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

THE HEARING – Adam Schiff, the judge and jury of the House impeachment inquiry, claims that the Biden corruption and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election have no relevance in the inquiry.

That should surprise those who have been following the testimony, because the president’s request for Ukraine to investigate corruption, and specifically publicly announce same, has consumed much of the testimony time.

DO YOU NEED MORE PROOF? – For those readers who have been following the impeachment inquiry hearings, do you need any further proof that draining the swamp is of utmost urgency?

A SUGGESTION TO PRESIDENT TRUMP on quid pro quos.  I fully support your America First credo, and your effort to stop giveaways to countries that don’t like us, and vote against us in the United Nations.  Some of these countries don’t hesitate to ask for aid.

I have stated before that I expect you to always have strings attached – a quid pro quo – when aid is provided.  That could be in a variety of forms that would benefit the United States.

On October 17, 2019, when White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told the press, “Get over it … it happens all the time,” I assumed he was referring to routine reciprocal “back scratching” between the U.S. and other countries.

To avoid another brouhaha, like the one over the Ukraine “favor” request, I suggest you publish an executive order outlining your intention to assure America’s interest is provided for in one manner or another when we provide aid to a country.  It just makes sense.

RELEASE OF THE DOJ IG REPORT I can now say with some confidence is indeed imminent.  I say that since it has been announced that Michael Horowitz has agreed to testify before Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Senate Judiciary Committee on December 11, 2019.  I cannot conceive of Horowitz agreeing to testify before he has released his report.

ATTENTION ARIZONA REPUBLIC – The candidate you hope to unseat Republican Sen. Martha McSally – Democrat Mark Kelly – who has pledged not to accept donations from corporate PACs, has received tens of thousands of dollars from Democrat leadership PACs that are heavily funded by corporate entities.

Earlier this month, Kelly said, “Corporate PAC money in our political system makes it so hard for people to get elected to Congress to do what is right instead of what some company wants.  That’s why I’m not taking corporate PAC money.”

The Washington Beacon Newsletter reported that Kelly has received more than $55,000 during the third quarter, according to his campaign’s most recent filing.

I will be watching for your story in the Republic, so his lie can be seen by Arizona’s voters who still read your paper.

NO ACCESS TO HILLARY’S WHITE HOUSE resulted in the Clinton Foundation losing almost $33 million since Donald Trump defeated her in 2016.

Newly released tax records show that the foundation reported a lost of $16.1 million in 2017 and $17 million in 2018.

Total revenue reported for 2018 was just $30 million, less than a tenth of what was received while she was secretary of state, according to Steve Watson in Summit News.

INDEPENDENT OPPOSITION TO IMPEACHMENT inquiry has jumped 10 percentage points to 47 percent, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll released Tuesday.  Meanwhile, support for the inquiry fell seven points to 40 percent.

BERNIE SANDERS repeatedly says that the U.S. is the only major country that doesn’t provide guaranteed health care as a right, and the other Democrat candidates continue to push Medicare for All, but when bad health care news emanates from other countries, their complicit left-leaning media, ignore it.

Thanks to Deane Waldman, MD MBA, writing in The Federalist, where solid reporting is common, he writes of England’s single-payer health care system – the National Health Service – issuing a report documenting repeated failures to provide timely care.

“Delays before seeing a physician have increased, wait times in emergency rooms have lengthened, and most ominous, Britons who could have been saved if they had received care in time are dying of cancer,” he writes.

While stating that single-payer is exactly the wrong way to provide health care access, he sees Medicare for All as another “fix,” and Washington’s track record is one of unfulfilled promises and fixes fail.

But this isn’t really news.  It’s just an update.  Referring to my files, I noted that in June 2019 there was a shortage of physicians in the U.K., and that in the last six years, 585 surgical practices have closed, affecting 1.9 million patients, in a report by Ben Johnson of the Acton Institute.

The UK lost 441 general practitioners last year and had 11,576 unfilled vacancies for doctors as of June 2018.

May God continue to bless the United State