Former President Donald Trump wiped out President Joe Biden’s cash advantage last month after turning in blowout fundraising numbers, partly driven by Americans rallying behind the former president following his conviction in the controversial hush money case in New York City. The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $141 million in May, while Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and two joint fundraising committees supporting Biden raised a grand total of only $85 million. In addition to the $141 million raised by Trump and the RNC, Trump’s Super PAC raised nearly $69 million in May, according to Axios. Biden had a cash advantage of $100 million over Trump just two months ago, which has evaporated in the last several weeks. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The Trump campaign now leads the Biden campaign with cash-on-hand, $116.6 million to $91.6 million. The Trump campaign and the RNC combined reported $170 million cash on hand compared to $157 million for Biden and the DNC. The entire political operation backing Biden — his campaign, the DNC, and super PACs — reported having a total of $212 million cash on hand. The Trump team has not yet released its total for the entire political operation backing Trump — his campaign, the RNC, and super PACS. The fundraising numbers come as numerous polls show Trump maintains a national lead over Biden and in most swing states where the 2024 presidential election could be won or lost.

Taylor Wily, who starred in the remake of “Hawaii Five-O” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” died on Thursday. He was 56 years old. Wily’s death was confirmed on Hawaii’s KITV 4 Island News by musician Lina Girl Langi, one of his close friends. “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of a Hawaii celebrity who was also a family friend,” Langi said. “Taylor Wily, former wrestler, MMA fighter and actor passed away today in Hurricane, Utah.” “He would look physically menacing until you just folded right into a hug, and that was it,” she added. “My heart is breaking.” Michael J. Henderson, Wily’s manager, told Entertainment Weekly that he died from natural causes and no further details would be available at this time. Wily, born Teila Tuli, was born in Hawaii in 1968 and started his career in the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling in the 1980s and had a successful run, becoming “the first foreign-born wrestler to win the championship in the third-highest Makushita division,” according to People. He later went on to fight in the first UFC fight in 2000, losing to UFC fighter Gerard Gordeau. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Despite his enormous size and previous career as a professional fighter, he was widely remembered by those who knew him as a “gentle giant.” Wily appeared in seven episodes of the original “Magnum P.I.” and appeared in the 2008 romantic comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” He is best known for his role as Kamekona on CBS’s remake of “Hawaii Five-O,” where he appeared in more than 170 episodes during the show’s 10-year run from 2010 to 2020. “Hawaii Five-O” and “Magnum P.I.” executive producer Peter Lenkov posted on social media that he was “devastated” and “heartbroken” by the news. “You came in with a towel on your head mopping up sweat, and I was smitten. You charmed me into making you a regular… on the show… and in my life. You were family. And I will miss you every day, brother,” he said in a follow-up post. “PS: when we spoke last week, we laughed at how right you were from Day 1. Five-0 was our dream job. And I was so lucky we got to share that magic together.”

