Greetings! The Wall Street Journal has come to the defense of poor, little gazillionaire Jeff Bezos in an op-ed by Marian Tupy.  A senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, Tupy argues that Amazon is a treasure to us all, because it saves its customers an average of 22 hours a year and what is more precious than the  gift of time? I guess it doesn’t matter if that time comes at the cost of thousands of underpaid workers and a let-them-eat-cake boss who pays little in taxes compared to most everybody else...Battleground Angry Red Planet? A war between China and the U.S. will be fought on Mars, according to a new sci-fi novel that got a rave review from The Federalist.  Red State Mars imagines a scenario 100 years from now when U.S. homesteaders have built a cluster of domed cities on Mars.  But so have the Chinese who soon have designs about controlling the U.S. interests. Carnage ensures. Townhall’s fire-breathing columnist Kurt Schlichter blurbed “Red State Mars” calling it “just plain cool”....Once again, the Washington Free Beacon has Harvard in its crosshairs.  According to new reporting by the Beacon, Harvard has given four anti-Israeli activists $90K a year fellowships. A series of Beacon articles two years ago alleged  the university’s then president Claudine Gay was guilty of plagiarism in published works, revelations that helped end her short tenure...10 feet under: What’s the most dangerous gravesite in Arlington Cemetery? The Daily Caller claims it’s the burial plot of Spc. Richard Leroy McKinley, who died in 1961 after being exposed to nuclear radiation at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. He was buried in a 10-foot concrete grave in a lead-lined casket. The Caller says it’s “a grim reminder of America’s first nuclear accident”......If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! As a NY Giants fan, the 2026 NFL season is already off to a rough start.  On Friday, the team’s 23-year-old sensation Jaxson Dart, who will be starting his second season as the team’s  quarterback, introduced Trump at a rally in Suffern, NY.  That did not sit well with me as well as one of Dart’s teammates who the Daily Wire points out is a Muslim. USA Today has more details....Weird: Over the weekend, Trump posted a link to a March 1 article from the American Thinker with this head-scratching headline: “President Trump’s Fixation with Heaven Is Good for America.” Sounds scary to me...Another thing to worry about: The third largest outbreak of Ebola in history is devastating a densely populated region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Due to the Trump administration's deep cuts to international health organizations, efforts to contain the deadly disease are faltering, CNN and other outlets report....Book News, Part I: Regime Change, the explosive nonfiction book about the Trump 2.0 White House by NY Times star scribes Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, drops June 23. That's just days after The Donald’s  80^th birthday and two weeks before the nation’s 250^th birthday.  Expect the timely release of “Regime Change” to dominate the news cycle between those two big birthdays....Book News, Part II: The Federalist has compiled a list of 12 books that are essential reading for "patriots" celebrating the nation’s 250^th birthday. It’s a surprisingly even-handed selection, including Jon Meacham’s “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power” and Michael Shaara’s  classic novel about the Civil War, “The Killer Angels”....Just askin’: who’s read the entirety of Pope Leo’s 42,300-word Encyclical letter on safeguarding humanity from AI?...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard