SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 8:32 P.M. ET:

TO DEFEAT ALL FOES – The Department of Defense, always on the alert to protect these shores, is pledging two billion dollars in the next year alone to fight...climate change.  Frankly, I wasn't aware this was in their charter.   But the sinister forces courageously identified by Al Gore and some Hollywood starlets have apparently raised concerns at the highest levels of our national security apparatus.  Look for our newest tank – the Chevy Volt With Gun.

BARNEY DELIVERS THE BLARNEY – Outgoing Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts reports to we the people that the Europeans want President Obama's economic policies to be adopted by their countries.  Right.  All the success we've had in the last three years must really be impressing the Europeans.  Why, we all know that Barack Obama is an economic genius.  Just look at the job figures.  Well, better not.

OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM AT WORK – There's growing outrage over the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, a "meeting" planned for Maui in August, with first-class accommodations and great recreation, with a price tag estimated at one million dollars...billed to the public.  And yes, that's the Ninth Circuit we're talking about – the most liberal federal judicial circuit in the country, where judges regularly express their deep emotional attachment to the people, diversity, the downtrodden, and, apparently now, caddies.

POWER OF THE INTERNET – It took the internet to do it, but a North Carolina school district has finally suspended a teacher who told her students that they could be arrested for criticizing President Obama.  The school district did nothing at first, but the teacher's remarks had been caught on a cell-phone video, and the recording has gone viral on YouTube.  Once again the alternative media does the job.  The mainstream media was out to lunch.

May 21, 2012