Greetings! Question of the week (courtesy American Spectator): "Is It Time to Call Trump’s Iran War a Quagmire?" My answer: Yes....The conservative Maine Wire has a beef with national media outlets calling Troy Jackson a lumberjack.  An article in the Wire notes that Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack (using brute strength) while Jackson was a logger (using modern heavy equipment).  Jackson squares off against incumbent Susan Collins in Maine's critical upcoming midterm race for the U.S. Senate, which has profound national implications. Nasty: The Maine Wire also continues to point out that he’s “sleeping with his cousin." And the American Spectator describes Troy Jackson as a “cousin impregnator.” Jackson has two children with his second cousin. They have been a couple since high school...Song of the Week: Some Humans Ain’t Human, by folksinger John Prine.  This song should serve as the anthem for the Trump administration...The Daily Signal recommends four books to read for America’s 250^th birthday.  They include: “Alexander Hamilton: A Biography,” by Forrest McDonald; “The Political Culture of the American Whigs,” by Daniel Walker Howe; and “The Americans,” by Daniel Boorstin...Aaron Rodgers, for U.S. Senate? Steve Bannon suggests that the polarizing contrarian quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers should run in Pennsylvania because John Fetterman is up for re-election in 2028. “What do you think it would be like in the U.S. Senate if we had a guy like Aaron Rodgers and not John Thune?” Bannon wondered on his podcast, according to the Daily Signal. “Aaron Rodgers is a man. He stood in the breach with the whole world against him”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Dept. of Modesty: The Portly Potus boasted on Truth Social last night after winning the Bedminster Club Championship at his course in New Jersey. “I won with a score of 70, and am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, because I’m focused on many other things,” he wrote without an ounce of humility. “It’s called TALENT, and I have it, and they don’t!” Fox News didn’t miss a beat in hyper-inflating the ego of the 80-year-old president. “In NFL terms, it's like watching Joe Namath throw a 40-yard touchdown pass in 2026,” according to Fox’s Alejandro Avila... Heroine of the Week: Jeanine Pirro. The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for DC actually contradicted the president on his ridiculous assertions that vandals damaged the Reflecting Pool.  Now we’re all left to wonder what price she’ll pay for telling the truth, especially since he still stubbornly claims vandals caused the damage. He wrote that he “disagrees 100%” with her. Somebody’s going to bed without dinner tonight....Popular progressive podcaster and chatterbox Prof. Scott Galloway claims he was doxed by NYC Mayor Mamdani’s release of a list naming almost a million wealthy city property owners who could be on the hook for the city’s proposed pied-à-terre tax. “"He’s taken a legitimate source of tax revenue, and he’s turning it into a wanted poster," said Galloway, according to Fox News....Another Covid Diary: I also kept a diary from March 2020 through September 5, 2023.  It’s 120 pages and I wrote it so my two grandchildren – born during the pandemic – would have a record of what the world was like in the first chaotic years of their lives.  Worth noting: I call all children born during the pandemic “baby pandas”....If you keep reading, I’ll keep writing.