guess that he did and further proof that this pardon is not playing well with real people.  Check out Jake: CNN host Jake Tapper argued that President Biden’s choice to pardon his son afte...

December 3, 2024

Pardon me if I'm angry and confused

Well, I am somewhere between angry and confused. Angry because this pardon is such an abuse of presidential powers. Confused because he could have called out the weaponization of justice against Trump and then pardoned his son. Instead, Hunter gets p...

December 2, 2024

Hug a South Korean

Over the Thanksgiving break, I didn't think a lot about politics. Nevertheless, I found this story fascinating. After all, we are talking about South Korea, a country that we've been protecting for decades. Check this out: South Kor...

November 27, 2024

And who is that saint named Givin?

Back in 1941, President Roosevelt made it official: Thanksgiving became an annual custom throughout New England in the 17th century, and in 1777 the Continental Congress declared the first national American Thanksgiving following ...

November 26, 2024

China rising in our backyard

South of the border is a lot more than Mexico. For me, it's Mexico and everything else down to Argentina. Unfortunately, we've let China grow their influence and it's time to do something about it. An article by Michael Scott really ca...

November 25, 2024

Go after criminals for a change

Alvin Bragg needs to drop the Trump case and go after the real criminals on the streets. You know, the ones terrorizing "bodegas" and women in the subway. Go after them because the Trump case is over no matter you try to keep it around. ...

November 24, 2024

Growing up with El Tiante’s baseball cards

We remember the great Luis Tiant, who was born in Marianao, Cuba on this day in 1940 and died in 2024. Luis was born in a family of pitchers.  His father was Luis Eleuterio Tiant, who pitched professionally in the old Negr...

November 23, 2024

It’s her privacy, stupid!

Did the Democrats learn anything from the 2024 results? I think that it’s fair to say that voters sent a clear message on issues like men in women’s bathrooms or competing against their daughters. Enter Rep. Nancy Mace, who doesn...

November 22, 2024

MSNBC headed for hospice care

It appears that MSNBC's future is in doubt. This is what we hear: Comcast on Wednesday officially announced it would spin off several NBCUniversal cable networks, including MSNBC, in a move that will dramatically shake up the landscape ...

November 21, 2024

Moody blues south of the border

Well, a funny thing happened on the road to a new presidential term. Yes, Moody's, the investment firm, dropped some bad news about the Mexican situation. This is a summary from Kelin Dillon in Mexico City: Big three credit rating ag...

November 20, 2024

Trump Derangement Syndrome, pastry edition

If you forgot, it was the late Charles Krauthammer who penned the derangement syndrome tune. He did it back in 2003 about then President George W. Bush. This is what he wrote:  It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric synd...

November 19, 2024

Alberta and Ontario go rogue on trade

Over the weekend, a couple of messages came down from Canada. First, it was Premier Doug Ford of Ontario and then Premiere Danielle Smith of Alberta. Here is the story: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is echoing concerns about Mexico that we...

November 18, 2024

When the family doesn't want the mayor around

It happens, but not often. In other words, usually the family of a fallen police officer welcomes the mayor and the local leadership. It doesn’t happen when the mayor is Brandon Johnson, the controversial man in charge of Chicago. This is...

November 17, 2024

The ‘duh’ reason Hispanics voted for Trump

The “Why did Hispanics vote for Trump?” debate goes on. Some liberal commentators are saying Hispanics voted against their own interests.  Really?  Isn’t that a bit insulting?  In other words, what d...

November 16, 2024

Ken says 'adios, mexicanos'

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar is sort of saying goodbye to Mexico.  He will be replaced by the incoming Trump administration.    This week, Ambassador Salazar shook up things south of the border with a very undiplomatic mess...

November 15, 2024

A show with a very narrow view

Once again, I don't watch "The View." Like many of you, I get my "views" on internet posts that feature the latest from Joy, Ana, Whoopie, and Asuncion aka Sunny. Thirty-second clips are all I can take from this crew. Thanks t...

November 14, 2024

Juan, check out Jack

It appears that Jack Smith will finally stop pursuing President Trump. It's about time, because this "lawfare" has been devastating for the rule of law. It's banana republic stuff! This is what we hear from Smith: Speci...

November 13, 2024

It's Latino, not Latinex

As my late mother used to say, reality will eventually hit you between the eyes. She was a lot less diplomatic in how she said it in Spanish but we got the point. I think she would scream at Democrats today: I'm Latina, not Latinex, or Latinx, or...

November 12, 2024

Dollars didn’t make Texas blue… again

Another Texas election and a bunch of Democrats asking:  Why didn’t money and TV ads persuade Texas?  After all, our TV screens were bombarded with anti-Cruz abortion ads.  We were also constantly reminded that President Trump is...

November 11, 2024

The wedding ring and the election

The projected Roe wave, a pro-abortion tsunami of angry women, did not happen. Yes, there are angry liberal women among us but they did not change the election one way or another. In the end, it was the battle of married vs unmarried women. L...

November 10, 2024

Make my day and move out

Once upon a time, I heard a neighbor tell a story about their teenage son.  Apparently, the young man was a bit rebellious and kept threatening to move out.  One day, his dad said "make my day and move out."   Later I...

November 9, 2024

Memories of talking with my late father about the 1960 election

It happens every four years and we post about election results. For me, election day brings back memories of talking with my late father about one specific election that impacted our lives like no other. Many years ago, Senator John F. Kenned...

November 8, 2024

Mexico spooked by Trump

South of the border the word is that Trump is back. The new President Claudia Sheinbaun issued the standard congratulatory tweet. Yet, there is a lot of confusion. Honestly, most of it is just the Mexican version of Trump Derangement Syndrome but tha...

November 7, 2024

Bye bye, Barack

Maybe former President Obama got the message when he spoke to African Americans in Philadelphia. The thrill is gone. The racialist policies just don't work anymore. People are tired of hearing sermons from former presidents with mansions and Firs...

November 6, 2024

A Man for all seasons

Remember the Olympics and that boxing match between the young woman from Italy and someone who looked like a man from where ever he was from? The young woman walked away in tears. It turns out that he was really a he. Let's get the detail...

November 5, 2024

Trump or Harris ask Mexicans

Last Friday, a Mexican journalist popped the big question: Who is going to win the U.S. election and what does mean for us? I answered, making a couple of points: First, no one is talking about Latin America up here. Yes, Mexico is on the agend...

November 4, 2024

Voted Trump for my grandkids

Like some of you, I voted early: Trump/Vance and Senator Ted Cruz. I feel confident that they will win. What makes this election cycle so confusing is that this election is too close, especially when you compare the performance of the incumbent wi...

November 3, 2024

1964, and my dad told me about a guy named Reagan

On this day in 1964, Americans voted for president.  It was our first election in the U.S., our introduction to something called the Electoral College, and I recall watching the results with my father on television.  He always sai...

November 2, 2024

Make the BLS great again!

Let me propose a musical background for the jobs report: "What goes up must come down" or the opening line from "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat & Tears. It's been that way for some time. We cheer a jobs report in ...

November 1, 2024

Mexican journalists and the ‘Day of the dead’

Up here, we celebrate Halloween. Down south of the border, they celebrate "Day of the dead" today and tomorrow. I have no idea if there is a connection between the two celebrations but there are lots of costumes. There are also floats ...

October 31, 2024

So am I garbage with an apostrophe?

Well, how did this happen? How does a sitting president refer to half of the country as garbage? Was it a slip of the tongue or was he trying to sabotage VP Harris's closing speech? Your guess is as good as mine, but the White House is in full cl...

October 30, 2024

A message from Jeff

As you probably know, there are some hurt feelings over at the news rooms. This is because some of the nation's liberal newspapers have gone uncommitted on presidential endorsements. No Kamala endorsement, and that's driving a lot of liberals...

October 29, 2024

The battle of the sexes goes crazy

Maybe you're old enough to remember that tennis match from the early 1970s billed as "The Battle of the Sexes." I didn't watch it but they told me that it involved a young Billie Jean King and an aging male pro named Bobby Rigg...

October 28, 2024

They are calling it ‘narcoterrorism’

Over time, we've associated car bombs with terrorism. We saw some of that in Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel has seen a lot of it over the years. Well, they are now seeing it in Mexico. Let's check out the story: Two car bombs exploded...

October 27, 2024

Who wants to see men wearing those 'golf' skirts?

A confession about women’s golf? It’s a great TV sport because we get to watch these lovely lady golfers and their wonderful legs. Guys are great golfers, too, but there is something lovely about watching those ladies. Okay, confession ma...

October 26, 2024

Bad guys not into hugs

Mexico's new president is getting a very in-your-face lesson about hugs and bullets. As you may remember, her predecessor Andres Lopez-Obrador changed the approach and implemented the idea that hugs were more effective than bullets to fight crimi...

October 25, 2024

“Caravana esperando" (Caravan waiting)

Down in Southern Mexico, there are lots of people following the U.S. elections. They are "la caravana" in waiting or the people deciding when they go north. This is the story: This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant...

October 24, 2024

The North Koreans are coming....

We learned that North Korea is sending troops to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let's check the story: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday there is evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia, as South K...

October 23, 2024

If you knew Kamala (like I know Kamala!)

Some Democrats, especially Congressman Colin Allred running against Senator Cruz in Texas, are staying far away from VP Harris.  It’s like they are singing that old tune about a girl named Susie: “If you knew Susie like I know Susie...

October 22, 2024

Hit the road, Joe, and don't you come back no more

As Kamala Harris's fortunes drop and Donald Trump shows that he can make French fries, we hear some interesting news from the campaign front.  It turns that Joe and Kam won't be together anymore.  Let's get the report: W...

October 21, 2024

Cuba's blackouts: I know where I was in '62

Wolfman Jack's "Where were you in '62" was the line in the trailer for "American Graffiti."   Well, I know where I was.   At our home in Cuba, we sat around my father's Philips radio, the one...

October 20, 2024

Go blue, go broke

I'm not sure if I'm the author of "go blue, go broke" but it fits the situation in Los Angeles.    What a mess in what used to be a great city.  Let's take a look at this editorial from The LA Times: L.A...

October 19, 2024

When two young people exchanged wedding rings in Spain

Like some of you, I have a Spanish connection. My maternal grandfather was born in Asturias and came to Cuba in the 1920s. He met my future grandmother Adelina, also of Spanish stock. My other “abuelos” have Spanish heritage as well. The ...

October 18, 2024

Is Kam BO without the banking crisis?

We hear that VP Kamala Harris is desperately trying to save the blue wall, keeping those states in the Democrat column. It's a sign of weakness, an indication that VP Harris is not persuading Hispanics or African Americans, especially m...

October 17, 2024

Ted reminds Collin of his record

Before the debate, Senator Ted Cruz was up 5 in the RCP average. The final score will have something to do with how President Trump does in Texas. I've seen different polls suggesting that Trump is somewhere north of 6 points, maybe even 10....

October 16, 2024

Mr. Clinton: Check with Spain about importing baby-makers

A few days ago, I heard a Spanish politician complain about the birth rates, currently way less than the 2.1 per woman needed to maintain a population.  Then, the lady went on to say that we will have to import immigrants to boost the births, an...

October 15, 2024

How can you mend a Biden heart?

Not sure if the Bidens are singing that Bee Gees tune about a broken heart but Jill is probably not saying anything nice about Kamala when she is taking a bath. There is nothing like an angry woman and a bathtub. The Biden-Harris feud is...

October 14, 2024

Those terrible Spaniards and their conquests

Down in Mexico, the new "Presidenta," as she likes to be called, is off to a confusing start, as a friend told me this weekend. The country is dealing with a massive crime wave including a mayor being decapitated. Yes, I mean that his ...

October 13, 2024

Not funny, Gretchen

It’s Sunday morning, and my guess is that a few friends at Mass will say something about Governor Whitmer of Michigan.  Honestly, we don’t talk a lot about the governor of Michigan down here, but what was she doing, giving a young woman a Dorito in s...

October 12, 2024

Thank you, Obama, for being yourself again

Let me tell you up front: Sly & The Family Stone's "Thank you" was one of my favorite songs of the 1970's. My joy was complete when I learned that Sly Stone was born in Texas, where I am. Well, the song title is what we use...

October 11, 2024

Where have all ‘los hombres’ gone?

We will know for sure on election day but something is happening with Latino men. Let's check it out: Vice President Kamala Harris is losing support among young Latino men, even as she continues to hold a lead over Republican presi...

October 10, 2024

Kam and her Doug

See also, “So besides everything else, Doug Emhoff was reportedly the office 'a******', raising questions about why Kamala married him” by Monica Showalter, and “New allegations emerge that Doug Emhoff was a male chauvinist ...

October 9, 2024

Not your day, Glock lady

In the movie Eight Men Out, the story of the White Sox who threw the Series, we remember a scene where the manager Kid Gleason goes to the mound to pull the pitcher, Lefty Williams. He looks at the pitcher and said something like "Not your ...

October 8, 2024

So I'm not the only man who doesn't get Kamala

On Sunday, Andrea Mitchell of NBC sort of broke the news.  Here is the story: NBC News chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that Vice President Kamala Harris has to “doubl...

October 7, 2024

Tim falls into abortion quicksand

Tim Walz was on Fox News Sunday.  My guess is that the campaign was hoping to stop the critics who say that Walz avoids interviews.  After this morning, the campaign may stop doing interviews altogether. Walz was incoherent on abortion....

October 6, 2024

5 wins in a row!

A few years ago, I saw the late Yogi Berra say he was one of the Yankees on that team that won their fifth Series in a row in 1953. Game 7 from that Series was tied going into the bottom of the ninth, and Billy Martin drove in the winning run...

October 5, 2024

What would Hubert think of Tim?

Once upon a time, there was a Democrat from Minnesota named Hubert H. Humphrey.  He was vice president under Lyndon Baines Johnson, ran for president in '68, had a wonderful wife named Muriel, and they even named a stadium after him....

October 4, 2024

Looking for moderators who want to moderate

Two debates and one conclusion. We have too many moderators who want to save the world from Trump. Furthermore, too many moderators obsessed with climate change, January 6th, and abortion. By now, it should be clear to the GOP that too many of the...

October 3, 2024

Let's hear it for the Wyoming girls

Let's cheer for girls who understand that boys and girls are different biologically. In other words, men are bigger, stronger and should not comp rebounding basketballs against girls. This is the good news from Wyoming: The Universit...

October 2, 2024

The game of the Rose

Life is funny. This week we learned that President Carter turned 100 and Pete Rose died at age 83. Some of us are old enough to remember the late 1970s and how often Carter and Pete were on the front page. Pete spent the 1970s playing and winni...

October 2, 2024

Tales from the knucklehead

According to the dictionary, the following words are synonymous with knucklehead: bonehead, fool, and jackass.  Well, I don’t know which one applies, but Governor Tim Walz calls himself a knucklehead.  Here is the story: His [Wal...

October 1, 2024

October surprise is a ‘sorpresa’

Well, it's the start of October and a little surprise shows up. It turns out that Latinos care about the economy, inflation, chaotic immigration, crime, and world order. Who knew that such a thing would happen? I did ,but maybe that's because...

September 30, 2024

Mexico picks a fight with Spain

Down in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum will assume the presidency on Oct. 1.   She will replace President Andrés Manuel López-Obrador who was her mentor, as they tell me south of the border. A few days ago, President Lópe...

September 29, 2024

Kamala Harris: Woman on the run

On the old movie channel, you can catch Woman on the Run, or the confusing story of a woman running for information.  It’s hard to follow, but I love those black and white movies, where women were always so elegant.  They ev...

September 28, 2024

Well, let’s talk about men

The other gender gap, or the one that no one likes to talk about, is that Trump is leading with men.  In fact, he is leading by a lot.  So it makes sense for Trump and the GOP to get as much of the male vote out as possible. This is what...

September 27, 2024

Kamala can't hit a curve ball

As a baseball fan, I've read a few player profiles, or scouts' reports about a player's skills to make it to the majors. The objective is to find a five-tool player or Willie Mays. Most of the time the reports rate the players on hitting,...

September 26, 2024

Regrets… Mark's had a few

As we understand, Facebook Mark is done with politics. I guess that Zuckerberg wants to move on and leave politics behind. According to news stories, he has a few regrets: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Monday that the Biden ad...

September 25, 2024

Who knew that too many people would create a problem?

Once upon a time, immigrants came into the U.S. in an orderly fashion. I think that they call that "immigration," a policy enforced by every country to control the chaos and disorder that happens with open borders. Well, enter ...

September 24, 2024

All in the name of beating Trump

Over the weekend, we heard from pundits Peggy Noonan and Todd Purdum that Vice President Kamala Harris is an "artful dodger" and "vague."  Peggy said she couldn't and Todd argued she wouldn't.  Whateve...

September 23, 2024

The problem in Springfield is a lack of common sense

The Springfield, Ohio, story is just the latest example of opening the border and its consequences. How do you expect a city of 40,000 to absorb 20,000 new residents? You can't, and the local reaction is exactly logical. Again, put yourself in th...

September 22, 2024

Frankly, my dear...

Well, the first lady chaired the first Cabinet in a long time.  I saw President Biden going through the motions, and it reminded me of that great line from Gone with the Wind. Yes, I think Jill looked at Joe and said something like, ...

September 21, 2024

Bullets rather than hugs south of the border

Mexican President Andrés Lopez-Obrador will leave the presidency on October 1st. He will be replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the job and someone who may regret that she got the job in the first place. Down south, ...

September 20, 2024

You are not my type, Kam

For years I've wondered about union leadership and union members. Are they on the same page? My own conversations with the membership led me to think that these guys were conservative and very patriotic. They certainly don’t get open border...

September 19, 2024

Orange man fact checks David

As you may remember. David Muir of "The Ambush," a new ABC TV series about presidential debates, confronted Pres. Trump over crime statistics. It was one of the "fact checks" during the hour. A few days later, it's Mui...

September 18, 2024

Governor Abbott looking to derail "el tren"

They call it "El tren de Aragua" or literally the train of Aragua, a region of Venezuela. And they've turned into a multinational crime organization. You may have heard about them in the stories of apartments in Aurora or New York City....

September 17, 2024

Somebody up there likes Trump

Many years ago, I watched a movie about Rocky Graziano, a man who beat the odds and ended up as a boxing champ. The movie was titled Somebody up There Likes Me, a reference to how lucky he was. Rocky literally dodged a few bullets growing up and hang...

September 16, 2024

When does Linsey go work for Kamala?

Less than a week into the debate about ABC's selective fact-finding at the debate, we hear this from Linsey Davis herself.  Here is the story: ABC News’ Linsey Davis, one of two moderators for last week’s presidential d...

September 15, 2024

Bidenomics in your mailbox

Over the last year, I’ve heard these stories from friends or friends of friends.  In other words, more people are falling behind in their debt service.  Let’s check this from the Wall Street Journal: On top o...

September 14, 2024

And now it's Mark Penn

The ABC ambush of Trump, originally called the Trump-Harris debate, keeps on keeping on. Enter Mark Penn: Well, this is awkward for ABC.  Mark Penn, the former Clinton aide and current Chairman of the Harvard CAPS Harris Poll didn...

September 13, 2024

Hey! Mr. ABC Man, sing you’re sorry for me

The ball is in ABC's court, as they say. Wonder if management understands just what this travesty of ambushing Trump turned out to be? For the record, I've watched every one of these debates going back to 1976. I never spent any time talki...

September 12, 2024

A good day for Jack and Nikita

In early June 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and USSR Chairman Nikita Khrushchev had an important meeting in Vienna. There are many viewpoints about what happened, but the consensus is that the Soviet leader pushed his way around the new U...

September 11, 2024

Will Claudia stand by her man AMLO?

It won't come up in the debate, but it's an issue that matters. In other words, the outgoing President Andres Lopez-Obrador of Mexico has stuck his successor with "judicial reforms" that may hurt the economy. Let's get an u...

September 11, 2024

Where is Sam Donaldson when we really need him?

Once upon a time, there was Sam Donaldson reporting from the White House on Peter Jennings' nightly newscast on ABC.    It was my favorite for a long time because you felt that Sam was shooting straight. Image: Screen shot fro...

September 10, 2024

Where the boys are, no one waits for Kamala

As the song goes, where the boys are someone waits for me. Maybe that's true for Connie Frances and her friends. It is not true for VP Kamala Harris. Let's check this out about men and VP Harris' candidacy: New polls show Vic...

September 9, 2024

See you later, Dersh

Call it whatever you want to call it, but 2024 is one heck of a confusing mess. Vice President Dick Cheney, the man the Democrats loved to hate, is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. Professor Alan Dershowitz, the man the Democrats used to l...

September 9, 2024

Bang, bang, Nate's Silver hammer came down upon her head

It seems that Nate Silver is causing a little indigestion on the other side. Silver is "the numbers guy," as someone called him, the founder of FiveThirtyEight and former pollster for the New York Times and ABC News. Well, Nate Silver is sa...

September 8, 2024

Election season surprises

Let’s take a break from current events and remember how the unexpected will always make its way on the front pages. On Labor Day 1972, President Nixon looked like a man headed for re-election.  At the same time, I am not sure that ...

September 7, 2024

Hello, 'Mr. Less-than-expected'

We just had another first Friday and in came another visit from "Mr. Less-than-expected."  Let's check it out: The U.S. economy created slightly fewer jobs than expected in August, reflecting a slowing labor market wh...

September 6, 2024

Liz Cheney wants Kamala Harris to pick Sonia Sotomayor's replacement

Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well in Liz Cheney's head.  The former congresswoman and daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in the election.  I guess that President Trump...

September 5, 2024

‘Feliz Navidad’ in Venezuela

The Maduro gang is cueing the Jose Feliciano song and declaring that Christmas starts a bit early this year. I guess that's what you do when you steal an election. Let's check the details: The world’s attention on Venezuela ha...

September 4, 2024

Mexico's bank card

We have posted in the past about remittances going from the U.S. to Mexico. Much of it is family oriented or someone sending his mom or often wife a weekly transfer. I recall when it was delivered by hand by people who would literally carry the ...

September 3, 2024

More polls than gas stations?

In our early days in the U.S., my father was impressed with so many gasoline stations, especially more than two in an intersection. As time passed, we grew accustomed to the gas pumps and moved on. A few years ago, before he passed away, he was watch...

September 2, 2024

He is sleazy, he's my brother

Knock knock, it's Governor Walz’s brother. He is got something to say about Brother Tim, or Lady K's running mate. Let's check this one from Jon Levine: Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is not the “typ...

September 1, 2024

Those judicial reforms down in Mexico

Who knew that we’d be talking about an outgoing Mexican president and judicial reforms?  Well, that’s where we are.  In fact, Mexicans are deeply divided about it.  There are marches expected next, as a Mexic...

August 31, 2024

Tales from Kam and the coach

We finally got to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz in a televised interview with a reporter.  And what did we see?  Not much if you were expecting some substantive answers rather than word salads.  Yes, we learn...

August 30, 2024

Where are you Little Joe?

According to what we hear, President Biden is on the beach.  Can’t blame him because that Delaware coast is nice this time of the year, and every president needs a summer breeze to recharge the batteries.  Reagan went to the ranch; Ge...

August 29, 2024

Court-packing the Mexican way

In a couple of months, President López Obrador (AMLO) will hand the presidency to Claudia Sheinbaum, a party loyalist who promises to keep the ball rolling. The most controversial issue south of the border is judicial reforms.  So...

August 28, 2024

Kam to Jon: You hardly talk to me anymore

Like that old Streisand-Diamond song about the lover who falls out of love, the senator from Montana is losing interest so fast that the Vice President must be wondering if that song was always about her.  Can’t blame her, because he is no...

August 26, 2024

RFK, Jr. gave the Democrats some saving medicine, if they take it

At the end of the day, President Trump can win an Electoral College victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.  He did it in 2016 and almost did it again in 2020.  He has several paths to 270 electoral votes, with or without Robert F....

August 24, 2024

Hard to understand what the protesters want

Joe Biden said that the protesters outside the Democrat convention had a point. What point is he talking about?  Sorry, but it's hard to defend people who want Hamas to win. I agree with Eli Lake: President Joe Biden, in hi...

August 23, 2024

It ain't Trump, babe

Day 3 and Trump is the word.  How can many times have you heard the word?  I am not counting, but it is a lot. Let's check this out from Matt Margolis: If you've been watching the Democratic National Convention this wee...

August 22, 2024

You're no good, Andy

According to polls, the networks will call Kentucky fairly quickly on election night. So what do you do if you are the Democrat governor of Kentucky with not much of a local future in politics? First, you can go out of your way to get on the natio...

August 21, 2024

Let the Midnight Special, shine its everlovin’ light on me

It wasn’t Senator McGovern who in 1972, accepted the nomination way past midnight.  I remember my mother coming into my room and asking what crazy stuff I was watching that weird time of the day.  I told my mother that it was Senator ...

August 20, 2024

Kamala's elephant in the room

They call it the elephant in the room or the issue that won't go away.  I am talking about the price of food or that weekly purchase that we all make.  VP Harris may pretend to feel our pain or to propose silly solutions to ease it but ...

August 19, 2024

Did Tim eat tacos in Afghanistan or Iraq?

You learn something new every day. First, the Democrat ticket doesn't talk policy. Second, they sure pretend to know what tacos are. Yes, this is where we are. Let's take a look: Vice President Kamala Harris, who has avoided intervi...

August 18, 2024

Price controls an oldie, but no goodie

Cue Little Caesar & The Romans: “Those oldies but goodies reminds me of you.” In this case, they remind me of my parents complaining after Fidel Castro signed an executive order to bring price controls to Cuba. Why?  L...

August 17, 2024

Mrs. K makes 2 leftist turns

On one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris is "editing" all of those things that she said before.    We are hearing from the experts that she is going to go centrist and amend her San Francisco mindset. Well, I am not sure ab...

August 16, 2024

Another terrorist caught at the border

My late Cuban mother would always say "cuidado con las moscas" or loosely translated to watch out for the flies. It was my mother's idea that flies would come if we let the door open. I'm sure that my late mother is probably screami...

August 15, 2024

Go away Mrs. K

The Harris campaign is running TV ads about the border.  In a nutshell, Mrs. K wants you to believe that she is tough on the border.  As you can imagine, she surrounded herself with a bunch of law enforcement officers.  Of course, she ...

August 14, 2024

K unhinged over T at X

It was huge, or whatever other adjective explains a two-hour conversation over the internet.  The Harris-Walz team, or the ones who have not sat down with anyone, are furious that Donald Trump had a conversation with Elon Musk.  It came abo...

August 13, 2024

My late mother knew best

Back in the early 1980s, my mother was a big cheerleader for President Reagan. So she asked me about voting?  I told her in Spanish that a legal resident could cheer but not vote. And then she screamed, again in Spanish, about becoming a citizen...

August 12, 2024

Harris critical of Biden-Harris border policy

It's been a weird year and it got weirder yesterday. VP Kamala Harris spoke of the border and how she was going to fight gangs and fentanyl. Let's check it out: “After officially securing the Democratic nominee despite no...

August 11, 2024

A good song to close out the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee must have missed that basic biology class about the birds and bees.  Remember that class in high school, when we learned where babies come from?  Dad met Momma, and a little cub was added to the...

August 10, 2024

Tim, don't you lie to me

As Chuck Berry said: "don't you lie to me 'Cos it makes me mad I get shook up as a man can be." Yes, people really get shook up, to be polite, when a man said that he used weapons of war when he wasn't in war. Here is...

August 9, 2024

Peking Tim

Some of us remember that President Nixon resigned 50 years ago. He is known for the "Nixon to China" moment. Wonder when we will begin talking about the Walz to China moment soon. There are certainly a lot of moments to talk about. As th...

August 8, 2024

Peso falling

Back in 1994, the Mexican peso was devalued and it threw the Mexican economy into shock and awe. The drop happened, as it did in 1976 and 1982, because the currency was not allowed to float and it became overvalued. Mexicans always go posta...

August 7, 2024

Tim is no Hubert or Walter

It's official, and there is a Walz in the VP's future.  Let's check the news reports: Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, on Tuesday named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running ma...

August 6, 2024

Mr. Mayor, keep the buses

Remember the Texas to New York buses? Well, Mayor Eric Adams went to the courts to stop the buses dropping off migrants. And he lost. This is the story: The New York State Supreme Court has ruled against Mayor Eric Adams' attempt to blo...

August 5, 2024

An 'assist' from Argentina's Javier Milei

The good people of Venezuela, who just had an election stolen from them by the longtime ruling socialists, are finding out who their friends are.    Over in Mexico, they see socialist President Andrés Manuel López Obrado...

August 4, 2024

Mr. Unexpected greets Kamala

Surprise! Surprise! Our old friend Mr. Unexpected showed up on Friday to deliver an unpleasant message to the Biden “we are going in the right direction” believers. Here it goes: Job growth in the U.S. slowed much more than expected ...

August 3, 2024

AMLO hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

What does it take to get President Lopez-Obrador to criticize a leftist? A lot. Check out what he said about Venezuela: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday there was no evidence of fraud in an election that Ven...

August 2, 2024

Punch girl win fight

I have a question for Madam VP Kamala Harris: Do you support the Biden-Harris Title 9 revision allowing men to compete with women? Well, if yes, then what do you think of what we saw at the Olympics? Let's take a look: An Algerian boxer...

August 1, 2024

Joe & Kamala Border Services out to lunch

They are doing everything possible to detach VP Kamala Harris from the Biden-Harris record. I can understand why, but it won't work because the evidence is overwhelming. This is from Jim Watson: Democrats now insist that Vice President ...

July 31, 2024

Barack ‘Luca Brasi’ Obama

Maybe you remember this one from The Godfather movie: Michael Corleone: My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Kay Adams: What was that? Michael Corleone: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that eit...

July 30, 2024

Don't be surprised if there is a Walz on the ticket

  As we wait for the Vice President's VP selection, the money is on Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. On paper it makes sense. In reality, what's in it for Josh? Why not wait for 2028 and run after getting reelected big? He may b...

July 29, 2024

Well, Jill liked the Olympic ceremony

Well, we finally have a White House response to the Paris show. Someone liked it and her name is Jill: First lady Jill Biden had high praise for the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics this weekend, despite widespread criticism that the ...

July 28, 2024

In Paris, there’ll be no Charlie Hebdo repeat over the blasphemous open ceremonies

Once upon a time, the athletes marched into a stadium without so much fanfare or production. It’s an introduction of teams, after all. Unfortunately, Paris decided to go woke this year and convince people like me to turn off the TV and skip wha...

July 27, 2024

California or Texas that is the question

We probably won't get it in 2024 but the country really needs a debate about the future. Do we want to be Texas or California? New York or Florida? Why? Because the country is having that debate and voting with its feet. The voters here are ahead...

July 26, 2024

Move over Michael, Joe is singing your song

On one hand, it was sad to see a defeated man forced to read a speech he never planned to read.  What happened this weekend?  Did Nancy and the gang threaten to pull the curtain on the family scandals?  On the other hand, this is what ...

July 25, 2024

But Josh is pro-Israel

The VP short list includes a few interesting names like Governor Josh Shapiro. I don't live in Pennsylvania but they tell me that the governor is popular. I hear that he could deliver that important state to the Democrats. But why would the go...

July 24, 2024

Kamala you have some ‘splainin’ to do

Maybe a reporter will ask VP Harris about the 25th Amendment and President Biden.  After all, all we’ve heard about the ailing president is a phone call and a memo retiring from the election.  Is it too much to ask about the president...

July 23, 2024

She’s always Kamala to me

It’s official now and VP Kamala Harris is heading to Chicago to pick up the nomination.  We will follow her trip and see if the vice president can persuade Democrats that she is the one to beat President Trump.  Some have doubts. M...

July 22, 2024

Claudia is a feminist

Up here we may have VP Kamala Harris but down in Mexico they've gone full feminist girl, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. As she said, she is a feminist on a mission. Check this out: México’s president-elect, Claudia...

July 21, 2024

Looking like a five-run lead

The late Earl Weaver, Hall of Fame manager of the Orioles, once told a journalist that he loved five-run leads.  "Why?" Earl was asked by the journalist.  Because the tying run can never come to the plate.  A grand slam...

July 20, 2024

Let the delegates decide

The GOP convention is over and it's on to Chicago. What will Democrats do if President Biden steps aside? I don't know, but I would like to see the delegates decide. This is from the Chicago Tribune: At the very least, the DNC owes ...

July 19, 2024

No more flowers for Joe

Cue that song "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," because where we are: It used to be so natural To talk about forever But 'used to be's' don't count anymore "Used to be" don't count anymore....

July 18, 2024

Why doesn't AMLO close the border?

President Andres Lopez-Obrador is leaving in a few months.  As you know, he will be replaced by "La Presidenta" Claudia Sheinbaum, who is a woman, in case you have not heard that 1,000 times.   Anyway, as President Biden l...

July 17, 2024

Adios Jack, love Aileen

Another bad day for the banana republic operatives out to get President Trump.  Down in Florida, Judge Aileen Cannon nailed it when she dismissed the documents case.  This is the story: On Monday morning, special counsel Jack Smith hea...

July 16, 2024

Don't forget to calculate in a surprise

My late Cuban father used to say that life had surprises and to calculate for them in your plans. I guess that someone who saw his country go communist overnight understands surprises. So the last two weeks have reminded me that your best laid p...

July 15, 2024

Squeaky and Sarah Jane memories

It was a close call for President Trump. It reminded me of another close call or when President Ford had his two moments back in 1975. This is the story: Ford faced two assassination attempts within weeks in 1975 and was not hurt in either ...

July 14, 2024

Imagine that: Voters still care about the economy

We are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. Who knew that voters would be voting based on the Biden economy or his overall record?  It turns out that people did before and will again.  O...

July 14, 2024

Alive by an inch

We are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. On Saturday afternoon, I was watching the Trump rally on my tablet and listening to the Rangers vs. Astros baseball game.  Our second grandson was visitin...

July 13, 2024

How many more starts will he get?

To use a baseball example, Joe Biden got to the 5th inning, gave up a few runs and walked away without a decision. After the game, the press asked the manager about his pitcher. Will he get another start? The manager would not commit. That's w...

July 12, 2024

Chicago hates disco

It was 45 years ago today and the Tigers were in town for a doubleheader at the old Comiskey. Nobody remembers the 1979 White Sox or Tigers. They were pretty much out of contention at this time. We don't remember that day for baseball but rather ...

July 11, 2024

We came, we sued, and we did not conquer

They say that old Julius Caesar authored a great line:   "veni, vidi, vici" or something like, “I came, I saw, I conquered.”   Well, I think that he would have responded to the Dem...

July 10, 2024

Blaming Nixon?

Chicago had another bloody weekend. And then Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed it on President Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the U.S. This is what he said: “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked Preside...

July 9, 2024

The ghost of the future sends U.S. voters a message from Paris

Leave it to the French to make things interesting. Two weeks ago, it appeared that the right would win. Today, God only knows what happens next. This is how the AP describes the situation in France:  Election results show French vot...

July 8, 2024

Should have known better with a girl like Jill

Fair or unfair, the consensus is that Jill Biden is the villain of the Joe has dementia story.  I say fair or unfair because Jill is not the only Biden riding the last name to fame and fortune. Nevertheless, all the signs are pointing to Jill...

July 7, 2024

And now for the Kam blues

Well, it's happening so fast that God only knows what's about to happen in the next few days. Everything is on the table, and your guess is as good as mine. We do know this.  Vice President Kamala Harris is not an asset to the Democra...

July 6, 2024

Paul saw John standing there

Sixty-seven years ago, we had Sputnik, the start of the second Eisenhower administration,  the last "I love Lucy" episode, the first "American Bandstand" on TV, Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a place called South Vietnam, the ...

July 5, 2024

Were you there when he froze?

First, it was Russia Russia.  Then, it was the laptop and the 51.  Now it’s the debate.  Notice a pattern here? A few days ago, Carl Bernstein said that all of Joe Biden’s men, women and whatever other gender he’s ...

July 4, 2024

Maybe this is why people are not watching

Once upon a time, one could watch Johnny Carson and be entertained.    The viewer counted on Carson to crack jokes both ways.    On the other channel, you had the Dick Cavett option, a bit more serious but no one turne...

July 3, 2024

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?

Maybe the desperate Dr. Jill will come to her senses and see the writing on the wall.  In other words, no one told U.S. voters in 2020 that they were getting a “10am to 4pm” president.  Terrorists and bad guys don’t work o...

July 2, 2024

We can’t go on together with suspicious minds

You kind of get the feeling that Dr. Jill is singing Joe the Elvis tune that goes like this:  “We’re caught in a trap, I can’t walk out, Because I love you too much baby.”  At the same time, the rest of us are singin...

July 1, 2024

Go back to your desk, Mr. Bureaucrat

The Supreme Court made it official: no more bureaucrats guessing what the law is.  Justices Gorsuch and Roberts got it right: “Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion. “Cou...

June 30, 2024

Boston to migrants: ‘Mi casa NO es tu casa’

Maybe they will soon call them “racistas,” but don’t bet on it.  That terminology applies only to Republicans who believe in orderly immigration. Anyway, up in Boston, reality is creeping, and “mi casa no es tu ca...

June 29, 2024

I'm looking through you

The debate was over as soon as President Trump said that he didn't know what President Biden was saying and that he didn't know either. Hard to recover from that, as Mark Penn wrote: Democrats exited the presidential debate Thursday...

June 28, 2024

Lots of leftist ‘amor’ for Claudia

"Presidenta electa" Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is getting a lot of "amor" from the Latin American Left. The background music must be one of those romantic "boleros" from what my parents used to call the "golden age...

June 27, 2024

And take a message to Justin, message to Justin...

They had an election up in Ontario, Canada yesterday and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shut off his phone for now.    Don't expect the prime minister to return your call for a day or two.  Canada'...

June 26, 2024

It’s up to you New York, New York

More and more people are singing “I hate New York” these days, and I’m not talking about Red Sox fans.  According to a New York Post editorial, the natives are restless.  Check this out: New York’s dominant Demo...

June 25, 2024

Little Marco little no more

It won’t be easy because there are some great choices.  Based on what I’ve seen, let me cast a vote for Senator Marco Rubio in the VP sweepstakes.  The other side must agree because there are already articles like this one from ...

June 24, 2024

Hur was right -- kind of

You may remember that the DoJ dropped the "documents" prosecution of President Biden because, to be charitable, Special Counsel Robert Hur concluded that he was a nice old man with a bad memory. He committed the crime, but the DoJ activated...

June 23, 2024

School choice looking pretty good in this state

Based on the last primary and upcoming election, Governor Abbott of Texas has done it.  He defeated the GOP representatives who voted against vouchers and replaced them just in time for November. As they say, he has the votes to make the...

June 22, 2024

So far so good for Cruz

Senator Ted Cruz got some good news this week. First, the latest poll shows that he is up by 11: With less than five months before Election Day, incumbent Ted Cruz leads Democratic challenger Colin Allred by 11 percentage points in the s...

June 21, 2024

The times they are a-changin’

Who knew that we’d be singing Dylan’s tune about the times changing and young people dissatisfied with the left.  Yes, the times are changing and it’s not what the Democrats were planning. This is from Jeremy Etelson: T...

June 20, 2024

Biden's DACA

Here we go again. Another president wants to go around Congress and provide amnesty. Didn't we see that movie before? It did not end well for the dreamers who are still dreaming and wondering what their legal status is. So Biden gave us a DACA...

June 19, 2024

Windy city gone with the wind

Back in the late 1960s our family lived in Wisconsin and drove down to Chicago many times every year to shop at a Cuban store.  It turns out that there was a fellow Cuban who opened a store and imported stuff from Miami for people like us to ...

June 19, 2024

Heck of a game tonight in Heaven

Back in 1972, the Giants traded Willie Mays to the Mets.  He was supposedly finished as a player, but he was still Willie Mays and ticket sales reflected that.  A year later, the Mets got into the World Series and Mays got another shot t...

June 18, 2024

Dumb and dumber

Here it comes, here it comes, here comes what won't be a surprise for anyone paying attention. It turns out that Johnny can't read and probably Mary, too. Here is the story:   K-12 public education has failed to prepare incomi...

June 17, 2024

Claudia has a peso problem

As you've probably heard 10,000 times, Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first lady president south of the border. She mentions it at every opportunity and her staff tells you every time, too. Yes, they really want you to know that it's ...

June 16, 2024

It’s cool when a father pitches a perfect game on Father’s Day

This is a great Father’s Day story to share with your father or sons.  We lost our father eight years ago, and my sons will confirm that I’ve recounted this baseball tale a few times. Before he became Senator Jim Bunning of K...

June 15, 2024

‘When You’re Hot, You’re Hot’—and Trump is hot!

Jerry Reed was right many years ago: Put all the money in and let’s roll ‘em again When you’re hot, you’re hot It sure looks like Mr. Trump is “hot” in the polls and with the people who bet on these th...

June 14, 2024

Memories of Cuba ‘62?

The Russians are coming, and I don’t mean that movie from the 1960s with Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, and Alan Arkin.  Back then, the Russians showed up in a coastal town.  This week, their warships showed up in Cuba, not far from Mi...

June 13, 2024

See you in September, Hunter

The Hunter Biden gun conviction was the easy part. It was an easy case to prosecute and for the jury to finish. Frankly, I'm surprised that the Bidens didn't admit guilt and settle out of court. At least, it would have kept all that info...

June 12, 2024

If I were a carpenter...

Okay. I'm not talking about the carpenter story that Johnny Cash and June Carter were singing about. My carpenter is the fellow who puts things together and has no trouble making money in our society. He is busy making a living and d...

June 11, 2024

Hit the road, 'LO...

They voted last week in Mexico and everyone is talking about making history.  Yes, Mexicans elected their first woman as president but history continues to be made because another politician was killed.  This is the story: A lo...

June 10, 2024

Did Dobbs abort the Left's common sense?

Something happened on the day that Roe was replaced by Dobbs. I mean on the day that Justice Samuel Alito wrote that abortion decisions should be made by voters, not judges. Yes, something happened that day because the Left has not recovered. In fact...

June 9, 2024

A horse with a big name

On this day in 1973, Secretariat captivated the world by winning the Triple Crown in spectacular fashion.  I sat with my father and brother and watched the race.  We were not horse racing fans, but then most people watching t...

June 8, 2024

Cruz targets the 'moderate'

We are seeing evidence that Senator Ted Cruz has learned his Beto lesson, i.e. don't underestimate your liberal opponent. Don't let him drive around the state in his version of the Beto-mobile telling everyone that he wants Texans to love eac...

June 7, 2024

Guess who is moving to Texas?

We woke up today to a rather fascinating story. Dallas may have a new resident soon and I don't mean the NFL Chiefs coming back to their original location. This is the story: Capital giants BlackRock and Citadel are among the headlin...

June 6, 2024

Did AMLO cook up a 30-point victory?

Down in Mexico, they killed another mayor and I can't count anymore. 36? 37? Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán, was shot dead hours after the country elected its first female president. Here we go...

June 6, 2024

D-Day to remember our friend Bob Jagers

  Bob Jagers passed away in 2021.  He was almost 99 and been very sick for weeks.   Mr. Jagers was quite a celebrity in our area of Texas, a member of our parish, and wonderful storyteller.    For years, he...

June 5, 2024

Washington Post-ies get lesson in cash flow

It must have been an amazing meeting.  Maybe someone filmed it (if we still used that term) and will share it with the rest of us.  After all, what could be more enjoyable than watching a bunch of lefties full of themselves get a lesson in ...

June 4, 2024

Claudia the scientist

So Mexico will have its first woman president, granddaughter of Jewish Eastern European immigrants, and she is a scientist. Most importantly, she was supported by the incumbent President Andres Lopez-Obrador. Who is Claudia or "la presidenta...

June 3, 2024

A sham wrapped in banana

It's hard to think about the Trump verdict without thinking of bananas, republics that is. Who knew that we would ever see such a travesty in the U.S.?  I didn't but then again I have never suffered from a derangement syndrome. I...

June 2, 2024

Learning English with ‘The Beaver’

Back in 1964, our family arrived in Wisconsin.  We learned a lot of English back then playing baseball, figuring out why they kicked an extra point after scoring a touchdown, and watching TV shows like Leave It to Beaver. It was an old b...

May 31, 2024

Election Sunday in Mexico, and another candidate gets shot

As you may know, Mexico will have an election on Sunday and Dr. Claudia Sheimbaum is projected to become the nation's first woman and Jewish president.   She'll replace President Lopez-Obrador and let's see what happens next. ...

May 31, 2024

Your name is Merchan!

It took me a while to understand the expression “Your name is mud.”  It’d come up when I was playing sandlot baseball or learning about football.  Someone would scream it, and I had no idea why such an expression...

May 30, 2024

Good day for vouchers

On one hand, a lot of Republicans lost.  On the other hand, they were replaced in the runoffs by other Republicans supporting vouchers.  The net result is that the next state House will be more supportive of vouchers, a huge victory for Gov...

May 29, 2024

No robots, please

Like any baseball fan, I've had my share of bad calls over the years. The current replay system is working well confirming or reversing a bad call. The next step is to use robots to call balls and strikes. Count me out on that. I want that man be...

May 28, 2024

I wish it would rain

My wife was on the phone with her sister in Mexico City and the conversation turned to water, yes "agua." Everyone down in Mexico City is singing that old tune by the Temptations: I know to you it might sound strange. But I wis...

May 27, 2024

Nathan Aguirre is what this day is all about

What exactly is Memorial Day all about?  It's about remembering the fallen or the ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice. We remember Nathan Aguirre, the young man from our church killed in Iraq.  This is from the obitua...

May 26, 2024

The Cuban double play

On July 23, 1960, three Cubans playing for the Washington Senators made baseball history.   They were involved in the only Cuban-to-Cuban-to-Cuban triple play.   I’m sure that it is the only “all Latino” triple play,...

May 25, 2024

Mexico's version of the killing fields

Maybe another election somewhere had this much killing, but it's bad news down in Mexico. I spoke with a Canadian friend living in central Mexico and it was the violence that he kept talking about. This is another example: Tailed by tru...

May 24, 2024

And the taxpayers all went out of Massachusetts

Let’s add another state to the list of blues losing people and taxpayers.  It’s Massachusetts, or one of the original 13, but another one bites the dust, proving the reality that going blue has consequences. This is the story: ...

May 23, 2024

This 'demo' has flown

They call it "the demo" or "the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54."   I am no longer in that demographic, but that's for another post. The story today is that the demo has left CNN. It's a ...

May 22, 2024

‘Muy bueno,’ Marco

Maybe Senator Marco Rubio was auditioning for VP or just fed up with the questions. I don't know, but he did a good job of tearing up the media's favorite questions, i.e. abortion and the 2020 election. Let's remember what went down fr...

May 21, 2024

Biden goes full racialist

A few years ago, President George W. Bush spoke at our son's Southern Methodist University graduation.    He was joined by first lady Laura, who is a graduate.    His speech made us laugh, but it was very inspirational. ...

May 20, 2024

Rough south of the border

Mexicans will be voting in a couple of weeks. It looks like Claudia Sheibaum of President Andres Lopez-Obrador’s party will win. She will make history as Mexico’s first woman president and then try to govern a country overwhelmed by viole...

May 19, 2024

Biden throws a ‘Hail Mary’

Back in 1975, Roger Staubach hit Drew Pearson to beat Minnesota, and the legend of the “Hail Mary” pass was born.  (Honorable mention to Doug Flutie.) A few days ago, President Biden called for debates, a move that has t...

May 18, 2024

We wanna hear you, Joe

We learned weeks ago from Special Counsel Robert Hur that President Biden, to be charitable, is an old man with a bad memory. Therefore, Mr. Hur decided not to indict the President because the jury might learn that the man with the last word on using...

May 17, 2024

Come Mister Alvin, tally me banana

The world is watching New York City turning into a banana republic.  A lot of investors and job creators are watching too.  They are wondering about their money, and what a partisan AG and DA will do to their investments if they don’t...

May 16, 2024

Great shortstops and now swimmers?

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City took illegal immigration to another level. Who knew that this whole thing could get any crazier? I guess that the Trump "hush money" trial is not the only farce floating in New York. Here is th...

May 15, 2024

2024 like 1980?

Back in May 1980, I remember hearing something like that the voters were done with President Jimmy Carter. They didn't want to return or reelect him. There was a sense that he wasn't the right man for the job given the economic crisis, the sc...

May 14, 2024

Bread way up, Biden way down

As any mom can tell you, going to the grocery these days can test your mood. Food prices are up and up, but the White House keeps singing "happy days are here again." They could make a show these days called "Moms gone wild" about...

May 13, 2024

Alvin, shut it down for the sake of the party!

Up to now, there is a winner and a loser out of this Manhattan trial. The winner is President Trump, who keeps getting stronger. The loser is New York, or the perception that the Empire State is a banana republic. Using the legal system to target pol...

May 12, 2024

Let's hear it for June Cleaver

By the fall of 1964, or, when our family landed in the U.S. from Cuba,  "Leave it to Beaver" was already on reruns.  I remember my cousin, who had been here since 1962, explaining the story of a family living in the suburb...

May 11, 2024

Not since Evita

Just spoke on a radio show in Buenos Aires. I commented that I have not seen so much interest in Argentina since Madonna brought back Evita. Yes, I mean there is a lot of interest in the loud and outspoken fellow with funny hair. The latest is tha...

May 10, 2024

What’s Katherine hiding from?

The N in NPR stands for National.  I guess that Katherine Maher, CEO, does not know that because the leftist lady boss is avoiding a date with the “National” Congress.   It would be like a corporate CEO avoiding a meeting with t...

May 9, 2024

Stormy bring back that sunny day

Remember the one about a girl named Stormy and how the world is cloudy and gray since she went away? Well, Stormy and her nice hips came into the courthouse and DA Alvin Bragg is the one begging Stormy to bring back that sunny day. Her...

May 8, 2024

Maxine beyond repair

Growing up with Cuban parents had a few benefits. First, your mom cooked well. Second, you learned to hate communism. And you learned some great expressions, such as "eso no sirve" or loosely translated to: This is no good or beyond repair....

May 7, 2024

I guess that's why the Obama girls didn't go to Chicago schools

How crazy are things in the Windy City? Well, this is what the teacher's union is looking for: The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billi...

May 6, 2024

It'll take more than carrying a rosary

Don't look now but there are some Catholics getting ready to vote.   And they are going to vote for President Trump over the Catholic contender.    This is the story: Catholics in the U.S. have swung dramati...

May 5, 2024

'Give me my money back'

It had to happen.  It's called customer dissatisfaction or the kind of feeling that lines up people at the customer service line when a product or service does not work as advertised.  Well, line up the parents who don't approve ...

May 4, 2024

Ted is Cruzin' to victory

The campaign will start in a few weeks or after the runoffs are completed.  Based on the last poll, Sen. Ted Cruz is up 13 points against his Democrat challenger, Rep. Colin Allred.  Overall, the RCP average has Cruz plus 8 bas...

May 3, 2024

Colombia and Israel break up

Down in Colombia, politics is a very tense sport, and the leftist president is looking for distractions.  So he found one in the Gaza conflict, and a big target in Israel.  This is the story: Colombia President Gustavo Petro on Wednesd...

May 2, 2024

The reds go after Biden’s pen

The Biden administration went around Congress and dictatorially changed Title IX; it's bad news for girls.  So the red states are lining up to challenge the decision.  This is the story: At least 15 states with Republican AGs filed...

May 1, 2024

Hard to be a woman south of the border

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, to paraphrase Tammy Wynette.    Down in Mexico, it's awful to read the crime statistics.  This is the story: According to new figures from the Mexican Executive Secreta...

April 30, 2024

The preachy females got to James?

A few weeks ago, James Carville sounded some sanity when he warned Democrats about woke and preachy females.  James must have hit a nerve and upset his friends because he is back to making a fool of himself.  Check this out from Eric Ab...

April 29, 2024

NPR stands for National (white liberal) Radio

NPR has been getting a lot of exposure lately.  Yes, we've learned that the leadership is woke and the listeners very white, liberal white that is.  In fact, the audience is so white that NPR is going out of its way to get nonwhites to ...

April 28, 2024

A funny thing happened on the way to the trial

The plan was sort of like this.  First, we call Trump every name in the book, from racist to fascist.  Second, warn everyone that a dictatorship is around the corner if the bad guy is back in the White House.  Third, and...

April 27, 2024

Another unexpected Friday

That fellow Mister Unexpected won't go away. He showed up again in the latest economic data. Let's look at the story: Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, grew by 1.6% on an...

April 26, 2024

No camping in Texas

Don't try setting up a camp in Texas unless you are on camping grounds or private property. Don't try it at the university grounds because we don't put it up with it in the Lone Star state. For the record, no heads were cracked, but so...

April 25, 2024

Who were those masked men talking to Claudia?

Bizarre! What else do you call it? A few days ago, Mrs. Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman likely to win the presidential election in Mexico, was approached by masked men while on tour in South Mexico. This is the story: On Sunday, April 21, Mexi...

April 24, 2024

This is not your 1992 Democrat Party

Back in 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton had his Sister Souljah moment when he publicly confronted a black woman who made a racist remark. Clinton was right in challenging such a remark and benefitted politically because those were...

April 23, 2024

It turns out that the young care about the economy, too

Another poll, and more good news for former President Trump.  It turns out that young people care about the economy, too.  Via RedState, this is the story: A Reuters/Ipsos poll in March showed Americans age 18-29 favoring Biden ov...

April 22, 2024

Remembering my first bumper sticker

It was 1968 and I was a sophomore in high school.  On the day after the election, I got sick and stayed home to hear the final results that didn't come in until mid-morning.   And Nixon was the one, or something, who made my parent...

April 21, 2024

Bobby one way, Kennedys for Biden

The Kennedy clan came out to support President Biden with a video.    One of them said something about Biden reminding them of their father, Sen. Robert Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968.      Another one broug...

April 20, 2024

The cannibals should sue Biden for defamation

It's the story that keeps on giving -- the one about President Biden saying that his Uncle Ambrose was on the menu when the cannibals of the Pacific had dinner circa 1944. It didn't take long for the Pentagon to correct the story. It ...

April 19, 2024

Our beloved grandmother didn't carry the nuclear codes

Let me put on my grandson hat. President Biden reminds me of my late grandmother. We called her "Abuela Senda" and everyone loved her stories. She was born in 1892 when Cuba was still a Spanish colony. She remembered all...

April 18, 2024

NPR makes the case for its own defunding

The NPR story gets more and more strange.  Some of us were hoping for a little reflection and maybe rebranding from a woke playlist to more bipartisan  information.   Instead, the woke circled the wagons and shot back.  ...

April 17, 2024

Can Chicago protect the people going to the convention?

As we saw this week, the mob closed O'Hare Airport and travelers had to get out of their cars or miss their flights. Was this a "test run" for the convention? Probably so. Add Midway Airport plus local freeways and moving around the cit...

April 16, 2024

They saw the harbor lights

Cue that tune by The Platters about seeing the harbor lights.  In this case, it’s the beaches of California and those lights on the patios of upscale neighborhoods that voted for Biden. Thanks to Governor Abbott of Texas, the word is ou...

April 15, 2024

Peddling fear with rosary in hand

Does anyone remember the 2020 campaign?      I mean the one where one candidate hid in the basement and walked out to buy ice cream once in awhile.    Yes, the "moderate" or the man who was going to make...

April 14, 2024

I guess we are all ‘racistas’ now

For a long time, a Hispanic was accused of treason and racism (“racista”) for supporting border enforcement or respect for immigration laws.  Well, he was accused by left-wing Hispanics who favor open borders.  The sam...

April 13, 2024

NPR, where all things are not considered

It's a been tough week for the guys who gave us "All Things Considered."    It turns out that all things are not considered over at the woke palace.  Yes, diversity at NPR means bring me a liberal and we’ll fi...

April 12, 2024

AMLO not happy with the presidential debate

They had a debate in Mexico and no one is happy, especially the incumbent President Andres Lopez-Obrador. Let's hear from Mr. AMLO: There were plenty of reasons to criticize Mexico’s first presidential debate leading up to the Jun...

April 11, 2024

NPR, the home of preachy males and females

Back when we listened to the radio the old-fashioned way, I was a fan of NPR. First, it was the only FM station and a clear signal in an office building. So I got to listen to the Clarence Thomas hearings and the memorable Ollie North performance ...

April 10, 2024

‘Muchas gracias’ for all those remittances

Today I learned that the peso is strong. That's actually a double-edged sword because it makes Cancun more expensive for U.S. tourists but going shopping in the U.S. cheaper for Mexicans. So what's going on? Well, remittances are goin...

April 9, 2024

Trump on track to tackle abortion

The Democrats are bent on making abortion the leading issue of 2024.  What else do they have?  I am glad that President Trump has put forth a practical position to tackle the politics of abortion.    This is the story: ...

April 8, 2024

Guess who is short of farm workers?

Let's file this one in the "you can't make this up" category.      Down Mexico way, they are running out of farm workers.    This is the story:   For decades, Mexicans crossed the...

April 7, 2024

Our cities could use a little law and order

Last weekend, a young widow and her one-year-old son were the latest consequence of lawlessness in our blue cities.  A man with a long criminal record shot a police officer.  It reminded us of a couple of things: First, crimina...

April 6, 2024

Mr. Commissioner, do something about the A's

The Oakland A's are moving to Las Vegas but the stadium won't be ready until the 2028 season. So the A's are playing before 3,000 fans and putting a minor league team on the field. Who thought that this was a good idea?  I don...

April 5, 2024

Milei goes after Petro and AMLO

Normally, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico attack each other on the soccer field.  The three countries are “futbol” mad and live and die with every “gol.” Over the last few days, the new president of Argentina has been ...

April 4, 2024

Stand and respect the anthem

Iowa beat LSU and lots of people watched the game.  Great story, except for the LSU team remaining in the locker during the national anthem.  So I stand with Governor Landry on this issue.  This is the story: Louisiana Gov. Jeff L...

April 3, 2024

Another day and another politician shot dead in Mexico

As more women enter politics in Mexico. more women get killed by criminal elements intimidating office seekers.    Here is the story: A candidate for mayor of a violence-wracked city in Mexico has been killed just as she ...

April 2, 2024

Everything in the name of climate change

Years ago, Fidel Castro would often say everything we do is in the name of the revolution. It was his way of justifying stupid decisions such as destroying the private sector, expropriating private property, and shutting down newspapers. Everything w...

April 1, 2024

Joe Catholic strikes again

Did you think that someone was pulling your leg when you heard this? Early April Fool’s Day joke? I did and had to confirm it several times.  This is what I mean: President Joe Biden was slammed o...

March 31, 2024

Mayorkas condemns Texas law to arrest illegals -- in Guatemala

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took his act to Guatemala.  This is the story: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and ...

March 30, 2024

Help me Ronna

My gut feeling is that a lot of sane Democrats are singing "Help me Ronna Get Trump out of their head" or a variation of the Beach Boys "Help me Rhonda Get her out of my heart." Yes, it's hard to function when someon...

March 29, 2024

Béisbol on Good Friday?

Yes, my parents used to pronounce “béisbol” like the legendary Chico Escuela.   It's "Good Friday" so my late Cuban mother would be happy if I abstained from arguing about politics today and share some ...

March 28, 2024

Cruz doing well

Over the last few weeks, I’ve received messages from friends, many of whom were concerned about Senator Cruz and the 2024 election.  Well, a new poll confirms that Mr. Cruz will win.  This is from Marist:  Cruz 51, Allred 45....

March 27, 2024

So long, Baltimore Colts

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I went to school and started my banking career in Baltimore.  The crabs were great, and the city loved its sports teams.  Good seafood, a passion for sports, and I was right at home. ...

March 26, 2024

Our Rashida Tlaib foreign policy

Over at the United Nations, the U.S. showed the world that President Biden is weak.  We abstained from a UN vote and threw Israel under the bus because too many voters in Michigan voted uncommitted in the primary.  What a travesty....

March 26, 2024

There! He’s said it again

Like that old Bobby Vinton song “There! I’ve Said It Again”, Mexico’s President Lopez-Obrador said it again.  The outgoing president south of the border wants the following deal with the U.S.  Check this out from his...

March 25, 2024

It's the preachy women, stupid

Yesterday, it was Bill Maher.  Today, it's James Carville.  Yes, they are trying to wake up the Democrat party but will any one listen?    This is from Carville:   Longtime Democratic strategist James Ca...

March 24, 2024

Maher wants Dems to change the play

It’s finally here: a liberal is telling Democrats that whatever they are doing is not working.  Yes, Bill Maher is calling on Democrats to get a new offensive coordinator because the old “identity politics” card is old and...

March 23, 2024

Who shot Luis?

Time flies, but in Mexico, some questions remain unanswered.    On this day in 1994, I left a Toastmasters meeting and got the news from the radio.       The Mexican PRI party's presidential c...

March 22, 2024

And then they voted Democrat in November

The student loan story has a new episode or new beneficiaries of a Democrat president trailing in the polls.    This is the story:   President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the White House has approved the c...

March 21, 2024

They love the 2nd now

Who knew that a liberal judge would stand up for the Second Amendment?  Well, she did and added an unusual twist.    Let's check the story:   A liberal Illinois federal judge has ruled that an illegal i...

March 20, 2024

Another day and another cartel fighting cartel for territory in Mexico

Mexico is on election mode and it looks like leftist Claudia Sheinbaum will be easily elected in June.    She represents President Lopez-Obrador's political party, known as "Morena," and plans to continue implementing h...

March 19, 2024

Schumer should call for regime change in New Jersey not Israel

Who knew that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would have us talking about regime change again?      Well, yes he did.  He wants a new election in Israel, a sovereign nation the last time I checked.   Wha...

March 18, 2024

All over but the shouting?

Like some of you, I was a bit surprised to hear a president shout at the State of the Union address.    We want an upbeat man with a little passion.    What we got was a man bent on reminding his base that he wa...

March 17, 2024

Chopping, not splitting, the baby

Fani stays and Nathan goes, or so we hear.      Some are saying that Judge Scott McAfee did a King Solomon, or, split the baby.      Of course, the point of that story was not really to kill or spli...

March 16, 2024

Dominican Republic said ‘no’ to Haitians

What else could go wrong in Haiti? First, the nation is in total chaos.  No government.  Gangs running the streets.  The armed forces can’t keep order and another leader has fled. Second, the neighboring Dominican Republic ...

March 15, 2024

Him or Hur?

  Special Counsel Robert Hur finally went public with his report on his investigation of Joe Biden and his handling of classified materials.    I guess that most of you are wondering out loud like me: Who do you believe?...

March 14, 2024

Goodbye, George, you gotta go

Our pal George Stephanopoulos of Bimbo Eruptions fame was finally exposed on the air.    He is a Democrat partisan and Rep. Nancy Mace hammered the last nail in his political coffin.     As you...

March 13, 2024

We didn't hear about open borders in Sunday school

Why are so many Catholic organizations promoting illegal immigration? They claim humanitarian motives but what they are doing is not rooted in Catholic teachings. Our family came to the U.S. in 1964 from Cuba. We were assisted by a church to settl...

March 12, 2024

Trump is a threat to Democrats, not democracy

There you go again with all of the talk about Trump turning into a dictator. In fact, what the Democrats are worried about is that the former President is blowing up some of their alliances. Once upon a time, Democrats woke up on election day wit...

March 11, 2024

The day Spain caved

Twenty years ago, although it feels like a lot more than that, most of us woke to shocking news from Madrid: On March 11, 2004, 193 people are killed and nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area tra...

March 10, 2024

He won't, because he can't

Imagine it's the Fall, and the campaign is on.  Yes, it's a few months away, but the Biden campaign is setting the table for saying "no" to debate with former President Trump.  It started this week.    Thi...

March 9, 2024

Scream of ages

Well, what do you say after all of that screaming in front of Congress? Did he get any sleep after screaming at everyone for an hour or so? Like many of us, I've seen a lot of these. I remember President Reagan and "the new federalism,...

March 8, 2024

Goodbye Super Tuesday

So Super Tuesday is history and no one “gonna miss you” to paraphrase Mick Jagger.  In Texas, there was low turnout Tuesday and the numbers tell the story. Look at the results: Trump got 1.8 million votes; Biden got 826,000 or hal...

March 7, 2024

Out with the kiss, in with the kiss

We've all been treated to a parade of "The Woke Gang" – Biden’s appointments before the U.S. Senate. Remember the people who believe that a man can get pregnant, who can't calculate the cost of the Green New Deal, a...

March 6, 2024

It's time for Democrats to visit the head doctor

The Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling had three messages, two of them apparent and one between the lines. The first message is that states don't get to remove presidential candidates for partisan reasons. It would result in chaos. In other wo...

March 5, 2024

Dems singing ‘Stuck On You’

The Dems are probably hearing that Elvis song over and over again: “I’m gonna stick like glue, because I’m stuck on you.” Maybe more like stuck with you, Mr. Biden.  This is from Paul Bedard: Democratic voters wou...

March 4, 2024

Ready for la presidenta?

It's almost certain that a woman will be the next president of Mexico, i.e., la presidenta.     She is likely going to be former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, a candidate closely associated with President Andres Manuel...

March 3, 2024

Things go better with Trump

Years ago, we came to the U.S. and got acquainted with a TV and radio commercial that went like this: “Things Go Better with Coke”!  I guess that it was effective comparison because I always had that soft drink. Do you get th...

March 2, 2024

Who knew that there would be a shortage of police?

Remember 9/11 and how we all valued the heroic efforts of the NYPD? Yes, it does feel like we were living in a different country. Or should I say the country that we grew up in or where we valued the importance of the men in blue. Enter Pittsburgh...

March 1, 2024

Oh, when will they ever learn?

We hear that a judge in Illinois wants President Trump off the ballot.  This is the story: A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that the Illinois State Board of Elections must take former President Trump’s name off the state's Marc...

February 29, 2024

Killing candidates south of the border

If it’s Thursday morning, then it’s another post about violence in Mexico. Or as a Mexican friend said: “Dios mio todos los dias” or “My God, every day.” Yes, killing is happening too much south of the border, whet...

February 28, 2024

And now for the Trump addiction

Some call it “Trump Derangement Syndrome” or something that goes back to the late Dr. Charles Krauthammer.  (“The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay ...

February 27, 2024

A Politico reporter missed the lesson that Thomas Jefferson taught

Back in school days, we had a kid in our class who would joke about someone forgetting this or that. He would say that you missed the class about this or that. Well, my old friend would say that Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla missed the class about...

February 26, 2024

Silence is golden… but my eyes still see

Not long ago, a Mexican friend warned me about the cartels and resorts. His basic argument was that if we lose the resorts then we lose tourism. No small loss considering the millions who travel there every year. The resorts are safe but we do hea...

February 25, 2024

Fani ‘Stoned in Love’ with Nathan

On a scale of 1 to 10, D.A. Fani Willis’s story is a 10 for TV but a 1 for her reputation.   It’s hard for a D.A. to be romantically involved with her lead attorney and then be so sloppy with the explanation.  It re...

February 24, 2024

Shoot Americano, no problema

We remember today the 28th anniversary of the murder of four men of the group "Brothers to the rescue." The men were Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales, Mario de la Pena, and Armando Alejendre, Jr. We remember the four men and their families. B...

February 23, 2024

Saving democracy by going around the courts

By now you know that the Democrats' message in 2024 is that Trump is a wanna-be dictator. Yes, The Orange Man is out to destroy everything and end democracy as we've known it. It's enough to scare the you know what out of you. I guess tha...

February 22, 2024

It could happen to a Democrat

As I recall reading in one of those books about the ships that sailed the world, be careful with uncharted waters because you might bump into a monster.      Well, let me bring that thought to a current talk show.  ...

February 21, 2024

2024: The battle of the oldies?

Remember when they said that Ronald Reagan was too old to be president?     He turned 70 a couple of weeks after inauguration. Or Bob Dole?  He was 73 when he ran in 1996.   The latest from the campaign trail is ...

February 20, 2024

Go red, blue man

Like they tell us about relationships in Facebook, the U.S. economy is a bit complicated.      Yes, the Biden administration is pushing the idea that happy days are here again.      On the other hand, th...

February 19, 2024

Do we need a national conversation about NATO?

Last Friday, I was watching a presentation about a trip to Germany.    The lady making the presentation told us about the museums, the churches and all of these benefits that they have, i.e., health care, education, early retirement,...

February 18, 2024

Teens with guns again

It didn’t take long for Democrats to call for “sensible gun control.”  I’m sure that you’ve heard the same old song about passing new laws.  It happens every time we have a shooting.  These ...

February 17, 2024

Lawfare Fani making Trump’s point

It was interesting TV and the show is not over. As you know, there is only so much of the “Elderly Man with a Poor Memory” story that we can take. I guess that many of us want to wait until Special Counsel Robert Hur speaks publicly ...

February 16, 2024

There is something about Mr. Unexpected ...

  Guess who showed up this week?      It's Mr. Unexpected, the same one who seems to show up with every economic report these days.        Here is The Wall Street Journal:   ...

February 16, 2024

Who is going to take the load off Fani?

The more I get acquainted with the Fani Willis story, the more I keep hearing that song that goes like this: “Take a load off, Fanny, take a load for free, take a load off Fanny, and, and, and you put the load right on me.  You put th...

February 15, 2024

Maybe this is why no one watches CNN

In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for Rep. Beth Van Duyne and she was my congresswoman until the districts were redrawn recently. She is an amazing lady who served as mayor of Irving and speaks her mind. Let me tell you about CNN: ...

February 14, 2024

How will Hur's excuse play in Peoria?

It turns out that Joe Biden had a lot of boxes full of papers from his days as vice president and senator. It's true that you can collect a lot of papers over a 50-year career.  We understand that.  However, Biden had a lot of pape...

February 13, 2024

Democrats need a witch doctor

According to a dictionary, a witch doctor will cure afflictions thought to be caused by spirit possession or witchcraft.  You mean something like Trump Derangement Syndrome?  Yes, something like that. The Democrats thought that 2024 woul...

February 12, 2024

Why is Donald talking about Michael?

Sorry, but this is the kind of stuff that drives me crazy. It reminds me of President Trump getting into stupid fights with Jim Acosta or Don Lemmon or magazines that no one reads. Over the weekend, former President Trump mentioned Michael Haley, ...

February 11, 2024

Well, it’s that special Sunday again

Call me lucky, ancient, sports-minded, or whatever, but I have watched every Super Bowl.  I remember when people thought that having an NFL team play an AFL team was a joke or a gimmick.  I lived in Wisconsin back then, and talkin...

February 10, 2024

Tales of a well-meaning, elderly, man with a poor memory

On Thursday evening, in the wake of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report about Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents, declining to prosecute him, I learned that President Biden would make a statement to the nation.    ...

February 9, 2024

Elephant rising, burro falling

The latest numbers from Gallup have a lot of Democrats wondering whatever happened to that theory about demographics making them the permanent majority.  Why are the elephants in a good mood and the "burros" (donkeys in Spanish) i...

February 8, 2024

How much Trump Derangement Syndrome can the presidency take?

The latest court opinion against former President Trump is probably not going down well with 42, 43, and 44.  With all due respect to 39, or the ailing Jimmy Carter, I won't mention him but he wouldn’t be thrilled either.  In...

February 7, 2024

Did you get your car insurance renewal letter?

We keep hearing that inflation is down and the GDP is up.  Well, that's true but consumers are facing a lot more challenges.   A few days ago, I got my car insurance renewal and my blood pressure went up.   I should add t...

February 6, 2024

The Big Apple goes debit card mad

The migrant story now has a debit card chapter.  I thought that the story was a joke when it came across the internet; it wasn’t.  It’s true, as we read in this story: The pilot program is being rolled out at the Roosevelt ...

February 5, 2024

Waiting on the border

It’s a bit strange or is it the calm before the storm?  I don’t know but it does feel like something has to give.  I guess we will see what gives after the U.S. Supreme Court rules one way or another on the matter of Eagle Pass....

February 4, 2024

They like him in El Salvador

It’s been a while since I’ve thought about an election in El Salvador.  Nevertheless, the voters in that small Central American nation are poised to return their president in a landslide.  Yes, they love the guy who be...

February 3, 2024

Fidel Castro: The left’s newest social justice warrior

Remembering Fidel Castro as a social justice warrior or human rights advocate might be an easy way to get a black eye in Miami. Nevertheless, the fools are out there. This is what we are talking about: The students were told that Castro was ...

February 2, 2024

Get out of Denver, baby, go, go

My guess is that Bob Seger did not have migrants in mind when he recorded "Get Out Of Denver" but don't be surprised if the local Democrats make it their new song.   According to news reports, Denver is overwhelmed: ...

February 1, 2024

Go woke, go broke, college edition

October 7th, when Israel came under a major terrorist attack, was a horrible day for the victims, their families, and all of us who do not believe that young women should be raped at a music festival.    It was also a bad day for ins...

January 31, 2024

Joe discovers that the other Joe is a liberal

Just saw some interesting remarks from retiring Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.  He sure sounds like a candidate to me.  As they say if it looks like a candidate, talks like a candidate, then it probably is a candidate. This i...

January 30, 2024

Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa clowns have ‘souped you’

It was one of my late father’s favorite tunes, or Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa”; I mean the one that goes like this, “Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you”. Well, the lady with “the mystic smile” is...

January 29, 2024

Still a man after all those laps in the pool

The latest episode in insanity is that Lia Thomas wants to compete in the Olympics as a woman.    By the way, he is Will Thomas, or a man who has apparently discovered his feminine side just in time to spoil the Olympics for rea...

January 28, 2024

Time to use your pen, Mr. President

It does not look like the Congress will pass a border bill.  So it’s time to put pressure on President Biden to use his pen.  Elon Musk put it this way: “No laws need to be passed,” Musk wrote. “All th...

January 27, 2024

Anyone in the media asking why?

We've all heard about the LA Times fighting for its life. The recent VP Harris interview with CNN drew 332,000 in total viewers and just 72,000 in the coveted 25-54 demographic. In other words, nobody watched. The newsrooms from coast to ...

January 26, 2024

The A's are not the only ones leaving Oakland

As you may know, the Oakland A's are moving to Las Vegas. I was hoping that they'd move to San Antonio, but that's for another conversation. The A's are moving because Oakland is a failed city and another exhibit in the museum of Demo...

January 25, 2024

A word about the elections down Mexico way

Mexicans elect a new president every six years.  So it occasionally happens that the U.S. and Mexico have elections on the same year. Such is 2024, when voters in both countries will get to choose a new president and Congress. Former U.S...

January 24, 2024

Gitmo still there

It was 15 years ago that President Obama signed an executive order to close Gitmo and keep a campaign promise.  Closing Gitmo was supposed to restore our place in the halls of freedom and due process; or so we heard during the campaign of ...

January 23, 2024

Johnny Angel, you’re an angel to me

Who knew that common sense about border madness would resurface in the Democrat party with the words of Senator John Fetterman?  Well, it has and many conservatives are happy to see it.  Let’s check out the senator’s words, via ...

January 22, 2024

Arturo smells blackmail

A few days ago, Jorge Ramos of Univision interviewed former Mexican ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan. His analysis of how President Andres Lopez-Obrador greeted the Biden delegation is sound:   AMBASSADOR ARTUR...

January 21, 2024

A Trump-Zeldin ticket?

Now that president Trump is consolidating his race for the GOP nomination, how about a suggestion for Trump's vice president?      Let me recommend Lee Zeldin, former congressman and the 2022 GOP candidate for governor o...

January 19, 2024

Keep on buoying, keep on

Texas just won a little bit more time in its battle over the border crisis.  The court has told Texas to keep on buoying a bit longer.  Let’s read more: Gov. Greg Abbott has won another victory in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appea...

January 19, 2024

Milei brings a lot of common sense to Davos

Who knew that a president from Argentina would deliver a speech about freedom and capitalism?  I ask “who knew” because we expect speeches like that from a U.S. president or some Western leader.  I guess those were the days my f...

January 18, 2024

Truth drowning on the border

First, it was the accusations of agents whipping migrants.  Now, we’re accusing Texas of letting migrants drown.  What’s wrong with both stories?  They are false.  Yes, false, like it did not happen.  Let’s ...

January 17, 2024

Peso surprise down Mexico way?

A few days ago, a Mexican friend brought this topic of "capital flight" to my attention. I've known him for a long time, long enough to remember August 1982 and December 1994. What happened on those dates?  The peso was d...

January 16, 2024

From governor to governor

On Monday morning, I went through the newspaper to read another call to fire Coach Mike McCarthy, the Cowboys' coach who saw his team get destroyed by the Packers. Then I found a long letter from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker urging Gov. Greg ...

January 16, 2024

Donald, Nikki, and Ron

Back who knows when, Dion recorded a tune about Abraham, Martin and John.      Well, with all due respect to Dion, let me ask a few questions:   Has anybody seen Donald?  He just pitched a one-hit complete ga...

January 15, 2024

It's time to move on

On Monday, former President Trump will win Iowa and later New Hampshire. The pundits will have fun with whoever comes in number 2, but it's over. The race is over. It's time to aim the missiles at the Democrats, whether it's President Bid...

January 14, 2024

Watching the Ice Bowl on TV

Mother Nature will be a factor in this weekend’s football games.  So I’m reminded of the one they called “The Ice Bowl.” Our family arrived in the U.S. from Cuba in September 1964.  We were relocated to ...

January 13, 2024

The young and the restless voters

Maybe something is brewing out there.     First, we hear that minorities are walking away from Democrats.  And now we hear that young people are restless.      This is from Ruy Teixeira, the man wh...

January 12, 2024

Fani be tender with my love

Down in Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is hearing a lot of Bee Gees lately: And it’s the start of a love affair The moment when I first met you And if you want I’ll take you there (ooh) Be tender with my love Fanny, ...

January 11, 2024

AMLO talking, Biden listening

President Andres Lopez-Obrador of Mexico, is known as AMLO and is a man who knows that President Biden's border policy is a problem up here. So he figures that this is the moment to get something for nothing. This is what AMLO wants accor...

January 10, 2024

The problem is Joe, not Lloyd

Just think.  How does the President of the United States go three days without talking to the Secretary of Defense?    I guess National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan did not, either.  We are talking about a time when ...

January 9, 2024

Scranton Joe, history eraser

Remember Scranton Joe?  He grew up in a blue-collar home and went on to become president of the U.S.  Along the way, his father dropped him off at school, saw two men kissing, and said:  "Joey Love Is a Many Splendored Thing....

January 8, 2024

Don't cry for me, Jonathan

It's amazing what makes some people cry.  I have not seen a liberal journalist cry over Black on Black crime in Chicago every weekend or fatherlessness in the inner cities or Democrats denying the 2016, 2004 or 2000 elections....

January 7, 2024

‘Gloves off’ Biden? What do the polls say?

The January 6 speech on January 5 went down as expected.  In other words, President Biden cannot run on his record, so he is going to tell us how bad former president Trump is going to be. To be fair, he is not the first one to do someth...

January 6, 2024

It’s your thing Joe

The latest from the border is that the Department of Justice is picking another fight with Texas.  As you may know, Texas passed a law making illegal immigration a state crime.  According to Governor Abbott, the Biden administration has for...

January 5, 2024

It’s always climate change

Who do you blame for the Dodgers, Rays, and Braves going down in the first round of the baseball playoffs?  It was running into a hot team, and we blame that on climate change.  Hot team, global warming, or climate change.  What else c...

January 4, 2024

Can Trump paint blue states red?

According to the numbers, it is looking good for President Trump in a rematch with President Biden. Can it look better? Can he expand the map and turn a few blue states red? The Trump campaign thinks so. Let's read: Former President Don...

January 3, 2024

Latin on Sunday

Guess who is speaking Latin these days? Honestly, I don't know how much Latin they are speaking, but a lot of young people are going to the Latin Mass. On a recent visit to a local Latin Mass, I was pleased to see so many young families with...

January 2, 2024

Trump on a roll

We are not voting yet.    In fact, it's 10 months away and so much could happen.  As they say, a week in politics is a lifetime so 10 months is like a few centuries.   Nevertheless, it's looking good for the fo...

January 1, 2024

Sixty-five years of communism and destruction

There is something eerie about January 1 for Cubans of my generation. My brother, sister, and I always find a minute to hear another story of that fateful January 1, 1959, when our lives were turned upside-down. We ended up in the U.S. and ...

December 31, 2023

Mexico gives Biden el dedo medio

In English, it's the middle finger      In Spanish, it is "el dedo medio."    It means the same thing in both languages.    It sure looks to me that Mexico's President Andres Ma...

December 29, 2023

The Trump comeback is the story of 2023

As we finish 2023, former president Trump is rising like never before. The RCP average has Trump leading within the margin of error in the popular vote but gaining in the swing states that will give him the electoral votes. It's quite a...

December 29, 2023

Remember the insane

Trump Derangement Syndrome is traveling through New England and just stopped in Maine.  Remember the Maine?  It rhymes with insane these days. Let’s check the story: Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state b...

December 28, 2023

Go back to Texas, ‘por favor’

The inclusive and diverse Democrats in Chicago are desperate because Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has called their bluff on sanctuary cities. At first, the Democrats said come because we are tolerant here. Now, as more financial reality encircles th...

December 27, 2023

Lopez-Obrador wants to change the subject

We've seen this before.  A caravan comes together in Mexico and "walks" to the U.S. border. This is the latest according to news reports:   Thousands of migrants arrived on Sunday in the southern Mexican town Alvaro ...

December 26, 2023

Claudine ‘no check for you’ Gay

A bit like Bob Dylan's "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes," Harvard President Claudine Gay is finding out that the man with the check is not coming these days or leaving anything of val...

December 25, 2023

Father Murray got it right

This is a message for all of you from Father Gerald E. Murray the pastor at Holy Family Church. It was published back in 2006 and I saved with my favorite files. It's a nice read between congested malls and "Little Saint Nick." Fathe...

December 24, 2023

Merry Christmas to the military families

As the song goes, “Merry Christmas, darling — we’re apart, that’s true.”  Once again, thousands of families will spend Christmas away from their husbands, wives, daughters, and sons.  In our case...

December 23, 2023

Good December for Japanese baseball

Check out the sports page as we used to do.      It's been a very profitable Christmas season for a couple of Japanese exports.      First, it was Shohei Ohtani or the $700 million man.  ...

December 22, 2023

The Great Escape, starring Kathy Hochul

"The Great Escape" was released in 1963.    I'm sure that you all remember the great motorcycle scene starring the late Steve McQueen.      Well, I hear that there is a new version of the movie comi...

December 21, 2023

Unnecessary roughness, 15 yards for Trump

They call it "unnecessary roughness" in football.      It usually draws a penalty and one of the teams gains 15 yards and an automatic first down.   Over in Colorado, where they get "Rocky Mountain ...

December 20, 2023

‘A Christmas Story’ is great because it is politically incorrect all the way!

Every year, The Christmas Story is a holiday feature. I enjoy it a lot! The Chinese restaurant ending is great!  Everything about this movie is so politically incorrect, from the old man to Mrs. Parker, to just about everything else.  Re...

December 19, 2023

It's beginning to look like... 1968?

According to news reports, President Biden is increasingly frustrated with dismal poll numbers:    For months, the president and first lady Jill Biden have told aides and friends they are frustrated by the president’s l...

December 18, 2023

She is pretty and driving a leftist dictator crazy

As you may know, Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua is now Miss Universe.  Based on my Latino heritage, the Miss Universe pageant is like the Super Bowl for most women in the Spanish-speaking world.    I recall my mother and si...

December 17, 2023

What a shock: Hispanics care about inflation

Another day, and more confirmation that Hispanics are more concerned about inflation (i.e., the economy) than just about anything else.  Let’s read on: A recent voter survey conducted by the largest Latino nonprofit advocacy...

December 16, 2023

I’d rather watch the ‘Scrooge’ video

It happens every year.  The White House releases a message or video about the holiday season.  A few years ago, I read several presidential Christmas messages, from President Lincoln’s war time words to President Truman’s first ...

December 15, 2023

Please come to Boston for a party of color...

Another day and more insanity from the folks who preach diversity.  Yes, the people who preach love and "let's all get along" have a funny way of acting it out.      Check this out:   Bost...

December 14, 2023

The birth of the ‘syndrome’

Back this week in 2000, the Supreme Court finally ended the election recounts after several weeks of partisan politics and marches here, there, and everywhere.  It ended with then-Vice President Al Gore conceding the election, and we remember th...

December 13, 2023

Doctors not judges

What was our biggest complaint with Roe v Wade? Abortion was decided by judges, thus leaving legislatures elected by voters out of the conversation. Roe was overturned and now voters get to vote on the issue. As a consequence, you have unconditional ...

December 12, 2023

From sanctuary city -- to 'stay in Texas'

The migrant crisis in Chicago has turned comical.    I mean that it makes me laugh, especially when we remember what they used to say about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the law that eliminated sanctuary cities in Texas.  ...

December 11, 2023

Milei speaks and Argentina waits

There are two things that no one would have predicted on July 1st. First, that the Texas Rangers would win the World Series on Bruce Bochy's first season back from retirement. Second, no one in Argentina thought that Javier Milei would be sworn i...

December 10, 2023

Number 9, Number 9

We remember another anniversary of John Lennon's tragic death in 1980.      As I heard, most of the country learned the news watching the Monday Night Football game.      In my case, I heard it in...

December 9, 2023

Wonderful Judge Noreika

Hunter Biden got some bad news this week:  Indictment in California and allegations that he failed to pay nearly $200,000 of income tax in the year 2019.      We can thank Judge Maryellen Noreika for this,...

December 8, 2023

Then Vietnam, now migrants?

It’s still eight or nine months away, but the Democrats have reasons to worry about that summer convention in the Windy City.  Let’s hear what’s happening in Chicago, via Fox News: Residents’ animosity toward the Dem...

December 7, 2023

Long honeymoon in Buenos Aires?

A few days ago, I was asked on Buenos Aires radio about what the U.S. thinks of Argentina's president-elect, Javier Milei, who will be sworn in on December 10.      I answered that the best word was ...

December 6, 2023

I’m ‘Henry the K’ I am

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away this week at age 100.  My memory of Mr. Kissinger was his work during the Nixon administration, from Vietnam to the historic presidential trip to China.  Add to this the famous women he ...

December 5, 2023

Maduro looking for a Falklands

Remember the Falklands War?  It happened in 1982 when Argentina decided that it was time to fight a war over the UK territory.  It did not go well for the junta in Buenos Aires, but they needed something to distract the locals from ano...

December 4, 2023

Crime and no punishment

Why do we hear about African-Americans expressing frustration with Democrats?    Maybe it's because they live in areas run by Democrats, such as Chicago and Philadelphia.   Crime is turning into a real issue for...

December 3, 2023

Living dictator same as dead dictator

Fidel Castro died seven years ago; his brother Raúl is still around although not very visible; and the appointed successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel, wears business suits to look presidential. Has anything changed?  Not really....

December 2, 2023

Joe, we can't sell them

How is that electric vehicle promotion going?  Well, the car dealers can't sell them.  They sent President Biden a letter calling for a change in strategy, as my old marketing professor used to say. This is the story: Nea...

December 1, 2023

Goodbye, savings account

The economy is great, or so we hear.  Well, car loan delinquencies are growing, food prices are higher, and now Americans are dipping into their savings accounts. This is the story: Inflation is still taking a hefty toll on h...

November 30, 2023

Just blame Lori for everything

It's not fun having to solve problems, especially when you are a Democrat and ran your campaign making all kinds of promises.  Or maybe this is just another case of "blue on blue.”  Who knows?  We do know that the Mayor ...

November 29, 2023

Don’t play that song for me

Down in Mexico, there is something called “narco corridos” or songs about the drug trade.  They are stories of drug lords, arrests, shootouts, daring operations, and betrayals.  You hear them on the street corners, sort of like ...

November 28, 2023

Where have all the cops gone?

What happens when the political class makes villains out of policemen and victims out of criminals?      The policemen move on such as in "quitting" their jobs.    This is the story:   ...

November 27, 2023

Living in the triangle

We hear that people are moving to Texas.  We also learned that the so called "Texas triangle" is the place to be.   Check the story:      Texas added nearly 1.6 million people between 2020 and Jan. 1,...

November 26, 2023

Hit the road, Joe, and don’t you run no more

There is a tune flying around the country that sort of goes like this: Hit the road Joe and don’t you run no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Joe and don’t you run no more. What you say? Hit the road Joe and don...

November 25, 2023

Chaotic immigration is having political consequences

Over in The Netherlands, we see another election and the experts are calling it "shocking" and "unexpected."  I cannot speak about the unexpected but there is nothing shocking about people reacting to chaos.  Let's l...

November 24, 2023

The Spanish version of Trump Derangement Syndrome

A few days ago, Univision interviewed former President Trump.  By the way, this is the same Trump who is running for President and leading in the polls. He is also gaining with Hispanics.  Love or hate him, he looks like the ...

November 23, 2023

1988: A Thanksgiving message from President Reagan

Another Thanksgiving, and we remember President Reagan.  Like most two-term presidents, Reagan gave many holiday messages. They were memorable and full of Reagan's optimism and religious convictions. There were even a couple of ...

November 22, 2023

Milei at the opera with his Melania?

Over the last couple of days, I've been catching up with my Argentina friends to get their thoughts on the shocking presidential election.  One friend told me something like "our inflation is 10 times worse than yours."  He ad...

November 21, 2023

Happy birthday, Sweet 81

Don't be surprised if President Biden is reacting a bit like the late Casey Stengel. He was replaced by the Yankees after losing the World Series in 1960 and said this: They told me my services were no longer desired because they w...

November 20, 2023

Why not AG Greg Abbott?

Yes, it's a crazy prediction but stranger things have happened. We learned that Governor Abbott of Texas will endorse President Trump:    Texas Governor Greg Abbott endorsed former President Donald Trump in his race to be...

November 19, 2023

The ‘DC’ stands for ‘District of Crime’

How can anyone in the U.S. be happy with what’s happening in Washington, D.C.?  It is after all our nation’s capital, the home of so much history, of so many monuments visited by people from all over the world. Washington, D....

November 18, 2023

Mayor Adams singing the 'sanctuary city blues'

Mayor Eric Adams just announced budget cuts, as we read in news reports:   New York City’s expansion of universal pre-k, some trash pickup, and library services have been slashed as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ “ext...

November 17, 2023

Mexico said what?

Over the next day or so, Governor Abbott will sign a new law that will likely be challenged in the federal courts.  They don’t like the law in Mexico either.  This is the story: The Mexican government on Wednesday responded to the ...

November 16, 2023

‘Now and Then’? Better stick with ‘Paperback Writer’

As a real Beatles fan, I'm disappointed when so-called "new recordings" come out.  I'm sad because there is nothing new, especially since they were in the studio 50 years ago. Nothing new, trust me. My brother, and...

November 15, 2023

Mutiny on the Biden

How bad is it getting for President Biden?   Let's check this out:   Four hundred government officials from 40 departments and agencies within President Biden's administration signed a letter opposing the president...

November 14, 2023

Inflation is down unless you buy food to eat

We keep hearing that inflation is down, lower than a year ago or in the right direction or some other explanation like that.  It's about what you'd hear from a White House managing a bad message.     And then mom goe...

November 13, 2023

Follow the money

They always say "follow the money" for scandals or just about anything else.  Well, let's follow this money going out.  This is the story:  New York has lost 10 billionaires in the last four years -- three of wh...

November 12, 2023

Common sense all went out in Massachusetts

Once upon a time, The Bee Gees sang about how the lights all went out in Massachusetts.  Today’s remake of that song would be about all common sense going out in the place where the Pilgrims landed 400 years ago. Check th...

November 11, 2023

Remember Frank Borman, reading from the Book of Genesis from outer space

We remember astronaut Frank Borman who died this week at age 95.      He was member of the legendary Apollo 8 crew of 1968.    As you may remember, Apollo 8 went around the moon ten times and gave u...

November 10, 2023

Please, don't come to Boston for the springtime

Up in Massachusetts, the "migrant crisis," as they call it these days, has a Democrat screaming and screaming. This is the story: As Massachusetts housing facilities brace for maxed-out capacity as early as this week, th...

November 9, 2023

Who is paying for the flags?

Over the last month, we've seen a lot of anti-Israel marches with lots of flags and placards. Every time I see the marches on TV I ask two questions. First, who is making all of these placards?  They don't look like stuff made ...

November 8, 2023

It's the season of cocaine in Guerrero

You probably have not heard of Guerrero, a state on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The famous tourist resort of Acapulco is the main attraction. We've been to Acapulco a couple of times and it's an attractive location. Of course, everything is ...

November 6, 2023

Voters compare and prefer Trump

It’s another poll but it confirms what I’ve been hearing from people.  In other words, more people think that they’d be better off with Trump.  They are not yearning for him, but just feel that he was a stronger leader, an...

November 5, 2023

Beverly, not Buffy...

Remember how Senator Warren told us about her native American background?      Well, she was not alone.    Add Buffy Sainte-Marie, the singer, to the group.  She is not Native American, so we now le...

November 2, 2023

They are not listening to Joe, Kamala, or Alejandro

Our leaders keep telling them to stay home or download the app.  The illegals prefer to come the old-fashioned way, i.e. ride the train or just walk north.  This is the story about the new caravan: About 5,000 migrants from C...

November 1, 2023

Judge to Biden: Stop cutting

The Texas Rangers are playing well in the post season.  Maybe they will finally bring the big trophy to our fans.  The other big story around here is that a judge has halted another Biden program.  This is the story:   ...

October 31, 2023

What a country: Dress up as a cowboy and get candy

Another Halloween and another time to remember our first Halloween in the U.S.  Back in Cuba, it was "El Dia de los Santos" or All Saints Day on November 1st.  Of course, it was a "day of obligation" or don't forget ...

October 30, 2023

Madness in Acapulco

It's not fair to blame the hurricane on President Andres Lopez-Obrador, but he is getting the blame. As President Bush learned with Katrina, those local governments can make you look really bad. Things are not going well, especially now that loot...

October 29, 2023

That old cash flow problem

  Years ago, I remember my late father, a lifelong banker, say that it's all "cash in and cash out."      "Show me your cash flow sheet and I will tell you where you stand" was his wise advice. ...

October 28, 2023

Dressing up as ‘Hakeem Election denier’ for Halloween

Let me alert you:  I am planning to dress up as Hakeem Jeffries and knock on your door saying that Trump was an illegitimate president.  Why Jeffries?  Let me tell you: Did you know this? Hakeem Jeffries -- the n...

October 27, 2023

Where do poor Haitians or Cubans get $5,000?

The entire "migrant to border" story is complex and confusing. Let's add more to the confusion and the Haitians to Nicaragua angle:    Nicaragua has long been used as a migratory springboard for people fleeing s...

October 26, 2023

Texas AG back at the office

As you probably know, our Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to work after surviving conviction following impeachment.   I said back then that he should focus on the Biden administration rather than getting even with GOP members who v...

October 25, 2023

Mexicans hope that the next president can fight crime

Let's get this out of the way quickly. The next president of Mexico is going to be a woman. Well 99% chance, unless something happens. So we applaud the progress that women have made in business and politics. Honestly, no one would have beli...

October 24, 2023

Argentina heading to an electoral game 7

In a month, Argentina will elect a new president. They did vote on Sunday but nobody won a majority so a new election is on the schedule. Let's review what happened: The battle to decide who will run crisis-wracked Argentina is heading ...

October 23, 2023

The worst since Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 -- 42 years ago, if you remember.  Today, the former president and Mrs. Carter are in Georgia gracefully facing the end.  For the record, I always thought that Carter was a decent man who sh...

October 22, 2023

Umpires reading minds?

It got rather heated between the Astros and Rangers at Game 5 of the ALCS.  As we hear, these two teams don’t like each other and have had their confrontations over the season.  It’s what usually happens when a team fr...

October 21, 2023

How low can you go?

On the day that Gallup reported bad news for the U.S. news media, the folks in the newsrooms lost their common sense over a hospital story.       In a heartbeat they confirmed why the public doesn’t trust them.   ...

October 20, 2023

Victoria wants her secret back

Like some of you guys, I've made a few stops at Victoria's Secret to purchase a surprise for my wife.  I usually did it coming home from a business trip.  The store clerks were always super helpful in figuring out such importan...

October 19, 2023

Yes, your neighbor may be losing his home

It's devastating when your neighbor loses his home.  It's apparently happening again.  This is the bad story of the week: Home foreclosures are on the rise as Americans continue to grapple with the ongoing cost-o...

October 18, 2023

The day Reggie became Mr. October

Yes, I remember watching this: it was game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Reggie Jackson hit three HR in a row off three different pitchers: Burt Hooton, Elias Sosa, and Charlie Hough. And then he became Mr. October! This is the...

October 17, 2023

A ray of hope in Ecuador

Years ago, we spoke of Ecuador and having some of the wonderful "ceviche" they prepare in Guayaquil. It was a quiet and beautiful country that rarely made the front pages.  Today, Ecuador suffers the narco violence and social uphe...

October 16, 2023

Louisiana turns right, and so does New Zealand

We watched a couple of elections this week. Down under in New Zealand, the voters decided that they’d had enough of Jacinda Ardern.  We remember Jacinda as the most recent darling of the left.  I guess New Zeala...

October 15, 2023

Remembering the ascent of Clarence Thomas

We remember that Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court on this day in 1991. I remember watching President Bush introduce Judge Thomas.  I felt good for the country and Judge Thomas.  What a way to show the pro...

October 14, 2023

I smell malaise in those new mortgage rates

As I told a friend the other day, I remember 1982 and when it was very expensive to get a mortgage.  I guess that I'm watching a rerun because I hear that mortgage rates are up again.  Who knew that Biden economics would bring...

October 13, 2023

‘Mr. More than expected’ shows up again

Our old pal "Mr. More than expected" showed up in September. He came in the new inflation figures. Let's take a look: Prices that consumers pay for a wide variety of goods and services increased at a slightly faster-than-expec...

October 12, 2023

Maybe Garvey can start a streak of common sense

We remember Steve Garvey as consistent, a tough hitter, good glove, and very popular with the fans. I hope that we remember him as the politician who brought common sense to California. Garvey is running for office and that's a goo...

October 11, 2023

Yes, he did it

It’s easy to play politics, but the truth is the truth.  We are watching the consequences of policies that began on the day that President Biden was sworn in.  He started this, so sit back, because turbulence is ahead. ...

October 10, 2023

Mr. Mayor, we’ll see you in New York

Democrats are screaming the same message: the mayor of New York City is telling them to stay home because we don’t have any room.  The governor of Illinois is asking another question: why are migrants only going to blue cities? ...

October 9, 2023

Trump's presidency looks better and better every day

Do you remember those highway billboards with former President George W. Bush waving and the caption: "Do you miss me yet"? We need a few of those billboards for President Trump. Love or hate him, his presidency looks better and b...

October 8, 2023

In New York, mi casa no es tu casa

Mayor Eric Adams is down in Mexico reminding everyone that there is no room in New York City.  Yes, the message is to stay home, or at least don't come to New York, because there is no room in The Big Apple. This is the story: ...

October 7, 2023

I love you, but stay home

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is down in Mexico talking "migrants."  His message is simple:  We want you, we need you, we love you but not in New York.   Over in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson has discovered ...

October 6, 2023

We are all 'racistas' now

What happens when immigration demagoguery meets the reality of a checkbook?  You get angry people shouting at Democrats.  This is the story: In recent weeks, there has been an influx of migrants arriving on Chicago...

October 5, 2023

Biden to blame for the Ukraine confusion

To be upfront, I support aid to Ukraine.  At the same time, I've never seen a president so incompetent in a matter of national security.  In fact, Biden’s incompetence has him assuring the allies that the money is coming even thou...

October 4, 2023

Smile a little smile for me, Mister Judge

Maybe I'm too harsh and nasty, but there was something weird about Judge Arthur Engoron.  I mean the judge who decided to take off his glasses and smile at the camera.  What was he doing?  Updating his Face...

October 3, 2023

The other Washington Commander

As a kid who grew up watching Rin Tin Tin, I find this whole story about Commander rather fascinating.  I am not talking about the team formerly known as the Redskins, but rather that German Shepherd in the White House. As you may know, ...

October 2, 2023

Everything bigger in Texas?

It was 39 summers ago that I moved to Texas.  I don't talk like a Texan, but our three sons were born here and the grandsons as well.  So we call Texas our home and love it. Over the years, I've heard all kinds of jokes...

October 1, 2023

They think the border is secure...

Anyone surprised?  I am not, because they keep telling us that the border is secure.  This is the story: As thousands of people pour through the southern border into Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, all members of Texas...

September 30, 2023

The war against women, border edition

Don't expect the Squad or "The View" to rush to the border, but there is a war against women going on down there. It is sick, but it is what it is. This is the story: When Carolina's captors arrived at dawn to pu...

September 29, 2023

Come running home, Katie

Back in the days of 45's and Top 40 radio, Mark Lindsay (formerly the lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders) had a solo release titled "Arizona" and it went like this: "She must belong to San Francisco She must ...

September 28, 2023

The great Brooks Robinson (1937–2023)

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...

September 27, 2023

It's the goofy left, stupid

What about this?  The man who gave us "it's the economy, stupid" is now back with another gem. This is James Carville with Bill Maher: Carville said he found them "annoying and silly" after Maher mocked the...

September 26, 2023

It's not working

We see another poll showing former President Trump beating current President Biden. Maybe he is not up by 10 but the polls are trending Trump, whatever that means 14 months before people vote. They've thrown everything at # 45 b...

September 25, 2023

Joe, I need to see you

Down in Mexico, the migrant crisis has President Lopez-Obrador calling for a meeting with President Biden.  This is the story: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has requested a bilateral meeting with his US counterpart to d...

September 24, 2023

Eric, listen to Eric

On Sunday morning, you can frequently see me on the local Spanish channel talking a little politics.  We recorded this week's show on Friday afternoon, about an hour after Mayor Eric Johnson of Dallas announced that he was switching to ...

September 23, 2023

Fetterman is a dedicated follower of his own fashion

Maybe Senator John Fetterman doesn't understand or care but he looks horrible.  Is it too much to ask a U.S. senator to dress up to do his work?  It appears that his colleagues have issues with his "fashion."  T...

September 22, 2023

Pardon me, amigo, is that the migrant choo choo?

Down in Mexico, they’ve added a new twist to that expression about the light at the end of the tunnel… it’s really just the light of an oncoming train. We are hearing that Mexican train traffic has been derailed a bit. Let me expla...

September 21, 2023

Hispanics buy gasoline, too

We hear that the Biden inflation is hurting the middle class and may be driving Hispanics away.  This is from Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of Job Creators Network: Earlier this month, the New York Times published a b...

September 20, 2023

Goodbye, George, you gotta go, me oh my oh

To paraphrase Hank Williams. George you gotta go because New York is short of money and full of idiocy.  Let me explain: New York’s City Council -- which just passed a budget that’s already been deemed a flop -- is ...

September 19, 2023

Who knew that Muslim parents would oppose LGBT values?

The Democrats are learning on a daily basis that there is more to politics than January 6 and hating Trump.  They are also learning that some voters think their party has been hijacked by some pretty weird people who think boys can be girls...

September 18, 2023

Texas AG Ken Paxton should go after Biden, not fellow GOPers

The Paxton impeachment is over, and the Texas attorney general is back on the job. We kept hearing 14-16 during the vote.  The 14 were 12 Democrats and 2 Republicans who voted to convict him, and failed.  The 16 were ...

September 17, 2023

A timely moment to wish 'happy #236' to the US Constitution

We begin today with a "happy birthday" to the U.S. Constitution.  Maybe you remember this from your U.S. History class.  They taught it when I went to school, and I'm hoping that they still do today.  Or ma...

September 16, 2023

Judge to buoys: Stay just a little bit longer

A federal appeals judge is letting Texas keep those buoys for the time being.  He has Governor Greg Abbott doing his best Texas version of Maurice Williams's "Stay ah just a bit longer."  This is the s...

September 15, 2023

Did we need a UN report to learn this?

Thank God that the UN is spending its time talking about the U.S.-Mexico border.  Maybe the Democrats can read their report.  This is the story: The US-Mexico border is the world's deadliest land migration route -- with hundre...

September 14, 2023

You ain't nothin' but inflation rising all the time

A few posts back, I introduced you to my economics professor, that very nice man from Korea who always made a lot of sense.  He once explained the connection between gasoline prices and inflation by saying, "People gotta go."...

September 13, 2023

It's not fun being a sanctuary city anymore

Once upon a time, it was so much fun being a sanctuary city.  It made you popular with immigration activists and the self-declared "enlightened" class.  Suddenly, sanctuary cities are about dealing with migrants who accepted ...

September 12, 2023

There are lots of peels to step on in banana republics

Are some Democrats wondering if their obsession with Trump is backfiring?  The polls have not changed, despite emptying the whole house and throwing everything at Trump.  It's 44-44% at the RCP average and been stuck...

September 11, 2023

Your words don't go together well, my Michelle

Once upon a time, there was a Michelle who couldn't speak English and Paul McCartney tried to speak French, saying that "Michelle, ma belle These are words that go together well my Michelle." Over in New Mexico, Govern...

September 10, 2023

A massacre at Fenway

It was early September, and we got together on Sunday to watch baseball.  I should remind you that the NFL did not start as early back then.  After my mother's Cuban food, we got started.  We didn't realize back ...

September 9, 2023

Stacy's song: I'm not true to my school

Like that old Beach Boys' tune about being true to your school, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is so true to her district that her son goes to a Catholic school. So much for being true to your school now...

September 8, 2023

Eric goes full ‘racista’

Once upon a time, it was very fashionable to refer to critics of "sanctuary cities" as racists or "racista." We had a big debate back in 2017 when Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation that would also allow police to inquir...

September 7, 2023

Age is only a number until you are totally incompetent

Back in 1984, President Reagan got the age question and turned it around masterfully by bringing up Walter Mondale's youth and inexperience. I was watching and he got reelected that night.  Just for the record, Mr. Reagan turned 78...

September 6, 2023

The mayor of Tijuana needs a history lesson

Who remembers the Berlin Wall and why it went up?  Who remembers that East German guards shot men and women trying to jump the fence?  I remember.  Unfortunately, the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico played the wall ca...

September 3, 2023

The pope sticks his holy nose in politics again

Sunday morning, and I have to usher at the 11 a.m. Mass.  I will say an extra prayer and ask for forgiveness for talking about the pope's holy nose.  At the same time, I hope God understands that his man at the Vatican does st...

September 2, 2023

The belts start tightening

We've discussed the impact of gasoline and food prices on the family budget.  It's complicated, but we may be seeing the impact, or a rise in delinquencies.  This is the story: More Americans are falling behind o...

September 1, 2023

Thurmond denies knowing Biden in 1964

The book of Biden stories has a new chapter.  According to Biden's memory, he convinced the late senator Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act.  It sounds heroic, except that the law was signed in 1964, ...

August 31, 2023

Who knew that ISIS would try to take advantage of an open border?

My late mother would read this story and scream: "¡Qué estúpidos son!," loosely translated to "How stupid they are!"  Yes, who knew that ISIS or any other terrorist group would exploit a porous b...

August 30, 2023

Ian Fleming's Joe Biden 5400

So I heard that Biden had 5,400 Biden pseudonym emails. Wonder what the late Ian Fleming would say about that? His Bond 007 only had one name as I recall. And James Bond put his life on the line! This is the story: The Nat...

August 29, 2023

The bad, the ugly, and the sound of the pump

Once upon a time not very long ago, I paid $25 to fill up my four-cylinder Ford.  Just a few days ago, I paid $40.  Please don't tell me that inflation is under control, because the gas pump did not get that memo. Over at t...

August 28, 2023

One bus, two buses now up to 10 buses

We call them "Abbott buses," and they keep driving in just about every direction.  Number 10 just made it to Los Angeles, and here is the story: As President Joe Biden's open border continues to wreak havoc on the Un...

August 27, 2023

Biden, it's you

Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams are covering that old song called "Baby It's You."  Their cover version is "Biden It's You," or sort of their way of blaming the Biden administration for the sanctuary state mess t...

August 26, 2023

Not my kids, say the parents

More and more parents are not happy with public education. I hear it from a local friend who tells me that the phone at the local Catholic schools does not stop ringing. Who is a calling? A parent disillusioned with public schools asking a singl...

August 25, 2023

They want their Redskins making football great again

Back in the 1990s, I heard Troy Aikman talk about playing in Washington.  It was brutal, he said.  Those fans hated the Cowboys as much as we hated the Redskins here. Everybody wants to make something great again. Over at the office...

August 24, 2023

What do you do when one of your English teachers turns 92?

We say "Happy Birthday" to Barbara Jean Morehead, who was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1931.  Most of you know her as Barbara Eden and I Dream of Jeannie.  It was on the air for five seasons in the 1960s.  Wha...

August 23, 2023

Me and my Corvette

It's hard to separate President Biden from his Corvette.   He’s always talking or telling us about it.  It's sort of like that song by George Jones that goes like this: "As he stared at my Corvette He sa...

August 22, 2023

Anybody looking for materials to build a border wall?

Before you go shopping for materials and supplies for your next fence, please call the Biden administration and check out their inventory.  They've got a lot of stuff, as we see in this story: The Biden administration reported...

August 21, 2023

Our house is a very, very, very expensive house

So have you talked to anyone looking for a home lately?  Or someone renting?  Well, check this out: On Friday's broadcast of "CNN This Morning," co-host Phil Mattingly and CNN International host Julia Chatt...

August 20, 2023

Hi Petro, Robert wants to talk about the weather in Kiev

Can it get any better than this?  I guess that everything is possible in the ongoing drama about a rogue father and son who sit in important places.  Now we learn that Joe and Hunter used pseudonyms à la Mitt Romney’s “Pi...

August 19, 2023

1968: Tanks head to Prague

The USSR and the Warsaw Pact are now history.  It all collapsed at the end of 1991.  In other words, most people younger than 35 have no emotional involvement with what we grew up with.  They've probably never h...

August 18, 2023

The problem with crossing that line....

Back in the last week of the Clinton presidency, there were concerns about the legal status of President Clinton once he left Washington.  Could he have been indicted by, say Arkansas, for lying in a courtroom?  In the end the issue wa...

August 17, 2023

Fani Willis is batting fourth, but she's no cleanup hitter

Once upon a time, I heard a manager say in the pre-game show that someone batting fourth does not make him a clean-up hitter.  He is hitting there today, but don't make anything of it. Down in Georgia, D.A. Fani Willis didn't pla...

August 16, 2023

One more indictment, and he's got five, like Nolan Ryan

President Trump has four indictments, and the next one will give him five, like Nolan Ryan, who's got five no-hitters.  We need a little humor, because the state of the county is depressing. We got another Democrat pushing an indictm...

August 15, 2023

They are dancing sort of a Trump tango in Argentina

As you may know, people in Argentina get very passionate over "futbol" and love dancing the tango whenever they get a chance.  Over the weekend, voters in Argentina took a little time off from Messi and tango to shake up the political ...

August 14, 2023

And then he spoils it all by saying it's Weiss

On Friday, A.G. Merrick Garland announced a new special counsel to investigate the growing Hunter Biden problem.  So far, so good.  A ray of hope that DoJ will actually do its job?  But then he spoils everything by sayin...

August 13, 2023

Biden keeps messing up inflation

Years ago, I had a Korean economics professor who was a genius, or at least I thought he was.  He made economics easy to understand even if his accent did not make him easy to understand.  Nevertheless, I loved his classes and lea...

August 12, 2023

Biden has been bad for our wallets

We got another inflation update and the country is still wondering about the price of everything.  After all, how can we feel that inflation is going down when gasoline is up again?  As a college professor once told me as gasoline goes so g...

August 11, 2023

The Bidens singing 'Now give me money, (That's what I want)'

Who knew that the Bidens' family mission statement would be based on a Beatles song?  Yes, get into "a Shindig mood" and sing along with the Bidens: The best things in life are free But you can keep them for the birds...

August 10, 2023

Watch out Silver because Traveller is out

Our insane cancel culture gets crazier by the minute.  The latest casualty or threat to democracy is a horse.  This is the story: Traveller, the horse which served Confederate General Robert E. Lee, has long been a fixture of camp...

August 9, 2023

Down goes Biden

"Down goes Anderson" has gone viral, or Cleveland's Tom Hamilton on the radio call of the fight between Tim Anderson and Jorge Ramirez. Over on the political arena, down (sort of) goes Biden.  This is the story: A...

August 8, 2023

The gods of soccer had enough of toxic feminists

The gods of sports are a funny bunch.  Sometimes they say thumbs down, and that's the end of a team's fortunes.  Am I the only one who thinks they had enough of a team with these toxic attitudes? On Sunday morning,...

August 7, 2023

All the news that wasn't fit to print

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 ...

August 6, 2023

Lucy was funny in Spanish, too

Here is a pleasant thought for your Sunday morning: the amazing and hilarious Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, N.Y. on this day in 1911.  She died in 1989. Back in the late 1950s and until Castro expropriated private televis...

August 5, 2023

The gas is high

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 Ameri...

August 4, 2023

On the street where you sleep

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 sidewal...

August 3, 2023

Funny how no one cares about racism in South Africa anymore

Remember all the speeches about apartheid?  As I recall, Jesse Jackson got involved in South African politics.  It was the issue of our time, as they often say.    For the record, apartheid was terrible and a cor...

August 2, 2023

More goals, fewer frowns

Who knew that I'd be talking about soccer after the baseball trading deadline? Well, I am talking the U.S. women's soccer team and the ladies who are not living up to expectations. This is the story from the land down unde...

August 1, 2023

What López-Obrador doesn't know

Up in Washington, the information about Mexico's cartels was not good.  This is the story: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday pushed back against estimates made this week about the strength o...

July 31, 2023

The other president with a son problem

We've heard a lot about Hunter Biden.  Let me tell you about Nicolas Petro, the son of Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.  This is the story: The son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been arrested f...

July 30, 2023

Disney should release Kamala Roe and her 7 friends

It's another Sunday and time to reflect on another day in the life and times of VP Kamala Harris, or the lady who said most Americans can’t afford a $400 surprise expense, but conveniently forgot that she is a part of the cur...

July 29, 2023

Now, everybody knows I am the judge

To paraphrase Pigmeat Markham, everybody knows that she is the judge, yes Maryellen Noreika is the judge and order in the court.    On a more serious matter, the Hunter Biden team finally ran into someone who was asking questio...

July 28, 2023

We need something like Animal House in 2023

As we struggle with a Barbie movie that does not remind me of the dolls that my sister collected, a U.S. women's soccer team that can't smile, or even a new version of Snow White that claims she won't be saved by ...

July 27, 2023

It would have been better if they had stayed in Mexico

Upon taking office, the Biden administration killed the "stay in Mexico" policy.  They claimed that their approach was more humanitarian but were never forced to explain from "the basement" what that actually meant. ...

July 26, 2023

When July 26 turned out to be an ugly day...

Growing up in a Cuban-American home acquainted me with a lot of the island of Cuba's history.  I guess that's normal in immigrant homes, but my parents were the type committed to teaching us how communism destroyed what they lovi...

July 24, 2023

Spain and the inconclusive election

Thumbs up for our system.  At least the winner here gets to form a government quickly.    Over in Spain, they had an election and people wonder what the point of it was.    Who won?  So far no one really know...

July 24, 2023

You don't have to play if you don't like the anthem

Once again, we have athletes making fools of themselves. The latest episode from the ingrates comes from the Women's World Cup soccer match.  For the record, I am not a big soccer fan, but it's always nice to cheer for the home tea...

July 23, 2023

It's time to send Justin Trudeau to NATO purgatory

Like some of you, my father would say "it's time for a frank talk" whenever he needed to tell me something I did not want to hear.      Back then, it was often a reminder that filling the gas tank was part of drivin...

July 22, 2023

Why is President Lopez-Obrador sticking his nose in US elections?

What do you know?  We learned that the president of Mexico wants his "compatriots" to oppose Governor Greg Abbott.  Here is the story: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday urged Mexican-Ameri...

July 21, 2023

NYC doesn't 'sanctuary' anymore

The mayor of New York has a new tune on the political charts.  It's his remake of that old tune by Teddy Pendergrass: I don't love you anymore It's just that simple No, no, no, not like before Such a shame, dirty sham...

July 20, 2023

Remember when Doc, Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, and Sneezy didn't push their sexual orientation?

In the interest of full disclosure, as they say, we have three sons, and they were never into Snow White.  We were more of a "Power Rangers" or "Sandlot" family.  But I remember that my sister and mother l...

July 19, 2023

Donald, Joe & Joe

What if former president Trump, current president Biden, and wannabe president Manchin have a debate sometime in the fall of 2024? It could happen.  It appears that Sen. Manchin is listening to those who want an alternative in 2024....

July 18, 2023

Am I the only one not rushing to Saturday Night at the Movies?

Once upon a time, I paid for my university by working a part-time job at a bank operations department.  It was the place that processed all the checks and deposits that came from the branches.  There were a couple of mature ladies who would...

July 17, 2023

Mexico cannot have it both ways

According to news reports, Mexico is challenging Texas's floating barrier plan on the Rio Grande.  This is the story: Mexico's top diplomat said Friday her country has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government exp...

July 16, 2023

We need more candidates talking about Mexico

Down in Mexico, organized crime is on the rise and sending a message, according to Kellin Dillon, a fine reporter with Pulse News Mexico.  This is the latest report: According to national security experts, Mexico’s organized...

July 15, 2023

Another July to remember 'Exordium & Terminus'

Back in July 1969, we were talking about Apollo 11 going to the moon and a song on the radio called "In the year 2525" subtitled "Exordium & Terminus."  To be honest, I did not know what "Exordium & Terminus...

July 14, 2023

El Paso to Chicago: The popular bus route

We learned yesterday that landlords in Illinois won't be allowed to consider a future tenant's immigration status.  This is the story: An Illinois law set to go into effect at the beginning of 2024 will ban landlords from ...

July 13, 2023

The ‘wise Latina’ is suddenly ‘la millonaria Latina'

Can Justice Sonia Sotomayor refer us to her investment counselor?  The wise Latina's finances have done rather well since joining SCOTUS.  This is the story:  Sonia Sotomayor's net worth has increased significantly s...

July 12, 2023

A little common sense from Martina

What do you know?  A little common sense prevails in the debate about males pretending to be females competing with real women.  This is the story: Tennis legend Martina Navratilova appeared to react to comments from Meg...

July 11, 2023

People tell me that he's only foolin'. I know he isn't.

How crazy are things getting?  My late mother had a great phrase for stuff like this.  She used to say "pura locura," loosely translated to "pure craziness."  Yes, it's crazy, and here is the stor...

July 10, 2023

Your land is my land

This is hilarious.  Ben & Jerry, the ice cream men of New England, spent Independence Day claiming that Mt. Rushmore exists on stolen land. They could have chosen to celebrate July 4 with a burger and watching the Red Sox take t...

July 9, 2023

The governor of Texas wins again

Back in the COVID days of "masks," Governor Abbott opened up Texas and things got back to normal by the end of 2020.  Nevertheless, some county leaders decided to enforce their own mask mandates and challenge the governor directly...

July 8, 2023

Reagan was right about abortion

The great communicator got this one right: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."  Leave it to President Reagan to put things in perspective. Someone took the time to tell us how many babies...

July 7, 2023

The luck of Ringo

Happy birthday to Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), who was born on this day in 1940 and turns 83 today.  Ringo is one of the two surviving members of what we used to call "The Fab Four."  The band stopped recording 50-plus...

July 6, 2023

The uniter is a divider

Once upon a time, a man named Abraham Lincoln warned us that "a house divided against itself cannot stand."  What would Pres. Lincoln say about this poll?  This is the story: How are Americans feeling these days? Certain...

June 30, 2023

The other Perón woman that history forgot

We all know the story of Eva (Evita) Perón, perhaps the most influential woman in modern Argentina.  They made a Broadway play and movie about her!  By the way, the movie did not misrepresent her beauty and class. ...

June 29, 2023

The moderate and his admiral

During the campaign, we were reminded often that former V.P. Biden was the moderate in the party roster.  He wasn't Bernie the socialist, who went to the USSR for his honeymoon.  Or Beto with the RFK look who wants to take you...

June 28, 2023

81 percent of Mexico is a lot of territory

How much of Mexico is under the control of criminal elements?  I guess it depends who is answering the question.  To my knowledge, President Andrés López-Obrador has not acknowledged that any part of Mexico is run by...

June 27, 2023

Don't listen to the teachers' union if you care about your kids

Back in the thick of the pandemic, I remember watching a TV report about two mothers who lived on the same street in Chicago.  Mom A sent her kids to the Catholic school.  Mom B was dealing with school closures.  Mom A w...

June 26, 2023

Mayor Adams: I've got my Magic Bus

Yes, that sound you hear is Mayor Eric Adams singing his version of "Magic Bus."  You know that song by The Who that goes like this: "Every day I get in the queue (Too much, Magic Bus) / To get on the bus that takes me t...

June 25, 2023

You gotta love the story of the candy bomber

The battle between communism and freedom has many chapters, from people jumping The Berlin Wall to Mariel, Cuba in 1980.  I saw the ugly face of communism as a boy, when my father's cousin was thrown in jail for publicly denouncing...

June 24, 2023

Mr. Secretary, what are you telling Cuba?

Our secretary of state just got back from China and said this: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that the United States would have deep concerns about Chinese military activities in Cuba, after the Wall Street Journal report...

June 23, 2023

That's the way that the law 'go'!

After Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, former Rangers manager Ron Washington tried to put a happy face on blowing a lead in the 9th, the 10th, and the game itself in the 11th.  He repeated that line about the strange things that happen on t...

June 22, 2023

Dr. King still right about race and character

As you may remember, Dr. Martin Luther King said this in the summer of 1963: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their...

June 21, 2023

When the wife is on the jury...

My guess is that this is the first time that a wife has been a part of the jury in her husband's trial.  One would think that the prosecution would immediately strike a juror married to the accused.  Of course, this is no ordi...

June 20, 2023

Woke armies don't win wars

Not long ago, we had armed forces to win wars or deliver a quick blow to our enemies.  It kept the peace when the bad guys knew that they really couldn't hide.  Just ask Qassem Soleimani, who had his New Year's p...

June 19, 2023

Yes, it is political

I had a feeling that the Trump indictment would eventually crash with a public that sees it as political.  I just never thought that it would happen so quickly. This is from a Harvard Harris poll via Breitbart: Of the registered v...

June 18, 2023

A perfect game on Father's Day

Happy Father's Day. Nineteen sixty-four was our last Father's Day in Cuba, but no one remembers much about that.  We were just lucky that our father was out of a political prison.  Many of many friends were not so lucky...

June 17, 2023

Don't expect Dylan Mulvaney to do any Mexican beer commercials

The U.S.-Mexico soccer game is a big deal south of the border.  I'm not sure how big it is up here, but Mexican fans get into it and display their passions.  Over the years, Mexican fans scream a four-letter word that loosely ...

June 16, 2023

Remembering Lincoln's warning

On this day in 1858, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln addressed the Illinois Republican Convention in Springfield.  He lost that race, but his words left their mark. As you remember from your U.S. history class, the country was...

June 15, 2023

Dear Elon: Please buy NPR before the wokies kill it

Once upon a time, the NPR station was the only one you could pick up in an office building.  I remember listening to the Ollie North/Contra hearings on my office radio.  The morning and evening newscasts were also good. ...

June 14, 2023

Go away, little boy

Maybe the tide has turned, and the public is fed up with boys competing with girls.  This is the good news from Gallup: A larger majority of Americans now (69%) than in 2021 (62%) say transgender athletes should only be allowed to...

June 13, 2023

Mrs. Obama — we're looking for the Fast & Furious files

We've crossed two dangerous lines in the last year.  First, the FBI showed up at Mr. Trump's home looking for files.  Second, a special counsel followed up with an indictment about those files. Why hadn't this ...

June 12, 2023

In the year 2525, if Trump is still alive

According to the indictment, President Trump could spend the next 500 years in jail.  I guess that they want to put away Pres. Trump for a long time so that he can't run until the year 2525.  Maybe they think MAGA wo...

June 11, 2023

Trump should have stored his documents in a garage

The Babylon Bee ran a story about the documents and President Trump.  The headline reads, "Trump Indicted for Keeping Classified Documents at Mar-A-Lago Instead of Somewhere Secure like the Trunk of a Corvette."  Yes, he...

June 10, 2023

Secretariat, DiMaggio, and the teenager

Once in a while, the crazy present makes you long for the past.  I'm sure that people back then had their problems, but at least you didn't have a political party indicting the other party's likely nominee in the upcoming election. ...

June 9, 2023

From 'gay' to 'queer'

We've come a long way from Obergefell, that 2015 Supreme Court opinion that redefined marriage.  For the record, I thought the Court should have left marriage at the state level.  However, a 5-4 Court opinion sa...

June 8, 2023

You can't 'Perestroika' CNN

Who remembers Perestroika?  It was a "Hail Mary" pass from Mikhail Gorbachev to save the USSR.  Perestroika means "restructuring" in Russian, but it did not save the communist economy. Well, n...

June 7, 2023

Reagan's words and our family

We recalled this week that President Reagan passed away in June 2004.  Today, we remember that the California GOP nominated Ronald Reagan for governor.  Yes, it started in the Golden State.  I guess that it was a bi...

June 6, 2023

A bad election day for the old PRI in Mexico

Once upon a time, Mexico's PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) won every contested election, or any election at all, for that matter.  They controlled the presidency for decades and the governorship of the most populous st...

June 5, 2023

When the state steals baseball

Years ago in Cuba, my father, my brother, and I spent a lot of Sunday afternoons watching baseball games.  I have memories of the old professional Cuban winter league and players like Minnie Minoso, Camilo Pascual, Pedro Ramos, an...

June 4, 2023

Start spreading the news, we're leaving today — leaving New York, that is

Where have we heard this before?  Who said people will move out and head to places where they pay lower taxes?  It's happening in New York, New York.  This is the story: New York State is giving away the g...

June 3, 2023

Consumers listening to Charlie Chan

The Biden economy reminds me of that line from Charlie Chan: "In these troubled times, best to be economical." We hear about unemployment numbers and how inflation is dropping.  You hear that, and then you go shopping. ...

June 2, 2023

Being for the benefit of Mr. Biden

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play 56 years ago this week.  Watching the way the FBI is holding on to that memo reminds me of that song from the LP, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"  A splendid time is guarante...

June 1, 2023

Wonder if Hanoi Jane wants Ted arrested, too?

It never fails.  We will always have Jane Fonda to do something stupid, from aiming an anti-aircraft cannon to the Hanoi skies to now blaming "white men" for everything.  This is the story: Jane Fonda blamed me...

May 31, 2023

'Broadway Joe' turns 80

If you grew up watching those AFL games on NBC, then you probably remember Joe Namath, who was born in Beaver Falls, PA, on this day in 1943.  What I recall is that all the girls in high school suddenly spoke about touchdown passes and the guys ...

May 30, 2023

Good day for 'la derecha' in Spain

Like many Cubans of my generation, we were born on the island, grew up in the U.S., and had Spanish grandparents or great grandparents.  This is because Cuba was a Spanish colony until 1898 (Spanish-American War), and the new country w...

May 29, 2023

A thought about Memorial Day

Like most of you, I will enjoy a "family day" and eat too much.  We have three grandchildren now, so we need more food these days. On this Memorial Day holiday, the U.S. could use a lesson from our ancestors, because th...

May 27, 2023

Maybe we should do the 'persona non grata' thing with AMLO

To paraphrase that famous line from Anne Richards about then-V.P. George H.W. Bush: "Poor Andres, he can't help it. He was born with a leftist foot in his mouth.”  As you may remember, V.P. Bush went on to win big in 198...

May 26, 2023

Eric get angry, Eric get mad

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is very unhappy these days.  He can't win on the migrant crisis because no city can handle a daily flow of people like this.  The word from the Big Apple is that Mayor Adams is angry. ...

May 25, 2023

The Babe hit #714 and then said goodbye

Babe Ruth is #3 on the home run list behind Bonds and Aaron.  However, 714 is one of those magic numbers for baseball fans like me.  Sixty (later 61) and 714 were the big baseball numbers that we grew up hearing about....

May 24, 2023

Hit the road, AMLO, and don't you come back no more

President Andrés López-Obrador of Mexico has finally met someone he can't fool anymore.  For the last several years, the man nicknamed AMLO has pretended to be the leader of the Third World, the representative of ever...

May 23, 2023

Before they get to Cruz

We are already talking 2024 around here — the U.S. Senate race, that is.  Yes, Senator Ted Cruz is up for re-election, and Democrats are getting ready.  It looks as though state senator Roland Gutierrez will go aga...

May 22, 2023

When those Mexico City volcanoes sound off

It's a treat to go to Mexico City and see the volcanoes.  The locals don't pay much attention to them because they don't impact their lives.  I guess we call them quiet volcanoes or something like that.  Neve...

May 21, 2023

Oh, please don't stay by me, Dianne

The Democrats have a Senator Feinstein problem.  To say the least, it's quite different from the one that inspired a young Paul Anka to write a song that went like this: "Oh, please stay by me, Diana." The Democrats are singin...

May 20, 2023

It was 121 years ago today

On this day in 1902, Cuba became an independent country.  If you grew up in a Cuban home, or had Cuban friends in high school, or lived in Miami, then you may recall celebrations and good food this day. To make a long history short, Cuba...

May 19, 2023

The Mexican press is talking fentanyl

Let's say thumbs up to courageous Mexican reporters who are publishing stories about fentanyl. I mean courageous because investigative journalism may be hazardous, as we've posted before. This is the story, vi...

May 18, 2023

We call them ‘mala mujer’ in Spanish

While the Durham Report did not call for criminal indictments, one woman is responsible for this "crime."  Her name is Hillary Clinton and we know her story.  I agree with Victoria Taft:     Durham wrote t...

May 17, 2023

The Alberta blues

There are many Canadians in Texas — at least it feels that way when one of their hockey teams come to town.  By the way, some of my most interesting conversations about socialized medicine have been with Canadians. So what...

May 16, 2023

Madame VP finally mentions the border

Our border czar (or is it czarina?) decided to say something about the border situation. It's been a while since VP Kamala Harris said anything, so she got our attention.  This is what she said:  Kamala Harris has claimed...

May 15, 2023

It depends what the definition of 'secure' is

According to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the border is secure.  It was, it is, and it will always be.  Unfortunately, reality is getting in the way.  Let's check this out: Border Patrol agents arrest...

May 14, 2023

Remember all of our favorite TV mothers

Happy Mothers' Day to all of the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and even those mothers to be.  (Did I miss anyone?) Over the years, we've loved TV mothers — i.e. all of those "mom" characters we grew up watchi...

May 13, 2023

The girl from Ipanema falls for Xi

Look south, and you will see Brazil and China coming together.  It's more like giving the U.S. the finger.  China is preaching that it is the future and the U.S. is the past.  Well, President Xi has a convert, and they call him Lul...

May 12, 2023

Argentina's saddest tango involves their current economy

If you love tango, and I do, you know that the lyrics are always about heartbreak and disillusionment.  I'm sure that there is a happy tango out there, but the ones I'm familiar with are always sad songs.  As my friend fro...

May 11, 2023

The 'I' thing is not going away

The Biden re-election campaign got some bad news about the "I" word.  This is the bad news: Inflation rose again in April despite an aggressive interest-rate hike campaign by the Federal Reserve, indicating that strong underl...

May 10, 2023

AMLO confirms that fentanyl is coming from China

Down in Mexico, President Andrés López-Obrador has confirmed what most of us knew.  Here is the story: The Mexican president says his country has proof that illegal shipments of the powerful opioid drug fentanyl are ...

May 8, 2023

Chile coming to its senses

Not long ago, leftist President Gabriel Boric was elected in a tight election and many, myself included, feared that Chile may be going down the wrong path.      Boric rode a wave of discontent over COVID, a RINO proble...

May 8, 2023

We all work in a narco-submarine, narco-submarine...

We can say two things about the drug cartels.  First, they are deadly, and second, they are creative in reaching their customers. Nick Beake, BBC News Europe correspondent, reported on the new submarine fleet carrying...

May 7, 2023

Next year, Mexico would like Cinco de Mayo back

May 5 is Exhibit A in contrasts.  Up here, it's a day to eat Mexican food and enjoy a parade.  Down in Mexico, May 5 is a day to remember a battle that few people remember. Back in 1862, the French met the Mexicans in ...

May 6, 2023

The commies of Colorado

At some point, you have to call a commie a commie.  In other words, if it hates capitalism, it hates capitalism.  Check this out from the Colorado Education Association, the state's affiliate to the National Education Ass...

May 5, 2023

Wonder why they call Robert Kennedy a ‘racista’

Here in Texas, we can't stop talking about the horrific shooting in Cleveland, close to Houston.  As expected, the immigration activists jumped on Governor Greg Abbott for saying that the alleged killer is an illegal immigrant and ...

May 4, 2023

Mother and daughter working for the Chinese yuan

If you remember that song "Rum and Coca Cola," the singer complained about both "mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar."  That was then.  Today's version of the Andrew Sisters would be sing...

May 3, 2023

Where the boys are not

We hear of a war with China down the road.  I don't know for sure if that will happen, but I do know that we are not recruiting enough volunteers.  This is from Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, U.S. Army (ret.), and Dr. Nora Bens...

May 2, 2023

Lori to Greg: Stop in the name of whatever

You can't make this up.  I recall when Governor Greg Abbott was called a racist for signing a ban on "sanctuary cities" in 2017.  Let me take you down memory lane: Senate Bill 4 makes sheriffs, constab...

May 1, 2023

15,000 a week and more coming

Down in the border town of Brownsville, the people keep coming.  This is the story: Shelters in a Texas city struggled to find space Saturday for migrants who authorities say have abruptly begun crossing by the thousands from Mexi...

April 30, 2023

The bad guys in Mexico are shooting, not hugging

Down in Mexico, President López-Obrador is committed to his "hugs, not bullets" policy.  He looks to the camera with a straight face and doubles down on the approach.  In the streets and neighborhoods, his ci...

April 29, 2023

‘Blues vs reds’ when it comes to parents

We are a divided country.  Nothing shows our divisions more than our attitudes on parental rights.    I found this editorial at the Washington Examiner interesting.  The Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

April 28, 2023

What's going on in Cancun?

For some time, we've heard that Mexico is violent but tourist spots are okay. In other words, Culiacan is a mess but Cancun is nice.  Guerrero is deadly but the beaches of Acapulco are just fine.  And it goes on. Unfor...

April 27, 2023

The Catholic holding a rosary will be the abortion candidate

It sort of began yesterday with the video.  It will continue with President Biden repeating two words:  Trump and abortion.  Yes, the entire reelection will be based on scaring voters about the Orange Man and that the GOP wan...

April 26, 2023

I saw it on the video

President Biden is in, and I saw it on the video.  I guess he will be the video candidate and will send out video messages instead of campaigning.  The video was all about the other guys — you know, the horrible opposition....

April 25, 2023

Has Mayor Adams had enough?

Over the last few months, I've had many conversations with friends about the "migrants" in New York City.  No one seems happy with it, especially my Latin American friends who came here legally.  I hear that Mayor Eric Ad...

April 24, 2023

Why is Bill Maher the only one making sense?

It seems as if every week we hear something rather sensible from TV host Bill Maher.  First it was his attack on the cancel culture.  Then he pointed out that male swimmers are faster than female swimmers.  And now ...

April 23, 2023

Earth Day has become kind of a joke

Fifty-three years ago, The Beatles broke up, and they started Earth Day conveniently on Vladimir Lenin's birthday.  After all, what a better way to celebrate your hatred of capitalism than to schedule your big festival on commie #1...

April 22, 2023

50 ways to protect our Joe?

Remember that letter that hit the front pages about Russia disinformation and the Hunter Biden laptop?  It was signed by 50 intelligence experts, and now we are learning that it was a bit fishy.  Could it be that the whole thing w...

April 21, 2023

The clock is ticking on the border

Everybody knows that there is lots of chaos coming.  In a few weeks, Title 42 expires, and the Biden administration does not have a clue.  Maybe they are keeping their strategy rather quiet.  This is from Todd ...

April 20, 2023

AMLO clashes with the courts

Something very interesting is happening in Mexico.  President Andrés López-Obrador is running into the Supreme Court, an institution that has become the firewall against his authoritarian ways.  This is the...

April 19, 2023

The Democrats looking for a DH for Senator Feinstein

As you know, the DH, or Designated Hitter, is baseball's way of keeping a pitcher in the game and adding some punch to the lineup. Maybe the Democrats want to rewrite the Senate rules and created their own version of the DH.  ...

April 18, 2023

Whip their butts, Mayor-Elect

Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson got an introduction to Chicago.  Over the weekend, the youth got restless and showed the world how little they respect the police, the mayor, the mayor-elect, and the businesses that pay the taxes.  It ...

April 17, 2023

The shoplifting blues

Once upon a time, we used to call shoplifting stealing.  But recently, shoplifting has been the latest episode of "no justice, no peace."  In other words, there are many blue-city district attorneys who don't think s...

April 16, 2023

At least Nixon suspected something was off about Fidel

Back in April 1959, Fidel Castro visited the U.S. a few months after taking power.  Castro's visit was rather controversial because he faced skepticism from many in the U.S.  He was asked about the promised electi...

April 15, 2023

Nobody is singing about going 'Downtown' anymore

Back in our first year in the U.S., Petula Clark reached the top of the charts with a great tune called "Downtown": "When you're alone, and life is making you lonely, you can always go Downtown." As a side note, m...

April 14, 2023

Gasoline, rent, and everything else

Have you spoken with a friend renting lately?  Or one of your kids recently graduated looking for his first apartment?  There is a bad moon rising on the rental front.  This is the story: Rental prices were by fa...

April 13, 2023

Biden needs to read the story of the Model T

According to news reports, the Biden administration is about to go full "E.V."  This is the story: The Biden administration unveiled the most aggressive tailpipe emissions ever crafted as part of its sweeping climat...

April 12, 2023

The public-sector unions can't print money

Chicago, Portland, Milwaukee, etc. are all a big mess.  It goes like this: the taxpayers move out, and the public-sector unions elect their man.  So what happens now?  We will see, but this may be a blessing in disg...

April 11, 2023

Revising Shakespeare: First, kill all the Marketing VPs

Back in my school days, we read Shakespeare.  It was not my favorite.  Reading William was hard, and it took a lot of energy to write an essay about any of his works.  In my case, I accepted it as part of the liberal...

April 10, 2023

We need those Clydesdale horses more than ever

The Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney controversy is getting more controversial, as I once heard a comedian say.  I can certainly understand why people, especially women, are offended by the whole thing.  What were they thinking in th...

April 9, 2023

Weird Easter customs in America!

Many years ago, our family came to the U.S. and learned a few things about how Easter was celebrated here. First, we called it "Holy Week" or "Semana Santa."  It was Holy Monday to Holy Thursday, and then it got ...

April 8, 2023

The issue is an 1849 law, not Roe

Up in Wisconsin, the GOP won a super-majority in the state Senate but lost a Supreme Court election, giving the Democrats a 4-3 edge.  Am I the only one who finds that strange? We are already hearing that this is about abortion...

April 7, 2023

Chicago proves that FDR was correct about public unions

Up in Chicago, the teachers' union won big, and I don't mean that test scores or literacy is on the rise.  They got their man elected, and who knows what happens next?  I would not be surprised if a few Chicago residents a...

April 6, 2023

López-Obrador talking to China?

President Andrés López-Obrador is a busy man these days.  Not only is he running a country, but the fentanyl issue is getting more complicated.  This is the story: Mexico's president asked his...

April 5, 2023

Bragg, Adams, and as the world turns

It took a Trump indictment for Mayor Eric Adams to start doing his job — or talk about doing it.  He mentioned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.  This is the story: Greene is slated to lead a rally protesting Trump...

April 4, 2023

I didn't know it was that easy to become a girl

Today, we have a man who just celebrated 365 days of being a girl, and it earned him a beer sponsorship contract.  Here it goes: Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney was announced as the latest spokesperson for Bud Light in a pai...

April 3, 2023

Are you ready for the trans caravan?

Our so-called moderate president Joe Biden has decided to double down on that "humanitarian" immigration pledge that he made during the campaign.  Yes, let's welcome those going north who don't identify as male or female....

April 2, 2023

The man with the most wisdom to offer on the Trump indictment

What else can I tell you?  D.A. Bragg's indictment smells of pure political vengeance.  Even former A.G. William Barr calls it "a pathetically weak case."  We've heard the words "pathetic...

April 1, 2023

Biden's border policy and the Juárez fire

Down in Mexico, many are looking for accountability in the Juárez fire that left over 30 dead and others injured.  As you may remember, the initial explanation was that angry migrants set mattresses on fire in protest.  How...

March 31, 2023

Brazil turning Chinese — I really think so

What could go wrong?  You elect a leftist in Brazil, China comes calling and the U.S. president is too busy with what he calls equity.  Well, the Brazilians sing you a samba called "adeus norte-americano" or goodbye, Nor...

March 30, 2023

The world today reminds us of the post-Vietnam era

If you remember Vietnam, then you may ask a simple question:  Where did 50 years go?      Better than that, you may look around today and see a lot of international conflicts like we did after our embarrassing depa...

March 29, 2023

NPR now stands for Not Popular Radio

Best wishes for all of those NPR employees who got their layoff notices.  It's not nice at all to get the word that you are out.  This is the story: NPR itself confirmed Thursday that it had cut 10% of its workforce...

March 28, 2023

It would be nice if Fetterman gave us his predictions for the Phillies...

The defending National League champs will open the season against the Rangers in Arlington, Texas.  There is lots of excitement in Pennsylvania about this team, and I'm looking forward to catching a game this weekend.  Woul...

March 27, 2023

So long, Baltimore Colts

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I went to school and started my banking career in Baltimore.  The crabs were great, and the city loved its sports teams.  Good seafood, a passion for sports, and I was right at home. Toda...

March 26, 2023

More border-crossers found dead on 'humanitarian' Biden's watch

During the campaign, we often heard that the Biden approach was going to be more humanitarian.  That was then, and this is now, or another story about people found in a truck or train.  This is the story: Two undocu...

March 25, 2023

AMLO takes on the US State Department

This week, Secretary Antony Blinken went before the Congress and answered a question about Mexico. It went like this: Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Wednesday that he believed parts of Mexico are controlled by the drug cartel...

March 24, 2023

An adult in charge of a college in Texas

For some time, I've asked the question: where are the adults in college administration?  Why are brats running our universities?  Canceling speakers they disagree with?  Graduating with meaningless degrees that won...

March 23, 2023

Irreconcilable differences but no divorce?

As a colleague once told me about a friend's divorce, the marriage reached a point where it could not be saved and the couple could no longer live in peace together. They call it "irreconcilable differences" and it was obvious...

March 22, 2023

AMLO: Friend or foe?

We just learned that Mexico is going to bring in more Cuban doctors.  So is Mexico facing a doctor shortage, or does Cuba need more dollars by renting its medical personnel?  This is the AP story: The system also will seek...

March 21, 2023

Cheering for Team USA against Cuba

Team USA beat Cuba rather easily to move to the WBC Title game.  It was over when the Cuban team could not score with the bases loaded.  They got a run on a walk, but nothing more. Once upon a time, communist Cuba dominate...

March 20, 2023

Glad we did not give Saddam the benefit of the doubt

To paraphrase that famous tune about the sergeant who taught the band to play, it was really 20 years ago that President George W. Bush sent the troops to Iraq.  We salute the thousands who served with honor and the...

March 19, 2023

Will Trump make it to Waco?

Former president Trump has a big week coming.  As I understand, he is going to be arrested and indicted on Tuesday: Former President Donald Trump said leaks indicate that he will be arrested on Tuesday next week after reports said...

March 18, 2023

The press has itself to blame

A funny thing happened at the daily White House press briefing.  Here is the story: Frustration over the top among the White House press. They say President Biden has a long pattern of refusing to answer their questions. I mean...

March 16, 2023

Will AMLO tell Mexicans to stay home and not vote in 2024?

Last week, President Andrés López-Obrador was a bit irate, or "molesto," as they say in Mexico.  He reacted to Senator Lindsey Graham's call to name the cartels as terrorist organizations.  AM...

March 15, 2023

Let's hear it for the Vermont girls

The world is going crazy, especially our President Biden telling another one of those stories from his youth: In a preview of the White House interview released Monday morning, guest host Penn — who is engaged [sic] to his longtime bo...

March 14, 2023

Where will the next Shohei Ohtani come from?

As you probably know, Shohei Ohtani is an amazing baseball player from Japan.  The good news is that he can throw strikes and hit long home runs.  The bad news is that the next Ohtani may never be born. ...

March 13, 2023

Mexico really needs those 'spring break' dollars

The big fear in Mexico is that American will stay away, or this is what a good friend told me.  Tourism is a big deal south of the border, and Americans are the ones those resorts and hotels were built for.  It's worth $2...

March 12, 2023

Mexican president speaks, and it's pretty 'estúpido'

We've all heard about the four Americans who ran into a cartel at the U.S.-Mexico border. It was two dead in Matamoros.  Shortly after, Senator Graham said we should "designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organiz...

March 11, 2023

How long can a credit card sustain you in Biden's economy?

We get a lot of economic news these days, from jobs to inflation news.  This is a rather scary report from CNBC: More consumers are leaning on credit cards to afford increasingly expensive necessities such as food and rent. Th...

March 9, 2023

International 'Men Dressed like Women' Day

Another International Woman's Day and another day to remember men?  The Biden White House did it again.  Let's look at the story:  First lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were s...

March 9, 2023

Houston, we have a problem

Down in Austin, Texas, education has dominated the legislative session.  First, there is a move for school choice.  Second, there is a move to have the state take over the Houston School District.  Third, to no one...

March 7, 2023

Trump said ‘yes’ so we have to say ‘no’

The latest episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome comes from CNN.   It turns out that they positioned their coverage of the "Lab Leak" to go against President Trump. This is the story:     In recent da...

March 6, 2023

Another president with a son problem

It turns out that President Biden is not the only president with a son in the news.  Down in Colombia, recently elected president Gustavo Petro is getting questions about his son, too.  This is the story: Colombia...

March 6, 2023

Hats off to Larry

Good morning — and go on with the pursuit of happiness, because former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is not running for president.  To paraphrase the late Del Shannon: "Hats off to Larry, he broke your heart / Just...

March 5, 2023

Don't go north, young man

We hear that the migrant crisis is costing New York City $5 million a day.  That's more than the Yankees and Mets are paying their rosters. We also hear that Canada is getting a little frustrated because the buses are now crossi...

March 4, 2023

Those car payments...

Are we going into a recession?  I don't know for sure, but late car payments may be a clue.  In other words, more and more Americans are falling behind on their car loan obligations.  This is from FOX Business: ...

March 3, 2023

The Cuban doctors in Mexico

Maybe you've heard that Mexico is importing Cuban doctors to fill some local needs.  But why is Mexico doing this?  The real reason is money or hard currency desperately needed by the Castro regime. In the last mo...

March 2, 2023

Lori out — but will anything change?

Back in our early days in the U.S., circa 1964–66, we lived in Wisconsin and traveled to Chicago to visit a Cuban store there.  It was a quick drive on I-94, and the sights of Lake Shore Drive and O'Hare Airport were spectacular....

March 1, 2023

We want Ovidio

Between marches and AMLO's elf, the U.S. wants El Chapo's son to go north.  This is from Reuters: The United States asked Mexico's government to extradite Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug boss Joaquin "El Ch...

February 28, 2023

Mexicans see a strongman, AMLO sees a Mayan elf

The day after the big march, Mexicans are divided as ever.  I spoke with a good friend by phone on Monday morning and said that the turnout was huge but that the Lopez-Obrador administration wants to change the subject.  To what?...

February 27, 2023

About that big march in Mexico

My wife and I spent much of our lunch today checking videos and messages from friends in Mexico City.  Many people marched south of the border rejecting President López-Obrador's changes to the electoral process.  ...

February 26, 2023

Another bad day for the Inflation Reduction Act

We are not sure about Senator Manchin's 2024 U.S. Senate plans. We did hear that Senator Tester of Montana is running for re-election.  In fact, Senator Tester said that he is running because "Montanans need a fighter holding Washi...

February 25, 2023

Joy knows derailments

Trump Derangement Syndrome affects people in different ways.  Sometimes it drives a news network so far into the anti-Trump corner that it loses its viewers — say, CNN.  Often it is reflected in the lunatic th...

February 24, 2023

When Andrea met Ron

They say that Governor Ron DeSantis is President Trump with more charm.  I guess so.  Let's check out this encounter between Andrea Mitchell and the governor's legislation.  A few days ago, Miss Mitchell was inte...

February 23, 2023

'Dólares' from here to there

Imagine if Mexicans in the U.S. chose to stop sending money to their families south of the border.  It would upset the families, to be sure, and rock the Mexican economy. "Remesas" or remittances to Mexico are now $50 billion...

February 22, 2023

AMLO stands by his lefties

Down in Mexico, President Andrés López-Obrador, who literally thinks he is the leader of the Third World, is engaged in a fight with the nation of Peru.  You may remember that AMLO, as they call him, did not accept the ch...

February 21, 2023

Another reason for school choice

The Texas Legislature is debating school choice.  The arguments are not new.  The GOP wants to give parents choice, and the Democrats say that it would destroy public schools. School choice is gaining because the publ...

February 20, 2023

Don didn't warn us about Kamala being past her prime

As far as I'm concerned, Don Lemon is just a part of CNN's problems.  They have others named Tapper, Wallace, Blitzer, et al.  The entire network needs a massive makeover if it wants to be considered a serious news organiz...

February 19, 2023

The buck stops...with the previous guy

It has happened before.  In other words, the current president will blame his predecessor for this or that.  However, I don't remember someone doing it in his third year or to this degree. The Biden administration...

February 18, 2023

We will miss Tim McCarver

We just learned that Tim McCarver passed away.  He was 82. Back in 2014, I asked myself what post-season baseball would be like after Tim McCarver retired from the booth.  He left after a long and successful career as...

February 17, 2023

Looking for a Cabinet member named Pete

Who knew that President Biden would have a problem with his secretary of transportation?  I cannot even remember who had this job before.  I think Elizabeth Dole had the position, but I may be wrong.  I...

February 16, 2023

Looking for a new car?

Call it inflation, or supply chain issues, or the way it is, but buying a car these days is like looking for a new home.  Check out this report at Fortune: The average monthly payment for a new car has soared to a r...

February 15, 2023

Maybe the Martians are listening to Secretary Mayorkas

Four balloons and four million ideas about the origins of whatever is flying over North America.  This is the story: Maybe they came from China. Maybe from somewhere farther away. A lot farther away. The downing of four aerial ...

February 14, 2023

López-Obrador celebrates the Cuban leader

Officially, Miguel Díaz-Canel is the president of Cuba.  Sorry, but I can't call a man elected in a communist election "el presidente."  He is a fraud and more like a dictator.  Nevertheless, he...

February 13, 2023

Hey school superintendent — do you know where your kids are?

I just watched Arizona "governor" Katie Hobbs explain her position on school choice in the context of her parents choosing to send her to a Catholic school.  She basically said that it was her parents' decision, but she k...

February 12, 2023

I have watched every Super Bowl, ever

Am I showing my age?  I remember every Super Bowl, from the Packers to whoever won the last one.  Of course, it was not called the Super Bowl back then.  It was the NFL-AFL Championship game when Green Bay beat K...

February 11, 2023

Is Kamala the next balloon to be shot down?

We've been talking a lot about shooting down balloons.  Last week, it was the Chinese balloon that flew over the country.  What's the next balloon to be shot down?  Could it be one named Kamala, as my friend Bill Katz...

February 10, 2023

Bad show, bad ratings

Back in the old days, presidents sent their State of the Union messages in writing to Congress.  So most Americans did not read or reject it.  Maybe a member of Congress said something to the newspapers, but don't bet on it. ...

February 9, 2023

If you lie, they will scream

Don't you wish we could go back to writing the president's State of the Union message?  Write it up, have the president sign it, and mail it in to the Congress, et al. I felt that way after watching a rerun of the speech. ...

February 8, 2023

No 'yeah yeah yeah' in Cuba

Much has changed in 59 years.  Perhaps the biggest change is that we had one TV in the living room back then.  This is probably why the Sullivan show was so popular: because it had something for everybody.  Har...

February 7, 2023

Make VOA great again

As a boy in Cuba, I'd sit next to my father and listen to "La Voz de America" or the Spanish version of The Voice of America.  My parents listened to President Kennedy's missile crisis speech and the Kennedy funeral o...

February 6, 2023

Beto: Those who can't, teach

We learned that Robert F. O'Rourke, or Beto with the RFK hairdo, is going to teach at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.  They've hired him as a fellow.  I hope Beto's supporters don't rega...

February 5, 2023

What an amazing player!

We remember Hank Aaron who was born on this day in 1934 and died January 2021.  Sadly, 2021 was the year that the commissioner went woke and moved the All Star Game from Atlanta to Denver.  What a horrible way to remembe...

February 4, 2023

Balloon with a view

The great H.L. Mencken once said, “Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery.” They sure do, especially when it's a Peking balloon flying over Montana.   China has an explanation, and here it goes:...

February 3, 2023

50 ways for experts to lose their expertise

You may remember that Paul Simon sang "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover."  When will The New York Times write an editorial called "50 ways for experts to lose their expertise"? It turns out that everyone was lyin...

February 2, 2023

There is something wrong with people who celebrate this...

What's the celebration all about in Minnesota?  Did the Vikings win?  Twins add a shortstop?  The Wild on the road to the Stanley Cup?  The answer is not about sports or a drop in crime rates in Minnea...

February 1, 2023

It's now or never on the debt limit

In Washington, the fight over the debt limit tops the list of bipartisan messes.  So let's blame both sides and finally get to work. According to news reports, there are 24 GOP senators who want to do something.  This is...

January 31, 2023

Maybe they talk too much about race and more race

Maybe it’s a coincidence, but I found this interesting. Over at CNN, they couldn’t pass an opportunity to bring racism into the Tyre Nichols’ video. Check out Van Jones: CNN commentator Van Jones attempted to make the case t...

January 31, 2023

What's going on at the northern border?

Let me paraphrase Marvin Gaye and ask, what's going on?  Yes, what's going on at the U.S.-Canadian border?  Let's check the story: Border Patrol agents in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire apprehended more ...

January 30, 2023

A dangerous place to do business

Mexico is a dangerous place to live, with 78 murders a day — about three killings an hour.  It does not get any better for journalists.  Let's take a look at this report via Pulse News Mexico: Accordi...

January 28, 2023

A terrible day, but the right man was in the Oval Office

We think of President Reagan as "the great communicator."  Indeed, he communicated conservative ideas better than anyone.  Many of his speeches were memorable, from "the evil empire" to "tear down this wal...

January 27, 2023

No babies, no future

Maybe we need a "Davos" to talk about birth rates.  Let me suggest that you invite Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as the featured speaker.  He has a lot to say about the future, and it's not about climat...

January 25, 2023

Maybe it's time for Bill Gates to go fishing

A few years ago, I worked with a fellow who was very intense and took things a bit too seriously for his own health.  One day, his wife came in to join him for lunch, looked at her husband a bit frustrated on the phone with a customer, and ...

January 25, 2023

Going after Aretha now UPDATED

UPDATE: The Aretha Franklin tweet turns out to have been a hoax.  Here is our commentary on that fact. The latest from the "wokies" involves a song by the late Aretha Franklin.  Once upon a time, the Queen o...

January 24, 2023

Maybe they need to exorcise the VP's home, too

According to some news reports, former speaker Nancy Pelosi had a priest visit her San Francisco home.  This is the story: Nancy Pelosi tried to excommunicate [sic] evil spirits from her San Francisco [mansion] after the viciou...

January 23, 2023

Santos should switch parties

From drag queen allegations to résumé enhancements to this or that, Representative George Santos has a little explaining to do.  According to news reports, the list keeps growing: Newly elected Rep. George Santo...

January 22, 2023

Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson

If you live in the Dallas-Ft Worth area, or the Metroplex, as we call it, you are constantly talking about LBJ.  It's LBJ to the airport or to Garland or now to I-30 thanks to all of the expansion.  Of course, this LBJ, o...

January 21, 2023

Nobody mentioned China at Davos

Another Davos meeting, and another year of alarmism and insane speeches.  The highlights of the insanity were the two men defeated by George W. Bush for president.  Let's check the story: John Kerry, former senator, ...

January 20, 2023

The left's golden girl wants to finally get married

According to news reports, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation, effective February 7.  This is a portion of her speech: The PM spoke directly to members of her family during the spee...

January 19, 2023

Maybe it's time to say a good word about Fulgencio Batista

A lot of things happened in January in Cuban history.  José Martí, the leader of independence against Spain, was born in January 28, 1853.  In 1959, the so-called "revolution" happened.  The U.S. ...

January 18, 2023

In Afghanistan, the ladies go online

Maybe we will finally learn what led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Yes, I understand that U.S. voters were tired of "endless wars," but there is a way to end a war, and Afghanistan was not a good example. Our horrific depa...

January 17, 2023

What would my mother say?

My mother died 18 months ago.  She was your typical Cuban mother — i.e., she loved you unconditionally and switched to tough love if necessary.  I always remember her when I see a TV promo for a beauty pageant.  Back...

January 16, 2023

Remember when MLK spoke about character rather than race?

It's another MLK Day and another opportunity to remember the man and his legacy.  Am I the only one who thinks that no one in the modern Democrat party remembers a word he said?  Does anyone remember when he said this? ...

January 15, 2023

Many dead in Mexico

The summit is over, and it's time to take review of AMLO's "hugs not bullets" policy. The policy is failing big time.  This is the story: According to a report from Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense...

January 14, 2023

Maybe Kamala wants his Corvette

Who knew that we'd be talking about President Biden's Corvette and his troves of secret documents five months after the FBI visited President Trump's home?  Life does have a way of throwing you a curve ball from t...

January 13, 2023

Remember when 'el amigo Americano' voted for the fence?

During the "amigos summit" in Mexico City, amigo AMLO praised Amigo Joe.  This is the story: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday praised President Biden for being the first U.S. leader "in a ver...

January 12, 2023

They call it the 'three amigos' summit

Back in 1986, Hollywood gave us Three Amigos, a silly, often funny movie about three "gringos" mistaken for real heroes.  The story is how they try stop a "bandido" known as "El Guapo," or the handsom...

January 11, 2023

When is 'Chapito' going north?

Down in Mexico, they call them "Los Chapitos," or El Chapo's two sons active in the business.  As you know, one of "Los Chapitos" was arrested last week in one bloody operation: "Shootouts, burned-out cars,...

January 10, 2023

Can Biden '24 pull a Clinton '96?

Do you remember "the era of big government is over"?  It was President Clinton turning to the center and letting everyone know that he'd be running as a centrist in 1996.  Well, it worked, and we got four more years ...

January 9, 2023

As Victoria's Secret goes...

As Victoria's Secret goes woke, so goes the bad fortune of its shareholders.  This is the story: Victoria's Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk announced that she will be leaving the lingerie giant after a brief stint at the company...

January 8, 2023

When will they cancel Elvis?

Elvis Aaron Presley was born on this day in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi.  I won't bore you with his biography because you probably know that he went on to sell millions of records, and apparently the cash registers are still g...

January 7, 2023

They shot a plane on the runway

President Biden and the Secret Service must be happy that he is landing in Mexico City rather than Culiacán on the Pacific coast.  It has gotten very complicated in Culiacán in the last few days.  This is t...

January 6, 2023

Which airport, Señor Presidente?

President Biden is flying to Mexico City this week.  Normally, foreign dignitaries land at the large airport in the middle of Mexico City. I've landed there many, many times.  It's a mess because of traffic, but that...

January 5, 2023

I guess the Lord must be in New York City

We woke up to the news that the governor of Colorado is sending the migrants to the Big Apple. Forgive me, but I had to remember "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" by the one and only Harry Nilsson.  My bro...

January 4, 2023

Michael Goodwin is right about the media

It's beginning to look like a new year because the pages are full of predictions.  I do like one prediction from Michael Goodwin about the future of the media.  Take a look: The decline in credibility has been ast...

January 3, 2023

As good as a movie

It sounds like a movie promo, but it is real.  The scene is a prison in Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso.  Check this out: Dozens of inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico after gunmen, suspected ...

January 1, 2023

The sudden death of Roberto Clemente

It was 50 years ago today, but I recall it quite well.  I welcomed 1973 with my parents.  My mother had made some amazing Cuban food, my father had some new Cuban music L.P.s, and it was a blast.  We watched the famous b...

December 31, 2022

Nobody likes Secretary Pete Buttigieg these days

As I understand, the mission of the Department of Transportation is "to deliver the world's leading transportation system, serving the American people and economy through the safe, efficient, sustainable, and equitable movemen...

December 30, 2022

'Go woke go broke' is in the air

Maybe "go woke go broke" is something that the wokes should take a look at.  How many more in-your-face messages do you need? Last week, I read that 2022 was "an annus horribilis" for the people who make mov...

December 29, 2022

From work from home to collect at home

My late father had a very strong work ethic.  He came here with a wife and three kids and worked two jobs to take care of us.  Eventually, he got back to banking, his profession in Cuba, but he worked carrying luggage at a hotel f...

December 28, 2022

It's going to be an active legislative session in Texas

It's the last week of 2022, and Texas legislators are already proposing ideas.  The latest comes from GOP Texas House representative Carl Tepper: Texas Republican Representative Carl Tepper has introduced a bill that seek...

December 27, 2022

Looking for the economic 'goal'

Down in Argentina, the World Cup parties go on and on.  They can't get enough of Andrés Cantor screaming, "Argentina, campeón del mundo," or world champion.  To be honest, Argentina won on pen...

December 26, 2022

El Paso used to be so beautiful at Christmas

Not long ago, a business trip to El Paso and Juárez on the other side was a lot of fun.  First, the people are great.  Second, the restaurants offered a variety of food, and December gave you a taste of Christmas decoration...

December 25, 2022

Merry Christmas from 30 million Texans

You don't need a newspaper story to confirm that Texas is growing.  Just look around and see the growth, the new homes and office buildings.  Nevertheless, we did learn this week that there are 30 millions of us in Texas. ...

December 24, 2022

Silent Cal did it 99 years ago

We remember President Calvin Coolidge for a few things.  He was born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872 — the only president with that unique and patriotic distinction.  Coolidge rose to the office of Massachusetts govern...

December 23, 2022

A great time to be a .279 hitter

Have you seen the sports headlines lately?  Money is flying fast from teams to players.  I don't want to hear owners in the next union contract negotiations complaining about the cost of doing business. It's obviously the owners dri...

December 22, 2022

No Feliz Navidad card from Peru to Mexico

Don't look now, but a couple of our Latin American neighbors are not very happy with each other.  As you may remember, President Pedro Castillo of Peru was impeached and replaced by Vice President Dina Boluarte.  Apparent...

December 20, 2022

A note from Mexico

Down in Mexico City, a major television news anchor survived an attack by a couple of guys on motorcycles. This is the story: One of Mexico's most prominent news anchors has survived an apparent assassination attempt near his ho...

December 16, 2022

So stealing hurts businesses?

We learn something obvious every day.  If you don't lock up people who steal from stores, then the businesses will close or lose money.  Well, more big city governments are learning the lesson the hard way. ...

December 15, 2022

It's about saving kids' lives

The Keller Independent School District, in the western side of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area, has decided to allow some teachers and school employees to carry a gun.  This is the story: A North Texas school district has decided ...

December 14, 2022

The famous syndrome hit Twitter bad

Remember Trump Derangement Syndrome?  It's still alive and well.  Some people need it the way some people use nicotine or other addictions.  After reading some of the batches about Twitter dumping the former presiden...

December 13, 2022

Peru to Mexico: None of your business

As you may remember, Peru has a new president.  A few days ago, President Pedro Castillo was impeached and arrested, and V.P. Dina Boluarte moved up to the presidency.  It was orderly but dramatic. Up in Mex...

December 12, 2022

I don't love New York

Not long ago, there was a clever advertising campaign about New York.  It featured a great song: "I Love New York."  Of course, there was Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York" about the city that...

December 11, 2022

Loyal to Democrats or West Virginia?

Senator Manchin is getting a lot of advice these days about switching parties, especially on the heels of Senator Sinema going "indy."  According to news reports, Mr. Manchin is going nowhere: "Joe Manchin will swit...

December 10, 2022

Twitter and Brazil, too?

Did Twitter get involved in another election?  Maybe yes, according to Mr. Musk.  This is the story: Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media...

December 9, 2022

Today's headline comes from Argentina

It's been a crazy week in South America.  In Peru, a president was arrested and removed from office.  The U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru is advising Americans to avoid crowds and demonstrations and co...

December 8, 2022

Down in Lima is where the action is

For several weeks, President Pedro Castillo of Peru has been at war with the Legislature, and they finally had enough of the leftist's ways.  So they took action today: Peru's Congress voted to oust President Pedro Castill...

December 7, 2022

Too busy to go to the border?

Yes, he is too busy to go to the border.  President Biden, who keeps a very light agenda during the week, has more important things to do. This is the story: President Biden said Tuesday he won't visit the US-Mexico border ...

December 6, 2022

Wait 'til the next...Cup

For years, baseball fans would compensate for another bad season by looking forward to the next season.  Brooklyn Dodgers fan Doris Kearns Goodwin even wrote a book about it: Wait Till Next Year. Well, it's wait 't...

December 5, 2022

No 'Feliz Navidad' for many in Mexico

It was not easy to read this report.  After all, the victims in this story are children.  This is from Jessica Guerrero over at Pulse News Mexico: The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since ...

December 4, 2022

Senate elections are way too national anymore

In a few days, we will know whether the Democrats have a 51-49 majority or we are back to 50-50.  In the meantime, we read about the costly campaign in Georgia.  So much money, or so they say: Democratic Sen. Raphael War...

December 3, 2022

Gaylord Perry and complete games

The legendary Gaylord Perry died this week at age 84.  Along with his brother Jim, also a successful major league pitcher, he was raised in North Carolina back when boys used to work at the farm rather than play video games.  This is f...

December 2, 2022

Janet, this is annoying!

All due respect to Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, but your inflation quotes are getting annoying.  Please stop it, Madame Secretary, because this is not good for your reputation or parents budgeting for Christmas. We rec...

December 1, 2022

November ends with a bad jobs report

November started with talk of a red wave, turned into the GOP winning the House by a small majority, and closes with a bad jobs report:  Private hiring slowed sharply during November in a sign that the historically tight labor market c...

November 30, 2022

Voters want more drilling

As we try to understand the Biden administration's policy about Venezuela, we hear that voters want more oil here, not down there.  This is from the I&I/TIPP Poll: With the holiday season upon us, the gift-giving and ...

November 29, 2022

How many more stores will shut down in Portland?

The latest victim of "woke leadership" is a clothing store in Portland.  Here is the sad story: A Portland, Oregon, clothing shop permanently shut down this month after facing a string of break-ins that has left the store fin...

November 28, 2022

Drill, baby, drill — but in Venezuela

The Biden administration wants more oil drilling.  Unfortunately, it's in Venezuela, not here.  Here is the story in case you missed it among turkey, the NFL, and the World Cup.  Here it goes: The Biden adm...

November 27, 2022

Give me Zeldin

For us Republicans, 2022 did not see the big wave forecast, but did bring us a small House majority and a 50-50 Senate is still possible.  So cheer up and get ready for the next one.   The Democrats won't have aborti...

