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

I’VE HAD IT UP TO HERE with the anti-Trumpers who are critical of the president giving Kim Jung Un “legitimacy” by stepping across the Korean DMZ and posing for pictures with him. And, oh my God, how could the president tell the dictator he was “honored” to do so? Kim is a monster with no concern for human rights.

As I have written earlier, President Trump has a different approach to diplomacy. If he has given Kim “legitimacy,” that’s all. Denuclearization is priority one.

Many of the key countries around the world have dictators and human rights deficiencies – China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia.  Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman were photographed with Josef Stalin, who it is estimated was responsible for some 20 million deaths. And, consider President Obama’s pal in Cuba, where hundreds are imprisoned for their political beliefs.

 

WHILE THE DEMS TOUT MEDICARE-FOR-ALL, a broad working group of conservatives have been meeting quietly for 18 months to conceive a health care insurance choices proposal. You may recall President Trump talk about a new health insurance plan during one of his rallys. “It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America,” he tweeted on April 1, 2019.

The Democrat’s Medicare-for-All proposal would be costly and would require many to relinquish their private insurance plans in favor of this taxable government-run system which would result in healthcare rationing and long waits for appointments. And it puts the viability of hospitals in question, we have learned.

Research by the Heritage Foundation reveals a predisposed dislike of Medicare-for-All as 76 percent of Americans oppose plans that would decrease choices. And, 62 percent oppose the elimination of private insurance. Voters (69 percent) also oppose Medicare-for-All because it would require an increase in taxes.

Meanwhile, Trump’s Health and Human Services agency recently dramatically expanded health care choices for those who have limited insurance options. HRA’s will allow an employer to give a worker tax-exempt dollars to buy a health insurance plan in the individual market, limited under ObamaCare.

Kramerontheright believes the plan to offer choice, while eliminating government interference, will be a slam dunk over Medicare-for-All and should be unveiled before 2020.

BOZO BILL DE BLASIO, one of the Democrat candidates for president, supports the federal government paying for gender reassignment surgery under the proposed Medicare-for-All plan, because “we have to respect everyone’s medical needs.”

Time to bow out gracefully, Mayor.

KAMALA HARRIS, who received two board assignments while dating former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, can’t be too happy with his statement in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that “no Democrat candidate in the 2020 race is capable of beating President Trump right now.”

STEPHANIE GRISHAM’S APPOINTMENT as the new White House press secretary brought something interesting to light when it was revealed that she would continue to serve as press secretary to First Lady Melania Trump. Not only has Melania Trump had just 12 staffers compared to Michelle Obama’s 24, the president is saving some $20 million in White House Staff salaries by reducing the size of government there. In addition, you may recall that President Trump donates his salary to a worthy cause each quarter.

THREE CHEERS FOR ARIZONA GOVERNOR DOUG DUCEY for telling Nike to go fly a kite; they need not consider any longer a planned facility in his state. The decision follows the sports gear company’s decision to cave to Colin Kaepernick by calling off the planned production of shoes bearing replicas of the 13-star Betsy Ross flag.

The governor instructed the Arizona Commerce Authority to withhold the financial incentive funds earmarked for Nike, and said, “Arizona’s economy is doing just fine without Nike. We don’t need to suck up to companies that consciously denigrate our nation’s history.”

Unbelievably, Kaepernick informed Nike with his concerns about the racist implications of the Betsy Ross shoe.

WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF PATRIOTISM, have you heard that the resident bartender in the U.S. House of Representatives has invited the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team to visit the House?

I thought it was a disgrace that the team’s leader, who has refused to sing the National Anthem, unwilling to place her hand over her heart, has openly displayed a disrespect for the presidency by saying, “I’m not going to the f***ing White House.” I chose to no longer cheer for the team.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris saddled up to AOC’s bar and invited the team to visit the U.S. Senate, too

TAXPAYERS SPEAK UP ON STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS – The Wall Street Journal’s letters to the editor column highlighted reader response to those Democrats who are pandering for votes by offering plans to forgive their student loans.

“I helped my son repay $40,000 of college loads early,” wrote Dale Henn of St. Louis, Missouri. ‘Would Sen. Sanders please add this $40,000 to the student debt he proposes to forgive, or help me understand why my son should not have his student debt forgiven because he chose to repay it early? Why should others who have repaid all or some of their student debt have less than the full amount borrowed forgiven and returned to them?”

Robin Rose of Corvallis, Oregon writes, “My personal surveys of real people in grocery stores, airplanes, airports and motels reveal that virtually no one believes college debt should be forgiven. As one guy put it: ‘I never even tried to go to college, so why should I pay off their student debts?’”

AND FINALLY, Stanley Spatz of Hollywood, Florida writes, “If I, as a candidate, offer a student $50 to vote for me, I am guilty of bribery (and FEC laws) and could go to jail. But if I offer a million students $50,000 in free tuition, I could be president.”

   May God bless the United States of America.