Greetings!  Media pundits are buzzing about last night’s chilling“60 Minutes” segment on El Salvador’s notorious Cencot prison where scores of U.S. deportees have been sent without trial. The  shocking Cencot report had been shelved last month by newly installed CBS News chief Bari Weiss shortly before it was originally supposed to air. It was a move widely viewed as politically motivated not to rile the Trump administration. However, if you think CBS News has completely lost its spine  to The Donald’s regime, at least  “60 Minutes” is still in the news business based on both the Cencot report and another segment that opened  the Sunday edition of the storied newsmagazine. That first report focused on the escalating conflicts between Minneapolis residents and ICE agents run amuck in the beleaguered city. The report included shocking footage of a disabled American citizen violently dragged out of her car by ICE agents, an  unflinching example of the utter brutality of the occupation of the Twin Cities by  3,000 ICE agents. Worth noting: The New Yorker published an in-depth examination of embattled CBS News chief Bari Weiss’s first rocky months on the job  which the magazine likens to  a “hostile takeover” of the network’s news division....Word of the month: ICE-holes. It’s what I call the out-of-control agents of the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement....The traditionally conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board dumps on Trump’s imperialistic plans for a hostile takeover of Greenland: “Say good-bye to NATO,” the editorial board wrote. And that would make Russia and China the big winners in this MAGA land grab....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Pathetic: Trump now has his Nobel Peace Prize courtesy of a gift from Venezuela’s María Corino Machado. If he had any dignity, he would have graciously declined the offer. The gesture demeans him and the award...Book Beat: Somehow this provocatively titled nonfiction book, How Conservatives Can Outlive Liberals, escaped my attention when it was published last year.  My suggested subhead:  If you can’t beat them at the ballot box, let them beat you to the grave...The American Thinker lays out all the reasons Marco Rubio will be the GOP candidate for president in 2028, not JD Vance.  All good points....Who’s heard of Brandolino’s Law?  Certainly not me, until I read Kevin Williamson’s excellent article in The Dispatch today in which he wrote that Brandolino’s Law posits that the “amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”  The article, titled “Exhaustion Is (Still) the Strategy,” is naturally about the Trump presidency....Weekend Watches:  Hit and Run is an action-packed, nine-part Netflix thriller set in Tel Aviv and New York.  The beautiful wife of an Israeli tour guide with a dark past is killed in a hit and run accident, and he sets out to New York to find the truth about her mysterious death. Ignore the many implausible plot points and enjoy the gritty performance of male lead Lior Raz.  Also watchable: Marty Supreme. Long, but engrossing movie now in theaters. Timothée Chamalet should cop an Oscar as best actor...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard Polskin