November 26, 2022

Maybe Kemp can open a hole for Walker

If you remember Jerry Kramer and Lombardi's Packers then you remember how he opened a few holes that became touchdowns.  His most famous one was the Ice Bowl, when Green Bay beat Dallas and moved to Super Bowl II: Kramer...

November 25, 2022

When parents fight, woke dies

As we count votes in California and wherever, one thing about the 2022 election was certain: the parents showed up to vote.  This is from Paul Zimmerman:    In fact, data suggest that victorious Republican candidates received...

November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving: ‘La Pelosi’ is gone from leadership

They call it "the end of an era" over at CNN:   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will relinquish her leadership post after leading House Democrats for two decades, building a legacy as one of th...

November 23, 2022

Democrats and the border

Is reality finally sinking in?  Over the last couple of days, I saw two stories about the border and Democrats. First, The Dallas Morning News is pointing that the border crisis is real and urges Texas Democrats to do something...

November 22, 2022

Dems doing one more DACA

The DREAM Act failed in 2010 in the lame duck session following the GOP victories.  The Democrats had 59 senators at the time, but it did not pass because these senators said no: Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Pryor of Arkansas...

November 21, 2022

The scary part is that the students fell for it

Some time ago, President Biden announced an executive order aimed at helping students with college debt, promising $10,000 in debt relief from federal student loans for most and $20,000 in debt relief from the poorest recipients who qualifi...

November 20, 2022

The Catholic Church in Cuba

Like many of you, I will go to Mass today and take communion.  It's easy and simple here but not so easy and simple in Cuba. Down on the island, the church relies on flour donations to serve Communion.  It's shocking bu...

November 19, 2022

Kids can't read or write but...

Who knew that a couple of billionaires would fund indoctrination in our schools?  I would not object if our kids were being taught about capitalism and how a couple of guys like Gates and Zuckerberg became super wealthy in our free market system...

November 18, 2022

A warning from a Cuban human rights leader

Cuba is collapsing, according to Dr. Oscar Biscet, a brave human rights leader in the island.  Dr. Biscet speaks his mind and has been arrested because of it. He got into trouble with the Castro regime for exposing late-term ...

November 17, 2022

Donald Trump is not Jimmy Carter

Back in 1975, a man from Georgia decided to run for president.  In fact, I remember watching him on a morning local show on Channel 5 in Washington, D.C.  Nobody knew him.  He seemed like a long shot. Jimmy Carter...

November 16, 2022

She said, trans said

As my late mother used to say:  "El mundo esta mas loco todos los dias".   It loosely translates to the world gets crazier everyday. Check this out from National Review: Trans activists disrupted a protest t...

November 16, 2022

Asking Henry to join us

Down in South Texas, there is a Democrat who votes a lot like a Republican.  I'm talking about Henry Cuellar, who was just re-elected in District 28.  Therefore, it makes a lot of sense for future speaker McCarthy to...

November 15, 2022

What happens now on abortion?

Apparently, the abortion issue got many women to vote in 2022.  So what happens now?  Well, the "Dobbs protest" got women to show up, and it probably stopped some of the red wave in blue states.  Did it do anyt...

November 14, 2022

What can the GOP learn from Texas?

It was a great day for the GOP in Texas. This is from Texas Tribune: Texas Republicans maintained their nearly three-decade grip on state government on Tuesday, comfortably fending off a vigorous run to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott and dashing Democr...

November 13, 2022

Trump would be wise to wait

Timing is everything.  Just ask candidate Trump in 2016.  Timing today calls on him to wait and let some of the dust settle.  This is not a good time for him to declare his candidacy, as Lt. Governor Winsome Sears o...

November 12, 2022

It wasn't about abortion

By Thanksgiving we'll have a GOP House majority.  By mid-December, we may have a GOP 51-49 Senate majority or another 50-50 situation.  Not a bad wave if it turns out that way.      How much of a role did abortion play...

November 11, 2022

More Yankee fans will watch baseball in Tampa

Incredibly, New Yorkers did not fire the management team running their state. I guess that they want more of the mess from high taxes, crime and people moving to Florida. I hope that every New Yorker checks out Michael Goodwin: It’s now 20...

November 10, 2022

Red wave hits Texas

We were expecting an old fashioned wave or a coast to coast effort. Maybe those days are gone and we are now in the era of regional waves, such as we saw in Ohio, Florida, and Texas.   Around 8 p.m. central time, a big red...

November 9, 2022

We like Mr. Jones today

His Dallas Cowboys have not won the Super Bowl since 1996, or the first Clinton term.  So it's been too long for Cowboys fans yearning for another big game in February.  Nevertheless, Mr. Jones scored a few political T...

November 8, 2022

Bye-bye Beto, Beto goodbye

Who knew that I'd remember Frankie Valli on Election Day?  Frankie and the guys did record "Bye Bye Baby," and it's time turn up the volume and say "Bye-bye, Beto, Beto, goodbye." Texas will call str...

November 7, 2022

Violencia south of the border

Down Mexico way, violence is out of control.  It's what everyone talks about when you speak with friends south of the border.  This is from Kelin Dillon and Pulse News Mexico: Only weeks after hactivist gro...

November 6, 2022

Early voting down around here in Texas

I voted last Monday in Texas, and was surprised by how quickly the lines moved.   No long lines like in 2018 or 2020.  Then I read that the numbers are down:       Early voting totals will not come clos...

November 5, 2022

NPR goes sick

Recently, a friend told me about NPR broadcasting an abortion.  I thought that it was a joke or something from the Babylon Bee.  After all, who could be sick enough to broadcast or listen to an abortion?  Well, the ...

November 4, 2022

The 'unity man' throws one at our heads again

There you go again, to borrow that line from candidate Reagan in the 1980 debate.  There goes President Biden again, talking about a threat to democracy and the upcoming elections.  This is from Reuters: President Joe Biden s...

November 3, 2022

Bolsonaro wise to move on

As in Chile and Colombia recently, the left in Brazil won a close election.  Best of all, President Bolsonaro is ready to concede and move on.  This is from The Guardian: Jair Bolsonaro has reportedly thrown in the ...

November 2, 2022

And the answer is not blowing in the wind

My friend in New England has a lot of free time in October because his Red Sox are out of the post season.  So he sent me this newspaper report. It's November in Massachusetts and time to get an update about our future and green...

November 1, 2022

The electoral wave or the asteroid?

According to people who know a lot more than I do, a massive asteroid is going to be close to us next week:    A "potentially hazardous" asteroid, almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper, will pass Earth ne...

October 31, 2022

Lula won, but now what?

The results from Brazil show a deeply divided nation.  The map was reminiscent of that Bush-Kerry map from 2004 where one region voted one way and the other the other way.  This is from NPR: In just three ...

October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween, and don't forget to vote

Halloween was totally new when our family came to the U.S.  The idea of kids wearing masks and asking for candy was totally new to us.  I mean totally new.  I don't remember watching a Disney cartoon about it, and we...

October 29, 2022

Don't mess with the kids

The parents are mad at public education.  They don't like that their kids were at home during the pandemic but their Catholic or private school neighbors were going to school without any delays.  They are a...

October 28, 2022

A strange World Series

Fifty years ago, a frail Jackie Robinson spoke before a 1972 World Series game.  It was the 25th anniversary of his debut with the Dodgers in 1947.  Jackie looked at the players lined up before the game and saw some of M...

October 27, 2022

How many early voters want their votes back?

On Tuesday night, we finally saw Lt. Governor John Fetterman debate GOP candidate Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.  It was painful to watch.  By the end, I felt sorry for Fetterman and was angry at his family for allowing this to happen...

October 26, 2022

If the red tsunami can make it in New York, it can make it anywhere

Once in a while, people wake up and say no more.  My guess is that this why New York's governor race is suddenly closer than close.  According to the RCP average, this contest is 49-43%, or 6 points.  I don'...

October 25, 2022

The voters throw CBS a curve

By chance, I was looking for the Cowboys pre-game show and ended up at Face the Nation.  What I saw was rather interesting and a good sign about the upcoming midterms.  This is from Fox News:   A "Face the...

October 24, 2022

Abbott settling in the 50s

Back in the GOP primary, about 33% of GOP voters did not vote for Governor Greg Abbott.   They voted against him over pandemic mandates or anger over the border.  It appears that those GOP voters are coming home.  In rec...

October 23, 2022

Sorry, but why are we asking college students about their next college president?

Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska will be going from the U.S. Senate to the University of Florida.  We wish him well However, some students don't want him, as we see in this report: Less than a week after being revealed ...

October 22, 2022

‘England swings like a pendulum do’

2022 has seen a little history over at the old country.  We saw The Queen's funeral on color TV and I-Phones.  We will see another first:  3 prime ministers in one year. PM Truss is now former PM Truss. Former PM Johnson ma...

October 20, 2022

Abortion not an issue in Texas?

This is bad news for Beto O’Rourke. He has tried to play the abortion card but it’s not making a difference in Texas. This is from The Texas Tribune: Polling shows that a majority of voters in Texas oppose the state’s near-tota...

October 20, 2022

Joe in Wonderland

Yesterday, President Biden said this: Biden vowed, if more Democrats are elected to Congress on November 8, he would push for legislation that will codify abortion rights into law.  'Congressional Republicans are doubling d...

October 18, 2022

‘No milk today’… the latest tantrum

Forgive me if I'm reminded of that oldie by Herman's Hermits:   No milk today, it seems a common sight But people passing by, don't know the reason why Well, it wasn't a huge hit but there are many people ...

October 18, 2022

Getting nasty in House District #34

Down on the border, two incumbents are running against each other in U.S. House District #34.  They are Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez and GOP Rep. Mayra Flores.  This is a new district, thanks to redistricting. The c...

October 17, 2022

Obama warns Dems on Trump

President Obama making sense?  Well, he is making a lot of sense about Democrats obsessed with President Trump.  Check this out: Former President Barack Obama is warning his Democrat colleagues to stop campaigning with a...

October 16, 2022

Castro? Chavez? Socialism? We already saw that movie...

My late parents were on the phone with some Venezuelan friends in the early days of Hugo Chávez.  After a long chat, my mother said, "We already saw that movie," and my father added, "And it ends poorly."...

October 15, 2022

What did Van Gogh do?

It was no "Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and gray" for Vincent Van Gogh in London.  Instead, Van Gogh got some soup: A pair of climate protesters hurled tomato soup on a Vincent Van Gogh painting at ...

October 14, 2022

Jake bombs with Joe

What else can you say about Jake Tapper and President Biden?  Nobody cares what they have to say.  Check out the ratings: The first night of Jake Tapper's stint as host of CNN Tonight, featuring an interview with Pre...

October 13, 2022

Texas Democrats blaming DC elites

According to Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic Party, the problem is in D.C., as in Washington, D.C. According to the Texas Tribune, this is what Hinojosa said about the national Democrats: 'I'm really, deeply...

October 12, 2022

'Changuito' is the canary in the coal mine

We've heard about the canary in the coal mine.  The bird usually drops dead from dangerous gases before they can kill the miners.  At the L.A. City Council, the canary is what we heard on those audio tapes.  The...

October 11, 2022

The party of diversity singing 'The Changuito Blues'

If you are trying to learn Spanish, you will learn that Latinos use different words to speak about monkeys.  For example, I called them "monos," but that's because I grew up in a Cuban home.  My Mexican friends call ...

October 10, 2022

The border czarina spoke about abortion in Austin

A few days ago, President Biden said that no one "f---- with a Biden." Well, maybe OPEC and V.P. Harris did not get the memo.  OPEC cut production and V.P. Harris came to Texas to talk about everything but the borde...

October 9, 2022

'They got him': The death of Che Guevara

By 1965, Che Guevara had faded from public life.  His disappearance created all kinds of speculation about Che's relationship with Fidel and Raúl Castro.  After all, some close to Castro in 1959 had been kille...

October 8, 2022

One heck of a sanctuary city

Back in 2017, we outlawed sanctuary cities in Texas.  Back then, the sanctuary city was providing space for people "without papers," as they like to call them.  Or they would not turn them over to ICE....

October 7, 2022

They love Beto in Hollywood and New York

According to the RCP average, Governor Greg Abbott is up by 8.6 points — 51.2% vs. 42.6%.  The governor has been between 50 and 53% in six of the last eight polls.  On the other hand, Beto O...

October 6, 2022

OPEC not sending Joe 'a whole lotta love'

We've learned that OPEC countries (remember those guys?) are cutting back production.  This is the story:    A group of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers on Wednesday agreed to impose deep output ...

October 5, 2022

Forget complete games this month

No matter what you think of baseball's new post-season format, you won't see many starting pitchers on the mound when the game is over.  Call it the "death of the complete game."  In other words, you won't se...

October 4, 2022

Wake me when the woke is over

My late father used to fall sleep watching TV, specially after eating one of my mom's Cuban meals.  So we'd be watching a game on a Sunday afternoon and he'd say:  "Wake me up when there is a runner on third" or h...

October 3, 2022

A Friday-night debate in Texas

Who has a Friday night political debate in Texas?  The answer is a governor who is up by 8 points and wants to get this debate thing over with, and very quickly!  I've lived in Texas since 1984, we had three son...

October 2, 2022

A bad day for Jim Crow

I'm sure you remember the story of Jim Crow II, or the voting law passed in Georgia.  This is the same one that got MLB commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. to move the 2021 All Star Game from Atlanta: Over the last week, ...

October 1, 2022

When I woke up this morning, you were on my mind

"One hit wonders" the We Five had a popular song on the radio in the 1960s called "You Were on My Mind":    "When I woke up this morning You were on my mind...And You were on my mind" Well, a ...

September 30, 2022

Not good news from Mexico

Down Mexico way, a Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of conversation and major concern. The original story is in Spanish but my friends at Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English.  It's bad news, to say the l...

September 29, 2022

Eric Adams, the abdicative mayor?

A few years ago, Frank Burke wrote a wonderful post here about President Obama's managerial style.  He wrote that the abdicative manager flees from responsibility, is always out to lunch or away from the office when a tough decisio...

September 28, 2022

When do we see President Biden wearing a sweater?

You think the price of everything is up?  Wait until the seasons change up north and your electricity bill shows up in the mailbox.  Talk about sticker shock.  Talk about people rediscovering their fireplaces to keep the...

September 27, 2022

I remember when they called that 'homophobic'

They say some strange things over at MSNBC.  In fact, I'm convinced that people compete over there to see who can be more crazy or bizarre. However, I'm not sure that you can top this one.  Here is the story:  ...

September 26, 2022

Why wouldn't crime and the economy be #1 with voters?

Why wouldn't crime and the economy be #1 with voters? According to a new poll, a lot of folks out there are really worried about crime and the economy.  This is the poll via Fox News: Crime has surpassed abortion among conc...

September 25, 2022

A bipartisan solution for birds

It's Sunday morning and you probably want to talk about something other than politics. As you probably know, many birds fly south for the winter.  We see them in the Texas skies every year.  I remember picking up my sons and waving a...

September 24, 2022

Joe and I must go to different Catholic churches

President Biden is treating us to another episode of the Twilight Zone.  It appears that Biden and I have been hearing different messages about abortion at mass. Here is the story:      President Biden is taking Sen...

September 23, 2022

Every Democrat should get the 'Mom and Dad' question

At the U.S. Air Force Academy, the "wokes" want our future officers to focus on words rather than military strategy.  Here is the story: A diversity and inclusion training by the United States Air Force Academy in Colora...

September 22, 2022

Don gets a history lesson

Our pal Don Lemon got a taste of reality, and he couldn't make lemonade out of it.  Lemon was trying to be "woke cute" but ran into a history lesson that more of our kids should be learning in school.  This is t...

September 21, 2022

It's getting a little interesting for Facebook and Twitter

In the span of a week, we've gotten some news that may change how we view social media companies. Over at The New York Post, Miranda Devine has a story about Facebook and the FBI.  This is the post: Facebook has been s...

September 20, 2022

The moppers are mopping overtime today

The good news is that Monday was Queen Elizabeth's day.  Yes, the wonderful lady from the U.K. was buried today, and Tuesday's headlines will be about the beautiful ceremony and whatever is going on between William and Harry. ...

September 19, 2022

Call China if you are serious about climate change

It's been a "Twilight Zone" of a political week, from James Taylor singing "Fire and Rain" to cheer the Inflation Reduction Act to our Beto O'Rourke in New York looking for money to the Democrats in full "Daydream Bel...

September 18, 2022

September 1967 and the last 'old school' pennant race

By September 1967, our family was settling in Wisconsin and figuring out that it got very cold in November.  As my late mother used to joke, the snow and the freezing temperatures didn't feel so cold on the movie screens of her little t...

September 17, 2022

McDonald's CEO yells help in Chicago

The latest chapter in the ongoing violence in Chicago comes from a CEO who can't find people to work in his restaurants.  Check this out: McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski has big concerns about surging crime in Chicago, wh...

September 16, 2022

For you blue

It did not get a lot of airplay, but George Harrison's "For You Blue" was the B-side of The Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road": Because you're sweet and lovely, girl, I love you Because you're sweet and lovel...

September 15, 2022

What a shock: Nobody watched the Emmys

The numbers are in and the folks running the Emmys have a CNN problem.  This is from Variety: The Nielsen data for the 2022 Emmys on NBC is in and its [sic] not looking good for TV's biggest night. The awards show was down ...

September 14, 2022

It's hard for Mr. and Mrs. America to feel good about the Biden economy

The new inflation report was released, and it's full of numbers: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

September 13, 2022

I remember the human rain delay

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a fellow named Mike Hargrove.  He hit .290 over 12 seasons and managed the Indians to a couple of World Series trips in 1995 and 1997.  But we remember him as "the human rain delay....

September 12, 2022

And then they wonder why parents are pulling their kids out

We see it all around us.  I meet more and more parents who are homeschooling or doing whatever it takes to take their kids out of public schools.  In California, for example, 250,000 have dropped out.  Well, one tho...

September 11, 2022

Remember the coach who flew 30 missions

The NFL season starts today, and many of us will be watching Tom Brady and the Bucs play the Cowboys on Sunday night.  I understand that they played a game on Thursday, but I can't get used to that yet.  Maybe I will eventuall...

September 10, 2022

Abbott's 'stunt' is working

To be honest, I did not think that sending migrants to New York City or Washington, D.C. would change anything.  Well, I was wrong and happy to admit it.  Governor Greg Abbott's decision has exposed the hypocrisy of sanct...

September 9, 2022

Beto stuck at 42

Another poll, and Beto is hanging around his favorite corner, or 42nd Street. The latest University of Houston poll has Governor Greg Abbott plus 7 over Mr. O'Rourke: 49-42.  A few days ago, The Dallas Morning News had the ...

September 8, 2022

Pennsylvania, we have a problem

In the interest of full disclosure, I would have supported David McCormick rather than Dr. Mehmet Oz.  He just seemed more prepared for the job.  Nevertheless, Dr. Oz won, and he is running against Lt. Gov. Joh...

September 7, 2022

There are just two kinds of speeches in the world

Over the weekend, I heard that song by Little Anthony & the Imperials: "Two kinds of people in the world."  The words are a bit unsettling for the woke among us who don't know the difference between boys and girls. ...

September 6, 2022

A celebratory moment: Driving home and hearing about Chile

Sunday evening and it was pouring rain in Central Texas, but the news on the radio was a joy.  Down in Chile, the people rejected a leftist constitution: Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter impos...

September 1, 2022

Gibson's Bakery 1, Oberlin 0

Here is some good news.  We've been talking about woke colleges out of control.  It's nice to see the good guys win one and get some money to celebrate their victory.  Here is the story: The Ohio Supreme Court has rej...

August 31, 2022

Joe, you have some 'splaining to do

It's one of TV's greatest lines: Ricky Ricardo looks at Lucy and says, "Lucy, 'splain."  According to "Ricardo experts," he never said, "Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do!" ...

August 30, 2022

Archie used to call him 'the meathead' for a reason

Years ago, All in the Family was the talk of town.  The characters were great, and in particular a fellow named "Michael 'Meathead' Stivic," played by Rob Reiner.  He was Archie's son-in-law and the liberal i...

August 29, 2022

Militias down Mexico way

Mexico is rather violent these days, from torching vehicles to killing journalists.  So is anyone surprised that local groups would arm to protect their farms and families? Let's check this story from Jessica Guerrero and "Puebl...

August 28, 2022

Race before it went woke

  On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. touched a nerve with the following words:   "I have a dream....that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color o...

August 27, 2022

Business owners unite

Why did it take so long for this movement to happen?  I recall hearing about some Baltimore business owners writing a letter to the mayor and demanding law and order.  I have good news from the Bay Area: The Ca...

August 26, 2022

Fifteen in Mexico

We wrote a few days ago about homicides in Mexico.  Let me bring you another side of the story via my friends at Pulse Mexico: Reporter and columnist Fredid Román Román was gunned down as he left his home in Chi...

August 25, 2022

Remember the talk of a recession?

A few weeks ago, the White House et al. assured us that two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth was the old-school way of measuring the economy.  No recession, they assured us.  Trust us because we know and you d...

August 24, 2022

The 'Mrs. Russia' pageant has a new twist

Over here, we have the "Mrs. America" pageant.  According to the group: "Mrs. America" features the most accomplished married women of America. Each year, 51 delegates (all U.S. states plus the District of Columbia)...

August 23, 2022

Señor AMLO, it's time to turn, turn, turn...

Down in Mexico, the word is homicides.  Unfortunately, there are too many of them.  This is from Alfredo Corchado: As of Thursday, 128,923 homicides had been registered under [President Andrés Manuel] L...

August 22, 2022

Finland's PM gone wild

Once upon a time, a Finnish prime minister dancing at a party would have been a local story and not much more.  That was then, and this is now.  Finland wants to be a NATO member, and they've complained about Russian aircraft...

August 21, 2022

Thinking of Brittney 2022 ... and Prague 1968

  We learned that Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal camp for drug-smuggling.  It's a serious charge, but there is no question that Brittney is getting a lesson in Russian justice.  ...

August 20, 2022

Killing the FBI?

We grew up watching Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. and The FBI on TV. I understand that it was a TV show, but where is Efrem when we really need him?  I remember walking around Washington, D.C. on the day J. Edgar Hoover died...

August 19, 2022

Remember when Liz's dad was the most dangerous man in the world?

Liz Cheney lost her re-election bid, and everybody expected that.  Now she moves on to stop Donald Trump, the dangerous man, from getting near the Oval Office in 2024. Cheney beat herself in 2022.  She did it by alignin...

August 18, 2022

But he is not a girl...

Common sense prevailed in Alabama.  A man pretending to be a woman was rejected by a sorority because a man is not a woman.  Here is the story: A transgender woman [sic] was rejected by all University of Alabama sororiti...

August 17, 2022

The incredible shrinking Merrick Garland

Maybe Attorney General Merrick Garland is the modern Inspector Javert, the French policeman who chased poor Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's classic novel, Les Misérables.  I don't know if that's a fair comparison, but ...

August 16, 2022

Who knew that they'd go back to their old ways?

It took one year, and the new Afghanistan looks a lot like the bad old days in Afghanistan.  This is from the BBC via Yahoo: In the year since the Taliban returned to power, they have issued various orders restricting the freedom ...

August 15, 2022

Tijuana Taxi ... the deadly 2022 version

"Tijuana Taxi" was one of my favorite tunes by The Tijuana Brass, or "Los Tijuanas" as my late mother called them.  Nobody is taking a taxi down in Tijuana these days.  In fact, they are setting them on fire, as we ...

August 14, 2022

Long live Mickey Mantle!

We remember that Mickey Mantle died in Dallas this week in 1995. The Mick, as many called him, was the most famous Yankee in those Charlie Stengel teams that dominated baseball from 1949 to '64.  They won the A.L. pennant 14 tim...

August 13, 2022

Beto did not say 'birthing person, F you'

The Beto O'Rourke campaign ran into a heckler when he brought up the topic of AR-15's:   Beto O'Rourke confronted a heckler Wednesday at a campaign event who laughed while he was talking about the Uvalde school shootin...

August 12, 2022

I remember when they called it segregation

Another day, another story about a college out of control.  Check this one about U.C. San Diego: Families of white students have been prohibited from participating in numerous college welcome programs at the University of Cal...

August 11, 2022

From 'Remain in Mexico' to 'Remain wherever'

The Biden administration has finally pulled the plug on "Remain in Mexico": The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U...

August 10, 2022

Strange time to order a raid

According to some pundits, President Biden concluded a great week, from a jobs report to lower gas prices and some new legislation.  They were also proclaiming that the red wave may be smaller than expected. So what do you do i...

August 9, 2022

Short honeymoon for the Latin American left

Am I happy that Latin America elected leftists? Of course not, but it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Down in Chile, leftist President Gabriel Boric is struggling in the polls.  He is learning that changing a constitution i...

August 8, 2022

The Rev needs to read the 10th Amendment, not the Bible

Over the last few weeks, I've seen some articles about the Bible and abortion.  One of these articles even said something about how the Bible does not mention abortion. It may be true that the Bible does not mention the wor...

August 7, 2022

The Beatles as movie stars?

It was August 1964, and our family was waiting in Jamaica for our "papers" to fly to the U.S.  Over in downtown Kingston, I saw a big sign about a new movie by The Beatles.  My father did not know who the group was, and ...

August 6, 2022

Maybe they'll rename it China News Network

According to news reports, CNN is undergoing a ratings crisis and some profit concerns.  This is the story: On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that CNN's yearly profitability is expected to decline to $956.8 according to ...

August 5, 2022

The View is unviewable

A few weeks ago, we discussed the television talk show The View in our "Sunday after Mass" informal political roundtable.  It's a bunch of friends who go out to lunch after church and engage in a variety of topics. Of cours...

August 4, 2022

Memories of Vince Scully

We learned that Vince Scully passed away.  He was 94 and retired from the microphone a few years ago.  I remember a college professor who told me that the Dodgers had changed coasts, the letter on their cap from B to LA, and added...

August 3, 2022

No sugar in Cuba?

Years ago, my mother got a letter from her sister in Cuba complaining about the lack of food, and specially seafood.  So my mother said to her Cuban friend, "Can you believe that? No fish in Cuba." And her friend said, ...

August 2, 2022

Who knew we'd be talking about the misery index again?

As I recall, it was then-governor Jimmy Carter who used the misery index against President Gerald Ford in 1976.  It was inflation plus unemployment equals the misery index. It was thrown back at President Carter in 1980 and had...

August 1, 2022

The 'assault weapons' ban not flying in South Texas

They took a vote in the House this week, and two South Texas Democrats in tough campaigns decided to vote no.  This is the story from the Texas Tribune:  The U.S. House approved the Assault Weapons Ban on Friday, a ...

July 31, 2022

No politics necessary to get these guys into the Hall of Fame

Last Sunday, Tony Oliva and Minnie Minoso finally made it to Cooperstown.  I got to see it on TV.  My late father, and lots of Cubans, probably got to see it up in heaven. As a very little boy in Cuba, my father used to ta...

July 30, 2022

Hey, Democrat parents, did you vote for this?

Here we go again, or more tales for the moderate. Check this out, especially if you have a daughter in school: If the Biden administration gets its way, schools could force biological female students to live with biological men who ...

July 29, 2022

Say it ain't so, Joe

Senator Joe Manchin has decided to revive "Build Back Better."  He calls it the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022."  This is how Senator Manchin explained it: I have worked diligently to get input from...

July 28, 2022

More 'woke tales' from the moderates

The latest from "the moderate's administration" is that lunch money is tied to gender ideology.  Let's check this out from Breitbart: As Breitbart News reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last month an...

July 27, 2022

The first report of the week does not go well for President Biden

As we know, this is the week of economic reports.  We will wait for the GDP number on Thursday, but the first one is not good news for the Biden administration.  This is the summary: US consumer confidence declined in Ju...

July 26, 2022

'I see the bad moon a-risin', I see trouble on the way'

By Friday, we will know a lot about the U.S. economy.  We will have a better idea of what John Fogerty meant by "I see the bad moon a-risin'."  Maybe we won't see "earthquakes and lightnin'," b...

July 25, 2022

Uvalde and climate change courtesy of the one and only Al Gore

At some point, the serious people in the climate change debate need to take a time-out and regroup.  It's one thing to point out some facts about the climate changing.  I can listen and deal with that.  It's quit...

July 24, 2022

The infamous 'kitchen debate' with the Soviets

They both got their chance on this day in 1959, or the famous kitchen debates. Who won?  They probably both did.  This is a portion of the conversation, because it was not really a debate: Nixon: "...

July 23, 2022

Will the wokies force us to bring back the draft?

They destroy everything that they touch, from Disney movies to works of literature to historical statues to now the U.S. armed forces.  I'm talking about "the wokies" who are bent on destroying the country and culture that the...

July 22, 2022

Never fear, Mayorkas is here

As someone who came here with my parents years ago, I've always been sympathetic to people who want to live here.  But it had better be orderly and legal.  Otherwise, it's chaos. We learned this week that the ...

July 21, 2022

Soros to Beto's rescue

How do you convince Texas voters that you are the new Beto?  Do you accept a $1-million campaign donation from George Soros?  This is the story: Democratic mega-donor George Soros and an Austin-area couple each gave $1 m...

July 20, 2022

Is anyone missing those mean tweets?

Over the last few weeks, I've seen gasoline prices drop a bit (from $4.50 to $4 here in Texas), and restaurants are not as full as they used to be.  In other words, we don't wait long for a table anymore. I guess I'm not alon...

July 19, 2022

Dear Dems: You did that!

It seems that a day doesn't go by without another update on Democrats having second thoughts about President Biden.  Do you recall the last time that 81 million voters soured so fast on a president? The problem is that the Democrats ...

July 18, 2022

Who listens to Lemon?

They say "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."  It is intended to inspire optimism or crank up a positive attitude.  Well, when life gives you a Don Lemon quote, just look the other way or turn off the T...

July 17, 2022

We could use another Joe DiMaggio streak

On this day in 1941, the streak ended in Cleveland.  Joe DiMaggio's amazing 56-game hitting streak was stopped when third baseman Ken Keltner made two terrific back-handed stops. During the streak, DiMaggio hit .408 (91 for...

July 16, 2022

'Woke' is just a four-letter word for Hispanics

The current state between Hispanics and Democrats reminds me of a song by the Beatles: I'm looking through you Where did you go? I thought I knew you What did I know You don't look different But you hav...

July 15, 2022

Lopez-Obrador talking partisan politics on US soil

My guess is that the Beto O'Rourke camp will not run TV ads on how the President of Mexico is criticizing Governor Greg Abbott's return to the border policy.  This is the latest from AMLO's visit: Texas Gov. ...

July 14, 2022

Lopez-Obrador strong, Joe weak

Over the years, I've learned that it's like the Super Bowl when a Mexican president goes to the White House.  The TV goes 24/7 south of the border, and the political pundits can't stop talking about the meeting. On Tuesday, P...

July 13, 2022

At least she did not call us 'burritos'

Okay — the first lady is not a racist and she did not mean to insult anybody.  Her problem is that she is a Democrat kneeling at the altar of the wokies, the wing of the party obsessed with your identity, not the content of your chara...

July 12, 2022

The 'bodega' case will hurt Democrats

"Bodega" is one of those places that we grew up going to.  "El bodeguero," or the man who works at "la bodega," is one of those faces in the community that everybody knows and likes.  When I was a kid...

July 11, 2022

Latinas driving the left crazy

As you may know, George Soros has been making some news in South Florida.  This is the story: It's safe to say that Democrats have noticed the recent exodus of large numbers of Hispanic voters from their party. Because they kn...

July 10, 2022

When do we get to hear Biden's malaise speech?

The good news is that I remember disco music and July 1979.  It was fun, but saturation killed it.  Hearing "Stayin' Alive" on every radio frequency in the radio 24/7 did make you wish for that "Nat King Co...

July 9, 2022

Remember DACA?

We have not discussed DACA in a while.  I guess that's what happens when the border is out of control and gasoline prices are killing the middle class.  Nevertheless, DACA is in the courts and may be on our front page soon. ...

July 8, 2022

January 6 hearings not helping CNN

With President Trump gone, CNN banked on the January 6 hearings, or circus, to bring the viewers back.  Why not?  Nobody at CNN can speak two sentences without mentioning the famous Orange Man. Well, it looks as though the hear...

July 7, 2022

Democrats in disarray over Dobbs

The post-Roe world is not turning out the way that many Democrats had planned.  It's fair to say that the Democrats thought that there'd be a tsunami against the GOP over Dobbs.  In other words, the voters would ...

July 6, 2022

Why don't they enforce the laws already on the books?

It happens every time.  First, a terrible shooting.  Then the Democrats start blaming guns.  Unfortunately, the media fall for the anti-gun narrative, too. As we learned from Professor Jonathan Turley, ...

July 5, 2022

Have you looked at new car prices?

Like some of you, I love to check out car models and drive salesmen crazy with the classic "just looking" line.  I look at the sticker and check out all the options.  It's an old habit and a wonderful way to kill tim...

July 4, 2022

The other famous words of July 4

Along with Independence Day, we celebrate another anniversary on July 4: Lou Gehrig's farewell speech. Starting in 1925, Lou played in 2,130 consecutive games.  His career numbers were awesome: a .340 battin...

July 3, 2022

Hearts will keep beating in Texas

The abortion debate is alive and well in Texas.  This is the story: The Texas Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower court order that permitted some abortions. The decision is the latest development in a wild couple of weeks f...

July 2, 2022

It was 58 years ago today...

It was 1964, many years ago today, that my dad, my mom, and the three kids woke up in Cuba knowing that things would never be the same.  A few hours later, we caught a flight to Mexico City and then Jamaica.  W...

July 1, 2022

Maybe President Biden should read about King Pyrrhus

The Biden "desperate for a win" administration is cheering that it got one from the Supreme Court.  This is the story: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can repeal the Trump administration...

June 30, 2022

Blue buying insurance to protect blue

This is interesting.  Maybe the "blues" are taking the "reds" seriously.  Let's check out the states of Washington and Colorado: Less than a year ago, a GOP Senate victory in deep blue Washington ...

June 29, 2022

51 reasons for Mayorkas to resign

This is a horrific story:      After authorities found an 18-wheeler that carried up to 100 individuals abandoned in San Antonio, including at least 46 individuals who were deceased, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed President Jo...

June 28, 2022

Abortion or the price of gasoline?

The Democrats have tried everything, but nothing works. So it's time to try abortion, and that "right" got taken away by those three justices appointed by Trump. It's a great line, but will it work when they are talking t...

June 27, 2022

Portland is about lawlessness, not Dobbs

It happens every time or Portland burns.  Yes, there were problems across the country, such as the "insurrection" in Arizona, but Portland always leads the way.  Let's check the story: A large group of riot...

June 26, 2022

If Democrats wanted to keep abortion, here's what they should have done

We are in Roe minus 2, or two days without Roe.  It's time to remind the pro-Roe crowd that they made the overturn possible by being so rigid about abortion. Let's do a little alternate history.  It's a fun game and...

June 25, 2022

The Beatles go global 55 years ago

The Beatles have been in the news this year. First, we got to see the four working on material for an album. It was the closest to being in the studio with the band. It was incredible to see an album being recorded from square ...

June 24, 2022

It happens every six years, you know

Not long ago, I read that the LA Times and San Diego Tribune lost $50 million. The explanation was revenue losses during the pandemic, less print and digital advertising plus a drop in print circulation. I guess that ...

June 23, 2022

Petro and the reality of governing

A couple of nights ago, I got a taste of politics in Colombia.  A 40-something lady in my class was worried about her country going to the left.  A young woman had the smile on her face that reminded me of the Obama "hope and...

June 22, 2022

The problem with hating Trump

Do you remember filling up your tank on the day that President Trump left town?  I do, because my 12-gallon Focus cost about $27. Do you remember the last time you filled up the tank?  Once again, I do, and I spent over $5...

June 21, 2022

It's the economy, not the bike

I remember when President Carter was out boating and ran into a wild rabbit. Here is the story: Already beleaguered by ballooning inflation, a hostage crisis in Iran, and a plunging popularity score, it seems as if Carter's luck coul...

June 20, 2022

AMLO vs. the Senate Cubans

Have you noticed a little shouting across the Rio Grande?  It appears that Mexican President López-Obrador, or AMLO as they call him, has been arguing with the "Cubano 3" in the U.S. Senate. This is the story: ...

June 19, 2022

Liz Cheney may bring down the whole Jan 6 charade

According to news reports, Representative Liz Cheney is spending 2023 in Wyoming, or somewhere other than the U.S. House.  In other words, she is losing.  Wonder how many of her Democrat colleagues are going to apologize for...

June 18, 2022

Newt and Barry: God has a sense of humor

Let's take a little detour from January 6 and gas prices and remember a couple of people who turn 79 this weekend. First, we remember Newt Gingrich, who came out of Georgia to lead the 1994 GOP revolution.  He has become one of the r...

June 17, 2022

Get ready for a lot of Watergate this week

If you are a Boomer, then you remember Watergate, the last summer before disco, as a funny school friend used to say.  Nixon left, and Travolta came in! If you are a liberal Baby-Boomer, you spend all of your time reliving the glory days...

June 16, 2022

Beto still down in Texas

We have not seen an Abbott vs. O'Rourke poll in a month.  Maybe the pollsters prefer spending their resources elsewhere.  Last night, I saw this one via Newsweek: A new poll published on Monday found that Abbott...

June 15, 2022

Go south, young man!

As I recall, there was a slogan many years ago urging, "Go west, young man."  The story behind the phrase is a bit complicated, but the idea was to go west and seek a better life.  And many people went west to seek land,...

June 14, 2022

Goodbye, New York

Mayor Eric Adams has a big problem.  New York's police officers want out, as we see in this report: According to data obtained by The New York Post, nearly 1,600 officers have left the force this year alone. That number h...

June 13, 2022

Gas prices went up after January 6 show

The much-awaited January 6 committee presentation finally happened.  First, the TV ratings were not good.  Second, the presentation was as partisan and one-sided as expected.  Third, public opinion did not move. ...

June 12, 2022

Let's concentrate on a couple of ideas that may work

Do you feel as though you've seen this movie before?  A terrible shooting followed by every Democrat reading his last gun control speech.  The media saying that this time we have to do something. Do what?  That...

June 11, 2022

Inflation spoils the January 6 show

Call it bad timing or Trump luck, but most people today are talking inflation.  This is from Fox News: The Labor Department said Friday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods, including gaso...

June 10, 2022

AMLO to Joe: 'Tu casa no es mi casa'

If you took a Spanish class in high school, then you probably remember hearing "mi casa es su casa," or "my home is your home."  It's one of those wonderful expressions of friendship in the Spanish language. Well,...

June 9, 2022

Recounts in South Texas

It's not over yet for Representative Henry Cuellar.  He thinks he won by fewer than 200 votes, but Jessica Cisneros, his opponent, is not accepting that.  So a recount is coming, according to the Texas Tribune: ...

June 8, 2022

How do you overlook D-Day?

The Biden White House finally issued a D-Day message, but a bit late.  This is from Greg Price: He has like 70 people who handle his social media and none of them thought to post something about one of the most important days in t...

June 7, 2022

Why isn't Mexico stopping the caravan?

We just learned that a new migrant caravan is coming north. This is the story from The Guardian: This is not the first migrant caravan to leave Tapachula, but it may be the largest ever recorded in Mexico: its numbers are expected to swe...

June 6, 2022

We'll lend them more money to pay the higher tuitions

It's a heck of a business model.  First, you give them loans to pay the tuition, then they graduate with meaningless degrees, and then a poll-desperate Democrat president forgives the loans. Where can I get into a business ...

June 5, 2022

More tales from the moderate

They called him the moderate, the man who would calm down the nation after the Trump storm. In fact, he's turned out to be a radical of radicals, or at least, the willing radical tool of the shadowy figures who write his speeches and tell him wha...

June 4, 2022

Did anyone ask the fans?

Once again, we see baseball just getting a little too cute.  As a long-time fan, I want the game the way it was, i.e. double plays and no woke!   Down in Tampa, the Rays have a wonderful young team.  They compete with the high ...

June 3, 2022

Give 'em a gun

As my late father used to say, beware of polls.  He used to joke that there were more polls than gas stations in the U.S.  So I always look at polls with a good sense of skepticism even if I agree with the results. The latest T...

June 2, 2022

What would Casey Stengel say about the Biden presidency?

Biden's presidency reminds me of that great Casey Stengel quote about losing: Been in this game one hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before. Casey was probably talking about his 1962 New York M...

June 1, 2022

Mona Lisa, a 'bouffon' has smeared you

Once upon a time, it was "Mona Lisa men have named you."  Today, the lady with the mystic smile who inspired one of Nat King Cole's greatest songs motivated a climate change activist to express his disapproval about something ...

May 31, 2022

Maybe the voters can save Colombia

Down in Colombia, Gustavo Petro, the leftist candidate, came in first place but did not clinch a victory.  So he will have to face Rodolfo Hernández, the populist outsider, who may benefit from key endorsements.  This is...

May 30, 2022

Happy Memorial Day

Another day, another opportunity to make my presentation at GID, a Latin American Group in the Dallas area.  We formed this group back in 1992 for fellowship and to learn more about roots.  Over the years, we've had speak...

May 29, 2022

Gabe and Steve: Look at your city

It's  automatic.      Every shooting is followed by a Democrat U.S. senator giving a speech about gun control, or else someone in San Francisco preaching to the rest of us.   The latest is Gabe Kapler, the man...

May 28, 2022

Maybe we need to bring back the draft

We seem to have a young man problem in the U.S.  To be fair, most boys are doing just fine.  Unfortunately, too many are not, and they are the ones we read about in Buffalo, Uvalde, and elsewhere. As the father of three so...

May 27, 2022

The moderate goes radical

We were told that President Biden wanted to bring the nation together.  He was going to do that by listening to both sides and avoiding the extremes.  Then the moderate was sworn in, and the radicals are here by the dozen. Chec...

May 26, 2022

A nightmare for Democrats in South Texas

As expected, the Texas 28 runoff was going to be close.  What I didn't expect was that it'd be 177 votes close.  Both sides are tweeting:    Cisneros:  Thank you to every single voter that came out to suppor...

May 25, 2022

I don't remember that talk of 'transitioning' during the campaign

President Biden is a walking "gaffe machine."  You can't put him behind a microphone because God only knows what he is going to say.  We understand now why they hid him in his basement in 2020 with infrequent tr...

May 24, 2022

Thanks for getting us confused again

Every single day, we learn two things about the Biden administration.  First, they are stubborn and stick to policies that even Democrats can't defend, like dropping Title 42.  Second, it's clearer day by day why this...

May 23, 2022

GOP voters and Attorney General Ken Paxton

On Tuesday, GOP voters will choose A.G. Ken Paxton over George P. Bush, the challenger serving as the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office since 2015.  The Bush campaign has focused on the stories and allegations regarding A.G...

May 22, 2022

Maybe Sherlock Holmes can unmask the Supreme Court leaker

Two weeks, and the Supreme Court leaker is still going to work every day.  I assume he is unless there was a resignation that no one heard about. Who did it?  We understand that Chief Justice Roberts is very committed to findin...

May 21, 2022

Maybe the secretary should talk to the people in the interior

The Biden Cabinet is made up of very interesting people.  Let's check out secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, regarding her visit to the U.S. Senate. First, she shows no emotion about rising gasoline prices.  ...

May 20, 2022

Too late to talk gun control in Buffalo

As expected, the Democrats came out talking about more gun control.  It's all they do after one of these terrible incidents, like the horrible shooting in Buffalo. Yet two things happened in New York.  The first one is that...

May 19, 2022

Public school enrollment is plummeting

According to a New York Times article, parents are not sending their kids to public schools the way they used to.  This is a sample of the school districts feeling the pinch: In New York City, the nation's largest school ...

May 18, 2022

The Cuellar vs. Cisneros runoff is all about the future of the Democrat party

Down in South Texas, you may be seeing the future of the Democrat Party — i.e., the energetic left versus whatever centrist is left in the ranks.  My friend George Rodriguez, a South Texas political analyst, feels that Cuellar wi...

May 17, 2022

A red wave with a little salsa

On a weekly basis, we are getting reports about Hispanics leaving the Democrat party.  The easy explanation is to blame it on inflation, food, and gasoline prices.  Yes, those items matter a lot, but this is a lot more about the D...

May 16, 2022

The states will eventually give voters what they want on abortion

The worst thing about Roe is that it took the voters out of the conversation.  It became "the law of the land," and pro-life people were told to shut up and go to our room.  No wonder abortion is at t...

May 15, 2022

The politician who got shot today

Fifty years ago, Joe Biden was running for the U.S. Senate, Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia, Ronald Reagan was governor of California, George H. Bush was swimming uphill in still Democrat Texas, Gerald Ford was the House minority leade...

May 14, 2022

Voters like the idea of deciding about abortion

The Democrats talk about choice when it comes to abortion.  It appears that voters agree with that — in the sense that they want voters to choose the future of abortion policies. This is a fascinating post by Scott Rasmussen: ...

May 13, 2022

Senator Warren: 49 is not a majority

As expected, the abortion bill went down primarily because Senator Joe Manchin voted "no."  So the final tally was 49 yes and 51 no.  In other words, a majority of 51 voted against the bill. Nevertheless, Senator Eliz...

May 12, 2022

Democrats are late on abortion

This week, Sen. Chuck Schumer will put an abortion proposal for a Senate vote. This is the story: The bill Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is bringing for a vote Wednesday is the Women's Health Protection Act....

May 11, 2022

Aren't there already enough dead people in Chicago?

The pro-Roe show gets better every day, from "the handmaidens" breaking up a Mass in Los Angeles to Mayor Lightfoot promising to turn Chicago into a place of reproductive freedom.  This is what she said: T...

May 10, 2022

Paying $4.20 for gas

Years ago, I remember going with my late father to a gas station around our home and paying like 20 cents a gallon.  We had lived in the U.S. for a couple of years, and my father used to have fun explaining the "gas price wars" be...

May 9, 2022

The 'moderate' is MIA

Our morning Mass did not see any protests.  At the same time, we were ready, and a group of men known as "The Guardians" was ready to protect the entrance.  Lots of what they call old-fashioned masculinity was on display...

May 8, 2022

Pro-abortion zealots plan to hit Catholic Masses today

For twenty years, I've been an usher at our Catholic parish.  It's been a fun job, from watching babies grow up and go to college to realizing that people generally like sitting in the same place to keeping the doors closed to manag...

May 7, 2022

Texas memo to Biden-Harris

Down in South Texas, everybody is still waiting for Kamala and Joe, AKA V.P. Harris and President Biden, in case you forgot who they are.  We heard from a mayor in South Texas, and this is what he is saying: The mayor of a Texas b...

May 6, 2022

Roe has been a big source of our divisions

A few years ago, a late friend said something like this: abortion is terrible; Roe is worse.  His point was that Roe was the most poisonous Supreme Court opinion ever written.  It took abortion from the vo...

May 5, 2022

Happy Cinco de Mayo, or Battle of Puebla, or both

Today we celebrate "Cinco de Mayo" in Dallas, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.  Your favorite Mexican restaurant will be all dressed up and ready to serve a delicious round of nachos, enchiladas, and beer.  "It sells a l...

May 4, 2022

The leak, or the donkey's last trot?

Over time, I've explained my opposition to abortion in very personal terms. In other words, we have three sons, two grandsons, and a baby granddaughter on her way.  Each one is an example of what happens when you don't abort! ...

May 3, 2022

Where did all the kids go?

Over the weekend, I saw this article about public schools and parents.  Maybe it's really parents vs. schools.  This is from the Associated Press: Families opting for homeschooling, private schools and other options...

April 29, 2022

Stagflation arrives a bit early

Like the relatives on their way to visit you, stagflation surprised by showing up a bit early.  As you may remember, stagflation was due in the summer or later this year.  Well, here it is, according to the latest news report...

April 28, 2022

Title 42: Saved by the judge?

It looks as if Title 42 will be around a bit longer. According to news reports, the Democrats running for re-election can thank a federal judge. Here it goes: President Biden's administration will comply with an upcoming order fro...

April 27, 2022

Did Macron tell his staff to blow off Biden?

Back in 2004, President George W. Bush was re-elected and started getting the routine congratulatory phone calls.  I'm sure he spoke with a lot of leaders, but he did not take a call from Spanish prime minister Rodriguez-Zapatero, becau...

April 26, 2022

I guess it depends what the meaning of the word 'meeting' is

For as long as I can remember, people in positions of authority have had to deal with family members who want to exploit the name for gain.  It's a huge problem in Latin America, where a son or brother usually ends up with a mansio...

April 25, 2022

It's time to DFA Fauci

As in the case of a pitcher who can't throw strikes, it's time for the manager to walk to the mound, take the ball, and send Dr. Fauci to the showers.  After the game, the team should DFA the good doctor, or Designate for Assig...

April 24, 2022

The day Harry Truman discovered a bomb in his pocket

My guess is that then-V.P. Harry Truman imagined he'd be president sooner than later.  President Roosevelt's health was not a public issue, but everybody in Washington knew he was a sick man.  It was a matter of time when ...

April 23, 2022

Maybe she likes being first lady too much

It's nice to see that I am not the only one in the country who is talking about First Lady Jill Biden and elder abuse.  It's hard for me to see the president of the U.S., and that's what he is, without wondering what his wi...

April 22, 2022

Killing Mickey by going woke

Are you surprised at the latest bad news for Disney?  I am not. First, you declare war on parents by pushing the woke agenda in movies and parks.  Second, the parents react by spending their money somewhere else. Then M...

April 21, 2022

Making Mickey Mickey again

Down in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back against Woke Disney.  He is also getting a lot of help from parents, as we see in this AMAC post: Disney — once "motherhood and apple pie" — n...

April 20, 2022

AMLO of Mexico vs. 'el gobernador de Tejas'

The border crisis is now a personal matter between the President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as "AMLO," and the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. Yesterday, the matter of extra border inspections came up at the president...

April 19, 2022

Many Democrats doubt Biden will stick around

May you live in interesting times, or something like that.  I feel pretty confident that whoever it was who came up with that line could not have imagined the Biden presidency. According to a new poll, some voters don'...

April 18, 2022

Who knew that Hispanics are more conservative?

Another poll and more bad news for President Biden, especially as it relates to Hispanics.  This is from Aaron Kliegman: Biden's immigration policies appear to be one reason for the Hispanic migration away from the D...

April 17, 2022

Remembering the morning that changed my life

For weeks, most Cubans anticipated an invasion of the island.  It's hard to understand today just how tense things were in Cuba 61 years ago this month. My parents were living in a polarized country, where neighbors kept an eye on th...

April 16, 2022

Let's hear it for 'las Republicanas'

Down in South Texas, we may be watching the Latina version of the mother of all battles.  In other words, three Latinas may win three congressional districts and send Democrats to the sofa for further therapy. So what am I talk...

April 15, 2022

Why so many Cubans at the border?

As you may know, I came to the U.S. with my parents from Cuba in 1964.  In other words, I sympathize with Cubans who want to leave the failed communist state, but it should be done in an orderly fashion.  What we are seeing today ...

April 14, 2022

Our third-world country on the West Coast

A few years ago, a friend from Brazil visited Los Angeles and was appalled at what he saw.  He called it a third-world country, an amazing comment since my friend lives in São Paulo.  He said that L.A. is not what he r...

April 13, 2022

Maybe they will call it CNN minus

Have you received an offer to join CNN plus?  I saw one yesterday, but I decided to pass.  Honestly, I've already got enough to see or listen to.  And I don't watch CNN anyway.  CNN plus is off to a ...

April 12, 2022

The January 6 committee is hoaxing again

The January 6 committee is making news again: The leaders of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack have grown divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department of former President Donald Trump, even t...

April 11, 2022

The end of Roe will help a lot

A couple of Democrats made some interesting statements about past nominations to the Supreme Court. First, it was Senator Dick Durbin: I'm gonna be first to admit, as I look back in history, there are things that should have been han...

April 10, 2022

I always thought the Beatles would get back together

It's hard to believe but I did not watch the streaming, or whatever they call it, of The Beatles on Disney. Honestly, I'm so glad now that I did not send a dime to that woke organization. I did catch a few promo clips, though, and it sounded ...

April 9, 2022

They call it 'inflación' south of the border

I was speaking with a Mexican friend on the phone and complained about our gasoline and food prices.  He laughed and told me to look south of the border for more inflation.  I did look, and my friend is right, as I see in this pos...

April 8, 2022

Call it Route 42

Some are already calling it a political ploy in Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott using the border crisis to boost his political fortunes.  On Wednesday, Gov. Abbott announced this: WESLACO, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new...

April 7, 2022

He's a real nowhere man...

Former president Obama visited the White House Tuesday.  I think that it had something to do with Obamacare.  The Obama-Biden team was together again, but not really.  It was actually quite sad to see how the people presen...

April 6, 2022

Free the bird

Twitter may be worth our time again.  It may be a place for debate and free speech rather than partisan fact-checkers obsessed with bringing down President Trump.  Like many of you, I flew away when Twitter canceled the Ne...

April 5, 2022

Was Joe Biden too weak to stop Hunter?

At this point, the Hunter Biden drama could go in two directions: First, we may have evidence that the "big guy" described in his abandoned laptop computer was President Biden.  If so, then it's Spiro Agnew Gerald F...

April 4, 2022

It was Watergate until it wasn't

During the Trump presidency, I observed the following rule about breaking news, especially negative news about President Trump.  I would hear the news and wait a day or two.  Why?  Because there was a good chance that th...

April 3, 2022

Looking for a Democrat who stands up to the crazies? Here he is

Over the last 15 months, Rep. Henry Cuellar of South Texas has been a loud critic of President Biden's border policies, such as eliminating Title 42.  Cuellar was one of two Democrats in Texas to say no! On another matter, ...

April 2, 2022

What happened to the Abbott vs. O'Rourke polls?

Whatever happened to the polling for the Texas governors' race?  We have not seen a single poll in over a month.  What makes all this interesting is that both candidates won their primaries easily on March 2. The latest pol...

April 1, 2022

The next big 'zapato' to drop for Joe Biden

You think President Biden has hit bottom? Wait a couple of weeks for the next big "zapato" to drop, which will be the total chaos that the U.S.-Mexico border is about to turn into. According to news reports, there are thousands w...

March 31, 2022

They bet on the wrong horse

Many in the media are learning the hard way that they bet on the wrong horse.  They invested their hopes in Joe Biden, but that's a disaster now, to say the least.  Just look at the polls: the RCP average of polls is 40.8...

March 31, 2022

And the common sense award goes to Governor DeSantis

They threw a punch at the Oscars, gave a few awards, and I learned about it the next morning.  I guess that's what happens when people would rather spend their Sunday nights doing something else. This was the Oscars in a sentence: Ho...

March 29, 2022

In Europe, Joe's new ways to lose 'em

What would the late Casey Stengel say about President Biden?  I think that he'd look at the president and say this: "Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before." ...

March 28, 2022

The parents are not happy with the Democrats

It started in Virginia and appears to be heading westward in a hurry.  I remember when they called it a "prairie fire."  We call them "suburban insurrections" these days. Let's hear from John Nolte:...

March 27, 2022

Stayin' Alive with The Bee Gees in 1978

It was a simpler time, or maybe we always say that when we look back at the past.  Back in the spring of 1978, the Yankees went into spring training as the reigning kings, the Dallas Cowboys were Super Bowl champs, and the politics of Presi...

March 26, 2022

Is there a bigger clown in the US Senate than Cory Booker?

The U.S. Senate is for serious people, unless we are talking about Senator Cory Booker.  Let's remember Sen. Booker now and then with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I'm sure that all of you remember Sen. Booker doing everything under the...

March 25, 2022

Kim Kong

The little guy in North Korea must feel a bit lonely off the front pages.  It's tough to be Kim and watch all of the newscasts about Putin, Xi, and Khamenei.  So Kim decided to get our attention and he fired a missile: ...

March 24, 2022

More than a woman?

Once upon a time, we kinda knew what a woman was.  We wrote songs about them, such as the Bee Gees' "More than a Woman" and Elvis's "Hard-Headed Woman." I don't recall dancing to "More than a Woman...

March 23, 2022

More food inflation and it's because of Ukraine

The Biden White House is blaming Putin for gasoline prices.  It's nonsense, but what else are these people supposed to do? Regarding international food prices, the Russian invasion of Ukraine may have something to do with it. ...

March 22, 2022

The lady should answer a few questions

Don't expect anyone to appear out of the blue with a story about what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson did when she was 17 or some crazy college parties that she went to. Do expect some serious questions about her judicial philosophy or her attitud...

March 21, 2022

Are Democrats getting ready to dump Joe and Kamala?

Roger Kimball has a great post about the Democrats paving the way to eject Joe & Kamala from their seats.  This is what he wrote: The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly ho...

March 20, 2022

Happy 168th birthday to the GOP!

We say happy birthday to the Grand Old Party, the GOP, or, the Republican Party.     The birth of the party happened in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in 1854.  The new party was formed by former members of the Whig Part...

March 19, 2022

I guess that's why people don't trust them anymore

Back in October 2021, Gallup did another "media trust" poll. This is what they found: Americans' trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36...

March 18, 2022

Is it time to put Biden back in the basement?

Back in the fall of 2020, candidate Joe Biden spent much of his time in the basement.  He was like Grandma's car: she opens the garage door on Sunday, drives to church, shares grandkid photos with everyone, drinks a little coffee, and p...

March 17, 2022

This St. Patrick's Day is a really bad time for the greens

We wish everyone a very happy St Patrick's Day.  We remember the first parade held in New York City in 1762: The first recorded St. Patrick's Day parade was held not in Ireland but in New York City in 1762, ...

March 16, 2022

The Iran deal should go the US Senate for ratification

This is directly from the U.S. Constitution: The United States Constitution provides that the president "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators pre...

March 15, 2022

Fewer Doritos in my bag

From time to time, I buy a tuna sandwich with a bag of Doritos and a drink.  The price of the sandwich is up, and there are fewer chips in the meal.  Welcome to inflation, as I used to hear back in 1982.  This is from...

March 14, 2022

Will the real Beto stand up?

According to the last 11 polls, Governor Greg Abbott leads former representative Beto O'Rourke by 8.8 points. So what do you do when you've been struggling around 40% in the polls?  Maybe you break with your party on CR...

March 13, 2022

The first Henry Aaron spring training of 1954

Baseball is back.  I don't care for 12 teams in the post season, but at least the game is back.    Here in Texas, ownership opened up the off-season wallets and brought big names like Corey Seager to the new stadium. And the...

March 12, 2022

The 30-something man

President Biden can't catch a break, or maybe he just made too many bad decisions the first week of his presidency.  Put me down as one of those who believes that "he did that" by listening to a crowd of people deeply impacted...

March 11, 2022

Americans are not buying the 'Vlad did it' story

The White House is on the "Blame Vlad" horse and charging forward.  It's not working. President Biden got a double-bit of bad news. First, Rasmussen reported that he is at 39% job approval.  So much for th...

March 10, 2022

Dems tell Biden to drill

President Biden was in Texas on Tuesday.  His visit was so short that they didn't turn off the engines on Air Force One.  It was a strange visit because Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat running for governor, did not get an i...

March 9, 2022

One damn book after another

Let me warn you. There is no magic bullet in One Damn Thing after Another, the new book by former A.G. William Barr.  Why do I say that when I have not read the book?  Because we have seen this movie before. The strat...

March 8, 2022

They told me gasoline prices would go up if Biden won...

Maybe Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, is just a very lucky guy.  Or maybe he was on to something.  The younger Trump tweeted this back in October 2020: If Biden gets in, not only will he destroy the Oil ...

March 7, 2022

This is not 'my papi's party'

Down in South Texas, they tell me that the Democrats are having an identity problem.  Let's hear from one Democrat named Ruben Ramirez, a lawyer and self-proclaimed moderate.  This is what he told the Texas Trib...

March 6, 2022

Have we found a new Hunter Biden in Mexico?

During our trip to Mexico over Christmas, I learned of the story of the other son of a president.  I'm talking about José Ramón López-Obrador, 40 years old and the son of President López-Obrador....

March 5, 2022

Gas prices could force more people to work from home

A few days ago, I paid $3.49 a gallon to fill up my tank.  Two days later, it was $3.59 when I drove by my neighborhood gas station.  I was furious, but I learned later that my friend in California is paying $5 and my other in New...

March 4, 2022

And Beto is still talking the lights going out

In Texas, the stage is set for the anticipated Abbott vs. O'Rourke gubernatorial election in eight months.  Incumbent Texas governor Greg Abbott gave a victory speech following his primary victory highlighting job cr...

March 3, 2022

Cuellar in a runoff

Less than 20% of eligible voters cast a primary ballot in Texas.  There were few surprises, and the incumbents hosted the victory parties.  But not so fast down in South Texas, where Representative Henry Cuellar will be ...

March 2, 2022

Please don't kill the pennant races

Remember the old movie It Happens Every Spring?  It's a 1949 comedy about baseball, or the kind of movie that baseball fans like me watch every year to get ready for opening day.  You can add Pride of the Yankees and 61 to tha...

March 1, 2022

Will CNN finally stop talking about Trump?

There is a new kid in town.  We are talking about Chris Licht, the apparent new boss over at CNN, the ratings-challenged network that obsessed itself into irrelevancy by talking about Trump 24/7. This is the story at Axios: ...

February 28, 2022

Another day and another bad Biden poll

In baseball, they call it a bad streak, like the 1988 Baltimore Orioles starting the season 0-20.  Yes, I mean losing their first 20 games.  At one point, my late father said something about "the law of averages."...

February 27, 2022

High gas prices? Yep, Biden really did that

We've seen lots of cartoons with the caption "I did that," a reference to President Biden causing higher gasoline prices. Guess what!  He really did that.  It's not political hyperbole.  He did it, and it...

February 26, 2022

AMLO tells Blinken to stop asking about journalists

Call it hypersensitivity, but President López-Obrador (AMLO) does not want the U.S. government asking questions about the fate of journalists in Mexico.  Let's review the story from Pulse News Mexico: One day after...

February 25, 2022

Putin knows that Biden's hands are tied

We have seen this movie before: Hungary 1956; Prague, Spring of 1968; and now Ukraine 2022.  What do they have in common?  We hate what we see on the screen but can't really do much about it.  And Putin knows it....

February 24, 2022

We won't soon forget Trudeau's affair with totalitarianism

What in the world is going on in Canada?  Just last night, P.M. Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act that he'd been using since last Monday to crack down on protesters.  But the Parliament had approved those "emergency...

February 23, 2022

Maybe we need to call them CCCP and beat them again

Back in 1980, or 42 years ago this week, if you can believe that, the USSR had just invaded Afghanistan, and the world was a mess.  U.S. diplomats were hostages in Iran.  The economy was tanking, and the dreaded inflation was abou...

February 22, 2022

Mission accomplished, Mr. President?

We don't expect President Biden to say something about young men swimming as young women in the middle of the Ukraine crisis. He's got a few other problems on his plate, from high gasoline prices to a general discontent from coast to coast...

February 21, 2022

Remember the one about 'you ain't black'

It was one of the few times that then-candidate Joe Biden got out of the basement during the campaign.  He said to Charlamagne tha God during a radio interview: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or...

February 20, 2022

Ma and Pa are flexing their muscles

A couple of days ago, I watched a Dick Morris video about the "values moms" moving to the GOP.  In other words, we used to hear about "soccer moms" in the '90s and "security moms" after 9-11 — an...

February 19, 2022

Justin the woke Canadian

Normally, we talk about the Canadian hockey team or their ice skating couples in the Olympics.  Our friends up north are usually good at those activities.  Who knew we'd be talking about truckers or a prime minister sayin...

February 18, 2022

Down Mexico way

It's not the old Gene Autry movie, but things are getting crazy in Mexico: first the cartels and now journalists getting killed.  It's enough to make any conversation with a Mexican friend turn into a long one. Down in ...

February 17, 2022

Abbott below 50 and Beto below 40

Texans are already voting early for the March 1st primary.  Everyone is expecting Governor Greg Abbott to run against former congressman Beto O'Rourke for governor. What I find interesting is how little things have changed since Octo...

February 16, 2022

You may not see avocados from Michoacán

Who likes guacamole or some avocado slices with your enchiladas?  Well, I do, and a lot.  Sadly, avocados may be the latest casualty of the cartel war in Mexico.  Check this out from Bloomberg: The U.S. paused ...

February 15, 2022

The Biden blues

Not long ago, it seemed that all the experts, including some Republicans, were saying the Democrats just had too much demographics on their side.  What happened?  Now it seems that the demographics argument is not what they p...

February 14, 2022

Inflation is a four-letter word with nine letters

Find one of your old economics books and look up inflation.  It will probably read something like this:   Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, s...

February 13, 2022

Is the Chinese military going green, too, or just ours?

Elections have consequences, and this story is a good example of that.  According to Kyle Morris, our army is going green — as in "climate change green": The U.S. Army unveiled a plan this week to tackle issues sur...

February 12, 2022

Where were you in '82?

Back in the 1970s, Wolfman Jack and American Graffiti gave us one of the great lines of the decade: "Where were you in '62?" Today, I ask you: where were you in '82?  Well, you probably remember President Reag...

February 11, 2022

Can someone give PM Trudeau a pair of glasses?

Up in Canada, P.M. Justin Trudeau can't help himself.  He has gone "full woke" on the truck drivers and consequently encouraged more drivers to get on their trucks to Ottawa.  This is an example from the New Yor...

February 10, 2022

Why wouldn't the US military be furious with Biden's Afghanistan disaster?

It took a few months, but we are finally getting the story of what happened in Afghanistan.  As some of us suspected, it's not a pretty story.  The New York Post is reporting this: An Army investigation int...

February 9, 2022

Texas women going GOP

The lights did not go out in Texas.  The power grid survived the 2022 winter storm, and now we can get back to talking politics.  Sorry, Beto. This is the latest from the Lone Star State, according to Politico: Democr...

February 8, 2022

Get woke, go broke: Olympics version

Did you hear that the Olympics are on?  You probably did because you check American Thinker daily. Did you hear that the TV audience is down?  Yes, and you are not watching it, either. This is the latest on the TV ratin...

February 7, 2022

A chat with Tina Aviles about school choice

Let's talk withTina Aviles | Grassroots Engagement Director | The LIBRE Initiative – Texas............we discussed efforts to present school choice to Hispanic families in Texas. Image: Pixabay....

February 7, 2022

We need criminal control, and fast

Last week, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City called himself the "Biden of Brooklyn" during President Biden's visit to the area.  Let's hope that Mayor Adams was just being nice and will forget all of the gun control t...

February 6, 2022

A great movie to watch on Ronald Reagan's 111th birthday

President Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on this day in 1911.  He died in 2004. Over the years, I've caught many of the Ronald Reagan movies.  It's impossible to watch an old Reagan movie without thinking of ...

February 5, 2022

Here come the truckers

Like Whoopi down here, PM Justin Trudeau in Canada is getting a good lesson on watching your mouth.    Like a good liberal, Trudeau went woke and played the Canadian version of "the deplorable" card. ...

February 4, 2022

Beto is desperately hoping the lights go out

The RCP average has Governor Abbott up 8.2 points on Beto O'Rourke. So what is Beto doing these days?  The answer is that he can't stop reminding Texas that the lights went out a year ago.  This is from T...

February 3, 2022

A bad week for Zucker, Whoopi, and the Democrat Party

February did not greet Jeff Zucker or Whoopi Goldberg with a smile.  On the contrary, Mr. Zucker just resigned from CNN over an undisclosed and "inappropriate relationship" with an associate, and Whoopi was taken off stage fo...

February 2, 2022

The public is tired of identity politics

A couple of years ago, then-candidate Joe Biden needed a boost.  His campaign had stalled and the "age' question was in the air.  Then he made a promise about nominating a black woman to the Supreme Court.  Today, most America...

February 1, 2022

Not a good time for the media

President Trump often says the media are the enemy of the people.  I don't agree with him, but the media do have some issues.  This is from a recent I&L/TPP poll: As the U.S. enters an election year, the media ap...

January 31, 2022

A short review of 2022 Texas politics

We discussed the latest UT-Tyler poll showing Governor Abbott up by 11 over Beto O'Rourke.  They are also tied with Hispanics.  Our second subject was the confrontation between Border Patrol agents and members of the...

January 31, 2022

Abbott beating O'Rourke with Hispanics

Around here, the talk is about Jerry Jones changing Cowboys coaches again and the Rangers blowing millions to upgrade the 2022 team.  Once in a while, people do talk about the elections, and Governor Abbott got more good news today. ...

January 30, 2022

The Cuban who lives in the hearts of old Brooklyn Dodgers fans

On Sunday, I always say hello at church to a couple of old-time Brooklyn Dodgers fans.  Like many others, they moved to Texas years ago but cannot stop talking about their old team, the Brooklyn Dodgers.  They know that I was born...

January 29, 2022

Confirm whomever and move on

In a few weeks, President Biden will present a candidate for the Supreme Court.  All we know is that it will be a black woman.  Yes, on the 59th anniversary of the "I have a dream" speech, we will select a person based o...

January 28, 2022

The door is open at the border

The Biden administration's open border policy is alive and well.  The numbers are amazing for people who have followed this over the years.  I have never seen anything like this.  This is from the New York ...

January 27, 2022

The Democrats get silly about threats to democracy

The Democrats are just getting sillier by the minute.  Where are the serious people in the party?  I can't see too many of them. The latest is talking about "threats to democracy" and Miami talk radio.  ...

January 25, 2022

More bad news for Democrats on the border

They call him Representative Cuellar in South Texas and a Democrat on the border who makes a lot of sense.  He speaks his mind and has been critical of the Biden approach — i.e., an open border. Nevertheless, he may be in trouble...

January 24, 2022

A talk with George Rodriguez

We started a video series to cover 2022 issues, from Texas to the upcoming midterms and foreign policy as well.  We discussed the border and the death of Officer Salas, plus a look at the governor's race.  The website is ...

January 24, 2022

The girl is a man

Our insane world has hit woke bottom.  This is from Fox News: Penn swimmer Lia Thomas came away with wins in the 100 meter and 200-meter freestyle races against Harvard on Saturday.  The victories came days after the NCAA ...

January 23, 2022

Remembering that time when North Korea committed an act of war against the USA

As we contemplate Putin's next move in Ukraine or China and Taiwan or Iran and the talks, we remember today another anniversary of the 1968 Pueblo incident.  Back then, North Korea seized the ship, the sailors were taken priso...

January 22, 2022

It's up to Texas, say The Supremes

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court spoke again about the Texas abortion law.  This is Shannon Bream: The Supreme Court rejected a request to remand Texas' six-week abortion law back a federal district court Thursday, marking an...

January 21, 2022

Too early, too long, and many topics forgotten

Did you miss President Biden's press conference? Well, it was too early (3 P.M. Texas) and too long, and, frankly, a lot of topics were overlooked.  And, last but not least, we saw President Biden trying to sell...

January 20, 2022

Will anyone ever ask Biden about Chicago?

It's hard to read the news out of Chicago.  Weekend shootings have become as natural as hearing Cubs fans talk about waiting for next year.  I guess nobody cares.  What else can you say about it?  This is f...

January 19, 2022

The ‘R’s are blowing past the ‘D’s

It's amazing, but the GOP is getting bigger and bigger.  This is the latest from Paul Bedard:     Democrats generally always lead Republicans in party identification, and independents outnumber both.  By the ...

January 18, 2022

Who knew that some Democrats are having second thoughts?

We heard President Biden deliver a clarion call about standing with him or those dreaded figures of the past.  This is how President Biden put it: Do you want to be the si — on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do...

January 17, 2022

Remembering Dr. King

We remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today. On Saturday morning, I watched students from local schools celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  The parade was long, and the message was right.  These young people are the grand...

January 16, 2022

2022 will be about jobs, too

As we walk into 2022, we are painfully finding out that everything is more expensive, from food to gasoline to lumber. Going out to dinner is quite an experience. First, the menu is more expensive. Second, there are staff shortages. However, ...

January 15, 2022

The Justices have broken Biden's pen

Back in 1961, a couple of Babe Ruth's records went down. It led Whitey Ford to say, "It's been a bad year for the Babe."  Maybe Whitey, known as the Chairman of the Board, would say it's been a bad year for #46! ...

January 14, 2022

When do we change from Pinocchios to Bidens?

We've grown accustomed to Glenn Kessler's Pinocchios — those articles that check the accuracy of a statement.  Kessler is back with another "fact check," and President Biden's nose keeps getting bigger: ...

January 13, 2022

Jerome puts the bullet to any future stimulus

For about a month, we've heard that maverick Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin killed Build Back Better, or BBB, the big spending program promoted by President Biden and Democrats. In reality, it was Chairman Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve who k...

January 12, 2022

Stacey wasn't there

How bad are things going for President Biden? The answer is "pretty bad." We just learned that Stacey Abrams didn't join the president in Georgia for his big speech on what he claimed were voting rights. This ...

January 11, 2022

Maybe Mexico will close its border

Over the weekend, we learned that Mexico is charging seven over the "Fast and Furious" episode.  This is the story: Mexico's Attorney General's Office said Sunday it has lodged weapons trafficking charges against...

January 10, 2022

The jobs report spoiled the 'insurrection' show

"What a difference a day makes 24 little hours" or so goes that song. On Thursday, Jan. 6, we heard about the insurrection.  On Friday, January 7, the mood was different when the jobs report hit the front pages. This is from...

January 9, 2022

What happened to reading in Baltimore public schools?

Is Baltimore a failed city?  What do you call a city where kids graduate without minimum reading skills? This is from Baltimore: An alarming discovery coming out of a Baltimore City High School caught up in a scandal. Project B...

January 8, 2022

First Hispanics, and now Asians, too?

Once upon a time, Ruy Teixeira was the darling of the left, and especially the "demographics is destiny" wing of the Democrat party.  This is because Ruy once predicted that Hispanics would eventually make the Democ...

January 7, 2022

Chicago's teachers and US presidential leadership

We can safely say it's been a rough start for President Biden.  Just check the approval polls a year later: 42.5!  This number confirms that the only people supporting the president are his family and those on the party...

January 6, 2022

Elon has lots of money, and the Chinese have zero freedom

We now call Tesla a Texas company, or at least they have a big facility here.  So I guess that entitles us to offer the management a few opinions.  I saw this on The Dallas Morning News: On Monday, The Wall Street Journa...

January 5, 2022

January 6 will come and pass quickly

In a couple of days, it will be January 6 plus 1, or the first anniversary of what they call the "insurrection," a threat to democracy, and the day that the world came to an end.  Well, that's what you'll hear on the ...

January 4, 2022

Chicago is #1 — and we mean homicides

Up in Chicago, the news about homicides is not good.  This is a report from John Boch:   Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot might not have shouted “We’re Number One!” while pumping her fist as the clock ...

January 3, 2022

I wasn't the only one tuning them out

A year ago, I got out of Twitter, committed to watching less cable news, and just tuned out a lot of media.  In short, I just felt that there was more noise than news. It turns out that I was not alone.  Check this out fro...

January 2, 2022

The #1 reason the UN has no credibility whatsoever

What do China, Cuba, and Russia have in common?  They sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council and violate human rights.  It is a travesty, as Virginia Kruta counts the Top 10: 10: Pakistan 9: Mauritania 8...

January 1, 2022

2022 will not be fun for Biden

What do you do when you are down in the RCP average of polls?  He is at 43, a good number if you are competing for the home run lead but a terrible approval number. Can he turn this around?  Not in the short run....

December 31, 2021

Everybody was talking Madden in Mexico

We just flew home from a vacation in Mexico.  Unlike the thousands who cross the border on a daily basis, my Mexican-born wife (legal resident) and I (naturalized U.S. citizen) had to take a COVID test 24 hours before the flight home....

December 20, 2021

Merry Christmas and enjoy your holiday

We are going away for a couple of weeks and want to thank American Thinker and our readers for a fun 2021. Enjoy this wonderful holiday with your family. This is a message for all of you from Father Gerald E. Murray, the pastor at Hol...

December 19, 2021

Enough with the impeachments already

Most of us were sitting in front of the TV or listening to the radio as I was on this day in 1998.  I went jogging and heard the final vote about a mile from home.  It was historic: a U.S. president impeached: After near...

December 18, 2021

Everybody is talking about Democrats and Hispanics going separate ways

Over the last few months, talking about Hispanics is suddenly in the news.  Maybe that Wall Street Journal poll got everybody talking, with a 37-37 tie for who should run Congress.  Maybe Rudy Teixeira, the man...

December 17, 2021

It's your message, Democrats

Yesterday, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she does not understand where the lawlessness is coming from.  She was talking about all of those attack on shops in San Francisco.  Maybe Mrs. Pelosi finally noticed when the mob...

December 16, 2021

50-50 is bad, especially if one of them is a Manchin

My guess is that millions of centrist Democrats living between the coasts are sending Christmas cards to Senator Joe Manchin of "almost heaven" West Virginia.  So far, Manchin has been saving the Democrats from themselves and...

December 15, 2021

Rudolph goes woke, and the North Pole is melting with anger

As the world turns, we've just learned from the Babylon Bee that Rudolph is now Rolanda: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer received praise for taking a stunning and brave stance against outdated binary gender stagnation by changi...

December 14, 2021

What a shock: Crime up, Biden down

A new poll has bad news for President Biden.  It sure looks as if Americans are in a bad mood, from filling their gas tanks to buying foodstuffs or feeling safe from criminals.  This is from ABC News: President Joe Biden...

December 13, 2021

Triple-attack on the family budget

Some of us remember the last major battle with inflation in the last year of President Jimmy Carter.  It was devastating on families by making everything more expensive, from gasoline to buying a home. It looks as though the current batt...

December 12, 2021

Michael Nesmith and growing up with a sister who loved The Monkees

The Monkees were a '60s pop-rock band with Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Michael Nesmith (from my state of Texas). Tork and Jones passed away a few years ago. Nesmith died a couple of days ago at 78. Who remembers The Monkees? We...

December 11, 2021

A couple of things for Democrats to think about

On the day that a new poll shows Governor Greg Abbott up by 15 over former congressman Beto O'Rourke, we also saw this from Rudy Teixeira: Here are ten points drawn from available data about the views and voting behavior of th...

December 10, 2021

Go west and abort

Maybe we finally have the answer to overturning Roe v. Wade. According to a news report, California has come to the rescue of Roe, or something like that.  Check this out: With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion ...

December 9, 2021

Will someone ask Jen about the boy swimming as a girl?

Here is a super-simple question for the next White House press session: what does President Biden think of the man swimming as a woman and winning all of the titles?  Jen Psaki, President Biden's spokesperson, should have some...interes...

December 8, 2021

Jim Acosta flunked history quiz

Jim Acosta does not have President Trump to kick around anymore. Nevertheless, he is still as crazy as ever. Yesterday, he said that Senator McConnell would end the filibuster if he could. What’s wrong with that? Well, it’s wrong; totally...

December 7, 2021

Stop talking about Trump...say some Democrats

Not long ago, it was the Democrats singing Trump and January 6 "all day and all of the night."  Then Virginia and gasoline prices happened, and politics is suddenly local.  This is from Stephen Green: So f...

December 6, 2021

The latest episode of 'Everybody Hates Kamala'

Between gasoline prices and V.P. Kamala Harris's polling problems, don't be surprised if the press secretary announces next week that the DoJ is going to investigate the 2020 election results to see if President Trump should be returned to th...

December 5, 2021

The Biden gas pump is killing the family budget

What a difference a year makes, especially when it comes to gasoline prices.  Who remembers the good old days?  Let's drive on Memory Lane with The Washington Examiner: When Biden took office, the United States ...

December 4, 2021

Casual Friday in the age of Biden

A few years ago, a Mexican friend said that he did not wear his better watch in public or walking from the parking lot to the office.  Why not? I asked.  He answered bluntly that he feared that someone would grab his watch an...

December 3, 2021

Not a good time to stop the game

The 2021 baseball season had a happy ending when the Atlanta Braves brought the title to the same city denied the All Star Game over the Georgia election reform law.  It appears that the brief era of good feeling is over because owners...

December 2, 2021

Kamala may not be happy to see December

The "Kamala is a problem" song is getting as repetitive as "Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude..." The Democrats are in panic mode over Vice President Kamala Harris.  To say the least, many Democrats are worried abo...

December 1, 2021

Shut up and drive your electric car!

Once upon a time, a presidential Cabinet officer would have been fired or under media siege for saying something this stupid. Let's hear from the man known as Mayor Pete: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stresse...

November 30, 2021

McConaughey, Abbott, and Beto size up the Texas governor's office

It's final: Matthew will not run for governor of Texas. This is from The Texas Tribune: Instead of running for office, McConaughey said he would continue to support "entrepreneurs, businesses and foundations that I believe are lead...

November 29, 2021

If you hate it, then you need to pack up and go

During the Thanksgiving recess, I learned that "the stolen land crowd" is back.  I first heard of this during the immigration marches of 2007. As you may remember, they were claiming back then that some of the U.S. Southwest wa...

November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving 1863: A message from President Abraham Lincoln

Let me wish you and your family a happy Thanksgiving.  We should remember the words of President Abraham Lincoln from October 1863.  They set the table for what we now call Thanksgiving, and the message is just as current as ever....

November 24, 2021

Go, Kyle, go!

We can say a couple of things about the Rittenhouse verdict.  First, the jury saved our legal system.  They followed the law, were not intimidated by the mob outside, and delivered the correct verdict.  Professor...

November 23, 2021

Does Beto O'Rourke think distance from Biden will help his campaign in Texas?

It did not take long for Mr. O'Rourke to distance himself from President Biden — less than a week, to be exact.  This is from MSN News: "This campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden, it's not going ...

November 22, 2021

Are MSNBC advertisers watching what they are sponsoring?

My guess is that MSNBC hosts know that nobody is watching them and that they have to make outrageous remarks to get attention.  At the same time, do the advertisers on these shows know what the hosts are saying about their fellow ...

November 21, 2021

Rittenhouse vs. Biden, the next thriller

Back in August 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden compared Kyle Rittenhouse to a "white supremacist."  Why?  Does Mr. Biden know Kyle personally?  The answer is no, but that's what many did ...

November 20, 2021

Mexico's cartels did not get AMLO's 'hugs, not bullets' memo

A couple of years ago, President López-Obrador said something about promoting hugs rather than bullets as his plan for halting Mexico's notorious cartels. It went like this: Prior to becoming president, AMLO promised...

November 19, 2021

It's the same old song, but not by the Four Tops

We've been here before.  Gasoline prices go up, and a Democrat president wants to throw the DoJ at the oil companies.  This is from the Washington Free Beacon: Gas prices in the United States reached a seven-yea...

November 18, 2021

Obama magic not pulling the rabbit out of the hat

As we asked following Virginia and New Jersey: Will any Democrat invite Mr. Obama to campaign for him anymore?  The magic is gone, or something like that.  They are not fainting anymore.  Nobody is saying he walks on wat...

November 17, 2021

Breaking up is not very hard to do

Down in South Texas, strange things keep happening.  I mean strange if you are a Democrat and grew up believing that your party had a lock on the vote. On the day that former representative Beto O'Rouke announced his candidacy f...

November 16, 2021

The Joe & Kamala Show

Strange things are happening, and it does not get any stranger than The Joe and Kamala Show.  On Sunday night, CNN got everyone excited with a front-page website story about the knives out in the White House.  It must ha...

November 15, 2021

I guess that's what happens when no one is watching

For some time, especially since President Trump left office, we've speculated about CNN.  How long can they keep losing viewers?  Well, the answer may be coming.  More correctly, a CNN shake-up ma...

November 14, 2021

Russia hoax was the journalism version of check kiting

The Russia hoax, as President Trump correctly called it, is turning out to be a legal problem for some and a credibility collapse for journalism. It was check kiting, as any old banker can tell you: The scheme usually involves several ch...

November 13, 2021

Everybody around Biden needs to go back to Econ 101

What was the first thing you learned in that Econ 101 class that you were required to take in school?  My guess is that the professor explained "supply and demand."  My professor was a wonderful gentleman from Korea...

