SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

IT'S ALWAYS A BUSINESS – FROM THE COLLEGE FIX:   Perpetually blue vested Black Lives Matter activist — and failed Baltimore mayoral candidate — DeRay Mckesson will become Baltimore Public Schools’ interim chief human capital officer under incoming schools CEO Sonja Santelises.  His starting salary: $165,000. He will oversee some 56 employees and a budget of $4 million.  Mckesson had previously served as a “strategist and special assistant in the human capital office” for two and a half years where he oversaw “key reforms.”  “He has the depth of knowledge of the system, and he has proved that he can lift the work in a short amount of time,” CEO Santelises said. “And he has proven his dedication to the children of Baltimore.”  I'm sure his dedication is great, as long as it's rewarded in the usual hack-politics way.

FOLK WISDOM – FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES:   Roughly 13 percent of Americans think extinction via “Giant Meteor” would be preferable to electing Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump the next U.S. commander in chief.  Public Policy Polling decided to gauge just how disaffected voters are with the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential contenders. A survey conducted June 27-28 among 853 registered voters yielded telling results, particularly among independents.  “It’s a simple reality that both of this year’s Presidential candidates are unpopular. Clinton’s favorability is 39/54, and Trump is even worse off at 35/58,’ the pollster’s report reads. “This has given rise to the ‘Giant Meteor for President’ movement, and we find that the Meteor would poll at 13 percent — far more support than the third party candidates actually on the ballot — with Clinton at 43 percent and Trump at 38 percent.  The people have spoken, and they are right.  I've never seen such discontent with the major party candidates.  We've had unpopular matchings before – Johnson vs. Goldwater in '64, Nixon vs. McGovern in '72.  But nothing like this. 

IS THE FIX IN? – FROM DAILY CALLER:    Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.  If the court permits the delay, the public won’t be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as President. The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.  Just another day in the life of our former, and possibly future, first family.

June 30, 2016