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

FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL – Cory Booker may be forced to drop out of the race because he’s having trouble raising campaign funds … Foul language has become common place in the Democrat primary.  Beto O’Rourke is even selling T-Shirts with the “F” bomb boldly silk-screened on them.  Kamala Harris was overheard saying, “I’m f**king moving to Iowa,” as she spoke of betting everything on the Iowa vote.  If she under-performs it could mean the end of her campaign … Despite the fact that the U.S. population is only 330 million, Apology Joe Biden told an audience that if the U.S. had an $8,000 tax credit for children, 720 million women could return to the workforce … Speaking in New York’s Washington Square Park, Elizabeth Warren made it known that “we’re not here because of men at all,” emphasizing the “m” word like an expletive.  “Then she won’t mind if men don’t vote for her, nor women who like men – it’s a losing strategy,” cites Lucianne.com.  Has she forgotten that millions of women didn’t vote for Hillary in 20916?

MR SINCERITY, the Reverend Al Sharpton, tweeted that he was “saddened to hear of the passing of legendary journalist Cookie (Cokie) Roberts.  Here is an Easter Sunday special we did in 2011, May she Rest in Peace.”

He soon deleted the tweet, because he shared images of him appearing with Christiane Amanpour, not Roberts.

CNN’S BRIAN STELTER wrote @brianstelter, quoting President Trump: “The media of our country is laughed at all over the world now,” looking at the White House press pool, “You’re a joke.”

Stelter added, “What a disappointing use of presidential power.”

While I question that being a use of “presidential power,” everyone knows that the president has the benefit of the bully pulpit, and the media could easily remedy the “disappointment” by reporting facts.

THE CONTINUED ATTACK ON KAVANAUGH was addressed appropriately by none other than Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan in her column, “Why They’ll Never Stop Targeting Kavanaugh,” citing the “continuing assault reflects both a fixation and an effort to deprive the court of its legitimacy.”

Commenting on her column, the blog Twitchy put it a bit stronger.  “In other words, they’re a bunch of raging, frothy-mouthed, stompy-fisted, hate-donkeys who can’t accept when they lose so they’ll continue to try and find a way to win.  Sort of what we’ve seen from the Left in general since Trump won in 2016.”

NOTE TO TRUMP REELECTION DOUBTERS – Those of you who are concerned that the president’s approval rating will prevent him from being reelected, Real Clear Politics noted this week that Trump’s approval rating was 44.3 percent, despite 92 percent negative media coverage.

That is higher than Obama’s average of 43.9 percent on the same day in 2011.

MINNESOTA IN PLAY FOR TRUMP? – You may recall he mentioned Minnesota in his recent New Mexico speech.  Now CNN’s Martin Savage reported that the state appears to be trending red and could be fertile ground for a Trump pickup in 2020.

CLIMATE CHANGE SCARE TACTICS CONTINUE – In March, I wrote about U.S. high schoolers skipping school to warn adults of the growing danger of climate change. They were following the call of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, an activist from Sweden, who dropped out of school in 2018 to protest Sweden’s parliament, and later made it a practice to skip school Fridays to do so.

With nothing better to do with their time, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Select Committee on the Climate Crisis held a joint hearing on September 18, 2019, and invited Thunberg to appear.  While they were anxious to hear what she had to say, she instead gave them the UN’s year-old IPCC Special Report on Global Warming. “I don’t want you to listen to me,” she said, “I want you to listen to the scientists. And I want you to unite behind science.”

“In a way, Thunberg is not the face of a climate crisis,” wrote Julie Kelly in American Greatness,“ but an alarming example of how the climate cabal has needlessly terrified two generations of young people.  The emotional, physical, and intellectual damage wrought by the climate change movement is now coming into clear view and it’s an outcome that should enrage every parent.”

In her piece, “Child Hostages Obey Their Climate Captors,” Kelly, notes, “Watching Thunberg speak, evokes a combination of sadness, pity, and anger. She’s diminutive and far more childlike in her mannerisms and presentation than a typical teenager.  It’s unclear whether she truly grasps the issue she is promoting … what is clear is that many adults are using her to generate sympathy and support for a dangerous crusade that they, as grown-ups, cannot carry out on their own.”

One has only to hear the words coming from the mouths of teenagers to understand how they are becoming brainwashed.

“I want the entirety of Congress, in fact the whole U.S. government, to remember the fear and despair that my generation lives with every day,” said Jamie Margolin, a Seattle teenager.

“I feel visceral anxiety about climate change every day,“ said another teen, which reflects on the belief that “Eco-anxiety is afflicting millions of young people around the world as a result of the catastrophic future portrayed by the insidious climate cabal,” according to Kelly.  No, the teen wasn’t asked the meaning of “visceral.”

Perhaps you saw the news coverage of the school-skipping youngsters carrying signs with words and slogans obviously provided by adults.  How many teens would have taken to the streets if the protest was held on their time, on a Saturday?

Unbelievably, Matthew Doty, a college sophomore at Calvin University, recently wrote in an op-ed, “Every pound of beef we cut out of our diets may save another tree in the Amazon.  Every mile we bike instead of drive might delay the ice cap melt by a second.”

By now, you’ve heard all of the Democrat presidential candidates sound the alarm of an existential calamity we face, and each with their own costly “investment” to address the issue.

“Youths Demand Action Against Climate Change,” read the headline in the left-leaning USA Today, happy to support their impossible goal.

Most recently, candidate Andrew Yang, told attendees at a Georgetown University climate change forum, “we might not own our own cars by 2050,”  as he called for weaning the economy off of fossil fuels, and adding that “privately-owned cars would be replaced by a “constant roving fleet of electric cars that you would just order up.”

At that same forum, candidate Marianne Williamson received lukewarm acceptance for her idea of a year of mandatory service for people between the ages of 18 and 26 to tackle climate change saying, “we need to fix this climate.”

“Fix” this climate?  This, from a woman who believes she is presidential timber.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.