Greetings! Memo to Sean Duffy: Your bumpy ride as Secretary of Transportation will become rockier today as the Real ID program kicks off at the nation’s already congested airports.  Expect air travel to become increasingly chaotic, especially in the wake of the terrifying news about air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty Airport losing contact with aircraft.  Suggested reading for anyone flying the unfriendly skies while the under-qualified Duffy remains at the helm: Erica Jong’s 1973 best-selling novel Fear of Flying…In recognition of the Mad King’s growing obsession with reopening Alcatraz as a prison, here are four movies that may be on Donald Trump's White House screening watchlist: Escape from Alcatraz, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Rock and Six Against the Rock… Help wanted: The Daily Signal, a DC-based outlet affiliated with the conservative Heritage Foundation, is beefing up its reporting staff. After adding a Virginia-based reporter earlier this year, the company is seeking to hire an experienced Ohio-based correspondent.  “We decided to add Ohio next because it’ll also feature a high-profile governor’s race next year with Vivek Ramaswamy, plus it’s the home state of VP JD Vance,” Daily Signal President and Executive Editor Rob Bluey wrote me. “Ohio’s General Assembly is active on several issues we monitor, including education, elections, and ESG.” Smart move!…Megyn Kelly has the fastest-growing podcast in right-wing media, according to TheRighting’s exclusive research.  Since endorsing The Donald the night before the November 2024 election, the popularity of  “The Megyn Kelly Show” has soared…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Latest Trump cabinet member in the hot seat: Sean Duffy, the ex-reality TV star, who seems to be flying blind in his new role as Secretary of Transportation. Frighteningly, the nation's air traffic control system appears dysfunctional (Wall Street Journal: America’s Air Traffic Fiasco) and all eyes are on the unqualified Duffy.  Let’s see if right-wing media defends him in the coming days or maybe he gets tossed under the bus by Trump…Dept. of Strange Bedfellows: Far-right podcaster Candace Owens, who has been accused of being an antisemite, has come to the defense of convicted sex offender and former major Democratic supporter Harvey Weinstein.  In Harvey Speaks. a three-part podcast series, Owens maintains the fallen film titan was falsely accused by a corrupt judicial system.  The Free Press has all the convoluted reasoning…Former Tinseltown mogul Bill Mechanic has a powerful op-ed in Deadline blasting Donald Trump’s half-baked tariff plan on so-called foreign-produced films. He writes, “Like so many other harebrained ideas coming out of Washington these days, this one seems spewed out rather than thought through, and it presents a solution that doesn’t solve anything but aims to create headlines and noise as opposed to making things better. It is all part of Trump’s revenge tour. He’s out to destroy anyone or anything that has not bowed at his altar”…Speaking of hare-brained: Conservative thought-leader Rich Lowry opines in the NY Post that making  Alcatraz a deportation holding facility is a terrible idea.  Lowry cites many flaws in the Trump-hatched plan, noting that the notorious island in San Francisco Bay has been a tourist destination longer than it was a prison (it closed when JFK was in the White House)….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard