SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:18 P.M. ET: 

HILLARY RIDES AGAIN – She appeared at a press conference today to try to explain why she used a private, insecure, e-mail system when she was secretary of state, instead of the State Department's own system.  She failed.  She came off as pompous, bothered and fraudulent – three qualities we certainly want in a president.  And the facts still speak for themselves.  From the Washington Times:  "Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton deleted nearly 32,000 emails she deemed private from her time in the Obama administration and refused Tuesday to turn over her personal email server, insisting she 'fully complied' with the law and that voters will have to trust her judgment.  Answering questions for the first time about her emails, Mrs. Clinton said she’s turned over to the State Department 55,000 pages of emails she deemed work-related, but said she got rid of the rest last year. She defended her decision to keep control of her emails by using a private account, saying previous secretaries did the same thing, and saying it was more 'convenient' for her this way.  'I wanted to use just one device for both personal and work emails instead of two,' she said in a hastily called press conference after she spoke at the U.N. Conference on Women."  She sent 32,000 private e-mails while she was secretary of state?  When did she work?

SHAMELESS – From the Daily Caller:  "Environmentalists are now using kids to 'school' lawmakers on the science behind man-made global warming.  On Tuesday, six high schoolers from states 'hard hit' by global warming will go to Capitol Hill to try and convince lawmakers skeptical of man-made global warming that it’s real and it’s impacting peoples’ lives today.  'What I know about climate change is that it’s real, it’s man-made and there’s scientific evidence to back it up,' Helen Winston, a high schooler from Nebraska, said in a video produced by the liberal campaign group Avaaz.  'Climate change impacts my life most directly through sea level rise,' echoed Jack Levy from Florida. He was joined by Georgia teen Jeremiah Thompson who said that 'human beings are a major cause in climate change.'"  Very Hitlerian.  Old Adolf asked Germany to give him the minds of its youth.  Germany complied.  Many of that "youth" lived very short lives.

COMES WITH A FORTUNE COOKIE – From London's Daily Mail:  "It has barely taken any time at all for Chinese counterfeiters to rip-off Apple's latest creation.   Fake versions of the Apple Watch can be bought for as little as £25 - despite the fact the real thing will set you back more than 10 times that.  The flagship new product was only launched in San Francisco yesterday but knock-offs are already available in China.  According to CNN Money, they can be found at Huaqiangbei electronics market in the southern city of Shenzhen, and others are being sold nationwide via popular e-commerce websites.  Right down to the digital crown, the fakes mimic the design and style of Apple's new offering."  Obama has threatened China with sanctions, but has offered a deal wherein they could produce some knockoffs for ten years, as long as they opened their factories and restaurants to inspections.

PRESCRIPTION-DRUG SPENDING SOARS – From Fox:  "The nation's largest pharmacy benefits manager says prescription drugs spending rose 13 percent last year, the largest annual increase since 2003.  Express Scripts says the gains were fueled by pricey specialty drugs that accounted for about 31 cents of every dollar spent on prescriptions even though they represented only 1 percent of all U.S. prescriptions filled.  Specialty drugs are advanced medications that treat complex or chronic conditions like hepatitis C and multiple sclerosis.  Express Scripts Holding Co. and several insurers have warned for more than a year about the growing financial impact from specialty drugs like Gilead Sciences' hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi."

March 10, 2015