SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:28 P.M. ET:

GREAT MOMENTS IN CENSORSHIP – From College Fix:  "A scheduled movie screening of 'American Sniper' at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates 'negative and misleading stereotypes' against Muslims.  'The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,' according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.  The signers were mostly students, but also some staff, as well as the Muslim Students’ Association and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Palestinian solidarity group at UMich.  The online memo, titled a 'collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,' accused the public university of 'tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda' by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014."  The University of Michigan is destroying the very freedoms that our soldiers fight for. 

OBAMA ROMPS  – Would you look at those popularity numbers?  Why...oh wait, they're not from Americans.  Sorry about that.  From fusion.net:  "A new Bendixen & Amandi Poll for Univision Noticias – Fusion in collaboration with The Washington Post shows that 89 percent of Cubans think the U.S. leader should swing by for a visit now that the two countries are trying to make nice. Obama also enjoys an 80 percent favorability rating on the communist-led island. The poll suggests that Obama is nearly twice as popular in Cuba as he is in the United States. Back home, where the U.S. president’s favorability rating is around 47 percent — the same as President Castro’s in Cuba."  Hey, I've got an idea:  Obama leaves the White House, moves to Cuba, and is appointed president for life.  Good climate.  Good cigars.  No need for campaign funds. 

THAT GREAT DEAL WITH IRAN – From The Times of Israel:  "The Iranian defense minister made clear Wednesday that international inspectors would not be granted access to the state’s military sites under the framework agreement with the world powers on the country’s nuclear program.  'No such agreement has been reached and basically, visiting military centers are among the red lines and no visit to these centers will be allowed,' Brigadier General Hossein Dehgan said, according to Iranian media reports quoting a Defense Ministry statement.  Dehgan said international media reports to the effect that the deal will allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts to inspect military centers across Iran were 'lies' and 'deceits.'"  Well, that ends that.  If the inspectors can't inspect military sites, how do we know that Iran's nuclear program is not resulting in nuclear weapons?  Barack, cat got your tongue?

TRUTH TELLIN' – I've always believed that Dick Cheney is one of the most perceptive public servants of our time.  He's been abused for it.  From CNS:  "During Tuesday’s Hugh Hewitt show, former Vice President Dick Cheney voiced his opinion on President Barack Obama saying, 'His actions are constituted in my mind those of the worst president we’ve ever had.'   Following a discussion where Cheney was critical of the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran on nuclear facilities, Hewitt asked, 'Is he naïve, Mr. Vice President? Or does he have a far-reaching vision that only he entertains of a realigned Middle East that somehow - it all works out in the end?'  'I don’t know, Hugh,' Cheney replied. 'I vacillate between the various theories I’ve heard, but you know, if you had somebody as president who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world - reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s doing.'"  Does the term "Manchurian candidate" interest you?

April 8, 2015