SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:14 P.M. ET: 

PLEASE HELP – From the Washington Times:  "Hillary Clinton’s campaign is asking supporters to offer up their New York City residences for staffers who need a place to crash.  The campaign sent an email Wednesday asking supporters to sign up to host Clinton campaign workers arriving in the city, Fox News reported.  'Got a spare room (or couch!) that another supporter could sleep on for a few days?' asks the sign-in form.  Marlon Marshall, director of State Campaigns and Political Engagement at Hillary for America, wrote in the email that the campaign needs its new hires to start 'right away' at the Brooklyn headquarters."  Of course, the Clintons wouldn't offer any couches in their own home, a bit upstate.  Royalty doesn't do that.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – From the Washington Times:  "Most of the illegal immigrant criminals Homeland Security officials released from custody last year were discretionary, meaning the department could have kept them in detention but chose instead to let them onto the streets as their deportation cases moved through the system, according to new numbers from Congress.  Some of those released were the worst of the worst — more than 3,700 'Threat Level 1' criminals, who are deemed the top priority for deportation, were still released out into the community even as they waited for their immigration cases to be heard."  And if they commit horrible crimes, Obama will blame the Republicans, or Bush.

GOOD MAN – Rick Perry is back in presidential politics.  From Reuters:  "Former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced on Thursday he will pursue the Republican presidential nomination again in 2016, seeking redemption for a fumbled White House bid in 2012 and adding to a crowded field of conservative candidates.  Perry said at a rally in Addison, a Dallas suburb, that he would boost the US economy and improve homeland security.  'We don't have to resign ourselves to debt, decay and slow growth. We have the power to make things new again, to project American strength again, to get our economy going again. And that is exactly why today I am running for the presidency of the United States of America,' Perry said. 'If you elect me your president, I will secure that border. Homeland security begins with border security.'"  Perry gave a very good speech.  Sadly, temperatures in the hall soared into the 90s, and he appeared sweaty and grimy, instead of cool and fresh.  First rule of campaigns:  Get an advance team that knows what it's doing.

REMARKABLE – From The Times of Israel:  "An extremely unusual public meeting of high-ranking Israeli and Saudi officials took place in Washington on Thursday, when the incoming director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry shared a stage — and shook hands — with a retired Saudi general who is a former top adviser to the Saudi government.  In their back-to-back addresses to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank, Dore Gold and Anwar Eshki both espoused Israeli-Saudi peace and identified Iran as the chief threat to regional stability."  Things are happening in the Middle East, mostly as a response to America's weakness and Obama's bizarre cozying up to Iran.  It is clear that Israel and Saudi Arabia are in touch, as the Saudis realize they can no longer depend on the United States.

June 4, 2015