Greetings! Softball at the Super Bowl: Fox News’s Bret Baier’s Donald Trump  pre-game interview was as one-sided as the Philadelphia Eagles crushing defeat of the Kansas City Chiefs. Poynter's Tom Jones gave Baier’s bended knee sitdown with The Donald a big thumbs down…Would there be a Trump 2.0 if he had campaigned on the extreme MAGA-fest destiny measures he’s suggested (Canada becoming the 51st state, etc.) and making Elon Musk the nation’s defacto COO?  I’d have loved to see him defend his anti-democratic  positions in a debate with Kamala Harris. Ben Rhodes posits likewise in  this NY Times op-ed headlined “This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected”…The conservative editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal continues to hammer away at Trump.  Yesterday, the WSJ’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady took aim at Trump's claim that Chinese soldiers are working on the Panama Canal.  “Nonsense,” she huffed. “The Trump administration is making stuff up, swinging a big stick, and humiliating a friend”… FrontPage supports Trump's looney idea of resettling Gazans in Somalia because “nothing would make Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) madder”…Here’s a fringe concept that’s picking up steam in MAGA-nation: “pronatalism,”  a movement advocating that couples produce as many offspring as possible. The Washington Post profiled one prolific couple where the wife, who has endured several risky pregnancies, was quoted as saying, “I’m happy to die in labor.”  Worth noting: Elon Musk, the father of 11 children, is a pronatalist and so is JD Vance…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Target in the crosshairs: The American Family Association has ended its nine-year boycott of Target. The ultra-right organization had targeted the retail chain because of its gender-neutral bathroom policy. While Target ‘s lavatory policy still stands, the AFA boasted that its pressure campaign succeeded in part as Target added single-occupancy restrooms and cut the amount of LGBTQ Pride Month merchandise it promoted. Meanwhile, civil rights groups are boycotting Target for pulling back on its DEI initiatives…Interested in a late summer Norwegian holiday? The right wing Media Research Council offers a seven-day Holland America cruise to the Land of the Midnight Sun featuring  MRC founder L. Brent Bozell III, Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo and veteran conservative commentator Cal Thomas. Asking my accountant if the price of the cruise would be a legit business expense for me...More travel news. Starting June 15, United Airlines offers twice-weekly flights from Newark International Airport to Greenland.  The service runs through September 23 just before the onset of the country’s harsh  winter. Maybe before then The Donald will have made Greenland the 51st state and you won’t need your passport...Weekend Watch: Of course, it’s the 59^th Super Bowl but beware of the guacamole-curdling pre-gameTrump interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier.  If you’re looking for relief from the sports hoopla, I’d give a soft recommendation to Here, starring Tom Hanks.  Featured on Netflix, the Robert Zemeckis-directed film is the tale of family life shot in the living room of the same house through the decades. I found “Here” to be a slow-moving heart-warmer – more of a golf cart ride than a roller coaster -- but a welcome respite in these troubling times…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard