Greetings! Wanna be a political appointee in the next GOP administration?  If so, Republican Bill Short (a pen name) suggests in his Substack Elephant in the White House eight essential tomes for budding politicos who want to navigate the Washington swamp. The books include “You Report to Me” (my fave title), “Masters of Corruption” and Chris Matthews’ “Hardball,” which Short urges you to borrow from a library so left-leaning Matthews “doesn’t get any royalties.”  Nasty!..Mike Pence sounds like he’s still carrying water for Trump.  In an opinion  piece for the Wall Street Journal, the former Trump Veep and pin cushion outlines how Republicans can win in November.  One key reason, per Pence: promote “the conservative policies that made the prior administration the most successful in generations.” Sounds like a direct endorsement of a White House return engagement starring The Donald to me…Benjamin Franklin, babe magnet? While reading details about the RFK Jr/Olivia Nuzzi sexting saga, I found an article from 2016 in the Journal of the American Revolution about Benjamin Franklin’s “battery of lovers” … Wanna know what Trump reads?  Check out my article for Mediaite which reveals that Trump swims in the shallow end of the right wing information pool and drinks the water. He probably gargles with it as well. You may be surprised to learn that he's very partial to RSBN, Real America's Voice and....drumroll please....the New York Times and CNN which he nonetheless loves to call “fake  news.” It's all based on TheRighting’s exclusive research…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings!  We’re a day past the autumnal equinox, where each 24-hours is filled with more darkness than light.  Here’s hoping that’s not a metaphor for Election Day.…Just what we don’t need: Sometime in the next two weeks The Donald  has vowed to take his presidential  campaign circus to Springfield, Ohio, where the  ex-POTUS has caused mayhem with his lies about Haitian immigrants feasting on dogs, cats and geese. With any luck, he’ll wind up in Springfield, Illinois (NY Times)…Craziest headline from the right for the week of Sept. 16: Washington Free Beacon’s Horny Dads for Kamala….Do Jews need protection from Donald Trump and his MAGA minions? The Jewish Telegraphic Agency says there are serious reasons for concern.….Flame-throwing NY Post columnist Miranda Devine claims she has the real dope on what really happened in Ukraine with Hunter and Joe Biden.  (Spoiler alert: she asserts they were up to no good.)   All the alleged sordid details are in her new tome  The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America.  The NY Post published an excerpt  yesterday.  Devine has to be  unhappy that “Big Guy” Biden dropped out of the White House race, making her book seem like old news…Dept. Of Disbelief: Trump told conservative commentator Sharyl Attkisson that he won’t run in 2028 if he loses his current presidential bid. Here’s the full transcript of the interview. Who believes him?…The Springfield Sun published an editorial over the weekend denouncing JD Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants eating their neighbors pets..  My question:  what took the Springfield, Ohio, daily so long to stand up to the lying Veep wannabee?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard