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

HAVE YOU NOTICED how House manager Adam Schiff continues to misquote the president from the Zelensky phone call, repeating the line “do me a favor” and follows with the ridiculous statement that he said this for “personal and political gain,” because he was concerned with the candidacy of Joe Biden?  How laughable.  Schiff & Co. embarrassingly say that the president is “cheating” and attempting to “rig” the 2020 election, while they want him removed from ballots just months away from a presidential election.  Desperation.

The president’s actual request was “do us a favor,” as his supporters have come to expect in his effort to put America First, “us” meaning the United States.

The devious Schiff & Co. conveniently drop derogatory lines and words about President Trump in their answers to questions, including “dig up dirt” (a lie), “shake down,” “scheme,” “corrupt,” “got caught” and “extortion,” all designed to paint him as an unsavory individual, a “danger” to our democracy.

WOULD YOU CAMP OUT for 29 hours in cold weather for the opportunity to attend a rally for any of the Democrat presidential candidates?

No, you wouldn’t, but Jody Sexton tweeted @SextonJody: “Trump Rally in NJ was AMAZING. Camped out for 29 hours met some wonderful people who love this country and our President.”

Interestingly, President Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, announced that 158,632 people requested tickets, of which there were 92,841 signups.  Although 73,482 voters were identified, 10.4 percent didn’t vote in 2016.

Katie Pavlich, writing in Townhall, noted that 26.3 percent of those in attendance were Democrats.

NOBODY’S ABOVE THE LAW – With the impeachment trial now in process, I challenge you to determine how many times you have heard that statement.

It sounds good when you are the accuser, but they’re just words in search of facts to prove someone guilty. Think about how those words were used with members of the Obama administration, with the actions of Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Lois Lerner, Hillary Clinton and the President Obama, himself, to no end.

Hillary Clinton is again being cited as someone who is above the law, according to Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media, who reports that she has twice refused to accept the $50 million lawsuit being served by Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard.

Clinton has called Gabbard a “Russian asset,” and has refused to retract her statement.

Gabbard’s attorney, Brian Dunne, told the New York Post that Clinton’s staff twice snubbed a process server attempting to deliver the defamation lawsuit.

The Secret Service agents at the Clinton Chappaqua, New York home turned the process server away and instructed him to serve it at the office of her lawyer, David Kendall.  When the server attempted to serve the lawsuit there, he was told that he was unable to accept it on Clinton’s behalf.

Just think about the times Hillary has escaped indictment, the mishandling of classified documents being perhaps the most egregious.  Missing, of course, is judgement on the millions of dollars contributed to the Clinton Foundation by those who sought access to her and the White House and how contributions dropped perceptibly after her defeat in the 2016 election.

TRUMP WASN’T THE ONLY ONE to delay aid to a country.  It was also done by Presidents Bush and Obama.  Anti-Trumpers cite that he didn’t inform Congress of his actions as did Obama.  By now they should know that President Trump follows his own foreign policy under the Constitution.

HOW EMBARRASSING – Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin blogged @JRubinBlogger: “Can you imagine if Sekulow and Cipollone had to try a case in front of a real judge?  Hahahahahahahah.”

Thanks to Heritage Foundation legal analyst Amy Swearer, who noted Rubin’s jump to be critical without verifying facts.  Swearer wrote @AmySwearer: “Can you imagine not bothering to do a basic Google search before tweeting this, only to find out from your ratio that Cipollone spent two decades litigating complex cases for major law firms, and Sekulow is something like 9 for 12 in front of the Supreme Court.”

GOVERNMENT UNION MEMBERSHIP fell again in 2019, a 20-year low. Workers in public-sector now number approximately seven million, a drop of nearly 100,000.  The percentage of government workers belonging to unions has dropped to 33.6 percent, according to Steven Malanga at City Journal.

Even in the most heavily unionized, labor-friendly states have seen sharp declines in unionization.  Government-union membership in California fell by 164,000 between 2009 and 2018. New York has lost 123,000 union members over the same period, while Illinois has lost 45,000, New Jersey, 42,000 and Connecticut, 13,000.

MEANWHILE, the Democrat-led House is set to vote on legislation to override the 27 states that have given workers a right to work with being forced to join a union or to give it a cut of their paycheck.

Virginia Democrat Bobby Scott argues that such right to work laws are unfair and the workers that back collective bargaining, necessitating his bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.

AND SADLY, the National Education Association teacher’s union, during its annual conference in Houston, has endorsed abortion as a new “business item.”  Because the NEA claims that it does not have a pro-abortion policy, this endorsement comes under the title New Business Item 56.

Collecting nearly $400 million from American educators in 2018, the politically active NEA spent $70 million on politics and lobbying in 2017 and 2018.

With this news, I was reminded of statement made by a retiring NEA executive that I shared with you on October 29, 2019.  In it, he described why the NEA has been such an effective organization:

“It is not because of creative ideas.  It is not because of the merit of our position. It is not because we care about children.  It is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.

“NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power and we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe we are the union that can effectively represent them: the union that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”

              May God continue to bless the United States of America.