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The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda....

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/12/2025 3:00:00 PM
      Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...The BBC vs Trump speech; NY City Mayor elect putting together a team; Trump foreign policy; Shutdown and the state of the Democrat Party; Veterans Day Plus other stories......     

The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda..

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/12/2025 1:46:34 PM

     Guest:  Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda...The BBC vs Trump speech; NY City Mayor elect putting together a team; Trump foreign policy; Shutdown and the state of the Democrat Party; Veterans Day Plus other stories......click to listen:Listen to "The week in review with Bill Katz the editor of Urgent Agenda" on Spreaker.

The War Was Lost On The Floor Of The Discotheque

K T Cat
11/9/2025 9:12:51 AM

The inimitable Victor Davis Hanson summarizes a crucial reason the Germans lost WW II here. If you don't want to watch it, it can be summarized in General Guderian asking the OKW how they planned to knock out Detroit after the Nazis declared war on America.Similarly, General William Tecumseh Sherman tried in vain to get through to the warhawks in the South before the Civil War.You people of the South dont know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization You people speak so lightly of war; you dont know what youre talking about. War is a terrible thing You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people[...]

X Is The Last, Best Hope For Freedom

K T Cat
11/6/2025 8:28:59 AM

First, here's the context.  FRANCE: In Paris, verses from the Quran are now being broadcast on loudspeakers in subway stations.But if Christians tried the same in Muslim countries, theyd be imprisoned or even killed.Why is this tolerated? pic.twitter.com/8UpLodRXqf Dr. Maalouf (realMaalouf) November 5, 2025   Make no mistake, the Catholic Church has been instrumental in importing the colonizers. In an attempt to generate a good meme for this, I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok for this.Generate a photorealistic image of a simpering Catholic bishop standing in front of a huge crowd of Muslim men praying on prayer mats, blocking a city street.ChatGPT and Gemini refused with this kind of error message.I cant generate[...]

Consider this

W.C. Varones
10/9/2025 10:07:25 PM
There are already 25 times more millionaires in the US than people who will ever be able to own one Bitcoin.

How do I love SPBC? Let me count the ways

W.C. Varones
10/2/2025 4:46:11 PM

     SPBC is the Simplify US Equity Plus Bitcoin ETF. Simplify is stock market genius Michael Green's (profplum99) place of business.SPBC was launched in 2021, near a Bitcoin peak with $100 million in assets. in the ensuing Bitcoin winter, SPBC was largely forgotten and dwindled down to a few million in assets. But it shouldn't have been. SPBC has outperformed just about every asset class except gold (by a nose) since its launch.The concept is simple and beautifully elegant. It's designed to give you 100% of the return of the S&P 500, plus 10% of Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin, and I love stocks. But like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, this is two great tastes that taste great together. The kicker is in the[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

This Years UN Climate Summit in Brazil, COP30, Is a Green Flop 

Leslie Eastman

The A-List World Leaders failed to show. But B-List Gov. Gavin Newsom did, and he then proceeded to bash Trump and tout California's green successes.The post This Years UN Climate Summit in Brazil, COP30, Is a Green Flop first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Students and Faculty at Vanderbilt U. Protest Trumps Higher Ed Compact 

Mike LaChance

"This is appeasement, and if youve ever taken a World War II history class, you know what appeasement does."The post Students and Faculty at Vanderbilt U. Protest Trumps Higher Ed Compact first appeared on Legal Insurrection.