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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Mar. 10, 2026

Greetings! Bad news for Trump? The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal opines that the President won’t win this war if higher oil prices leads him to halt the bombing.  “The regime for now thinks it can outlast the U.S.,” the editors wrote.  “On Sunday it chose Mojtaba Khamenei as its new Supreme Leader, succeeding his father. The younger Mr. Khamenei sends a message of no compromise—to Iran’s own citizens or Mr. Trump”…Gag alert: A new book puts Donald Trump on the same pedestal as Abraham Lincoln and FDR.  Lincoln, Roosevelt, Trump: Three Profiles in World-Historical Leadership, studies all three presidents. The book’s cover reveals how it views Trump in comparison with Honest Abe and FDR. Trump’s image sits in the middle of the image flanked by the two other presidents.  His picture is also much larger than the other two.  FrontPage calls the book splendidDept. of Surprises: Blaze Media contends that MAHA is “sick” and points to the FDA as the culprit…Just askin’: Why didn’t George W. Bush attend the funeral of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson last week?  Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were all there….Trump received an award Wednesday naming him “the undisputed champion of clean coal.” It may surprise absolutely no one that the award was given to him on “behalf of coal miners across the country,” according to BreitbartLousy month for web traffic: Year-over-year visits to all major right-wing news websites dropped in February, according to the latest analysis out today from TheRighting. Mainstream news website like CNN and the NY Times also experienced declines….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard