SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:52 P.M. ET: 

GROWING OUTRAGE – The internet is now filled with rising anger over the absence of President Obama from the anti-terror march in Paris today, indeed the absence of any high government official.  Even Eric Holder, who was already in Paris and was expected to attend, dropped out.  The revulsion is across the board.  I didn't see a single defense of Obama or his crowd.  In fact, there was a march in Washington itself, especially to honor the French police officers who died in the terror attacks.  It ended at the police memorial, where an honor guard of policemen waited.  No senior administration officials showed up.  The New York Daily News said it best in a message to the president on its front page:  "You let the world down."  We'll soon learn whether this affects Obama's approval ratings.  I hope it does.

SICKENING – From Reuters:  "KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds in southern Afghanistan rallied to praise the killing of 12 people at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdomad, calling the two gunmen 'heroes' who meted out punishment for cartoons disrespectful to Islam's prophet, officials said Saturday.
The demonstrators also protested President Ashram Ghana's swift condemnation of the bloody attack on the satirical newspaper, according to the officials in Uruguay province.  The rally came after worshippers left Friday prayers at a local mosque in Chopra district and swelled to several hundred people, said Chora police chief Abdul Qawi."  This is what these people are taught in some mosques, but the West's elites avert their eyes.

PRESIDENT CHRISTIE? – From AP:  "GREEN BAY, Wis. -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took his orange sweater to Lambeau Field on Sunday to cheer his beloved Dallas Cowboys. But it did not go the governor's way with Green Bay winning 26-21.  Fellow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, clad in Packers gear along with his family, needled Christie on Twitter.  'Do you need a hug now?' he tweeted, referencing Christie's much-mocked awkward hug last weekend with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after Dallas beat Detroit."  We've warned from the start of the now much-subdued Christie craze that he wasn't presidential material, and he seems to want to prove it daily.  Christie is becoming a caricature of himself.  He's a good local politician, a personality, but a president he is not.

January 11,  2015