SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:53 P.M. ET:

LOOKING FORWARD – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:   Professional hidden camera stinger James O'Keefe revealed Tuesday that he is on the cusp of releasing "hundreds of hours" of footage from "one corporation, multiple newsrooms."  O'Keefe let slip a telling hint about which corporation is the target of his sting operation despite declining to mention it by name.  It is the one President Trump has been discussing recently, O'Keefe told Sean Hannity in a radio interview.  "It's the one he's always targeting."  That can only mean CNN, the first name in views. 

GORSUCH MOMENTUM – FROM DAILY CALLER:  Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand conceded that Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, will likely be confirmed by the Senate.  Gillibrand told NY1 that Senate Republicans can easily overcome any procedural roadblocks Democrats deploy. For example, a Democratic filibuster could be broken in short order by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, should he choose to abolish the 60-vote threshold currently required to end debate on Supreme Court nominees. As Republicans hold a majority in the chamber, Gorsuch would almost certainly be confirmed in the ensuing floor vote.  Yeah, kind of obvious.  The Dems still haven't accepted that they lost their Senate majority, and they can't figure out a way to kidnap enough GOP senators to make a difference.  So it looks like Gorsuch is in.   He is, also, an absolutely outstanding nominee.

ANOTHER ADVANCE IN EDUCATION – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   Students at Michigan State University soon will not be permitted to hang whiteboards on the outside of their dorm room doors.  The new policy, effective Fall 2017, was created in an attempt to eliminate opportunities for students to write mean words and racial slurs, according to a campus official.  “Their utility as a communication tool no longer outweighed the attractive nuisance that they are,” Kat Cooper, director of university residential services communications, told The College Fix via email.  In a statement to The Detroit News, Cooper added: “In any given month, there are several incidents like this [hurtful words]. There was no one incident that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Sometimes these things are racial, sometimes they’re sexual in nature. There are all sorts of things that happen.”  They're not going far enough.  They should ban literacy.  That will take care of all these problems.  Illiterate people are happy people.  They cannot be offended by words they cannot read.  Isn't that obvious?

February 22, 2017