SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:53 P.M. ET: 

UNREAL – From Pamela Geller:   The Mayor of the City where hundreds of women were robbed, sexually attacked, molested, and even raped on New Years Eve is blaming the victims. Worse still, the Mayor is a woman.  The mayor of Köln, Henriette Reker, intends to publish a behavioral code for the forthcoming carnival in Köln. But if you think that this behavioral code is meant for the Muslim mobs, you are wrong. This behavioral code is meant for the victims, the women.  Rather than focus on the astonishing number of criminals involved in the incident and the broader issues such violence points to, however, Reker determined women, such as those who were randomly attacked days ago, are the key to a solution. In order “to prevent such incidents from ever happening again,” Reker proposed that women adhere to a “code of conduct,” the Independent reported on Tuesday.  Notice, once again, the silence of the "feminists."  Many "women's" groups in the West have become captives of the far left.  And the far left will not criticize Muslims.

ALSO UNREAL – From The College Fix:   Black college students across the country have demanded that they be segregated from white peers, calling for “safe spaces” on campuses meant only for so-called students of color.  The requests for segregated spaces are found among some of the demand lists put forth by students who took part in protests this fall alleging their campuses are oppressive, discriminatory, and represent institutionalized racism.  The demands have been presented to campus administrators and are chronicled by TheDemands.org, a website run by a racial advocacy group called the Black Liberation Collective.  Not all of the 76 demand lists, each from a different university, seek segregated spaces — but several do.  Isn't this what respectable people were supposed to be against?  Maybe a cutoff of all federal aid to higher education, outside the sciences, would be a helpful jolt.  We have children attending college.

THE H-BOMB – The official position of the United States is that North Korea did not set off a hydrogen bomb, as the North Korean government claimed.  Many scientists are backing this assessment.  However, many others are more cautious, pointing out that North Korea's nuclear program is relentless, and that the blast recorded a few days ago may well be a significant step on the way to an H-bomb.  Given the total failure on our part to stop the North Korean nuclear program, I would choose to go with the most pessimistic assessment.  It's usually accurate.

January 6, 2016