SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:51 P.M. ET: 

IT'S A START – Some 50 Coptic Christians picketed the White House today in orange jumpsuits, similar to those warn by the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS a short time ago.  It is good to see Christians in the United States stand up for their brothers and sisters abused by radical Islam.  They chanted, "Obama, Obama, did you see? Christian blood in the sea."  There is no evidence that Obama gives a damn.

DISGRACEFUL – Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, one of our closest allies, will address Congress on Tuesday, having been invited by Speaker Boehner.  Obama opposes the speech, and his henchmen were all out today making abusive remarks about Netanyahu in public.  John Kerry was particularly offensive, noting in testimony before a Senate committee that Netanyahu supported the Iraq war.  The problem with the charge is that Kerry also supported it, so it's hard to say what Kerry was trying to show.  This all stems from Barack Obama's hostility to Israel and Netanyahu, and pretty much every important US ally.  We're learning that our worries about Obama, when he ran for president, were entirely justified.

AND JORDAN, TOO – To prove the point of the post "Disgraceful," just above, consider what the Obamans have done to Jordan, one of our best allies in the Mideast, in the last few weeks.  First, Field Marshal Obama sat down with Jordan's King Abdullah the day the video of the Jordanian pilot being burned to death by ISIS was made public.  The meeting was apparently meaningless.  Abdullah went over to another meeting, with members of Congress, and didn't even mention Obama.  Then Abdullah struck back against ISIS, apparently humiliating our indifferent president.  Then came the report that Obama had turned down Jordanian requests for drones.  This was followed by Obama turning down Jordanian requests for intelligence information on ISIS.  Just today we learned that the Obama administration released secret information about a training base in Jordan, which Jordan had requested be kept secret.  And today the Obamans warned Americans about the dangers of traveling to Jordan.  Nice, huh?  Why would Jordan want to remain our ally?

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT – From People:  "In a strange turn of events, a New York City college professor who trains police and firefighters how to diffuse heated situations has been charged with misdemeanor assault.  Joann Baney, an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, is accused of assaulting her longtime boyfriend, Walter Frey, 46, while he slept inside her Upper West Side apartment about 10:45 p.m. on Saturday, the New York Daily News reports."  In the academic world this qualifies her for a promotion because now she has practical experience in her specialty. 

February 25,  2015