"Here in West Los Angeles, it's social suicide to suggest that our president has done anything right or noble or good. But in moving America's embassy to Jerusalem next week, President Trump managed all three. And he signaled to the world that Israel's capital should no longer be treated as Jews' private delusion.

"Next to the other events of this presidency, the U.S.-embassy move can seem like a footnote. Jerusalem has long functioned as Israel's capital -- home to the Knesset, the supreme court, residences of Israel's president and prime minister. And yet, barring a miraculous breakout of peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Jerusalem-embassy move is a strong candidate for Trump's most enduring presidential achievement.

"As a technical matter, the move represented no great change in U.S. policy. With overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers, Congress directed the American embassy to be moved to Jerusalem back in 1995. But the Jerusalem Embassy Act contained a waiver, allowing each president to welch if he chose. Every president for 22 years so chose.

"Common knowledge in Washington among cognoscenti has long been that regardless of what our law says, Israel is different. Israel is always different. Recognizing this sovereign nation's choice of capital simply could not be done. What would the neighbors say? Such a move would enrage Palestinians, inflame the region. Following the will of the American people, in this instance, was something a president just couldn't do.

"That is, until we had a president who bristled at being told what he just couldn't do."

"President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal is the greatest boost for American and global security in decades.

"If you think that is an exaggeration, then you evidently think the Obama administration's injection of well over a hundred billion dollars -- some of it in the form of cash bribes -- into the coffers of the world's leading state sponsor of anti-American terrorism was either trivial or, more delusionally, a master-stroke of statecraft.

"Of course, there's a lot of delusion going around. After repeatedly vowing to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons (with signature 'If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance' candor), President Obama, and his trusty factotum John Kerry, made an agreement that guaranteed Iran would obtain a nuclear weapon.

"They rationalized this dereliction with the nostrum that an unverifiable delay in nuclear-weapons development, coupled with Iran's coup in reestablishing lucrative international trade relations, would tame the revolutionary jihadist regime, such that it would be a responsible government by the time the delay ended. Meantime, we would exercise an oh-so-sophisticated brand of 'strategic patience' as the mullahs continued abetting terrorism, mass-murdering Syrians, menacing other neighbors, evolving ballistic missiles, crushing domestic dissent, and provoking American military forces -- even abducting our sailors on the high seas."

"The resignation of Eric Schneiderman Monday night was a foregone conclusion given the devastating specificity of the brutality described by women who detailed it to the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer.

"By their account, Schneiderman was a monster, and a monstrous hypocrite, in his private life. ...

"In fact, in the wake of Schneiderman's resignation, police and prosecutors -- including Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, who, in a case of the snake eating its own tail, was being probed by Schneiderman himself, at Gov. Cuomo's request, for failing to prosecute Harvey Weinstein in a forcible-groping case -- will be duty-bound to consider whether they have a criminal case to press.

"These are not just indiscretions the women are describing; they are violent violations of the law. ...

"Schneiderman has only himself to blame. He treated women like garbage, and in the end, he was the trash to be taken out."

"According to the Boston Globe, Mr. Kerry has been spotted in New York City, conspiring with our sworn enemies to undermine U.S. foreign policy.

"Mr. Kerry doesn't have anything positive to claim from his years as President Obama's secretary of state. So, instead, he clings to the sewage barge of his diplomatic career: the rotten deal he helped cut with Iran.

"Based on lies from a theocratic terrorist nation hellbent on destroying the United States and Israel, Mr. Kerry's 'deal' gave Iran hundreds of millions in taxpayer cash, plus billions more to fund the country's terror efforts around the globe. It requires only the flimsiest of sham inspections and basically puts Tehran on a glide path back to building a nuclear bomb in less than 10 years.

"If Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly but carried a big stick and President Trump talks loud and also carries a big stick, then Mr. Kerry speaks loudly and carries a tiny stick. Or maybe no stick at all. Or if he even has a stick he gives it to his enemy.

"The man is a diplomatic, political imbecile."

"The Justice Department's Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, will soon release a much-anticipated assessment of Democratic and Republican charges that officials at the FBI interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign. That year-long probe, sources familiar with it tell TIME, is expected to come down particularly hard on former FBI director James Comey, who is currently on a high-profile book tour. It will likely find that Comey breached Justice Department protocols in a July 5, 2016, press conference when he criticized Hillary Clinton for using a private email server as Secretary of State even as he cleared her of any crimes, the sources say. The report is expected to also hit Comey for the way he reopened the Clinton email probe less than two weeks before the election, the sources say.

"The report closely follows an earlier one in April by Horowitz, which showed that the ousted deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, had lied to the bureau's internal investigations branch to cover up a leak he orchestrated about Clinton's family foundation less than two weeks before the election. (The case has since been referred to the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C., for potential prosecution.) Another IG report in March found that FBI retaliation against internal whistle-blowers was continuing despite years of bureau pledges to fix the problem. Last fall, Horowitz found that the FBI wasn't adequately investigating 'high-risk' employees who failed polygraph tests."

