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

EVIL – FROM FOX:  Left-wing billionaire George Soros is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into a campaign looking to sabotage British voters’ 2016 decision to leave the European Union.  The U.K. Daily Telegraph first reported late Wednesday that Soros has delivered £400,000 ($560,000) to the anti-Brexit "Best for Britain" campaign via his Open Society Foundations.  He also hosted big-money donors at his London home as part of the group’s goal to raise support to nix the implementation of the Brexit referendum.   Best for Britain is currently led by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown -- a former diplomat and U.N. deputy secretary-general -- and is reportedly planning a massive ad campaign to push for a second referendum to make voters rethink the decision to leave the E.U.   The British people made the right choice.  They understood the danger posed by the European Union's dictatorial bureaucracy.  It's just the kind of dictatorship that the Soros crowd likes.  "We know what's good for you deplorables."  Soros is the ATM for nut jobs.

ENCOURAGING – FROM BREITBART:  Four million people dropped off the food stamp rolls in one month, according to the latest numbers on food stamp enrollment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The latest USDA data show that the number of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government program that administers food stamps, dropped from 45,666,795 in October 2017 to 41,658,868 in November 2017 — a staggering decrease of 4,007,927 over one month.  Even though there was a temporary spike in enrollment, mostly concentrated in a few states that caused the national average of food stamp enrollment to spike, nationwide enrollment in the program as a whole is still on a steady decline.  Good.  It's an encouraging sign when fewer people need food stamps.  It usually means that employment is rising.  Trump's economy is succeeding.

TRAVEL NEWS – FROM AP:  SEOUL:   South Korea — The plane carrying a high-level North Korean government delegation including leader Kim Jong Un’s sister has arrived in South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.  Kim Yo Jong will be the first member of North Korea’s ruling family to set foot in the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.  The North Korean officials during their three-day visit beginning Friday will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who’s trying to use the Olympics as an opportunity to pull North Korea into meaningful talks over its nuclear program.  Maybe she'll be smart, and defect.  Then she could send money home.

February 8, 2018