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

BERNIE SANDERS handily won the Nevada primary with none of the other casndidates even close, though Mike Bloomberg was not on the ballot. If this victory by a socialist isn’t enough evidence to convince you how far left the Democrat Party has moved, wait ‘til South Carolina, I guess.

HAVE YOU HEARD that Henry Kyle Frese, 31, employed as a counterterrorism analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency between February 2018 and October 2019, pleaded guilty to illegally transmitting national defense information to journalists?  He held a top secret clearance.

He was linked romantically to one of the journalists who reportedly published eight articles containing classified information.  Prosecutors say that Frese compromised the contents of at least five intelligence reports.

Scheduled for sentencing in June, Frese faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

A TYPICAL PLOY of the left in attacking President Trump is to take his words out of context or twist them around to help you make your point.  We saw it following the Charlottesville incident when the media saw an opportunity to paint him as a white supremacist.

I was reminded if this tactic while reading the latest Arizona Republic opinion piece, “Why are Latinos Backing Bernie?” by lightweight Elvia Diaz, columnist and member of the paper’s editorial board.

While her column was focused on how the Democrat presidential candidates stacked up with Latinos, Diaz found a way to draw in President Trump as a bigot.

“This is the first election cycle where four million more eligible voters will get to vote for the first time since Donald Trump referred to our family members as rapists and criminals,” she wrote, quoting Danny Friedman of Voto Latino.

In June 2015, while speaking of the untenable situation on our southern border, candidate Trump talked about the types of people Mexico was sending across the border. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems.  They’re bringing drugs.  They’re bringing crime.  They’re rapists.  And some, I assume, are good people,” he said.

The media leaped on that statement and soon Trump was accused of referring to all Mexicans as rapists.  Even Tim Kaine, Hillary’s running mate, was quoted as saying, “The thing that amazes me is the depth of his trash talking with Latinos, saying all Mexicans are rapists.”

Last year, Diaz wrote a column indicting supporters of Trump … “our neighbors, our co-workers, out doctors, our bank tellers, and, yes, some of our friends,” chastising them for their silence over “Trump’s racist rants,” adding “they’re as racist as Trump.”   Hmmmm.

Diaz is so anti-Trump that she is willing to turn our country over to the socialist Bernie Sanders, “the best choice,” who she says “has been consistently speaking on issues that resonate, such as good paying jobs, free college, health care for all, an immigration reform with a path to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

Clearly, she must think her fellow Latinos are ignorant. They are experiencing the lowest unemployment figures and increases in wages.  They know the talk of “free stuff” is pastel en el cielo (pie in the sky), and Sanders’ open borders position has to be anathema to those who came here legally.

I noticed that Diaz avoided any mention of Sanders’ views on religion and abortion.  Could it be that she knows how the majority of Latinos are religious?

And there was no mention of Trump’s proposal of immigration based on merit – people who bring a valuable skill, and advance education or a plan to create jobs?

Kramerontheright predicts that Latinos (Hispanics) will vote in increasing numbers to reelect President Trump. They recall the false promises of Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Did I mention that Diaz is a graduate of Berkeley?

AS A FOLLOW UP to my February 15, 2020  piece on newspapers facing bankruptcy, you will be happy to note that the demise of the McClatchy chain was partially attributed to it’s “collaboration with the Russia hoax, enablement of fake news, and political bias in favor of the Democrat party,” writes Lloyd Billingsley in Frontpage mag on line.

“Sometimes that bias is in the open, as in the (Sacramento) Bee’s hiring of opinion editor Gil Duran, a former press secretary for California Gov. Jerry Brown and communications director for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Democrat.  In other cases, the bias is more cleverly disguised,” Billingsley says.

If interested, you can find Billingsley’s list of fake news examples at Frontpage mag on the Internet.

SPEAKING OF BIAS – Speaking about the economy being a factor in the 2020 elections, CNBC contributor Dan Nathan told MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle on Friday that there would be another “global financial crisis,” which could provide something “Dems can run on” in the fall, according to Kyle Drennen at MRC’s Newsbusters.

A skeptical Ruhle weighed-in with “Look at the stock market.  Look at corporate America … do you really see that changing?”  When Nathan cited “2008 … and the fourth quarter of 2018 when the market fell 20 percent,” Ruhle was suddenly converted.  Oh, my.

SCHIZOPHRENIA – “(Is it) the Democrats’ strategy against the Trump economy?” asks the editorial board of Issues & Insights. The Dems have already argued that our prosperity is grossly exaggerated, or they can claim they (Obama) deserve the credit for the Trump economy.  They’ve tried both.

The day Obama declared responsibility for “paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest steak of job creation in American history,” Democrat House Majority Whip James Clyburn took the wind out of his sails.

Claiming blacks in South Carolina are not doing better, he made the outrageous statement that “If you go with unemployment number to determine people’s status, then you have to say that slaves were in very good shape because they were fully employed.”

“What an insult to more than 19 million of Clyburn’s fellow blacks currently working,” says the I&I board, “to suggest that they’re not really laboring for themselves and that their jobs are lacking dignity.”

MEANWHILE – South Carolina’s Republican Sen. Tim Scott, working with the White House to establish a new federal program to encourage businesses to invest in low-income communities, will soon be testing it across the country.

Criticizing that there should be more stipulations to ensure governors don’t pick localities that might not need assistance as desperately as others, Clyburn didn’t waste time in recommending opportunity zones in his district.

                  May God continue to bless the United States of America.