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

QUOTE OF THE DAY – From the Daily Caller:  “If Churchill were on Twitter today, he would be shouting against this deal with Iran and saying that this is the second most unwise thing we have ever done, the first being allowing Hitler to rise,” Sir Winston Churchill’s great-grandson Jonathan Sandys tells The Daily Caller. “And he would be warning the world to sit up and wake up.”  The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted by the United States, United Kingdom, China, France, the Russian Federation, and Germany with the Islamic Republic of Iran gives the sworn enemy of Israel the privilege of doing business with the U.S. provided they promise to tame their nuclear program. Implementation begins in early 2016.  Iran has never formally accepted the agreement.  The hardliners oppose it.  We have no guarantee that Iran will carry out its end of the bargain.  However, the Obamans and their princes of appeasement will probably "interpret" Iran's actions favorably, letting the agreement go forward.  We're saying to our children, "You deal with this."

HONORED MEMORY – From Fox:  The officer killed in the shooting Friday at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic had lived a life devoted to his job, his family and his Christian faith, according to his friends.  The body of the fallen University of Colorado at Colorado Springs officer Garrett Swasey was transported from the crime scene to the El Paso County Coroner’s office early Saturday, accompanied on the snowy 10-mile trip by a long line of police vehicles.   Officers who participated told KRDO-TV they wanted to honor Swasey, 44, who left behind a wife and two young children.  Swasey was killed as cops exchanged gunfire with 57-year-old suspect Robert Dear during a five-hour standoff Friday at the clinic Planned Parenthood runs in Colorado Springs. Dear, of Hartsel, Colo., later surrendered to police. His life mattered.  And of course the Planned Parenthood crowd, including Hillary Clinton, has already tried to politicize the tragedy by suggesting it was an attack on Planned Parenthood.  No evidence of that thus far.

THE SHOOTER – This refers to the post just above.  From London's Daily Mail:  The man accused of the Planned Parenthood massacre spent the last year living in an isolated shack and rarely spoke to anyone, it has been revealed.  Robert Dear, 57, moved from North Carolina to Colorado and set up home in an area where people 'like to be by themselves'.  But he never gave any hint of any political views when he ate his meals at the only cafe in the isolated town of Hartsel, eight miles from his remote cabin.  Dear is due to be arraigned on Monday over the deaths of three people at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.  Sounds lie a nutjob, and little else.  What a tragedy for the families affected.  Did mental-health agencies ever check on this guy?

November 28, 2015