November 12, 2021

Is Kamala like Spiro?

What else could go wrong in the first year of Biden?  Could V.P. Kamala Harris soon a get a visit from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that sort of goes like this?  Madame Vice President, you need to step as...

November 11, 2021

Baseball and Veterans' Day

The gods of baseball rekindled my love for baseball.  I got a bit soured a few months ago when a weak commissioner couldn't stand up to the wokes.  He should have told the wokes to go to an "expletive deleted" place ...

November 10, 2021

It's my body, and I'll vax if I want to

Let me tell you upfront that I got vaccinated last April.  I'm not anti-vaccine, but I do think that people should have the last word on what goes in their bodies. In other words, I find all this talk about mandates very troubling....

November 9, 2021

Kamala at 28% and off somewhere where no voters live

Vice President Kamala Harris is off to France, or so we understand: Vice President Kamala Harris's third foreign trip will see her grapple with the migrant crisis — in Europe. The veep travels to France on Monday for four days ...

November 8, 2021

Will any Democrat ask Obama to campaign again?

For years, we've heard about the magic of Obama.  At the same time, Obama failed to deliver votes in another competitive campaign. This is from Jeff Greenfield back in 2015: As historians begin to assess Barack Obama's ...

November 7, 2021

The polls did not see New Jersey

On Tuesday evening, I anticipated a Youngkin victory in Virginia.  Like most of you, I did not really pay attention to New Jersey.  Maybe I was reading too many stories and polls about New Jersey staying blue again.  The...

November 6, 2021

The Texas Democrats need the issue

We learned that the Biden DoJ is going after Texas again.  The issue now is the election integrity law signed by the governor.  You may remember that it was this law that had Democrats flying to Washington, cat...

November 5, 2021

To pay or not to pay — that's the question

We understand that President Biden was not briefed on that submarine deal and how France would react.  President Biden called it "clumsy," whereas the French called it something you can't say in front of nice ladies....

November 4, 2021

Wokesters, you have a problem...

From Minneapolis to Virginia to Atlanta, it was a bad night for the wokes.  I think President Biden was tempted to turn Air Force One around and go back to the climate change meetings in Europe. In the baseball world, the Braves won the ...

November 3, 2021

Maybe it's time to rediscover the train

Like a lot of kids, I loved trains.  Over time, the train went out of style, except for a few times that I took the Baltimore-New York express on business trips.  It was convenient and dropped you off within walking distance of yo...

November 2, 2021

Don't mess with her cubs

My late mother must be enjoying the governor's race in Virginia.  I think she would tell me something like "don't mess with the lioness's cubs" or "attack my kids at your peril."  One of my favorite...

November 1, 2021

They don't want to remain in Mexico

 We just learned that the Mexican government offered visas to some in the latest caravan.  This is the story:      A massive caravan of thousands of migrants has rejected an offer of humanitarian visas for some of...

October 31, 2021

Joe's polls may be low, but the media's are worse

We've been focused on President Biden's collapsing polls.  It's the definition of free fall, to say the least. The media are also having a "trust" problem, and I don't mean CNN's ratings.  As ...

October 30, 2021

Wonder what the coach thinks of the professor?

Wonder what former Coach Jon Gruden thinks of this college professor?  They took the coach out for misogynistic and homophobic language and mocking some of the players kneeling.  I am not defending Gruden...

October 29, 2021

Dear Papa Francisco: Stand up for the babies

On Friday, President Biden will meet with Pope Francis.  Back in the USA, many of us are hoping Pope Francis uses this face-to-face meeting with a Catholic president to make a point about abortion.  How much longer can the Church ...

October 28, 2021

The shootout at La Malquerida

We've been busy following caravans traveling through Mexico to the U.S.  This week, we got a reminder that violence is still out of control south of the border.  This is a post by Jeremy Kryt: Two foreign female tour...

October 27, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving -- if you can afford it

In a month, we will get together for Thanksgiving.   Last year, we had to worry about COVID and getting too close to grandma.   This year, our problem is a bit different.  In other words, will we be able to afford "Turke...

October 26, 2021

The title of admiral goes woke

What happens when a boy running as a girl beats a girl in a track and field tournament?  Well, a boy denies a girl a trophy or in some cases a scholarship.  I remember when boys denying girls trophies was called sexism or some oth...

October 25, 2021

The gods must be happy that Atlanta is in

The 2021 season started with Major League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.  As we understand, Manfred cracked when he heard that Stacey Abrams and Reverend Al Sharpton were on hold...

October 24, 2021

Condi Rice gets it right on The View

Maybe it took a woman who grew up in the South to make this point.  Former secretary of state Condi Rice was right on target at The View: Rice brought up her upbringing in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. Still, she did not think the wa...

October 23, 2021

What will General Milley tell the Chinese general now?

As I hear, the CNN town hall meeting was boring and very boring.  I did not watch it live but saw video clips on the internet and read the play-by-play reports from Bill O'Reilly. Maybe the most controversial answer was Pre...

October 22, 2021

This is why they keep him away from the media...

A year ago, the Biden 2020 electoral strategy was to hide, blame it on the pandemic, and let Trump do all of the talking.  The strategy was made possible by an assist from a media hysterically obsessed with everything Trump. The strategy...

October 21, 2021

Everything is a mess, but at least we have a transgender admiral

It was nine months ago this week that Joe Biden became president.  To say the least, it's been a mess and getting messier, from inflation to supply chain issues to a lawless border and the president dropping dramatically ...

October 20, 2021

We found the VP...in another video

Kamala Harris has been hard to locate lately.  We did see her in a video for kids or a movie that may be released soon under the title of "The Kam from Outer Space," a follow-up to "The cat from outer space." ...

October 19, 2021

Shouldn't Pete's 'husband' be changing the diapers?

We live in interesting times. Enter our secretary of transportation.  He's been missing in action during the supply chain crisis on the grounds that he is on "paternity" leave.  Two months on leave when ships...

October 18, 2021

You can't please the immigration activists

By any standard, President Biden was the answer to so many activists' prayers.  After all, didn't he open the border after saying no such thing during the campaign? Well, President Biden now faces major backlash from open borders...

October 17, 2021

Is Joan Baez's 'Dixie' next on the cancel list?

Back in October 1971, Joan Baez had a big Top 10 hit called "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."  The original version was by The Band, but it was Baez who scored the big hit on the radio.  It is a song about...

October 16, 2021

Baby hearts will keep on beating in Texas

Late Thursday night, a friend texted me the latest about the Texas abortion law in the courts.  This is the story:  Texas can continue banning most abortions after a federal appeals court rejected the Biden administration...

October 15, 2021

There goes ‘Brown Sugar’

Back in the early 1970s, The Rolling Stones released one of their best and most rhythmic songs:  "Brown Sugar."   It was the lead song on the "Sticky fingers" LP, an album as well known for the cover photo...

October 14, 2021

Coach Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs talks Columbus and forgets China

Another Columbus Day and another day to hear from the wokes about the man who landed here more than 500 years ago.  It's amazing how poor Christopher gets blamed for everything.  Hard to believe that Columbus harmed Latin...

October 13, 2021

Gruden out...is Clark Kent next?

How far do we go?  I guess that we go back as long as it takes to bring down whomever we want to bring down. According to the latest from "the cancel culture," Jon Gruden wrote some mean things about ten years ago. ...

October 12, 2021

Democrats surprised that the GOP is acting like a majority in Texas

Down in Texas, we are talking about A&M defeating # 1 Alabama and redistricting.  The first one is easy but the second one is a bit controversial. The Texas "maps" came out and apparently will survive the partisan...

October 11, 2021

Glad that Columbus came along

Happy days are here again.  It's another Columbus Day and an opportunity to remember everything that sailed with him. In 2017, President Trump signed a proclamation for Columbus and it did not blame Christopher for a darn thing. Let...

October 10, 2021

A man called Spiro

Maybe it's another urban legend but I heard it many years ago. On this day in 1973, The Supreme Court was hearing some oral arguments, the Reds were playing the Mets in the National League Championship Series and the game was interrupted ...

October 9, 2021

We expected this 'rain delay' here in Texas

As expected, a federal judge came to the rescue of the Biden administration and stopped the Texas heartbeat law. This is the story from The Texas Tribune: A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday as par...

October 8, 2021

McAuliffe is reading Biden's polls

For the record, Virginia has disappointed me before.   So I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for good news next month.  Maybe President Biden's problems will help us in Virginia, according to Paul Beddard:...

October 7, 2021

My mother the terrorist

Like many of you, I love the fact that there is an editor who reads my drafts.   It makes me a better writer, to say the least.   I've come to the conclusion that the Biden White House needs someone to edit their mes...

October 6, 2021

Remember when girls went to the bathroom to powder their noses?

We've come a long way from "double dates" and girls saying that they had to go to "the ladies' room" to powder their noses?  I can recall many times when the two guys left at the table wondered about whatever the...

October 1, 2021

Hey, hey, we're the Haitians

A few minutes ago, I saw a trailer for the Monkees TV show: "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around." According to news report, there are a few more Haitians, to paraphrase the Monkees, "coming to your...

September 30, 2021

General Milley, Nancy is on line 1

The late Ralph Hall, congressman from Texas who started as a Democrat and ended up switching to the GOP, said this of Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles." Well, l...

September 29, 2021

Let's segregate like it's '48

I guess I've gone full circle.  Back in 1964, our family came to the U.S., and there was a lot of talk about the evil of segregation.  That was then, but this is 2021, and segregation is back, according to this news ...

September 28, 2021

Didn't anyone see the 14,000 Haitians?

Last week, we had dinner with Mexican friends who said two things about the border crisis.  First, they commented that Mexicans are sick and tired of foreigners walking through their country.  Second, our friends are not the only ...

September 27, 2021

Love those border agents

We love horses in Texas.  We love law enforcement officers.  And we really like it when law enforcement officers ride on horses.  Heck, we have a museum in Waco for the Lone Ranger, the most famous one on a horse. ...

September 26, 2021

Remembering when baseball was fun and not woke

Like many of you, I've spent much of the 2021 season avoiding baseball.  I guess that's my way of saying the commissioner cracked on moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta and the pace of the wonderful game has slowed to a crawl. ...

September 25, 2021

The Rev strikes out in Del Rio

As someone said, there is a huge demand for and a very low supply of racism in the land.  In other words, there are lots of people out there looking for racism here, there, and everywhere. Enter Reverend Al Sharpton. ...

September 24, 2021

A strategy or just plain incompetence?

Over the last few weeks, I've heard some say that this is a strategy or plan to fill the country with potential Democrat voters.  Maybe that was the plan they were hatching in January but put me down among those who think these are...

September 23, 2021

It's a bit too late for that

Maybe Meghan McCain was the ultimate anti-Trumper, a daughter reacting to a foolish attack on her father, a hero to many of us.  Yes, it was foolish for then-candidate Trump to say, "I like people who weren't ca...

September 22, 2021

The disbarred back in the courtroom

It's been a fun year down here in the Lone Star State.  We lost electricity in February, the opposition refused to participate in the legislative session over an election law, the Rangers will lose 100 games, and now everybody is gettin...

September 21, 2021

I haven't heard so much about inflation since 'My Sharona'

If you remember "My Sharona," then you remember the last time we were talking about inflation.  Let me remind you that that "one-hit wonder" The Knack, scored that back in the summer of 1979.  It was a high-ene...

September 20, 2021

A Cuban visitor in Mexico raises a few questions

During my time in Mexico, I had lunch with a Mexican businessman and asked him about his country's relationship with Castro's Cuba.  I asked him, what's the big deal?  What does Mexico get out of it?  He...

September 19, 2021

Another old-guard general died in Cuba

It's been a tough summer for the old guard in Cuba.  They are dying so quickly that many are wondering if someone is poisoning their "cafecito," or maybe it's COVID.  Who knows for sure?  The truth is, ...

September 18, 2021

The answer is not blowing in the wind

Over in Europe, they're learning a bitter lesson about so-called alternative energy.  This is from the Wall Street Journal: According to the Wall Street Journal yesterday, due to a rare lack of North Sea wind, already hig...

September 17, 2021

What Joe Biden's botched pullout now means to most Americans

As I recall, President Obama ended the Iraq War 10 years ago. We returned in 2014 and are still there. Will we watch a repeat performance and return to Afghanistan? According to a new poll, a majority of Americans believe that we are going back: ...

September 16, 2021

Maybe we don't all eat 'huevos rancheros' for breakfast

As a Cuban who grew up in the U.S., I've learned how different Hispanics are.  For example, Mexicans eat "huevos rancheros" for breakfast, and Cubans eat "tortilla de huevos."  They are both eggs, but with ...

September 15, 2021

The big white dress

Yesterday, I saw a photo of Miss Sandy O, the young lady, as Senator Joe Manchin would say, who represents a district in N.Y.  She was wearing a fancy big white dress promoting the slogan "tax the rich."  It dr...

September 14, 2021

Woman manhandled and where is the outrage?

A few days ago, reality hit us between the eyes.  We saw what happens when a man competes against a woman in a wrestling match? This is the sick story:      Alana McLaughlin choked out Celine Provost in the second rou...

September 13, 2021

Biden should listen to Bill Maher

Over the last few days, we've seen a couple of interesting stories about the crazy left. First, Bill Maher, the HBO host, admitted something fascinating: When people say to me sometimes, "boy, you go after the Left a lot these days, ...

September 12, 2021

The most famous name from the planes on 9/11

It was 20 years ago this weekend, but we are reminded of something new with every recollection of that terrible day. Many years ago, Barbara Olson was a guest commentator on FOX and CNN, married to former U.S. solicitor-general Theodore "Ted...

September 11, 2021

The other 9/11, over in Chile

Over in Chile, they remember another anniversary — of the 1973 overthrow of President Allende. Back in 1970, Salvador Allende was elected in a very controversial three-way race that ended up in the Chilean supreme court.  The ...

September 10, 2021

Stay away, Joe

Stay Away, Joe was an Elvis movie about a half-breed who returns to the reservation.  Maybe Senator Elizabeth Warren should watch it and learn something. "Stay away, Joe."  Yes, stay away from the 9/11 celebratio...

September 9, 2021

What if the postwar German government had been full of Nazis?

Let me take you back to the years following World War II.  What would have been the Allied reaction if the new German government was staffed by former Nazis or people close to Hitler?  How would that have gone down?  Do ...

September 8, 2021

Now Portland is lecturing Texas

Sorry to hear that the city of Portland, Oregon will cut off trade and travel with Texas, as we see in a New York Post story: The city of Portland, Oregon, announced it intends to ban trade and travel to the state of Texas in response to th...

September 7, 2021

'DNC, We Have a Problem'

Readers may remember the famous line from Apollo 13:  "Houston, We Have a Problem."  Maybe you remember the line in 1970 or from the movie in 1995.  Either way, it's become a line for the ages. My guess ...

September 6, 2021

A pay-you-to-stay-home Labor Day?

Over the years, we've celebrated Labor Day in one of two ways.  We either have high unemployment, like 1982, or a strong hiring market like 2019.  It's a bit different in 2021, as we see in the latest jobs report...

September 5, 2021

Roe didn't settle anything

On Saturday, the Dallas Morning News ran an editorial about the new Texas abortion law.  It basically said the new law won't change hearts and minds.  It may not change hearts, but it may keep a few beating. Back in my...

September 4, 2021

Texas abortion law derangement syndrome

Let's add another derangement syndrome to the list. As you remember, it all started with the late Charles Krauthammer back in 2003, when he gave us Bush Derangement Syndrome: The acute onset of paranoia in other...

September 3, 2021

Impeaching Biden?

In the last two years, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and the Democrats abused the impeachment clause and turned it into nothing more than a political hammer against President Trump.  That was then, and this is now.  My guess is that ...

September 2, 2021

Did Roe just get effectively overturned?

A few months ago, Governor Greg Abbott signed the "heartbeat law," and everyone on the left was screaming about going to the courts to fight for "reproductive rights."  Frankly, I thought we'd be in the courts by now...

September 1, 2021

And now for the refugees

And now for Chapter 2 — the refugee story.  Over the weekend, I heard someone on TV talking about Europe potentially flooded with new refugees.  He based his prediction on what happened after President Obama left Iraq and un...

September 1, 2021

How long do Democrats expect anyone to sit and listen to Joe Biden?

Once again, President Biden addressed the nation in the afternoon. I remember when presidents gave those speeches in prime time or at a time when people are actually watching TV. So Joe is on TV again, and most people didn't watch him. I listened...

August 31, 2021

I thought everyone wanted to get out of Afghanistan...

In the interest of full disclosure, I supported leaving a force and air base in Afghanistan.  This is not because I believe in "endless wars," but rather because I believe in "endless terrorism."  In other word...

August 27, 2021

The Supreme Court just pulled Biden out of a hole

Another day, and another defeat for President Biden in the courts.  This is from Adam Shaw: The Supreme Court's ruling late Tuesday, which ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico policy, ma...

August 26, 2021

I guess we'll go back to talking Three Wise Men on January 6

As a kid growing up in a Cuban Catholic home, I remember waking up on January 6 and rushing to see gifts the Three Wise Men had left us.  Kids in the U.S. had Santa Claus, and we had Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, the three...

August 25, 2021

It depends what the definition of 'stranded' is...

To be fair, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has the worst job in Washington, D.C.  She has to explain the unexplainable.  On Monday, she had an exchange with Peter Doocy, who is apparently the only reporter with a pulse...

August 24, 2021

The 25th Amendment is about physical incapacity, not Biden's incompetence

Back in my college days, a fellow student asked the professor about the 25th Amendment and he said something like this:  "What happens if the president suffers a stroke and can't return to the office?  Or is a vegetable?" W...

August 23, 2021

'Stand by your man' not something Kamala does well!

Former Secretary Clinton set the tone back in 1992: "I'm not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette." It looks as if we are watching Kamala's version of Hillary's line.  Of course,...

August 22, 2021

Delaware is beautiful this time of year...but...

The president and first lady are back in Delaware and singing along with Perry Como:     Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware What did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware... According to news reports: ...

August 21, 2021

New Taliban same as the old Taliban

The Taliban are back, and everyone desperately trying to get out knows it.  I understand that a woman threw her baby over the fence into the hands of a U.S. soldier.  Yes, that mother knows what's coming, and she wants her bab...

August 20, 2021

Will the Durham Report get here soon?

Back in 1975, fans waited several days for Game 6 of the World Series.  It rained a lot in Boston, and both teams, and millions of fans, weren't sure if baseball would ever be played in the legendary Fenway Park.  Well, Game 6...

August 19, 2021

A bit of the Bay of Pigs in Kabul

Like most Cuban-Americans, I grew up hearing stories about the Bay of Pigs from April 1961.  Back then, a president made a bad call, left a bunch of men on the beach, and the U.S. suffered a humiliating defeat.  My fellow Cuban-Am...

August 18, 2021

The real fraud of 2020

Fraud and 2020 are a popular theme among many who voted for President Trump.  Yet I'd rather talk about a different fraud or one where the evidence is clear. We saw a lot of disappointment from the media about what jus...

August 17, 2021

Biden should fire his entire national security team

We heard in 2020 how Joe Biden would walk into the presidency as a man well versed in foreign policy.  The media repeated this over and over again, as we remember: Biden has been blasted by even liberal media outlets for the scene...

August 16, 2021

It didn't take long for Biden to screw up Afghanistan

As you may remember, former secretary of defense Robert Gates once said that Joe Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Let's add Afghanistan to that l...

August 15, 2021

The sailor and the nurse were not the only ones kissing 76 years ago

Back in mid-August 1945, President Truman announced the end of the Pacific War: In what later became known as Victory Day, an official announcement of Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies is made public to the world on Aug...

August 14, 2021

If you remember Saigon 1975

In a few days, we may see the Taliban flag over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.  What a way to remember the 20th anniversary of 9/11!  Once again, we defeated the enemy, stayed for a while, and then handed them the victory they couldn...

August 13, 2021

Did Cuomo open the door for Tara Reade?

As a wise man said, be careful what you wish for because you may get it.  Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo's exit open the door for Joe Biden's accuser, Tara Reade?  Well, Tara is hoping it does.  This is from The ...

August 12, 2021

No need for basics in Oregon

No wonder so many people in Oregon want to break away.  From Portland's nightly Antifa show to 24/7 woke, the once beautiful Pacific coast state is out of control.  It's a disgrace, as we see in this post from Jonatha...

August 11, 2021

Stop taking over or we will bomb you?

Gasoline prices, inflation, the border, and let's add Afghanistan to the growing list of things that did not have to happen.  According to news reports, the U.S. is threatening to send the B-52s to send a message: The U.S...

August 10, 2021

Didn't Obama realize that the photos would go viral?

Happy birthday, President Obama. Turning 60 is a nice thing, and we hope that you had a good time with Michelle and the girls. I do have a couple of questions: Did you have to do it at your mansion and show the word how profitable your post-...

August 9, 2021

Where is Raúl, and what happened to the Cuban generals?

It's been a rough summer for generals in Cuba.  They are dropping like flies, as we see in this report: Over just nine days this month, Cuban state media announced the deaths of five generals, sparking a wave of discussion and...

August 8, 2021

Remembering the good ol' days of pre-woke daytime baseball

Well, let me steal an idea from The Beatles and the first line of "Sgt Pepper's": "It was 33 years ago today that Wrigley turned the lights to play ... " Like many pre-woke baseball fans, I got ready to watch the national b...

August 7, 2021

Maybe we won't have Newsom to kick around anymore

"The times, they are a-changing" or something like that.  By the end of 2021, we may have new faces governing New York and California.  In New York, it's probably just another Democrat.  In California, it m...

August 6, 2021

Trump is still living rent-free in their heads

President and Mrs. Trump left town months ago.  Normally, the guy who loses sort of disappears from the conversation.  After all, he lost.  Yet Democrats can't stop talking about #45.  What's going...

August 5, 2021

Portugal is so nice this time of the year

The Texas legislators on a mission in Washington are once again in the news for something that has nothing to do with voting rights.  This is from Texas Scoreboard and was also on the metro section of the Dallas Mor...

August 4, 2021

How is it playing in Texas?

The current Texas legislative session will end on August 8 and the new one starts the next day.  The governor will continue to start new sessions until he signs the vote integrity law or they run out of money to support the Texas gang in Wa...

August 3, 2021

Woke women's soccer team loses to Canada, will have to fight for bronze now

On Monday morning, I checked the news and learned that Canada had defeated the U.S. ladies, 1-0.  I sent a note to a good Canadian friend saying "thank you."  For the record, I have always cheered for the U.S. ...

August 2, 2021

Will Bill Maher save the left?

President Biden and Speaker Pelosi are scared to death of the left.  We saw this in 2020, when they wouldn't condemn the looting and violence we saw from coast to coast.  They may never have said "defund the police,"...

August 1, 2021

When baseball was fun and not woke

A few days ago, I exchanged an email with a friend.  We are both big baseball fans but have not attended a game this year.  Wonder whether we are the only ones?  I don't think so. The beauty of baseball is its his...

July 31, 2021

Cuba needs a Pinochet referendum

Back in 1988, General Augusto Pinochet had run Chile for 15 years.  He overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 and took over a country in total chaos.  His free market policies turned Chile around and created an economy ...

July 30, 2021

How do you expect 8.5% and get 6.3%?

The latest GDP report will not help President Biden's approval numbers.  This is the story: Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic performance — grew at a 6.5% annual rate during the second ...

July 29, 2021

Beto on the last page of the metro section?

Like every morning, I picked up my Dallas Morning News and found little about the Texan Democrats "visiting" Washington. In the metro section, they had a story about Representative Philip Cortez rejoining the band. ...

July 28, 2021

Where are the Texas fugitives?

Every morning, I pick up my Dallas Morning News and check the front page.  I can't recall the last time that "The Texas 57" were a headline or front-page story.  I don't see them anywhere. ...

July 27, 2021

China to US: Move out of the way

The Chinese are not nice these days, according to news reports: A senior Chinese diplomat on Monday bluntly warned the visiting American deputy secretary of state, Wendy R. Sherman, that the Biden administration's strategy of pursuing b...

July 26, 2021

Nobody cares what Sue thinks

Once again, athletes have found a receptive media establishment for all their political philosophy.  I recall when they got questions about their sport: "Hey, Tom Seaver, did you think the manager was going to take you out of...

July 25, 2021

Inflation is the Democrats' nightmare

A few days ago, I argued on Spanish TV that the Democrats are using the "voting rights" topic to distract Hispanic voters.  In other words, distract them from the price of gasoline and a few other things going up at "la bodeg...

July 24, 2021

'Woke baseball' needs another pine tar fight

Baseball, the love of my life since I was a kid in Cuba, is now boring, and a "woke commissioner" does not help matters. The game is now about hitting home runs or strikeouts.  Complete games are now a thing of the past, replac...

July 23, 2021

This is why nobody watches CNN

We've posted this year about CNN's ratings collapse. Nobody is watching the network. President Biden's town hall at CNN is Exhibit A of why you see people reading books rather than watching "the first name in the news...

July 22, 2021

Maybe Megan and her pals need to focus on soccer

The U.S. soccer ladies had a little surprise this week.  This is the story: The United States women's soccer team didn't just lose their Olympic opener to Sweden 3-0 here on Wednesday. They were dominated in the kind of sh...

July 21, 2021

Are there any WIN buttons in the White House basement?

Do you remember the WIN button from the Ford presidency?  WIN was Whip Inflation Now, a campaign by the Ford administration to attack inflation.  Inflation came back in 1979, and the button was not big enough to deal with tha...

July 20, 2021

The Texas fleebag stunt is backfiring on Democrats badly

Before we heard that now five Texas Democrats had tested positive for COVID, the Dallas Morning News had called on the gang to come home. It was a good message that reminded them that most Texans are not consumed with Twitter o...

July 19, 2021

One giant leap for mankind and a guy hiding in a hotel

Who knows what song Neil Armstrong and Senator Ted Kennedy were listening to this week in 1969?  My guess is "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans, a song that topped the charts, sold millions of copies, and that no one rem...

July 18, 2021

I remember when we learned math to get ahead in life

To be honest, I hated math.  It was my least favorite subject in school, and I took the required courses to graduate.  During one frustrating bout with my math homework, my teacher gave me a motherly look and said: "I know yo...

July 17, 2021

Reagan in Detroit

Where did 41 years go?  On this day in 1980, we watched Ronald Reagan accept the Republican nomination. During the speech, Mrs. Reagan sat by him looking great.  President and Mrs. Ford were in the audience ...

July 16, 2021

The commissioner of Baseball and the other man-made problem

We must be living in the age of man-made problems.  First, President Biden and the border.  Second, MLB commissioner Manfred and the 2021 baseball season.  In both instances, a weak leader couldn't say no t...

July 15, 2021

Maybe they should work on their message

Down here in Texas, we are watching real people seeking freedom in Cuba and clowns talking voting rights in Washington, D.C. It's an embarrassment to listen to these Democrats talk about their plight.  In Cuba, they arrest you....

July 14, 2021

Remember the victims of July 1994

Another year and another anniversary.  We can add this one to the shooting of 1996, when a civilian plane was shot down by the regime.  As people march in Cuba, we remember the ones who were killed this week in 1994.  Th...

July 13, 2021

Dear wokes: What flag are they waving in Cuba?

Maybe Cuban kids in the future will remember this weekend's marches as the beginning of a new chapter in the island's history.  We certainly hope so.  It looks from here that the government has few options. ...

July 12, 2021

Don't blame it on the news consumers

Imagine that an organization published a poll saying that most flyers think the airlines don't care about them.  Then imagine that the airlines came back saying the flyers are stupid or living in the land of conspiracies. Well, we ha...

July 11, 2021

More statues come down, but will anything improve in the Black neighborhood?

They made some news at Charlottesville over the last few days: The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Saturday. The...

July 10, 2021

Keeping a force in Afghanistan is not committing to war

President Biden explained his Afghanistan policy this way: I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome. The United States cannot afford to remain teth...

July 9, 2021

Governor Abbott was not kidding about another session

Here we go again.  The legislators are back in Austin and Governor Abbott has a full plate for them:    We are hearing a lot of reactions to this menu.  The Democrats are angry because they believe ...

July 8, 2021

Thumbs up for Governor Pete Ricketts

As someone very familiar with the evil of communism, let me say thumbs up for the good people of Nebraska. This is from Fox: "The Chinese Communist Party is recognizing their 100th anniversary, and they are going to talk about all the ...

July 7, 2021

Leave the country if you hate it that much

Back in my younger days, I remember bumper stickers that said, "America: Love it or leave it."  We need to bring them back. Over the July 4 holiday, we saw awful news stories. First, it was Democrats taking issue w...

July 6, 2021

This is what happens when you let him hide in the basement

For the record, I am not a psychiatrist or expert.  I just see a president of the U.S. who has to check his 3x5 cards before answering a question about Russia.  Here is the story:    President Biden appeared to check...

July 5, 2021

Justice Breyer staying around?

According to news reports, the justice ain't going nowhere.  On the other hand, maybe Justice Breyer wants to hire staff for his successor.  This is the report: Justice Stephen Breyer has hired a full complement...

July 4, 2021

July 4, 1939: Lou Gehrig said goodbye

Besides Independence Day, we celebrate another anniversary on July 4 -- that of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.   It happened on July 4, 1939, when Gehrig was honored by the Yankees.    Starting in 1925, Lou...

July 3, 2021

Maybe the anti-Trumpies should ask for a refund

For some time, we've heard that New York is investigating the Trump Organization.  Well, I have to believe there are a lot of people wondering why they invested themselves in another anti-Trump fantasy. This is how Howard Kurtz ...

July 2, 2021

If you had written Trump's comeback script

Let's go back to the day that President Trump left office and flew to Florida.  What if I had written a post titled: "What has to happen for President Trump to run in 2024?" Let's start with gasoline prices. ...

July 1, 2021

Another sign of the destruction of Venezuela

We have seen this movie before.  Socialism destroys a country, and its people look for freedom.  My parents and the three of us lived it in the mid-1960s. Check out Venezuela and the people fleeing the wonders of soci...

June 30, 2021

Kick 'flashy lips' Gwen Berry off the US team

What's worse than LeBron James?  How about another athlete giving us unsolicited political opinions? The latest clown is a young woman named Gwen Berry who disrespected the U.S. flag.  This is the story: Berr...

June 29, 2021

Isabel, the other Perón lady

We all know the story of Evita Perón, perhaps the most influential woman in modern Argentina. They made a Broadway play and movie about her!  By the way, the movie did not misrepresent her beauty and class.  She m...

June 28, 2021

Kamala lost in the West Texas town of El Paso

Many years ago, Marty Robbins sang about being in love with a Mexican girl in the West Texas town of El Paso.  The next country song will be more like "clueless in El Paso." At one point, things got so silly that Repr...

June 27, 2021

Texas Democrats say, Pay me for not finishing my job!

Texas politics has been fun to watch lately. Do you remember when the Democrats walked out of the legislative session and Governor Abbott threatened to cut their pay?  Guess what!  He cut their pay, as we see in this...

June 26, 2021

Democrats go left, but Hispanics are not rushing to join them

In a couple of recent posts, we've discussed how Republicans in Texas won elections in areas with significant Hispanic populations, from McAllen to Fort Worth to Arlington to that special election in the 6th District.  In other wor...

June 25, 2021

A speech that will end up selling more guns

President Biden does not have a clue about the crime wave in the U.S.  Or maybe he does but can't admit that it was his party that led crime to get out of control from Seattle to Minneapolis to Chicago to Baltimore to New York...

June 24, 2021

Goodbye Columbus — hello Columbus

Wonder why the parents are screaming from coast to coast?  Remember the one about a school district eliminating the names of the holidays from the school calendar?  Well, the names are back, because the parents exploded. ...

June 23, 2021

Then they took a poll

Not long ago, the Democrats walked out of the Texas legislative session over the voting law.  They made a bunch of claims about voter intimidation and all the other stuff you are probably familiar with. Then someone took a poll, and the ...

June 22, 2021

Laurel wants to travel to Tokyo as a girl

Well, maybe Laurel will put down the weights someday and aspire to be a "birth-ing" person.  After all, doesn't every person want to birth a baby? We are talking about Laurel Hubbard, the newest triumph for those who tell u...

June 21, 2021

From mothers to birthing people

How can you tell that the Democrat Party is in total collapse?  Check out Secretary Xavier Becerra answering some questions from Congressman Tim Walberg:  "Secretary Becerra, is there a reason the agency is using th...

June 20, 2021

It does not get any better than a perfect game on Father's Day

Happy Father's Day.  This is a great Father's Day story to share with your father or sons.  We lost our father five years ago, but my sons will confirm that I've recounted this baseball tale a few times. Before he b...

June 19, 2021

Hong Kong calling the NBA for a little help

It's clear that the NBA is a big hit in China, and I'm okay with that.  We've also seen a lot of outrage from the NBA about police brutality in U.S. cities.  Unfortunately, LeBron and pals are mute when it co...

June 18, 2021

No Communion for Joe and Nancy

We're always skeptical of polls, but this one confirms what I hear from the people I go to Mass with.  This is from Catholic Vote: CatholicVote released a poll Tuesday showing a strong majority of Mass-attending Catholics beli...

June 17, 2021

Wait to see if Russia, China, or Iran makes a move down the road

As expected, the media are obsessed with the Biden-Putin meeting.  They are already telling us that the world loves Biden because he is not Trump.  It's only a matter of time before we hear that the world's bad guys will c...

June 17, 2021

Arlington, Ft. Worth, and now McAllen, Texas

My late mother had an expression whenever I had a morning question about the weather.  She would say in Spanish something like "open the window and see for yourself." Well, Democrats need to open the window and see what is happ...

June 15, 2021

Mom knows best

Back in 2010, I remember the Tea Party rallies and commenting about the number of mothers and young children present.  We had a huge rally here on July 4, 2009, and it looked like Family Day Picnic at a local park. It looks as ...

June 14, 2021

Good news from Baltimore

A month ago, I went to Maryland to see my ailing mother.  I learned from friends that Baltimore has a terrible police shortage.  They need 1,100 but have only 500 officers.  It's happening because the political ...

June 13, 2021

The left is going “loco” over Abbott’s border wall

Who knew that the Hispanic left would go “loco” over a building a border wall? Down in Texas, Governor Abbott announced plans to build a wall. This is the story: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his state has allocated $1 billion ...

June 12, 2021

The words that get better with age

Time flies, but the threats from the left keep on coming.  As President Reagan himself said: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be foug...

June 11, 2021

López-Obrador was not nice to 'Kabala'

Down in Mexico, they are talking about the meeting between President Andrés López-Obrador and V.P. Kamala Harris.  Let's just say that some noticed a lack of courtesy.  This is from Therese Margolis, the chi...

June 10, 2021

Is Maria the name of her latest flame?

Who knew we'd be talking about Elvis and V.P. Harris's trip to Mexico?  We all remember that Elvis classic "Marie's The Name, His Latest Flame." Maybe V.P. Harris learned of her latest "journalist" flame i...

June 9, 2021

Hispanic voters go GOP-ish in Texas

Over the weekend, McAllen, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexican border, shook up the experts.  This is the story: Javier Villalobos defeated Democrat Veronica Vela Whitacre by 206 votes in a runoff election over the weekend, according ...

June 8, 2021

López-Obrador and the mid-term Mexican blues

They had the Mexican version of a mid-term election south of the border.  In the end, it looks as though President Andres López-Obrador did not get a super-majority and will have to compromise to get things done. This is from...

June 7, 2021

Joe talks, and it's over for the Biden agenda

Over the last few months, Senator Joe Manchin has been the talk of Washington.  He represents West Virginia, a state that President Trump carried by over 35 points.  Over the weekend, Senator Manchin ...

June 6, 2021

Fauci a victim of too much Fauci

A year ago, I told a friend that Dr. Fauci should be more like Dr. Birx.  I'm not talking about wearing a scarf, but rather the fact that Dr. Birx was more discreet in her public comments.  Not Dr....

June 5, 2021

Sign me up so I can vote for Reagan's re-election

We remember this weekend the 17th anniversary of President Reagan's death.  It was not a shock because the President's health had declined.  Nevertheless, it was a sad day, and the funeral was worth watching. By no...

June 4, 2021

Google's not very diverse

Over at Google, they are cleaning up an office and looking for a substitute.  Here is the story: Google announced it's removing its global lead on diversity strategy and research from his post after it was discovered he'd ...

June 3, 2021

Angry Democrats in Texas

You probably heard about the Democrats walking out over the weekend.  Yes, they are furious that the Legislature passed a voting bill that they don't like, or more specifically did not have the votes to stop.  Like a...

June 2, 2021

And now Peru and Chile

A couple of our South American neighbors shared some bad COVID news over the weekend. In Peru, the COVID death figures were recalculated up, according to news reports: Peru on Monday more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll,...

June 1, 2021

The 'I' word that will bite your budget

Are you ready for a summer of inflation?  I am not, but it may be coming anyway.  This is from Fox News: A survey from the University of Michigan on Friday showed consumers' one-year inflation expectations shot up to...

May 31, 2021

It's important to remember why we have a day off

Like most of you, I will enjoy a "family day" and eat too much.  We have a grandson now.  This is also the first holiday that I won't have my parents around.  My mom died in mid-May and my father back in 20...

May 30, 2021

Where we you Memorial Day weekend 1977?

Let me paraphrase Wolfman Jack and ask you: where were you in '77?  More specifically, where were you Memorial Day weekend 1977? We remember this weekend the 44th anniversary of Star Wars. In my mind, the movie was OK, but the r...

May 29, 2021

I guess Caitlyn Jenner is the wrong type of transgender

It was bound to happen. In other words, the left would tell us that Caitlyn (Bruce) is a Republican and cannot be a transgender or something like that.  This is from news reports: Though Caitlyn Jenner would be the first transgend...

May 28, 2021

Go north and get your 'vacuna'

Two months ago, a good friend and his wife flew to Dallas from Mexico City.  We were happy to see them but surprised as well because of COVID. So I asked him: "What brought you to Dallas?" He winked and confirmed what I susp...

May 27, 2021

Bye-bye Trump, bye-bye CNN

The collapse of CNN continues.  Wonder what their advertising rate card looks like?  This is from Jordan Lancaster: During the primetime hours of 8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. (EST), CNN lost around 65% of its total viewers...

May 26, 2021

Won't you please, please help me?

A few weeks ago, I visited Maryland and reconnected with some old friends.  We exchanged email addresses and business cards, shared family photos, and heard the latest news from Baltimore. The city has 700 police officers but i...

May 25, 2021

Baseball is boring, and I love the game

As you may know, I was born in Cuba loving baseball.  My parents followed different baseball teams in Cuba, and that was part of their chemistry when they were courting.  A young couple arguing about baseball?  Yes, thos...

May 24, 2021

Ladies and gentlemen this is impeachment #3

Like the song goes:  "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number Five".   Keep the wonderful rhythm of mambo on the soundtrack and just say:  "Ladies and gentlemen this is impeachment # 3". What do you ...

May 23, 2021

Chicago has sunk a lot since our first visit there

Back in 1967, our family lived in Wisconsin and drove to Chicago two or three times a year.  Our destination was a Cuban store where my parents bought foodstuffs, books, LPs, and a birthday present for whoever was celebrating soon. ...

May 22, 2021

A little too much Harry and Megan

A few years ago, we saluted Prince Harry for serving in Afghanistan.  He could have stayed home because the UK government was concerned about the prince being captured and turned into a PR victory for the enemy.  Nevertheless, he serve...

May 21, 2021

President Bush is right to blame the criminal elements

Former President George W. Bush is on a book tour.  I have not read the book but do plan to check it out. President Bush made a lot of sense when he spoke about the border crisis and the people profiting from it.  This is ...

May 20, 2021

Pre-Castro Cuba: The years of real independence in Cuba

It was 119 years ago today that the Cuban flag went up on the island after the four-year U.S. occupation and 400 years of Spanish rule.  By the way, both of my paternal grandparents were born in 1892, and their birth certificates showed tha...

May 19, 2021

What's wrong with keeping an infant's heart beating?

The left is on insane overdrive over the news that the Supreme Court is going to look at Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a major abortion case from Mississippi.  The law intends to stop aborti...

May 18, 2021

Beto's chances

Looking ahead to 2022, the Democrats in Texas are in a weak statewide position.  They can win districts or turn cities like Dallas blue.  At the same time, they can't win statewide or turn out voters, as we saw in the rec...

May 17, 2021

Who put the 1979 calendar on the wall?

After a couple weeks off to say goodbye to our 92-year-old mother, it sure feels like it's 1979 all over again.  I saw gas lines on the East Coast, and I have not experienced those since every song on the radio was a disco arrangement....

May 3, 2021

Dems shut out in Texas special election

Let me tell what just happened in a special House election in Texas's Congressional District 6.  Let's call it our Texan version of a jungle primary with 23 candidates.  In the end, the final three were two ...

May 2, 2021

It's Sunday, and pro-abortion President Biden will take Communion again

As a Catholic, let me deliver this message to all of those fellow Catholics who are disappointed with President Biden: what were you thinking? Suddenly, there are pro-life Democrats disappointed with their party.  Again, didn't you k...

May 1, 2021

The blues are getting worried about the border mess

Over the last few weeks, we've heard from a lot of border mayors and congressmen about the mess in their neighborhood.  My guess is that a lot of them would have preferred for V.P. Harris to come to Laredo, Texas instead of having ...

April 30, 2021

Biden on The Twilight Zone

President Biden's speech was long and boring, and that's the best I can say about it.  It got to the point that I was counting the number of times that Speaker Pelosi got up to applaud or how often V.P. Harris nodded her approv...

April 29, 2021

The NFL draft goes woke?

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised.  After all, this is the same NFL that blessed professional athletes who disrespected the U.S. flag. The latest from the "wokes" is their reaction to the NFL draft or the potential top choice...

April 28, 2021

Girl don't come

Watching V.P. Harris avoid the U.S.-Mexico border reminds me of that song by Sandie Shaw from the golden age of Top 40 radio: You wanna see her You wanna see her, oh yeah So you wait, you wait and wait Girl don't come......

April 27, 2021

I guess you didn't watch the Oscars, either

They had a big event on TV last night called the Oscars.  Well, as Bill Clinton would say, it depends what the definition of "big event" is.  Is it really a big event if nobody watched it? According to the early ...

April 26, 2021

Portland's mayor should resign first

The invoice is coming, and it's going to be big.  Last summer, cities from Portland to Minneapolis let mobs destroy their buildings and even kill police officers for no reason at all.  The political class backed down and ...

April 25, 2021

How much farther to go before woke Coke hits rock bottom?

Maybe we should call it "the pause that doesn't refresh" anymore.  At least, a lot of people are saying that as they overlook Coke for something else.  This is the latest from the long list of companies who listen to...

April 24, 2021

President Bush should have known better

In my book, President George W. Bush was the right man on the job when we got hit by terrorists in 2001.  He fought back, took out Saddam, and left the country safer than he found it.  Over the past day, President Bush took back s...

April 23, 2021

Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, and President Nixon

Between trials and border issues, Cuba was in the news this week. We also remember former President Nixon who was a key figure in those early days of the Castro regime. First, it was the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs.  I remem...

April 21, 2021

The Democrats created the mess

No matter how the jury decides the Chauvin case, it's interesting to hear Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota say this: "We can't live like this[.] ... We simply can't. But we can't have thousands of businesses burned a...

April 19, 2021

It's time for a serious Democrat to call for Waters's resignation

Once upon a time, there was Senator Joe Lieberman speaking out against President Clinton on the floor of the U.S. Senate.  It was 23 years ago, but it seems a lot longer than that.  Or what about that incident ...

April 18, 2021

Can you blame Raúl for leaving?

According to news reports, Cuba's chief, Raúl Castro, is resigning and passing the ball to the younger generation.  This is from NBC News: Raul Castro confirmed Friday he is stepping down as the head of t...

April 17, 2021

Pelosi says no to court packing vote, but...

What's worse than the Democrats endorsing court-packing?  The answer is a Democrat speaker of the House who won't put it to a vote.  This is from news reports: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a p...

April 16, 2021

Court-packing would be the last straw

According to news reports, the Democrats are talking court-packing again.  They plan to increase the Supreme Court to thirteen justices by adding four new ones.  This did not work well for President Roosevelt in 1937,...

April 15, 2021

Marching with George Harrison on Tax Day

It's April 15, and we get to celebrate another Tax Day in the U.S.  Our return was submitted a week ago, so I won't be rushing to the post office today.  As I understand, Texans got an extension because of t...

April 14, 2021

No piñata for your birthday this year

Yesterday, I was speaking with a friend in Mexico who complained about how COVID had impacted their way of life.  He said schools are closed, the business sector is losing jobs, and piñatas are out. "Piñatas?" I s...

April 13, 2021

The spring of stupid mistakes

Perhaps we will look at 2021 as the year of stupid, unnecessary mistakes.  How else do you describe two big decisions of 2021? First, the Biden administration goes full "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and cancels the Trump policie...

April 12, 2021

VP Harris is hiding because she's got nothing to say

President Biden is leading the league in not answering questions.  V.P. Harris is not doing much better.  As you may remember, Biden put V.P. Harris in charge of the border situation.  So far, Harris has said nothing at ...

April 11, 2021

Crime is up, and Democrats still blame guns

It's the same old song.  The Democrats want to talk only about guns.  We have a problem is cities run by Democrats, and blaming guns is rather disingenuous.  This is a shocking report by Sharyl Attkisson: F...

April 10, 2021

Arizona gives Democrats a taste of their own sanctuary medicine

It finally happened.  Arizona has gone "sanctuary" and wait until the Democrats go ballistic, screaming that laws have to be respected in the U.S.  This is from Fox News: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a g...

April 9, 2021

Atlanta listening to Alfredo

What happened to that business we were going to get because of the All-Star Game?  My guess is that a lot of minority business-owners are asking that question in Atlanta.  Gone is the All-Star Classic and lots of deposits in check...

April 8, 2021

Will Joe Biden be playing Pinocchio in the remake?

It's been a tough couple of weeks for the man who pledged to unite us.  It looks from here that he is getting a lot of "Pinocchio" awards for his public statements, from the Georgia law to his jobs claims. This is from Glenn Kes...

April 7, 2021

It's a lot more than a game

Over the years, the MLB All-Star Game was that contest between the two leagues in the middle of July.  It used to be an afternoon game and an opportunity for a lot of players to take a break from the daily grind.  It als...

April 6, 2021

NPR takes back the Hunter Biden story

Well, who knew that Hunter Biden was going to write a book and talk about it on TV? It caught NPR off base, and they had to issue the following statement (via Steven Nelson at the New York Post): National Public ...

April 5, 2021

RIP, my good friend Bob Jagers

We learned that Bob Jagers passed away.  He was 99.  Mr. Jagers had been very sick for weeks. Mr. Jagers was quite a celebrity in our area, a member of our parish and wonderful storyteller.  For years, he visited the ...

April 4, 2021

I remember when math was boring but not racist

Back in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I loved my algebra teacher but hated the subject.  She was a wonderful lady who would always remind me that 2 plus 2 equals 4 whenever I would try to say something confusing.  She would say there is n...

April 3, 2021

Remember when baseball brought us together?

Back in the fall of 2001, baseball made us forget the madness of 9-11.  We saw President Bush throw a strike before Game 3 in Yankee Stadium.  It was followed by two great games, including that Derek Jeter walk-off home run in Gam...

April 2, 2021

John and Yoko inspired the modern Democrats

Back in 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono created a nation that might sound familiar to anyone who watched a bit of the Democrat Convention last summer.  It went like this: Nutopia is a conceptual country, sometimes referred to ...

April 1, 2021

The overreaching Joe

This week, President Biden will propose what they call an infrastructure plan.  At $2 trillion, it's one gigantic overreach and tax increase.  I guess they don't get why he is in the White House.  This is from...

March 31, 2021

Hard to follow what the teachers' union is thinking

We just learned that Mexico has revised its COVID deaths figures upward — in other words, 310,000, according to a BBC story.  For comparison, the U.S. has recorded 549,000 deaths with a population of 330 million.  Mexico ...

March 30, 2021

Will Representative Cuellar get the Profile in Courage award, too?

We've heard that Senator Mitt Romney will receive the "profile in courage" award for voting to impeach President Trump.  Yes, the left loves him now after trashing the rich businessman who tied the dog on the fa...

March 29, 2021

Who knew that our kids grew up watching such awful films?

Well, you learn something every day.  I just learned that Dumbo, Peter Pan, and Cinderella are sending our kids bad messages.    This is from Disney:    Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Aristocats, Swiss Family Robinson, La...

March 28, 2021

This is not immigration or political asylum

Our family came here from Cuba back in 1964.  We came here legally and because of the generosity of the American people.  They offered us an opportunity to come here and start a new life.  Last, but not least, we came to...

March 27, 2021

Biden press conference: Did they want an audience?

Do you remember the last time that a president held a noon Central press conference?  It happens, but most presidents do it on prime time to connect with a large audience. Why did the White House put President Biden in at 10 A.M. Lo...

March 25, 2021

When you lose the Dallas Morning News...

The Dallas Morning News once supported Republicans, like Gov. Mitt Romney in 2002, and of course President George W. Bush, President George Bush, and President Ronald Reagan.  In 2016, it went for Hillary Clinton, and then in 2018...

March 24, 2021

Roberta jets off to Mexico

The Biden administration is sending Roberta Jacobson, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and now Biden "border czar," to visit Mexico.  I guess that the legation will talk about the border "challenge." Re...

March 23, 2021

Me racist, you racist, we racist

The bad news is that the cancel culture is doing too much canceling.  The good news is that this has all the makings of a circular firing squad story.  At least the bullets are aimed at each other. The Teen Vogue stor...

March 22, 2021

The two-song band

Like the band that can play only two songs, the Democrats are on stage.  Remember the band from The Blues Brothers' hilarious film?  Jake and Alwood played "Rawhide" and "Stand by Your Man" becaus...

March 21, 2021

The media are pushing narratives rather than facts

Years ago, I remember watching someone say on TV that too many newsrooms write the headline and then tell the reporters to suit the facts to it.  I don't know how rampant that is, but the Atlanta shootings make me wonder. We were tol...

March 20, 2021

Biden should have listened to Cuellar

Representative Henry Cuellar's district is right on the border. He can literally touch Mexico. Like so many who've grown up down there, Rep. Cuellar understands the area. He knows that many good people cross over to work and shop. H...

March 19, 2021

Chris and Don going Nilsson

Did you hear the rumor that a 21st-century version of Nilsson's "Without You" is about to be released by a new duo?  Yes, I'm talking about that classic from 1972 that goes like this: I can't live, if living is with...

March 18, 2021

Now you tell us, Joe

The situation on the border must be hurting politically.  On ABC, Biden told the folks to say home and "don't come." How convenient!  Imagine if President Trump had told the migrants to stay on their towns. ...

March 17, 2021

So the border mess is Trump's fault?

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised.  Doesn't everything end up being Trump's fault? The latest from the Biden White House is that they inherited a mess on the U.S.-Mexico border.  Again, isn't everything Trump'...

March 16, 2021

Pope Francis is about to lose a lot of leftist support

For some time, I've heard many leftists express support for Pope Francis.  My guess is that it has a lot to do with "climate change" and "open borders."  After all, what's more convenient than the head ...

March 15, 2021

Governor Abbott is right about the border

It's refreshing to hear Governor Greg Abbott of Texas challenge the chaos (and lawlessness) at the U.S.-Mexico border.  We are beyond a debate about kids on the border.  This is about encouraging criminal elements in Mexico, a...

March 14, 2021

How long before CNN starts screaming that Biden stole the election?

Back in December, I was talking to a friend who works for a TV station in Cleveland.  He reacted like this to the election: "I'll probably be driving Uber if Biden wins this election." Well, my friend is OK, but lots of col...

March 13, 2021

A speech that did nothing to unite us

Before President Biden spoke, I hoped he would take a second and recognize the Trump's administration's vaccine success and the work of thousands in dealing with a once in a century pandemic. Well, so much for wishful thinking. Biden is...

March 12, 2021

How Biden helps criminals in Mexico

President Biden's border policy is getting mixed reviews south of the border.  The biggest problem is that opening the border may be helping criminal elements in Mexico.  This is from my friend Allan Wall: On th...

March 11, 2021

Is the NBA 'woking' to death?

The numbers are in for the NBA All-Star Game: The TV ratings are in for the NBA All-Star Game, and the numbers are brutal. According to Anthony Crupi, the game averaged a pathetic 5.94 million viewers on TNT this past Sunday.  Ju...

March 10, 2021

A perfect storm at the border

Who remembers the Democratic then–candidate for president, Gov. Bill Clinton, and his adventures with Haiti in 1992? Clinton criticized President Bush Sr.'s policy in Haiti, and then Haitians got on boats after the el...

March 9, 2021

Sorry, but I'm not interested in Harry and Meghan

A few years ago, Prince Harry impressed many of us by going to Afghanistan as a military man.  He could have stayed home or found some reason to avoid military service. As I recall, the British royal family had been concer...

March 8, 2021

Manchin does have a 'D' after his name

The Democrats got their COVID bill, and West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin was one of the 50 votes that made this possible.  Yes, Sen. Manchin objected to a few things, but in the end, he was there to pass a mammoth bill, th...

March 7, 2021

No NBA for me this weekend

My favorite NBA story was watching Lew Alcindor make his league debut with the Milwaukee Bucks.  It was so exciting back then, even after Alcindor became Jabbar and signed with the Lakers a few years later.  I was a fan,...

March 6, 2021

A Neanderthal fights back

Up in Montana, Governor Greg Gianforte took exception to being called a Neanderthal.  He was on Fox News and said this: Gianforte explained that hospitalizations are down and Montana is "open for business"...

March 5, 2021

Invisible Joe

Back in the days of black and white movies, Hollywood released The Invisible Man.  It was the story of Dr. Jack Griffin, a chemist who discovered the secret of invisibility and then went a little crazy.  Sounds like a cool in...

March 4, 2021

The border tests positive

We recently had dinner with some Mexico City friends.  It happened on the day that Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas is now open.  During our conversation, we were reminded of just how bad the COVID situation is in Mexico,...

March 3, 2021

Dr. Seuss and the coming blue-red divorce

Let's add Dr. Seuss to the long, and growing, list of bad books.  This is from Fox News: The sales of six Dr. Seuss books will cease over racist and insensitive imagery, according to the business that preserves and protects th...

March 2, 2021

Joe will meet López-Obrador

According to news reports, President Biden and President Andrés López-Obrador of Mexico will chat soon.  This is from Yahoo: President Joe Biden plans a virtual meeting Monday with Mexican President Andrés Man...

March 1, 2021

Yes, the US should boycott the Winter Olympics

In 1980, President Carter pulled U.S. athletes out of the USSR Olympics.  I felt bad for the dedicated athletes but understood the reasoning after the Soviet Union failed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. In 2021, w...

February 28, 2021

Democrats waste everyone's time with COVID cash bonanza giveaway bill

Years ago, I heard that Senator Bob Dole said this about legislating: All you need to know is this.  You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes. Let me borrow a bit of Senator Dole...

February 27, 2021

Is the border about to explode?

The news from the border is that the kids, and lots of them, are coming.  This is from Axios: A Customs and Border Protection staffer told top administration officials Thursday the agency is projecting a peak of 13,000 unaccompani...

February 26, 2021

Kristof got it right

Honestly, I was not expecting this, but Nicholas Kristof is right about school openings. This is from Fox News: "Many Democrats seemed to be more suspicious of in-person schooling last summer when President Donald Trump calle...

February 25, 2021

Vicente Fox sticks his nose into the El Chapo case

Vicente Fox got off to a great start by winning the 2000 presidential election and putting an end to 70-something years of one-party rule in Mexico.  It was historic and very promising but did not quite work out as most ...

February 24, 2021

Mr. President: Remember 'The Miami 4' killed 25 years ago today

We hear that President Biden wants to change the tough approach that the Trump administration set against Cuba.  He wants dialogue, whatever that means, with a dictatorship.  How can you talk to a regime that locks up its own peop...

February 23, 2021

The pause that doesn't refresh

Well, let me show my age by recalling that famous Coca-Cola ad about the "pause that refreshes."  I guess it's been around since 1929, so my parents probably remember it, too.  I recall that they had a Spanish versio...

February 22, 2021

Could we come together as we did 40 years ago?

Back in 1980, many of us spent President Washington's birthday watching an Olympic hockey game.  It went into history books as the "Miracle on Ice."  They even made a movie out of that day when the U.S...

February 21, 2021

People remember Joe DiMaggio, but they should remember Tommy Henrich, too

We remember Tommy Henrich, who was born in Ohio this week in 1913 and died in 2009.  Heinrich played on some of the greatest Yankees teams of the 20th century.  His teammates were Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon, Bi...

February 20, 2021

11 Central Time will never the the same without Rush

Like many of you, I was shocked to hear about Rush Limbaugh's death.  By coincidence, I had just tuned in when they announced that his wife would say something.  For a second, I thought she had news of Rush undergoing som...

February 19, 2021

Who knew that Obama?

My friend in Chicago called to inquire about our electricity issues.  I guess everybody is talking about Texans freezing at home.  The good news is that most of us are okay now.  He added that Chicago is now looking...

February 18, 2021

Democrats talking Trump, parents talking schools

During the CNN town hall, Joe Biden answered a question by saying that he was tired of talking about President Trump. Maybe he is, but his fellow Democrats can't stop talking about the guy living in Florida.  From Geor...

February 17, 2021

Mother Nature sent Texas a reality check

Well, the lights went out and came back and went out and came back.  Welcome to mid-February 2021 in Texas. Why in the world did this happen?  I thought that we had all that oil in West Texas!  What are we doing using...

February 16, 2021

What's next for Trump Derangement Syndrome?

It did not take long for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a few others to express their disappointment with the second acquittal.  After all, the lady from San Francisco is now 0 for 2 in the business of impeaching and removing a president. ...

February 15, 2021

Good news for Yankees' spring training games

Move to Palm Beach, taxpayer, and bring your business, too.  Yes, they are heading south and probably never going back, according to this story in the New York Post: While the majority of those flocking to the area from the N...

February 14, 2021

Four-dollar gasoline coming to a station near you?

The Biden administration may soon have another headache to go along with that crisis on the border.  We're talking about $4-a-gallon gasoline.  This is from Trending Politics: After four years of stable gas prices un...

February 13, 2021

Tents in South Texas

Down in South Texas, we are seeing a surge in illegal aliens, according to new information reported in the New York Post: The Biden administration is facing fresh spikes of over 100 percent in illegal border crossings from this ti...

February 12, 2021

Will they mention Lincoln in San Francisco?

As San Francisco debates school name changes, we are reminded of how much this country has changed.  Maybe the country has not changed, but many people do not appreciate its heritage, such as Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, who is ...

February 10, 2021

Ask me about Trump in a year

The "we can't stop talking about Trump" pundit class is now speculating about his role in the party's future. For example, Sarah Baxter wrote this:  On inauguration day, Donald Trump left Washington on the presid...

February 9, 2021

We missed Fred Kaps and the Beatles on TV in Cuba

Much has changed in 57 years.  Perhaps the biggest change is that we had one TV in the living room back then.  This is probably why the Sullivan show was so popular — because it had something for everybody. ...

February 8, 2021

COVID across the border

Over the weekend, I met with a couple of Mexican friends passing through Dallas.  They were on their way to visit their daughter in Houston. To say the least, they painted a dire picture of COVID in Mexico, from access to the vaccine to ...

February 7, 2021

RIP, Wayne Terwilliger, baseball legend and Iwo Jima hero

We lost Wayne Terwilliger, a North Texas favorite, last week.  He served in World War II, played with Jackie Robinson, and coached in the majors and independent baseball in Ft. Worth.  This is from the local ob...

February 6, 2021

In the fight between Chicago teacher unions and the mayor, unions win

According to news reports, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is blaming President Trump for the state of affairs in the local schools.  What's new?  Isn't everything Trump's fault? Well, someone please tell May...

February 3, 2021

Don't forget about Buck O'Neill during Black History Month

We are celebrating Black History Month, and I hope we remember John Jordan O'Neil, Jr., known to most us as Buck O'Neil. Most of us learned about Buck O'Neil when he was a contributor to Baseball, the PBS documentar...

February 2, 2021

Will Tom Brady save the NFL?

Just saw a note that Tom Brady is not going to retire if he wins another Super Bowl.  He is 43 and wants to play until 45!  That's amazing and a reminder of Nolan Ryan, who was 46 when he retired in 1993. ...

February 2, 2021

Remember when candidates announced in February?

How did we get to the point where candidates are running for over two years and networks are scheduling debates so far in advance? Remember FOX and their August 2015 GOP debates or MSNBC with their Democrat debates a year before the party conventi...

February 1, 2021

The Dems care too much about the people in Gitmo

Not long ago, many Democrats were worried about the "human rights" of Gitmo terrorists.  They blasted President George W. Bush when he put them there and then when a few rough tactics were used to get information. They wer...

January 31, 2021

Is Joe Biden's presidency the reincarnation of Jimmy Carter's?

Back in 1976, I voted for President Ford after supporting Governor Reagan in the primaries.  It was a close election, but Texas and a few others went blue that year, and Governor Carter was in. Around 10 A.M. the next day, the elect...

January 30, 2021

The teachers' unions are their own worst enemies

The teachers' unions are not making a lot of friends these days.  Their insistence on keeping schools closed out of fears of COVID is damaging to children. And they seem to be going out of their way to blow up relationships...

January 29, 2021

Remember when the president brought us together?

We think of President Reagan as "the great communicator." Indeed, he communicated conservative ideas better than anyone.  Many of his speeches were memorable, from "the evil empire" to "tear down this wall."...

January 28, 2021

Remembering José Martí (1853–1895)

José Martí was born in Cuba on this day in 1853.  His parents were Spanish and settled on the island.  At the time, Cuba was a Spanish colony, and Martí's generation played a major role in the long an...

January 27, 2021

Senator Leahy will preside over the Trump impeachment trial?

The U.S. House did it.  The House managers walked over to the U.S. Senate and dropped off the article of impeachment.  In short, they're blaming President Trump for inciting a riot, but is that true?  Well, trut...

January 26, 2021

Hurting the girls by helping the boys?

Over the years, I have seen a few high school track and field events.  As I remember, the girls were over here and the boys over there.  They competed separately because they are physically different. Enter Biden...

January 25, 2021

It's the remittances, not poverty

We hear that President Biden and President López-Obrador spoke by phone.  According to news reports, the Mexican president said that the U.S. is offering US$4 billion to Central America. I guess that President Biden is hoping...

January 24, 2021

1954 was a great year for Hank Aaron

  We learned of Hank Aaron's death.   Many of us remember that Monday Night Game of the Week when Hank Aaron hit #715 and broke Babe Ruth's home run record.  Or, our parents remember his home run in 1957 to clinch ...

January 22, 2021

47 years, 50 million plus abortions

We recall today another anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.  Before the Roe v Wade opinion, abortion was a state matter or an issue settled by voters, not un-elected judges. My o...

January 19, 2021

It's more than Rasmussen

Over Sunday lunch, I mentioned to a friend that Rasmussen Reports reported that President Trump's approval was 48%.  My friend was shocked and so was I.  After all, this number comes two weeks after we've had not...

January 18, 2021

Let's come together by forcing girls to play with boys

The Biden unity train leaves on Wednesday at noon.  The theme is unity and coming together.   Unfortunately, the Biden team is planning to bring us together by tearing us apart. This is from the AP:     Tran...

January 17, 2021

Biden had better be ready for illegal alien caravans from down south

On Wednesday, our new president and first lady will do the traditional dance.  We wish him well because he is going to need a lot of help, especially when he finds out that the caravans are moving north again.  It's amazing ho...

January 16, 2021

Will anyone be on social media by summer?

On January 1, I decided to quit Twitter and cut back my Facebook time to sharing photos of my grandson with close friends and family.  As for Twitter, I found it a waste of time.   At first, I thought that I was going to lose c...

January 15, 2021

Be careful, Mr. Dorsey

Just saw an interview with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter.  He made an interesting admission:    "I believe this was the right decision for Twitter," Dorsey continued. "We faced an extraordinary and unte...

January 13, 2021

Bye-bye, 230

Over the last year, we saw cities burn, police stations destroyed, and now an attack on the Capitol. What do they have in common?  All of them were planned, executed, and shown "live" on social media. Who can forget people ...

January 11, 2021

Plug in your old fax machine

About 25 years ago, a late friend of mine started a successful information service about U.S.-Mexico trade.  He did it by faxing his subscribers a newsletter every Monday morning.  It was like getting American Thinker...

January 10, 2021

Glad I said goodbye to Twitter

We all have new year's resolutions, from weight loss to reading more books. In my case, I decided to get out of the Twitter world.  My decision was based on all the crazy stuff I was reading on Twitter and the obvious censorship...

January 6, 2021

The Three Wise Men make the Christmas season a bit longer

It's crazy but the Christmas music around here stopped on December 26th.  I joked with a fellow usher at the January 1st mass ("day of obligation as my parents say") that our church was the only place in town singing about Chr...

January 5, 2021

Pelosi and her House go mad!

Wonder how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will refer to her husband, the father of their children? The Pelosi story started its last chapter with more bizarre House rules, in another example of demonstrating that the lady from San Francisco is sc...

January 4, 2021

Senator Cruz is right to force the conversation

We're starting a rather consequential week, from the vote in Georgia to a fight over electoral votes not seen since 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes beat Samuel Tilden 185-184! My guess is that 2021 will not end like 1877, but who...

January 3, 2021

Remember when the Democrats challenged the electoral vote count in 3 elections over 20 years?

What do 2001, 2005, and 2017 have in common?  We inaugurated three GOP presidents, and Democrats challenged their electoral vote each time.  Yes, three for two, or three times for the last two GOP presidents sworn in. The ...

January 2, 2021

How did Biden pull it off?

The election was two months ago, and I'm still waiting to hear about a Democrat who beat a GOP candidate in a competitive election.  On the contrary, none of the Democrats who won in 2020 have a reason to send Joe Biden "a tha...

December 29, 2020

2020 has been rough on Cooperstown

Can you remember such a bad year for Baseball's Hall of Fame?  I can't remember another year when so many of the greats passed away. We lost Phil Niekro over the weekend: Niekro was inducted into Baseball's Hal...

December 28, 2020

No need to 'defund the police' in Portland

My guess is that serving as a police officer in Portland must have been a dream job at one time.  After all, what could go wrong in quiet Portland?  Where else could you find a beautiful city like Portland?  It had every...

December 27, 2020

Professor Beto will talk about winning elections?

Want to do something on Zoom next year?  How about taking a course from Beto? According to news reports, the former Congressman is now Professor O'Rourke at the LBJ School at The University of Texas: O'Rourke will teach...

December 26, 2020

Senator Cruz is right about the Iran and Paris deals

Back in 2017, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Change Accord and then the Iran nuclear deal. Shortly after the Paris decision, a friend from South America called me to express his dissatisfaction.  He basically sa...

December 25, 2020

Looking up to the moon and hearing Anders, Lovell, and Borman

A few days ago, I was sharing this story with two of my sons.  After all, they are part of a generation that does not listen to the car radio and certainly never the AM signal. 1968 was actually a very tough year for everyone. There were riot...

December 24, 2020

President Trump delivered the biggest Christmas gift of all

We think of Christmas as a time of gifts and giving.  I want to say thanks to President Trump for delivering the biggest gift of 2020 or the vaccine that every "expert" said would never happen so quickly. I agree with Mich...

December 23, 2020

What Melania should tell Jill

Can someone get First Lady Melania Trump a copy of Grover Cleveland: A Style in Courage by Allan Nevins"? According to Gromer Jeffers, Jr., who writes about Texas politics, this is what First Lady Frances Cleveland said to a staffer...

December 22, 2020

Still not affordable after all these years

We were too busy with COVID and the presidential election to remember an important date: the tenth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. How is the ten-year-old law doing?  Some polls show that many support its goals, but ove...

December 21, 2020

Parents want different choices in education

Over the last few months, I've heard more and more frustration with public education.  It started a few years ago with the bathroom debate.  It has now exploded with school closings because of COVID. No matter what, parents...

December 20, 2020

Remembering a busy week for President Bill Clinton in 1998

Twenty-two years ago this week, I was having lunch at a local grill and watching two scenes on the TV.  On one side, U.S. planes were bombing Iraq, and on the other, the U.S. House was voting to impeach President Clinton.  It was ...

December 19, 2020

Is Biden really going to reverse Trump's border policies?

On Thursday, I had a long phone conversation with a politician in Mexico.  Forgive me for using "a source familiar with the situation" rather than giving you his name.  Trust me that this guy knows the situation, and I c...

December 18, 2020

Is Trump winning the fraud argument?

President Trump has argued "fraud," and the voters are apparently listening: For the second day in a row, a new voter survey has found support for President Trump's vow to fight on with his challenge to the election, with more b...

December 17, 2020

Memo to Joe

The good news for Joe Biden is that he got 306 electoral votes this week.  The bad news is that the referee has not blown the whistle — i.e., the election won't be official until the U.S. Senate and Congress confirm the ...

December 16, 2020

Well done, Aggieland

As the father of a couple of Aggies, we generally follow Texas A&M stories in our home. This is a story that caught my eye recently: Campus Reform reported that Texas A&M Students For Trump President Dion Okeke was notified by th...

December 15, 2020

We need more pro-life black pastors talking

As you know, they have a big political double-header down in Georgia.  According to Trafalgar, Senator David Perdue is in a dead heat, and Senator Kelly Loeffler leads by 3.  Both Democrats are below 50% in a two-wa...

December 14, 2020

Enough about 'standing'...what about going around legislatures?

All of this talk about "standing" may be technically true, but the Texas plus 18 case needs to be heard.  In other words, who in the world is going to comment on violation of state laws?  Where does a state go to hold an...

December 13, 2020

Looking ahead to 2022

Don't look now, but we're going to start talking about 2022 pretty soon.  It looks as though the GOP will have a good chance of picking up the House and hold on to the U.S. Senate.  This is from David M. Drucker: ...

December 12, 2020

The taxes, they are a-changin'

What do you know?  Guess who is taking advantage of tax laws!  The answer is Bob Dylan. Why did he do it?  I guess Dylan was listening to his tax adviser, according to Fortune:   For a number of reasons, late 202...

December 11, 2020

Smile for me, my Dianne...

Once upon a time, many Democrats saw wisdom in Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  She was like the charming lady in that song by The Bachelors: You have lighted the road leading home Oh, pray for me, when you can (when you can) But no matter...

December 10, 2020

Cheers for my new congresswoman

On Election Day, Beth Van Duyne won Texas House District #24.  She ran a great campaign over Candace Valenzuela. Van Duyne painted Valenzuela as a "defund the police" Democrat and it worked. Yesterday, Representative-Elect...

December 9, 2020

Lots of cash but no flips in Texas

The election was a month ago, and Democrats are still trying to understand why so much money got them so few votes in Texas.  This is from the Dallas Morning News: More than $110 million in campaign cash was spent in Texas...

December 8, 2020

Who said that everything is over by December 14th?

A few years ago, I got interested in President Rutherford B. Hayes.  His presidency came to my attention because the 19th president is a huge hero in Paraguay.  Why?  He supported Paraguay's territorial claims and saved the co...

December 7, 2020

Do the 'DREAMers' really want DACA back before the Supreme Court?

Another judge and another opinion about DACA: U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn said he was fully restoring the eight-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program to the days before the Trump administ...

December 6, 2020

Democrats will get beaten even worse if they stick with socialists like AOC

Don't be surprised if Doug Schoen, Democrat consultant, adds Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" to the soundtrack of his new message to the Democrats.  Yes, Mr. Schoen wants Democrats to walk away as soon possible from ...

December 5, 2020

Shades of Mexico 1988 in USA 2020

Back in July 1988, I had a long business phone call with my late father-in-law.  I said goodbye and told him I was going to watch the Mexican elections on TV that night.  He said something that turned out to be prophetic: ...

December 4, 2020

The late Professor Walter Williams was right about poverty

We just learned that Professor Walter E. Williams passed away.  He was 84 and born in 1936. In my case, I got to know Professor Williams when a fellow conservative gave me Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Disc...

December 3, 2020

First burn the building, then steal the cars

Years ago, we lived in Wisconsin and drove up to Minneapolis to catch a baseball game. My parents loved the city and spent the whole drive home praising how clean and safe it was. Well, that was then and this is now. We watched Minneapolis burn...

December 2, 2020

A few more thoughts about Election Day

Election Day came and went, and the left did not have a good day, according to the New York Times: That dawning truth is evident in the narrower majority that House Democrats will hold in Congress next year, and especially in the blood...

December 1, 2020

Maybe AG Barr can name a special counsel on the 2020 results

Back in 1959, Elvis was doing his military service, so RCA released an L.P. entitled 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2.  It was a collection of his hit singles like "I Got Stung." Well,...

November 30, 2020

More intolerance from the people who preach tolerance

Just came across this gem from the University of Texas down in Austin.  Please check this out: The Autonomous Student Network in Austin, Texas, a group that was previously suspended from Twitter after posting private information b...

November 29, 2020

Maybe the soccer ladies should check out the NBA's ratings

Surprise, but the U.S. soccer ladies are back for another season or something like that.  Frankly, I did not know they were gone in the first place, but that's probably because I don't watch soccer.  The ladies now want al...

November 28, 2020

Stay home rather than go south

Over my 30-something years in Texas, I've learned this: 1. There are lots of tamales consumed in our area between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 2. Many Mexicans use "Navidad" to cross the border both ways. It's almost a guarante...

November 27, 2020

Obama wrong again

Once upon a time, retired presidents took long walks like President Harry Truman or showed up at baseball games like President George W. Bush.  It was seen as "unpresidential" for former presidents to stick their noses in the poli...

November 26, 2020

It's the part about giving thanks that matters most

It's Thanksgiving and time for "the wokies" to bring up white supremacy along with more about "the stolen land" theories.  It's also time to read a good article about what happened in Massachusetts many year...

November 25, 2020

No wonder so many in Oregon want out....

We learned that two Oregon counties want out of Oregon.  They want to join Idaho and hang around with people that they can relate to, not public officials who let Portland get trashed every night.   Governor Kate B...

November 24, 2020

The Supreme Court and new House are President Trump's immediate legacy

For the record, I'm hoping President Trump wins every challenge or the election goes to the House and he wins 26-24.  At the same time, it may not happen unless something changes very fast over the next couple of weeks. Nevertheless,...

November 23, 2020

Fools rush in: From Obama's Nobel to Cuomo's Emmy

Back in 2009, the "Nobelistas" decided to go full "anti–George W. Bush" and awarded the Peace Prize to Barack Obama.  It was so foolish that Nobel secretary Geir Lundestad admitted in 2015 that ...

November 22, 2020

It was a bloody communist who killed JFK

As a kid in Cuba, I sat with my father and watched Fidel Castro on Cuban TV talk about the Kennedy assassination.  I don't remember what he said, but my dad told me later that Castro was very nervous.  I guess he felt that Pre...

November 21, 2020

We learned who shot JR, but will we ever learn who voted for Biden?

The Dallas TV series was a huge success in the 1970s, 1980s, and even 1990s.  On March 13, 1980, the season ended with someone shooting J.R. Ewing, the Texas oilman everybody loved to hate.  The show's fans spent most of ...

November 20, 2020

The night they drove old Charlie down

To paraphrase the Band, it was the night that they drove Charlie Cook down.  I mean The Cook Report that predicted that Democrats would increase their majority by 10 to 15 seats. The prediction sounded so real that Democra...

November 19, 2020

Who wants Trump to concede?

The White House got some news about its challenge to the election results.  Let's look at this Politico post: A plurality of voters believe President Donald Trump should immediately admit defeat to President-elect Joe Biden...

November 18, 2020

Dallas turns blue and very unsafe

The Texas electoral map looks pretty red except for those blue squares in Dallas and other cities. Yes, Texas is starting to look a lot like other states where people live in Democrat cities, competitive suburbs and rural areas dominated by the ...

November 17, 2020

DACA back in the news

Back in June, Chief Justice Roberts wrote a DACA opinion that confused everyone.  In other words, the Court ruled on not the constitutionality of DACA, but rather the manner in which the Trump administration canceled it. ...

November 16, 2020

'Life after Trump': A trailer

You may remember that wonderful series: "Life after people."  Well, what about "Life after Trump"?  It may be more interesting than watching bridges collapse or lions walking down Wall Street. Let me be clea...

November 15, 2020

GA Senate candidate is everything voters rejected on election day

Whether President Trump wins or loses his election challenges, we can report that the left of the Democrat Party lost big.  They had a disastrous day to be charitable. So here comes Raphael Warnock to give us more of the message tha...

November 14, 2020

They get more 'loco' by the minute

Are we ready to cut a check to our fellow Latinos?  Well, a UCLA professor thinks so: A book titled, Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, written by University of California Los Angeles School of Law profes...

November 13, 2020

So Biden wants to change immigration rules in the middle of a pandemic?

According to news reports, wannabe president-elect Biden intends to undo much of the good work that President Trump did on immigration.  This is from CBS: After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his administration will m...

November 12, 2020

From Texas: Reds 10, Blues 0

It took a few days, and my congressional district was finally settled: the GOP's Beth Van Duyne defeated Democrat Candace Valenzuela.  Van Duyne will replace retiring Kenny Marchant, who had been around here for a while. Th...

November 11, 2020

Maybe we shouldn't project president-elects so fast

Back in 2000, I was analyzing the election results at the local Univision channel when the networks called Florida for VP Gore.  I reacted with shock by reminding everyone that Florida has two times zones and that people were in line v...

November 10, 2020

What happened in South Texas?

The GOP did very well in Texas.  It also did very well in South Texas, as we see in this report from The Dallas Morning News: While Biden carried the vote in the Rio Grande Valley, he did so with a much tighter margin than Democra...

November 9, 2020

AMLO is right about 2020

President Trump got an important moral assist from President Andrés López-Obrador of Mexico.  This is the story: "With regard to the U.S. election, we are going to wait until all the legal matters have been...

November 8, 2020

Celebrating, but the umps have not ruled on the replay

Can you imagine watching your favorite team on TV?  The runner is called safe at home, the local fans go crazy, but the umpires are huddling to watch the replay.  Then they announce that the runner is indeed out, and the home fans...

November 7, 2020

Count the votes and then fight

We woke up Friday morning to the news that former vice president Biden has leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia.  What does it mean?  It means he is leading, but it's not the final score. My suggestion to the Trump legal ...

November 6, 2020

Texas stayed red!

This is the electoral box score for Texas: President Trump plus 6, Senator John Cornyn plus 10, and every GOP member of Congress was re-elected. Maybe the moral of the story is that you can't buy Texas, at least not with a left-wing messa...

November 5, 2020

Bad night for Bernie, Sandy O, and Joe

As I write this, it appears that Joe Biden will be our next president.  Let me repeat "it appears," because it is not final, and I'm not conceding anything. Nevertheless, we may have a President Biden with a GOP Senate...

November 4, 2020

Let's remember Reagan while we wait for Pennsylvania

As we count the 2020 vote, let me tell you a story about another election that meant a great deal to me.  Like many Cuban-Americans, I had grown up hearing that it was better to vote Republican.  It was Ronald Reagan who took it t...

November 3, 2020

Maybe Biden will tell us after the election

Back in February, I appeared on the local Univision channel and was convinced that a strong economy would re-elect President Trump.  Little did I know, or anybody know, that we'd be talking about something called "COVID" ...

November 2, 2020

Trump 2020 — like Truman 1948?

This is a good time to remember another anniversary of Truman vs. Dewey, the biggest upset in presidential election history.  Or should I say the biggest upset until Trump in 2016? On Election Day 1948, most experts picked Governor Thoma...

November 1, 2020

RIP: The excellent movie Sean Connery's less known for

We learned that Sean Connery passed away.  He had turned 90 in August.  This is from the BBC obituary: Thomas Sean Connery was born in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh on 25 August 1930, the son of a Catholic fa...

October 31, 2020

A bad presidency for everything anonymous

For three years, maybe closer to four, we've read stories based on "anonymous" sources or my favorite "people familiar with the situation."  The net result was a bunch of anti-Trump stories that turned out to be...

October 30, 2020

It's time to give Jack Dorsey a haircut and a shave

Watching a bit of Jack Dorsey's appearance before the U.S. Senate left me with a couple of conclusions: First, Hollywood should contact Mr. Dorsey to play the role of Robinson Crusoe in their next film.  Doesn't billionaire Jack ...

October 29, 2020

Nobody got angry when Obama said the same thing

It's getting hard to be a teacher in our public school system, especially when you repeat what Obama once said.  Take a look at this story from Minnesota: Charles Glotta, a basketball, tennis and track coach in Fort Zumwa...

October 28, 2020

Biden totally confused on court-packing

Have you ever seen a man more confused than Joe Biden over answering the court-packing question? First, he was going to tell us after the election. Then he said that he'd put together a commission for recommendations. And now he is going...

October 26, 2020

Yes, I voted for President Trump in Texas

A few days ago, I voted for President Trump here in Texas.  My vote was about President Trump's accomplishments.  It was an easy decision to make.  (I should add that I was not a Trump-supporter in the 2016 primaries...

October 25, 2020

Seattle's Democrat mayor: Human rights abuser? LGBTs says yes

Sadly, the once beautiful city of Seattle is now a national joke.  The mayor let thugs run the streets and "occupy" a section of the town.  As expected, people are suing city hall or just packing up their businesses and ...

October 24, 2020

Trump finally got Biden to gaffe...

For months, the Biden campaign was based on not answering questions and keeping the media at bay. Well, it ended at the debate, when he finally had to say something beyond "Trump does not listen to science" or "I will be a president...

October 23, 2020

The left is alive and burning in Chile, too

What do Santiago, Chile and Portland, Oregon have in common?  They didn't have anything in common for a long time, until the radical left and the anarchists started burning everything that they could away with. Two Catholic Churche...

October 22, 2020

Jonathan, why did you wait so long to say it?

Former V.P. Joe Biden has been the de facto nominee since the spring.  Senator Kamala Harris was selected in August.  For months, Biden and Harris have been avoiding the press.  Suddenly, Jonathan Karl of ABC has had enough: ...

October 21, 2020

Twitter and Facebook got more people talking about Hunter Biden

Did Facebook or Twitter plan to kill the Hunter Biden story?  Maybe so, but they've accomplished the exact opposite.  In other words, more and more people are talking about it and wondering why it was censored in the first pla...

October 20, 2020

So Joe Biden goes under the radar for four days?

We have a debate on Thursday and one of the candidates is "cramming" for the exam, or something like that.  According to news reports, we are not going to see a lot of Joe Biden before he meets President Trump. So what...

October 19, 2020

Senator John James of Michigan?

We've been focusing so much on Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina that we may be forgetting that John James has a shot at flipping the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. This is from Ed Kilgore: ...

October 18, 2020

Happy anniversary #541 to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

On this day in 1469, 20-year-old Ferdinand of Aragon married 18-year old Isabella of Castile.  On the surface, it sounds like another wedding between a couple of young royals.  In reality, it turned out to be one of the ...

October 17, 2020

Help Wanted: A moderator who wants to moderate

For a couple of days, NBC promoted a town hall session with President Trump.  So I sat down to watch voters ask questions...voters who were constantly interrupted by Savannah Guthrie!  In other words, the moderator insulted t...

October 16, 2020

They love Amy

Can you feel their pain?  The charming Judge Barrett is driving the Democrats crazy.  First, she knows more about the law than the they do.  Second, the public loves Amy, according to a new poll: A Morning Cons...

October 15, 2020

Judge Barrett meets TDS

Let's hope that classes in the country are not watching the Supreme Court hearings.  Once upon a time, teachers would tune in to congressional hearings to teach about the wonders of our democracy.  What we've seen this wee...