Greetings! For almost a year, right-wing extremist podcaster Candace Owens has hosted the fastest-growing right-wing podcast. That growth looks like it’s slowing considerably, according to TheRighting’s latest quarterly report on right-wing podcasters being released today. My guess is that audiences are finally turning away from her outrageously offensive commentary...Dept. of Irony: Congress is ancient and someone needs to make sure they are fit to serve, observes 96-year-old NY Post columnist Cindy Adams in her most recent column...The conservative Victory Girls blog gives a big thumbs down to the late Lindsey Graham’s sister running for his six-year Senate seat in the midterms representing South Carolina. “It’s flat corruption,” hisses Victory Girls, calling Darline Graham Nordone a “nepo sister (who) wants full Senate term grift”... Don’t blame Canada: The right-leaning Free Press makes the case that we shouldn’t blame our northern neighbor for the forest fire smoke blanketing parts of the United States.  Part of the problem, as The Free Press points out, is that Canada is home to the world’s largest boreal forest. It’s about 14 times the size of California.  The article describes managing it as a “Herculean task”....Dept. of Sticks & Stones: The Federalist calls Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) “worse than a Democrat” for her opposition to Trump’s (SAVE) America Act....Kai Trump, the president’s 19-year-old granddaughter who is a competitive golfer, has “six-pack” abs according to Fox News, which ran a photo to prove its point. It’s clear from the image she’s not sharing burgers and fries with her Big Mac-munching grandpa every night...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Who’s the country’s most extreme GOP candidate? Mother Jones says it’s Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx who claims to have killed someone when he was seven. And he also happens to hunt demons...The last Pentagon press briefing about the war with Iran was two-and-a-half months ago, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter. He observed that Pentagon press briefings were once held regularly but “it feels like vestiges of a bygone era now”... Just askin’: When (or if) Trump leaves office, will he write a memoir of his White House years?  Will it be a two-volume effort? Who will be his ghostwriter?...Mazel Tov, JD: Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha welcomed their fourth child to the world on Sunday. Alec Neel Vance was born at DC’s Walter Reed Hospital (Fox News). Worth noting: the Vances reportedly just leased a weekend retreat on a nearly 500-acre estate in Middleburg, VA, an upscale enclave in rural Loudon County (NBC News)...Bill Maher received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor June 28 at the Trump Kennedy Center. The program will be shown tonight on Netflix. Worth noting: Maher, a famously contrarian liberal, admitted to Jon Karl on ABC’s “This Week” that he would be open to voting for JD Vance if he decided to run for president (The Hill). Seriously Bill? Time to lay off the weed...Dept. of Corrections: My ignorance of soccer showed yesterday.  I incorrectly identified Spain’s Borja Iglesias as a goalkeeper. He plays as a striker...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard