There was big news today that North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is suing a drug company over the marketing of an opioid product to physicians.

This is part of a pattern that Stein has established. We can affectionately refer to it as Stein's Suit-of-the-Month.

He has sued the Trump Administration at least several times. One of his previous suits failed spectacularly when the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to bar refugees from terrorism-prone countries.

He has also sued Trump over his executive order to end the DACA amnesty even though the federal courts had previously ruled that Obama's DACA amnesty was illegal. And Stein's side is losing at the Supreme Court level on this issue thus far also.

Here is the problem. We have an attorney general who cavalierly flouts the rule of law, and who seeks to prevent the president from protecting American citizens. The concept of border security has many facets, but it is quite clear that Josh Stein opposes strengthening it.

Unfortunately, when we have poor border security, opioids flow freely across the border from Mexico. Opioids also flow from Muslim-majority countries around the Middle East; and it became clear this week that Obama prevented the interception of drugs from these countries before they might cross our southern border.

The legalization and marketing of marijuana in several western states has prompted the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico to increase opioid distribution in the United States because it experienced declining profits from marijuana.

But none of Stein's many lawsuits address securing the southern border and building a wall. His actions are entirely consistent with that of the national Democratic Party and the GOP establishment to undermine border security. That keeps the opioids flowing freely across the border.

Thus, Stein is a major league hypocrite. He creates a scene, making it appear that he is getting tough on private American companies marketing drugs in a suspect fashion. But that involves no heroics on his part, because going after the private sector is entirely consistent with his overall political philosophy and his worldview. Tightening the southern border decidedly is not.

He seemingly doesn't say a word about the western states that have legalized marijuana; and he certainly doesn't sue them. Oh, I forgot. That is a project sponsored by those within his own party.

I won't even discuss his religious and ethnic background, and how that might affect his tendency to oppose border security. That is apparently not allowed.

But my advice is to refrain from falling for Josh Stein's stunt. He is a deceiver.