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

THE PATHETIC MEDIA continues to do embarrassing things, but it doesn’t seem to bother those in the “profession.”

Jessica Kwong, a Newsweek reporter covering the Trump administration, wrote that the president was “tweeting and golfing” rather than visiting our troops.  She was fired, but her editor has apparently escaped punishment.

The president had a wonderful tweet in response: “I thought Newsweek was out of business.”

Then there were those in the leftist TV networks, who are simply incapable of recognizing anything positive about President Trump.  On MSNBC, Stephanie Ruhle referred to the president’s trip to Afghanistan as a “photo op.”

She asked Washington Post White House correspondent Anne Gearan, “Given the impeachment battle that’s going on, the president is under attack in all sorts of ways, are we going to see more overseas trips that give him these kind of photo-op scenarios?” She obviously knows he is scheduled to attend a NATO meeting in Europe soon.

HOW MANY OF YOU caught the statement by former Democrat Congresswoman Jane Harman on Fox News Sunday in which she said “President Trump’s policies make it more likely that ISIS will emerge in Europe.”  Like that’s on us.  What is Europe doing to stop this?  We cannot even get European countries to take back their nationals who were imprisoned as ISIS fighters.

Of course, the left-leaning host Chris Wallace didn’t challenge her statement. While no longer in Congress, Harman is still a Swamp dweller, always willing to cite her views in opposition to President Trump.

THE ‘NO MALARKEY’ BUS TOUR in Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign will take him on an 800-mile trip thorough rural Iowa.  Some 200 supporters were on hand in Council Bluffs to see him off.

For the benefit of people under 60 years of age, “malarkey” was often used to describe meaningless talk or nonsense.  Biden’s campaign advisors probably thought a definition was necessary, so they had it painted on the bus.

The social media was filled with Twitterers who had fun responding to @JoeBiden about its use.

Digital Paul wrote @PaulCook: “OMG, your bus says malarkey?!? What is this the 50’s?”

My favorite was written by Oliver K. @Mr. Kloshov: “”What, was ‘Tippecanoe and Biden Too’ already played out?”

Then there was the tweet from Dusty @DustinGiebel: “Jesus.  Trump’s gonna be president forever.”

WISCONSIN UNINTERESTED IN IMPEACHMENT, the Washington Free Beacon newsletter reported this past week.  “Everything they say, it’s so repetitive.  To me, it’s like they’re beating their heads against the wall,” a retired factory worker and Trump supporter told the Associated Press.

Trump won Wisconsin, a key swing state, and its 10 electoral votes in 2016.

MONEYBAGS MIKE BLOOMBERG, the sometime Republican, sometime Democrat, was greeted by two polls that suggest he’s already in trouble, according to Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner.

According to a Morning Consult survey of 5,000 on November 26, 2019, Bloomberg is “the most disliked candidate in the race,” putting him at the bottom of those who can beat President Trump.  And, Gallup pegged him as the least electable of all the major candidates.

OUR UNINFORMED ELECTORATE continues to confound me.  Watching Fox’s Jesse Watters interview people on the street about Thanksgiving, Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower, and the native Americans was distressing.

I’ve heard that just one in three Americans can actually pass the U. S. citizenship test, which asks the most basic questions about our history and about our system of government, according to a study by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

It’s no wonder that young people performed the worst on the test, with today’s history books passing over much of our history.  We are tearing apart our history over political correctness.  Removing statues of famous military heroes of the past.

And we wonder why so many young Americans say they would rather live under socialism than capitalism with so little understanding of what they would mean in reality.  Could it be that those entrepreneurs who helped build this country are not covered in our history books today?

Nearly three quarters of respondents incorrectly identified, or were unsure, which states comprised the 13 colonies.

The study also revealed that 12 percent thought Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War.  Only 24 percent could currently identify one thing Benjamin Franklin was famous for, with 37 percent believing he invented the light bulb.  And, while it was a small percentage, some thought the cause of the Cold War was climate change.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who has been worried that schools aren’t teaching enough American history, recently said that FBI Director Christopher Wray told her that many incoming FBI agents are so young, they don’t know what happened on September 11, 2001.

AREN’T YOU GETTING TIRED of the party spokespersons and pundits who begin their statements with, “Look, let me be clear … “and end with,“… right?”

May God continue to bless the United States of America.