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

“IT’S A SAD DAY FOR OUR COUNTRY,” said Nancy Pelosi Tuesday after announcing that the House would proceed with an impeachment inquiry on President Trump.  Yes, it’s a sad day because she caved to her committee chairs by allowing them to proceed without taking a vote of House members.

Note:  Kramerontheright will be taking a brief hiatus while I take a few days of personal time away from my computer to visit an ill family member.

AND HAVE YOU HEARD that former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who plans to challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries, has accused the president of treason.

“It couldn’t be clearer. That is treason. It’s treason pure and simple, and the penalty for treason, under the U.S. code, is death.  That’s the only penalty,“ he insisted, with no knowledge of the facts, of course, on the president’s conversation with the president of Ukraine.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, who has been pressuring Nancy Pelosi to give members the go-ahead to impeach the president, has been insisting he be charged under the emoluments clause, of all things.  Meanwhile, she is ignoring a July 2017 tax warrant under which she owes $1,618.36 in unpaid corporate taxes.

“THE TRAGEDY OF GRETA THUNBERG” is the way The Federalist headlined senior editor David Harsanyi’s piece describing the impact of climate change scare mongers on the public.

“Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, safest and most peaceful era humans have ever known,” writes Harsanyi. “She is one of the luckiest people ever to have lived.

“In a just world, Thunberg would be at the United Nations thanking capitalist countries for bequeathing her this remarkable inheritance.  Instead, she, like millions of other indoctrinated kids her age, as if they live in a uniquely broken world on the precipice of disaster.  This is a tragedy.”

At least Thunberg admitted to being among the lucky ones in her speech before delegates of the United Nations, but she felt compelled to blame them for the state of climate change today.

“You all come to us young people for hope,” she said. “How dare you?  You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, an yet I’m one of the lucky ones.  People are suffering.  People are dying.  Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.  I want you to panic.  I want you to feel the fear I feel every day,” she added.

It’s sad to see that Thunberg, and many youngsters around the world, have been taken in by years of misinformation spewed by environmentalists and pushed out by a compliant media and the leftist politicians.

It’s sad that adults, too, have been taken in by the end of the world as we know it threats.  Nearly 30 percent of voters now believe that it’s “at least somewhat likely” that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out over the next 10-15 years, according to Rasmussen Reports.  And half of voters under 35 believe it is likely we are on the edge of extinction.

“Is there any wonder why our youngest generation has a foreboding sense of doom?” asked Harsanyi.

In an unusual message to children published by Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” he opens with “I’m sorry adults have frightened you about climate change and how it might affect your future.

“You might be less afraid if you knew some facts that adults intentionally do not explain to you,” he says as he sets the record straight on nuclear power. “Nuclear energy used to be dangerous, back in the olden days.  Today’s nuclear power plants have killed zero people, and are considered the safest form of energy in the world.

“More people have died installing solar panels and falling off roofs than have died from nuclear power problems anywhere in the world for the past few decades.  Nuclear energy is the obvious way to address climate change.”

VICTIM OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS – Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire and best-selling author, will no longer be a guest on Fox News Channel – at least for the time being – after referring to Greta Thunberg as a “mentally ill child” on The Story with Martha MacCallum Monday.

While he was criticized by Democrat Chris Hahn, saying “how dare you,” and “shame on you,” Knowles said he was not attacking the child – “I’m not, I’m attacking the left for exploiting a mentally ill child.”

Refusing to apologize, Knowles said, “she is mentally ill.  She has autism, she has obsessive-compulsive disorder, she has selective mutism, she had depression.”

Later in a tweet @michaeljknowles he wrote, “Her mother wrote a book about her mental issues.  There is nothing shameful about living with mental disorders. What is shameful is exploiting a child – particularly a child with mental disorders – to advance your political agenda.

“In 2018, she described her own illnesses in a Tedx Talk, where she explained that she fell into a depression and became ill when she was eleven years old,” saying ‘I stopped eating.  In two months, I lost ten kilos of weight,’” writes Matt Margolis in PJ Media.

“It’s reasonable to believe that Thunberg is not properly equipped to handle her newfound fame,“ wrote Margolis. “Her personal and mental health is likely to suffer as a result of this exploitation, and, I suspect, it will be worse once she’s outgrown her usefulness to the cause.”

BLOGGER JON GABRIEL, humorously tweeted on Thunberg @exjon: “I’m so old, I remember when the press loved criticizing 16-year-olds,” attaching a photo of Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington High School student, confronted by a native American.

FINALLY, President Trump was unusually restrained in his tweet following Thunberg’s appearance at the UN, saying @realDonaldTrump: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.  So nice to see.”

LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY comes from the colorful Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana: “I recommend that my friends across the aisle fill out a “hurt feelings” form and get on with government.

                 May God continue to bless the United States of America.