Greetings! The joke’s on The Free Press: The news outlet co-founded by the embattled CBS News boss Bari Weiss and now owned by her corporate masters, is launching  a series of comedy events at NYC’s Comedy Cellar Sunday afternoon, April 19.  The event will be emceed by Judy Gold, who is described as a Free Press favorite. I have no idea  if the five  comics on the lineup share Weiss’s neo-con politics, but  I’d rather spend a spring afternoon outside in the sunshine than in a basement club with a two-drink minimum...PJ Media playfully suggests a JD Vance/Marco Rubio co-presidency for 2028. I could see the concept picking up traction on the right, looking for a unity ticket...Trump's beef with France. This morning in an angry Truth Social post, the peeved POTUS lashed out at this key NATO ally for not letting U.S. planes carrying military supplies destined for Israel fly over French territory. “The U.S.A. will REMEMBER,” wrote the president in an ominous, but vague threat...The Conservateur just dropped a glowing profile of Trump’s Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley. “For Crowley, the road began with a letter, a mentor, and a conviction that God orders a life more deliberately than we often realize in the moment,” observed writer Alison Cheperdak. Worth noting: Crowley’s early  mentor was disgraced ex-POTUS Richard Nixon...What’s the best  book on immigration ever written? American Greatness says it’s Paul Lake’s 228-page novel Cry Wolf: A Political Fable. The book, first published in 2008, has been compared to a 21^st century “Animal Farm”...Finally, thanks to all of TheRighting’s Citizen Journalists who sent in images from Saturday’s No Kings rallies which are posted here.  They include: Jean Isler, Jeff Dorman, Howie Sholkin, Mark Scheerer, Campbell Dickerson, Shaun Dakin, Catherine Chayka, Paul Turner and Emily Zylber.... If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Who attended any of the 3,000-plus No Kings demonstrations nationwide on Saturday? I was at the south end of NYC’s Central Park with thousands of others protestors disgusted with the Trump administration, and I’ve got the images from Manhattan and around the country to prove it. If you have more that you want to share, please send to Howard@TheRighting.com. Help me out by identifying the city where the rally took place and any other info that adds context...Rising Republican star? American Spectator contends popular Pennsylvania state treasurer Stacy Garrity is becoming a force in the party. She’s the GOP nominee for governor who will be running against Gov. Josh Shapiro. An Iraqi war veteran and successful businesswoman, Garrity has drawn the attention of party power brokers, per the Spectator....At least one right-wing outlet supports the choice of comedian Bill Maher as this year’s Mark Twain Prize winner, an honor bestowed by the Trump-Kennedy Center (yikes, that phrase was tough to write!). Hollywood in Toto gives a thumbs up to the  Maher pick because he “supports free thinking in a muddled pop culture landscape”...Monday Night Watch: If you’ve felt like retreating to a cabin in the woods away from the noise of the urban world (a sane  desire here in Trump 2.0), tonight’s PBS special on Henry David Thoreau is a salve for the soul.  The documentary examines the life of the legendary transcendentalist author of  “On Walden Pond,” who celebrated living in harmony with nature....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard