SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:51 P.M. ET: 

APPALLING – From PJ Media:  President Obama has appointed a foreign policy advisor known to be a friend of the terrorist group Hamas to be the administration’s new czar in charge of countering ISIS. The appointee, Robert Malley, has a history of sympathizing with Islamists, which makes the appointment all the more appalling.  According to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, the White House downplayed the controversial appointment by "burying it deep in a press briefing delivered at a Paris hotel during the recent climate summit."  Malley is an old lefty, who should never have been appointed to any post in the government.  His appointment as ISIS "czar" is especially insulting.  I'm sure the insult was intentional.

QUOTE OF THE DAY – From former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani:  “You can come to one clear conclusion with the information they have right now. This is an act of terror. The question was motivation… The question here is not, is it an act of terror. We’re beyond that. When you got two assault weapons, two handguns, you’re in body armor, you got a home that’s boobytrapped. You’ve been practicing to do this… If you can’t come to a conclusion at this point that this was an act of terror, you should find something else to do for a living besides law enforcement. I mean, you’re a moron.”  Rudy hits it again.  Watching some of these TV anchors try to avoid the T-word is borderline hilarious.  As for the Obama administration, they came to power trying to redefine terror as "man-made disasters."  Hasn't worked.

DISCOVERY – From Fox:  Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescope have found what they believe is the faintest object ever seen in the early universe, a galaxy that existed 13.8 billion years ago or about 400 million years after the big bang.  Nicknamed Tayna, meaning “first-born” in Aymara, a language spoken in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America, the object could offer clues into the formation and evolution of the first galaxies. It also suggests that the early universe could be rich in galaxy targets for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to uncover.  Obama immediately offered residents of the early galaxy the chance to immigrate to the United States, once they're vetted.

MAJOR IMMATURITY NEWS – From Daily Caller:   A group of Hamilton College (New York) students published a list of almost forty demands on Tuesday, which the group insists that the university must begin implementing within 24 hours in order to end “the inevitable tokenization of all marginalized bodies” at the school.  The students at the New York private university collectively refer to themselves as The Movement and are demanding, for example, that white professors be “discouraged” from leading certain departments, the replacement of male/female pronouns, the erasure of Nobel Laureate Elihu Root’s name from campus, and the censorship of “opinions that further marginalizes historically oppressed communities.”  The demands — which are riddled with grammatical errors — were issued in conjunction with a protest of “tokenism,” which the students define as “the practice of hiring, appointing, or accepting a token number of people from underrepresented groups in order to deflect criticism or comply with affirmative action rules.”  I love that term "underrepresented."  I thought we were talking about universities.  Apparently we're talking about state legislatures.  Since when is a university required to "represent" this or that group? 

December 3, 2015