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9
Aug

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Here come the Donald Trump books  just in time for the last 90 days of the White House race.  First up, Trump in Exile, by Meredith McGraw, which looks into his post-presidency life as the Count of Mar-a-Lago (my phrase). Maybe a better title would’ve been “The Man Who Wouldn’t Go Away.” The Donald tell-all I want to read is the one that peels back the covers on his marriage to Melania.  I’d settle for a fictionalized version patterned after the excellent novel Rodham, about relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton…Fifty years ago today, Richard Nixon slithered away from the White House.  Just in time for this dark anniversary, there’s a new biography of Pat Nixon, Tricky Dickie’s First Lady. American Spectator’s Ben Stein,  a former Nixon speechwriter gushes that it’s about “the Mrs. Nixon I have always loved”…Dept. of Surprises: The Wall Street Journal reports that Tim Walz and his wife Gwen  have a net worth of only $330,000 based on his 2019 financial disclosure…The Wall Street Journal’s  Peggy Noonan observes that Trump is showing his age and it’s become a campaign issue.  Noonan writes, “For the first time this week I thought people were wondering about the impact of Mr. Trump’s age. He is 78. He hasn’t been able to focus, make his case. Is he, in another irony of 2024, turning into Joe Biden?”  To quote singer Smokey Robinson: “I second that emotion.” And so apparently does The New Republic which referred to The Donald  in a headline today as “Old Man Trump”…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard

Portland on the Prairie

source: The Dispatch

Under his governorship and a Democratic-Farmer-Labor trifecta, Minnesota has been burning through the multi-billion-dollar surplus Walz inherited, mostly because Walz has never encountered a spending proposal he didn’t like—except for merit-based pay for teachers.

The Kamala-Walz Threat to the First Amendment

source: Washington Examiner

Tim Walz may have been a social studies teacher, but he would have failed Constitutional Law 101, especially the part about the First Amendment. His impulse to censor speech he does not like is shared by his Kamala Harris, who pushed for Twitter and Facebook to censor Trump even before Jan. 6.

Extreme Kamala, Extreme Walz

source: American Thinker

They’re ‘weird,’ too.

JD Vance Has Proven He Can Play

source: Victory Girls

With Vance’s flair for the charming and eloquent jabs towards Harris and now Walz, yes, let’s let him take care of that sort of business. We should get Trump back on policy talk.

First Republicans, Now Democrats with the 25th Amendment

source: Victory Girls

Do not be surprised if the Democrats push old man Joe out with the 25th Amendment, making Kamala the first Democratic black female President.

Is DEI Losing Its Stranglehold on American Academia?

source: Liberty Nation News

The DEI gravy train is losing traction at its strongest bastion: American universities. Even more than woke corporations, colleges – blessed by taxpayer support or private endowments – are a natural environment to unleash progressive social engineering on captive audiences. But the momentum is resoundingly against an enforced agenda

Non-Citizens in Georgia Admit They Are Registered to Vote

source: National Pulse

As many as 14 percent of non-citizens spoken to by a journalist in Georgia admitted to being registered to vote in American elections, which could mean tens of thousands of non-citizens have been registered. A video showing non-citizens admitting to being registered to vote was published on July 31 by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
8
Aug

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Fifty years ago today, President Richard M. Nixon announced that he was resigning from office the following day.  Here’s his 19-minute address to the nation, which ended a dark chapter in America's political history.…Food for thought: The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth story today on a growing conservative movement that believes Americans have drifted away from backing heterosexual couples and their offspring. Democrats hoping to reach independent voters would be wise to take a look…Another Biden blooper:  When asked yesterday by CBS News’s Robert Costa if he expects a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025, POTUS responded, “No, I’m not confident at all.”  He quickly corrected himself, adding, “I mean if Trump loses, I'm not confident at all.”  WND has the details here. The entire interview with Biden airs Sunday morning on CBS…Birth and death notices: RIP CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter, a huge supporter of our work at TheRighting. Indeed, Reliable Sources founder, Brian Stelter touted  TheRighting’s launch in 2017 and that’s how we got our first 35 subscribers. The last edition of Reliable Sources in its current form gets published tonight.  However, ace media critic Oliver Darcy, the main force behind Reliable Sources since Stelter left CNN  two years ago, is exiting the all-news-network and launching his own nightly media-focused newsletter called Status.  Darcy is a sharp wordsmith who knows how to make words dance. Look for the first edition Monday.  Here’s a link to the Status home page….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Do We Need a Female President?

source: Fox News

By Marissa Streit: Let’s reject DEI because it teaches our children that women are inherently less capable

Kamala Is a Dangerous Authoritarian

source: FrontPage

She's a demagogue who speaks in cringy, swirling, impenetrable platitudes.

Is Kamala Black?

source: Ann Coulter

The “diversity” regime — allowing the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants to demand recompense owed only to the descendants of American slaves — is nothing but open, vicious discrimination against only one ethnic group. You still want to vote for a party that hates you because you’re white?

Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture

source: American Greatness

If you know where to look, there is already plenty of information on what Harris is going to do if she has the chance to impose California’s liberal progressive agenda on the entire nation.

Doug Emhoff’s Character Problem Could Hurt Kamala’s Campaign

source: American Spectator

The narrative that Emhoff is the feminist model of the perfect husband has come crashing down.

Kamala and Walz Are the BLM Ticket

source: Washington Examiner

While Walz failed to get a handle on the riots and allowed them to erupt out of control, Harris helped contribute to them. She helped boost the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a relatively unknown organization, during the riots. In her words, this was to “help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”

Freedom, Walz Style

source: Powerline

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared an emergency on March 25, 2020, and ruled by decree for the following 15 months. His rule was arbitrary, petty, deceitful, tyrannical, and hugely destructive to life, liberty, jobs, commerce, and family. (This blog is based in Minnesota.)

Walz Picked Wedding Date to Coincide with Tiananmen Square Anniversary, Then Honeymooned in China

source: Breitbart

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who debuted as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign running mate on Tuesday, reportedly chose to get married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymooned in communist China.

Why Were Walz, Biden and Others in Communist Countries?

source: Newsmax

In the 1930s, if any Republican politician chose to go to Hitler’s Germany for his honeymoon, they would have been hounded from office. But in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s three Democrats and one Independent chose to go to communist countries for their honeymoon.

Walz Wants to Trans Your Kids

source: Human Events

Walz signed a law making Minnesota a "trans refuge." This means that if a mother takes her child to Minnesota, against the father's wishes or a court order, to medically transition the child, that father has no rights to have the child returned to him.