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

ENOUGH ALREADY! – FROM THE DAILY MAIL:   Hillary Clinton has been reading daily devotionals since losing the election which teach her about 'being strong in the midst of unpredictability', her pastor has revealed.  The Rev Bill Shillady said that the former Democratic Presidential candidate's prayers have been about 'encouragement' as she grapples with her shock defeat to Donald Trump.  He said that Clinton has been finding 'strength and hope' in her Methodist faith as she tries to understand what went wrong.  Clinton has only touched briefly on the personal impact her defeat has had on her making Rev Shillady's disclosure a significant insight into her state of mind.  In the Democratic Party, even the pastors leak.  Hillary, take your grandchildren to the zoo. More important than politics.

YEAH, I THINK I'D BE WORRIED – FROM FOX:  Concerns are being raised on Capitol Hill about whether partisan politics could impact the 2020 Census and swing congressional redistricting in favor of Democrats.  Fox News has learned that last summer, a pro-Democratic analytics firm that describes itself as “a platform for hope and change” was included as a subcontractor in a $415 million advertising contract for the 2020 Census.  The data firm, Civis Analytics, was founded by the chief analytics officer on former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.  Since congressional redistricting, which occurs every 10 years, is based on the results of the national Census, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is now asking the secretary of the Department of Commerce to ensure that the Census will be conducted in a nonpartisan fashion -- and that redistricting will not be impacted.  If I were running the Republican National Committee I'd take this issue very seriously.  I'd imagine that some operations involving the Census could be hacked, with devastating results.  I wouldn't put anything past today's cyber manipulators, especially the leftist kind.

MAJOR SPORTS NEWS – FROM STUDYFINDS:  STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Twitter has long been a popular soapbox for professional athletes to speak their minds or simply converse with fans, but could it damaging to their careers? A new study finds that late-night tweeting causes NBA players to perform worse on the court the next day.  Researchers at Stony Brook University examined 112 NBA players’ Twitter accounts from 2009 through 2016 and then analyzed their game-by-game statistics using Yahoo Sports. The authors specifically looked for tweets posted between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Statistics were only utilized for the study when a game occurred within the time zone that corresponds to where the player lives.  After examining the 30,000 tweets among the players, the researches determined that when players tweeted late at night, their shooting accuracy dropped by about 1.7 percent in games the next day and they averaged about 1 point less. They also took fewer shots, and recorded fewer rebounds, steals, and blocks.  The researchers point to sleep deprivation as a primary consequence of late-night tweeting, which can impact a player’s performance.  So it's really sleep we're talking about.  Tweeting can lead to less sleep.  How much did this study cost?

June 5, 2017