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

Greetings! “Chilly” red carpet reception: Who noticed Trump’s winter attire when he personally welcomed China’s leader Xi Jinping and his wife at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews?  Trump wore a dark, winter-appropriate overcoat over his suit  for the September 23 red carpet greeting with temps in the upper 50s.  Even more mysteriously, Trump had on gloves.  Melania, Xi and Xi’s wife did not wear gloves as these images show. Perhaps Trump is covering up more bruises on his hands and he reasoned it would look weird if he just had gloves with no overcoat. The Daily Beast has more...Trump issued a stern denial to reports that he wants to affix his name on DC’s Ford Theater where President Lincoln was assassinated. “It is FAKE NEWS,” he bellowed in a typically angry Truth Social post. “Who would possibly want their name on such a tragic place?” My response: a madman...Mainstream media predictably blasted The Daily Wire’s just-released feature-length film Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels. But I didn’t expect the right-wing Daily Caller to line up against the film about an Islamic terrorist group taking over a woke college.  Opinion editor Adrien Gonzalez snarked, “Calling it a movie may be giving it more credit than it deserves.” Gonzalez went on to add, “Every single political point is underlined, every character trait is thoroughly elucidated, every joke is telegraphed, and every ideological conflict comes with its own instruction manual.” Worth noting: In my column for MSNOW.com last week, which is reposted here, I wrote, “Because it’s so heavy-handed and belligerently partisan, it stands virtually no chance of entertaining anyone but the converted. Enjoy the show, MAGA faithful.” Also worth noting: conservative stalwart FrontPage described the movie as “a courageous breath of fresh air”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard