Greetings! Mark your calendars.  September 9 and 10 are the dates for the first ever GOP midterm convention.  It’s being held in Dallas and details on the convention website are few other than Trump has promised to speak both nights (natch!).  But I’ve got questions. What news channels (if any) will provide wall-to-wall coverage? Will mainstream outlets send a correspondent and crew or will they completely ignore it because they think it’s a nothingburger?....Far-right columnist Todd Starnes asserts that drag queens are touring America mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk who was gunned down almost a year ago...Trump is doing his former fixer Michael Cohen a huge favor by agreeing to an interview with the disgraced lawyer. Cohen now hosts a radio show on NYC’s WABC-AM where the recorded interview will interview tonight at 6 p.m. ET. It will also be available Sunday as a podcast. This development marks another twist in Cohen’s peculiar on-again, off-again relationship with Trump.  As you may recall, he went to jail in 2019 for work he did for The Donald as his personal lawyer. Cohen even wrote a scathing book in 2020 – Disloyal: A Memoir – about his experiences working for Trump. Here’s just one sentence from the book that tells you everything about their relationship: “The President of the United States wanted me dead.” This could be one of the strangest Trump interviews of the year, but Cohen's show is sure to benefit from all the publicity...Dept. of news guaranteed to put a smile on your face: Vogue has unveiled its special Dogue issue featuring a celebration of celebrity dogs, profiles of NYC’s most coordinated dog walkers, and a photo essay on the dogs who ride (with their owners) on New York’s subway.  The issue is timed – wait for it – for the dog days of summer...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! The right-wing media flavor of the month has to be Byron Donalds, who last night won the crowded GOP primary for governor of Florida to succeed Ron DeSantis.  As a young Black conservative – and Trump favorite - in a state with the third largest number electoral college votes, he’s likely to be mentioned as a candidate for president in 2032 (is it too early to discuss?). That is, assuming he wins in November, which seems like a safe bet...Of course we know this. Rich Lowry, the National Review’s influential editor, wrote an article with this simple but truthful headline: “Kim Jong-un is not our friend.” Let’s hope Natalie “The Human Printer” Harp sticks a copy of the story under President Trump’s nose today...Nazi? Fierce Trump critic Rosie O’Donnell, who is guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week, implied that CBS News honcho Bari Weiss might be a Nazi in an interview with Variety. That didn’t sit well with Christian Toto of the right-wing blog Hollywood in Toto. “O’Donnell will face no repercussions for saying such cruel, fact-free things,” Toto writes. “Heck, she may have to come back to America again with the amount of work that will fall on her agent’s desk.” Worth noting: O’Donnell, who famously left America for Ireland after Trump got re-elected, refers to POTUS as the Mango Mussolini, after the fascist Italian dictator...Bummer article of the day: The American Conservative points to the many reasons for America’s “declining empire” and its “ugly truths”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard