Greetings! The GOP’s first-ever midterm convention kicks off today in Dallas at 4 p.m. EST.  The confab runs for two days and features the portly POTUS speaking on both nights.  The event showcases the regular cast of Trump’s traveling kleptocracy road show including JD Vance, Don Jr., RFK jr., Karoline Leavitt, Todd Blanche and Scott Bessent. Few TV outlets are providing wall-to-wall coverage of the luminaries of MAGA world.  But if you’re MAGA-curious, check out C-SPAN on your television or favorite digital device. Newsmax tells me it will only cover about 25% of the spectacle which must have Trump fuming....If you need any convincing about why Trump shouldn’t build his vulgar arch that would overlook Arlington National Cemetery and blight the skyline, I encourage you to watch this short video Stop Trump’s 250-Foot-Tall Arch. It was produced by VoteVets and Home of the Brave, in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation....The NY Post and other outlets observed that Trump’s hair color has mysteriously turned from blonde to brown.  And that has me wondering: exactly who is responsible for the care and feeding of Trump’s elaborate coif? Acerbic Trump biographer Michael Wolff doesn’t directly answer that question but he does provide some insight into that signature bird’s-nest-in-a-storm look.  According to Wolff’s podcast, a hair kit along with the nuclear codes accompany Trump wherever he goes.  When needed, patches of hair are apparently glued to his scalp, presumably by himself or jack-of-all trades Natalie Harp. Cue the gagging...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Trump carpet-bombed America over the holiday weekend with a dozens of bizarre Truth Social posts. It’s hard to pick the most disturbing ones.  However, his new-found fixation on changing the name of New Mexico to New America resulted in eight posts featuring revised images of the southwestern portion of the country. Worth noting: according to one presumably AI-generated map of North America, which Trump posted, the United States of America now stretches from the Arctic Circle (including Greenland) through Central America. His megalomania is increasing at a frightening pace...Most polarizing film of 2026? The Daily Wire’s feature-length film Run, Hide, Fight: Infidels has a premiere date.  It’s available September 16 via the company’s streaming platform.  The film depicts a scenario in which radical Islamists  take over a college campus and are only thwarted by the heroics of a retired Delta Force soldier (Jonathan Majors). “The radical jihadists lose, the red-blooded Americans win, and nobody apologizes for any of it,” says Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro. “More importantly, it also says (that) radical Islam is a threat to America, and we are all morons if we let it take over our country”....Carol Marks of Victory Girls is not only angry that Fox Business News has shown Maria Bartiromo door, but she also throws shade at Sean Hannity.  “Hannity remains firmly attached to his chair, repeating the same talking points he repeated the night before, and the night before that, while reminding us every few minutes that he is friends with Donald Trump,” she writes in a rare rebuke from the right of a Fox News icon. “Maria, on the other hand, still asks questions I want answered and talks to people I actually want to hear from”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard