SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:54 P.M. ET:

SHAME – FROM PROJECT VERITAS:  (St. Louis) Project Verities Action Fund has released a third undercover video from campaigns during this 2018 election season. This report exposes how incumbent Senator Claire Moccasin and individuals working on her campaign conceal their liberal views on issues in order to court moderate voters.  Said James O’Keene, founder and president of Project Verities Action:  “This undercover report shows just how broken our political system has become. Senator Moccasin hides her true views from voters because she knows they won’t like them.”  Read the story.  I hope she gets defeated.  She's been playing the double game for years.

DISGRACEFUL – FROM THE HILL:   A county Democratic official in Pennsylvania says he was forced to step down over a Face book post saying he “[stands] for the flag.”  Mark Salvias, the former executive director of the Allegheny County Democratic Party, told Pittsburgh’s KDKA News that the county party chair asked him to resign after just weeks on the job.  Salvias, a former Marine and Gulf War veteran, told KDKA that his forced departure was prompted by two social media posts, including one photo of him and his wife with the words: “I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross.”  “I’am not ashamed of my patriotism, not one bit. I fought for this country. I think I have a right to have a voice and be patriotic,” Salvias told KDKA. “It’s never easy when people you have never met accuse you of things and call you names."  The Democratic Party owes this man an apology and a reinstatement.  I hear only silence.

OH DEAR, OH DEAR – FROM FOX:   The Cherokee Nation responded to the results of Massachusetts Seen. Elizabeth Warren's DNA test on Monday, arguing that “a DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship.” The response came after the Democratic senator revealed that, based on tests, she has Native-American ancestry “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.”  "Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America," Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Ho skin Jr. said in a press release.  "Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation," Ho skin continued. "Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.

October 15, 2018