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22
Dec

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Food fight in Phoenix: Turning Point USA just concluded its annual conference in Arizona yesterday and it turned into something close to a MAGA civil war. The headline attraction featured right-wing heavyweights Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro who attacked each other in separate speeches. For progressives looking for cracks in MAGA World, this event ranks close to being exhibit #1. Axios has the details and a killer headline: “MAGA Mess Deepens at Turning Point Convention”...Another story broke yesterday evening in what should have been a sleepy Sunday just days before Christmas.  CBS News yanked a “60 Minutes” story about Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who have been deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Suffice to say, it would have reflected poorly on the Trump administration.  Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi charged that CBS News’s top editor and anti-wokester Bari Weiss killed the segment.  Alfonsi also noted that the piece was snuffed for political reasons. The network says it will air the segment at a later day. This story ain’t over, by a long shot. (Politico)...Monster House: In the avalanche of last week’s fast-breaking news and Trump’s insults, I missed this story from the Daily Beast about the “secret plans for the monster Trump White House ballroom.” The story contains some head-spinning details about the new structure including a multi-level passageway that will link the new structure to the White House, guest suites (for MAGA royalty, no doubt), and a grand staircase. Sounds like it's a ballroom fit for a king..If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Media Blame Bari Weiss for Yanking “60 Minutes” Story

source: Victory Girls

There can be legitimate questions about the status of Venezuelans being held at CECOT, but to claim “corporate censorship” when the story has been aired recently, smacks of Sharyn Alfonsi throwing a email tantrum because her work got held up for lacking balance. And Bari Weiss’s statement is apparently not good enough for self-important potatoes like Brian Stelter.

Knock It Off, Ben and Tucker

source: SteveGruber.com

At the four-day Turning Point USA confab in Phoenix, Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson decided that the most pressing conservative priority wasn’t turning out voters or dismantling liberal policies. No, instead it was auditioning for Worst Houseguest on the Right.

Ben Shapiro Is Fighting a War He Won’t Win

source: PJ Media

By Scott Pinsker: I’m on Team Shapiro in his battle against the bigots, nutjobs, and “just asking questions” political shock-jocks, i.e. Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, yada yada. Shapiro’s goal is laudable, his mission admirable. Unfortunately, his marketing plan sucks.

Trump’s “Loud” Speech Rightly Counted Off All the Ways His Admin Delivered for America in 2025

source: NY Post

There was a lot of sneering about the president’s prime-time address to the nation last week. It was too “loud.” It was too “partisan.” It was too boastful. It was too “Trumpian.” It interrupted the finale of “Survivor.” Oh, no! But Trump was right to count the ways his administration has delivered on its promises this year. Nobody else will.

Trump Never Sleeps

source: American Greatness

As the media frets over Trump’s “fatigue,” he dominates the world stage, confronts woke institutions like the Smithsonian, and proves once again that reality keeps wrecking the anti-Trump narrative.

ABC News Breathlessly Joins Fake “Cognitive Decline” Drumbeat

source: NewsBusters

A pattern emerges: after years of ignoring Joe Biden’s glaring mental decline, the elitist media want to manufacture an early cognitive decline narrative with regard to President Donald Trump. We earlier spotlighted CNN’s attempt: here’s ABC’s.

America Should Grant Political Asylum to Victims of European Tyranny

source: Townhall

By Kurt Schlichter: We need to offer political asylum to the growing list of victims of oppression by the socialist technocratic globalist bureaucracies that rule Europe.

Should We Be Defending Left-Wing Europe from Right-Wing Russia?

source: American Thinker

The Europe that once fought the Crusades is no more.

The Australian Prime Minister Is a Left-Wing Fool

source: Townhall

PM Anthony Albanese has advocated stronger gun control laws in the aftermath of the Islamic terrorism at Bondi Beach. Instead of supporting stricter immigration policies for individuals from Islamic countries and the deportation of illegal immigrants, Albanese twice called for a crackdown on “right-wing extremism,” which had zero influence on the Bondi Beach terrorism.

The American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids

source: Daily Signal

Imagine if your 15-year-old visited a friend's house and was given a  book about edgy sex positions? Or book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex? Many parents may not know it, but there is an ongoing fight over certain books and whether they should be given to minors without their parents’ knowledge or consent. That’s what the American Library Association wants.

The UN Fakes a Famine in Kenya to Save USAID

source: FrontPage

And falsely blames President Trump for “starving thousands.”

Bill Clinton Has an Epstein Problem

source: The Free Press

The former president will have to explain his relationship to the sex criminal as the country descends into a new stage of the scandal.

Fraud Sounds Too Nice for What Happened in Minnesota. Let’s Call It Stealing

source: Conservative View from NH

This may turn out to be the most significant theft of government money in our history, and ABC, CBS, and NBC did what Minnesota politicians did: they turned a blind eye to the matter. Fraud may be too complex a concept to understand for most Americans, so let’s call it what it is: stealing, and in this case, stealing to a massive degree.

Falling Fertility Rates Won’t Bring Joy to the World

source: Washington Times

Christmas is about the birth of a child. While Christians celebrate the Nativity, our own cradles are increasingly empty — a trend that will not bring joy to the world.
19
Dec

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! The Narcissist’s Name Game: Donald Trump is on a rampage to plaster his name on every government program and building he can.  The Kennedy Center represents the latest  desecration of a treasured national institution.  JFK’s niece Maria Shriver expresses her horror in this post. What next? Trump-JFK Airport? AmTrump?...In stark contrast, Barack Obama has released his annual list of his favorite movies, books and music of the past year.  The list includes Oscar-bait  films  “Jay Kelly” and “Train Dreams,” as well as notable tomes  “Mark Twain,” by Ron Chernow, and “1929,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin...Speaking of lists, Mediaite caused quite a stir  this week with its ranking of the 75 most influential people in news media for 2025. I won’t spoil the fun by revealing who is No. 1, but here’s a teaser:  Megyn Kelly placed third. Yours truly didn't crack the Top 75. Maybe in 2026....The Donald’s speed freak 18-minute prime time performance  Wednesday night made it easy to miss the torrent of lies, insults and petty grievances. Here’s a full transcript of what he said and it ain’t pretty....Weekend Watch: Amazon Prime’s Merchants of Joy is the perfect Christmas documentary. It puts the cutthroat business of selling Christmas trees on the mean streets of New York City under a revealing microscope. Worth noting: I’m struggling to finish the acclaimed Ken Burns six-part, 12-hour documentary “The American Revolution.”  I’m not even halfway through it but I'm not giving up...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Trump’s Plaques Are Understandable

source: FrontPage

He is setting the record straight and telling his side of the story. Trump’s capsule histories of his predecessors are a bracing reminder of how accustomed we have all become to leftists writing our history books, and would make a pointed and funny book.

Vote Like Trump Is on the Ballot in 2026, Because He Is

source: Human Events

Not his name. Not his face. But his presidency, his agenda, and the remaining years of his administration absolutely are.

Trump Targets Narco-Terrorists as Dems Defend Them

source: Newsmax

Democrats in Washington are rushing to defend the very criminals smuggling deadly narcotics into the United States – offering sympathy to cartel operatives even as fentanyl continues killing more than 100,000 Americans every year.