SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

DISGRACEFUL – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   The Department of Justice in October had filed a lawsuit against Yale University, alleging it discriminates against white and Asian applicants during its admissions process, but on Wednesday the department withdrew the litigation.  The Justice Department, now under President Joe Biden, put forth a two-sentence filing in U.S. District Court that gave notice of the government’s “voluntary dismissal of this action,” NBC reports.  “The case had marked an escalation in the Trump Justice Department’s attacks on affirmative action programs that many conservatives consider illegal,” it reported.  When the DOJ had first filed the lawsuit under President Trump’s administration, it argued that a lengthy investigation had found “Asian and White applicants have a significantly lower chance of admission to Yale College than do similarly-situated Black and Hispanic applicants.” The discrimination faced by Asian-American applicants is especially stark.  There is a difference between thoughtful affirmative action and blatant discrimination, and too many colleges, in the name of "justice," have crossed over that line.  The bursting of the higher-education bubble is coming.

REASONED POLITICAL RESTRAINT – CHOKE – FROM TRENDING POLITICS:   After spending 30 years in Washington, there isn’t much Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) can take credit for, with the exception of becoming one of her party’s best gaslighters.  Because if you can’t really accomplish anything legislatively as a lawmaker, then find something else to be good at — right?  “Mad Maxine” was at it again Wednesday during an appearance with one of cable news’s biggest racists, MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “where she made the bold claim that Trump should be charged with premeditated murder,” PJ Media reported, adding: “Waters even launched a new conspiracy theory by alleging, without evidence, that Trump had ‘advance planning about the invasion’ at the Capitol.”  “What’s so interesting about all of this is they tried to make themselves the victim when indeed they are following the president of the United States of America who had advance planning about the invasion that took place in our Capitol,” Waters claimed without any pushback from Reid.  What a waste of taxpayers' money.  I wonder if Waters ever did anything for African Americans.

February 4, 2021