"The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.

"In one direction, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump's campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.

"The oncoming train is slower but also larger. It involves congressional investigations, Department of Justice referrals and inspector general's reports -- mostly focused on improper or illegal FBI and DOJ behavior during the 2016 election.

"Why are the two now about to collide? ...

"The more Mr. Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he is inadvertently underscoring that actual lawbreakers must be subject to the same standard of justice. Ironically, Mr. Mueller's investigation has reminded America that it is past time to call Mr. Comey, Mr. McCabe, and a host of Obama-era DOJ and FBI officials to account.

"For over a year, we have had two standards of legality when there can only be one.

"A reckoning is near."

"Did you know that defensive gun use is happening more regularly in the United States than gun crimes?! Probably not!

"Why? Because the Centers for Disease Control never publicized it.

"The agency sat on this information for years. The unpublished CDC Study confirms there are nearly 2.5 million defensive gun use situations per year. A lot higher than 100,000, which is the low-ball number leftists have been throwing around recently."

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"The percentage of voters who believe that President Trump should receive a second term is nearly identical to the percentage of voters who thought the same about former presidents Obama and Clinton at the same time in their presidencies, according to Gallup.

"37 percent of registered voters believe Trump should be reelected, per Gallup's April 9-15 poll. 37 percent believed President Obama should be reelected and 38 percent thought President Clinton should be reelected at the same point in their first terms.

"Trump's job-approval rating currently sits at 39 percent, according to Gallup. Clinton and Obama enjoyed slightly higher approval ratings in the springs of their respective second years in office, but by the time of those years' November midterms, their numbers had sunk to where Trump's are now."

"It's not just Hillary Clinton who can't quit Russia. The whole Democratic Party keeps going back to 2016.

"In a move that reeks of desperation, the DNC filed a civil suit Friday against President Trump's campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks, alleging a vast (right wing!) conspiracy to tip the election to Trump.

"The suit's flamboyant charges made headlines, but that only served to obscure the real meaning. Namely, that top Dems are giving up their fantasies that special counsel Robert Mueller will deliver them from political purgatory by getting the goods on Trump.

"The trashy suit is their way of trying to keep impeachment and Russia, Russia, Russia alive for the midterms in case Mueller's probe comes up empty."

"Americans are well aware and focused on the need to protect our Southern border. But little thought has been given to the need to protect the border with Canada. ...

"An enormous, robust, and illegal opioid drug supply is streaming across our border with Canada, killing and poisoning tens of thousands of our citizens each year. Just last month, Canadian authorities busted a huge smuggling ring headquartered in Calgary that was producing an astonishing amount of counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs -- 120,000 pills a day. That's nearly 160 million pills a year from just one source!

"Canada has become a pipeline for the smuggling of Canadian fentanyl, a drug that is intentionally made to look identical to the legal Oxycodone, and which is more than 100 times more potent than morphine. Responsible for more than 50 percent of the more than 20,000 deaths of Americans from opioid-related drugs in 2016, fentanyl has become a major killer in the U.S. And 2018 will undoubtedly prove much worse. Sadly, Congress and its policy leaders in Washington remain silent, totally unconcerned, refusing to hold the Canadian government responsible, while thousands more Americans die each year.

"Currently, Congress is debating whether to legalize the importation of modified or newly reformulated pharmaceutical drugs. They would soon be released upon an unsuspecting U.S. population under the guise of affordable prescriptions from abroad, but in many cases they could in fact be deadly counterfeits."

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"In yesterday's column, I contended that it was outrageous for federal district judge Kimba Wood to direct that talk-radio and Fox News host Sean Hannity be publicly identified as Michael Cohen's third client. ...

"The court's order that Hannity's name be disclosed in open court violated longstanding, judicially endorsed standards against identifying uncharged persons in legal proceedings attendant to criminal investigations.

"Forget about evidence of wrongdoing. There is not even a suggestion that Hannity is involved in any crimes. He is a longtime friend of Cohen's. He says they've had some informal legal discussions about such matters as real estate -- and as any lawyer will tell you, informal discussions with non-lawyer friends are common. Hannity insists, however, that he has never retained Cohen to represent him in any legal matter, and has never paid him or received an invoice from him. There is no public evidence to contradict this, and no suggestion that Cohen has previously represented himself as Hannity's attorney.

"There has been no intimation that Hannity has any pertinent information about the activities for which Cohen is under investigation. His only relevance to the probe involves the question of whether there is a factual basis for Cohen to claim that an attorney-client (A-C) relationship with Hannity should prevent investigators from perusing some materials seized by the FBI from Cohen's office and residences. And since Hannity is not suspected of wrongdoing, even that question appears to be of little importance.

"Consequently, there was no reason for Hannity's name to be revealed publicly."

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"WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.

"The court's 5-4 decision -- an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices -- concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that defines what makes a crime violent. Conviction for a crime of violence makes deportation 'a virtual certainty' for an immigrant, no matter how long he has lived in the United States, Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her opinion for the court.

"The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump's administration, which has emphasized stricter enforcement of immigration law. In this case, President Barack Obama's administration took the same position in the Supreme Court in defense of the challenged provision.

"With the four other conservative justices in dissent, it was the vote of the Trump appointee that was decisive in striking down the provision at issue. Gorsuch did not join all of Kagan's opinion, but he agreed with her that the law could not be left in place. Gorsuch wrote that 'no one should be surprised that the Constitution looks unkindly on any law so vague that reasonable people cannot understand its terms and judges do not know where to begin in applying it.'"

"Colluders on the Loose ... If collusion is the twin of conspiracy, then there are lots of colluders running around Washington. ...

"James Comey himself was quite a colluder. Somehow, he managed to mislead Congress by assuring them that he had not written his assessment of Hillary Clinton before he interviewed her and supposedly had not been the source of or approved leaks to the media. He has contradicted what both Loretta Lynch and Andrew McCabe have said. He has deliberately misled a FISA court by withholding information from it, vital to any evaluation of the veracity of his writ. He probably lied when he was messaging the media that Trump was under investigation while simultaneously assuring Trump in person that he was not. He has admitted that he warped an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server because he assumed she'd win the presidency -- an admission of politicized interference into a criminal investigation, if not a blatant confession that the FBI in felonious fashion was manipulating investigatory evidence to affect the outcome of a U.S. election. For Comey to escape legal exposure from all that required some sort of colluding help in high places. ...

"In sum, Washington lives by and for collusion. Always has. Until now, it was apparently just a creed, not a crime."

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"After watching Mick Mulvaney spar with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in recent days, it's tempting to make the modest proposal that President Trump nominate Mulvaney for every administration position that has to testify before Sens. Warren, Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., or any of the other senators running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

"Mulvaney has earned Warren's ire because he is the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was her brainchild. While she hasn't backed down in their colorful exchanges, Mulvaney has been winning on points. ...

"But here's the serious point about Mulvaney's sparring with Warren. The Senate also deserves answers and accountability from federal agencies such as the CFPB. That's because Congress, under our Constitution, is supposed to oversee the federal government.

"That authority, however, was denied to Congress deliberately when Warren and her ilk established the CFPB. After Warren expressed frustration that the bureau wasn't answering her questions well enough, Mulvaney wrote back: 'I encourage you to consider the possibility that the frustration you are experiencing now, and that which I had a few years back, are both inevitable consequences of the fact that the Dodd-Frank ... Act insulates the Bureau from virtually any accountability to the American people through their elected representatives.'"

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"President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Postal Service to undergo an audit Thursday evening, a move that comes after president's repeated claims that Amazon is fleecing the USPS through alleged unfair business practices. ...

"According to the executive order, a task force comprise of top officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who would chair the group, will lead the investigation into the USPS' finances and will be required to issue recommendations and a final report no later than early August."