Greetings! Phrase of the day: Elite overproduction. It’s when “when members of the elite (or those with the talents to join it) become too numerous for society to accommodate their aspirations,” explains Andrew Stuttaford in the National Review.  Seems like a fancy way of saying there are not enough jobs for recent college grads...Book news: The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway has written a biography of conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. And, of course, our  erudite POTUS gave full-throated support for the book in a Truth Social post. Wanna bet he hasn’t and never will read it?...Backlash against The Boss: Ticket prices for Bruce Springsteen’s current tour hit some sour notes with NJ.com’s Bobby Oliver. “Springsteen’s artistic identity, as a bleeding-heart populist who sings for the destitute and downtrodden, has never been more disconnected from his economic behavior as a touring act or businessman,” writes Oliver. Tickets sell for nearly $3,000 and “No Kings” t-shirts fetch $90, he claims. The right-wing Hollywood in Toto website took note too... Hollywood in Toto also targets George Clooney and his wife for donating $1 million to the Left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017. The group is now under investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly funneling money to pay leaders of certain hate groups for inside information. That led to this head-snapping headline in Hollywood in Toto: Did George Clooney Help Fund KKK, Unite the Right?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! And happy Earth Day, tree huggers and anyone who supports environmental protection (which includes myself).  I’m guessing it’s not on Donald Trump’s calendar...Tucker’s about-face: In his Monday podcast, Tucker Carlson apologized for “misleading people” about Donald Trump and said he was “tormented” about his support for the president.  It was an astonishing admission from the popular chatting head and former Fox News personality. Here’s the full podcast. It’s more than two hours long and I didn’t have the stomach to wade through and find the apology....Mamdani’s curse?  Sports fans following baseball are surely aware of the NY Mets jaw-dropping 12-game losing streak. And now the blame for that streak has fallen on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani for hugging the team mascot in early April, which “cursed” the team, according to the Washington Free Beacon. “Some have speculated that Mamdani is punishing the Mets for giving their players too much money,” opined writer Andrew Stiles about the mayor who is a democratic socialist. “Another possible explanation is that Mamdani simply despises a sport that is widely regarded as ‘America's pastime.’ He prefers soccer, a so-called sport that is more accurately described as an anti-American abomination in which players compete to see who can fall down the most and pretend to be injured”....Townhall columnist Star Parker thinks the best speech about the meaning of the Declaration of Independence was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas April 15 at the University of Texas. Here’s the full one-hour recording of his presentation...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard