Greetings! If you missed yesterday morning’s 45-minute press briefing by SecDef Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine, you can watch it on YouTube. The jittery Hegseth looked and acted especially oily, like he slathered on an extra application of hair gel. He oozed arrogant false bravado. While crowing about the dominance of the U.S. military in the conflict, he said, “God deserves all the glory,” which made me wince.  His counterpart, Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, projected calmness and sanity. However, after reading Tuesday’s superb investigative NY Times article about how Trump took the U.S. to War in February, the General came off as wishy washy and unable to advocate a position for or against going to war...RFK Jr. is getting into the podcast game. Yesterday afternoon, the head of the Dept. of Health and Human Services announced on X that his program will be launching soon. Its name: “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.” Yawn. Little was disclosed about the focus of the program...NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo and guest Bill O’Reilly got into a heated on-air exchange last night regarding Iran’s nuclear capability.  Cuomo ended the scuffle by reminding the disgraced former Fox News anchor that it was his show and he could take a hike if he didn’t like it. My question: why is Cuomo even legitimizing O’Reilly by having him on his prime time program? The NY Post has more details...Amanda Carpenter, former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), revealed on X yesterday that she read the novel American Psycho. “Imagine my surprise to find that the lead sociopathic character idolizes Donald Trump,” she wrote. “The book mentions Trump dozens of times.” Not a surprise to me!...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Nailed it! Politico has the newsletter subject line of the day on the 11th hour ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran: “Better TACO Tuesday Than World War III.”  ICYMI: TACO is shorthand for “Trump always chickens out”...Book news: Get ready for Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by NY Times scoopmeisters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.  The book focuses on the first year of Trump’s second presidency (although I’m not sure I want to relive it. PTSD etc).  “Regime Change” drops June 16, two days after The Donald’s 80^th birthday, and just in time for Father’s Day gifts...The National Pulse has a long list of possible candidates that Trump might name to replace his recently fired Attorney General Pam Bondi.  Among those players being considered to become the newest Trump White House cast member: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO); Mark Whitaker, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations;  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro; Counselor to the President Alina Habba, and Todd Blanche, Acting U.S. Attorney General and former Trump defense attorney.  Altogether, there are 23 names on the Pulse list ...."The Charlie Kirk Show,” the podcast of the popular right-wing activist who was slain last September, is one of the fastest-growing right-wing podcasts, according to TheRighting’s just released research. The show, now hosted by producer Andrew Kolvet, drew nearly 30,000 new subscribers in the first quarter. Ultra-right looney Candace Owens’ program ranked as the fastest-growing podcast on my list for the second quarter in a row.  I shudder to think about what that says about certain factions in our country....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard