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

WHOOPS – A 2002 radio interview of Donald Trump, by Howard Stern, has surfaced.  Stern asked, "Are you for invading Iraq?"   Trump answered, "Yeah, I guess so."  Anderson Cooper brought up the comment tonight in his Town Hall interview with Trump, and Trump conceded that he could have said that.  For months Trump has argued that he opposed the Iraq war, called it a disaster, and blamed George W. Bush.  I don't know what this does to his credibility, and I'm not so sure it matters in this weird race.

SEND HELP TO THESE CHILDREN, PLEASE – From Breitbart – Students at Rutgers University were so traumatized by Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s visit to their campus that they had to hold a group therapy session, campus newspaper The Daily Targum reports.  According to the paper, students and faculty members held a wound-licking gathering at a cultural center on campus, where students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.”  “A variety of different organizations and departments were present to listen, answer questions and show support” to the apparently weak and vulnerable students, who just a few days prior had disrupted Yiannopoulos’s event by smearing fake blood on their faces and chanting protest slogans.  One student at the event told the Targum that they “broke down crying” after the event, while another reported that he felt “scared to walk around campus the next day.” According to the report, “many others” said they felt “unsafe” at the event and on campus afterwards.  Our next generation.  I wish their parents had practiced more effective birth control.

THEY CALL HER "HONEST HILLARY" – Actually they don't.  Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Scott Pelley of CBS, refused to say definitively whether or not she has ever lied to the American people.  Pelley asked, "You talk about leveling with the American people. Have you always told the truth?"  Clinton replied, "I've always tried to. Always. Always."  She went on to say, "Well, but, you know, you're asking me to say, 'Have I ever?' I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I'm gonna do the best I can to level with the American people."  Well, that should certainly settle it.  After that, how can anyone question Hillary's integrity?  Shameful critics and doubters!

February 18, 2016