TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Well, no one’s talking about Jeffrey Epstein this week....Gas pains. Just last week Trump boasted during his State of the Union address about low gas prices including $1.85 in Iowa (which was later disputed). Turns out, gas prices have risen 5 cents a gallon since the weekend and analysts expect the prices to rise much higher. (NBC News)...An observation about Secretary of War Pete “Hairgel” Hegseth after watching him during yesterday’s press briefing. He comes in too hot especially in a time of war, instead of being measured and “cool.” “Hairgel” struts around like he thinks he’s hot stuff but he comes off as the opposite of cool...Speaking of unhinged lapdog Trump officials, Kash Patel and his singer girlfriend Alexis Wilkins can’t seem to avoid the spotlight. The NY Times dropped a devastating article over the weekend about the extensive FBI protection needed to surround the singer, about 20 years junior to the FBI’s top dog. The Times called her “one of the best protected country singers in the United States”...Conservative political commentator and founder of The Blaze Glenn Beck predicts that Bill Gates could be the first American to go to jail over his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein....Dept. of Broken Records: Trump posted (again) on Truth Social that American elections are “rigged” and a “laughingstock all over the world.” Doesn’t he have something better to do like prevent WWWIII than spread noxious lies about the country’s elections?...Silence on the European right: The European Conservative has barely written a word about Trump’s attacks on Iran. Do the editors have a point of view?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
source: Daily Caller
That spells potential disaster for the party.
TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin
Greetings! Word of the Day: Unilateral...Here’s Trump’s eight-minute video announcing the air strikes against Iran early Saturday morning. My biggest questions: what’s with the baseball cap Mr. President? Your eyes were almost completely covered; how can we trust someone who shields their eyes? Or were you having a bad hair day?...Dept. of Mockery: Leave it to Saturday Night Live to skewer Trump’s middle-of-the-night announcement about America’s most consequential Middle East policy decision in decades. “Good evening and welcome to World War III for those who celebrate,” intoned the faux commander-in-chief (played brilliantly by James Austin Johnson). NewsBusters was not amused with the skit...Dept. of Irony: Trump wrote this in a Truth Social post: “The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” (That’s his emphasis, not mine.) In other words, if you don’t agree to peace, I’m gonna smash you in the face!...Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) argues in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the attack on Iran was “unwise and unconstitutional”...Strange Bedfellows: Tucker Carlson and Jane Fonda both agree that the U.S. attack on Iran is “bad and a betrayal,” according to the Los Angeles Times...What deal? The early Saturday morning strike against Iran seems to have killed most of the chatter about Paramount’s successful bid to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery and the fate of CNN. However, the Washington Free Beacon has come up with a list of prominent CNN talent whose jobs may be in jeopardy if the deal goes through as projected: Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Kaitlin Collins, Jake Tapper and Abby Phillip....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
source: NY Post
Among the many, many reverberations of Operation Epic Fury, it’s clearly time to retire TACO — the snarky claim that “Trump always chickens out.”
source: National Review
Many past presidents have said that ‘all options are on the table’ with regard to Iran. Trump meant it.
source: Fox News
By Mike Pompeo: Supporting a free Iran isn’t just the right thing to do, it is a strategic necessity
source: American Thinker
Iran has always built its arsenal for one purpose, and Trump intervened before the arsenal became apocalyptic in size and scope.
source: FrontPage
1. Don’t make ‘Death to America’ your slogan
source: National Review
The threat must be real, not necessarily on the verge of causing harm.
source: NY Post
The adults are finally back in the room: The era of appeasing terrorists is dead.
source: PJ Media
It wasn’t the UK that had America’s back. The British intelligence agencies may get the world’s best press, but they traded their License to Kill for Islamic bootlicking years ago.
source: Fox News
By Gordon Sondland: What makes Europe’s current sideline posture not merely disappointing but absurd is that Iran has been attacking Europe for years
source: RedState
What the panicans fail to note is that the Pentagon is aware of the issue and is taking steps to address it. The RTX Corporation said in early February that it's ramping up its production of Tomahawks and aiming to produce 1,000 a year.
source: Victory Girls
Trump isn’t a peacenik, an isolationist or a humanitarian. He not begging for love from the Nobel crowd either.
source: The Federalist
American military power is unrivaled, while Europeans and Canadians give speeches about shoving the American military aside and becoming rival powers. This is not real.
source: FrontPage
Could it be true? Sure, but let’s monitor the situation here first. Also, let’s finish the job in Iran.
source: American Spectator
They invoke the Constitution against Trump — even as history and their own record tell a different story.
source: NY Post
During the deal negotiations, while Netflix was wooing skeptical GOP lawmakers that it wasn’t a left-wing company looking to get more powerful by snapping up WBD, a delegation of lawmakers paid a visit to its headquarters, and one was both shocked and disturbed to find a basket containing tampons in the men’s restroom.
source: Washington Free Beacon
While recounting his early career in San Francisco politics, the governor told an audience that Harris got her start by sleeping with the city's former mayor, Willie Brown. It's a polite way of saying Harris is a conniving whore.