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Though many lump him in with thrash metal due to his membership in iconic bands, Cacophony (beside Jason Becker), and Megadeth (beside Dave Mustaine), iconic virtuoso, Marty Friedman, has proven time and time again that there’s more to the picture. Friedman’s solo records, such as 1993’s Scenes, 2003’s Music for Speeding, 2006’s Loudspeaker, and his three-part Tokyo Jukebox series, prove that he’s fearless and capable of traversing many genres on a dime. And so, with his latest record, Drama, Freidman is kicking it up a notch, telling a story of an artist who has reached a level in life where The post Marty Friedman: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Lynda Carter Let’s Dance! Lynda Carter Has New Single Called “Pink Slip Lollipop” Wonder Woman *should* voice more pop hits. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 21, 2024 Credit: Lindsay Adler Photography Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Lindsay Adler Photography Lynda Carter is a singer as well as the beloved actor we know from playing Wonder Woman in the 1970s. A couple of years ago, she released a ballad called “Human and Divine,” which was inspired by her cameo in Wonder Woman 1984. Today, she’s released another single, one that is in a markedly different genre than “Human and Divine.” The new tune is called “Pink Slip Lollipop” and is a pop song inspired by Shania Twain and the B-52s. It’s an anthem for “kicking that creep to the curb,” as its marketing material explains, and it begs to be danced to, as Carter herself explained in a statement. “’Pink Slip Lollipop’ is about letting your hair down, having fun, and not taking yourself too seriously,” she said. “It’s about not getting tied down, whether it’s to a beau or a genre. A little bit of mystery is always sexy. I like to leave people wondering what I’m going to do next.”  The release of “Pink Slip Lollipop” comes about three months after Carter’s ethereal “Letters from Earth.” Carter co-wrote the new song with longtime collaborators John Barlow Jarvis and Kerry Marx, and recorded in Nashville. The tune will likely not be the last one she releases this year, as she is working on new material. You can listen to “Pink Slip Lollipop” on the music platform of your choice, all of which are provided here. Check out the single cover below. [end-mark] The post Let’s Dance! Lynda Carter Has New Single Called “Pink Slip Lollipop” appeared first on Reactor.

Editor’s note: This piece from Dennis Prager was originally published in 2007. We at The Daily Signal thought Dennis’ idea was worth revisiting as we approach Independence Day 2024. Perhaps the major reason Jews have been able to keep their national identity alive for 3,000 years—the last 2,000 of which were nearly all spent dispersed among other nations—is ritual. No national or cultural identity can survive without ritual, even if the group remains in its own country. Americans knew this until the era of anti-wisdom was ushered in by the baby boomer generation in the 1960s and ’70s. We always had national holidays that celebrated something meaningful. When I was in elementary school, every year we would put on a play about Abraham Lincoln to commemorate Lincoln’s Birthday and a play about George Washington to commemorate Washington’s Birthday. Unfortunately, Congress made a particularly foolish decision to abolish the two greatest presidents’ birthdays as national holidays and substituted the meaningless Presidents Day. Beyond having a three-day weekend and department store sales, the day means nothing. Columbus Day is rarely celebrated since the European founding of European civilization on American soil is not politically correct. Christmas has become less nationally meaningful as exemplified by the substitution of “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas.” Memorial Day should be a solemn day on which Americans take time to honor those Americans who fought and died for America and for liberty. But, again, fewer and fewer Americans visit military cemeteries just as fewer communities have Memorial Day festivities. We come, finally, to the mother of American holidays, July Fourth, the day America was born. This day has a long history of vibrant and meaningful celebrations. But it, too, is rapidly losing its meaning. For example, look around—especially if you live in a large urban area—and see how few homes display the American flag. For most Americans it appears that the Fourth has become merely a day to take off from work and enjoy hot dogs with friends. Our national holidays were established to commemorate the most significant national events and individuals in our history; they now exist primarily to provide us with a day off. This was reinforced by the nation’s decision to shift some of the holidays to a Monday—thereby losing the meaning of the specific date in order to give us a three-day weekend. National memory dies without national ritual. And without a national memory, a nation dies. That is the secret at the heart of the Jewish people’s survival that the American people must learn if they are to survive. When Jews gather at the Passover Seder—and this is the most widely observed Jewish holiday—they recount the exodus from Egypt, an event that occurred 3,200 years ago. We Americans have difficulty keeping alive the memory of events that happened 231 years ago. How have the Jews accomplished this? By the ritual of the Passover Seder. Jews spend the evening recounting the exodus from Egypt—and as if it happened to them. In the words of the Passover Haggadah—the Passover Seder book—“every person is obligated to regard himself as if he himself left Egypt.” The story is retold in detail, and it is told as if it happened to those present at the Seder, not only to those who lived it 3,200 years ago. That has to be the motto of the July Fourth Seder. We all have to retell the story in as much detail as possible and to regard ourselves as if we, no matter when we or our ancestors came to America—were present at the nation’s founding in 1776. The Seder achieves the feat not only through detailed recitation of the story, but through engaging the interest of the youngest of those at the table (indeed, they are its primary focus), through special food, through song and through relevant prayer. Obviously, just as secular Jews tend to avoid the prayer part of the Haggadah, so, too, secular Americans are free to avoid the prayer part of an American Seder Book. But someone—or many someones—must come up with a July Fourth Seder. A generation of Americans with little American identity—emanating from little American memory—has already grown into adulthood. The nation whose founders regarded itself as the Second Israel must now learn how to survive from the First. 4th-of-July-DeclarationDownload We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. Republished with permission from Salem Media Group. The post America Needs a July Fourth Seder appeared first on The Daily Signal.

America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000. The Biden administration doesn’t care. It wants to spend more. Already it is spending so much that it’s increasing our debt by a trillion dollars every 100 days. President Donald Trump was no better. His administration increased our debt by almost $8 trillion. This will not end well. Last year, we hit a new ugly milestone: Americans must pay $1 trillion per year just for interest on our debt. That’s more than we spend on defense—on infrastructure, education, poverty programs … everything, but Social Security and Medicare. If we didn’t waste these trillion dollars on interest, we could give $3,000 tax cuts to every man, woman, and child to use as they please. Worse, America’s spending growth is unsustainable. You can stretch a rubber band farther and farther, but eventually, it will break. This column has reported on the politicians’ irresponsibility for a long time. In 2019, I complained that our debt increased by a trillion dollars every year. But now, it’s 3 trillion! In 2023, the ratings agency Fitch was criticized for downgrading U.S. government debt. But a few months later, Moody’s Investors Service lowered its outlook from “stable” to “negative,” saying America’s “fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability.” No one knows which straw will break the camel’s back. In the past, politicians at least talked about our debt problem. President Bill Clinton said, “We’ve got to deal with this big long-term debt problem, or it will deal with us.” President Barack Obama said not dealing with it is “irresponsible.” Trump said, “We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt.” But not one of them did anything about it. Now they lie about it. President Joe Biden said, “We literally cut the federal debt in half.” This is absurd. When he took office, our debt was $26.9 trillion. Now it’s $34.8 trillion. Part of the problem is that Biden staffers listen to advocates of “Modern Monetary Theory”—the ridiculous idea that the U.S., because it prints its own currency, can spend even more. “There’s nothing to prevent the federal government,” says Stephanie Kelter, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser, “from creating as much money as it wants to and paying it to someone.” This is crazy. Look what’s happened to countries that tried it. After World War I, the German government couldn’t afford its reparation payments, so it printed more money. That led to 300% inflation and created anger that set the stage for Hitler. Similar hyperinflation wrecked lives in Argentina, Zimbabwe, and, most recently, Venezuela. People work their whole lives to build savings; politicians steal it through inflation. Today, silly people like Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren say we can “fix” our deficit by taxing the rich. Since the stock market’s risen almost 30,000 points in 15 years, there are a lot of absurdly rich people around. “Pay your fair share,” shouts Warren. But rich people already pay a bigger share, and raising taxes on the rich wouldn’t even get us out of the mess we’re in. First, many wouldn’t pay. They’d move abroad or invest abroad or spend even more on tax lawyers to slime around the rules. Even if they didn’t, there aren’t enough rich people to tax to compensate for what our politicians spend. If Warren were able to grab all billionaires’ wealth, that would only cover about a seventh of our debt. The only solution is to address what causes the debt in the first place: excessive government spending. It shouldn’t be so hard. Politicians don’t even need to stop spending more. They don’t need to balance the budget. They just need to limit spending increases to just below America’s average yearly economic growth. Then we could grow our way out of our debt burden. But our politicians won’t even do that. They don’t even talk about debt. They are irresponsible cowards. COPYRIGHT 2024 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS INC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post You Owe $100,000! appeared first on The Daily Signal.