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

ANTI-CONSERVATIVE BIGOTRY REIGNS AT COLLEGES – FROM THE COLLEGE FIX:   A court-certified expert on extremism who once worked as an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center before becoming a criminology professor has a powerful message for academia: If it really supports diversity, let conservative students and speakers have their say on campus.  “We can’t just give lip service to diversity of ideas,” Professor Brian Levin said in a recent telephone interview with The College Fix. “The academia has to realize that there are people of goodwill on both sides, and they have an obligation to respect the entire spectrum of viewpoints.”  Perfectly sensible, but sensibility isn't high on the college agenda these days.

INCREDIBLE – FROM BREITBART:  Under the Obama administration’s expansive interpretation of executive authority, legal immigrants seeking citizenship through the nation’s Naturalization process are now exempt from a key part of the Oath of Allegiance.  Immigrants seeking to become citizens no longer have to pledge to “bear arms on behalf of the United States.” They can opt out of that part of the Oath. Nor do they have to cite any specific religious belief that forbids them to perform military service.  According to the Naturalization Fact Sheet on the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) website, In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the nation welcomed 729,995 Legal Permanent Residents into full citizenship.  What a farce.  Obama pledged to fundamentally change America, and he's trying his best to make us a left-wing, essentially socialist country.  I think he will fail.  But it will take a mighty effort on our side to guarantee that failure.

DONALD, STOP IT! – FROM CBS:    Donald Trump is firing back at "overrated" conservative columnist George Will, days after the Washington Post writer said he left the Republican Party because of its presumptive GOP nominee.  Trump tweeted out his attack of Will early Sunday, saying the Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator had "lost his way long ago."  Will, also a Fox News contributor, told right-leaning PJ Media on Friday that he had become an "unaffiliated voter" in Maryland because of Trump's influence on the GOP. He urged Republicans to "make sure he loses" and that the better option would be to "grit their teeth for four years" of Hillary Clinton before being able to take back the White House.  Bad response by Trump.  Once again he took the bait and took the low road, viciously attacking Will.  He should have been magnanimous, saying he respected Will, was disappointed in Will's action, and hoped that Will would carefully examine the Trump campaign's program in coming weeks.  Trump must restrain his darker instincts and work to become a class act, which is what people expect in a president. 

June 26, 2016