SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 7:09 P.M. ET: 

RENT CONTROL – From AP:  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado landlord will let dogs with good references live in the apartment he rents, but not anyone who backs Donald Trump.  Mark Holmes warned Trump voters not to call in an ad he placed last week for the two-bedroom apartment that’s part of his home in Grand Junction.  The 62-year-old told The Daily Sentinel that he doesn’t know what to do anymore about the possibility of the GOP front-runner getting elected but that he doesn’t want to live upstairs from someone who backs Trump.  How would he know who backs Trump unless the person told him?  And what would he do about an African-American lesbian woman who appeared with a DONALD button?  I see a beautiful court case.

WOW! – This is starting to make waves on the internet.  I'm sure an explanation is coming.  From the Washington Examiner:   Former President Bill Clinton asked Democratic voters on Monday to shrug off the "awful legacy" of President Obama's years in office in a speech Monday to support Hillary Clinton's campaign.  "Now if you don't believe we can all grow together again, if you don't believe we're ever going to grow again, if you believe it's more important to re-litigate the past, there may be many reasons that you don't want to support her," Clinton told a Spokane, Wash. audience.  "But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we've finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics with no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her," he added.  Trashing Barack Obama may not be the wisest thing for Hillary's campaign right now.  I don't understand this.  As noted, I expect an explanation to be issued.

WHAT'S THIS? – Donald Trump, expert on everything, said on CNN that the U.S. should rethink its role in NATO, and let the European countries defend themselves and pick up the tab.  This is stunning.  Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois came on refuting Trump, pointing out that, while we should insist Europe pay a larger share of its defense bill, this is hardly a time to threaten to pull out of NATO, with Russia in the Ukraine and menacing other countries in Europe.  Trump seemed to be going back to the disastrous periods of American isolationism, which always ended badly.  His statement stunned interviewer Wolf Blitzer.  It calls into serious question whether Trump can be trusted on critical issues of foreign policy. 

TAKING ABUSE FROM DICTATORS – From CNS:   (CNSNews.com) – In a joint press conference with Cuban dictator Raul Castro in Havana, Cuba, on Monday, President Barack Obama said he welcomes Castro’s criticism of the U.S.  “I actually welcome President Castro commenting on some of the areas where he feels that we’re falling short, because I think we should not be immune or afraid of criticism or discussion as well,” Obama said.  Oh please.  I'm happy to take criticism, but not from a thug.  I have no interest in hearing a career criminal critiquing the way I raise my children.  Obama is a real leftist, and proving it.

March 21,  2016