SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 5:25 P.M. ET: 

FAKE NEWS – FROM SINCLAIR:   WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he's not quitting, nor did he threaten to quit over his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey.  When asked by Sinclair Broadcast Group's Michelle Macaluso about reports that claim otherwise, he stated "no, I'm not quitting."...The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that "Rosenstein threatened to resign after the narrative emerging from the White House on Tuesday evening cast him as a prime mover of the decision to fire Comey," citing an unnamed source close to the White House.  Beware fake news.  It's all over the police.  The press has had a collective nervous breakdown over the Comey firing.  Facts don't seem to be important.

THE MADNESS GOES ON – FROM DAILY CALLER:   The University of Rochester’s student government has decided that participation in single-gender organizations is a form of “discrimination.”
The ruling from Rochester’s All-Campus Judicial Council (ACJC) applies to 37 student organizations, spanning from club sports and a cappella groups to Greek life, reported Campus Reform Tuesday.  While several student government representatives tried to exempt Greek life from the ruling, arguing the groups do not receive funding from the school’s Student Association, Rochester’s ACJC said they could still be subjected to the ruling since they use resources funded by the Student Association.  Rochester’s student government identified phrases like “any and all women” and “men of principle” as potentially violating the Friday ruling.   The stench of fascism is in the air.  The people who will be most hurt by this will be women.  No more women's basketball or soccer.  No more women's song groups.  A gray world comes, in which everyone must be the same.

OBAMACARE FADES – FROM FOX BUSINESS:   Health insurance company Aetna (AET) announced Wednesday it will completely withdraw from the ObamaCare marketplace in 2018, a decision Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price perceived as a sign of continued instability in the health care sector under the Affordable Care Act.  In April Aetna said it would not participate on the state exchanges in Virginia next year and last week committed to pulling out of Iowa.  In 2016 the insurer sold plans across fifteen states. It trimmed that position to just four states at the outset of 2017, citing financial losses.  Obamacare was always a sham.  Even when it was originally adopted critics noted that the benefits came first, and the bills came later – a way to guarantee the plan's popularity before the bills came due.  Crass and cynical.

May 11,  2017