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BYRON YORK: Mexico Gamble A Huge Win For Trump: “Indeed, it was a big win — a very big win — for Trump. Going into a meeting with the potential for disaster — who knew how Pena Nieto would receive the world’s most controversial presidential candidate or what embarrassments might lie ahead? — Trump came out of the meeting looking very much like a potential President of the United States. Standing beside the Mexican leader in front of a green-gray granite wall reminiscent of the United Nations, Trump presented the picture of a statesman.”

STUDENTS LOOKING FOR SPRING/SUMMER WORK: They’re taking applications for (paid) internships at Heritage.

HMM:

UPDATE: Active vs. Passive:

There were only a few protesters, even though there were efforts on social media to drum up protesting. One protester who did show up — “Maldito Perro” (Damned Dog) — said “These days people protest by clicking ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’ ”

But Mr. Trump showed up in Mexico. And Mrs. Clinton clicked “dislike,” essentially, saying, in Cincinnati: “It certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again.”

Plus, from the comments:

I’m seeing a really big difference these last weeks between Trump and Hillary.

The guy is seemingly everywhere.

A flood in Louisiana? Trump is there.
Riots in Wisconsin? Trump is there.
Invited by foreign President? Trump is there.

Hillary? All I know is she is in Hollywood raising millions or on the east coast raising millions and dancing with Paul McCartney.

He’s turning her into Jeb, isn’t he?

SCIENCE: Pea-size brain structure may make beer cravings.

The findings suggest that if you really want a drink right now, the source of your craving may be a pea-sized structure deep inside the right side of your brain.

After tasting the beer the participants reported increased desire to drink beer, whereas the sports drink did not provoke as much desire for beer.

In addition, PET and fMRI brain scans showed that the beer flavor induced more activity in both frontal lobes and in the right ventral striatum of the subjects’ brains than did the sports drink. More specifically, both methods of brain imaging showed increased activity in the right ventral striatum, a deep structure inside the brain that is linked to motivated behavior and reward.

Beer is its own reward. And its own motivation, too.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Chinese Women Head Overseas to Freeze Their Eggs.

Ms. Lu has a business degree from Stanford University and founded a company in Shanghai that connects Chinese cancer patients with American medical specialists. But like many other women, she has found it difficult to pursue both career and family.

“I knew at some point I might want to have children, but definitely not now,” said Ms. Lu, who is single.

So last year, at the age of 34, she decided to have her eggs frozen. China prohibits fertility treatments for unmarried women, so she underwent the procedure in California, joining the growing number of single Chinese women going abroad to have their eggs frozen as a way to preserve an option and control the pace of their lives.

That there even was such an option was unknown to much of the Chinese public until last year, when the actress Xu Jinglei posted on Weibo that she had gone to the United States to have her eggs frozen in 2013.

“It was the first time that many of us learned that this technology exists,” Ms. Lu said. “We thought, if she can do it, why can’t I?”

According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, assisted reproductive technologies are denied to “single women and couples who are not in line with the nation’s population and family planning regulations.” Even married women must provide proof of marriage, a license to give birth and evidence either of infertility or of medical treatments that could impair fertility, such as chemotherapy.

The restrictions have been driven in part by population controls that have been in place since 1979.

How’s that working for you?

NEW YORK VALUES: New York Ethics Panel: Law Firms Can Charge Clients For The Work Of Unpaid Law Student Interns.

“THINK TRIGGER WARNINGS ARE NEVER MANDATORY ON CAMPUS? THINK AGAIN.” – Some critics have argued that the University of Chicago’s letter to incoming students explaining that the university does not support “so-called trigger warnings” was unnecessary because no universities actually mandate trigger warnings. FIRE’s Samantha Harris has found otherwise.

BRANDON MORSE: That Lyft Driver Showed Us How Every Businesses Should Respond to SJW Bullies.

WHEN IN DOUBT, PIN IT ON THE BLACK GUY: NYT reporter: Fear of prosecution may have driven Hillary to blame Powell on emails.

FLORIDA PAN: Goat-Sacrificing Florida Attorney Augustus Sol Invictus Loses Primary.

(Classical reference in headline.)

SPENGLER ASKS, WHY DID TOLKIEN CARE ABOUT THE JEWS? It’s the Lord of the Ring of the Nibelung: Tolkien versus Wagner.

Read the whole götterdämmerung thing.

BILL WHITTLE: Black Lives Matter Kills People.

THIS SEEMS MORE LIKE A STUNT: This Is the Russian Army’s Self-Driving Attack Vehicle.

LUCKILY, THEY’RE BOTH YOUNG AND HEALTHY: A Candidate’s Death Could Delay or Eliminate the Presidential Election: Chaos would ensue if a vacancy emerges near Election Day.

MICHELLE BACHMANN: ‘God Raised Up’ Donald Trump, Only Candidate Who Could Win.

I don’t think God takes part in partisan politics.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Everything About Hollywood Is Terrible.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint Over Whatsapp Facebook Privacy ‘Bait And Switch.’

CHANGE: First U.S. commercial flight in 5 decades lands in Cuba.

To be fair, America’s posture towards Cuba has changed. The Castro Brothers’ Cuba hasn’t changed at all.

WE MAY BE HEADED FOR A PERFECT STORM OF OFFICIAL INCOMPETENCE AND VOTER DISTRUST: Vote Hacking: The risk of psychological damage is far greater than any technological threat. As I keep saying, you only need to mess up results for a few key precincts in a few key states to throw a close election into doubt. And, really, you only need to make it look like you’ve done that.

CYBERSECURITY: FBI wants ‘adult conversation’ on device encryption.

Perhaps first the FBI should have adult conversations with other federal agencies about keeping their own data secure, before demanding backdoors into our devices.

FREE MARKETS, IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Markets Are Breaking Down India’s Caste System, Turning Untouchables into Millionaires.

There is a new heartwarming trend of entrepreneurship and self-help among Dalits [the political name for India’s “untouchable” castes] since the liberal reforms in India, especially in urban areas. A visit to the Dalit Chamber of Commerce website (see also the Facebook page) reveals slogans such as “Fight Caste with Capital” and “Be Job givers, not Job seekers” as well as a spokesperson who favorably cites the invisible hand, a la Adam Smith! This voluntary Chamber of Commerce, set up in 2003 to bring Dalit entrepreneurs together, currently has 5,000 members whose enterprises jointly boast over half a billion dollars in sales revenue. The actual number of entrepreneurs in the population is much higher.

To what do they owe their success? Fascinating new qualitative research that tracks the life stories of several of these Dalit entrepreneurs reveals a common thread. The opening up of production processes to market forces created new opportunities like never before. Starting small and scraping together resources and capital, many of these Dalits now run business empires that actually provide employment to upper caste members.

Read the whole thing.

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ANALYSIS: FALSE. Modesty Could Have Averted the Anguish of Obamacare.

Megan McArdle writes:

The weakness of the mandate, like other flaws in the law, was politically necessary because the law was already quite unpopular, and its supporters couldn’t afford to alienate a single other voter. So they passed what they could and hoped to fix it later. However, the unpopularity of the law meant that there was a strong risk that they wouldn’t be able to fix it later, and indeed that is where we now find ourselves.

I don’t mean to suggest that the law has been an utter failure by the standards of its architects. They have not achieved anything close to universal coverage, but they did manage to reduce the number of uninsured people by somewhere between a quarter and a third. However, I think that if they had been a little less stuck on the idea of attacking every problem at once, they might have passed a less ambitious plan that would nonetheless have expanded coverage substantially, with far fewer risks to either the system or the Democratic Party.

It isn’t so much that McArdle is wrong on the facts, it’s that “modesty” and the “comprehensive reform” (to say nothing of “fundamental transformation”) desired by Progressives are mutually exclusive.

WELL, THIS SUCKS: ‘That Is Not a Good Thing’: Exotic Ticks Reach Alaska.