SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET:

SAD – From the Chicago Sun-Times:  WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., completed his prison sentence on Friday, setting the stage for his wife, former Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th), to report to prison in 30 days.  Jackson, 50, has been finishing up his sentence on home confinement at his DuPont Circle residence here. When he arrived at home last June, he told the Sun-Times he was working on his memoir.  Jackson’s movements under home confinement were closely monitored and he wore a GPS device around his ankle.  Jackson’s official release date was this Sunday. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Ed Ross said when a release date falls on a weekend, the inmate is let go the Friday before.  He could've been something, but he used campaign funds to buy personal luxuries.  His wife filed a false tax return.  We hope they can make a contribution to society.  They were not treated unfairly.

WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY? – From Breitbart:  Foreigners who want to become U.S. citizens don’t have to change their attitudes or beliefs, President Barack Obama said in a video aimed at convincing migrants to pursue American citizenship.  “It’s not about changing who you are, it’s about adding a new chapter to your journey… and to our journey as a nation of immigrants,” Obama narrates in his two-minute video urging almost 9 million resident migrants to sign up for citizenship so they can vote in 2016.  Obama’s deputies will award citizenship to 36,000 over the next few days.  But federal law — and reality — contradicts Obama’s progressive-style denial of Americans’ sophisticated, evolved and unique society, and contradicts his support for a chaotically diverse “nation of immigrants” devoid of any unique and shared loyalties and obligations.  Obama said he would fundamentally change America, and he meant it.  Citizenship used to mean something.  You came to America to become an American, not a half-and-half.  Obama's pitch is designed to put millions of immigrants on the voter rolls, in the belief that most will vote Democratic. 

OUR NEXT GENERATION – From The College Fix:  Victimhood has become a virtue in America’s shifting culture, scholars argue.  A journal article by two sociologists suggests the rise of microaggressions stems from a culture of victimhood that celebrates the aggrieved and perceives them as virtuous martyrs – most notably on college campuses.  Making matters worse, this perception is fostered by administrations that coddle and support such grandiose notions for self-serving purposes, including to exert control of students, the scholars argue.  “In the settings such as those that generate microaggression catalogs … where offenders are oppressors and victims are the oppressed, it also raises the moral status of the victims,” the scholars state in their article. “This only increases the incentive to publicize grievances, and it means aggrieved parties are especially likely to highlight their identity as victims, emphasizing their own suffering and innocence. Their adversaries are privileged and blameworthy, but they themselves are pitiable and blameless.”  The scholarly article, “Microaggression and Moral Cultures,” was written by sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, professors at Cal State Los Angeles and The University of West Virginia, respectively.  I'd like to try victimhood.  Can anyone name a quality oppressor? 

September 18, 2015