NOT A BAD PROBLEM TO HAVE: The Fastest-Growing U.S. City Is Scrambling to Survive the Shale Boom.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Feds Arrest Muslim Convert, Stop Terror Attack. “Mark Domingo, an infantryman who served a combat stint in Afghanistan, was arrested Friday after visiting a park in Long Beach where authorities said he planned to plant home-made explosive devices made with nail-filled pressure cookers in advance of a Nazi rally scheduled Sunday.”

COLORADO: Governor Polis thinks voters were wrong, resurrects ridiculously high tobacco tax. “He wants another shot, and he and his colleagues waited until 7 business days before the end of the legislative session to introduce a bill to set up another vote. Never mind giving legislators on all sides of the issue time to consider the options, give proposals a public airing, hear from expert witnesses on both sides, and consult with their constituents.”

Votes will be held until voters produce the desired result.

YES: Among the far-left, Islamists, and violent white supremacists, anti-Israel antisemitism is the common theme.

CHANGE: The Great Brazilian Foreign Policy Realignment.

Israel was Bolsonaro’s first stop outside the Americas. The visit was staunchly criticized by Lula da Silva’s former ally in the region: Hamas. If Bolsonaro seems chummy with Netanyahu, then keep in mind that the prime minister was the first Israeli leader to attend a Brazilian presidential inauguration. Lula da Silva had very different connections in the region; he infamously called Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi his “brother, mentor, and teacher.”

The other pivot Brazil’s foreign policy has taken lies closer to home. On a recent visit to Chile, South America’s most open and liberalized economy, Bolsonaro’s meeting with Chilean president Sebastián Piñera served to further cement a free-trade agreement between both countries, which is yet to be ratified by each nation’s congress. Bolsonaro and Piñera also unveiled the founding of Prosul (Prosur in Spanish), a convening of South American nations dedicated to expanding much-needed free trade within the continent. Paulo Guedes, Brazil’s newly minted minister of the economy and a University of Chicago graduate, is pushing for greater trade liberalization, one of Bolsonaro’s key campaign promises. This visit also served to put an end to Brazil’s involvement in the Union of South American Nations, which was largely viewed in Brazil as an attempt by Venezuela to spread its influence around the continent.

Plus: “All in all, the move towards free trade, closer ties with the world’s democracies, and regional cooperation unburned by Venezuela’s petro-dollars and ‘twenty-first century socialism’ seem like a net positive for Brazil.”

Indeed.

AGAIN: Hezbollah Terror Tunnels Discovered in Israel.

ENDGAME? Venezuela’s Guaido calls for military uprising while flanked by soldiers at Caracas airbase: ‘The moment is now.’

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for a military uprising, saying he has begun the “final phase” of his plan to oust embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

In a three-minute video posted on his Twitter account, the 35-year-old lawmaker said soldiers who took the streets would be acting to protect Venezuela’s constitution.

Minutes after the video was shared, the Venezuelan government said it would be putting down a small coup attempt by military “traitors” working with the opposition.

Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez on Twitter called on Venezuelan citizens to remain on high alert, alongside the “glorious Bolivarian National armed forces, to defeat the coup attempt and preserve the peace.”

“We will win,” he wrote in Spanish.

Moments later, tear gas was fired at a highway overpass near the Caracas air base where Guaidó and several heavily armed soldiers with blue bands wrapped around their forearms had been standing guard.

More to come…

OUTBID: Beto O’Rourke’s ‘Ambitious Climate Plan’ Is Even Worse Than the Green New Deal. “He called it “the most ambitious climate change plan in the history of the United States.” The plan champions red tape, extensive government hand-outs, an unrealistic timetable for energy transformation, and a revamping of relief efforts to address the climate disasters that even this ‘ambitious’ plan considers unavoidable.”

THEATER OF THE ABSURD: Bartiromo’s Interview With Border Patrol Agents Was Interrupted… By Illegal Aliens Crossing The Border.

CREEPING SHARIA: Subway removes ham and bacon from nearly 200 UK & Ireland stores and offers halal meat only after ‘strong demand’ from Muslims.

CALEB HOWE: This Fawning NBC News Article on Pete Buttigieg is Worse Than a Glorified Press Release; It’s Sanctified.

Data geek Mayor Pete is a leader. He is data-driven. Really smart. He’s brash. And dynamic. Bold. Has the best education in the world. He has fancy degrees, but the confidence to govern with heart, and the brain to govern with data.

It may seem like that is an exaggerated description, but all of that is taken from this single NBC News article about 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg. And those are just the words in isolation, they can’t really convey the depth of the hagiography posted as news by NBC on this candidate.

Read the whole thing.

#HIMTOO? Pete Buttigieg Accused of Sexual Assault.

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Whispers Sweet Nothings into Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Ear.

AND ANOTHER ONE: Mystery data breach reportedly exposes 80 million names, addresses, and income info.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for April 29, 2019.

REPORT: Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx subpoenaed over Jussie Smollett case.

FINALLY: Samsung revealed a $1,600 TV for millennials that rotates to turn into a massive screen for your smartphone.

Since hardly anyone rotates their phone into landscape for shooting video, why not just rotate the whole TV?

CHARLOTTESVILLE: Either Jake Tapper’s memory isn’t what it used to be, or he just got caught in a whopper.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: No, Democrats, the Obama-Biden Administration Was Not Scandal-Free.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts.

PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEABLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE UNTO GIANT MUTATED OCEAN LIZARDS: How the U.S. Military Would Go To War (And Kill) Godzilla.

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL DARK MONEY: Rich Dems Spend $60 Million to Hide the Party’s Far-Left Agenda.

The group, called Future Majority, is co-chaired by Berkshire Hathaway billionaire Charles Munger’s son Philip, and Dan Tierney, the founder of an electronic market trading firm called Getco. Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith Mestrich is also funding the effort. In other words, rich people.

Oddly enough, they’re the ones who seem more in touch with the common folks than today’s Democratic party.

Future Majority executive director Mark Riddle told Politico “If we can win back the narrative that the word ‘Democrat’ equals people who are fighting for folks who work hard every day, we can continue to win elections. If (Democrats) get defined as being about socialism … then I worry.”

Riddle’s use of the passive verb tense shows why this effort is already off to a bad start.

It’s not some outside force that is defining Democrats as socialists. It’s the Democratic party itself, which is rushing to embrace some of the most radical proposals ever put forward by a major political party.

They’re counting on what they perceive to be Trump’s weak chances next year for a shot at a legislative replay of 2009-2011, but they won’t be running against another John McCain in the aftermath of Bush’s disaster of a second term.

THAT HIS NAME ELICITS A “WHO?” REVEALS A LOT ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE PARTY: Democratic Presidential Hopeful John Delaney Says Bernie Has ‘Fundamentally Bad Policies,’ Would Likely Lose to Trump.

DISEASE IS ANTI-VAX: President Trump Urges Parents to Vaccinate Their Children.

HUH: Daimler Has ‘Absolutely No Idea’ How North Korea Got Its Mercedes-Maybach Limos.