SEN. JOE MANCHIN, MEET SEN. JOE MANCHIN: Rarely has a major flip-flop happened within such a comparatively short period of time and with such photographic evidence.

YOU WANT A REAL-LIFE GAME OF THRONES? WATCH TRUMP’S DRAINING THE SWAMP: When the final verdict is delivered on the Clintons, their foundation, Hillary’s email scandal and the Russia Collusion fantasy, one name is certain to be near the top of those who forced the truth out into the open – Charles Ortel.

IT’S ANOTHER BAD MESSAGING WEEK FOR TRUMP: Well, that’s how it appears from the White House, according to LifeZette’s Jim Stinson.

ADAM SCHIFF, MEET ADAM SCHIFF: Hypocrisy is traditionally understood to be the compliment vice pays to virtue. With the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, however, it’s hard not to see mendacity, pure and simple. LifeZette’s Jim Stinson looks into Schiff’s shifting.

HILLARY SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE WILL FORCE WOMEN ‘FIND THE FOOD … GATHER THE WOOD:” No, I am not making this one up, she really did say this. LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst has the details.

THESE 5 FBI SCANDAL PLAYERS MAY NEVER GET OUT OF THE FISA WOODS: When former FBI Director James Comey and four Department of Justice/FBI colleagues signed off on FISA surveillance warrant applications based on the infamous Steele dossier, they may have violated a procedural rule for the secret judicial panel known as the Woods Rule. Here’s my H/T to former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkinsson, who appears to be the first journalist to point this out.

Texas Republican Rep. Louis Gohmert has an solution for clearing up all the major questions surrounding the FISA applications – release the transcripts of each application’s handling in the court. With those in hand, Gohmert told LifeZette, “we can determine, among other things, if there was a fraud perpetrated upon the court, whether the court failed to properly elicit sufficient information to justify the secret surveillance of an American citizen, and why the FISA court appears to have taken no action against any attorney if such attorney misled the court.”

IS THIS THE MOST PIVOTAL FEDERAL JUDGE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF? FISA Court Judge James Boasberg is why Osama bin Laden’s death photos have never been seen outside the Pentagon. He’s also the reason 14,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails were made public.

But those decisions may pale by comparison with Boasberg’s decision Friday to keep you from reading any of the seven memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote to himself (and partially leaked to a buddy at Columbia Law School) on his conversations with President Trump.

OBAMA’S COVERUP FOR CLINTON WAS WORSE THAN COLLUSION: Among the least discussed facets of the Clinton email scandal has been former President Barack Obama’s obvious approval of what his Secretary of State was doing. Nobody has produced a shred of credible evidence that President Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia, yet Obama knew Clinton was using a private server and how that jeopardized national security. Charles Ortel probes deeper in LifeZette this morning.

CLINTONS HAVE USED FBI AGAINST ENEMIES FOR YEARS: Nunes memo made clear the Clinton campaign and the DNC it controlled on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton paid for the Steele dossier. But don’t think this was Hillary’s first foray into using and abusing federal law enforcement against political opponents. Remember Filegate? I do.

SHOULDN’T THE DYING HAVE THE “RIGHT TO TRY” UNAPPROVED TREATMENTS HERE? President Donald Trump’s shout-out to the “Right-to-Try” movement during his State of the Union Address should give a boost to a movement that has received little attention in recent years. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby talks to a key leader in the movement, and a critic who says the FDA already has a provision for the terminally ill to try experimental treatments here in the states, rather than having to travel to Mexico, Europe or elsewhere.

HOW INVITING A TARGET FOR TERRORISTS IS 200 CONGRESSMEN ON ONE TRAIN? That’s a question a few folks are starting to ask in the wake of Wednesday’s Amtrak train collision with a garbage truck at a rural Virginia crossing. The train carried an estimated 200 Members of Congress, aides and family members. One strategically placed Improvised Explosive Device (IED) could have killed how many, 50, 100, more lawmakers? LifeZette’s Jim Stinson talks to Sebastian Gorka and others saying wait a minute.

DID OBAMA FOLLOW CLINTONS’ EXAMPLE ON TRASHING RECORDS? Good question and one that ought to get the attention of multiple officials in federal law enforcement and document retention. Charles Ortel lays it out on LifeZette. Are you listening, National Archivist David Ferriero?

DIANNE FEINSTEIN, MEET DIANNE FEINSTEIN: LifeZette’s Jim Stinson dug into the senior California senator’s past statements on immigration issues and found some real gems. She probably doesn’t find them all that shiny, however.

MEDIA PRAISED THE PRESIDENT THEY LOATH, AT LEAST FOR ONE NIGHT: You know Trump hit the mark when CBS finds 75-25 approval for his State of the Union address and CNN’s Jake Tapper heard “beautiful prose.”

WAS DONALD TRUMP CHANNELING BILL CLINTON’S 1995 SOTU? Brendan Kirby at LifeZette checked the clips and found some uncanny similarities between Trump’s statements on immigration issues and those made by Slick Willie to the first Republican Congress in 40 years.

CHUCK SCHUMER, MEET CHUCK SCHUMER: Brendan Kirby at LifeZette found an interesting speech on immigration issues delivered by the present Senate Minority Leader in 2009. Schumer said things then that Schumer today would condemn as racist. If he’s intellectually honest, that is. Why are you vigorously shaking your head and saying “No, he’s not!!!!”?

RECOVERING ADDICT: “SAFE-INJECTION SITES” WON’T END OPIOID EPIDEMIC: Matt Mossburg was a rising political star in Maryland in the mid-1990s but then an opioid addiction changed everything. He’s learned a lot since then and one thing he’s certain about is the new wave of treatments like safe-injection sites and variations thereof that give addicts limited doses of their drug.  Continued addiction, not sustainable recovery, is the result. Mossburg explains in today’s LifeZette.

TRUMP’S FIRST-YEAR BOOM IS LARGELY DUE TO DEREGULATION BUT THINK ABOUT THIS: Merely cancelling an expensive federal regulation doesn’t immediately convert the compliance cost into a potentially productive new investment. The capital has to be reallocated and some time is required for the new investment to produce sufficient return to offset the former compliance costs. Huh?

In other words: “It takes time for the economy to recover the costs of excessive regulatory compliance and to redirect capital to productive uses, so the gains seen during Trump’s first year are likely attributable in significant part to the expectations generated by his slashing the red tape. The full impact of the deregulation is still to be felt.”

And remember, the Trump tax cuts aren’t in effect until February. Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates regulatory compliance cost the U.S. economy $1.9 trillion. Trump can’t repeal all federal regulations but what if his tax cuts and the continuing positive impact of deregulation in coming years produces an economic boom that far exceeds the Reagan era? Ponder that one a bit!

FDR DIDN’T KNOW PEARL HARBOR WAR COMING, GRASSY KNOLL WAS EMPTY AND RR DIDN’T HAVE ALZHEIMER’S IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Craig Shirley, a former colleague in the 1980 Reagan campaign, has since become the pre-imminent biographer of the former president’s campaigns and administration. So the man knows what he’s talking about when he writes this morning on LifeZette concerning recent comments by the White House physician:

“It would be nice to dismiss Dr. Jackson’s ill-informed and without-substance comments and move on, just as the White House would like to put the hearsay concerning Trump’s mental health behind it.

“But he and Trump’s tweets have now given new life to an old and most-thought extinguished and ridiculous rumor. So once again, Reagan historians have to beat it down. Dr. Jackson’s uninformed comments made news and, even worse, they were uttered by a White House physician, giving the veneer of officialdom.”

In other words, no, Reagan’s capacity to govern was not impaired during his second term, contrary to the myth first propounded by those who fought him at every step in his efforts to restore American liberty and win the Cold War against the Soviet Union.

