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

ENDORSEMENT – FROM THE HILL:    The nation's largest police union on Friday endorsed Donald Trump for president, lauding his commitment to police officers.  The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) gave the GOP presidential nominee its endorsement after he received support from more than two-thirds of the group's national board.  "[Trump] has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today. He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again," said Chuck Canterbury, the FOP's national president.  "He's made a real commitment to America's law enforcement and we're proud to make a commitment to him and his campaign by endorsing his candidacy today."   Good.  The Democratic Party's contempt for law enforcement has become obvious, so this endorsement is no surprise.

KERRY, LIKE CLINTON, INSULTS THE PEOPLE – FROM CNS:  (CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State John Kerry says, climate change skeptics believe that with “the melting of the ice and the rise of sea level, all that extra water is just going to spill over the sides of a flat Earth.”  Kerry made the comments Wednesday at the Global Fishing Watch reception in Washington, D.C.  If the Democrats don't stop insulting regular Americans, they will eventually run out of voters to vote for them.  How many coastal elitists with pictures of Barack Obama on the wall are there?

SICKENING – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   PARIS — French officials say three men have been charged and jailed after a woman was allegedly lured on Facebook by one of them and then gang-raped near the Eiffel Tower.  A police official said Friday that three Algerian men were arrested earlier this week in a Paris hotel under suspicion of taking part in the rape of the French woman in the Champ-de-Mars garden, close to the famous tower.  The official says one of the men is suspected of chatting with the woman on Facebook before the alleged rape and then arranging a date with her in Paris.  The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.  The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that three men have been given preliminary charges in the case and jailed. It wouldn’t elaborate.   There is an epidemic of sexual assault in Europe committed by Mideast immigrants.  But notice the silence of "women's" groups.  They have been captured entirely by the Marxist left, where multiculturalism trumps women's rights and safety.  On the left, you take your orders.  Sexual assault?  What sexual assault?

September 16, 2016