TRUMP SHOULD GET TOUGH ON ILLEGALS LIKE … BILL CLINTON WAS? Yes, it’s instructive to compare how our present chief executive is being excoriated daily for measures to stem the tide of illegal immigration to the U.S. with what the Man From Hope did on the same issue. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby did just that and what he discovered is quite illuminating for those with open eyes and minds.

MESSER BILL TO REQUIRE CENSUS OF CITIZENS, LEGAL RESIDENTS ONLY: What a novel idea – the constitutionally mandated decennial census of the population of the United States should include only actual citizens and legal residents, for purposes of formulas allocating federal funding! LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has the exclusive this morning.

CECILE RICHARDS’ ABORTION EUPHEMISM – “AFFORDABLE, NONJUDGMENTAL HEALTH CARE:” That one appears among the five most outrageous quotes compiled by LifeZette from the former Planned Parenthood chief’s new book about her panic in waking up the morning after the 2016 election to discover Hillary Clinton was not president-elect.

BEFORE ZUCK’S FACEBOOK, THERE WAS ZUCK’S FACESMASH: Bet you also didn’t know the Mark Zuckerberg Worldwide Apology Tour started in Bahstan in 2003, not Menlo Park in Silicon Valley in 2018. And did you know Facebook’s El Jefe is a huge fan of Big Government? No? Well then, you probably should read this ASAP.

DON’T BE FOOLED BY ZUCKERBERG’S SPIN: Facebook is staying in the personal data sale biz. That’s as in yours and mine, according to Michael Daugherty, writing this morning in LifeZette.

WELCOME TO JAIL, MR. ROSENSTEIN AND MR. WRAY: Here are five things Congress can do to stop the Department of Justice/FBI coverup on the Trump-Russia investigation. Bet you didn’t know Congress has the authority to jail people who thumb their noses at congressional subpoenas.

WHY DID THE CLINTON FOUNDATION SEND $37M TO A BALTIMORE P.O. BOX? That’s an especially relevant question when the $37 million was intended as a grant to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF) to help victims of the 2010 earthquake. But CBHF had only one address, in Washington, D.C., so, Charles Ortel asks in LifeZette, why send the money to a Baltimore address, and a P.O. Box to boot? And while we’re on the subject, who picked it up in Baltimore and what did they do with it?

CLINTON FOUNDATION BROKE VIP NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITY REGULATION: If your name is Gordon MacDonald and you are the Attorney General of New Hampshire, you really need to read this ASAP … OK, now what are you going to do about it?

NO WHITE HOUSE FOR YOU, MARK ZUCKERBERG: Brian Bosche explains why the evidence has been there all along.

THIS NEW JERSEY COUNTY WON’T BECOME A SANCTUARY PLACE: At least not if Sheriff Fred W. Brown of Hunterdon County has any say in it. He told LifeZette’s Michelle Blood Hunterdon “is not going to be a sanctuary county as long as I’m sheriff.” He’s one of the 400 sheriffs from across the country who signed a letter last week telling Congress to get with it and support tougher immigration enforcement. The ranks of such folks in law enforcement are growing steadily as the consequences of sanctuary dysfunction spread.

HOW MANY CONTAINERIZED RUSSIAN WMDS SIT IN U.S. PORTS RIGHT NOW? No, that’s not simply a click-bait question. Mary Fanning and Alan Jones connect dots on Uranium One deal, Clinton Foundation influence-peddling, Russian intelligence and a certain powerful Iraqi family. You really need to read what they found, which just went live on LifeZette.

ANOTHER PRO-SANCTUARY CITY CLAIM BITES THE DUST: Ask a defender of sanctuary cities to defend the policy and their first argument invariably is immigrants fearing deportation won’t help local crime fighters who cooperate with the feds. We hear it so often, it’s become a truism, part of the governing assumptions underlying of the debate about illegal immigration.

But guess what? There’s as much credible, concrete evidence for this sanctuary claim as there is for the proposition that Nancy Pelosi’s secret pleasure is watching Beta tapes (remember those?) of old Ronald Reagan speeches. LifeZette ace Brendan Kirby has the details on a new report out today from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

This group is an advocate of tough immigration enforcement, to be sure, but, as FAIR’s Matthew O’Brien told Kirby, “Illegal immigrants aren’t afraid of ICE. I mean, come on, we have DACA kids chaining themselves to the Capitol, refusing to leave.”

