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

YOU MOST LIKELY DIDN’T WATCH the Democrat “debate” last night, but I thought you should know that CNN did the Dems bidding again, continuing their attack on President Trump.  CNN President Jeff Zucker has a personal vendetta against the president, and has instructed his reporters to push the impeachment theme.

“President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a board in Ukraine, Anderson Cooper said to Apology Joe Biden. “I want to point out there’s no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.”

How’s that for an obvious bias?

DEMOCRATS ARE GENERALLY OPPOSED to religious freedom, but I wonder what they thought of the 30-second commercial by the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring Ron Reagan, the 58-year-old son of former President Ronald Reagan.

“I’m Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist, and I’m alarmed by the intrusions of religion into our secular government,” he said before closing with, “I’m a life-long atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.”  Oh, my.

WHILE ON THE SUBJECT, Democrat candidate Beto O’Rourke, who recently stated that he would not honor the tax-exempt status of religious institutions and churches if elected president, added mosques and black colleges to his list.

ANOTHER DEFENSE EXPERT DISSES BIDEN – Much to the consternation of Washington journalists, former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doesn’t reveal conversations with President Trump, but he does talk about Joe Biden as someone who “ignored reality” in Iraq, wrote Kelly Jane Torrance in the Washington Examiner.

While Biden has been touting that he was “responsible for getting 150,000 combat troops out of Iraq – my son was one of them,” Mattis and other expert believe that decision led to the rise of ISIS.

During a dinner in Baghdad, Mattis tried to convince Biden that Iraq Prime Minister Maliki was untrustworthy, and warned that an early pull out would result in our having to bring troops back in.  He didn’t listen, said Mattis, “he wanted our forces out of Iraq.”

It’s reminiscent of the remarks by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who wrote, “I think he’s (Biden) been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Yet, as you may recall, Barack Obama, a community organizer, wanted Biden on the ticket because of his experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Despite his lack of foreign policy savvy, both Mattis and Gates, however, had kind words about Biden.  “I liked the vice president,” wrote Mattis. “I found him an amiable man.”

“Joe Biden is impossible not to like.  He’s a man you could turn to for help in a personal crisis,” wrote Gates.

PELOSI’S IMPEACHMENT EFFORT has caused a spike in sales of print editions of the U.S. Constitution, according to the NPD Group, responsible for the national count called BookScan, according to Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner.

Interestingly, sales of the U.S. Constitution recently hit a record high under President Trump, jumping 60 percent since becoming president.  Some 275,000 copies were sold in Trump’s first year.  Monthly sales under Trump average 19,800 copies, compared to the average 7,500 under Obama and 5,600 under George W. Bush.

AFTER WATCHING AN INTERVIEW with a Democrat in a diner the morning after the Ohio Democrat “debate,” I was attracted to an article by Jason Williams of the Cincinnati Enquirer about returning home to Ohio’s Trump country.

The individual in the diner, a man who appeared to be in his sixties, was enthralled with Elizabeth Warren, and had her plan to soak the rich and redistribute wealth the middle-class down pat.  I couldn’t believe my ears. Trump has done a great deal for Ohio’s economy.

“I went back home to Ohio’s Trump county.  In Appalachia honest people have hope again,” headlined Williams’ feature.  His assignment was to go back to the place where he grew up in the middle of Ohio’s Appalachian region across the river from West Virginia, talk the people and offer a perspective on the heart of Trump country.

He talked to family, friends, former teachers, coaches, classmates and church members in Gallia County, and more specifically his hometown of Gallipolis.

Trump won Gallia County with 76 percent of the vote, and won 30 of the states 32 counties.  People still support him, but are leery of talking about it, tired of leftist references to them as a bunch of toothless, racist, backwoods rubes.

“Most of them don’t want to be quoted, but every single one of them said the No. 1 thing they like about Trump is he’s focused on jobs.  Nothing about Russia or building walls or locking anyone up,” said Williams.

HAVE YOU HEARD that three of the MOB Squad – Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib – are backing Berne Sanders for president?  How do you suppose he feels about that?  I mean, really.

DEMOCRAT CORY BOOKER was heard saying he was “stunned” that billionaire Tom Steyer will still qualify for the next “debate,” during a clip from the political campaign series, The Circus.  He has contributed some $42 million of his own money to stay in the race, with $26 million paying for 53,000 spots in Iowa and New Hampshire.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.