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

PREVIEW OF HER PRESIDENCY – From Weekly Standard:  "Iowans had their cellphones and cameras confiscated before getting to meet the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'On Thursday, Clinton´s motorcade left the SpringHill Suites for Main Street Cafe, where she met privately with party leaders for about an hour and a half,' reports KETV in Omaha.  'Pottawattamie County Democratic Chairwoman Linda Nelson said the meeting was so private that everyone invited was asked to hand over their cellphones and cameras before taking part.'"  I'm assuming they all swore allegiance to her.

MORE HILLARY, THE COMMON WOMAN – From London's Daily Mail:  "The Secret Service will have to drive Scooby One and Scooby Two back to Chappaqua without Hillary Clinton riding shotgun. Instead, she's flying coach and toting her own luggage.  A United Airlines regional jet carried her back to the East Coast on Thursday from the Omaha, Nebraska airport. Her flight was bound for Newark, New Jersey, the major airport most convenient to her spacious Chappaqua, New York home."  There were photos of Ms. Average rolling her luggage around the airport...but apparently not checking it.  Reporters noted that it was too big for the overhead bins.  I guess a little helper eventually took the bags.  She was met at Newark by a limo, right on the tarmac, pretty much like any other passenger.

ANOTHER FOR-THE-PEOPLE MSNBC STAR – From the Winston-Salem Journal:  "The Internal Revenue Service has placed a tax lien on Melissa Harris-Perry and her husband, James Perry, for about $70,000 in delinquent taxes, according to a notice filed in Forsyth County Hall of Justice earlier this month…
In an email Wednesday, Harris-Perry said she was unaware of the tax lien but knew about the debt. She said she and her husband paid $21,721 of the debt when they filed their taxes Wednesday. The remaining debt, $48,581, covers a tax period ending Dec. 31, 2013, according to the notice.  Harris-Perry said she and her husband had been working to pay off the debt but had to deal with a series of personal crises that caused the couple to pay off the debt a lot slower than expected."  Well, if you're on MSNBC you face a personal crisis every day.

IT'S ABOUT TIME – From Fox:  "FORT HOOD, Texas – Dozens of soldiers and surviving family members of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting are receiving additional Army pay that they felt was long overdue.  The announcement from Army Sec. John McHugh on Thursday comes a week after 36 Purple Hearts were awarded to victims and relatives of the deadliest shooting on a U.S. military base.  Thirteen people were killed in the attack and 31 others were injured.  McHugh said the Purple Heart recipients will receive extra hostile fire pay and other compensation."  It probably took this long because the propagandists around Obama tried to portray the incident as "workplace violence" rather than a terrorist attack on U.S. soldiers.

April 16, 2015