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

FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE – President Trump defeated Bill Weld with 86 percent of the vote on the Republican side.  With 76 percent of the vote in at 11:20 p.m. ET,  Sanders was declared the Democrat winner with 25.8 percent of the vote.  Buttigieg was in second with 24.3 percent, and Klobuchar surprisingly finished third with 19.8 percent in the Democrat primary.  Of course, those numbers may well change by the time you are reading this.  Democrats Bennet, Yang and Steyer announced that they were pulling out of the race.

Some of the voters interviewed claimed they were still undecided before the polls opened Tuesday morning. One voter actually expressed a fear – yes, a fear – of voting for the wrong candidate … as if it mattered.

KESSLER GETS IT – “Is he a disease or a cure?” writes Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler. “Like hm or hate hm, there’s tons of spilled ink trying to assess President Trump’s governing style.  To me, the key to understanding Trumpism is remembering why he was elected.”

I have often simply stated that Obama was the reason Trump was elected, but Kessler’s view was so creative, I needed to share it with you:

“Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation cause by the prosperity-crushing, speech-inhibiting, nanny state-building, carbon-obsessing, patriarchy-bashing, implicit bias-accusing, tokey-wokey, globalist, swamp-creature governing class – all perfectly embodied by the Democrat 2016 nominee.”

Kessler goes on to review Trump’s accomplishments, foreign and domestic, before concluding with the ideas his potential Democrat nominee foolishly sees as the cure to the disease of Trump – raising taxes, giveaways, derailing the economy and whacking the 96.4 percent of labor market participants who already have jobs.

 DRAINING THE SWAMP, one of President Trump’s announced promises in 2015, continues.  The firing of Lt. Colonel’s Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman, Obama holdovers in the National Security Council, are just two of some 70 positions being eliminated.

Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien is overseeing the cuts of the NSA staff that ballooned by some 200 during Obama’s tenure.

DOUBLE MY PLEASURE – When the arrogant Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut is on the losing side, and the left-leaning Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the right side against him … well, it reminds me of the chewing gum jingle of the 80s.

Blumenthal led a coalition of 186 House members and 29 senators alleging the president has unlawfully profited from foreign patronage at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, in violation of an ethics provision in the Constitution called the emoluments clause.

As I reported earlier, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit on technical grounds, claiming the lawmakers had no basis for the suit.  What I didn’t know at the time was that the judges relied in part on a 2019 Ginsburg opinion.

Blumenthal, known for his calculated remarks on the Senate Judiciary Committee, didn’t hesitate to comment on the decision, further exhibiting his disdain for the president.  “This dismaying decision ads to the already widespread fear that the checks on unbridled presidential power, corruption, and self-enrichment had been seriously undermined,” he declared.

About the decision – “Double your pleasure, double your fun, it’s the right one.”

BLACK SUPPORT FOR TRUMP – “Donald Trump has done more to empower African-Americans than any U. S. president since Abraham Lincoln – and he’s just getting started,” wrote black activist Clarence Henderson in an op-ed in the News-Record Newsletter of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Noting that February is Black History Month, Henderson wrote, “now is an excellent time to reflect on the incredible progress African-Americans have made over the past three years.”

After reviewing in detail the performance of Trump, he said, “for the first time in living memory, this country has a president who is delivering on his promises to black voters – and that’s why we must do everything in our power to ensure that Donald Trump gets four more years in the White House.”

Henderson quoted former NFL player Jack Brewer, once a fundraiser for Obama, who called out the Democrats for paying “lip service” to African-American voters.

“There is an awakening going on right now in our country,” Brewer said.  “I’m going to take the guy who’s actually putting in the policies that are going to make life better for my young black son and my young black daughter, versus somebody who gives my lip service – like, unfortunately, the Democrats have done for our community for years.”

BLOOMBERG BUNGLES BLACK VOTE – When Michael Bloomberg decided to enter the Democrat race for president, he knew he had to clean up a bit of his political history.  In November 2019, he stopped by a Brooklyn church to apologize for his decision as New York’s mayor to support the stop-and-frisk policy.  “I was wrong, and I’m sorry,” he said in his appeal to a largely minority congregation.

Clearly, he knew his 2015 remarks at the Aspen Institute would surface by some curious reporter. Certainly not by a representative of Bloomberg News.  At Aspen he justified his policy of disproportionately stationing police in minority neighborhoods, “because that’s where all the crime is.”

“Ninety-five percent of your murders – murderers and murder victims – fit one M.O.,” Bloomberg noted, and added that “you can take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.  They are male, minorities, 16-25.”

Sadly, Bloomberg apologized for a successful program.  Mayor Rudy Giuliani was successful in cutting in half the number of homicides (some 2,000) after taking office in 1994.  When Bloomberg became mayor, he was able to cut the number in half again.  Mayor Bill DeBlasio no longer supports stop-and-frisk.

Bloomberg’s apology to pander to minorities could not come at a worse time, notes David Marcus in The Federalist, as New York police officers have become the targets of minorities.

QUINNIPIAC’S February survey reported that the percentage of blacks for Bloomberg had increased from eight percent in January to 22, however, that will certainly take a hefty dip now that the Aspen remarks are in the media.

Interestingly, Biden’s percentage among blacks dipped from 52 in January to 27 on February 10.

MORE STRZOK-PAGE DOCUMENTS obtained by Judicial Watch, included a June 29, 2016 communication from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page, in which he cites an excerpt from a story by CBS News justice reporter Paul Reid, who called the Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Phoenix tarmac meeting “shocking, absolutely shocking –  the appearance of impropriety is just stunning.”

This was just days before Strzok and Page conducted the e-mail investigation interview with Hillary Clinton.

Another document quoted Strzok saying, “There are three chains totaling 8 or 9 e-mails which have (C) (classified) portion marks in front of paragraphs.

Recall that Hilary saying she never sent or received e-mails with material marked classified.

A NOTABLE QUOTE – “Democrats talk a big game about raising living standards for the ‘little man,’ but the Trump administration is getting it done” from school choice, criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, record low-minority unemployment, and more.  Democrats have promised reform on these issues for generations, but Trump is actually getting it done for disenfranchised urban communities.” – Adam Brandon, The Washington Examiner

May God continue to bless the United States of America.