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

A SUDDEN SHIFT from Russia, Russia, Russia to felonies for campaign finance violations was noted by Byron York in the Washington Examiner. He noted how the two-year-long conversation about Trump and Russia almost instantly focused on campaign finance.

All of the usual never-Trumpers in the sour grapes media – CNN and NBC – wasted no time in implicating the president in at least two felonies, followed by a number of liberal Dems, like Connecticut’s Sen. Chris Murray

MISSING – Joel B. Pollak found it interesting that with the excitement over the reporting that President Trump may have broken campaign finance law with his payoffs to Daniels and McDougal @joelpollak: “Missing in today’s news: any acknowledgement that Hillary Clinton & the DNC broke campaign finance law by failing to report they paid Fusion GPS via an intermediary for oppo research that triggered an FBI investigation. You don’t see Rep. Adam Schiff calling for their prosecution!”

DID YOU NOTICE who moderated the discussion with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey during his recent appearance at New York’s 92^nd Street Y? If not, it won’t surprise you that it was a never-Trumper, Nicole Wallace, chief political advisor for NBC/MSNBC of the “sour grapes media.”

Wallace is one of those “revolving door” people of Washington DC with no real allegiance or loyalty. Wallace, who once worked for Jeb Bush, was later the communications director for President George W. Bush, and served as senior advisor to the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008.

It was after the McCain-Palin loss that Wallace unnecessarily trashed Sarah Palin, saying she had a gap in her knowledge about issues, blaming the McCain loss on Palin’s interview with Katie Couric, while never owning up to the fact that it was her (Wallace’s) responsibility as campaign advisor to fill those gaps. Some believe that Palin was set up as Couric was a friend of Wallace’s.

Wallace simply couldn’t hide her Cheshire cat smile as she fed Comey questions sure to elicit a smarmy response from Comey before a friendly crowd.

It didn’t take Comey long to show his partisan side, like that in evidence from his staff guy Peter Strzok, who tweeted that he wanted Trump to lose 100 million to one in 2016.

“I understand the Democrats have important debates now over who their candidate should be, but they have to win. They have to win. All of us have to take a deep breath, we have to make sure the lies stop on January 20, 2021.”

That quote, coming from a man who lied and leaked his way to the top of the FBI.

IT’S EASY TO UNDERSTAND why the Weekly Standard is on its last legs. Once considered a must read in conservative circles, it has become the “Weakly Standard,” as its founder, the irrelevant Bill Kristol, has taken it down.

Here’s his latest tweet @BillKristol: “Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.”

STATISTICS SPEAK VOLUMES – An article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal makes one wonder about sending kids to college. About 40 percent of students who enroll in four-year college and universities don’t graduate within six years, the article reveals.

The Journal reports that just 57 percent of recent grads are appropriately employed, with 43 percent underemployed. Even five and ten years after graduation, about a third of them are in jobs that don’t require a college degree.

I question the Journal’s broad statement that college graduates, on average, earn about $1 million more than high school-educated peers over the course of their lifetimes.

Mike Rowe, I am sure, would tell you that’s not true. Mike is the same guy who once did a television series about dirty jobs, saying someone has to do them. More recently, he has been on the tube suggesting that students, uncertain of college, should consider learning a trade … construction, plumbing, welding and electrical to name a few. Pay for many trade skills now match the salaries of college grads.

Rowe’s foundation provides Work Ethic Scholarships to those high school grads (including GED) funds to take “sweat pledge” to learn a trade skill.

THANKS TO JUDICIAL WATCH’S continuing effort to seek information related to Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail system through its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, a federal judge has speculated that her state department “colluded” to keep her missing e-mails secret from the public and courts, the Washington Examiner reported.

Senior District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in a memo, called the Clinton e-mail affair “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency,” and cited the justice department’s involvement as well as the state department.

          May God bless the United States of America.