Greetings! One would think that the devastating Los Angeles wildfires would all but smother the 2028 White House ambitions of California Governor Gavin Newsom.  PJ Media thinks otherwise and pegs the camera-ready Newsom as the Dems’ frontrunner in four years….Professional bomb thrower, GOP antagonist and ace wordsmith Steve Schmidt has written what are surely the definitive words about Republican critics who are dancing on the ashes of beleaguered Los Angeles.  “Among the great grotesqueries and stupidities of our time is the sheer number of MAGA politicians who openly disdain the nation’s economic, technological, social, cultural, and innovation furnace,” Schmidt wrote on his Substack. “There is no scenario in which America succeeds with a failing California. Only an imbecile would root for California to fail or burn, and tragically, there is no shortage of fools in America rooting for both”…The Victory Girls blog hopes that Melania Trump wears a “chic Zhivago-style hat, complete with fur” to her husband’s inauguration as “nod to her critics”…Speaking of the incoming First Lady, she gave an eight-minute prerecorded interview on “Fox & Friends” this morning.  Melania  wasn’t as bad as I expected, but she answered the barrage of softball questions with all the warmth and humor of an elderly accountant discussing a new tax code…Last week’s craziest right wing headline courtesy of PJ Media: “Canada’s Commie Soy Boy Slithers off in Ignominy.”  The reference, of course, was to Justin Trudeau…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard