Greetings! Dept. of Sh*t Stirring: JD Vance will be in Minneapolis today to defend ICE’s actions in the beleaguered city...What’s the best college in America? The right-leaning City Journal has come up with its own methodology to determine the nation’s leading institutions of higher learning. The top three in its list are: University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. See the entire top 100 list here...Washington Free Beacon takes a dig at former Biden press secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre in an article describing her post-White House ambitions. KJP stumbled out of the box last year with the publication of her poorly received book Independent, which offered a look inside the White House. But that critical setback has apparently not deterred her. According to the Beacon, she’s acquired the rights to the true story of the first Black female journalists – Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne -- covering the White House.  “Maybe her former boss, Netflix producer Barack Obama, is looking for a tax write-off,” snarked the Beacon...Book-critic-in-chief: On Truth Social, Trump touts the new book by Breitbart editor-at-large Peter Schweizer.  The tome’s title says all you need to know about it: “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon”...Also just published: The nonfiction book with the year’s worst title: “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government”...Bari Weiss’s The Free Press says that microplastics aren’t killing us.  Man, I wish that statement was true....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! The Swiss Watch: Trump’s flight on Air Force One to Davos, Switzerland, was delayed slightly this morning because of  an undisclosed “electrical problem.” Maybe his secret pacemaker was malfunctioning?...The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal REALLY hates Trump’s plans for Greenland based on the two op-eds it just published.  Writer Tom Rogan opines that if the U.S. invaded Greenland, it would drive Europe into China’s arms. The headline was on-the-nose perfect: How to Destroy Trump’s Presidency. The second op-ed by Holman Jenkins Jr carries a more playful tone with Moby Dick overtones: Greenland Is Trump’s White Whale. But the subhead really nails it: “He needs therapy more than the U.S. needs to own the island to ensure its defense.” Worth mentioning: The American Conservative concurs with the Journal’s Greenland POV predicting that Trump’s quest for Greenland “could destroy half the world”...What’s cooking in Greenland? Since our president seems intent on making Greenland part of the United States, I was curious about the restaurant scene in the vast country three times the size of Texas with a population of only 56,000.  Two establishments caught my eye. Restaurant Ulo got my mouth watering with its seasonal menu including snow crab with caviar and hand-picked mussels with fermented seaweed.  And I love the restaurant’s tagline: “Fine dining at the edge of the world.” Café Neko ranked as Trip Advisor’s top-rated restaurant in Greenland offering local fish (halibut, stonefish), sushi, bagels baked in its kitchen (!!!) and coffee from Copenhagen. Worth mentioning: there are no McDonald’s in Greenland...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard