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

FALSE ALARM? – FROM DAILY MAIL:  Pixie Lott's fiance told how he pinned down a taxi driver who had injured 11 people after mounting a pavement and running over pedestrians outside London's Natural History Museum.  Model Oliver Cheshire, 29, was sat in his Jaguar in Kensington when the man, said to be an Uber driver, ploughed into his vehicle.   He immediately leapt into action and helped apprehend the man, who he said was screaming on the ground.   Police have tonight ruled out terrorism and described the crash as a 'road traffic incident'.  A man aged in his 40s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of dangerous driving and was taken to hospital for treatment before being taken to a north London police station for questioning.  It comes as the country's current terror threat level stands at severe following a string of attacks this year and many witnesses feared the worst as panic ensued following the crash.  I want more information before accepting the "no terrorism" verdict.

POLITICAL CHILDREN AT WORK – FROM PJ MEDIA:  Violent left-wing anarchists have announced a nationwide campaign to deface Christopher Columbus statues this coming Monday.
Five Christopher Columbus statues have already been vandalized in New York City in recent weeks, according to Far Left Watch. In one case last month, vandals defaced a "larger-than-life" statue of Columbus in Central Park, leaving blood-red paint on his hands, and scrawled, "Hate will not be tolerated" and “#SomethingsComing” on its pedestal.  What is coming appears to be a coordinated campaign to destroy monuments all across the country on Columbus Day.   The NYC-based antifa group Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) made the announcement on Thursday, September 21, calling on antifa groups nationwide to “decorate” their neighborhoods.   Thus far the Democratic Party has not denounced Antifa.  Parties have devised unique ways to commit suicide.

MAJOR ACADEMIC NEWS – FROM DAILY CALLER:  Amherst College in Massachusetts is offering a fall 2017 course to try to figure out why women are becoming more conservative.  The course, entitled “Contemporary Debates: Women and Right-Wing Populism,” will “explore the consequences of neoliberalism, cultural conservatism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments for women of different social and economic strata as well as women’s divergent political responses,” according to the course description.The college says students will delve into the topic of why some women have chosen to become conservative leaders while others have allied with liberal, anti-racist and progressive causes.  Campus Reform also noticed the hilarity of the course’s description and wrote about it on Thursday.  I rejoice that women, presumably, are becoming more conservative.  I wonder if any of these conservative women will be taking this course. 

October 7, 2017