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

DEAR LEADER COMMANDS – From Breitbart:  This Thanksgiving, the Obama administration wants Americans to talk about why Congress won’t pass more gun control – but not about Obama’s foreign policy failures.  During the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest continued to press a narrative set up by gun control activists in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris.  Just remember that.  We'll be checking.  Names will be taken.

YOGA – THREAT TO CIVILIZATION – From Fox:   A yoga instructor who teaches at the University of Ottawa says she is fighting to keep her program alive after the school’s student body suspended it over concerns that “cultural issues” relating to the class could offend students.  Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly sessions at the university’s Center for Students with Disabilities since 2008, told the Ottawa Sun that she was informed in September that the program would not come back for the fall semester.  In an email exchange between Scharf and a representative of the university’s Student Federation — which was viewed by the newspaper — a student wrote that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students… there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.  “Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” the email continues, and which cultures those practices “are being taken from.”  Have you noticed any controversy?  Where is this controversy?  And maybe it's time to have a major conversation about the value of a college education.

IT'S ALL ABOUT BUSINESS – From Fox:   Ahmed Mohamed is looking to strike it rich before the clock strikes midnight on the “clock kid” story.   Attorneys for Mohamed, 14, and his family want $15 million in damages and apologies from several officials stemming from Mohamed’s September 14 arrest, when he brought to school a homemade clock that a teacher flagged as a possible bomb.  “As American citizens, all of us -- even the ones with ‘Muslim-sounding’ names like Ahmed Mohamed -- are entitled to have public officials with whom we come in contact to respect our rights,” a letter addressed to Mohamed’s former school district states.  You'll recall that President Obama, who has nothing better to do, championed Ahmed's case and invited him to the White House.  But money talks and presidents walk.  This is about the bottom line.

AMERICA AT WAR – From the New York Daily News:   Airline and security officials at Kennedy Airport let 150 passengers arriving from an international flight leave the airport without going through customs, the Daily News has learned.  American Airlines Flight 1671 arrived at JFK from Cancun, Mexico, at 8:50 p.m. Friday.  When the plane landed, passengers walked out of the airport without having their passports or bags checked by Customs and Border Protection, sources told The News.  We are vigilant, as Obama defines the word.

November 23, 2015