SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:20 P.M. ET: 

TEXAS RESULTS – It was primary day in Texas.  Wendy Davis won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.  State Attorney General Greg Abbott won the Republican nod.  Republican Senator John Cornyn was nominated for a third term, easily defeating a Tea Party candidate, Steve Stockman, who failed to attract much enthusiasm.  Both Abbott and Cornyn are favored to win their races in November, but I would take nothing for granted.

GRIM ECONOMY – From CNS:  "The average annual labor force participation rate hit a 35-year-low of 63.2 percent in the United States in 2013, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The last time the average annual labor force participation rate was that low was in in 1978, when it was also 63.2 percent. Jimmy Carter was president then."  Carter and Obama, together again.  Let's hear your requests for their next song.  Oh, and welcome to the recovery.

THAT'LL SHOW THE CRIMINAL CLASS! – From Fox:  "A central Ohio principal says she suspended a 10-year-old boy from school for three days for pretending his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student's head.  The boy's father says he thinks it's the adults who are acting childish after the boy was suspended from Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus last week.  The fifth-grader said he was 'just playing around.' But district spokesman Jeff Warner tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1jO1rL7 ) that Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now."  Gotta watch those dangerous fingers.  Don't you think some appropriate counseling would be a better solution?

NEVER-NEVER LAND – New York City is becoming bizarre.  Last week the city's new socialist mayor Bill DeBlasio, got major heat from parents for throwing several high-performing charter schools out of the space they shared with public schools.  But the fact is that DeBlasio, a charter school opponent, approved arrangements for many other charter schools.  That was too much for other New York officials, even further to the left than the Castro-appeasing, Sandinista-loving DeBlasio.  The speaker of the New York City Council, and the laughably called "public advocate," are launching a lawsuit to remove other charter schools from city property, despite the fact that parents and students love them.  They presumably want to bring true communism to the city, and celebrate the equality of mediocrity.  Who needs them smartaleck scientists anyway?

March 4, 2014