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14
Apr

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Let’s start the week off on a fun note. For fans of “White Lotus,” season 3,  here’s White Potus, “Saturday Night Live’s”  brilliant sendup of the hit HBO show featuring The Donald and family.…Embarrassing! Ex-pro wrestling honcho and Trump-nominated Secretary of Education Linda McMahon beclowned herself with a flub for the ages. Speaking at an April 8  forum about educational innovation, she repeatedly confused AI, the universally accepted abbreviation for artificial intelligence  – with A1, the bestselling steak sauce. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gave McMahon a well-deserved skewering on her show Friday night…Readers of TheRighting know I’m a big fan of Bill Maher’s against-the-grain commentaries. Still, I found Friday night’s 13-minute monologue about his White House supper  with the MAGA-in-Chief,  an off-key, defensive apologia. To Maher, the private Trump came off as a self-effacing guy with a sense of humor.  To me, that’s like describing a fire-breathing dragon by looking only at its cute, wagging tail. Maher’s simplistic, post-meal conclusion:  “A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House.”  That is certainly up for spirited debate.  However, he is an authoritarian doing everything he can in his power to dismantle our democracy. Worth noting: the far right Victory Girls blog supports Maher’s post-1600 Pennsylvania visit commentary…Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac: The NY Post reports that Trump is adding “Mar-a-Lago-inspired renovation plans for the White House.” One word popped into my head when I read that story: tacky…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Legacy Media Tries to Debunk Christianity Ahead of Easter

source: The Blaze

But it fails spectacularly.

Trump Is Right to Rein in the Smithsonian

source: City Journal

The president’s executive order pushing the museum to start honoring American history again is a welcome step.

Trump’s Dinner with Bill

source: Townhall

Bill Maher’s rapprochement with Trump signals that we are getting back to normal.

Trump Just Aced a Special Medical Test That Biden Was Terrified to Take

source: Western Journal

On Friday, Trump scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test, which screens for cognitive impairment and early dementia. The president previously took the same test during his first tenure and also earned a perfect score.

New Books on Biden’s Decline Expose Shameful Failure of Old Media

source: NewsBusters

Well, of course, anybody with eyes to see could see plainly in 2024, if not before, that President Joe Biden was, as the saying goes, “cognitively impaired.” The public was far ahead of those so-called investigators in the press. But where was the detailed, hot-on-the-trail Watergate-style investigation and reporting from the media at the time?

There’s More to the Media’s Biden Cover-Up Than “Groupthink”

source: National Review

Blaming "herd mentality" elides the true culprit.

How Trump Has Triumphed on Tariffs

source: Newsmax

America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us,

“I Own a Corvette Dealership and I’m Already Seeing the Benefit of Trump’s Tariffs”

source: Fox News

By Captain Douglas Ernest: Corvette Warehouse, has already experienced a surge in sales since Trump's tariffs.

China Would Lose a Trade War with the U.S.

source: American Greatness

China's trade war bluff may backfire as the U.S. pushes allies to choose between a rogue economic actor and a flawed but fairer partner with unmatched global power.

DEI Policies Threaten Medical Excellence

source: Washington Examiner

By Ben Carson: Medical education demands exceptional aptitude in biology, chemistry,  and anatomy — subjects that require objective mastery rather than subjective interpretation. When institutions prioritize demographic characteristics over academic qualifications, they fundamentally compromise this educational foundation.

Hegseth Is Restoring Meritocracy at the Defense Department

source: Daily Caller

Hegseth is doing significant heavy-lifting on his own, cancelling DEI contracts and sending strong anti-DEI messaging — driving services to publicly recant on earlier sins. His common-sense, return-to-lethality ideological tidal wave inspired the New York Times to bash DEI back in January.

Stephen A. Smith Has Come to Save the Democratic Party

source: PJ Media

Smith will probably be the only black man running on the Democratic side. Additionally, there’s reason to believe he’d do better with black voters than someone like Kamala Harris.  And in the Democratic Party, if he only connects with black voters, that’s enough to carry him far in a crowded field.

Junk Science at NOAA About to Come to an End

source: American Thinker

It was a comical farce that they created, weaving tales about storms of biblical proportion due to a trace element in the atmosphere that happens to be the basis of all life.

George Clooney’s New Woke Broadway Play Frames Elon Musk Giving Nazi Salute in Ridiculous Scene

source: Outkick

Clooney has taken ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ - the 2005 film he directed - to Broadway in Manhattan, and added a new closing scene that aligns with his incredibly liberal political beliefs.

Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

source: European Conservative

Ordinary Europeans are starting to admit what their leaders won’t: civil unrest may be closer than anyone dares to say.

Criminal Aliens Paroled by Biden Got $1.3 Million in Welfare

source: The Federalist

Thousands included on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist or who have criminal records received welfare benefits, DOGE reported.
11
Apr

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! As a tumultuous week closes, one constant is that the Wall Street Journal continues to hammer the country’s hapless president. Today’s lead op-ed quite rightly asks whether Donald Trump actually has a China policy. The editorial  forcefully states that Trump is “making it up as he goes.” Looks that way to me too…Michelle Obama refuted rumors of marital discord with her hubby on the “Work in Progress” podcast, reports The Daily Beast.  Still,  don’t expect the interview to quash the catty chatter.  I hope the rumors are just that. I’ve been a big fan of the former first lady since her “Tonight Show” dancing routine with Jimmy Fallon more than a decade ago (YouTube)…I'm 100% in agreement with this headline from staunchly conservative PJ Media: “Can we please stop talking about 2028 already?”…Weekend watch: Hulu's documentary series Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, pegged to the April 19 30th anniversary of the attack which killed hundreds. It’s a compelling boots-on-the-ground examination of one of the deadliest homegrown acts of violence in our nation’s history and well worth watching, especially in the current climate where ultra-right extremism is so often normalized. In a related note, I  interviewed JeffreyToobin two years ago about his excellent book on the same subject, “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.”  Toobin makes the case that McVeigh’s transformation into a right-wing radical was shaped by the some of the same forces that brought America’s democracy to the brink of disaster on January 6, 2021…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Trump’s Best Week Ever

source: Washington Free Beacon

He frees a hot ballerina, wins the trade war and makes showers great again.