In the 1930’s, Aldous Huxley published his novel Brave New World, which described a dystopian society that controlled every aspect of the lives of the inhabitants of the World State.  In the 1930’s, the ideas that the government would ban live births, dictate how many  and what type of children would be born, or “decanted,” would indoctrinate children in schools to do the bidding of the State, would do away with privacy, regulate every aspect of people’s lives, and would keep the citizens sedated to control them, was a fantasy.  In today’s America, it is becoming fact.  We now live in a world where so-called progressives prefer abortions to births, and where they encourage abortions for reasons such as gender choice.  Our public schools and even colleges have been turned into indoctrination factories, run by anti-American and anti-capitalist fanatics.  The advent of the 24 hour news cycle, cell phones, robo calls, internet search tracking, GPS tracking, and eavesdropping by Alexa and Siri, have effectively put an end to any notion of privacy.  And now, under circumstances hauntingly reminiscent of Huxley’s Brave New World, the government is pushing drugs on its citizens.  In Brave New World, the government supplied citizens with the drug Soma.  Not only supplied it, but actively encouraged the use of this tranquilizing substance.  Soma was ingested daily by the citizens of Brave New World as it offered what Huxley called a “holiday from reality.”  Depending on the dosage, it stimulated feelings of euphoria, pleasant hallucinations, or acted as a powerful sleep-aid.  It also served to heighten suggestibility, thus increasing the effectiveness of the propaganda to which the citizens were continuously subjected.  The inhabitants were trained to rely on Soma, and to repeat aphorisms such as, “A gram is better than a damn.”  In other words, don’t get mad, get mellow.  Our governments aren’t pushing all drugs, just marijuana.  The government is against opioids, and is trying to incarcerate drug manufacturers and doctors for making and prescribing them, but it’s pushing marijuana.  At the risk of sounding cynical, maybe that’s because there’s big money for the government in marijuana.  When they legalize it, as about half our States have done, they get to raise revenue from taxing the weed.  No revenue from opioids, so they’re bad.  Here in New Jersey, we have medical marijuana, and are attempting to legalize recreational marijuana.  Although our Legislature failed to pass that measure, its going on the ballot in 2020.  We’re actually going to be asked to amend our Constitution to permit marijuana use.  I didn’t know there was an anti-pot provision in our 1947 Constitution.  But picture that.  The citizens of New Jersey will be asked to amend the Constitution to permit the population to legally render itself stoned and stupid.  Our Founding Fathers would be so proud! But who cares, we can tax pot at $42 an ounce, and business is business.  I recently attended a legal education class on marijuana legalization.  The panel was comprised of lawyers from firms that stand to make a lot of money representing the cannabis industry, and assorted progressive hopheads, who’d just like to get stoned.  At the class, they complained that the medical marijuana dispensaries sell pot at prices $100 an ounce more than the dealers on the street.  They suggested that adding more dispensaries would promote competition and reduce prices.  That was the first time I ever heard a progressive imbecile suggest that capitalism might be a good thing.  It’s odd that the same government that prohibits and demonizes the use of tobacco, is now promoting the smoking of pot.  Both practices involve smoking.  Three or four marijuana joints a day can produce the same risk of bronchitis or emphysema as twenty or more tobacco cigarettes. Marijuana smoke is also filled with many of the same chemicals as tobacco smoke, including ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and formaldehyde; chemicals known to cause cancer.  Marijuana use kills brain cells and damages the thalamus, the part of the brain that’s involved in consciousness, long-term memory and information processing.  Long-term marijuana use may reduce blood flow to a part of the brain that increases the susceptibility for Alzheimer’s disease.  If you’re thinking its crazy to use marijuana to treat glaucoma, only to expose users to cancer, brain damage and Alzheimer’s disease, so am I.  But it’s even more insidious than that.  A nation of pot users provides the State with a sedated, compliant, and apathetic population.  If you’re not paying attention and aren’t interested in anything other than finding your next joint of Maui-Wowie, then the government can get away with just about anything.  Plus, having all of us lying around stoned is good for the economy.  Think of what the marijuana munchies will do for the snack food industry.  GrubHub would have to hire thousands of new drivers just to deliver pizzas and donuts to potheads.  It would be tough to find enough drivers who weren’t too high to drive, though.  Marijuana legalization will make it easier for the government to oppress us.  Maybe I’m just too suspicious of the government’s motives when it comes to pot.  Then again, we’re now learning that the Deep State has been, and is still, attempting to reverse a presidential election just to remain in power.  A stoned population would make that sort of thing a lot easier.  Nah!  Just fire up another doobie.   Don’t worry, be happy.  The government prefers you that way.

If you ever doubted that there exists a Deep State, which perpetuates the status quo regardless of elections, think again.  The only thing the entrenched Democrat and Republican members of this cabal agree on is that, no matter who gets elected, they must stay in power.  The Deep State is comprised of political insiders.  These are elected officials, lobbyists, former officials who aspire to be lobbyists, fixers, contributors who buy influence, and the assorted thieves and charlatans who gladly accept dirty money to thwart the will of the people.  The Deep State hates President Trump because he’s not one of them.  They get stronger as government grows ever larger, taxes more, spends more, and exerts more control over our lives.  Meanwhile, Trump arrived on the scene promising to cut the federal workforce (blasphemy), cut taxes (insanity), cancel regulations (heresy), and prohibit former officials from cashing in as lobbyists (downright treason).  It’s no wonder showing Donald Trump to Deep State denizens was like showing vampires the cross.  The irony is that the Deep State is responsible for making it possible for Donald Trump to become President.  For decades, thieving politicians whispered sweetly in our ears about how much they shared our views.  Then we elected them, and they ignored our wishes, until the next election.  If the Deep State bastards had delivered what they promised, even once in a while, they could have continued their game.  But instead, all they ever gave us were empty promises, lies, half-truths, financial solicitations, and then the back of their hands, until it was time to vote for them again.  We finally had enough.  In a field of 17 Republican candidates, 14 were from the Deep State.  The deepest Deep Stater, the one most solidly embedded in the establishment was Jeb Bush.  He also was the best funded, and he was the first to be eliminated.  Of the three non-establishment candidates, Ben Carson (a good man) didn’t have the political chops to go the distance.  The other two, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, were the last two standing. When I wrote, in February 2015, that a conservative populist could win, I had Cruz in mind.  Evidently, Donald Trump had come to the same conclusion.  Trump is the Deep State’s worst nightmare come true.  He wasn’t a creature of the establishment.  He owed them nothing.  For the Deep State, it’s all an act.  They are behind the curtain  pulling the strings.  As I’ve said before, Trump is like Rocky, “He doesn’t know it’s a damn show, he thinks it’s a damn fight.”  And worst of all, Trump isn’t even for sale.  He has his own money, so he doesn’t need theirs.  They did all they could do to stop him.  Hillary bought the phony dossier from the Russians, by way of a British spy, by way of Global Fusion, by way of her lawyer (information laundering?).  She gave the crap to the Obama Justice Department.  Former DNI James Clapper has said it was Il Duce Obama who ordered the Trump/Russia investigation.  No surprise there. (The fish stinks from the head).   The CIA got in the act, the FBI got phony FISA warrants to spy on Trump.  They cleared Hillary without an investigation.  After Trump was elected, Comey withheld information from him, set him up, set up General Flynn, and orchestrated the Mueller investigation, which, 2 years and $35 million later, came to nothing.  So now, unending unconstitutional Congressional investigations, into the President’s private affairs, his family, his closest advisors, and his businesses.  I’ve never been accused of being naive, but is it too much to ask that a President of the United States be treated with the common decency due any American citizen, much less the chief executive?    It won’t happen.  Too many Obama officials broke myriad laws constructing their “insurance policy” to end the Trump presidency.  Bill Barr cancelled that policy.  Now he’s doing the latest remake of Double Indemnity, investigating the underwriters who sold the policy.  But the Deep State thugs will never give up.  They have to protect their phony baloney jobs.  Harumph!  They can’t let the peasants with pitchforks, the smelly Walmart people who elected his President, get the idea that their votes actually count.  That’s why they must fight this President tooth and nail, whatever the cost.  And consider the costs.  Trump has the economy humming, unemployment at historic lows, wages rising, inflation nowhere to be seen.  They don’t care.  They want a big fat infrastructure bill, but not from Trump.  They want amnesty for the Dreamers, and Trump offered it.  They refused. Nobody deported more aliens than Il Duce Obama.  He actually did lock kids in cages.  Nobody complained.  But if Trump doesn’t ignore immigration laws, if he doesn’t lodge illegals in Trump Tower, or if HUD won’t violate the law and place illegals in public housing, he’s a racist.  We have a Legislature that will not legislate.  They can’t pass a budget.  It’s their job to fix the immigration laws.  They won’t.  They don’t care about you.  They don’t care about the border, U.S. sovereignty, Americans’ jobs, or our national security.  They and their media lapdogs bitched and lied about “Russian collusion” for nearly 3 years.  Picture it.  They bought Russian lies about Trump, and used it to try to frame Trump for consorting with the Russians.  In so doing, the Deep State has given aid and comfort to the Russians.  Putin’s goal was to sow the seeds of chaos in America, to weaken our government.  With the help of the Deep State, he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.  The Clintons took money from the Russians.  Joe Biden and son took money from Ukrainians allied with Russians, and from the Chinese, who Trump is fighting on trade.  Deep Staters pretend to be Americans, but business is business.  They sold you out before, and they’ll do it again.  All this proves that the Deep State is really a shallow cesspool.  Trump must be destroyed.  He’s costing them money, and he’s proved we do much better when we take the boot of the Deep State masterminds off our necks.

In a famous 1951 Looney Tunes cartoon entitled Rabbit Fire, Bugs Bunny tries to convince rabbit hunter Elmer Fudd that it’s really duck season, to the detriment of Daffy Duck.  Given the plethora of ongoing investigations of President Trump, his family and his businesses, by the Congress and assorted prosecutors, it’s clear that the Left has decided that it’s Trump Season.  The Mueller Report was supposed to settle these matters once and for all, but the Dems didn’t get the result they wanted, so the House Democrats want to do it again.  In their pursuit of the Russian collusion fantasy, Democrats have found no lie too big to tell about what Mueller’s report does and does not say.  Mueller explicitly found no collusion with any Russian, but Congressional Democrats continue to claim the report says otherwise.  Attorney General Barr made it a point to get Mueller on the record to confirm that his decision not to decide about obstruction of justice had nothing to do with the Justice Dept. rule that prohibits indictment of a sitting president.  That didn’t stop hundreds of “former federal prosecutors,” a/k/a Democrats put out of office by Trump’s election and assorted Never-Trump so-called Republicans, from claiming that only the Department rule prevented Trump’s indictment.  House Democrats have declared open season on the President.  There are more than 20 separate investigations under way by Congressional committees.  I actually heard an ABC WHite House correspondent the other day decrying the White House “stonewalling” the Congressional “oversight” role.  Hey numbnuts, the Congress has the right to oversee the operation of the various Executive departments.  It does not have the right to investigate the financial history of the chief executive.  The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller report and all underlying evidence.  The laws enacted by Congress prohibit the Attorney General from giving them what they subpoeaned, but that’s alright, because Gerry Nadler doesn’t really want the documents.  He purposely demanded things he knew he couldn’t have, so that he can complain that he didn’t get them and claim a coverup, so the insane Democrat base will be appeased and keep sending money.  Hard to believe, you say?  Think again.  About 40% of the electorate still believes the Russians changed votes in the 2016 election.  Constant lies by Democrats and the media will do that.  The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for documents and testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn.  Trump produced over a million documents for Mueller, and McGahn was allowed to testify for 30 hours.  The White House will not permit him to testify.  Aha, coverup!  Perhaps the Democrats never heard of executive or attorney-client privilege.  The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees asked the White House and State Department to turn over “all documents and communications, regardless of form and classification, that refer or relate to any communications between President Trump and President Putin, including in-person meetings and telephone calls.”  This is an unconstitutional encroachment by Congress into the Executive Branch’s foreign policy powers.  The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to accounting firm Mazars USA seeking eight years of Trump’s financial documents, the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One for Trump’s financial records, the House Ways and Means Committee has requested six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns, the House Oversight Committee is conducting a wide-ranging investigation centering on alleged abuses with the White House security clearance system, the House Judiciary Committee in early March sent letters to 81 Trump-connected individuals and entities seeking records and testimony from the White House, Trump’s businesses, charity and family, as part of a broad inquiry into potential obstruction of justice and corruption, they also are investigating whether Trump misrepresented his net worth.  All of these Congressional excesses are geared toward what The Wall Street Journal recently referred to as The Psuedo Impeachment.  They didn’t like the Mueller Report, so Mueller must be interrogated.  For what?  Is there something he could have left out of his 448 page report? Because Attorney General Barr can’t give them redacted items the law doesn’t permit him to disclose, he’s hiding something and covering up, so he must be interrogated, and his character must be assassinated.  They loved Rod Rosenstein when they thought he was trying to bring the President down.  Now that he’s left office, he has become another enemy.  As the Journal sees it, the character assianations and constant subpoenas are designed to appease the whacky Democrat base, that demands Trump’s impeachment, regardless of the consequences to the Democrat Party.  The truth of the matter is that, in two years, President Trump has been investigated more than any other president, and the investigators have found nothing.  The Democrats have shot all their guns at President Trump and missed.  But now, the Mueller investigation complete, Attorney General Barr is the new Game Warden.  It’s high time that the members of the Obama Administration who cleared Hillary and framed Trump were put under scrutiny.  To that end, the Attorney General has appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to examine the conduct of such miscreants as Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch and the other CIA,  FBI and Justice Dept. employees who used the FISA court for political purposes.  This investigation could lead right to the door of that wascally wabbit, Il Duce Obama.  Watch out you Daffy Democrats, it’s no longer Trump Season, it’s Truth Season.

To say that James Comey is a strange character in the chronicles of the Trump presidency is something of an understatement.  Throughout this sad episode in our political history, Comey has lurked, first as Director of the FBI, then as the ever-present voice from the wilderness, pontificating on events, the final arbiter of good and evil.  This week, historian Victor Davis Hanson published The Fright of James Comey, which is an analysis of Comey’s recent conduct.  Hanson recounts what he calls Director Comey’s schizophrenic behavior as a prosecutor and investigator in the Hillary Clinton email matter.  Comey exempted Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin from indictment.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch recused herself in the Clinton email investigation after she got caught meeting with Slick Willy in Arizona.  Lynch ordered Comey to call the Hillary investigation “a matter” and not an investigation.  That was an honest assessment, because Comey never really investigated Hillary.  He granted immunity to Clinton’s aides without getting any information in return, and overlooked their lying to the FBI.  Comey wrote his summation of the Clinton email investigation, exonerating Hillary before he had even interviewed her.  Comey then played a starring role in the efforts by the CIA and Justice Dept. to spy on the Trump campaign, to prevent his election, and to drive him from office after he won.  The effort to drive Trump from office was a necessity, to cover up the illegal spying and frame job that he and the others had done.  The efforts before the election, to stop Trump and elect Hillary, had a different motivation.  Comey had chosen sides in the election, and had put the full weight and all resources of the government’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to work to ensure the result he wanted – Hillary had to win, and if not, then Trump still could not be President.  He was an outsider, who could not be trusted to permit the deep State to continue running the show, despite the will of the electorate.  But Comey was a straight arrow, perhaps the last honest man in Washington, or so we were led to believe.  How could he be party to such underhanded conduct?  Perhaps the answer lies in Comey’s past; in his education, and in his core beliefs.  It appears that, when Comey made anonymous comments online, he used the name “Reinhold Niebuhr” on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.  This is telling.  Comey earned undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Religion at the College of William and Mary in 1982.  He wrote his senior thesis on liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.  According to Niebuhr, a Christian has an obligation to seek justice, by entering the political sphere because that is where one can find the power necessary to establish whatever justice is possible in the world.  “The Christian is to seek justice.  Politics holds the power necessary for the establishment of justice.  Therefore the Christian must participate in the political process.”  Comey’s decision to work for the FBI can be understood as a way of fulfilling Niebuhr’s vision of Christianity as a defender of justice.  I always wondered, if Comey recognized it as his duty to stop Trump from being President, why he would have given the remarkable July 5, 2016 performance, when he laid out the damning evidence against Hillary, and then announced that she would not be charged with a crime.  For a student of Niebuhr, justice is about using your power to balance the power of those not predisposed to recognize any limits on their self-interest.  People like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  It appears that Comey the Good was compelled to expose the flaws in both candidates, and then to choose the one he believed was the lesser of two evils.  This religious fervor explains much of Comey’s conduct.  His reliance on the ridiculous Steele dossier to spy on the Trump campaign; his withholding from the Court the facts that the dossier was an unverified political document, and that Steele had been fired by the FBI; and his meeting with President Trump in January 2017, in which he told Trump a portion of the material in the dossier, so that he could then leak his report to the media.  These were sins, to be sure, but he was doing the work of the Lord.  Halleluah!  Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that Comey lied to the President to make him think that he was not under investigation and that the FBI did not leak confidential information to the press.  Comey’s deputy Andrew McCabe and Comey himself were chronic leakers.  Comey swore under oath that he had never authorized anyone in the FBI to leak to the press.  McCabe swore that Comey was well aware that his subordinates were talking to the press to leak information selectively.  One of them lied under oath, and the upcoming report of the Justice Depatrment’s Inspector General likely will include criminal referals for that.  Comey stole FBI documents, which he leaked to the media.  He faces criminal jeopardy for that.  Hanson sees Comey’s incessant efforts to denounce Trump as preparation for his defense against the charges likely to come from Attorney General Barr’s investigations of the pre and post election shenanigans of the Justice Department.  “Yes, I might have done those things, but Trump was a real and present threat to democracy, so I did it for my country.”  As James Boswell taught, “Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel.”  But Comey doesn’t see himself as a scoundrel.  In his mind, he must use his power to do justice, as the Christian arbiter of all that is just.  If he must fall, it is his Christian duty to do so.  Hence, Comey the martyr, and would-be saint.  Perhaps a latter day Saint James.  Let’s hope he fairs better than the first one.  King Herod beheaded him.  If all this sounds crazy, that too might be by design.  Maybe Comey is auditioning his insanity defense.  Who knows?  Whether it’s to be Comey the monk, the martyr or the madman, only time will tell.

For those of you who thought that the Mueller Report would put an end to the Democrat and media led recreation of the Salem witch trials, sorry, no such luck.  The Left is far too crazy, and far too invested in the “Trump was a Russian agent” bull crap to let this go.  To recap, the CIA and FBI set up several low-ranking members of the Trump campaign to orchestrate the destruction of the Trump presidential bid, and if, God forbid, he were to win, to drive him from office.  They, with the assistance of Il Duce Obama, got four FISA warrants to conduct surveillance on the President and his administration, unmasked the names of Americans who were intercepted, and leaked information to their media handmaidens.  James Comey treated President Trump as a criminal suspect, went to the President in the role of an undercover operative, planted the Steele dossier hoax allegations, stole classified documents from the FBI, and then leaked them to the media, to create a perceived need for a Special Counsel investigation.

