Greetings! Trump is threatening to rename the new White House addition the Monica Lewinsky ballroom, according to his Truth Social post yesterday afternoon. You’ll have to scroll down several pages in the post to see his tasteless threat...Launch News: Junto, a new conservative online magazine, began publishing this week. According a brief description on its website, it publishes essays and debates from writers across the American right.  I hope to find out more in the coming days....Just in time for Black History Month: The Daily Wire is now promoting the Matt Walsh documentary The Real History of Slavery. According to the promotional material: “They told you slavery was America’s unique sin. They lied”...Here’s the full 14-page Department of Justice indictment of Don Lemon and other reporters and activists.  They are charged with conspiracy to obstruct religious freedom...And so was Heinrich Himmler: PJ Media wrote Friday that the Left wants Kristi Noem gone “because she is too competent”...On Monday I wrote about ex-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s return to podcasting February 2. His first guest was none other than President Trump who used Bongino’s vast platform to suggest that (gulp) Republicans should nationalize future elections. (Fox News)... The Dozing Don: The American Conservative gives Trump a well-deserved dig in this article The Commander-in-Tired.  “Despite evidence suggesting otherwise, President Trump is mortal just like the rest of us,” comments writer Spencer Neale with a bit too much understatement...Sick Bay Report: Mitch McConnell is hospitalized with the flu. (The Gateway Pundit)...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! I spent this past Saturday morning in Florida watching the film “Melania.” Here’s the op-ed I wrote for MSNOW with my impressions of the vanity production and what it was trying to say to MAGA nation. Spoiler alert: She supposedly champions children’s issue, but in the film she reveals her favorite performing artist is Michael Jackson who had been accused of child molestation many times....Don't call it ice: USA Today’s Christine Brennan reports that the name of the hospitality facility in Milan, Italy, for three U.S. Olympic governing bodies has been changed. Previously, it was called Ice House (clever!). Now, it’s known as the Winter House (not so clever, but much safer).  And if disgraced Border Patrol official Greg Bovino visits, just refer to it as the Dog House. The Winter Olympics begin later this week...Speaking of the Olympics, I’m wondering if any U.S. athletes will use the two-week February gala to raise their voices against the Minneapolis ICEcapades.  (And that goes for the NFL players at this Sunday’s Super Bowl.) The eyes of the nation are upon you...Trump just announced the two-year closing of the Kennedy Center in DC ostensibly for a sprucing up. But Jeffrey Blehar of the National Review reveals the real reason for the shutdown beginning later this year. “Artists simply will not play there anymore,” he writes. “I’m sure that when Trump is through 'revitalizing' it in late 2028, it’ll be 20 feet taller and covered in fake-gold plating. Just in time for President Newsom’s January 2029 Grand Reopening”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard