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

Greetings! Good career move? Did federal agents who arrested Don Lemon for documenting an anti-ICE protest that interrupted a Minneapolis church service last month inadvertently boost the flagging career of the independent journalist? Newsweek’s Jesse Edwards  thinks so. “Lemon can now play the unjustly incarcerated victim for the rest of his professional life, and he has every right to do so,” writes Edwards. “Congratulations, Mr. Lemon. Today you truly became a journalist. You have earned all the street credit you will ever need to leave a lasting mark on American discourse, and I am guessing the book deal is already in motion.” Worth noting: Lemon will be on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” tonight. (LateNighter)...Comedian Pete Davidson showed up playing  Tom Homan in the cold open of Saturday Night Live. This is how Davidson/Homan explains why  Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino was canned: ““I want to stress that it wasn’t because he did a bad job or publicly lied about the shooting of an American citizen or even — uh oh — dressed like a Nazi. It was that he was filmed doing these things”....He’s back! Dan Bongino’s podcast and syndicated radio show returns today after a year-long hiatus. Earlier this year, the flame-throwing darling of the right stepped away from a successful media career to become Deputy Director of the FBI...Dept. of Cruelty: In a Truth Social post last night, Donald Trump threatened to sue Grammy host Trevor Noah for a joke he made last night connecting  the MAGA-in-Chief to the notorious island retreat of his former bestie, the late convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump concludes his post with these two sentences that reveal his disturbing joy in inflicting pain on his adversaries: “Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard