Greetings! Pathetic: Trump now has his Nobel Peace Prize courtesy of a gift from Venezuela’s María Corino Machado. If he had any dignity, he would have graciously declined the offer. The gesture demeans him and the award...Book Beat: Somehow this provocatively titled nonfiction book, How Conservatives Can Outlive Liberals, escaped my attention when it was published last year.  My suggested subhead:  If you can’t beat them at the ballot box, let them beat you to the grave...The American Thinker lays out all the reasons Marco Rubio will be the GOP candidate for president in 2028, not JD Vance.  All good points....Who’s heard of Brandolino’s Law?  Certainly not me, until I read Kevin Williamson’s excellent article in The Dispatch today in which he wrote that Brandolino’s Law posits that the “amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”  The article, titled “Exhaustion Is (Still) the Strategy,” is naturally about the Trump presidency....Weekend Watches:  Hit and Run is an action-packed, nine-part Netflix thriller set in Tel Aviv and New York.  The beautiful wife of an Israeli tour guide with a dark past is killed in a hit and run accident, and he sets out to New York to find the truth about her mysterious death. Ignore the many implausible plot points and enjoy the gritty performance of male lead Lior Raz.  Also watchable: Marty Supreme. Long, but engrossing movie now in theaters. Timothée Chamalet should cop an Oscar as best actor...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard Polskin

Greetings! The notoriously conservative NY Post editorial board gave an ice cold reception to Donald Trump’s imperialistic “Greenland sideshow.” “It’d be beyond nuts for Trump to actually use force,” the editors wrote, “a guarantee that Democrats would win the House this fall, for starters, and maybe even gift them the Senate”...Just wondering: what’s the pillow talk at night between Katy Tur, of left-leaning MS NOW, and her spouse Tony Dokoupil, the new “CBS Evening News” anchor. Dokupil was roundly skewered last week for airing MAGA puff pieces, including subservient interviews with The Donald and Sec. of State Marco Rubio...Dept. of Surprises: The American Conservative reports that right-wingers were “saddened” by the death of the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir.  Ultra-right gadfly Ann Coulter opines that Weir’s band was “uniquely American” and she cited the abundance of white people at the Dead’s concerts...Karl Rove, who I never liked when he was George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff, has written such a moving article about the death of his eight-year-old dog Doc Holliday that it moved me to tears. (Wall Street Journal). Sorry for your loss Karl....Several times a month a New England source of mine goes to demonstrations outside the ICE building in Burlington, MA, organized by Bearing Witness. My spy’s favorite sign seen among the hundreds of protestors: “Cholesterol, do your thing.” That seems obviously targeted at our Big Mac-loving President...Dismal December: Only one right-wing news site posted a traffic increase last month, according to TheRighting’s exclusive research. PJ Media, take a bow. Everyone else saw traffic drop compared to a year ago, including Trump’s Truth Social and Bari Weiss’s The Free Press...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard