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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Jun. 21, 2024

Greetings! Hillary for Biden’s vice president.  That’s not the crazy headline from a fringe right wing website, it’s the suggestion from the Washington Post’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker.  She thinks Biden should dump Kamala in favor of the former Secretary of State.  Maybe Parker thinks the 75-year-old Hillary will inject more youth into the Biden campaign or help steady the ship.  I think it’s a click-bait idea for a slow news period and nothing more than that…Trump is speaking June 22 at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 2024 Road to Majority  conference in Washington.  It’s the largest policy gathering of Christian activists.  Brooklyn poets are probably not welcome…Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy showed up on a Daily Signal podcast hyping his company’s planned IPO that is hoping to generate $25 million for the multiplatform conservative news outlet….Blaze Media wins the award for the most bizarre headline of the week from the right.  Here’s the winner: “Bizarre fungus hijacks cicadas transforming them into killer nymphomaniacs.” There’s gotta be a horror movie in that intriguing jumble of words…Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee says she’s attempting to end her state’s income tax, according to her latest Fox News op-ed…Weekend Watch:  I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a final salute to the great Donald Sutherland who died yesterday at 88.  Here are just a few of my favorite Sutherland movies for your weekend watching pleasures: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978), “Klute” (1971), “Ordinary People” (1980), and “The Eagle Has Landed” (1976)…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard