Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the day.

THE LEFT CONTINUES TRUMP ATTACK – I guess Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, of the left-leaning Arizona Republic thought it was time again to take another slap at the president in Sen. John McCain’s interest.

Triggered by a Tweet McCain’s co-author Mark Salter sent to a journalist, Sanchez filed a story that her editor, of course, saw fit to place on page one, above the fold.

It seems that you don’t even have to mention Mc Cain’s name to rattle the RINO and his friends. During his rally in Nashville, President Trump mentioned the failure to repeal ObamaCare and explained that “We had it done, folks, it was done … when somebody turned their hand in the wrong direction,” referring to McCain’s thumbs down vote without mentioning him by name.

“I think we can confidently assume that the Senator doesn’t give a rat’s ass what this particular president says or thinks about him,” wrote Salter.

And if you believe that ….

AND THEN THERE’S THIS – The Arizona Republic’s editorial columnist Elvia Diaz, who I have quoted here recently for her bias, including her reference to the president as a white supremacist, continues to give journalism a bad name.

You may recall my criticism of the Republic’s editorial instructing Arizona’s teachers how to go about walking out of their schools for more pay. The banner headline read, “If Arizona’s teachers strike, here’s how they should do it,” in a tutorial by Diaz’ colleague Joanna Allhands. In my mind it was a clear example of advocacy journalism.

Well, get this. In Diaz’ column today in which she writes about digital billboards placed around Phoenix by the Fort Worth Independent School District to lure teachers to Texas, she says, “Last month, Arizona’s teachers stunned everyone with the audacity to walk out …”

Incredibly, Diaz has the audacity to refer to the “audacity” of the teachers to walk out after they simply followed the Republic’s prodding.

JOHN KASICH IS BACK IN THE NEWS – Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio who I once mistakenly endorsed for president in 2016, is back spouting his 1997 success as the chairman of the House Budget Committee. Working with Democrats he writes of his success in balancing the budget for the first time in decades. It’s one reason I supported him early in the campaign.

“For Congress, solutions demand throwing aside political gamesmanship and finding a willingness to act,“ Kasich says in his Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘Entitlements Will Eat America’s Economy.’ That may be difficult in the current political climate, but it can be done.”

I beg to differ with Kasich. It couldn’t have happened under a Hillary Clinton presidency and it certainly doesn’t look possible under President Trump in that he has indicated no interest in addressing entitlements.

Kasich reminds readers of 1997, “when a bipartisan coalition in Congress worked with a Democrat president (Clinton) to reform the welfare system, rein in military spending, and balance the federal budget.”

That was then and now is now. Since then, our military was severely decimated and only this year are we beginning to restore it to the power needed for our security, not only with weapons systems, but a pay increase.

It isn’t that Kasich didn’t have the opportunity to make his case as he stood on the debate stage with 16 fellow candidates; it was a solution the voters didn’t want to hear. They were more interested in hearing about tax cuts than entitlement cuts.

I agree with Kasich’s view on the need for entitlement reform and his warning that “Time is running short and America’s time bomb of debt continues to tick,” but the Schumer-Pelosi vs McConnell-Ryan Congress cannot even agree on the simpler issues of the day, from the “bump stock” to chain migration and DACA.

I applaud the optimism in Kasich’s closing statement – “We’ve made progress before, so there is no reason we can’t do it again” – but I see no path to the “togetherness” this would require.

MORE COVER-UP BY THE DEMOCRATS – Remember the family of Pakistanis, lead by Imran Awan, who were highly paid IT people working for Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the DNC and for a number of House members with access to dozens of computers in Congress, including those of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees?

Judicial Watch has learned that the Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged cyberbreach and theft case against Awan to his defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead.

Legal experts and veteran federal agents contacted by Judicial Watch say something smells rotten in this case. “Prosecutors are always gun shy when it comes to prosecuting political figures, especially the figures who may be culpable in the case,” a longtime FBI official offered.

Obviously, Democrats want to keep this case out of the courts, because a trial would expose their reckless IT practices, according to a Judicial Watch report.

Sound familiar? Think Benghazi and the IRS scandals.

QUESTION OF THE DAY – Will Samantha Bee, a late-night host on TBS, be fired for her reckless insult of Ivanka Trump, as was Roseanne earlier this week? Writing here about Roseanne’s repugnant remark, I mentioned that the President, first lady and daughter have all been on the receiving end of off-color comments in the past.

I didn’t expect that there would be another disgusting remark by a Hollywood type this soon and will not repeat Bee’s remark here. I’m not holding my breath waiting for TBS’s response, but it appears that there will only be an apology.

Just as the Democrat party attacks blacks who don’t tow the progressive line for not being black enough, like Kanye West, liberal women like Bee are now debasing conservative women.

OPPOSITION COMMENTS IN THE NEWS, courtesy of the Media Research Center.  MSNBC’s Joe Scarborugh: “He (Trump) whips people up … it’s like a Mussolini rally.” NBC’s Chuck Todd: “We’re simply a voice of truth. There’s no balance, just fairness and truth. MSNBC’s Joy Reid: “At some point, does the conservative media run out of viewers because it is appealing to sort of an old kind of crusty, creepy, weird world view?” MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: “(Trump lacks) the basic empathies that we feel as human beings … that’s what makes him a sociopath.

           May God bless the United States of America.