SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:31 P.M. ET: 

CAPITAL OFFENSE – Another great moment in school discipline.  From the New York Post:  "Totally worth it!  A Pennsylvania teenager suspended from school for three days for asking Miss America to prom says he wouldn’t take back the gutsy move.  'I was set on doing it. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. It was a cool way to go out with a bang for senior year,' Patrick Favres, 18, of Manchester Township, told The Post on Saturday.  Word spread around Central York High School that Favres planned to pop the question at a school assembly on Thursday , where beauty queen Nina Davuluri spoke about diversity.  School administrators caught wind. Ten minutes before the assembly started, they warned Favres not to do it.
Favres — a popular class clown, who plays the drums — went ahead with his plan, and handed Davuluri a plastic pink flower that made her laugh and students cheer."  And for this he gets a suspension.  Maybe he wasn't included on the "diversity" list.

GREAT MOMENTS IN MATHEMATICS – Chicago authorities are boasting that they're making "progress" in their fight against the city's awful crime problem.  Really?  From Fox:  "...an investigation published by Chicago Magazine claims that the 'progress' is an illusion. The article says that under pressure from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago cops have been reclassifying murders and violent crimes. The result is a nearly unprecedented drop in numbers.  'This is a betrayal of public trust in a sense that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Superintendent Garry McCarthy are public servants. They are paid by our tax dollars and we deserve in return truth from them,' said Elizabeth Fenner, Editor in Chief of Chicago Magazine.  McCarthy responded that the article is 'patently false' and he criticized the near total reliance on anonymous sources. 'I'm troubled by it because it hurts our credibility while we're trying to build our credibility,' he said."  I'm shocked, shocked, that anyone would suggest that crime statistics could be rigged.  I don't know the facts, but sources in Chicago say things haven't gotten materially better.

LET'S TALK – Who cares about facts, right?  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, new Democratic heroine, darling of the left, is about to launch a book tour.  Looks like she'll have company as a result of her claim that she's part-Cherokee.  From Legal Insurrection:  "Someone who wants to meet Warren is Twila Barnes.  Barnes is the Cherokee Genealogist whose groundbreaking genealogical research exposed the falsehood to Warren’s claims. Barnes and her team of Cherokee genealogists traced Warren’s family lines back to the early 1800s and documented that Warren’s family not only was not Cherokee or other Native American, but also that they never lived as such."  In universities these days a lie is called an "alternative narrative."  The alternative narrative is starting to catch up with Elizabeth Warren.

April 19,  2014