SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:51 P.M. ET: 

THIS JUST IN! – FROM DAILY CALLER:    A Canadian government website claims Santa Claus signed an international agreement to relocate his workshop to the South Pole to escape the effects of man-made global warming in the Arctic.  The website for Policy Horizons Canada, a government website, notes that due to “rapidly melting Arctic ice and growing human operations in the North, Santa Claus has signed an agreement with the International community to relocate his village next year to operate in an exclusive zone in the South Pole.”  So glad to know this.  I'll change my address book.

DRIVING THEM CRAZY – FROM DAILY CALLER:  A victorious Trump landed in Florida for Christmas vacation, fresh off signing the newly minted GOP tax bill into law, and he made a fan’s day while walking along the tarmac.  As Trump descended the staircase of Air Force One he fist pumped. The waiting crowd him cheered as Trump walked over to see them. After some handshakes and signing some autographs, Trump picked out a specific sign. He plucked it from the crowd and signed it. The sign read “Keep Tweeting.”   Give the guy his due.  As we've said here, he's a fighter.  And he doesn't run his office by poll numbers.

HOW DARE THESE ORDINARY PEASANTS HAVE OPINIONS! – FROM LONDON'S EXPRESS: The Standard Eurobarometer survey revealed half of Europeans also do not think that their voices count in the EU.  Immigration was the top concern, followed by the threat of terrorism. And most are against the key policy of future enlargement of the EU to include other countries.  The European Commission survey, carried out in November, showed that one in five people (21 per cent) had a negative image of the EU, 37 per cent were neutral and 40 per cent were positive.  Some 50 per cent disagreed that their “voice counts in the EU”, six per cent above those that did.  Not exactly a rousing vote of confidence.  But their sophisticated masters at the EU won't care.  They know best, just as they did in 1939.

December 24, 2017