theRighting – Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from the Right

May

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Word of the Day: Kleptocracy. Thank you Donald Trump for putting this word into the everyday vocabulary of politically aware Americans who attempt to describe your presidency...Department of Not-So-Strange Coincidences: Brian Morrissey, the Treasury Department’s top lawyer, resigned Monday just as details of Trump’s heinous $1.8 billion “Anti-Settlement Fund” were emerging, according to the NY Times, which first broke the story. Morrissey was a Trump appointee. Maybe he grew a pair....Busboys and Poets, a woke DC coffee chain, is being sued by the author of the 2023 novel Pinkface, for dropping his transgender book. The Daily Caller has the complicated details. The novel centers on a male high school senior who fakes transitioning into a female to get an edge in applying to an elite university...Dept. of Good News: For fans of Quentin Tarantino’s last film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the character of the big-hearted rogue Cliff Booth was one of the joys of the film. Deadline now reports that a full-length movie, “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” featuring Brad Pitt reprising his Oscar-winning role, will bow theatrically on Thanksgiving weekend, before landing on Netflix Christmas day. That is something to look forward to, especially if we’re living in a world where the Republicans maintain their majority in the House and we need something to put a smile on our faces....Just askin’: whatever happened to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner that Trump wanted rescheduled within a month of the April 25 shooting in Washington? This Saturday marks the end of the four-week period. In case you’re wondering, I’m not in favor of rescheduling...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Today's Headlines From the Right

“Woke” Isn’t Dead or Even Resting

source: Wall Street Journal

Mr. Trump didn’t rout wokeism. He forced it into a tactical withdrawal. Corporations and colleges rebranded DEI programs to avoid legal repercussions. As Washington moderated, blue cities and states radicalized. New York and Seattle elected socialist mayors.

Woke Professor Unleashes Half-Baked Plan to Protect “Culture” With Copyright Laws

source: WND

A law professor at the University of Miami has proposed using America's copyright laws to attack and punish those who may use undefined "impermissible cultural appropriation" in their works. It is J. Janewa Osei-Tutu who outlined her scheme in an article at Racism called Protecting Cultural Personality.

Stop Blaming Conservatives for the Left’s Baby Bust

source: The Federalist

Conservatives are the ones still having babies.

Leftist Media Mocks and Trashes America

source: SteveGruber.com

Then wonders why GenZ isn't more patriotic.

The Last Leg of Colbert’s Far-Left Farewell Tour Reminds Us Why CBS Canceled Him

source: The Gateway Pundit

Colbert had all the tools to be successful, yet he failed because he alienated half his audience from the jump. Every late-night comic, from Colbert and Kimmel to Fallon and Conan O’Brien, has constantly praised Johnny Carson as their idol. Yet they disrespect his memory by siding with one political party and treating political correctness like it’s a religion.

Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of “Cheap Fakes” Lie

source: Hollywood in Toto

The far-Left host hid President Biden's cognitive decline (until he couldn't)

America Already Has a Narco-State Inside Its Borders

source: Washington Examiner

It's called Puerto Rico.

Spencer Pratt and the Dem Destruction of L.A.

source: Townhall

By Kurt Schlichter: I hate to be the guy who throws on the spandex and a mask to play Captain Bringdown, but Spencer Pratt is not going to get elected mayor.That’s objectively assessing the situation. Spencer Pratt is a political superstar—there’s no doubt about that. But Los Angeles is not coming out of its death spiral anytime soon.

Texas Soy Boy James Talarico Is Giving Dems Premature Election Elation

source: PJ Media

This year's Turn Texas Blue drama star is James Talarico. Talarico has positioned himself as a throwback Dem moderate, a departure from the present-day Dem craziness. It's completely disingenuous, but the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media are dutifully playing along with the charade.

NYC’s Mamdani Paid Multiple Visits to Holocaust-Denying Sheikh

source: Washington Free Beacon

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has developed a close relationship with an influential Muslim sheikh in Queens with a history of Holocaust denial, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal. Mamdani has met with Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, imam of the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, Queens, on at least three occasions since January 2025

Brutal NBA Playoff Collapse Somehow Sparks Unprovoked Attack on Trump

source: Western Journal

Ex-ESPN talking head Max Kellerman was the pundit who made this a bizarre political statement on his “Game Over” podcast. Kellerman’s Trump dig came as he was denigrating Cavaliers star James Harden. “Bringing in James Harden to win a championship is like electing Donald Trump to fix your country,” he said

The Strait of Hormuz Is a Warning. Alaska Is the Answer

source: Blaze Media

When instability half a world away spikes prices at home, America should stop treating Alaska as an afterthought and start treating it as an asset.

Banning the Abortion Pill Isn’t Enough

source: American Spectator

Changing law isn’t sufficient. This battle must be waged in minds and hearts.

LA Cop Mark Furhman, the One Criminal from OJ’s Murder Trial, Has Died

source: The American Conservative

OJ’s acquittal, followed by Fuhrman’s conviction for perjury, stamped out white racial guilt for more than a decade. It was one of the best things that ever happened to Black people. Memories faded, and now we’re right back to infantilizing this one group of our fellow Americans.

The NAACP’s Moronic Voting Rights” Boycott Will Only Hurt Black Teen Athletes

source: NY Post

When it comes to moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic programs at southern universities is hard to beat.

France’s Great Culinary Replacement: From Escargot to Reconstituted Chicken

source: European Conservative

By championing the virtues of a bag of fried chicken, a certain section of the Left imagines itself following in the footsteps of Marx and Zola and sees in it a revival of the class struggle, updated to defend the ‘racialised’ poor.

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