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

NOTE TO APOLOGY JOE BIDEN – ‘Here’s the deal,’ Joe, to use one of your favorite phrases, you were not vice president in the White House last year, when you claimed “those kids from Parkland came up to see me.” Sure, you can again say you simply misspoke and got that shooting mixed up with the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, but it doesn’t fly.

I was unable to find any evidence that Sandy Hook students visited with you in the White House. Then President Obama did visit the school site in Connecticut, and he named you to head a gun violence task force.

Stop with the anecdotal stuff, Joe. Voters no longer know when to believe you.

IN SEARCH OF THE RIGHT EPITHET – I recently exchanged e-mails with a friend over the subject of individuals who I had noted were oblivious to events that had been in the news for days. He related a similar story from his recent experience.

I recognize that I am a news wonk. I try to stay on top of the news because I personally want to be informed, but also because I owe it to my readers. But I am frequently shocked by people who are unaware; as to something that has happened, or the facts around the event.

While searching for a name to give these people, I recalled that Rush Limbaugh refers to them as “low-information” persons. That’s pretty good, but it doesn’t quite do it for me.

I want a name for someone who is “oblivious,” however, while searching the Internet, one site indicated that “There is no one word for oblivious person.” It was suggested that “you might want to come up with your name.”

So, undaunted, I pressed on.

I immediately eliminated “nescient,” “unwitting,” “clueless,” “ignoramus” and “ignorant” because those words, I believe, lend themselves to a lack of knowledge of a particular subject, although I did carefully consider “blissful ignorance.”

One site offered “self-centered, “inconsiderate,” “indifferent” and “thoughtless,” however, that description of oblivious refers to people who are only interested in what concerns themselves. Eliminated those, too.

In the end, a number of words passed my test – “uninformed,” “ill-informed,” “unenlightened,” “undiscerning,” “unaware,” and “inconversant;” all of which I will use interchangeably with “oblivious,” which in the end nails it.

THE MELANCHOLY PEGGY NOONAN – Regular readers will recall that I have written about Noonan’s views she covers in her Wall Street Journal columns – some positive (mostly for writing style) and some negative (when she goes sappy on me).

In her latest column, she writes of the American song, and cites the lyrics of “Moon River” – by Johnny Mercer, of course – that paints for her a picture of America. And she does it marvelously.

However, nearly two-thirds of her way into her column, Noonan then morphs from an American Song to an American Crisis, the purpose of her piece.

She writes of the shootings and shooter drills being conducted in schools and elsewhere. “There is no safe place,” she notes as she remarks, “You’re hating that I left the music, aren’t you? I hate it.”

Insisting we are in a crisis with a hundred causes, Noonan says “we have to chip away at it hard.” She touches on mental health and the need for red-flag laws.

Then she strays from reality, saying, “We should try banning assault weapons. I don’t care if we don’t have statistics proving it will help – do it anyway as a crisis measure.”

She suggests that if the president were wise, he’d look to the country and put distance between the NRA and himself.

She concludes saying there’s no nice song about people scared for their kids and afraid for their country.

MEANWHILE – Hollywood’s Universal Pictures is contemplating the release of a movie, “The Hunt,” which depicts blue state elites violently picking off red state deplorables. Scenes in the 1972 movie, “Deliverance,” are mild compared to those in a trailer for “The Hunt” running on television.

Is Hollywood so jaded that they believe Americans want to see a film depicting crudely stereotyped liberals hunting conservatives in a culture war with gratuitous violence? Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist wonders.

Yes, but it appears they are grappling over its release in light of recent shootings.

THANKS TO JUDICIAL WATCH – The watchdog’s effort to gather more evidence of Deep State activities has resulted in their obtaining 73 pages of records that reveal that Andrew Weissman led the hiring effort for the Mueller special counsel investigation.

Notes cover 2017 interviews and hiring of attorneys, all of which have Democrat ties and contributed to Obama’s and Hillary Clinton campaigns.

Separately, Judicial Watch, during a deposition with Eric Boswell, Hillary Clinton’s assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, learned that Clinton and her senior staff had been warned twice against using her unsecure BlackBerrys and unsecure e-mails to transmit classified material.

Clinton assured Boswell that she “gets it” when he informed her about the dangers of BlackBerrys. Clinton, who saw herself above the law, assumed no accountability for her actions.

THE OPEN BORDERS CROWD, really is for open borders despite the denials heard from the Democrat presidential candidates. If they weren’t, they would have put their hate of the president aside to secure the border long ago. Beto O’Rourke wants the border wall torn down.

Of course, there wasn’t a crisis; it was manufactured. There wasn’t an invasion, even though the numbers of illegals crossing the border illegally and those seeking asylum are off the charts.

But when a few youngsters die in detention of illnesses they brought with them or while trying to cross a river on the border, the open borders people suddenly visit the border, only to spin tales of inhumane treatment and children held in cages.

Liberals say these migrants are merely seeking a better life for their families.

As I wondered how many of these liberals would share their homes with the migrants, a story surfaced from one of the wealthiest, most liberal counties in the nation – Montgomery – a suburb of Washington DC, where residents are up in arms over a measure to increase availability of affordable housing in the area.

Just another example of how rich liberals abandon their alleged commitment to social and economic justice when given an opportunity to support it in their own backyard, wrote Andrew Stiles in the Washington Free Beacon.

AND FINALLY, ANOTHER GREAT TRUTH from the prolific P. J. O’Rourke: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!”

                      May God continue to bless the United States of America.