COULD YOU TEXT SOMEBODY EVERY FOUR MINUTES FOR FIVE MONTHS? That’s what those FBI lovers, Counter-Intelligence agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, did during those now-formerly missing five months. Think about that for a moment:

• There are 12,960,000 seconds in five 30-day months.
• 12,960,000 divided by 50,000 equals a new text message every 259.2 seconds.
• That means Strzok and Page texted each other on average every 4.32 minutes.
• Every day of every week of every month for five months!
• Give or take a few here and there, of course.

More at LifeZette.

DEVIN NUNES’ MOM DIDN’T RAISE NO FOOL: The House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman was told yesterday by the Department of Justice that it would be reckless to make public his four-page summary of classified information on FBI surveillance abuses during the 2016 presidential campaign. Let us review it beforehand to remove anything that shouldn’t become public in order to protect U.S. intel “sources and methods,” DOJ said. Right.

Well, that ain’t gonna happen, if Rep. Peter King of New York is to be believed. King, who is a senior GOPer on the intel panel, told Laura Ingraham late last night that Nunes, a California Republican, will send the memo straight to President Donald Trump, pending release. Trump has already said he favors #ReleaseTheMemo, so why circumvent DOJ? Nearly 200 House members have already reviewed the memo in a secure setting (though only a handful of Democrats).

“If we gave them this memo [in advance], what they would do is, it would be passed out to all their friends in the media to tear it down before it even gets out there,” King told Ingraham, LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst reports.

“Everything that’s in that memo is from the Justice Department — information we found. There’s no surprises there to them. They just want to be ready to … make a pre-emptive attack on it. We’re not going to let them,” King said.

Judging by the reaction of DOJ and the onslaught of attacks by Dems and their allies in the Mainstream Media claiming the document is merely a partisan screed, Nunes must have succinctly captured a mountain of information that these people are desperate to keep out of the public’s gaze. You don’t suppose it shows Obama’s coteries at DOJ and the FBI trying to help Hillary gain the Oval Office instead of jail, do you? Really?

FIVE THINGS THE ABORTION INDUSTRY DOESN’T WANT WOMEN TO KNOW: Kim Ketola explains in LifeZette why, to cite just one of her five examples, 100 percent of abortions performed at home (i.e. abortion pills) are fatal to at least one human being. But that’s just the beginning because there is also this, which Ketola says pro-abortion media like Women’s Health don’t dare mention:

“At no point does Women’s Health tell its readers their regular doctor won’t likely cooperate with their plan, and that the provider they do see will not likely treat them if there are complications. And isn’t it just a little misleading to reassure women about having an abortion in the comforts of their home — while not warning them they will have to deal with the ‘remains?'”

There’s just no other way to deal with what’s left of the dead baby: “That will involve either retrieving the fetus from the toilet or soiled linen, and/or making the devastating decision to flush.”

And no, I am not mansplaining. Just reporting.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS, SO MANY QUESTIONS, ABOUT RUSSIA AND WHO? What is the phenomenon shrinks talk about in which a person projects onto a nemesis characteristics they despise in themselves?

What if the Trump/Russia Collusion narrative is projection by the Clintonista liberals, obsessed as they are with getting even with Trump for defeating Hillary? Charles Ortel continues his series this week in LifeZette asking some disturbing questions and offering evidence that is even more disturbing.

And if these questions make you a bit uncomfortable, did any of us ever expect to hear a U.S. senator tell the nation his committee has an informant describing meetings outside of the Department of Justice of a “secret society” from within the FBI devoted to stopping any presidential candidate or incumbent chief executive. Strange times we live in, friends and neighbors.

SURPRISE! JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REFUSES TO RELEASE MUELLER’S BUDGET REQUEST: Of course you’re not surprised. Judicial Watch submitted the Freedom of Information Act request for documents for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s budget. No can do, DOJ said, citing FOIA’s exemption five, the “deliberative process,” which is the transparency law’s all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card for federal officials. Brendan Kirby of LifeZette has more.

MEMO TO CHUCK SCHUMER – GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE TANGLING WITH LAURA INGRAHAM: This was the Senate Minority Leader’s second worst mistake over the weekend, with the first being causing Schumer’s Shutdown. Kathryn Blackhurst has more at LifeZette.