NOTABLE QUOTABLES (June 25, 2026)

HAPPY JULY 4TH “Nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July. … It is the celebration of slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the Crown for their slave empire.” – former (fired) MSNBC host Joy Reid   WORD SALAD “I really, truly believe this.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (June 18, 2026)

OPINION: Keep politicians out of college sports

  Nearly everyone who is a college sports fan, myself included, knows the state of affairs in the NCAA is one fine mess. Especially regarding football and men’s basketball, the two major money-making sports, things have changed massively in the last few years – and mostly not in a good way.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Sunday’s US/Iran peace deal was apparently kept secret from Israel

  Over the course of the last week, I heard Tel Aviv was getting “pummeled.” Turns out that was not exactly true – go figure. The city was forced into bomb shelters June 7 during a major flare-up, but Israel’s aerial defense networks intercepted much of the incoming fire.

OPINION: University professors against academic freedom

  Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors? With millions of dollars in backing from the Andrew W.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (June 18, 2026)

NOW THAT’S AN ENDORSMENT “I am someone that believes in character. I am someone that believes that morals matter. But because of the state of this country … if I lived in Maine, I would hold my nose and I would vote for Platner.

COMICALLY INCORRECT bt A.F. Branco (June 11, 2026)

OPINION: Trust fund Commies

  The Democratic Socialists of America have a class problem that its own rhetoric is designed to obscure.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Did Jared Kushner just buy his very own nuclear garrison in the middle of the Adriatic Sea?

  In the world of it does not get any crazier than that – well we have ourselves a crazier one. Please indulge me this week because sometimes you just know you fell off planet Earth and are in a “you would not believe what I dreamed last night” type of dream, only it’s not a dream.

OPINION: Trump’s critics dead wrong (again) on the economy

  Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans.