Greetings! Gag Alert: Want to contribute to Rudy Giuliani’s defense fund? The disgraced ex-New York City mayor and Trump lapdog published a plea in Big League Politics begging  for money to pay for his legal defense. Here’s what Giuliani had to say: “A Democrat Attorney General is making me stand in a rigged trial for bogus state-level crimes, because she knows that not even the most powerful man on the face of the planet – President Trump – can save me with a federal pardon in state court”…Jonathan Cain, who played keyboards and guitar in the iconic 80s rock band Journey, has released a Charlie Kirk tribute song entitled “No One Else.”  Hollywood in Toto has details and links to the music video…. Book Beat: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has a book coming next April attacking elite universities: “Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities.”  Stefanik became a darling of the right in December 2023 in the wake of a Congressional hearing in which she attacked three presidents of Ivy League schools on how they addressed antisemitism at their respective institutions. That led to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. (Fox News)…Last week, Japan elected ultra-right Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister.  She’s been dubbed the Land of the Rising Sun’s Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s famously conservative prime minister, who dominated British politics in the 80s. (Daily Caller)…Department of  Corrections: Apologies for  the wrong link in yesterday’s American Spectator article contemplating  John Fetterman’s White House ambitions. Here’s the fix….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard