SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:54 P.M. ET: 

BIBI ROMPS – The Israeli election produced a huge upset.  Bibi Netanyahu's Likud Party, expected to come in second, won a smashing victory, with Bibi almost guaranteed to form and lead the next government. 
From the Jerusalem Post:  "The Israeli elections took a dramatic turn in the early morning hours on Wednesday as official tallies from nearly all precincts indicate that Likud has opened up a significant lead over Zionist Union, a far cry from the virtual dead heat that television exit polls had reported Tuesday evening.  With 99 percent of precincts reporting before dawn on Wednesday, the Likud has emerged as the clear, undisputed victor in the elections."  Barack Obama will lose a night's sleep.  We'll have more on the Israeli elections in the morning.

FREE SPEECH WINS – From Breitbart:  "The University of Missouri students association confirmed that a campus screening of American Sniper would continue as originally scheduled after a Muslim student had protested the showing of the film earlier this month, calling it 'blatant racist, colonialist propaganda.'  According to the Missourian, the film is scheduled to be shown on April 17 and 18 at the campus’s Wrench Auditorium as part of a regular campus film series.  However, in a March 3 letter to University of Missouri newspaper The Maneater, Farah El-Jayyousi wrote that Clint Eastwood’s film “dehumanizes Arabs and Muslims and encourages racism in society,” and referred to the film’s protagonist, Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, as a “killer with no regard for human life.”  Let the film be shown.  Students can criticize it all they want after seeing it.  Chris Kyle fought for their right to do so.

MAJOR RETAIL CRISIS – From the New York Daily News:  "You can design your dream space in Ikea — but just don’t hide in the showroom.  The Swedish furniture giant has asked thousands of Dutch shoppers to stop playing hide-and-seek inside its stores, calling the customer-organized games a safety hazard.  Things started off in July when about 500 Ikea lovers flocked to a Belgian store for the inaugural match. When players started organizing more games in stores throughout the Netherlands, Ikea swiftly shut down the childish fun.  'It’s hard to control,' Ikea Group spokeswoman Martina Smedberg told Bloomberg. 'We need to make sure people are safe in our stores, and that’s hard to do if we don’t even know where they are.'"  I feel their pain.  Unauthorized hide-and-seek is one of the unspoken tragedies of our time.

THE WAR ON CLEANLINESS – From the Washington Free Beacon:  "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower.  The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to 'modify their behavior.'  'Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,' an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. 'Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.'"  How would they know it's wasted? 

March 17, 2015