The Dems bullied Attorney General Sessions into needlessly recusing himself from the investigation, and Mueller and his 17 Democrat henchmen ran amok for nearly two years, interviewed 500 people in a number of countries, executed countless search warrants, charged us some $30 million, and concluded that no one from the Trump campaign, or for that matter any American, conspired with the Russians to do anything untoward.  We paid Mueller for his legal judgment, but because he knew he had no legal case for obstruction of justice by the President, Mueller refused to formally make that judgment. (Don’t we deserve a refund for that?)  Attorney General Barr summarized Mueller’s conclusions, released the report to the public with few redactions, and made an unredacted report available to members of Congress.  No Democrat reviewed it.  All this should satisfy the Dems in Congress, right?  Wrong!  The Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee will not let this nonsense go.  On May 1st, Attorney General Barr testified before the committee, and its Democrat members tried hard to kill the messenger.   Phony Vietnam veteran Blumenthal insulted Barr.  Crazy Maisie Hirono called him a liar, and demanded his resignation.  It got so bad Committee Chairman Lyndsey Graham called her comments “slander,” and put a stop to them.  Would-be President Kamala Harris said he had no credibility.  Nancy Pelosi has called Barr “a boot-licking hack.”  What has Barr done, you ask?  He correctly interpreted the law, decided that this President did not obstruct justice, and that no president can obstruct justice simply by exercising the authority vested in the chief executive by the Constitution.  The Democrats are trying to turn the total loss they suffered, when Bob Mueller failed to find evidence of crimes that does not exist, into the 2019 version of the Watergate hearings.  The only difference is that in Watergate, there actually were real crimes and real criminals, up to and including the president.  It is from Watergate, that we get the phrase, “it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.”  45 years ago, that was true.  Had Richard Nixon fired the people responsible for the Watergate burglary on June 18, 1972, it would have been over – no hearings, no resignation.  Today, that familiar phrase doesn’t apply.  Even Bob Mueller says there was no crime, hence nothing to cover up.  Well, maybe nothing for President Trump to cover up, but certainly there were crimes and there is an ongoing coverup.  Remember the recap above?  The CIA and the FBI and Justice Department people, like Brennan and Clapper and Comey and Strozk and McCabe and Sally Yates and Loretta Lynch and yes, even Il Duce Obama, are guilty of crimes that they are still trying to cover up.  Trump was a threat to them, so they tried to get rid of him.  Sessions and General Flynn were threats to them, and they did get rid of them.  But the new threat is Attorney General Barr.  He went before Congress and dared to say what we all know, but what the Democrats must continue to deny, that President Trump was spied upon by the Intelligence Community.  The Inspector General’s investigation, and the Strozk-Page texts, and testimony from people in the FBI, and our own common sense have proven it.  Bruce Ohr was right at the heart of the conspiracy, so why is he still employed by the FBI?  Only one reason.  He is singing.  Barr also promised the Congress that he has a number of open leak investigations, and that he is investigating the conspiracy to clear Hillary Clinton and the conspiracy to frame the President, including all the FISA court abuses.  Reportedly, a number of FBI employees are about to be indicted for FISA court abuses during the Obama Administration.  The Left must try to cover up, because when those truths become known, all of them are at risk.  The devastating damage to Democrats aside, when the heads begin to roll, people are going to jail.  People in the Obama Administration who conspired, lied and leaked.  People in Congress who lied and leaked, and the media people who received the leaks, and perpetuated the conspiracy and lies since 2015.  That’s right, this crap didn’t start in July 2016 with George Papadopolous.  The Democrats are desperate.  Some of them committed crimes, and justice is coming for them.  The rest of them, in the throes of Trump Derangement psychosis, have been shoveling this crap with both hands for several years.  When the indictments come, even the fake news media won’t be able to save them.  The Left wants another Watergate, but they should be careful what they wish for.  In 2019 it’s the crime, and the coverup, and the Left is responsible for both of them.  Yes, justice is coming.  Bill Barr better get somebody to start his car.