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

OUR FUTURE LEADERS – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  A Gallup poll on Pomona College’s “Perceptions of Speech and Campus Climate” has been released, and if you’re a regular reader of The College Fix you’ll find the results not at all surprising.  As reported by the Claremont Independent, almost 90% of students surveyed said “the campus climate prevents them from saying something others might find offensive.” Nearly two-thirds of faculty feel the same.  When it comes to political ideology, 75% of conservative and moderate students strongly agree that the school climate hinders free expression — “nearly 2.5 times higher than very liberal students.”  In effect, they're living in a dictatorship, or learning to live in one.  The political left is creating this atmosphere, and thoroughly proud of it.

HEY MAN, DIG IT – FROM THE HILL:  Illinois senators this week overwhelmingly voted to allow sick children to bring medical marijuana with them to school, the Chicago Tribune reported.  The state Senate passed the measure 50-2 on Thursday, approving qualified students to consume medical marijuana on school premises.  Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) now has 60 days to act on the bill.  According to the bill, students would not be allowed to smoke medical marijuana on campus and school officials would have to ensure marijuana's usage wouldn’t disrupt other students, the newspaper reported.  Hip kids all over the country are applying to attend Illinois schools.  Parents are applying too.

EXPOSED – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  A Cambridge professor with deep ties to American and British intelligence has been outed as an agent who snooped on the Trump presidential campaign for the FBI.
Multiple media outlets have named Stefan Halper, 73, as the secret informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos starting in the summer of 2016. The American-born academic previously served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations.  The New York Times line is that the good professor was simply checking out reports of Russian interference with our electoral process.  The Trump camp believes he was sent to get information that would be useful to Trump's competitors.  Great movie here. 

May 19, 2018