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

MORE CRAZINESS IN AMERICA – I was disgusted when I saw police officers and guardsmen kneeling at the urging of protestors.  Not only did it reflect a kind of subservience, but a submission of guilt for something they didn’t do.

I was reminded of sports figures who obligingly kneeled when our national anthem was played, because of one person, Colin Kaepernick, who decided to take his ideological stand to his field of play.

This weekend I saw protestors laying face down on pavement for nine minutes in memory of George Floyd’s period of suffering under the knee of a police officer.

This morning, as I began writing, I saw Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, wearing prayer scarfs, kneeling for nine minutes in the capitol’s Emancipation Hall.  How odd.  The pair who regularly complain that President Trump acts as if he is king, willingly bowed for a black man they’ve never met.  I call it pandering.

Then, while scanning my e-mails, I noted a piece, “Be Courageous And Stand Firm, America – We Do Not Kneel,” by Joshua Lawson of The Federalist.

“The kneeling phenomenon demanded by the radical left in the wake of George Floyd’s death – and embraced by those guilted into submission – creates a two-tiered social stratification of ‘kneelers’ and ‘those who refuse to bend the knee’ that’s wholly un-American,” he writes.

He writes of “those who have pressured far too many into believing they bear guilt for the past sins of others.  Now they kneel in fealty to that false reality or be exiled from society.  Unfortunately, it’s also moved beyond just kneeling,” adding that “kneeling – either figuratively or literally – doesn’t even satisfy the mob.

“Deep down, we know that kneeling in submission to the whims of mobs or tyrants is wrong.  Both our ancient stories and our modern myths reflect that truth,” Lawson says.

We must show that we will not be intimidated. “Courageous men and women must rise and say in one voice,” Lawson suggests, ‘I empathize with all those who suffer, but I will not be bullied into accepting the sins of others.  I bow to no earthy figures.’”

“If we are worthy of our Declaration, our Constitution, our flag, and our highest ideals, we will not bow to a movement (Black Lives Matter) that has quickly become intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt,” Lawson concludes.

THE IMAGINED GUILT WAS TOO HEAVY for New Orleans Saint quarterback Drew Brees and his wife, Brittany.  After contributing greatly to New Orleans, they felt a need to apologize. Drew apologized for remarks he made in opposition to Colin Kaepernick.  Then, Brittney said, “we are all part of the problem. White America is not hearing.  We’re not actively looking for racial prejudice.”  It’s sad.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, my boycott of the NFL will continue this season, that is if there is a season.

IT HAS BEEN SAID that all politics is local.  We know our community, the people who make it up, we understand our problems, our needs, yet we are now seeing the left, with its big government agenda, attempting to make law enforcement reform a federal issue.

Democrat Nancy Pelosi, turned radical, is ready to introduce a sweeping police reform bill, “Justice in Policing Act.”  Under the bill, a National Police Misconduct Registry, would maintain records of officers’ violations.  More bureaucracy.

It would also deal with use of force, ban chokehold and carotid holds.  It would also ban no-knock warrants in drug cases.

Laws covering the transfer of military-style equipment currently provided to state and local law enforcement organizations would be tightened, along with requirements for the police to wear body cameras.

Typical of Democrat-written legislation, the act includes issues not pertaining to police reform, namely qualifying lynching as a federal hate crime.

DON’T EXPECT THE DEFUNDING of police departments to go beyond the current hysterical talking stage.  In the end, citizens will simply not allow it, and the states will not permit those proposals to go forward.  It is totally unrealistic.

Kramerontheright believes that federal involvement should help with developing standards for proper policing, but then should turn to an oversight role, assuring that the $2 billion a year that the Justice Department provides to state and local law enforcement agencies is used effectively.  Best practices must be shared with communities with similar demographics. State and local police organizations should be accountable for their own operations.

IF YOU MISSED the appearance of Shelby Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, on Fox Special Report with Bret Baier, you missed the insight of a black leader we don’t hear often enough.

He said he saw the contemporary civil rights movement under the banner of Black Lives Matter as “deeply unserious, catering to an old form of victimization that has accomplished nothing to lift up black people.”

“There’s a pathos here,” he said, “It’s like we’ve done this too many times.  We’ve been here too many times; we’ve seen this kind of thing and there’s a big hallabaloo and then it sort of fades away and this is already beginning I think to fade.”

Steele is obviously not a supporter of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who he says “is the master of this old form of politics that comes out of the 60s where we as blacks cry victimization and demand the larger society give us things of some kind or another.”

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR), the leftist organization who regularly receives funds from taxpayers, on Saturday posted this tweet urging readers to “decolonize your bookshelf:”

“If you are white, take a moment to examine your bookshelf.  What do you see? What books and authors have you allowed to influence your worldview, and how you process issues of racism and prejudice toward the disenfranchised?  Have you considered that, if you identify as white and read only the work of white authors, you are in some ways listening to an extension of your own voice on repeat?  While the details and depth of experience may differ, white voices have dominated what has been considered canon for eons.”

FINALLY, PONDER THIS – MSNBC and NBC have announced the addition of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page as a legal analyst.  I’m looking forward to her appearance after U.S. Attorney John Durham reveals his findings.

SEE WHAT I MEAN? – More craziness.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.