Greetings! JD Vance is speaking at a Breitbart event November 20 in Washington, DC.  The website’s Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle will interview the Veep. Boyle is quoted in the Breitbart article about the event as boasting, “Breitbart News is the publication of record for the America First movement.”  Or to put it another way, Breitbart is just a mouthpiece for the movement...When Bill Gates backtracked on his position on climate change, Trump (naturally) had to crow about it in this Truth Social post. “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax,” he wrote. “Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!”...Wikipedia watch your back! Earlier this week, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered competitor to the extremely popular free online encyclopedia. Wired magazine has already charged  Grokipedia with promoting far-right ideology.  For example, Wired reports that Grokipedia claims that social media promotes transgenderism... Another right-wing outlet takes on  Tucker Carlson.  FrontPage accuses the right-wing chatterbox of lying about Israel and betraying Christians…Kashing in on the perks of the job? FBI Director  Kash Patel  is  accused of using the bureau's jet to attend his girlfriend’s musical performance at a pro-wrestling event held at Penn State’s Bryce Jenner Center, according to theDaily Beast. Snarky me can’t help but add that Patel is 45, and gal-pal singer Alexis Wilkens is 26...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings1 ABC News chief White House correspondent Jon Karl has published another book with a one-word title that sums up Trump 2.0 perfectly.  Retribution examines the race for the 2024 White House, and, most chillingly, how Trump assembled a new team around him at the White House with the goal of creating an entirely new world order. Worth noting: Karl seems among the most prolific journalists covering the White House. This is his fourth book about Donald Trump: Front Row at the Trump Show (2020), Betrayal (2021), and Tired of Winning (2023)...Department of Strange Coincidences: the trials of James Comey and Rudy Giuliani will both commence on January 5, 2026, per Big League Politics. This seems like a bad way to start a new year.  I’d be much happier if a new Judd Apatov comedy hit the big screen in January...Tucker slammed by the right: The American Thinker calls out Tucker Carlson for leaning into antisemitism and platforming Holocaust revisionists...The website of conservative Association of Mature American Citizens has identified 10 of the supposedly funniest moments in Trump’s second term. I  happen to think most everything about his second term is an epic tragedy...Bill Gates has cooled to the idea of climate change. Here’s his memo where he explains the  reversal of his position....Don’t do it Mr. President! That’s the headline of an article from The American Conservative urging Trump not to push for regime change in Venezuela. The article charged that the administration’s case for its Venezuela policy is “insultingly ridiculous”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard