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

AND NOW FOR THE INEVITABLE BOOK CONTRACTS – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:    Washington Post’s deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus is writing a book on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whom she believed shouldn’t have made it to the bench.  Marcus, who announced the book deal with Simon & Schuster on Saturday, has been a skeptic of Kavanaugh throughout his confirmation, even before decades-old allegations of sexual assault.  After Clarence Thomas was subjected to his ordeal, there was also the inevitable book contract.  The result was a book called "Strange Justice," by Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer.  Jill Abramson went on to become executive editor of The New York Times, a post from which she was later dismissed.  Jane Mayer, a reliable liberal mouthpiece, writes for The New Yorker.  Clarence Thomas outlived the book to become a distinguished and respected (in sane circles) member of the Supreme Court.  I suspect Justice Kavanaugh will weather this new literary storm and also serve with distinction.

A CHILD WITH CHILDISH IDEAS – FROM PJ MEDIA:  On Saturday, Democratic Socialist starlet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for the abolition of the Electoral College. On Thursday, she revealed her plan to undermine the U.S. Supreme Court. It's not very original...  At a screening for Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 11/9," a member of the audience asked Ocasio-Cortez what she would do if the Supreme Court confirmed all of Democrats' fears.  "If, in a few months from now, the Supreme Court looks like ... a court that would overturn Roe [v. Wade] and make the president above the rule of law, what is to be done?" the audience member asked. This question echoed one real concern — overturning Roe, which would allow states to outlaw abortion — and one false concern — taken from twisting Judge Brett Kavanaugh's record on presidential immunity.  Ocasio-Cortez, never one to defend American institutions at the risk of her activist ambitions, took a page from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's book.  "I think we take back the House, we take back the Senate, we take back the presidency, and we pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America," she quipped. Then, as if this answer were clear and straightforward, she flippantly added, "Next!"  What a genius.  She is regularly called the future of the Democratic Party.  She has the intellectual maturity of a 12-year-old.  That's only one year better than many journalists.

MORONS WITH AIR TICKETS – FROM DAILY MAIL:   A Somalian whose deportation from Britain was dramatically halted after airline passengers staged a mutiny demanding his release can be exposed today as a convicted gang rapist who was being kicked out of the country because of his sickening crime.
Officials escorting Yaqub Ahmed on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey were forced to abandon his deportation when around a dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off.   At one stage during the astonishing episode, filmed on mobile phones, one traveller complained: "They’re separating him from his family," while others chanted, "Take him off the plane."  When harassed security guards caved in and walked 29-year-old Ahmed off the Turkish Airlines flight, he was seen thanking those on board for their support as they cheered and applauded.   One person was heard declaring: "You’re free, man!"  But the passengers who thought they were doing a good deed were unaware that the man they were defending had been sentenced to nine years in jail for his part in a vicious gang rape of a teenage girl – and that another member of his gang later fought for Islamic State in Syria.  I hope those passengers have a miserable vacation, and I also hope they don't come here.  I have no doubt that they think of themselves as morally superior. 

October 13,  2018