TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Fiddling with FIFA: Trump stuck his snout into the World Cup controversy involving U.S.A. soccer star Folarin Balogun and the horrifically bad call against him last week that would have banned him from tonight’s game against Belgium. As a fan of our nation’s soccer team, I’m glad the ruling was overturned by FIFA president Giovanni Vincenzo after a conversation with Trump. But if Team U.S.A wins tonight and its remaining World Cup games, its victories will always be tarnished by Trump’s meddling in the eyes of the world. Memo to Democrats: don’t condemn POTUS's pushy tactics. Your harsh words will be positioned as unpatriotic....Is Melania Trump 2026’s most successful documentary filmmaker? According to Donald Trump’s financial disclosure report unveiled last week, she earned nearly $11 million in licensing fees for her shallow, one-sided documentary “Melania” in which she not only starred, but was executive producer. She also earned more than $500,000 from her 2024 memoir. (Business Insider)...The Wall Street Journal panned the movie “Young Washington” about you-know-who. Liberty Paige of the right-wing outlet SteveGruber.com urges her readers to ignore the critics and see the film...I stayed up late July 4 to watch about 20 minutes of Trump’s rain-delayed speech. Not the speech I would have wanted from my president on the nation's birthday, but not as bad as I feared...The American Conservative questions whether Rep. Thomas Kean (R-NJ) is well enough to resume serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. He just returned to work after a four-month absence after being treated in a hospital for depression...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
source: Washington Free Beacon
The Committee to Protect Journalists board of directors voted to affirm the organization's definition of a journalist to make clear that terrorists are also journalists worthy of protection.
source: American Thinker
The Pro-Life movement keeps trying soft approaches to end abortion, but the only thing that will stop the slaughter is for women to know they, personally, are at risk.
source: The Gateway Pundit
Drivers cruising along Interstate 95 are already getting an early taste of history. New highway signs have gone up directing travelers to President Donald J. Trump International Airport ahead of the airport’s official renaming on July 9.
source: NY Post
Paul Pelosi’s latest misadventure involves an alleged hit-and-run. But it’s not his first automotive disaster — and it provokes the question: Will he be held accountable this time? Mr. Pelosi allegedly crashed his brown convertible into a parked Tesla in Yountville, California, before driving away.
TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Word of the day: Kleptocracy. Donald Trump raked in more than $2 billion last year, according to mandatory financial disclosure forms that were released yesterday. Quite the haul for the Portly POTUS’s first year back in the gilded Oval Office. (NY Times)...Contrast The Donald’s staggering payday with this piece whining about Rep. Ro Khanna’s net worth. The Washington Free Beacon reveals that the California Democrat, who may be making a 2028 White House run, lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot DC abode, complete with two laundry rooms adorned with marble countertops. “The incongruities between Khanna’s political platform and his lifestyle are among the most striking contradictions of any sitting member of Congress,” bellows Andrew Kerr. “He’s a vocal supporter of the California ballot initiative to impose a wealth tax on billionaires, saying the ultra-wealthy have a duty to give back some of their ‘unprecedented wealth’ in the spirit of ‘shared prosperity’ for the middle class”...Weekend Watches: I’m near the conclusion of Apple TV’s spooky 10-part series Widow’s Bay and it’s a surprising winner. The series centers on a remote island off the New England coast where residents battle a centuries old curse. A mix of offbeat humor and creepy horror elevates the series into a Stephen King-style surprising summer hit. Also: The Daily Signal drops its first-ever documentary tomorrow, and naturally it’s pegged to the nation’s birthday. Here’s where you can watch Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation. And don’t miss: It’s the USA vs Bosnia and Herzegovina tonight in World Cup action....Happy 250th America! You’re a grand old lady, warts and all....I’m off tomorrow and Friday for the holiday weekend. Stay cool. See you next week....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.
source: Daily Caller
Illegal immigrant households (and their U.S.-born citizen children) generate an estimated net annual tax burden of $150.7 billion, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR) 2023 analysis.
source: The Federalist
Under conditions of mass immigration, legal or illegal, birthplace citizenship means the destruction of the nation.
source: Townhall
We didn’t score a touchdown today, but we moved the ball down the field and put ourselves in position for a field goal or maybe even a touchdown in the next couple of plays. So don’t freak out, don’t cry, don’t scream and yell. There’s no reason to. This result was better than we had any right to expect at this juncture in the process of changing the way the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is viewed under the law.
source: Conservative View from NH
Currently, 10% of all births in America are to illegal immigrants or women on temporary visas. That number is sure to explode.. Just think of all of the benefits now afforded to that baby because his mother had the foresight to deliver him on precious American soil, which has now become global soil.
source: FrontPage
"Citizen Vigilante" and "Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels" have captured the attention of the Right.
source: American Thinker
The movie is not just a low-budget sleeper hit; it is the rare pop-cultural touchstone in an age of fading cinematic relevance.
source: NewsBusters
Will Hollywood ever tire of the extremely worn-out closeted gay Christian trope? If Netflix’s Big Mistakes is any sign, the answer is a very clear “no,” as main character Nicky/Reverend Nicholas (Dan Levy) lies to his congregation about being a “practicing” gay man who sneaks his male lover into his rectory for secret, overnight rendezvous.
source: Hollywood in Toto
Democratic candidate gets cushier treatment than disgraced comedian.
source: American Spectator
The American Left’s most favorite lie is that Nazis and Fascists were conservatives. They were not; instead, they were cut from the same socialist cloth that America’s Left idolizes and increasingly personifies.
source: National Review
America’s 250th comes at a moment of great uncertainty in our politics. But there is hope.
source: NY Post
The socialist left is a destructive and dangerous movement. But the post-election analysis from last week’s New York primary races finds another driving force among the winning candidates. Namely, the hatred of all things Israel, and those who dare support the Jewish state.
source: Victory Girls
There were also the naked cyclists wheeling around and flapping in the cool, Pacific Northwest breeze in front of the kids at Seattle Pride.
