SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

HER OWN MEDICINE – FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:    A street artist is calling Meryl Streep on her bluff.  Posters showing the "The Post" actress standing with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein have been popping up across Los Angeles, Twitter posts indicate. The artist, who has yet to be identified, placed a red banner with the words, "She knew," over Streep's eyes.  The images began appearing around the City of Angels following a Monday statement from the 68-year-old actress in which she claimed Weinstein "made sure" she didn't know about his perverted antics.  How could she not have known?  It was all over the industry.

A REMINDER – FROM AFP:    BERLIN — German police said they arrested Wednesday a man planning to carry out a ramming attack in the name of the Islamic State group on the crowds outside a skating rink.
The 29-year-old suspect, a German national, was believed to have scouted the target in the southern German city of Karlsruhe in August and allegedly tried to get a delivery driver job in preparation.  “The accused, Dasbar W., is strongly suspected of having supported IS and being a member of IS,” German anti-terror prosecutors said in a statement. He is “strongly suspected of plotting a violent action.”  Not really much of a surprise.

UNBELIEVABLE – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:   College Democrats at the University of California San Diego last week branded flyers recently posted around their campus as "racist propaganda." The flyers in question were simple, bearing only a picture of murder victim Kate Steinle's face and the phrase, "She had dreams too."  The illegal immigrant who shot and killed Steinle in 2015 was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter on Nov. 30. His argument in court was that it was an accident.  This is what the Democratic Party, under Barack Obama, has  become.

December 20, 2017