POST-MUELLER DEMS, GOP SAME AS PRE-MUELLER DEMS, GOP: Remarkable how nothing changed despite millions of tax dollars, thousands of interviews, hundreds of subpoenas, and 448 pages.

YEP. ALL THAT SPYING TOOK PLACE ON HIS WATCH: Mueller report takeaways: Trump didn’t collude but Obama blew it bigtime on Russia.

UPDATE: The New York Post front page today:

CONRAD BLACK: The Lies, Clichés, and Hypocrisy of Bernie Sanders.

MAYBE BECAUSE THEY’RE DEAD? Most people who die of natural causes do not seek medical help.

BUT OF COURSE: Venezuela skirts U.S. sanctions by funneling oil sales via Russia.

Under the scheme uncovered by Reuters, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has started passing invoices from its oil sales to Rosneft.

The Russian energy giant pays PDVSA immediately at a discount to the sale price – avoiding the usual 30-to-90 day timeframe for completing oil transactions – and collects the full amount later from the buyer, according to the documents and sources.

“PDVSA is delivering its accounts receivable to Rosneft,” said a source at the Venezuelan state firm with knowledge of the deals, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

Major energy companies such as India’s Reliance Industries Ltd – PDVSA’s largest cash-paying client – have been asked to participate in the scheme by paying Rosneft for Venezuelan oil, the documents show.

Rosneft, which has heavily invested in Venezuela under President Vladimir Putin, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Venezuela’s oil ministry, its information ministry, which handles media for the government, and PDVSA did not respond to questions.

With the coming flood of exportable oil from Texas, I wonder how much longer it will still make sense to risk end-running the sanctions. Venezuela’s extraction is expensive and increasingly unreliable. The same isn’t true of Texas, or for that matter, most any OPEC state other the Venezuela.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: White House: Now probe Hillary email scandal, Clinton Foundation, Page, and Strzok.

The White House Thursday ripped the “breathless” media coverage of the Russia collusion “hoax” and said now that it’s over, journalists should turn their attention on Obama-era scandals.

“While the establishment media has breathlessly covered this partisan witch hunt for nearly two years, they refuse to cover the real scandals that plagued the previous Democrat administration,” said an official.

The campaign manager of the Trump 2020 reelection campaign, Brad Parscale, added, “Now that the collusion and obstruction conspiracy theories have been exposed for the pathetic hoaxes they always were, the Obama-era [Department of Justice] and FBI must answer for their misdeeds and the scam that they perpetrated against the American people. Justice will be served.”

I feel like what’s coming may have been prepared well in advance.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Snopes Rates Babylon Bee World’s Most Accurate News Source.

CLAIRE LEHMANN: A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ohio State University Salaries Exposed: More Than 5,000 Employees Made Six-Figures or Higher While More Than a Dozen Top $1 Million. What’s really shocking is that the university has nearly 50,000 employees.

POLITICO: ‘Game Over’: Republicans Rejoice After Mueller Concludes.

I read the piece — it took three people to write it — and it turns out “Republicans rejoice” is just a variation on “Republicans pounce.”

Saved you a click.

#WALKAWAY: Jews have strong grounds for a new exodus — from the Democratic Party.

It’s not as outlandish as some may think. Just look to how British Jews have handled Jeremy Corbyn, who has brought a once-honorable and philo-Semitic Labour party into league with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah.

This month, the Jewish Labour Movement passed a no-confidence motion against Corbyn’s leadership. As The Guardian newspaper reported, Labour and Corbyn both “were dealt a blow” when the acting general meeting of the JLM “voted to describe the party as ‘institutionally ­anti-Semitic.’ ”

Sad to say, but the US Democratic Party is sliding toward a similar fate. Soon, “institutionally anti-Semitic” could serve as an apt description for the Democrats, as well. Consider: Just this week, Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in government, sat down with . . . none other than Corbyn.

ALSO: Pelosi defends Omar: ‘No taint’ of anti-Semitism in Democratic Party.

Run, don’t walk.

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? CNN: ‘God Allowed The Mueller Report To Test Our Unshakable Faith In Collusion.’

MUST-SEE TV: Bill Whittle on Notre Dame.

HIGHER EDUCATION AS MODERN-DAY FEUDALISM, COMPLETE WITH SERFS: The Death Of An Adjunct … And The University’s Soul. “Nearly 80 percent of faculty members were tenured or tenure-track in 1969. Now roughly three-quarters of faculty are nontenured. The jobs that are available—as an adjunct, or a visiting professor—rest on shaky foundations, as those who occupy them try to balance work and life, often without benefits.”

Flashback: Adjunct Serfs: Trump Should Target Worker Exploitation at American Universities. “A growing army of administrators, standing on the backs of underpaid and overworked adjunct professors, is the kind of exploitative two-tier system that people on the left typically denounce. But now, although there’s a bit of support for graduate students and adjuncts who want to unionize, there’s nothing like the ‘Fight for 15’ movement aimed at ending this unfairness. And, weirdly, no school is hiring ‘adjunct administrators.’”

He could split his opposition in higher ed, one of the left’s citadels, with an aggressive program for “adjunct rights.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Things That Can’t Go on Forever Simply Don’t. ”

For history’s rare multiracial and multiethnic republics, an “e pluribus unum” cohesion is essential. Each particular tribe must owe greater allegiance to the commonwealth than to those who superficially look or worship alike.

Yet over the last 20 years we have deprecated “unity” and championed “diversity.” Americans are being urged by popular culture, universities, schools and government to emphasize their innate differences rather than their common similarities.

Sometimes the strained effort turns comical. Some hyphenate or add accents or foreign pronunciations to their names. Others fabricate phony ethnic pedigrees in hopes of gaining an edge in job-seeking or admissions.

The common theme is to be anything other than just normal Americans for whom race, gender and ethnicity are incidental rather than essential to their character.

But unchecked tribalism historically leads to nihilism.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: DNC Bosses Contemplating a Superdelegate Coup if Bernie Sanders Leads in Delegates.

STANDING UP TO THE CRYBULLIES: Student activists tried to get Camille Paglia fired, her university said no.

AND ONE MORE FROM THE BABYLON BEE, AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Did Nick Cage Steal The Declaration? FALSE—Plus 5 More Shocking Snopes Reveals.  (I for one am shocked, shocked, shocked, face and all. Very face, very shocked.  And I fully expect to find Snopes at my door snapping a shot to prove I don’t have a shocked face, btw.)

Also, Dear Left, take note: you didn’t lose your sense of humor. It’s being held hostage by your self-righteousness.  Until you reclaim it, you’ll remain miserable, joyless scolds.

SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS JUXTAPOSE:

Reporting on the Mueller Report.

CNN: ‘God Allowed The Mueller Report To Test Our Unshakable Faith In Collusion’.

JUST LIKE STAY-AT-HOME-MOMS ROUTINELY FIND THE SAME. LIKE SEX, IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT EVERY GENERATION DISCOVERS ANEW: Stay-at-home dads are finding out parenting is hard.

TEACH WOMEN TO NOT TEST DRIVE THEIR DAUGHTERS’ BOYFRIENDS:  Mom allegedly had sex with both her daughters’ boyfriends.

GREAT – NOW I NEED TO LEARN SYRIAC?  Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at Mount Sinai monastery.

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