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

HILLARY IS NO NIXON – From the Washington Times:  "Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has refused to turn her email server over to an independent third party and claims she has wiped the server clean, dealing a setback to the special investigative committee looking into the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, the probe said late Friday.  Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said the whole House will have to decide what the next steps are in the push to pry information from Mrs. Clinton, but said she will likely have to appear and testify on her decision-making about her emails, setting up another dramatic showdown between the former first lady and her congressional critics.  'Not only was the secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest,' Mr. Gowdy said in a statement excoriating Mrs. Clinton’s actions."  She probably learned her lesson from Nixon, who didn't burn the Watergate tapes.  Hillary wasn't going to make that mistake.  She's no Nixon.

O CANADA, YOU'RE NEXT – Canadian journalists are speculating that Obama's next international target, after Bibi Netanyahu, will be Canadian Prime Minister Steve Harper.  Harper, a very pro-Israel conservative, is a thorn in Obama's side, and is up for re-election this October.  Harper was also Canada's chief advocate for the Keystone Pipeline, which Obama vetoed.   The Canadian press is reporting that Obama operatives are already in Canada, working for the leftist opposition.  Obama failed in Israel, where his henchmen also were operating, trying to defeat Bibi.  But, incredibly, Obama is still reasonably popular in Canada, and may be able to sway some votes. 

MAJOR SCIENCE NEWS – The agony, the heartbreak, of climate change.  From Fox:  "A California congresswoman warns global warming will be so detrimental to poor women, it will drive them to prostitution.  Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., has re-introduced legislation that forces the government to address all “policies and programs in the United States that are globally related to climate change” through the lens of gender.  Her resolution, 'Recognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address climate change,' asserts that long-term and catastrophic weather changes will result in drought and destructive weather events such as flooding, which could lead to food shortages, joblessness and disease, along with economic and political crisis on a regional scale.  Since 'women will disproportionately face harmful impacts from climate change, particularly in poor and developing nations where women regularly assume increased responsibility for growing the family's food and collecting water, fuel, and other resources,' the measure reads, they will be the most desperate and vulnerable, forced into situations,'such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage.'"  Barbara Lee is the most left-leaning member of Congress, a follower of Fidel Castro, and the only member of Congress to vote against military action following the 9-11 attacks.  Other than that, she is known to have periodic moments of sanity.

March 27,  2015