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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Jan. 22, 2026

Greetings! Dept. of Sh*t Stirring: JD Vance will be in Minneapolis today to defend ICE’s actions in the beleaguered city…What’s the best college in America? The right-leaning City Journal has come up with its own methodology to determine the nation’s leading institutions of higher learning. The top three in its list are: University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. See the entire top 100 list here…Washington Free Beacon takes a dig at former Biden press secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre in an article describing her post-White House ambitions. KJP stumbled out of the box last year with the publication of her poorly received book Independent, which offered a look inside the White House. But that critical setback has apparently not deterred her. According to the Beacon, she’s acquired the rights to the true story of the first Black female journalists – Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne — covering the White House.  “Maybe her former boss, Netflix producer Barack Obama, is looking for a tax write-off,” snarked the Beacon…Book-critic-in-chief: On Truth Social, Trump touts the new book by Breitbart editor-at-large Peter Schweizer.  The tome’s title says all you need to know about it: “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon”…Also just published: The nonfiction book with the year’s worst title: “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government”…Bari Weiss’s The Free Press says that microplastics aren’t killing us.  Man, I wish that statement was true….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard