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✪ Add fly-fishing to the many topics former President Jimmy Carter is getting credit for affecting as the media reviews the history of the 39th president now in hospice care. The sport’s journal, Fly Fisherman, said that it was a story Carter contributed to the magazine in 1982 about fishing Pennsylvania’s Spruce Creek that revived interest in the sport. “Fly-fishing became the ‘in’ thing for an entirely new generation of men and women,” said thenFly Fisherman Editor John Randolph.… ✪ President Joe Biden wants all of us out of gas- and diesel-fueled cars and trucks and humming around in EVs by 2032. But pollsters John and Jim McLaughlin said we don’t want to give up our gas guzzlers. Polling they revealed to Secrets said that by a 2-1 margin, the public doesn't want to be forced into electric vehicles. And 86% don’t think Washington should tell people what to drive. …

✪ Give it up for Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who is making sure women are featured in her Harley-heavy annual Roast and Ride fundraiser, set for June 3. After COVID-19 killed it for two years, she brought it back last year and had now-Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders headline the event that typically features political figures. This year, GOP presidential candidate

Nikki Haley is the feature. … ✪ PETA has asked former

President Donald Trump to use his influence as a $5 million stockholder in Anheuser-Busch to demand an end to the docking of tails of the Budweiser Clydesdales. He helped PETA once before, canceling a diving mule act at an Atlantic City property in 1993. ★