Greetings! A student in Charlotte, NC, is suing her high school for painting over her tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The school also accused her of vandalism. The student, Gabby Stout, has charged the school with violating her First, Fourth and Fifth amendments, according to GOPUSA. Let’s see if this story picks up steam in the conservative media echo chamber in the coming days...The website Feedspot ranked the top 60 conservative websites of 2026.  Even I learned about some new sites, which is saying something.  It’s a good resource with insightful information, including the number of social media followers for each outlet... NY Times conservative-lite scribe Bret Stephens makes a compelling case about  “why the war is going better than you think” in his latest  column... Gag alert: The right-wing 100 Percent Fed Up thinks Donald Trump and Elvis Presley look alike. Is it because at some point they may have shared the same dietician?...Agree! The American Conservative mourns America’s missing diplomatic strength. “Doing everything by war is in fact difficult, expensive, and unsustainable,” according to TAC’s John Russo...Somewhere, Putin is smiling: The Donald issued a read-between-the-lines threat to NATO – the powerful organization that is a burr in the Russian dictator’s behind -- for not supporting Trump’s war with Iran. In all caps, he wrote on Truth Social, “THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT ‘NEVER FORGET’ THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!”...Rock band name of the month: Dire Straits.  Seems appropriate for several reasons. If you don’t get the joke, you haven’t been paying attention...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Mocking Trump: The right-wing Media Research Center analyzed content from five late-night talk shows from last week, including those hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers,  Jimmy Fallon and Jon Stewart.  According to the study, of  the 118 jokes, 114 were about the war with Iran. The Donald was the butt of 78 zingers (natch), followed by Pete “Hairgel” Hegseth (6), FCC chairman Brendan Carr (3), JD Vance (3) and sinister White House advisor Stephen Miller (3). NewsBusters has the full story...Ugh! The Major League Baseball season kicks off tonight with the NY Yankees playing the SF Giants. I’m opposed to March and November baseball. Seems un-American to me.  Our nation’s national pastime is meant to be played in warm weather...Phrase of the Day: The National Review highlights  “poverty tourism” to describe the journey of left-leaning influencers who are traveling to economically stressed Havana on trips organized by the anti-war group Code Pink. Worth noting: Wikipedia devotes an entire page to the phrase “slum tourism”... Plans for a new Muslim community on 2,000 acres in rural Texas were ditched after a Daily Caller article last February alerted area residents about the proposal. The Caller pats itself on the shoulder claiming that a local official credited its reporting for killing the deal which could have resulted in as many as 20,000 “foreign nationals”  living in Kauffman, TX, a community about  35 miles east of Dallas...RIP: Jeff Webb, a mentor to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, died last week from a “freak” accident, suffering  a head injury after falling on a pickleball court, according to WND.  Webb was 76...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard