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

SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA) is becoming the “Al Sharpton” of the Hispanic community, especially for those illegals now facing temporary separation. During her visit to one of the immigration centers she accused President Trump of imprisoning immigrants and spoke of the use of barbed wire in one facility.

Pure hyperbole designed to further the left’s effort to use lies and hate to scuttle the Trump administration’s plan to secure the border and bring about immigration reform.

I am confident in saying that Harris never visited the facility when it was set up by the Obama administration; when illegals were parceled-out unwittingly to a number of states.

Appropriately, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro refused to allow Harris to bloviate and reminded us that a million child separation cases flowed through Harris’ office during her seven-year tenure as California’s attorney general.

Pirro was speaking from her own experience; three years as a Westchester County NY judge and 11 years as the country attorney general,where she, too, handled child separation issues.

AN ASIDE: Perhaps you haven’t heard about Harris’ response when the left-leaning Ellen DeGeneres asked her, “If you had to be stuck on an elevator with either President Trump, Vice President Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?”

Assuming she chose President Trump (she didn’t pick one), she paused for a second, and then said, “Does one of us have to come out alive?

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL – Missouri’s Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is incidentally up for re-election in 2018, praised Harris as a “leader” in the party’s effort to form “an immigration policy that is true to the heritage of this country, and not to the misguided ideas of this president.”

Exactly what does that mean, Claire?

McCaskill has said she wants to work with Republicans on their immigration compromise bills and stressed her desire to “secure the border.” Harris, on the other hand, has been one of Chuck Schumer’s outspoken opponents of Republican immigration legislation and recently called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen.

Harris supported the action of the Oakland mayor who warned residents of impending ICE raids and believes that California’s declaration of itself as a sanctuary state “represents the future” on immigration policy.

MEDIA HYSTERIA – After commenting about Rachel Maddow’s recent “pathetic performance” on MSNBC while reporting on the separation of the children of illegals crossing our southern border, I came across an interesting accounting in an American Thinker piece, “Why mainstream media hysteria is increasing,” by Thomas Lifson.

“A cynic (like me) would argue that the tears were artificial, intentionally forced out of tear ducts and emotions faked,” writes Lifson, “Maybe so, but this then raises the question of why they felt driven to such emotional manipulation of the audience.”

I was also reminded of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s over-the-top tearful remarks about the president’s immigration ban in January; a far cry from President Obama’s occasional casual wipe of a tear with a single finger.

But back to the media. Many of you will recall Walter Cronkite’s professional on-air reporting the death of President Kennedy. Reporting from the CBS newsroom in shirtsleeves, Cronkite controlled his emotions and calmly told of the president’s passing while removing his horned-rimmed glasses.

In his explanation of the hysteria gripping the mainstream media, Lifson points to “the political rise, election, and continuing success of Donald Trump, currently presiding over the best economic times since the Reagan administration.

“Trump violates all the political norms that they learned, embraced, and enforced in their own rise to media prominence,” Lifson adds. He also believes that the media perceives that they have lost the ability to shape public perception, as the majority of the public no longer trusts or believes what they have to say.

Lifson reminds readers that the Knight Foundation and Gallup polls reveal that 62 percent of Americans believe coverage is biased and that nearly half is inaccurate. “Not exactly a ringing endorsement of media integrity,” writes Lifson.

SPEAKING OF THE MEDIA – Unbelievably, the liberal New York Times published a piece, “As Critics Assail Trump, His Supporters Dig In Deeper,” in which Jeremy W. Peters wrote of the undying support of the president among supporters revealed in a number of interviews.

Gina Anders, 46, a Republican from suburban Loudoun County, Virginia, with a law degree and a business career described reactions from the president’s critics as “overblown,” some of whom equated the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children and parents to history’s greatest atrocities. “It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more,” Anders told Peters

Describing the existence of something like a bonding experience with the president, Peters noted that when he asked, “How can you possibly support this man?, there was a “resilience (that) suggests a level of unity among Republicans that could help mitigate Mr. Trump’s low overall ratings and aid his party’s chances of keeping control of the House of Representatives in November.”

“It’s just incredible what the nation is trying to do to disrupt this president and his agenda,” Jeff Butts, 56, of Leesburg, Virginia told Peters.

Judy Brana, 66, a retired music and art teacher from St. Cloud, Minnesota, drove two and a half hours to attend the president’s rally in Duluth. “I don’t have friends anymore since I switched parties … friends I’ve had for 40 years,“ she told Peters.

Despite the continued support of Trump, Lifson believes that “as the midterm election nears and the fantasy of a blue wave diminishes in prospect, expect to see even more hysteria.”

And that will include the New York Times.

           May God bless the United States of America