Here are my observations and opinions on selected news items of the day.
WHILE OBAMA HOLDOVERS like former CIA Director John Brennan, who know better, accuse President Trump of treason, a charge that could call for his execution, it encourages common people, like Suzanne Gagnon, to write a letter to the editor of the Denver Post demanding his execution.
If it walks like a traitor, and talks like a traitor, and acts like a traitor … it is a traitor,” she wrote. Gagnon did not hesitate to suggest what should be done with “traitors” like Trump, as she drew a comparison to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who were executed.
When approached concerning their willingness to publish such a letter by the Washington Free Beacon, the Denver Post defended publishing the letter, arguing that Gagnon did not call for Trump’s execution.
What has happened to journalism?
I LIKE LARRY SABATO, the political analyst at the University of Virginia, but his prediction that “The Democrats now look like soft favorites to win a House majority with a little more than 100 days to go,” is not believable. He projected earlier that Democrats have a better than 50 percent chance, but Tuesday morning he moved ratings for 17 House races in favor of the Democrats.
AN ASIDE: I recall Sabato telling us of the “hundreds of polls” that gave him “a pretty good sense” that his “odds are very good” that Hillary Clinton would garner 322 electoral votes to Donald Trump’s 216 in the 2016 presidential election.
(Where’s Waldo graphic courtesy of You Tube)
THE HECK WITH WHERE’S WALDO, where’s Jeff … Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Have you seen or heard of him recently?
His IG, Michael Horowitz, released his long-awaited report on his investigation, FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page testified before Congress, and his department finally complied with the demand for the FISA document on Carter Page. And there hasn’t been a peep from Sessions. MIA
Well, curiosity got the best of me and I learned that he’s been on a speaking tour; most recently at the Summer Conference for the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia on July 22, 2018, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on July 23, 2018, and the Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit on July 24, 2018.
We didn’t hear his comments on the IG report because he made them during a low-profile speech to law enforcement people at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“We’re not going to be defensive,” he said, “We’re going to confront any problems and we’re going to deal with them one by one in a proper, fair and appropriate way.”
Whoa … that was powerful! No wonder he was pleased with FBI Director Christopher Wray’s response to the report. Sessions said he was “real proud” of Wray’s remark that he takes the report “very seriously and we accept its findings and recommendations.”
IF YOU MISSED THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH at Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri today, you missed a touching segment during which he honored 94-year-old veteran sergeant of World War II, Allen Jones. I highly recommend that you take the time to view it by clicking here.
May God bless the United States of America.
