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13
Nov

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Bigger than Watergate? Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan describes Nvidia’s Chinese spy scandal as potentially as big as Watergate in her latest column. Her subtext is that the trail of chips could lead all the way to the Oval Office. If I were Trump, I’d get me a battle-hardened press secretary to field the inevitable questions and pronto...Jensen Huang isn’t the first CEO to get tripped up by his secret love life.  In fact, there’s an entire website called Business Blunders that’s devoted to the dalliances of frisky CEO’s.  The list includes NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook, and CBS CEO Les Moonves. Worth pondering: Do you think Jensen Huang’s wife Lori has already called MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s scorned ex-wife who received Amazon stock worth $36 billion in her 2019 divorce settlement with the billionaire ecommerce mastermind?...Weekend Read: The 2025 biography of Jensen Huang, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip. Author Stephen Witt also penned a NY Times op-ed today which spills the beans about some of Huang's less-than-appealing personality traits...Weekend Watches: Two excellent documentaries about the world of entertainment caught my eye this week and they’re both on Netflix. SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of is a loving and often hilarious look at the low-budget Canadian sketch-comedy TV program from decades ago that was the launchpad for stars like John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and Rick Moranis. Don’t expect belly laughs from Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story.  The two-hour show examines how Cook’s step-brother embezzled more than $12 million of the superstar comedian’s earning over a period of years before landing in jail...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard


Today's Headlines From the Right

Jensen Huang Is a White House Scandal

source: Wall Street Journal

By Peggy Noonan: See the Jensen Huang scandal for what it is. It is potentially Teapot Dome-size, Watergate-size. It is a story about an administration’s failure to take responsibility and stop harm, for reasons that are mysterious.

Thomas Massie’s Far-Left Buddy Reportedly Sold His Nvidia Stock at the Perfect Time

source: Western Journal

California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, a close ally of Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, magically managed to sell his shares of the technology firm Nvidia’s stock at the absolutely perfect time. Khanna sold his shares of Nvidia stock around Oct. 7, right before the company’s stock began a precipitous, ongoing decline into the abyss.

The GOP’s Future Depends on Putting Principles First

source: National Review

By Brad Raffensperger: The GOP’s future depends on putting principles first.

The Great GOP Dummymander of 2026

source: National Review

It produced a remarkable assortment of failed gerrymanders, actual dummymanders, and near-catastrophes narrowly averted that netted out to more, not fewer GOP losses.

The Romney GOP Rises from Its Grave

source: The Federalist

If the Republican Party is going to mean anything at all in the 21st century, there has to be a floor: a set of minimum expectations that have to be met.

MAHA Falls Flat in the Midterms

source: The Dispatch

Promised funding for candidates didn’t appear, and some advocates are rethinking their relationship with the GOP and the White House.

Hispanics Are Natural Conservatives. Reagan Knew. The GOP Needs to Prove It Again

source: Fox News

Enforcement against longtime peaceful residents shifted focus from criminals to frightened families.

The Midterms Are Bad, But Not Fatal

source: Washington Stand

Let’s be clear: the political shift was substantial. There will be damaging policies, some of which will not be fully undone in the future. But serious is not the same as fatal.

Election Defeats Can Turn into Victories

source: American Spectator

History suggests that political death sentences rarely survive the next election.

Voters Have Moved on from Global Warming

source: American Thinker

Climate change, one of the Democrat Party's signature issues of the past decade, was almost nowhere to be found during the midterms.

Congress Wants to Make Trump’s Life Hell. It’s Not That Easy

source: Townhall

The Constitution would like a word, and White House counsel Will Scharf is here to offer it.

Trump’s Right About No More Chasing Iran for a Deal to End a War They’ve Lost

source: NY Post

Tehran refuses to back off what Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls its “outrageous and ridiculous” demands, so the prez will stick with the embargo and other sanctions to keep choking Iran’s economy, and wait.

Texas Dems Advance Islamic Agenda

source: Upward News

From school meals to voucher money, Democrats are moving on Islam-related issues before lawmakers return in January.

From the Party of Robert Kennedy to the Party of Sirhan Sirhan

source: FrontPage

The Democrats now openly genuflect to the Red-Green, Marxist-Islamist Alliance.

Adam Schiff Can’t Hold a Candle to El-Sayed

source: Conservative View from NH

El-Sayed barely won the primary, and if not for the areas around Detroit and Grand Rapids, he would be looking for a job in a Mediterranean fast-food restaurant. He has claimed that Michigan is the new capital of Arab- America. Maybe he will head the confiscation effort to take all single-family homes and businesses away from Americans, and give them to the Islamists marching in the streets.

Paris Is Burning. Are America’s Great Cities Next?

source: WND

It would help if moderate Democrats would sound the alarm. So far, they've been as quiet as a mouse.