Borderline Personality:President Trump once again threated to shut down all or parts of the border as soon as next week if Mexico doesn’t stop illegal immigration into the United States.

  The President tweeted, “This would be so easy for Mexico to do, but they just take our money and ‘talk.’ Besides, we lose so much money with them, especially when you add in drug trafficking etc.), that the Border closing would be a good thing!”

 Trump has made this threat before and choked at the bat.Even so, he told a gaggle of reporters in Florida, “We’ll keep it closed  for a long time. I’m not playing games.”

Summer Reading: The Special Counsel’s report on Russian election interference will be made public in a redacted version by mid-April, Attorney Gen. William Barr told lawmakers. He said the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress.

  “Everyone will soon be able to read it,” Barr wrote in a letter to the chairmen of the congressional judiciary committees.

  The report is nearly 400 pages. Barr’s letter said the redactions will include; matters required to be private according to rules of criminal procedure; sensitive national security information; material related to continuing criminal prosecutions; and information that would violate the privacy of “peripheral” people.

  House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler wrote in a statement, “Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence, by April 2. That deadline still stands.”

Jury of One:President Trump says the news organizations that won prizes for coverage of the Russia investigation should have their awards revoked.

  He tweeted, “So funny that The New York Times & The Washington Post got a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage (100% NEGATIVE and FAKE!) of Collusion with Russia – And there was No Collusion! So, they were either duped or corrupt? In any event, their prizes should be taken away by the Committee!”

  Nothing the papers reported was fake. They made some errors, and it may have been negative, but they told the truth.

Sticky Wicket: Britain’s Parliament voted for a third time to turn down Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for exiting the European Union. The 585-page withdrawal agreement would have governed Britain’s relationship to the European Union through the end of 2020. 

  Even May’s promise to resign if she won a deal didn’t sway enough votes. The joke is that she fell on her own sword and missed.

  Now the Brits face the possibility of crashing out with no formal relationship with the EU. “The implications of the house’s decision are grave,” May said. No formal agreement could cause some economic chaos. May could also go begging to the EU for a delay, but their patience is thin.

Modern Times:The state of Utah has repealed a law that defied human nature the moment it was passed.  

  Utah’s 1973 “fornication law” made it a Class B misdemeanor to have sex outside of marriage. It carried a fine of up to $1,000, which is a lot cheaper than marriage, especially if you are married 12 times at once.

  The law may have made sense in a state where it was once the practice to marry everyone you had sex with. But the law passed four years after Woodstock and 14 after the introduction of the birth control pill.

  Some lawmakers argued against the repeal on moral grounds but really, no one goes to Utah to have sex. They go for great skiing.

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