Greetings! The Washington Examiner wonders if Hurricane Milton will change the  upcoming presidential election, increase the permanent size of government and put upward pressure on interest rates”…The American Thinker questions if the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene was “election interference.”  “Apparently, there is no money for hurricane victims, especially those in the red portion of western North Carolina,” writes columnist Brian Joondeph.  “Would government resources be more readily available if the flooding was in the Research Triangle of far bluer Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill? Is this the latest Democrat ploy at election interference, not stuffing the ballot box but changing the voter mix, increasing Democrat voters via illegal immigration, and decreasing Republican voters by letting them die?”… Tim Walz has been limping.  So says PJ Media…Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has done something conservatives may like. So says the Wall Street Journal…America’s worst senator?  It’s Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, Jr., according to the American Spectator. He’s a Democrat (natch)…Never thought I’d see this headline from Townhall: “Trump and Musk Are Improbable Working-Class Heroes.”  Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter observes, “Working class Americans appreciate the fact that these guys actually build things”…Right wing media outlets like The Gateway Pundit are buzzing about Kamala Harris supposedly speaking with a “strange new accent” on Tuesday's “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”  (Watch clip here)…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! It’s the battle of the podcasts.  On Sunday, Kamala Harris was interviewed on “Call Her Daddy,” a six-year-old podcast with a huge female audience.  Not to be outdone on the podcast front, Trump appeared yesterday on the most popular right wing podcast, “The Ben Shapiro Show” (here’s the full transcript of the interview).   Based on information I’ve pulled from the podcasting platform Castbox, Trump potentially reached twice as many listeners as Harris. “The Ben Shapiro Show” has 637,318 Castbox subscribers, while “Call Her Daddy” has 290,216.  Those are big numbers in the pod world. Keep in mind, Castbox has less than 2% of the podcast platform market, dominated by Spotify and Apple…Fall movie star Mel Gibson has a TV series in development. The Gibson project is about the 1565 Siege of Malta, when an outnumbered army of Christians held off Muslim invaders (The Western Journal)…The American Conservative calls newly sworn-in president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum “the dangerous radical on our southern border”…Right wing entertainment blogger Christian Toto gives thumbs down to The Apprentice, a new theatrical film about Trump’s early adult years and his tutelage under the much reviled lawyer Roy Cohn.  Toto concludes that “partisan rage” sinks the “The Apprentice” (lousy title, BTW).  “The screenplay, by Fox News critic Gabriel Sherman repeatedly echoes 2024 amidst its talking points,” writes Toto in his Tinseltown blog Hollywood in Toto. “Sherman loathes Fox News, but he’d be better served by turning off MSNBC.” The film opens Friday…If  you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard