Greetings! As a tumultuous week closes, one constant is that the Wall Street Journal continues to hammer the country’s hapless president. Today’s lead op-ed quite rightly asks whether Donald Trump actually has a China policy. The editorial  forcefully states that Trump is “making it up as he goes.” Looks that way to me too…Michelle Obama refuted rumors of marital discord with her hubby on the “Work in Progress” podcast, reports The Daily Beast.  Still,  don’t expect the interview to quash the catty chatter.  I hope the rumors are just that. I’ve been a big fan of the former first lady since her “Tonight Show” dancing routine with Jimmy Fallon more than a decade ago (YouTube)…I'm 100% in agreement with this headline from staunchly conservative PJ Media: “Can we please stop talking about 2028 already?”…Weekend watch: Hulu's documentary series Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror, pegged to the April 19 30^th anniversary of the attack which killed hundreds. It’s a compelling boots-on-the-ground examination of one of the deadliest homegrown acts of violence in our nation’s history and well worth watching, especially in the current climate where ultra-right extremism is so often normalized. In a related note, I  interviewed JeffreyToobin two years ago about his excellent book on the same subject, “Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.”  Toobin makes the case that McVeigh’s transformation into a right-wing radical was shaped by the some of the same forces that brought America’s democracy to the brink of disaster on January 6, 2021…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings!  Word of the day: Yippy (NY Post).  Before yesterday, I had no idea it could be used describing how investors felt about an unstable stock market...Trump has become the Wall Street Journal’s whipping boy thanks to his unhinged tariff policies. The WSJ said the president blinked on tariffs by announcing a 90-day pause for most countries.  But the editorial board didn’t stop there.  “Never bet against America, it’s said, and normally global investors don’t want to,” the editors wrote.  “It’s a sign of the magnitude of Mr. Trump’s tariff mistake that he’s goading them into doing so. He needs a policy reversal, not a pause”…Washington Free Beacon writer Aaron Shibarium will appear on a panel at Yale April 15 about conservative media and higher education. “Bridging the Divide: Trust in Higher Education and Media Through the Conservative Lens” will also feature Robert Shibley, executive director of FIRE and Jonah Goldberg, editor in chief of The Dispatch (Free Beacon)…With unrestrained glee, The Daily Caller points out that the Kennedy Center’s March 29 program “Earth to Space: Arts Breaking the Sky” fireworks display drew 11,000 attendees, a record for the Center.  “With a focus on shifting away from politically-charged programming, the facility experienced tremendous success with a widely-attended fireworks show,” notes The Daily Caller… Trump announced earlier this week on Truth Social that he’s getting his annual physical tomorrow at Walter Reed hospital. The Washington Examiner correctly points out that his cognitive tests “loom large.” He turns 80 in just under 15 months.  Just sayin’…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard