SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:24 P.M. ET:

NYPD OKAY BY NJ – New Jersey authorities, after a three-month inquiry, have declared that the New York Police Department violated no state laws when it surveilled activity at some Muslim centers in New Jersey.  Translated, this means 1) that New York police officials demonstrated that their work is critical to preventing a terrorist attack and 2) that New Jersey politicians have no intention of going up against the exceptionally popular anti-terror work of the New York Police Department.  NYPD, though, still has to face the scrutiny of Eric Holder's Justice Department, where leftist doctrine reigns. 

KANSAS BANS FOREIGN LAW – Governor, and former Senator, Sam Brownback signed into law a bill preventing Kansas courts or state agencies from basing decisions on Sharia or other foreign codes.  The law will probably be challenged in federal court, and you may be sure that the Obama administration is looking into it.  The law specifically forbids courts and agencies from basing judgments on any system that does not grant the same rights as the U.S. and state constitutions.  Seems very reasonable to me.

SYRIA AGAIN – Syria has been off the front pages, but the violence has erupted again.  Some 90 people, many of them children, have been killed in a government attack on the town of Houla, according to UN inspectors.  The government has not been restrained in any way by the presence of these inspectors.  There are periodic reports of plans by the U.S. and other Western governments to arm resistance fighters, but so far that has not been done.  Do we have another case here of President Obama hoping the problem can be kept under wraps until after the election?

May 26, 2012