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

HILLARY, SHUT UP ALREADY! – Why can't she simply retire gracefully?  From Fox:  Hillary Clinton recently took another trip abroad where she discussed her 2016 election loss to Donald Trump.  Speaking in Melbourne, Clinton asked in jest that the audience "forget that I got three million more votes -- it's over," in reference to her popular vote win, as compared with her Electoral College loss.  "There is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership," said Clinton, who previously visited India to discuss the election.   There probably are some people, both men and women, who are uneasy with female leaders, But to suggest that this was a major factor in Clinton's defeat is deceptive.  Women have held any number of Cabinet positions, including secretary of defense and attorney general.  There have been a number of female governors, including Nikki Haley and Sarah Palin.  Women have run and are running major corporations.  Hillary should just get off the subject of her defeat, which was caused by her, and speak with some dignity about issues of concern.  We might not agree with her, but we would welcome the change.     

THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE...FROM FOX:  John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, Jack Schlossberg, showed off his acting chops on Friday’s season finale of CBS’ crime series “Blue Bloods.”  Schlossberg, 25, the son of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, played Officer Jack Hammer on the popular crime drama, People reported. He took to his Instagram to share the news of the gig, which he called a “dream come true.”  "I don't make the rules, I just pretend to enforce them — Catch me tonight on season 8 finale of 'Blue Bloods' my dream come true!! Best show in the entire world," he wrote in the Instagram post. The post also included Schlossberg dressed as a police officer posing with his mother and “Blue Blood” cast members Will Estes and Vanessa Ray. The show’s executive producer, Kevin Wade, was also featured in the photo.  Acting to politics?  Well, it's been done before.  If you see young Jack watching tapes of Ronald Reagan, you'll know he's serious.

MORE COLLEGE MADNESS – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   Early last month, the UCLA and Fresno State Army ROTC detachments held a training in which their “enemy” was garbed in “civilian clothes from Arab countries.”  You can probably guess what followed.  The Daily Bruin reported that “professors and students at UCLA said the clothing is inaccurate and contributes to a misinformed understanding of Muslims and Arabs in the United States.”  History professor James Gelvin noted the clothing “is not worn by any group that the United States is currently in conflict with,” while law prof Khaled Abou El Fadl added “associating Muslims with violence creates a toxic environment for Muslim students and Muslim community members.”  “A lot of (Muslims) that want to practice their faith and assert their religious identity constantly feel under siege and under suspicion, and this definitely doesn’t help,” El Fadl said. “It reaffirms all these Hollywood images of the bloodthirsty, stupid, Muslim terrorist. What is the difference between these images and the Hollywood images that we see? Nothing. It’s very sad.”  Sorry, but American troops are deployed right now to Muslim nations, and for a reason.  There is a political agenda within some parts of Islam, and that agenda found its expression on September 11, 2001.  It is certainly important to point out that the great majority of Muslims are not terrorists.  However, much of the terrorism in the world today originates in political Islam, and we have a right to identify it and oppose it.

May 12, 2018