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

NOTHING TO SEE, NOTHING TO SEE – You'll recall, earlier this week, a stabbing spree at a California campus.  The perp, shot dead by the police, was identified as a Muslim student.  But, said the politically correct authorities, the motive was personal, not political.  Yeah.  From Fox:   A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone’s head off” and as many as five reminders to “praise Allah,” law enforcement authorities told FoxNews.com, while insisting that neither terrorism nor religion appear to be motives in the attack.  In the two-page document found in Faisal Mohammad’s pocket by the county coroner, the 18-year-old freshman wrote a numeric list outlining his plans of who he wanted to kill, and how, including beheading and shooting his victims, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told FoxNews.com.  “No. 27 was to ‘make sure people are tied down,’ No. 28 was 'sit down and praise Allah,' Warnke said. “I remember seeing four or five times, scribbled on the side of the two-page manifesto, where he wrote something like ‘praise Allah.’”  Nothing to see, nothing to see.

SUCH A SURPRISE – President Obama, ever devoted to securing his legacy on the political left, today formally rejected the Keystone Pipeline, which would have created many jobs, and brought Canadian petroleum to our Gulf Coast.  The elitists are cheering Obama's decision, but American workers are not cheering.  From The Hill:   The main union for construction workers is accusing President Obama of throwing them “under the bus” by rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline.  The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) is one of the few labor unions that broke with the majority of Democrats and supported the project, which Obama rejected Friday after a seven-year review.  “We are dismayed and disgusted that the President has once again thrown the members of LIUNA, and other hard-working, blue-collar workers under the bus of his vaunted ‘legacy,’ while doing little or nothing to make a real difference in global climate change,” Terry O’Sullivan, the union’s general president, said in a statement. “His actions are shameful.”  When is American labor going to realize that Obama has contempt for the working class?  Today's Democratic Party doesn't rub shoulders with workers, but demands their votes at election time.  The new Democratic Party is interested in race, gender, and ethnicity, with a layer of multiculturalism thrown in.

INEVITABLE – From the Washington Times:   An illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member the Obama administration had released on bond committed an unprovoked attack on a sheriff’s deputy, slugging the deputy as he worked on a traffic report while sitting in his car, the Frederick County, Md., sheriff’s department said Friday.  Jose Misael Reyes-Reyes, 18, had been arrested in May on weapons charges and in June on charges of malicious destruction of property, but federal immigration authorities had left him free on bond while he awaited a deportation hearing, the sheriff’s office said.  Given his age, Mr. Reyes-Reyes was potentially part of the recent surge of illegal immigrant children that overwhelmed the Border Patrol over the last few years, and who have now been shipped to communities across the country.  Mr. Reyes-Reyes came upon Deputy First Class Greg Morton Thursday morning as the deputy was in his marked police vehicle finishing up an accident report. The sheriff’s office said Mr. Reyes-Reyes began banging on a back window of the vehicle, and when Deputy Morton turned to look the man reached through the half-open window and slugged the deputy in the face.  Again, nothing to see, nothing to see.  And remember, the deputy was part of the oppressor class.  Right?  Well...

November 6, 2015