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

BIBLICAL THREAT – From Daily Caller:   Former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright attempted to shame young women voters at a Hillary Clinton campaign event on Saturday, repeating her now-famous line: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”  From what the polls say, that place will be fully occupied.

SICKENING – A tabloid "newspaper" editor in San Antonio, Stephanie Zarriello, says she will publish the names and addresses of every police officer in the city, in response to a controversial police shooting of a suspect.  From kens5:  "Like Ku Klux Klansman with hoods, (officers) do everything they can in order to protect their identities for fear of being brought to justice," said Zarriello.  That's why the San Antonio Observer says it is planning to publish the names and addresses of every officer in the San Antonio Police Department.  "Just as the names and addresses of sex offenders are publicized in order to protect the public from their wicked behavior, we feel that our community has the right to the exact same level of protection," said Zarriello.  Incredible language.  Publishing names and addresses puts a target on the back of every officer and every member of his family.  Where are the responsible journalists to denounce this abuse of freedom of the press?

IF TRUE, A POSSIBLE MAJOR SCANDAL – From Newsmax:   A veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups.  "After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack," the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.  This clearly calls for a Congressional investigation, but Democrats would probably block it.  It is madness.  It is corruption.  It is a betrayal of the presidential oath.  But not too many people seem to care.

February 7,  2016