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"Dick's Sporting Goods, which announced in February it would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, hired three Beltway lobbyists to lobby Congress for gun control, according to federal records reviewed by The Federalist.

"The lobbying records show Dick's hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for '[l]obbying related to gun control.' No other policy issues were listed in the disclosure form filed by the firm. The disclosure forms show Dick's pro-gun control lobbying effort began official on April 27, 2018. The official registration form noting Dick's retention of Glover to push for gun control was filed on Monday morning. ...

"In February, Dick's CEO announced the sporting goods chain would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, even though such sales are perfectly legal under federal law."

"Spring has sprung, and you might have noticed that gas prices have sprung a little, too.

"It's never pleasant to fill your tank and feel your wallet empty at the same time. But console yourself by recalling how much higher prices were in the spring of 2014. Things would be a lot worse today if not for America producing ever-more oil to counteract OPEC's price manipulation. ...

"North American energy independence was discussed in 2012 as a game-changer that would strengthen America in world affairs. Today, this is no longer a goal but a fact. The oil and gas industry is one that creates wealth, provides well-paid jobs and benefits without subsidies, and that reduces trade deficits.

"Oil won't last forever, but it will last a long time. The world needs American energy, and we're selling it to them. Politicians should avoid embracing extreme environmentalist ideas that won't reduce the world's thirst for energy, but would ship American oil producers' good jobs overseas."

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"These are not happy days for the liberals, or progressives, or Democrats, or whatever they're calling themselves this week as, one by one, they stink up the familiar labels we've all used over the years.

"Donald Trump is so evil that good people will neither touch nor praise anything he says, does or advocate. That's in the catechism. ...

"Now Israel has discovered what looks like proof that Mr. Obama swallowed a lot of lies to collude with the mullahs for a deal with Iran to 'resolve' Iran's nuclear-weapons program. This might be the smoking gun that Mr. Trump needs to justify trashing the deal with the mullahs.

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that his government had seized a cache of documents that proves Iran lied to the world about its nuclear-weapons program for years, even after the Obama agreement was signed in 2015. ...

"Mr. Netanyahu's disclosures rattled Capitol Hill on Monday. 'Everything the Obama administration told us about the Iranian nuclear deal program was a lie,' a source described as a senior congressional official tells the Washington Free Beacon. 'They assured us that we knew "everything about everything" about Iran's nuclear weapons program, that it was put on ice, and that the intelligence community had full insight into what was going on.'

"The disclosures were received by the usual suspects with the usual smirk and snark. The New York Times, which never meets an enemy of the United States that it can't trust (verification not necessary), sniffed that Mr. Netanyahu's presentation was 'highly theatrical' and 'without any evidence of violations.'

"Mr. Trump may never get a peace prize, but the Booby Prize is likely to go to his unhinged enemies at home, blinded by hate and disappointment. Losing hurts, and some of us just can't get over it."

"Friday's release of the House Intelligence Committee report generated much coverage over its finding of no evidence of collusion with the Russians. Receiving less attention was a small section entitled 'Finding #44,' where the committee suggested that then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper leaked information from the so-called Steele dossier. Even worse for Clapper, the alleged leak was made to CNN, which later hired him as a contributor.

"If true, both the national intelligence chief and then-FBI Director James Comey leaked information while denying such violations to Congress. Moreover, even if Clapper waited until shortly after leaving office, it is deeply troubling that he would confirm details of the dossier, which was under investigation.

"The report recounts how Clapper gave 'inconsistent testimony' to Congress when he denied ever 'discuss[ing] the dossier or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists.' That has proven to be untrue. Clapper later admitted he discussed the 'dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper' and indicated he may have discussed the material with other journalists."

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"Former Vice President Joe Biden recently told MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton that the GOP wants voter identification laws for one reason. Racist Republicans so despise blacks and are so determined to oppress them, that they seek to prevent all blacks from voting.

"Biden said: 'It's what these guys are all about, man. These Republicans don't want working-class people voting. They don't want black folks voting.' What Republicans 'are all about,' according to Biden, is the push in some states for voter ID laws, which Democrats call 'voter suppression.' Then-Attorney General Eric Holder characterized the call for voter ID laws as an example of 'pernicious' racism.

"If it is 'pernicious' racism, apparently a lot of people failed to get the memo. Blacks want voter ID laws, too. A 2016 Gallup Poll found: 'Though many of the arguments for early voting and against voter ID laws frequently cite minorities' voting access, nonwhites' views of the two policies don't differ markedly from those of whites. Seventy-seven percent of nonwhites favor both policies, while whites favor each at 81 percent.' This has not stopped the Democrats from turning the legitimate concern about the integrity of voting into a full-on attack against blacks.

"Biden, of course, is a skilled veteran at playing the race card. Recall how then-Vice President Biden, in 2012, somehow turned then-GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's opposition to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill into a racial issue. '(Romney) is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street,' Biden said at a campaign event in Danville, Virginia. 'He is going to put y'all back in chains.'

"Without the 90-plus percent black vote, the Democratic Party, at the national level, is in deep trouble. This explains why they race-bait. Constantly."

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