Articles In This Issue

• Some of Us Still Love America - David Blaska

• Caitlin Clark Targeted By WNBA Opponents - Dave Glomp

• The Self-Destruct Button - Michael Ramirez

Some of Us Still Love America

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - July 3, 2026

…and don’t think (un)democratic socialists have to ‘remake’ it!

My father was born on Independence Day, as were two of his sisters in a family of nine farm children in the Town of Sun Prairie WI. He was proud of that. When Kodak set about to assemble Americans born on the Fourth of July for every year of the Twentieth Century, they chose Jerome to represent the year 1919, perhaps because he was veteran of WW2 and the WI state legislature as well as an active member of the Lions Club, Farmers Union, Knights of Columbus — among many others. He was proud of all that, too.

The photograph was taken with Philadelphia’s Independence Hall as the fitting backdrop on July 4, 1999. That was then. On July 1, 2026, a U.S. congressman felt the need to remind his party that “Democrats need to show our love for America.”

That any American should need to be reminded that the USA was deserving of gratitude, respect or even love on the eve of its 250th birthday, conceived in liberty, would puzzle Jerome Blaska, who was a Truman Democrat until the party left him, as he often said.

Caitlin Clark Targeted by WNBA Opponents

Dave Glomp - July 6, 2026

On Wednesday June 24, 2026, once again, the #1 overall pick of the 2024 WNBA Draft, Caitlin Clark was seriously injured by the blatant actions of an opposing team player. It caused a neck and back injury that took Caitlin out for the last 5 minutes of the game which the Indiana Fever, Clark’s team lost to the Phoenix Mercury 111 to 109.

Officials didn’t call a foul on the Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas for injuring Clark. Subsequently Thomas got a single game suspension. This foul was likely the worst example of many sustained by Clark at the hands of opponent team players, and rarely called as fouls by referees in many games against the Fever.

This injury will take one of the Fever’s leading players out at least several games and maybe longer! Clark earlier this year, missed playing time due to another injury to her back due to another flagrant foul against her. Last year she missed extensive time due to a groin injury and severe bone bruising. It is time that the WNBA as a league, and their referees be reprimanded for what can only be called unacceptable targeting of a leading player in the WNBA.

The Self-Destruct Button

Michael Ramirez, Creators Syndicate - July 6, 2026