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

UNBELIEVEABLY PARTISAN – Elvia Diaz, a member of the left-leaning editorial staff of the Arizona Republic, known as the “Arizona Repugnant” to some, is truly an embarrassment to the Fourth Estate

Under a headline that clearly invites incivility: “Incivility has its place in these divisive, partisan times of ours,” Diaz wrote: “Are conservatives really that scandalized over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s war with civility.” Suddenly, they’re horrified that Clinton sided with Democratic “angry mobs” waging war over Trump’s Republican Party that’s ripping the nation to pieces. I’m all for civility and finding common ground. But fighting back – with anything and everything – is fitting when you’re being incessantly attacked.”

Diaz is so out of touch. Yes, we’re disgusted with Clinton’s position, but her remarks came long after the likes of Maxine Waters, Cory Booker and a host of other Democrats made incivility a common response to anything and everything, to borrow a phrase from Diaz.

The obviously biased Diaz refers to “Trump’s Republican Party ripping the nation to pieces.” If ever a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome could more clearly be diagnosed. In the president’s list of nearly 300 accomplishments over the past 20 months, Diaz is witnessing former President Obama’s policies being systematically dismantled as President Trump strives to make America great again.

Finally, the “Democratic angry mobs” Diaz refers to are anything but democratic; they are Democrat angry mobs.

COINCIDENCE? – A letter to the editor in the October 14, 2018 edition of the Arizona Republic by Joe Heintz of Surprise, Arizona carried the headline, “Climate-change Chicken Littles are at it again.” I found it strikingly similar to the lead-in to my October 12, 2018 piece here – “The Chicken Little crowd of climate change is at it again.” Of course, headlines are written by the paper, not the letter-writer.

Heintz supports my belief, and that of Ph.D meteorologist Ryan Maue, that the hurricanes are not the result of climate change.

HE WAS APPALLED when he saw the video of a mob of Antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors attacking a car driven by a 74-year-old resident, causing a thousand dollars of damage to his car, but Portland, Oregon’s Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler admitted that he supported the police who watched from a distance. He has ordered an investigation of the incident.

Reminds me of the liberal mayor of Baltimore, who ordered her police to stand down as the mob destroyed and looted businesses in April 2015.

FLASHBACKS – The Media Research Center noted the anniversary of two media bias stories you may have forgotten. On October 11, 2012, ABC‘s Barbara Walters endorsed the Castro dictatorship, saying, “If literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on earth.” Of course, if your yardstick for freedom is freedom, Cuba doesn’t do so well, does it Barbara?

Two years later, on October 6, 2014, MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough concluded that global warming was a greater threat to civilization than Muslim extremism.

RAISE YOUR HAND if you think Jeff Flake actually gives a damn about the future of the Republican Party responded the blog Twitchy to Flake’s tweet, “I fear for the future of the Republican Party.”

“Says a man who no longer seems to have a future within it,” commented Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume.

I HAD ABOUT ENOUGH of post-Kavanaugh confirmation thought – Monday morning quarterbacking – but when I saw Peggy Noonan’s column in the weekend Wall Street Journal, I dipped in to read her comments.

“A significant number of senators no longer even pretend to have class or imitate fairness,” Noonan commented. I agreed and decided to continue reading.

She almost lost me when she stated. “My bias in cases of sexual abuse and assault, and it is a bias, in favor of the woman,” but when she continued with “It was Ms. Ford’s story that was compelling, but in need of support or collaboration. It did not come.”

Noonan was clearly taken by Sen. Susan Collins’ speech, while she belittled the words of Sen. Cory Booker, reminding her readers that “Spartacus was a hero, not a malignant buffoon.”

“We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy,” she noted and recalled Collins reference the gang rape charge as an “outlandish allegation” with no credible evidence. At this point it was understood the Democrats had gone too far, according to Noonan.

Addressing the “destructive theatrics we now see gripping parts of the Democrat Party,” Noonan advises their leaders to stand up to the screamers, but believes they haven’t because they are afraid of them. “Stand up to your base,” she says, “it’s leading you nowhere good. And you know it.”

I’m glad I stopped to read it.

WHY IS IT THAT SOME WOMEN who have a national voice, like those who are talking heads on television, seem to think other women cannot think for themselves? What makes them experts?

Take Kirsten Powers, for instance. She claims not to be surprised women think differently about white patriarchy, but wants you to know about the need of some people to be angry and fed up with white women defending and enabling the white patriarchy.

During the Kavanaugh hearings, it was Powers who felt the need to reveal that she, too, was once sexually assaulted when she passed out drunk at a party as a 15-year-old. She said it was her fault, but what was her purpose in telling the story?

On the mob issue, Powers agreed that it wasn’t okay for Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife to be harassed in a restaurant, but foolishly added that if she was a senator she would expect that from time to time … “it’s called democracy.”

She tweeted later said, “not sure 6-7 people constitute a mob,” adding “Def don’t agree a few women confronting a senator in an office building elevator is a mob or even a problem.” Powers wasn’t there. She referred to them as “peaceful protestors.”

Thank goodness Powers’ voice is heard by a true minority of women as a CNN contributor.