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10
Jan

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings!  Adios NBC Today Show co-host Hoda Kolb.  Today marked the last day of her full-time job at NBC News.  I was initially not a Hoda fan when she was named co-host in 2018 but I quickly grew to respect and even admire her skills as deft broadcaster with a light touch who could also handle hard news…Former Fox News prime time host Bill O’Reilly, who exited the network almost eight years ago in disgrace, was a guest at a recent Mar-a-Lago strategy session with the president-elect.  Mr. O’Reilly provides some details of the knee-bending meeting on his website…Podcaster/comedian Adam Carolla apparently applied to be a Los Angeles firefighter several years ago but was told he had to wait seven years because he wasn’t Black, Hispanic or female. (Hollywood in Toto)…Pizzagate gunman Edgar Welch was shot by North Carolina cops during a traffic stop on January 4.  He died two days later. Mr. Welch, who believed right wing conspiracy theories that a child sex trafficking ring was run out of a DC-area pizza restaurant, fired a rifle inside the restaurant in 2016.  He was sentenced to four years in prison by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.  (Gateway Pundit)…Weekend Watch:  As a Bob Dylan fan I’m heartily recommending A Complete Unknown.  Timothée Chalamet steals the show as the young troubadour roaming Greenwich Village, breaking hearts and shattering conventions.  To get the proper context of the movie, I suggest viewers also watch the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis and the mockumentary A Mighty Wind, which gives the folk scene a well-deserved but humorous skewering…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Whether Natural or Manmade, We Will All Pay the Tab

source: Conservative View from NH

It is easy to villainize the insurance companies, and there is a good reason for that, but more importantly, it is to point the finger at the people who are put in office to take care of their citizens and fail miserably. Many of these are the same folks who showed their true colors during Covid-19, yet they are still here.
9
Jan

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! The year is just over a week old and it’s already off to a rocky start: devastating fires in Los Angeles, the New Orleans terror attack and Trump’s expansionist ambitions.  Sheesh.  What’s going to happen after he takes office?...Farewell Jimmy Carter! WND  is not shedding a tear for him as it throws major shade on the late president accusing him for the unraveling of American culture....In a Truth Social post, Trump blamed the LA fires on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who he refers to in a derogatory term (of course)…LA Fire Chief Kristen Crowley is under fire from the right for being a lesbian and a presumably DEI hire.  The Pride website has a different point of view as evidenced by this headline:  “Amid Palisades Fire, LA’s First LGBTQ+ Fire Chief Is Proving Lesbians Get It Done”…The National Review has published a list of several must-read nonfiction books for 2025.  They include: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, Desire and Fate, and Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License, Not exactly bedtime reading…In the immediate aftermath of the November 5 presidential election, more than 100 readers unsubscribed from TheRighting.  Unfortunately, the exodus continues to this day although not at the same pace.  In my latest article for The Columbia Journalism Review, I reveal the sad truth why readers fled…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

DEI-Crazed Officials Made the LA Fire More Deadly

source: The Federalist

Officials seem to believe that when fire forces you to flee your home, there is just one thing on your mind: the skin color and cultural experience of the firefighters who will bring you to safety. Will they be diverse enough to rescue you? Never mind if they are the best for the job, are they anything but straight white men?

The LA Fire Department Is Run by Three Lesbians Named Kirsten

source: FrontPage

Daniel Greenfield: I wrote an article and a Twitter thread on the wokeness in the LAFD. Wokeness and DEI led to four lesbians, 3 of them named some variation of Kirsten, running one of the nation’s largest fire departments.

Government Mismanagement, Not Climate Change, Is to Blame for LA Fires

source: Fox News

Politicians are trying to shift the blame for California's wildfires onto climate change, instead of their own policies

LA Mayor Karen Bass Was MIA in Africa While Her City Burned

source: Breitbart

On Wednesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed LA Mayor Karen Bass’ response to the fires  and her being in Africa during the fires. Marlow stated, “She went to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana…what does the Mayor of Los Angeles have to do with Ghana?”

As LA Burns, Some Question the DEI Fire Chief and Biden’s Ban on Controlled Burns

source: The New American

Democratic environmental and diversity policies might just be to blame for the wildfires that are raging through Californi

Nothing Burns Hotter Than DEI

source: PJ Media

It's not all bad news for the 64% of Los Angeles County who voted for Kamala in November. As they flee the brutal wildfires  they can take comfort in knowing that their Los Angeles Fire Department  -- which is powerless to stop the inferno -- overfloweth with sweet diversity, as planned.

DEI Is Out; Extra Fries Are In

source: SteveGruber.com

McDonalds rolls back diversity initiatives.

How Political Correctness Destroyed the United Kingdom

source: Blaze Media

For decades, the U.K. has been burying thousands of incidents of sexual assault perpetrated by predominantly Muslim gangs that have been imported into the country despite the culture’s incompatibility with Western beliefs. Anyone who has dared to call the government out on its abandonment of its citizens has been labeled racist and Islamophobic

It’s Not Too Late to Boot Biden

source: American Thinker

In fact, given the 25th Amendment, it is an obligation

Joe Biden Is an Historic A__hole, Analysis Finds

source: Washington Free Beacon

He is and always has been a belligerent and narcissistic a—hole consumed by bitterness and resentment.

Biden’s Bitterness Came Back to Bite Him

source: Wall Street Journal

By Karl Rove: His anger at Obama fed his bad decisions about both policy and the 2024 campaign.

Blessed Is Donald Trump, for He Shall Inherit a Mess

source: American Spectator

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will officially inherit a colossal mess almost beyond description — Humpty Dumpty has been shattered by the Biden administration. And it is hard to believe that President Trump can fix Biden’s mess in only four years.

Alcohol Warning Labels Are Nanny Statism at Its Worst

source: National Review

Proof that Democrats seek equity in misery.

The Age of Censorship Is Ending

source: Townhall

While Democrats claimed for years that Trump represented tyranny, the truth is that it was the Democratic Party and its media apparatchiks that routinely used the tools of power to silence their opposition in authoritarian ways. The cudgeling of Facebook represents a perfect example of such quiet authoritarianism.

In the Last Half of 2024, 99% of Late Night Guests Were Liberals

source: NewsBusters

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study. The 99% figure came during the presidential campaign season  and its aftermath from June 3 through December 19.

The Military That Cried “White Supremacy”

source: Ann Coulter

In retrospect, maybe the military should have spent a little less time worrying about “white supremacists” and paid more attention to black Muslims. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, an Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who happened to be a black Muslim, slaughtered 14 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans last week.