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

ENDLESS.  Chairman Grassley had set a 10 p.m. deadline for Professor Ford's Democratic operative lawyer to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee whether Professor Christine Ford would testify and make her charges against Judge Kavanaugh.  As could be expected, the lawyer asked for a further extension.  This is a farce.  It's disgraceful.  From Fox:   Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday night for an additional day to make her decision to testify.  Shortly before midnight Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted that he had granted the extension, addressing the tweet to Kavanaugh.  "Judge Kavanaugh I just granted another extension to Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w the statement she made last week to testify to the senate," Grassley wrote. "She shld decide so we can move on I want to hear her. I hope u understand. It’s not my normal approach to b indecisive." The Democrats are turning what should be a serious confirmation process into a partisan joke.  But the Republicans are fearful that they'll be called "anti-woman" if they don't show an excess of "sensitivity."  

WORDS FROM A GREAT MAN – FROM FOX:   The final word of the late Charles Krauthammer, the dean of conservative commentators, was announced by his son, Daniel, on Tuesday.  “The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors” is a collection of works by the longtime Fox News contributor Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author. He died in June at the age of 68.   His son said Krauthammer had trusted him to bring the book ”to completion on his behalf.”  Daniel wrote in The Weekly Standard that the book, to be released in December, will “ensure that his life’s work — his words, his ideas, his extraordinary contributions to the political life of our country — will continue to live on.”  Anything Charles Krauthammer wrote is worth reading.  He was the best of the best, thoroughly civilized in a coarse world.

THE SILLY SEASON CONTINUES – FROM CBS LOCAL:   CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – Colin Kaepernick is among eight people set to be honored at Harvard University next month.  The former NFL star-turned activist will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at the Hutchins Center Honors in Cambridge on Oct. 11. It’s described as “Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.”  “The medal honors those who have made significant contributions to African and African American history and culture, and more broadly, individuals who advocate for intercultural understanding and human rights in an increasingly global and interconnected world,” Harvard says.  I wonder how many black lives in Chicago or Baltimore Kaepernick has saved.

September 21, 2018