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

Greetings! Gag Alert: Want to contribute to Rudy Giuliani’s defense fund? The disgraced ex-New York City mayor and Trump lapdog published a plea in Big League Politics begging  for money to pay for his legal defense. Here’s what Giuliani had to say: “A Democrat Attorney General is making me stand in a rigged trial for bogus state-level crimes, because she knows that not even the most powerful man on the face of the planet – President Trump – can save me with a federal pardon in state court”...Jonathan Cain, who played keyboards and guitar in the iconic 80s rock band Journey, has released a Charlie Kirk tribute song entitled “No One Else.”  Hollywood in Toto has details and links to the music video.... Book Beat: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has a book coming next April attacking elite universities: “Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities.”  Stefanik became a darling of the right in December 2023 in the wake of a Congressional hearing in which she attacked three presidents of Ivy League schools on how they addressed antisemitism at their respective institutions. That led to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and University of Pennsylvania. (Fox News)...Last week, Japan elected ultra-right Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister.  She’s been dubbed the Land of the Rising Sun’s Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s famously conservative prime minister, who dominated British politics in the 80s. (Daily Caller)...Department of  Corrections: Apologies for  the wrong link in yesterday’s American Spectator article contemplating  John Fetterman’s White House ambitions. Here’s the fix....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard