SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:44 P.M. ET: 

CAN THIS BE TRUE? – FROM BREITBART:  The Republicans have taken a six-point lead over Democrats on the generic ballot in a new tracking poll from Reuters newswire service.  For the week ending May 20, Republicans are at 40.7 percent while Democrats have slipped down to 34.5 percent. The survey was of 1,139 respondents and is the first time in the 2018 cycle, dating  back to the end of May last year, that Republicans have taken a lead ahead of Democrats in the Reuters tracking poll.  A remarkable result.  Expect statements in the next few days that this poll has to be wrong, an outlier, a plant by conservative space aliens, or the work of Big Oil.

THE REVOLT CONTINUES – FROM FOX:  Another California city has joined the fight against the state's sanctuary city laws, which limit local authorities' ability to investigate illegal immigrants' status and communicate with federal immigration officials.  Carlsbad’s City Council voted 4-1 Monday to support the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state's pro-illegal immigrant sanctuary city policies, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.  Carlsbad is located near San Diego, where the all-Republican Board of Supervisors also voted in April to support the federal government's legal action.  It's hard to gauge exactly how far this revolt will go, but there is clearly heavy discontent in much of California with the whole idea of sanctuary cities.  We hope Trump wins his lawsuit.  Ultimately, I suspect the issue of the legality of sanctuary cities will be settled by the Supreme Court.

DUMB AND DUMBER – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  Acting more like a “Secretary of Activism” than a former Secretary of Education, former Barack Obama flunky Arne Duncan tweeted on Friday that parents should keep their kids away from school … “until gun laws [are] changed.”  Duncan elucidated further on MSNBC: “Well I think we have to create attention that hasn’t existed yet and I think only that kind of creative tension can push people to confront an issue that they’d been able to run away from, to hide from, for so long.”  The Daily Caller reports Duncan added “Either this body count, this loss of life, the killing of innocent children, is acceptable or it’s not.” He “also said that he believes this is a necessary course of action ‘because everything we’ve done before has been a failure.’”   Can you imagine if kids did boycott school, forcing parents to home school, and the kids found out they learned more at home than in school?  Now that would justify a revolution.

May 22, 2018