SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

BAN IT!  BAN IT!  FROM FOX:   “Jingle Bells,” one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world, is now being called racist.  A Boston University theater professor claims the Christmas carol has a “problematic history” because it was originally performed to make fun of African Americans.  “The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history,” Kyna Hamill, a BU theater historian, wrote in her “Theatre Survey” research paper on the story of “Jingle Bells.”   Well, we'll never sing that one again, will we?  And I want to know how many Pacific Islander peoples were represented at the original Constitutional Convention.

LOVE IN AMERICA – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   An Oklahoma high school gave a teacher the pink slip after she filed for a marriage license with a 16-year-old student.  Davis High School officials fired Cassandra White, 34, the day after she went to the courthouse with a male sophomore to apply for the license, according to news station KFOR.  “The district is currently cooperating with law enforcement in the investigation of these allegations,” the school said Friday to news station KTEN. “The teacher in question is no longer employed by Davis Schools.”   The question is how someone this inappropriate got a teaching job in the first place.  Look carefully at who's teaching your children.  Standards are low.

IDIOT – FROM ABC NEWS CHICAGO:   Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin headed to the United Nations in New York Thursday to ask for help fighting violence in Chicago.  "I'm hoping to appeal to the UN to actually come to Chicago and meet with victims of violence and maybe even possibly help out in terms of peace keeping efforts," Boykin said.  Boykin boarded a plane to New York City for a meeting with an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations. It's a meeting that's been planned for more than a month and stems from disconcerting violence numbers seen this year in Chicago. Violence which is felt particularly hard in many African-American communities.  What a jerk.  We have superb American troops who can be sent in, as Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to intervene in a racial crisis.  And this guy goes to the UN, whose record on peacekeeping is zilch.  I guess the political left doesn't trust Americans.  Let's bring in those Russians.  The fact remains that New York has largely solved its major-crime problem, but Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit have not.  Do you think it has something to do with leadership? 

December 15,  2017