Here are my observations and opinions of my selected news of the day.

NO LONGER RELEVANT – Bill Kristol, the neoconservative commentator and editor at large of The Weekly Standard, spends most of his time these days tweeting opinions, generally of an anti-Trump nature.

Recently he tweeted @BillKristol: “Shouldn’t an important foreign policy goal of the next couple decades be regime change in China?”

I have earlier commented that Kristol seems to have gone around the bend, but this is further evidence of it. Administrations rarely look beyond the next year, maybe two years, in its strategic planning. With changes in political control as we know it, does anyone believe the establishment is capable of looking 10 to 20 years out?

With Kristol going into depression over Donald Trump’s winning the presidency,   MSU Stats comment @msu_stats: “Bill Kristol couldn’t deal with regime change in the U.S.”

SPEAKING OF IRRELIVANCE – Former Secretary of State John “Swift Boat” Kerry, the man who brokered that wonderful nuclear deal with Iran and his work to secure our place in the Paris Accord climate change agreement, is at it again, tearing down our country overseas.

You will recall how he met with the Iranian poohbahs and other European leaders with the message to hold out for the time when President Trump leaves office.

During an interview with The Guardian, one of the United Kingdom’s liberal papers, while plugging his book, he said, “People are going to die because of the decision Donald Trump made,” pulling out of the Paris Accord. “My kids and my grandkids are going to face a difficult world because of what Donald Trump has done,” he added.

“Trump’s withdrawal does not affect the other 194 countries that agreed to curb global greenhouse gas emissions,” Kerry naively commented. Those countries have only agreed to nonbinding national plans and the biggest countries, like Germany, have all indicated an inability to meet their goals.

Meanwhile, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have gone down measurably.

So, there’s Kerry, putting our country down while overseas, saying “I’m sorry for the world … I’m sorry for my country, which looks ridiculous.”

Asked if he was considering another run for the presidency, the egotistical Kerry said, “I’m going to think quietly about whether I think it’s necessary … whether I feel I can bring something to the table that’s essential, that somebody else can’t.”

Really. Just what we need. A failed statesman, who continues to speak as if he continues to represent our country, and in doing so, tears down our country; who then wants Americans to trust him. I don’t think so.

TRUMP WAS RIGHT and most of us understood it when, a year ago, he was a critic of Angela Merkel’s open-door policy toward refugees, predicting it would change Germany’s culture and economy. Since 2014, more than 1.6 million migrants, mostly Muslims fleeing wars in the Middle East, have settled in Germany.

Humanitarian activists here and abroad attacked President Trump for his criticism of Europe’s open-door policy toward migrants. That was then and now Merkel and even Hillary “Open Borders” Clinton are singing a different tune.

“New Dem Tactic: We Were Thinking What Trump’s Been Saying All Along,” was the headline over a piece in PJMedia by Richard Fernandez.

Speaking with The Guardian in the UK, Hillary said, “I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame.” Use of “the flame” comes from her suggestion that “immigration was inflaming voters and contributed to the lection of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote to leave the EU.”

Careful not to upset Merkel, Hillary said she admired “the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken by leaders like Angela Merkel,” but suggested that a clear message must be sent that “we are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support.”

Unbelievably, Hillary stated, “you cannot possibly stand for election unless you’ve got a strong position on immigration because people are worried about it.”

With that, one would think Hillary could offer kudos to President Trump for his effort to control immigration on our southern border. Naaaah.

Instead, she said, “The use of immigrants as a political device and as a symbol of government gone wrong, of attacks on one’s heritage, one’s identity, one’s national unity has been very much exploited by the current administration.”

SPEAKING OF MERKEL – During a debate on the tensions between globalization and national sovereignty, she proposed that EU members transfer their national sovereignty over to Brussels.

“People are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the German people,” she said. Migrants in Germany have no intention of assimilating.

While participating in an event in Berlin, Merkel and French President Emanuel Macron, both facing political challenges in their countries, clearly seem willing to give up their nation’s sovereignty. “Europe must be stronger,” Macron said, demanding EU member states surrender national sovereignty to Brussels over “foreign affairs, migration, and development” in addition to “an increasing part of our budgets and fiscal resources.”

Unbelievable.

“I LIKE IKE” – Some of you may remember that slogan used by Dwight D. Eisenhower during his 1952 campaign for the Republican presidency. Those were different times. I encourage you to CLICK HERE to see the first television political commercial with production by Walt Disney Studios and music by Irving Berlin.

With the costly, nasty midterms now history, I would like to take you back to the July 1964 GOP Convention at which the former President Eisenhower spoke saying, “I am here this evening first of all as a citizen of the United States with primary allegiance to my country. But second, I am here with great pride because I am a Republican.

“I am dedicated to the purposes of the party. I am jealous of its good name. I am grateful to those who among us represent us all by their discharge of political responsibility.

“Because of these feelings, I hold this simple conviction: For the good of America, Republicans must be restored in great numbers to controlling positions at all government levels.

“I shall try to give you the reasons for my deep dedication to Republicanism, as I understand Republicanism.

“Our party, let us not forget, was born out of protest against a supreme indignity to mankind – slavery – the story of which is found on the darkest pages of America’s history, both North and South, which persisted as a social cancer even in this land of liberty until Abraham Lincoln eliminated it a century ago, supported by our party which he led.

“This Republican Party, then, was conceived to battle injustice; it was born committed against degradation of people. So it is more than mere coincidence that we Republicans have as an article of political faith, faith in the individual.

“Consistent with this effort, we have maintained that in all those things that the citizen can better do for himself than can his government, the government ought not to interfere.”

It would be appropriate, don’t you think, for our current batch of Republicans to review his remarks?

DID YOU NOTICE how those same people who slam President Trump for his America first nationalist position over globalism were among the first to criticize his willingness to take a globalist stance in his response to Saudi Arabia going forward.

“No president would be eager to dump a relationship in which the U. S. has invested so much,” remarked Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in his Wall Street Journal column, “On Saudi Arabia, Trump Has a Clue.”

“One downside of a U.S. president being held in such contempt by domestic elites is their undifferentiating rush to be seen contradicting and denouncing everything he does.” – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

“If the Saudis think President Trump can (or wants to) protect MBS (Mohammed bin Salman) against all that would follow, they should think again,” concluded Jenkins.

AT THE RISK OF PROMOTING the remake of the TV series “Murphy Brown,” I must say that the writers and producers of that show crossed the line with their last episode cruelly attacking ICE agents, while presenting illegals as persecuted individuals who merely want to come out of the shadows and live without fear of deportation.

Taking it further, Murphy Brown, played by the liberal Candace Bergen, carried the theme over into her monologue as the host of the pseudo morning show, “Murphy in the Morning.” In it she simply cannot understand why illegals cannot get in line and apply for citizenship. “There’s no path to citizenship, if you’ve come to this country the way my friends did – yes, illegally,” she says, before slipping into a sappy Thanksgiving message designed to hook her viewers into the plight of illegals. “All of this might have given me a real reason to lose faith in my country,” says Brown (Bergen).

This is another way the Hollywood crowd is pulling out all stops in an attempt to kill the Trump presidency.

            May God bless the United States of America