Greetings! Nailed it: I love the first sentence in Thomas Friedman’s wonderful NY Times column today: "President Trump is such an awful human being that just writing about him feels degrading.” I wonder if Trump barnacle Natalie “the human printer” Harp will give the portly POTUS a hard copy of the article to gag on during his morning Big Mac...No Land to Stand on, the new nonfiction book by Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia graduate student and Palestinian activist, received a NY Times rave review this weekend. Not so fast, says the right-leaning, pro-Israeli Free Press.  Writer Eli Lake called him a scoundrel and “secular saint for progressives.” Worth noting: Andrea Peyser, a conservative columnist for the NY Post, piled on by describing Khalil as a “grifter,” and advises his admirers that he shouldn’t be compared to the likes of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King...Learn something new every day: There’s a newly revised Christian dating app called Upward.  One of its features is something called “chivalry mode,” according to The Blaze.  I have no idea what it is but it sounds like a cool bipartisan feature...Another controversy erupts at Cornell: After university senior Jared Lederman published an essay on Medium stating that men and women were not created equal, he was ostracized at the Ivy League school. He even got the boot from his social fraternity ZBT. Here’s the essay he wrote for the Wall Street Journal about his rocky experiences expressing a contrarian opinion...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Someone on the right finally said it: “The Iran War Has Destroyed Trump’s Presidency,” shouts the lead story today in The American Conservative...Rudy Giuliani slithered out of the dark recesses of the MAGA universe to attend Saturday’s world premiere of the pro-insurrectionist feature-length documentary American Martyrs.  The fallen politician and former Trump advisor was on a panel at the film’s September 26 opening night in West Palm Beach, according to The Gateway Pundit which also released the film about the January 6 insurrection. During the panel, which was hosted it by fallen “60 Minutes” correspondent and conspiracy theorist Lara Logan, Giuliani revealed that Barack Obama was responsible “for one of the darkest hours in American history." Wacky...How “fake news stories” get made: This is what Karoline Leavitt, former White House press secretary told Sean Hannity, according to an article in The Blaze. “A reporter develops a negative narrative about the Trump administration, finds loosely connected sources willing to validate it, and publishes the story even after receiving direct denials from people who were actually in the room,” wrote The Blaze’s Sara Gonzalez...It looks like sporting goods retail giant Dick’s Sporting Goods may be in the crosshairs of the right.  Western Journal reports that Dick’s prevents customers from ordering custom-made, Christian-themed water bottles while allowing bottles made with words like “quran” and “allahu akbar.” “Left-wing corporate America still hates Christianity,” concludes Western Journal. “This censorship of Christian customization is nothing new”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard