Greetings! More rough seas for Pride Month.  Sec. of Defense Pete “Hair Gel” Hegseth announced that the Navy ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk will be renamed on June 13.  No new name has been chosen. Worth noting: Milk served as an operations officer on submarines during the Korean War. He worked as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors until his assassination in 1978.  In 2006, President Obama posthumously awarded Milk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The website Military.com reviewed a Navy memo stating that the renaming was being ordered to “reestablish a warrior culture.” Also of note: The National Review calls Milk a “patriot”...Non-stop from Toronto to Mar-a-Lago?  Air Canada announced that in celebration of Pride Month, it’s launching its first “two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex and asexual” flight. Fox News and other outlets on the Right have taken notice and not in a good way. Meanwhile, WND describes the flight as woke gone wild.  Worth noting (with a touch of irony): Air Canada flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas was falsely accused of being patient zero for decades in the Aids epidemic that decimated the gay community in the early 80s, according to the CBC...Another day, another Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Trump policies. In the WSJ, Princeton economics professor Alan Binder argues that MAGA policies are making America mediocre.  He notes what makes the country great are best-in-class universities, trade and science.  “No other nation comes close. Yet each piece is now being undermined by MAGA,” opines Binder...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Want the inside story on the Trump assassination attempt in Pennsylvania eleven months ago? Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland, by conservative journalist Selena Zito, purports to reveal what really happened.  Not sure how the incident can be stretched into a 256-page book.  Trump is already promoting it since the attempt shows him in a heroic light...Speaking of books, the president also is also endorsing conservative playwright David Mamet’s new tome “The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment.” Our book-loving president called it “incredible.” Worth noting: Trump screwed up the punctuation in the book’s title, dropping the colon after disenlightenment and inserting a comma, which made it an incomprehensible word salad. Here’s the Truth Social post...In other book news, a weighty biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., the father of modern conservatism and the founding editor of the National Review, drops today.  Buckley: The Life and Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanehaus, comes in at a whopping 1020 pages...Trump is also promoting The Detroit Cowboy (tagline: “Go where you’re celebrated, not tolerated), the new Nashville restaurant owned by his buddy Kid Rock.  In a Truth Social post, POTUS wrote, “I hear it is a very friendly MAGA establishment and look forward to going there soon.” I wonder if Trump would have written those words if his musician buddy opened a TACO stand...I learn something new about right-wing media every day. Longtime conservative dirty trickster and gadfly Roger Stone has a news and opinion website called the StoneZone....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard