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28
Aug

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Lake America? Trump signed an executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. He did it because he’s feuding with Canada over tariffs, although it’s a head scratcher over what that name change accomplishes. To me, it’s just another example of the petty POTUS’s pathological need to put his stamp on anything. Worth wondering: What are middle school students of U.S. geography going to be taught this year about the smallest of the Great Lakes on our northern border?...Dept. of Modesty: Last night, Trump posted an image on Truth Social of the headshots of 35 presidents.  They are ranked by by their competence. (The ranking wasn’t sourced in the Truth Social post, although the Daily Caller cites a post on X alluding to an almost identical 1948 ranking from Life magazine.) It will surprise no one to learn that Biden and Obama were at the bottom of the list, while Donald Trump took the prize as the single greatest American president, even ahead of FDR, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington...It’s news to me: Trump posted another list on Truth Social last night spotlighting 10 U.S. territories including Puerto Rico, the Marshall Islands and – wait for it – the Strait of Hormuz...Yesterday may have been Karoline Leavitt’s last day as White House press secretary, but it’s possible we’ll still be seeing a lot of her every day.  According to an exclusive story in the Daily Mail, the sassy 29-year-old MAGA mouthpiece is being considered for a role as a regular on ABC’s popular daytime talker “The View” joining a panel of mostly liberal ladies like Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar...Weekend watch: Netflix’s The Whisper Man just dropped today. It sounds like a generic thriller about a widowed crime novelist (Adam Scott) seeking help from his retired cop father after his young son is abducted. Because it stars Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton, I’ll give it a chance tonight....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Sorry Dems, Hasan Piker Is the Malignant Tumor on Your Campaigns

source: Townhall

Piker is the Left’s Joe Rogan — he’s one of the top streamers. He’s got clout. And his views form the core of the Democrat Party base in 2026.

Why Dems Won’t Denounce Antisemite Hasan Piker by Name

source: WND

Piker has a long, pathetic history of disgusting remarks. Yet, Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have appeared on his stream. Bernie Sanders has defended him.

Dems Cannot Break Free of the Far Left’s Transgender Demands

source: Fox News

Make no mistake, Democrats are on the wrong side of the transgender debate given public opinion

Hakeem Jeffries Cannot Pull Off the Tough Guy Act

source: Conservative View from NH

Jeffries surfaced on Tuesday to supposedly answer questions as to why he had a meeting with Jared Kushner. He looked and acted like a kid on summer vacation who had just gone to Coney Island, and his Mom bought him a silly green Yankees hat that she told him he would grow into. He won’t.

Disney Fired Gina Carano, But Not Mark Ruffalo?

source: American Greatness

In Hollywood, ideology determines who gets canceled.

When Every Hollywood Cause Becomes an Anti-Israel Cause

source: Washington Examiner

The same voices that stay conspicuously quiet on authoritarian regimes, theocratic dictatorships, and far graver human-rights records elsewhere in the region find, without fail, the energy to single out the one Jewish state in it.

In the British Nanny State, No Guns Are Allowed

source: American Thinker

In Victorian London, Dr. Watson carrying a service revolver was unremarkable. In modern Britain, self-defence is treated as a crime—and the state prefers it that way.

Gavin Newsom’s Nanny State Hits the Road

source: NY Post

Who will steer your driving choices? You, based on your needs? Or Gavin Newsom and Sacramento bureaucrats, based on their green whims? The answer’s as plain as a road sign.

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game and Won

source: American Spectator

Clarence Thomas outlasted his critics, transformed the Court, and made originalism mainstream.

We Happy Few, We Band of Wokesters

source: Ann Coulter

Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: They’re more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.

MAHA Notches Another Win in America’s Cereal Aisle

source: Daily Wire

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement scored another win this week when global food company General Mills announced it has ditched dyes from its cereal, including Lucky Charms and Trix.

The Data Center Mob Wants Your Property Rights Too

source: Blaze Media

Noise, water use, and power demand are fair concerns. Turning those concerns into veto power over someone else’s land is something else.

Crime Up 1000% After Ceuta Invasion

source: Washington Free Beacon

And soon Muslim migrants from Ceuta will enter Europe.

Why Societies Should Be Monoethnic

source: European Conservative

What does it mean to be an American, Englishman, Australian, and so on? And here we find that there must be, in these cases, a dominant Anglo culture for such identities to have any meaning.
27
Aug

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Trump is once again sticking his beak into places it doesn’t belong. He’s upset about pitcher Roger Clemens’ omission from the baseball Hall of Fame.  Clemens, who won more than 350 games in his career, had his legacy tarnished by serious accusations of drug use that may have enhanced his performance on the mound.  Trump wrote in a Truth Social post last night that he’s not in the Hall “because a bunch of jealous people with far less Talent, voted that he shouldn’t be there.” (Memo to Natalie Harp, Trump's ghostwriter:  perhaps you can explain at some point why you decided to capitalize “Talent.”) My suggestion to Trump is that he should spend more time trying to solve his Middle East quagmire and let MLB and baseball scribes worry about the far less consequential Hall of Fame... Crash! Far-right conspiracy theorist and Trump buddy Laura Loomer reports that Angie Nixon, described by Loomer as Florida’s communist state representative, crashed her car four times between 2009 and 2013. Nixon is running as a Democrat for a Senate seat in November.  It appears that the opposition research is just beginning to heat up......DSA the Movie: That's what the conservative entertainment blog Hollywood in Toto is calling the upcoming theatrical movie “How to Rob a Bank."  “The trailer all but screams DSA, the radical wing of the modern Democratic party that doesn’t believe in law enforcement, let alone capitalism,” writes editor Christian Toto.  “Here’s betting New York’s own Zohran Mamdani will likely be first in line on opening day.” The film opens September 4....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

It’s Always Cute When Canada Thinks It Matters

source: Townhall

By Kurt Schlichter: It’s about time to be done with the country that is touted as America’s best buddy but is actually tied for its most annoying next-door neighbor. They cry that America is being mean because it’s looking out for its own interests.

Dems Determined to Stay Woke

source: Washington Free Beacon

Just 35 percent of Democrats said the party should distance itself from the "woke" politics of recent years, while 42 percent preferred to stand their ground. The rest were unsure. Younger Democrats were particularly keen to see the party stay woke.

How the Smithsonsian’s Woke Push “Infiltrated” America’s Most Beloved Zoo

source: Fox News

Several DEI programs undertaken by the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute during the 2023 fiscal year, including diversity-focused internships, LGBTQ family programming at the zoo featuring rainbow-themed animal enrichment and efforts to promote inclusive language in the zoo and aquarium profession.