SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 5:43 P.M. ET: 

A SICKENING MOVEMENT – FROM POWERLINE:   Black Lives Matter is mourning the death of “El Commandante,” known to the rest of us as Fidel Castro. BLM feels “an overwhelming sense of loss” at the passing of the communist dictator.  And well it should. BLM is a Marxist revolutionary movement — if you don’t believe me, read its sickening eulogy of Castro. Naturally, it views “El Commandante” as a hero to be mourned.  BLM praises Castro for harboring some its heroes: " [W]e are particularly grateful to Fidel for holding Mama Assata Shakur, who continues to inspire us. We are thankful that he provided a home for Brother Michael Finney Ralph Goodwin, and Charles Hill, asylum to Brother Huey P. Newton, and sanctuary for so many other Black revolutionaries who were being persecuted by the American government during the Black Power era."  Who are these people? Cop killers.  As usual, the mainstream media glosses over the real beliefs of this movement.  Leftist journalistic doctrine does not permit such a discussion.

UNBELIEVABLE – FROM JUDICIAL WATCH:    Requiring employees in the United States to speak a foreign language is not discriminatory but forcing them to speak English violates federal law under a sweeping order issued by the Obama administration to crack down on “national origin discrimination” in the workplace. The government’s new enforcement guidelines state that bilingual requirements don’t meet discrimination claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act but English-only rules do because they’re restrictive language policies.  The administration asserts that the new rules, which cover a broad range of scenarios that could get employers in trouble, were created because the American workforce is “increasingly ethnically diverse.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws, made them public a few days ago. “The increased cultural diversity of today’s workplaces presents new and evolving issues with respect to Title VII’s protection against national origin discrimination,” the agency writes in the lengthy document. “This enforcement guidance will assist EEOC staff in their investigation of national origin discrimination charges and provide information for applicants, employees, and employers to understand their respective rights and responsibilities under Title VII.”  Fortunately, this administration and its nuttiness will be gone in about seven weeks.  But they'll probably try to do as much damage as possible during those weeks.

WHAT REAL OPPRESSION LOOKS LIKE – FROM BRITAIN'S SUN:   A YOUNG woman in Saudi Arabia is facing calls for her execution after she was pictured without a hijab.  Malak Al Shehri sparked fury on social media after she went out in public in the conservative capital Riyadh without a full body cloak – called an abaya – or a veil.   Some raged that she should be “thrown to the dogs” or “beheaded” for daring to stand against the country’s strict rules.  But hundreds came to her defence and praised her “bravery” for sharing the picture on Twitter...“Kill her and throw her corpse to the dogs,” one Twitter user wrote.  Another said: “We want blood.”  I want to be sure we're sensitive about this.  Would it be Islamophobic to object to her being executed? 

December 3, 2016