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

COMEY ADMITS – FROM BREITBART:   FBI director James Comey conceded that he is a “deeply flawed” person who failed to stop some terrorist attacks before they happened. Comey made the admission while being interrogated Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.  Comey faced pointed questions about recent terrorist shootings and bombings in the United States and about his failure to recommend indictment for Hillary Clinton in her private server scandal. Comey is under fire in the public for these failures, with Breitbart News recently reporting on his financial links to the Clinton Foundation.  Comey has enjoyed an enviable reputation as an honest, incorruptible public servant.  Sadly, that reputation has been damaged recently, but one wonders whether the damage came from Comey's own misjudgments, from pressure from the Obama administration, or both.  Another blow to his image would probably make it impossible for him to remain.

ABSURD – FROM BREITBART:   A United Nations-affiliated group in Geneva is calling for the U.S. to give African Americans reparations for the country’s history of slavery, according to a recent report by the group.  The group’s statement was part of a study by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a group that reports to the international organization’s High Commissioner on Human Rights, The Washington Post reported.  The group of experts, made up of leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings about the link between the U.S.’s history of slavery and present injustices, such as the recent police shootings of African Americans to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday.  This is ridiculous, as the U.S. has had generous social-service programs for African Americans for generations.  It's standard UN left-wing stuff, but it will resonate on the American left as well, and among race hustlers.  Traditionally, reparations programs provide for direct victims or their immediate survivors. 

FOOLISHNESS – FROM THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON:    President Obama nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis on Tuesday to be the first United States ambassador to Cuba in over five decades.  DeLaurentis is a career diplomat who would be the first American ambassador to the communist island in 55 years, Yahoo News reported. He is no stranger to working with the Cuban government, serving as the Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Havana since August 2014 to help normalize relations between the two countries. DeLaurentis also worked with Havana in two former jobs he held at the State Department.  Confirming DeLaurentis will likely prove to be difficult. A simple majority of the Senate must confirm a president’s nominee, but a single lawmaker can impose an anonymous hold to delay the process. The White House faces an uphill battle as many Senate Republicans who are against normalizing relations with Cuba have threatened to vote down any pick Obama may put forward.  Obama became the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years when he traveled there earlier this year.  The political prisoners in Cuba could not be reached for comment.

September 27,  2016