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

SCARIEST THOUGHT IN YEARS – From The Hill:  "President Obama says he is ready to 'run through the tape' to promote his agenda during his final two years in office.  'I've only got two years left, but two years is a long time,' the president told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday. 'Two years is also the time in which we are going to be setting the stage for the next presidential election and the next 10 years of American policy.'"  There is good land available in Australia. 

DEFINITION OF NERVE – From Reuters:  "The Palestinian Authority on Saturday condemned as 'terrorism' the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on US authorities to include its investigators in the probe."  The nerve of the Palestinian Authority, a master of terror itself.  There is no evidence, as of now, of any terrorist motive in the disgraceful North Carolina murders.  If the PA joined the probe, they'd probably find that Bibi did it.  Or Moses.

STRANGE PUBLICITY – From London's Daily Mail:  "The winery which produced the sleep-inducing bottle of wine that made Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fall asleep during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address is cashing in on its new fame.  Ginsburg, who said she wasn't '100 per cent sober' when she nodded off during President Obama's speech last month, blamed her nap on a bottle of 'very fine California' wine that her colleague Anthony Kennedy brought to dinner.   The judge, 81, told attendees of a Smithsonian Associates event in Washington, D.C. the wine Kennedy brought to dinner was 'an Opus something or other'.  The bottle was from Opus One Winery in Oakville, California, according to ABC.   Christopher Barefoot, vice president of public relations at Opus, said the winery was 'overjoyed' to find out Ginsburg enjoyed their wine."  I say, give that wine to all liberal justices.

February 14, 2015