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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

May. 27, 2026

Greetings! The Wall Street Journal has come to the defense of poor, little gazillionaire Jeff Bezos in an op-ed by Marian Tupy.  A senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, Tupy argues that Amazon is a treasure to us all, because it saves its customers an average of 22 hours a year and what is more precious than the  gift of time? I guess it doesn’t matter if that time comes at the cost of thousands of underpaid workers and a let-them-eat-cake boss who pays little in taxes compared to most everybody else…Battleground Angry Red Planet? A war between China and the U.S. will be fought on Mars, according to a new sci-fi novel that got a rave review from The Federalist.  Red State Mars imagines a scenario 100 years from now when U.S. homesteaders have built a cluster of domed cities on Mars.  But so have the Chinese who soon have designs about controlling the U.S. interests. Carnage ensures. Townhall’s fire-breathing columnist Kurt Schlichter blurbed “Red State Mars” calling it “just plain cool”….Once again, the Washington Free Beacon has Harvard in its crosshairs.  According to new reporting by the Beacon, Harvard has given four anti-Israeli activists $90K a year fellowships. A series of Beacon articles two years ago alleged  the university’s then president Claudine Gay was guilty of plagiarism in published works, revelations that helped end her short tenure…10 feet under: What’s the most dangerous gravesite in Arlington Cemetery? The Daily Caller claims it’s the burial plot of Spc. Richard Leroy McKinley, who died in 1961 after being exposed to nuclear radiation at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. He was buried in a 10-foot concrete grave in a lead-lined casket. The Caller says it’s “a grim reminder of America’s first nuclear accident”……If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard