TIME TO DECLARE CLINTON FOUNDATION BIGGEST CHARITY FRAUD EVER: The evidence just keeps piling up. And my inside sources tell me there is much more coming from Charles Ortel in LifeZette.

YES, CNN IS NOW THE ALL-PORN STAR LAWYER ALL THE TIME CABLE OUTLET: If you don’t believe it, well, LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst can set you straight.

“EXTREME” IMMIGRATION VIEWS ENJOY HUGE PUBLIC SUPPORT: What if most Americans want to reduce immigration by 75 percent? Washington elites better brace themselves because a new survey of 1,000 likely voters found 49 percent would slash green cards by three-fourths. Only 17 percent would keep things as they are.

Most of the respondents think businesses should be required to use the E-Verify system for new hires. Lots more heretical opinion found in the survey conducted by The Polling Co. (sound familiar? It should, it’s Kellyanne Conway’s old firm) for NumbersUSA, which is an advocacy group that supports tougher immigration enforcement policies. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has more.

And speaking of Brendan Kirby and more, that’s what he has this morning on the huge kink in the immigration court system that slows everything down to a snail’s pace. A snail in molasses, that is. Just to cite one illustration – the system still uses paper files for each case. Maybe somebody should let the immigration judges know about this amazing thing that’s been invented called “computers.”

HERE’S HOW OBAMA AND STATE OFFICIALS KEPT FOOD STAMP ROLLS JACKED UP: Unemployment benefits tend to follow the ups and downs of the economy, right? So why shouldn’t related welfare programs like Food Stamps? Traditionally, that was the case but not so after the Great Recession of 2008.

Brendan Kirby of LifeZette asked why not and found a bunch of signs pointing to Donald Trump’s predecessor in the Oval Office and like-minded folks in various state governments. Next question: Is this a sign of the presence of a permanent underclass in American society or just a temporary exception to a normal long-term trend?

DOESN’T THE LAW APPLY TO FORMER PRESIDENTS, TOO? Apparently not in the case of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund (BCKF), which was a joint project of George H.W. Bush and his successor, Bill Clinton, following the disastrous hurricane that nearly wiped out New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast. The fund was done under the initial auspices of the Clinton Foundation.

Here’s the problem in a nutshell: Federal and many state laws bar charities from asking for donations before they are officially recognized as legitimate organizations. The official date for the BCKF was Oct. 4, 2005, but, as investment banker/turned crack anti corporate and charitable corruption sleuth Charles Ortel makes clear this morning in LifeZette, millions of dollars were sought and received for at least a month prior to that date.

As is so often the case, the most troubling aspect here is the role of Clinton, who, Ortel notes, “was not named as an officer, director, or trustee of the Clinton Foundation or BCKF. He does not appear to have registered as a professional fundraiser. So it is unclear how he acquired lawful authority to solicit funds for Katrina victims in the name of either charity.”

And who is this “Lois Lerner” person of the IRS? Haven’t we heard about her somewhere else before???

HERE ARE THREE SCARY FACTORS YOU MUST UNDERSTAND IN FBI SCANDAL: It all makes sense once you understand this trio. Well, everything but those two chatty FBI lovebirds.

SENATE ETHICS PANEL SAYS MENENDEZ GUILTY: Of a lot, including accepting multiple gifts “of significant value” and failing to report them, as required by Senate rules and federal laws. Senate Select Committee on Ethics released its Letter of Public Admonition late Thursday.

ORNERY OKIE, SCOTT PRUITT, ISN’T GOING DOWN QUIETLY: And he may not be going down at all, though it’s unclear this afternoon how the embattled EPA administrator’s appearance earlier today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee affects his standing with the President. LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst looks at some interesting data comparing Pruitt and two of his Obama-appointed predecessors.

NOW GOOGLE HAS CREATED THE BUREAUCRAT’S ULTIMATE COVER-UP TOOL: It’s called “Expiring Email” and it has many on the Left and Right sides of the transparency community worried that government coverups just got supercharged.

“CRUMBS CHRONICLES” DOCUMENTS HOW TAX CUTS ARE BOOSTING REAL FAMILIES: LifeZette’s Michelle Blood is talking to individuals and families in Flyover Country and hearing lots of stories about the blessings of getting bigger paychecks. Are you listening, Nancy Pelosi?

A SERIOUS FBI CLINTON FOUNDATION PROBE WILL GRILL THESE TWO WITNESSES: You have almost certainly never heard of these two individuals but Charles Ortel knows about them because he has closely tracked their public filings on behalf of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. He details today in LifeZette just a small part of what his investigation turned up.

LIBERAL SUPPORT FOR CENSORSHIP IS NO NEW THING: Arthur Milikh of the Heritage Foundation points to multiple European examples of the urge to shut down dissent from the conventional wisdom of liberal statism.

IF THE PULITZER WAS WORTH ANYTHING, LUKE ROSIAK WOULD HAVE ONE: I’ve been saying for more than a year that if the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Luke Rosiak doesn’t get a Pulitzer for his exposure of the Imran Awan scandal in Congress, there’s no justice in this world.

Imran Awan was Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’ IT aide who, along with half a dozen family members and friends, did IT work for dozens of prominent House Democrats, including members of the House intelligence and foreign affairs committees. They had access to members’ email, documents and contacts.

Among much else, Imran Awan was caught downloading data from the House IT network to a private server. His latest documents Imran Awan’s family links to the Pakistani intelligence service, which is notorious for playing all sides (and for playing the U.S. for rich fools for many years).

Considering the depth of irrelevance to which the Pulitzer has lately sunk and the growth of Right journalism, it’s time for somebody to endow a new award to recognize investigative reporting excellence by folks like Rosiak.

FUTURE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT DECIDED IN ONE OF THESE THREE CASES? It could very well be a decisive blow either way could result from one of this trio of potential legal landmarks in First Amendment litigation.

Definitely worth keeping a scorecard. Author Michael Farris, BTW, spent years defending and growing homeschooling and now he’s running one of the pre-eminent First Amendment litigation shops in the country, the Alliance Defending Freedom. I understand that he sleeps once in a while as well.

UH-OH, THIS COULD BE THE END OF THE DEMS’ IMPEACHMENT PLANS: New Marist Poll finds more people will vote against a congressional candidate who promises to vote for impeachment than the reverse.

WHY IS COMEY ONLY NOW BEING ASKED ABOUT CLINTON’S OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? The former FBI director was asked this morning by a Washington, D.C. all-new radio host if the former Secretary of State’s destruction of emails from her private server and her cell phones and servers by aides amounts to obstruction of justice. LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst wonders why today is the first time anybody in the mainstream media has asked that extremely relevant question.

MILLION$ GIVEN TO BUSH-CLINTON KATRINA RELIEF FUND NOW UNACCOUNTED-FOR: You’ve heard the one about the guy who turned everything he touched into gold? With the Clintons, everything turns to gold … for them.

Charles Ortel, who looks increasingly like the corporate watchdog Ralph Nader should have been, pored over the Clinton Foundation’s public filings once again and what he found illustrates how doing good can so easily hide opportunities to do very well for oneself. Next Question: Didn’t the Bush presidents know with whom they were dealing?

REMEMBER WHEN THE INTERNET GAVE EVERYBODY A VOICE? NOT NOW: An exhaustive analysis by the Media Research Center produces devastating evidence that Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Twitter and Google are actively trying to strangle conservative voices.

How important is this to the future of the Republic? Brent Bozell, MRC’s founder and long-time chief, explains: “When the only ideas permitted are from one side, any prospect of intellectual discourse dies. If these platforms merely serve as an echo chamber of liberal talking points, everyone loses. Our country is divided and limiting free speech only makes matters worse.”

Like it says in Orwell’s classic, some animals are more equal than others. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has more.

WHAT RESPONSIBILITY DO HONDURANS HAVE FOR THEIR OWN PLIGHT? Now that is an uncomfortable question posed by the former chief of the national security division within the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. In other words, it’s not a question posed by some guy in his pajamas sitting in his living room (10 bonus points if you know the origin of that image!) blogging.

SIENNA COLLEGE CONSERVATIVES MEETING TODAY DESPITE THREATS: The Turning Points USA and Students for Liberty chapters at the Upstate New York campus are hosting a Let Freedom Ring conference today despite receiving multiple threats in recent weeks. Those threats — some subtle and others not subtle at all — came not just from Antifa-wannabes but also from a professor and an administrator. LifeZette’s Michelle Blood has details. The speakers lineup includes Roger Stone and James O’Keefe.

GUESS WHICH BOOK HAS CHANGED MORE GOVERNMENTS THAN ANY OTHER: Dr. Sean McDowell explains that and a dozen or so other factors that make this one unique beyond all others. And, no, it’s not Das Kapital.

WAIT, YOU MEAN OBAMA’S DACA ENCOURAGES ID THEFT BY ILLEGAL ALIENS? Yes, that’s exactly what Dale Wilcox of the Immigration Reform Law Institute contends and he’s got the data to prove it. As Glenn famously says, read the whole thing.

HOW DO YOU BORROW $28.5 MILLION, THEN MAKE IT DISAPPEAR? Just ask Bill and Hill and Chel at the foundation bearing their last name. Charles Ortel has uncovered yet another aspect of the sprawling charitable fraud that is the Clinton Foundation.

WHY THE RIGHT SHOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT BACKING FACEBOOK REGULATION: Can you spell “regulatory capture?” LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has more.

MEADOWS THREATENS “CONSEQUENCES WELL BEYOND CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS:” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows has had it up to here with excuses from the Department of Justice and the FBI for not producing for the House Judiciary Committee the estimated 1.2 million documents the panel has been seeking for nearly a year on Hillary Clinton’s private server and alleged contacts between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian interests.

As I explained Friday, the way to spell “way beyond contempt” is J-A-I-L. The last time Congress did it was 1935. Given the recent conduct of Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray, one might easily conclude it’s been too long since that last time.