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

I LOVE IT – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  John David Rice-Cameron can trace his conservative roots to his middle school years. Back then, his father would often have talk radio on during rides home from school or tennis practice.  “Sometimes my dad would listen to Rush Limbaugh and he would kind of argue with him,” recalls Rice-Cameron, 20, a sophomore at Stanford University. “I just found myself agreeing with basically everything Rush Limbaugh was saying.”  Rice-Cameron’s parents are Democrats. His mother, Susan Rice, served in the Obama administration, first as U.N. ambassador, then as National Security Advisor.  Is this kid allowed back home?  How do the parents explain him to the Washington cocktail circuit?  It's so hard to hide a family disgrace.

THE BACKLASH BEGINS – FROM DW.COM:   The plan announced on Monday by the Chancellor in Vienna would bar all foreigners from claiming the main benefit payment for five years.  "The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become the key to accessing the full minimum benefit," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told a news conference. "That means that whoever has insufficient language skills will not be able to claim the full minimum benefit."  Kurz said that most people on the minimum welfare payment were in Vienna. Roughly half of them were foreign citizens, he said, something he described as "frightening."  This is what happens when immigration policies are set by Western liberals infatuated with their own goodness and virtue.  Steps like this are inevitable until Europe establishes sane, thoughtful immigration reforms.

DISGRACEFUL, BUT COMMON – FROM TODD STARNES:   What was supposed to be a celebration of a four-year collegiate journey for conservative writer and activist Kassy Dillon, was soured by a group of hecklers who booed her at the Mount Holyoke College commencement earlier this month.  Dillon was a guest on the Todd Starnes Radio Show – describing how a group of 15-20 students proceeded to boo her as she stepped forward to receive her diploma.  “It’s a very small school, so most of the students knew what my political ideology was, and so during graduation, as I’m watching all the commencement speakers, there’s students already kinda heckling me, and just saying rude things to me” Dillon said.  Dillon said that she was “not expecting to get booed,” but by doing so, the students “kinda proved what I’ve been saying for four years, that civil discourse is not going well on college campuses, and that’s because the left and the right aren’t communicating because the left has demonized everyone one the right.”  Students who behave that way should have the awarding of their diploma delayed.  It is time for the cowardly "educators" to impose a standard of behavior.

May 28,  2018