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

NOW, AS THE SMOKE CLEARS following Attorney General Bill Barr’s release of the Mueller Report that declared there was no collusion by the Trump team, or any American, with Russians, Democrats and their compliant media are aggressively pumping their bellows (pontificating) to make fire of smoke over obstruction of justice.

Within minutes after receiving his copy of the report, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was huffing and puffing before a phalanx of lowered microphones that he was going to subpoena Barr for the complete unredacted report despite his knowledge that the release of grand jury testimony is illegal.

On Friday, Nadler issued his subpoena with a demand that the full report be forthcoming by May 1, 2019. Barr called it “premature and unnecessary,” as he has said that he would provide a copy with fewer redactions for review by Nadler’s House Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsay Graham’s Senate Judiciary Committee and the so-called Gang of Eight legislative leaders.

The left clearly has a goal of stretching the investigation into the 2020 presidential campaign. However, I believe they should be careful what they wish for, because there are two other on-going investigations that will surely identify bad actors in the Obama Deep State accountable for criminal actions. There’s the report of the DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, due in May or June, the report of U.S. Attorney John Huber, who was assigned a specific role by former AG Jeff Sessions.

In addition, Barr shook up “old Washington” recently when he indicated that he would be looking into the activity he referred to as “spying.”

Interestingly, when former DNI James Clapper said the FBI “may have had someone who was talking to them in the (Trump) campaign.” During a May 17, 2018 CNN interview, he said it was “a good thing” there was an FBI informant spying on the Trump campaign.

Given that comment, I found it interesting that Clapper said he found it “stunning and scary” that Barr suggested the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.

You may recall that when the president responded by Twitter that the Obama FBI spied on his campaign, it was met with ridicule.

Incidentally, did you hear that Clapper responded to the “no collusion” finding of the Mueller Report that he now believes Trump is involved in “passive collusion.”

Remember, this is the same Clapper who was accused of lying to Congress during testimony in 2013, insisting that the intelligence community did not collect data on Americans.

Kramerontheright is concerned that Clapper, and fellow intelligence colleague, former CIA Director John Brennan, who used their past positions to gain notoriety as CNN and MSNBC spokesmen, will escape accountability. Despite the fact that their predictions were proven wrong, they and the two TV networks, have shown no embarrassment.

AN INTERESTING SIDEBAR – “There’s the Muellermania paradox – a highly emotional reaction to the way Trump seems to have been highly emotional,” writes Ann Althouse in her blog. She was referring to the president’s remark – “I’m f**ked” – when he learned of the appointment of a special counsel.

“That seems like a perfectly normal reaction to me but a lot of people are hyperventilating about how cahraaazzzeee it is,” Althouse claims.

People who haven’t read the report wouldn’t know that the president added, “Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your presidency. It takes years and years and I won’t be able to do anything. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

And, isn’t that exactly what the Deep State had in mind from the beginning?

As I have continually reminded you here, President Trump comes from the business world, where as the head of his own business he was fully in charge and his staff responded to his direction. Imagine his frustration now as the most powerful man in the world, who is routinely handcuffed.

You just have to admire what he has accomplished while the opposition was trying to undermine his presidency.

They said he was a puppet of Putin and colluded with the Russians – he didn’t. They accused him of obstruction of justice because he said the special counsel was on a witch hunt and he wanted Mueller fired – but he didn’t.

Americans should be relieved, but some of them continue to watch CNN and MSNBC, where their anchors feel cheated by Mueller, and Barr, too. They were sure the president was guilty, and they wanted him guilty … of treason, no less. From “Morning Joe” in the a.m. to Cuomo, Lemon and Maddow in the p.m., it has been non stop for more than two years, and it continues.

I ask you … who’s really dividing the country?

Now they have added Barr to their hate list. “The current progressive effort to demonize attorney general William Barr is creepy,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, noting that he is being accused of being Trump’s hand-picked attorney general. “How odd, all attorneys general are hand-picked.”

DID YOU KNOW that Notre Dame was not only a tourist mecca, but also a revered place of worship? The Associated Press headline about the fire that devastated the Paris cathedral declared that it was first a tourist attraction.

MORE PC CRAZINESS – This time from the sports world. Songstress Kate Smith’s popular rendition of “God Bless America” will no longer be played at home games of the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Yankees.

Why? Because it has been determined that several other songs performed by Smith “contain offensive lyrics that do not reflect our values as an organization,” said a Flyers official. Smith, who was at her peak in the 1940s, sang several songs that had racial and cultural overtones, popular at the time.

The Flyers not only removed her recording from its library of songs played during home games, they draped a statue of the songstress that now stands at XFINITY Live! facing the Wells Fargo Center. It was originally placed outside of the Spectrum in 1987.

Smith’s rendition of the song became a good luck charm for the Flyers during Stanley Cup championship runs in 1973-1974 and 1975-1976.

The Yankees used her song during seventh inning off and on since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. While they have used her recording twice this season, the song is mostly played is an organ version.

Smith’s version of the song will most likely be removed from the musical libraries of sporting organizations across the country.

Sadly, it becomes an ignominious asterisk on a career that spanned several decades for the woman who became the First Lady of Radio.

FINALLY – Those late-night shows – Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon – are also carrying water for the Democrats. A friend sent me a video of former late-night comic Johnny Carson giving his view on politics and comedy. CLICK HERE to see it.

                     May God bless the United State of America.