Here are my observations and opinions on some of the news.

THE OTHER PARKLAND KIDS – I have already devoted too much space in my blog to those foul-mouthed gun control Parkland students – David “Camera” Hogg and Cameron Kasky – and not enough on the other students who haven’t fallen in line with them.

You may recall my concern for the students who didn’t support gun control with the same enthusiasm; would they be bullied in the hallways and classrooms?

“There have been a lot of students that have spoken to me about it privately,” wrote Kerry Picket for The Daily Caller.com, “and they’ve told me word for word as paraphrasing that these kids don’t speak for all students.”

ON THE SUBECT of Hogg and his pals – I was taken aback by an op-ed by Paul Waldman published in my hometown newspaper this week. “Is it possible,” he asks,” they (Hogg and Kasky) might force our entire political debate to become a little more … adult?”

I wondered what planet Waldman has been on, but I learned that he is a regular contributor to The Plum Line, a blog of the left-leaning Washington Post. Has he not heard about the “f-bombs” that flow from those kids mouths when they are being interviewed on national TV?

Was it “adult like” for activist student Kasky to rudely tell Sen. Marco Rubio, on national TV, that he sees the shooter Nikolas Cruz when he looks at him?

Waldman wonders how TV anchors should interact with kids. Of course, he overlooks the fawning of CNN’s Anderson Cooper and others, and chooses to scold Fox’s Laura Ingraham for “not showing them how an adult should act” when she chided Hogg for his “whining.”

While conceding that “it’s not surprising that we run into some difficulties when we apply our ordinary rules of political combat to them (the kids),” Waldman seems to think we should just ignore their insults; including those made to about their parents. Simply turn the other cheek and seize the “occasion to set a good example for them …”

So, to answer the question in the headline over Waldman’s op-ed, “Can the Parkland kids persuade us to act more like adults?”

Not until they speak with a more civil tongue, with their own measured thoughts and not their handlers’, and enough with the “Black Panther style” fist in the air during speeches.

And while I am at it – when are you going to address the mistakes of fellow students, teachers, the school administration, local citizens, local law enforcement (including the school resource officer) and the FBI, who for years ignored bad behavior on the part of the shooter?

STILL ANOTHER FBI EMBARRASSMENT – Long known as our premier law enforcement agency, it appears as though the FBI screwed up the prosecution of the Pulse night club shooter’s widow. While the prosecutors thought they had a slam dunk with a confession of complicity by Noor Salmon.

They claimed she said, “I knew.” The feds claimed they had a smoking gun, but couldn’t prove it. You see, the FBI never recorded the alleged confession, nor any part of the 11-hour interrogation. Without the proof, the jury had to acquit.

Why didn’t authorities record the interrogation? “I honestly never thought about it,” testified FBI Special Agent Christopher Mayo.

Where is the accountability?

“You’re telling me that veteran agents with the FBI – while investigating the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history,” exclaimed Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel,” never thought to do so?”

I’m reminded of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and mishandling of classified documents, during which the FBI failed to record or take notes of their interview of Hillary Clinton and her aides.

THERE’S MORE – According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility found that the recently fired Deputy Director Scott McCabe lied four times to his superiors and investigators.

MORE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY BIAS – Conservative and Christian students at Kennesaw State University in Georgia were forced “as a condition of their grades to confess their white privilege in a video,” State Rep. Earl Ehrhart revealed on the Todd Starnes Radio Show this past week.

The taxpayer-funded university is already facing two federal lawsuits alleging bias against conservatives.

“I fear that if I express my own opinion in opposition to that of the professor I will receive a poor grade,” said Victoria Thompson. “In one of my classes, my professor regularly talks about how stupid Republicans are, and makes fun of us on a regular basis.”

WASHINGTON PARTISANSHIP – It was nice to read some of thoughts of former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl this morning. During my working years in public affairs, I had the pleasure of meeting with him on a number of occasions. He was a real gentleman.

Kyl puts “a lot of the blame (for the partisanship) at the feet of the media,” writes Dan Nowicki in The Arizona Republic, which he says “creates fights” and eggs on the participants to the point of dissolving any goodwill between members of the two parties. He reminds us of the object of the networks is ratings.

Noting that partisan politics has become the dominate theme in Washington, Kyl said “the word that best describes Washington is “hypocrisy,” reflecting on how members easily change their positions on issues depending on who is in the White House.