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

APPROPRIATE – FROM PAGE SIX:  Fox News’ “The Five” co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle exited the network on Friday under unclear circumstances — with Fox confirming only, “Fox News has parted ways with Kimberly Guilfoyle.”  In the months before she left, we hear, network staffers had grown tired of the drama and publicity surrounding her high-profile relationships — first with Anthony Scaramucci and then Donald Trump Jr. Sources said that in recent weeks, colleagues were complaining about having to deal with a disproportionate amount of work generated by Guilfoyle.  Reports have said she’ll join Trump Jr. on the campaign trail and that she has joined the pro-Trump super PAC America First.   It was inevitable.  You can't date the son of the president and do Fox political shows at the same time. 

GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION – FROM THE COLLEGE FIX:   An elite Ivy League business school will soon begin admitting students based in part on their level of “niceness,” with the school informing applicants that students there are expected to “invest generously in one another’s success.”  The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University recently announced that its admissions criteria will be adding four attributes that administrators will consider: smartness, accomplishment, niceness and awareness.  The new criteria are intended to make the application process easier and less stressful, according to admissions director Luke Anthony Peña.  “There are four attributes that our students consistently demonstrate. We’re now intentionally highlighting those four qualities for prospective students and inviting them to imagine themselves here,” Peña told the Tuck Business School’s communications office.  Watch.  There'll be private tutoring in how to fake niceness.

INTOLERANCE OF LIBERALISM – FROM CAMPUS REFORM:   Students are demanding that Lee University in Tennessee cancel an upcoming appearance by Vice President Mike Pence because they disagree with Pence’s political positions.  The petition, started by student Cedes Harris, argues that Pence’s political views are directly at odds with the values of the Christian institution, asking on behalf of "concerned students, faculty, and alumni" that school administrators cancel the his scheduled appearance at Pangle Hall on July 21.  "There are students who don’t feel comfortable nor safe with Pence or America First Policies stepping onto our campus."   It offers seven reasons for why the event should be cancelled, three of which relate to Pence’s affiliation with America First Policies, a political advocacy group created to promote President Trump’s agenda.  “Both his involvement with the America First Policies organization and his exhortation of its values defy and ignore the following Christian values,” the list of complaints begins, citing Bible verses about caring for the poor and being hospitable to foreigners.  Tolerance in the form of intolerance.

July 20,  2018