SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:57 P.M. ET:

INCREDIBLE – FROM BREITBART:   A stunning new poll shows that Hispanic support for President Donald Trump has grown to 45 percent since his election.  “The biggest surprise in this new poll is Trump’s approval among Hispanic voters, which is at 45 percent approval/51 percent disapproval,”  Zogby said. “In February the numbers were less among Hispanics at 39 percent approval/53 percent disapproval.”  In November, Trump won roughly 29 percent of the Latino vote.  It is not clear why Trump’s support has risen among Latinos. But a series of polls stretching back to 2014 show that many Hispanics strongly support more border security to protect their communities from crime and low-wage labor.  If accurate, this is big trouble for the Democrats.

ANOTHER GREAT MOMENT IN EDUCATION – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  A student at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an op-ed claiming that free speech is merely “a tactic used by the state,” and that Berkeley should prioritize the “safety of the marginalized” over American constitutional freedoms.  At the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley transfer student Juniperangelica Xiomara Cordova-Goff writes: “Free speech is not dead. It was never alive.” Cordova-Goff, a self-described “brown trans femme,” claims that the American ideal of “shar[ing] perspectives and differing opinions,” and UC Berkeley’s tradition of “discuss[ing] and organiz[ing] with opposite sides of the political spectrum” has “done nothing more than maintain the white supremacist, capitalistic and patriarchal nature that allowed colonizers to protect their power centuries ago and that has allowed their descendants to elect an openly racist, queerphobic, Islamophobic/xenophobic and anti-poverty adminstration [sic].”  I'm convinced.  Aren't you?

I'M SO RELIEVED – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  This is the moment the fabled Loch Ness Monster was “officially” spotted for the first time this year – bringing more than eight months of uncertainty to an end.  Nessie’s official recorder admitted he had been “worried” after a dry spell of sightings meant not one person had claimed to see the beast since August last year.  Enthusiasts were so concerned about Nessie that Gary Campbell, the official recorder, revealed he had fielded calls from as far afield as Moscow and California.  But tourist Hayley Johnson saw a strange and dark shape at dusk in the loch’s Urquhart Bay yesterday – said to be a favorite haunt of Nessie.  The 28-year-old, a care assistant from Manchester, England said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”  I couldn't imagine a world without Nessie.  What else is there to talk about?

May 3, 2017