RIP PATRICK J. KORTEN: Joe Morris offers a wonderful tribute in LifeZette.

MEET THE CLINTON CHARITY THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT: When Bill and Hillary and Chelsea have nightmares, you can bet Charles Ortel is right in the middle of them. And with a multitude of good reasons why.

CLOSED MINDS IN MASSACHUSETTS HELP PROP UP PUTIN’S PLUTOCRACY: Environmentalists in Massachusetts and New York are determined to keep abundant U.S. energy resources “in the ground.” So what happens when the Northeast gets repeated bouts of unusually cold weather, as has been the case in 2018? Natural gas from Russia is unloaded in Bay State ports. There’s a protectionist union factor here, too. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has all the details.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD WANTS DISNEY PRINCESS WHO HAD AN ABORTION: Also a Disney princess who is an illegal immigrant, another who is transgender and one with a union card. LifeZette’s Michelle Blood saw the tweet and wrote about it before Planned Parenthood Keystone (Pa.) deleted it but it’s gone viral. Just as political correctness runs amuck in Planned Parenthood.

NO, LOYOLA-CHICAGO ISN’T THE FINAL FOUR’S ‘CINDERELLA’ TEAM, IT’S GOD’S: Well, the Ramblers do seem to have an advantage that is nun too amazing, according to LifeZette’s Maureen Mackey.

HAS THIS PARKLAND SHOOTING SURVIVOR BEEN READING GLENN REYNOLDS? Kyle Kashuv wonders why – considering all the failures of government at every level – we should “trust the government even more” to prevent future school violence?

HERE’S THE GUN DEMONSTRATORS THE MSM WON’T SHOW YOU: LifeZette went to the march in Washington, D.C. and came back with some fascinating shots.

THEY DIDN’T GET REAGAN THEN AND WASHINGTON GOPERS DON’T GET TRUMP NOW: I worked for one as a political appointee and now I cover the other as a journalist and it’s amazing how little some things change.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS PRAISING GOP’S ‘FREDDY KRUEGER’ SPENDING BILL? When Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi can barely contain their glee about House passage of that $1.3 Trillion “omnibus spending bill,” something is very wrong.

President Donald Trump supported the measure, too, so he shouldn’t be surprised in coming days when talk heats up again of a new third party, a term limits amendment to the Constitution and convening by the states of a constitutional convention. A demoralized base leads straight to Trump having to deal with a Democratic Congress that won’t hesitate to impeach him.

BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW EARNINGS WERE UP IN 22 OF 24 MEASURED INDUSTRIES IN 2017: The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in the Department of Commerce included that interesting tidbit of information in its announcement Thursday that statewide personal income was up in 2017 by 3.1 percent, compared to 2.3 in 2016.

Mining and agriculture took hits but everything else, especially construction, was up. As of 4 pm today, I found nothing about the BEA data on the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times homepages. Maybe I just missed it. Or they did. Coincidental, right?

HERE’S WHY TOM HOMAN IS STILL ONLY THE ACTING ICE CHIEF: Thomas Homan has been the acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and the federal official at the point of President Trump’s war against illegal immigration. He’s been a visible, articulate defender of strict enforcement of immigration law and Trump nominated him as the permanent director months ago. But the Republican Senate hasn’t even held a hearing on his nomination.

LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby makes clear there is much more to this story than Homan’s explanation that there’s a lot of paperwork involved. And in the process, Kirby provides insight into why asking these Republicans to drain the swamp may be akin to speaking Olde English to an Eskimo.

WHY BOB MUELLER HAS THE SAFEST JOB IN WASHINGTON: Donald Trump.

DO YOU KNOW WHO IS U.S. AMBASSADOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?  It’s Sam Brownback, the former Kansas governor and before that U.S. senator from John Brown’s former state of (brief) residence. Hardwired’s Tina Ramirez tells LifeZette that Brownback has a huge opportunity to advance religious freedom around the world.