SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:48 P.M. ET:  

IS THIS MAN INSANE? – FROM BREITBART:   Democratic Sen. Tom Carper says ‘dreamer’ illegal immigrants should be hired to replace millions of Americans who supposedly are too unskilled, uneducated, unethical or drugged up to work for companies.  “I think the business community is saying that to the administration [and] they are certainly saying that to those of us in the Congress, and we should focus on that,” Carper told MSNBC.  “We have a moral responsibility to them,” Carper said about the roughly 690,000 ‘dreamer’ illegals, not about Americans. Carper added, “doing a deal with the dreamers is as much about —  as I said earlier — is about making sure we have the folks who can go to work tomorrow.”  I hope the Republicans in Delaware have a good candidate to put up against this bizarre nut.

AND ANOTHER NUT – FROM DAILY CALLER:  Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as an “outstanding human being” on Monday.  Farrakhan is known for embracing radically anti-Semitic and anti-white views, as even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged. Farrakhan’s history of racially extreme comments includes blaming Jews for the September 11 attacks, saying white people “deserve to die” and praising Adolf Hitler as a “very great man.”  A bombshell new photo emerged last week, showing former President Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting in 2005. The journalist who took the photo said he suppressed its publication to protect Obama’s presidential aspirations.  Recently we learned that a man seeking a GOP congressional nomination in Illinois is a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi and admirer of Adolf Hitler.  Republican leaders at all levels instantly denounced him.  Thus far the comments of Danny Davis have been met only by the silence of leading Democrats, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Says something, doesn't it? 

SELLING THE L.A. TIMES – FROM THE WRAP:  Tronc, Inc., the owner of the Los Angeles Times, is expected to sell the paper to L.A.-based billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, multiple outlets reported Tuesday. According to the New York Times the deal, said to be worth approximately $500 million, could be announced as soon as Wednesday.  Soon-Shiong, the founder of Culver City-based NantHealth and a major shareholder in Tronc, is also expected to purchase the San Diego Union-Tribune, according to a Washington Post report.  It's been a troubled paper for years.  Of all the major city papers in the U.S., the L.A. Times seems to have the least influence.  I generally find its journalism shallow, with some noted exceptions.  The Times needs to be less like the city it serves.

February 6, 2018