Greetings! The NY Post is promoting a book in its op-ed pages that “isn’t afraid to teach the history of American greatness and hope.”  The second edition of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, is written by historian Wilfred McClay, who teaches at conservative Hillsdale College. I hope you have a lot of money because the 888-page non-fiction book sells for $95.  The book, which is most definitely not a warts-and-all history,  hits retailers tomorrow...In case you were wondering if “60 Minutes” was veering more to the right under the direction of its anti-wokester boss Bari Weiss, you’ll have to wait another week. The third show of the season was pre-empted last night so CBS could broadcast the frivolous  MTV Video Music Awards. Worth noting: The show featured the world premiere video of Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero. I know I’m not the target audience, but I thought it was pretentious, confusing and massively over-produced...A SteveGruber.com commentary by the prolific right-wing pundit Liberty Paige offers a lame defense of the high price of gas.  She reasons that because coffee, Door Dash, cell phones and other services and commodities are so high, we shouldn’t complain about the cost of gas.  Her best point is that the price of gas is nearly impossible to ignore since huge signs at thousands of gas stations across the country advertise the cost. “What other products or services do you know the EXACT price of every day?,” she writes. Maybe the power-hungry POTUS should have thought of that before he started dropping bombs on Iran....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Bring back Karoline? The White House press secretary job has been vacant for more than a month after Karoline Leavitt voluntarily left the position.  Since then, the prickly POTUS has banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House.  Never would have happened on her watch, according to MSNOW.com. White House sources who spoke to MS NOW believe Leavitt would have been able to talk Trump out of the ban...Week’s most accurate right-wing headline. I wish this wasn’t true but I’m afraid I have to agree with The Federalist: Legacy Media Implode Over Losing White House Passes While the Rest of America Shrugs...Conservative pundit and columnist Ann Coulter has a bone to pick with Trump rebranding AI as “Super Intelligence.” She thinks a more accurate term is “Artificial Stupidity.” “Grok simply refuses to punctuate columns, and Google A.I. insists on capitalizing ‘Black,’ lower-casing ‘white,’ and cutting any sentences it doesn’t like, without telling me,” she writes in her latest column. “That’s despite my express request: ‘Correct the punctuation without changing any of the language’”...Weekend watch: For fans of true-crime docuseries, the three-part Netflix show Death of the Pastor’s Wife delivers a first-rate journey into the twisted marriage of a controlling, sexually obsessed bible-thumping pastor and his shockingly compliant young wife.  My only complaint with the show is its title.  We’re rooting for the wife to escape the clutches of her domineering husband, but the title has already signaled to viewers the tragic outcome. Worth wondering: This is pure speculation on my part, but is Netflix already in pre-production for a documentary series on Lindsay Clancy?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard