Greetings! Dept. of Naughty & NICE: Donald Trump wants to rebrand ICE as NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  Here are two more apt acronyms from yours truly: ICK (Immigration and Customs Knuckleheads) or PRICC (Presidential Reinforcements for Immigration and Customs Control)... Book news: I love the premise of this new novel published las tmonth. Yesteryear is a high-concept satire about a tradwife influencer who pretends to be a conventional farm housewife for the sake of her money-making social media profile. That is, until she wakes up one morning in 1855 on a hardscrabble farm without electricity and a house full of hungry kids to feed....Nasty but clever: Townhall’s fire-breathing columnist Kurt Schlichter labels Graham Platner the “Oberstoysterfuhrer.” Platner, a Maine Democrat, oyster farmer and Marine vet, is challenging GOP incumbent Senator Susan Collins. For those of you who haven’t followed Platner’s meteoric rise, 20 years ago while in the Marines, he got a tattoo with a Nazi symbol. Platner claims at the time he wasn’t  aware of the tattoo’s Third Reich association and has repeatedly apologized and had the noxious ink covered...More POTUS AI Slop: Trump posted on Truth Social what appears to be an AI-generated drawing of Biden asleep in his pajamas in the Oval Office with Barack Obama (holding an Autopen sign) and Hillary Clinton hovering above  him. A woman (seen mostly offscreen) is signing a proclamation.  Hunter Biden is snorting a white powder off the desk. Seriously Mr. President, don't you have more important things to do with your time?....More Trump bashing from the right today: The Free Press, the neo-con publication founded by  pro-Zionist CBS News boss Bari Weiss, gives a thumbs down to The Donald’s Strait of Hormuz strategy: Trump Blinks First, blares the on-the-nose headline...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howar

Greetings! “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” featured a prerecorded nearly eight-minute interview between Barack Obama and the popular CBS late-night host.  It was a fairly pedestrian exchange without much humor, although the ex-POTUS seemed relaxed and playful. Colbert and Obama both expressed admiration for NYC Mayor Mamdani (which annoyed Fox News). And Obama admitted that if aliens landed on earth, he’d like to be the emissary for humanity. I’m down for that.  Here’s the full interview.....Speaking of Obama, The New Yorker just dropped an interview with him in which he revealed that his ongoing involvement in politics because of Trump is creating tensions in his marriage. Memo to Barack: keep fighting for Dems and work it out with Michelle...Sick Bay Report: Jim Hoft, the far-right founder and heart and soul of The Gateway Pundit, is recovering from surgery to repair a valve in his heart.  His website has more details....Trump bashing from the right today: The National Review writes that the president’s tariffs are destroying the ability of Americans of limited means to buy reliable entry-level cars....RIP Ted Turner. Just learned of his passing. He was the most inspirational person I ever worked for. His heart and politics were always in the right spot. He loved the environment, the news business, sports and beautiful women, and not necessarily in that order. Rupert Murdoch was his #1 foe, way before it was cool to detest the right-wing media mogul. I can honestly say that he made the world a better place and it’s one of the reasons I keep a poster of him above my desk...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard