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

PROGRESS – FROM DAILY CALLER:   Legislation to protect free speech is spreading across the country, as Georgia becomes the 10th state to pass regulations safeguarding freedom of speech and press.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed Senate Bill 339 on May 8, which bans what countless public universities have dubbed as “free speech zones” — given freedom of speech inherently applies to all public places rather than a select few.  The bill also gives Georgia public universities the tools to punish students who disrupt or attempt to disrupt speakers who come to the university to deliver a speech or the like, according to Campus Reform. Universities must also provide the governor and state’s general assembly with a report regarding the state of free speech on Georgia’s public university campuses.  Good work.  The reform only applies to public colleges, but pressure brought by this action might persuade private schools to join in.

WHO NEEDS THOSE DEPLORABLES? – FROM DAILY CALLER:   Democrats should stop trying to win over white Republican voters, according to several prominent liberal writers.  That was the point of a column Washington Post writer Paul Waldman wrote on Tuesday, which liberal journalists approvingly circulated on social media, adding their agreement.  Waldman, who previously worked for left-wing group Media Matters, blamed Fox News and conservative media for the fact blue-collar Trump voters don’t vote Democrat.  “In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is ‘respect,'” Waldman snarked. “If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for [President] Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.”  The problem isn’t Democrats, according to Waldman — it’s that Trump voters are too uninformed to vote for Democrats.  Incredible.  That is the very arrogance that drove those voters away in the first place.   Do these pseudo-intellectuals understand anything?

MADNESS – FROM POWERLINE:   Democrats in Iowa, like Democrats everywhere, have gone around the bend. Last Thursday, Tom Steyer, a leftist hypocrite of epic proportions, headlined a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A woman in the audience said that she couldn’t see any difference between President Trump and Adolf Hitler. Steyer suggested that a fine distinction might be drawn, but added that the urgency to impeach Trump–a nationwide campaign that Steyer is spearheading–derives from the risk that if permitted to remain in office, Trump may murder millions.  It's rumored that Trump is about to invade Russia and bomb London.  If you hear anything, let me know.  I'll alert Edward R. Murrow.

May 16, 2018