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

WALKING IT BACK ON WALKER – The press has been in a frenzy, trying to pin things on the surging Scott Walker.  The media's great nightmare is that Walker might win a presidential election, and be more successful than Barack (come to save us).  But the anti-Walker frenzy has led to embarrassing mistakes.  From The Politico:  "Another major media outlet has apologized after getting a story about Scott Walker wrong. Last week, it was the New York Times; now, it’s The Daily Beast.  The Daily Beast has retracted an article from one of its college columnists that claimed that the Wisconsin governor’s budget would cut sexual assault reporting from the state’s universities.   The post, published Friday, cited a report from Jezebel that wrongly interpreted a section of the state budget to mean that all assault reporting requirements were to get cut altogether.  In fact, the University of Wisconsin system requested the deletion of the requirements to get rid of redundancy, as it already provides similar information to the federal government, UW System spokesman Alex Hummel told The Associated Press on Friday."  A great moment in journalism.

WOMAN OF VALOR – A courageous Democrat is getting a big backlash for taking on Obama over foreign policy.  From Fox:  "She was Hawaii's golden girl after winning a seat in Congress with support from top liberal groups, but now that Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been critical of President Obama, her political reputation in the bluest of blue states is taking a hit.  That isn’t stopping the twice-deployed 33-year-old Army veteran from continuing to challenge the president, her home state's favorite son, over his refusal to identify terror groups like the Islamic State as driven by 'radical Islam.'  'Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him,' Gabbard told FoxNews.com. 'Our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically.'  Gabbard has been hitting this message for weeks now, putting her at odds with many in her party who toe the line that the Islamic State should not be associated with Islam."  I've seen her on TV and she's terrific.  But some Dems are now out to destroy her.  Mustn't muss with the greater glory of Barack.  Maybe she'd consider coming over to our side.

GLOBAL WARMING? – Baby, it's cold outside.  From The New York Times:  "As it limps away, February will not be missed. With the average temperature for the month lingering around 24 degrees, some 11 degrees shy of normal by the National Weather Service’s calculation, this insult of a month looks as though it will clock in as the coldest recorded February in New York City since 1934. That is 81 years of weather. That is all the way back to the Depression, when there were so many more dire things to worry about than whether 7-Eleven had salt or whose turn it was to walk the dog."  Of course, we all know it's global warming.  And if the month were 11 degrees above normal, that would be global warming too.  But note that the last cold record set in New York was in 1934.  Global warming then, too?  They call this winter, and sometimes winter takes a nasty turn.  Hello 1934.  Thanks for reminding us, including Al Gore, that we're not unique. 

February 28, 2015