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

HOW ABOUT THIS – Tucked away on page six of the 55-page single-spaced House Judiciary Committee’s Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, we learn that Congress will be permitted to read what was on the president’s mind.

“Fourth, we address whether the House must accept at face value President Trump’s claim that his motives were not corrupt.  In short, no.  When the House probes a president’s state of mind, its mandate is to find the facts.  That means evaluating the account of the president’s motives to see if it rings true.  The question is not whether the president’s conduct could have resulted from permissible motives.  It is whether the president’s real reasons, the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate.  Where the House discovers persuasive evidence of corrupt wrongdoing, it is entitled to rely upon that evidence to impeach.”

Should you have an interest in reading the entire document, CLICK HERE.

TO IMPEACH OR NOT IMPEACH – “Maybe Democrats don’t want an impeachment,” writes blogger Don Surber.

You would think that Democrat Majority Whip James Clyburn would be actively drumming up votes to impeach, but during an appearance on CNN, he said, “This is a vote of conscience.  I do believe when it comes to something as divisive as impeachment, we have to leave members up to their own consciences, their own constituents, and what they think is in the best interest of their love for country.”

“Does he not care enough to lobby for impeachment? To twist arms to get it to pass? At best that is a mixed message,” writes Surber.

 LET’S HEAR IT FOR ANTHONY HOPKINS, the versatile actor, who, during a conversation with fellow actor Brad Pitt for Interview magazine, explained why he seldom … actually, never … talks about politics … and why he’s not a big fan of other actors talking about politics either.  In short, he said, “actors are pretty stupid,” he noted, according to Michael Van Der Galien in PJ Media.

“People ask me questions about present situations in life, and I say, I don’t know. I’m just an actor.  I don’t have any opinions.  My opinion is not worth anything,” said Hopkins.

POOR GRETA THUNBERG – During the UN climate talks in Madrid, the 16-year-old Swedish activist, who has been warning of weather-caused disasters around the globe, had to admit that her school climate strikes have “achieved nothing” because greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise.

While claiming opponents are trying to “silence” her and her supporters, she said people are currently “suffering and dying” due to effects of supposed man-made climate change. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing.  We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”

Showing a great deal of arrogance for a young person, Thunberg said “My message is that we’ll be watching you.  This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here.  I should be back in school.  Yet, you all come to us young people for hope.  How dare you.  You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”

Time to go home, Greta.  John Kerry is taking up your mantle.

THE HATE IN MOTHER PELOSI – While clinging to her phony mantle of Catholicism (abortions okay), Nancy Pelosi claimed that her religion doesn’t recognize hate, and told a reporter she didn’t hate President Trump.

“Perhaps the most telling moment of the last few years – at least psychologically – occurred just the other day when reporter James Rosen asked (her), “Do you hate President Trump,” wrote Roger L. Simon in his Epoch Times piece, “Suppose They Threw an Impeachment and Nobody Came.”

“You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to have seen the defensiveness of the speaker’s response.  It practically hit you in the face,” Simon added.

All this with an election less than a year away. “Was it even remotely necessary?” Simon asks.  Further, he wonders if they go through with the impeachment, but it misfires, fails in the Senate, as it seems likely?  “What then? Trump is reelected but the hate remains, probably increases, even doubles or triples.”

Simon suggests that there is another way. “It’s called saying, ‘no.’ It’s going back to the business of government, passing USMCA, and working on infrastructure. Maybe figuring out a rational immigration system … or doing something serious about all our brothers and sisters overdosing on fentanyl.

“But unfortunately, it’s probably to late.  Maybe we should change name of the country to the United States of Can’t Stand Prosperity.”

NO SURPRISE – Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who is constantly asked how she intends to pay for her socialist schemes, told National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen Garcia that she would commit more funding for Title I or the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with money from defense. “Are we going to spend the money on defense or are we going to spend money on our children?”, adding “c’mon there’s always money.  It’s there.”

So, just when President Trump rebuilds our defense after Barack Obama starved it, Warren wants to return it to its previous dangerous level.

MY LAUGH-OF-THE-DAY comes from a Tweet by CNN’s S.E. Cupp @secupp: “Remember when Bloomberg demanded a third term as mayor, and got it? Trump will do the same.  Beware, the autocratic impulses.”

Of course, that’s “pure insanity,” says Michael Van Der Galien in PJ Media, however, with the Democrats limited knowledge of the Constitution as they pursue the impeachment with unbelievable grounds, they probably think he could legally go for a third term.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.