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

THEY’RE AT A FEVER PITCH in Washington over what has been perceived as the president’s interference over the prison term for his confidant Roger Stone even though Attorney General Bill Barr was working on the issue days before the president tweeted on the matter.  Barr, too, believed the sentence of nine years was too punitive

Democrats out for Barr’s scalp have conveniently forgotten President Obama’s cozy relationship with his attorney’s general Holder and Lynch on the Hillary Clinton investigation, the firing of IG Gerald Walpin, interference in the case surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez, telling Holder to withhold documents on “Fast and Furious,” and the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.  Holder said he was Obama’s “wingman.”

Clearly, President Trump has the right to express his concerns to Barr, however, Barr has indicated that the president’s tweets are making his job difficult.

Kramerontheright believes that Barr is the most capable attorney general to hold that position in years.  While he has said in the past that he will not be bullied, I would hope the president would let him do his job.

THAT FBI RAID ON STONE’S HOME – As a follow-up to my earlier mention of how 29 heavily-armed FBI agents with 17 vehicles converged on the home of Roger Stone in the early morning hours of January 29, 2019 to arrest him in his pajamas, I thought you would find the following comparison on point.

Commenting on the arrest on Thursday’s Rush Limbaugh show, guest host Mark Steyn voiced his consternation with such an unnecessary show of force for the arrest of a 68-year old man, saying, “That’s 29 more people than we sent to aid our people in Benghazi.”

TALK ABOUT VOTER ENTHUSIASM – Leading up to the New Hampshire primary, Democrat strategists were hyping the enthusiasm of voters on the left, but the real enthusiasm was registered by Republican voters.

Looking behind the 86 percent of votes President Trump received in New Hampshire, a story of Republican voter enthusiasm surfaced.  President Trump received 119,000 votes, setting an all-time record for an incumbent.  The previous record was set by Bill Clinton with 77,000 votes.  George Bush garnered 53,000 votes and Barack Obama, 49,000 votes as incumbents.

TRUMP’S NEW HAMPSHIRE RALLY – Some 12,000 people attended the rally after standing for hours in the rain and cold weather. I have learned that 52,559 tickets were sought for the event – 41 percent from New Hampshire voters – of which 25.4 percent were Democrats, and 17 percent who didn’t vote in 2016.

The Trump campaign plans rallies scheduled around Democrat primary locations.

I NOTICED A PIECE ONLINE by Karlyn Borysenko at Medium.com, “I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years.  Here’s what I experienced at Trump’s rally in New Hampshire,” that I found interesting.

She begins with references to those she had been associated with in the knitting world.  She was hooked on MSNBC, and was convinced that anyone who vote for President Trump was a racist.

Tired of the “hate coming from the left in this small, niche knitting community,” she said, “I started to question everything,” and “the more voices outside of the left I listened to, the more I realized these were not bad people.”

She became familiar with the WalkAway movement and started watching townhalls.

She asked herself: “Did I hate Trump so much that I wanted to see my country fail just to spite him and everyone who voted for him?”

She decided to attend the Trump rally in New Hampshire.  Her left-leaning friends warned her of the people who she would meet there -“the lowest of the low” – and offered her a container of pepper spray.

Arriving four hours before the doors opened, she chatted with people around her – “they were so nice.”  She noted that they were average everyday people – veterans, school teachers, and small business owners.  “They were upbeat and excited,” and when they learned that she was a Democrat, the reaction was “Good for you! Welcome!”

“As I left the rally, walking by thousands of people who were watching it on a giant monitor outside the arena, I knew that there was no way Trump was going to lose in November.  Absolutely no way,” she concluded, adding, “I think the Democrats have an ass-kicking coming to them in November.”

HE MUST WAKE UP EVERY MORNING with something to base another attack on President Trump’s presidency.  I’m referring to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who said on Wednesday, Trump would abolish freedom of the press and round up reporters from MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post if he had the power.  He claimed that anyone who didn’t believe that Trump would take such actions was “just lying to yourself.”

“Our constitutional republic, literally, and the institutions in it, literally are being challenged every single day by this would-be dictator,” Scarborough added.

I find it interesting that Scarborough is so concerned with our institutions, when he and his colleagues at MSNBC daily denigrate the Fourth Estate.

SPEAKING OF RUSH LIMBAUGH, have you heard that Michael Drexler, a professor of American literature at Bucknell University, tweeted: “Rush Limbaugh is one of the worst people ever to walk this plane.  He is a scar on this nation, deserving only to be plucked out and fed to eagles.”  Referring to his being honored with the Medal of Freedom, he said “Medal of shame.  Badge of dishonor.  Death, thou too shalt die.”  Shameful!

I include that story as another caution to parents, who currently have sons and daughters in our colleges and universities, or are planning to send them soon, that the majority of faculty members spew leftist ideology

NOT A SOCIALIST?  Appearing on MSNBC, Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren told a story of a “broke” college student with a lot of student loan debt who told her she had just $6 in the bank, and was giving her $3 to keep the senator in the fight.

While a number of people on social media were critical of Warren, a millionaire, for taking the few dollars from the student, I was more taken aback by Warren’s remark, “That’s what we gotta do.”

OPPOSITION TO SOCIALISM is improving.  Attention Bernie Sanders: A majority of U.S. residents – 53 percent – said they would vote against a socialist candidate for president, the latest Gallup poll revealed.  Shockingly, however, 45 percent of the respondents, including 76 percent of Democrats, said they would vote for a socialist.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.