NEVER TRUST A GOVERNMENT WITH AESTHETICS: $4 billion buys the world’s ugliest commuter-rail stop.

STRANGELY, THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT: Obama’s foreign policy now boils down to ‘let’s pretend’.

REPORT: TRUMP WINS NEVADA, TAKES ANOTHER STEP TO GOP NOMINATION.

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE: Conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted an ‘interstellar mother ship’ near Jupiter’s moon Europa.

InstaPundit readers have long known the true story. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!!

ANOTHER ZAEVION DOBSON MOMENT, ALAS: PICTURED: The heroic mother shot by Uber gunman after throwing herself in front of children as he opened fire.

WASHINGTON POST: Report: U.S. aircraft carriers’ ‘unchallenged primacy may be coming to a close.’

Only a month or so behind my USA TODAY piece.

THIS IS TROUBLING: CDC: 14 new reports of possible sexually transmitted Zika virus in the U.S.

I’M PRETTY SURE THAT WAS THE GOAL ALL ALONG: Twitter Targets Trolls But Winds Up Silencing Conservatives.

Meanwhile, Professor Bainbridge has a plan.

TRIGGER WARNINGS IN ANNAPOLIS: “From my perspective as a tenured English professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, now in my 29th year of teaching, I find Williams’ pessimism to be plausible. For the service academies are the perfect storm of a right-wing, traditional structure of power ruling in conjunction with, rather than opposing, an extreme left-wing agenda.”

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS ON EDUCATION: Work With Boys — Not Against Their Nature.

Consider the all-too-typical case of Justin, a Southern California boy who loved science fiction, pirates and battles. An alarmed teacher summoned his parents to school to discuss a picture the 8-year-old had drawn of a sword fight — which included several decapitated heads. Justin was a well-behaved, normal little boy, but the teacher expressed grave concern about Justin’s values. The boy’s father was astonished, not by his son’s drawing — typical boy stuff — but by the teachers lack of sympathy for his son’s imagination. If boys are constantly subject to disapproval for their interests and enthusiasms they are likely to become disengaged and lag further behind.

Girls may be on the wrong side of the junior high school football gap, but boys are lagging when it comes to far more consequential divides. And closing those gaps does not entail treating conventional boyishness as a pathology in need of a cure. It means working with, not against, the young male imagination.

Well, we’d do better if our schools didn’t suffer from “classroom inequality,” in which males are drastically underrepresented among teachers.

NATURE’S WAY OF INQUIRING AS TO HOW OUR SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG: Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls into the ocean: Nasa reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic. “It released energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, which is the same as the energy used in the first atomic weapon that leveled Hiroshima in 1945. This was the largest event of its type since the February 2013 fireball that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,600 people injured.” Long-haul pilots report this sort of thing occasionally — I remember an event over the Northern Pacific back in the 1980s that was written up in Science — but as global surveillance gets better, we have more records.

LIVEBLOGGING THE GOP NEVADA CAUCUS RESULTS: Which candidate will receive a honeymoon in Vegas tonight? PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil reveals all.

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EUROPE: Belgium reintroduces border controls with France to prevent influx of Calais migrants.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: What you’ve read about breastfeeding may not be true. “The popular notion of breast milk as a panacea has stemmed from dozens of studies that have reported benefits ranging from a lower risk of asthma to increased IQ. But flaws in some of the studies tracking long-term health effects raise questions about the magnitude — and at times the existence — of some of those advantages. Many fail to properly control for factors such as the mothers’ education and wealth. When those effects are accounted for, the benefits almost always shrink. In other words, some of the advantage that studies ascribe to mothers’ milk can be explained by infants’ environments and parents, particularly in high income countries.”

Do tell. There’s probably a Reynolds’ Law issue here, too.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Fastest-Growing Work Demographic? Women Over 65 With Scant Savings, Low Interest Income. “As older workers keep a tight grip on their jobs, the proportion of Americans ages 25 to 54 who are working or looking for work has slipped to the lowest level in three decades. Many of these younger Americans fell out of the labor force in the recession: Some retired or enrolled in school. Others weren’t able to work or had to care for relatives at home. Many gave up looking.”

It’s the senior squeeze, which is also squeezing the young, and the middle-aged who often have to provide financial help to parents and kids.

Fundamentally transformed! If we had a Republican president, we’d be hearing about the suffering nonstop between now and November.

TO BE FAIR, WITHOUT LIES IT’S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ANYWHERE WITH GUN-CONTROL EFFORTS: Obama Falsely Implies His Gun Controls Could Have Stopped the Kalamazoo Shooter.

MARK RIPPETOE: Why Are You Doing Situps? Here’s The Truth About Your Gut and Your Health.

THE WAR ON CAMERAS GOES CODE RED: Ruling in Fields v. City of Philadelphia says no 1st Amendment right to film cops unless you’re challenging their behavior.

That’s absurd. Send the judge a copy of Morgan Manning’s article.

THIS IS CNN:

Maeve Reston’s Twitter biography describers her as “CNN National Political Reporter and LA Times alum.”

SURE THEY USED RACIAL RHETORIC AS THEY BEAT HIM, BUT HE’S NOT A PROTECTED CLASS: Arrests Made In DC Assault Of Marine, Hate Crime Charges Not Pursued.

WELL, WE’LL KNOW SOON ENOUGH: The Ted Cruz Campaign Will Win Or Lose By March 6.

OUR APOCALYPTIC DEMOCRATS:

● “Hillary Clinton: The Leader You Want When The World Ends.”

—Headline, BuzzFeed, today.

● “‘He maybe the last voice we ever hear’: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke releases video endorsing Bernie Sanders calling for voters to ‘hear the alarm he’s sounding.’”

—Headline, the London Daily Mail today.

And as Spike Lee adds, “Ninety-nine percent of Americans were hurt by the Great Recession of 2008 and many are still recovering, and that’s why I am officially endorsing my brother Bernie Sanders.” All of which is a reminder that the last 16 years which comprise President Bush’s four terms in office have left Democrats more than a little on edge and worried about who will succeed him.

Lee’s comments today are particularly odd since shortly before President Bush’s third election, he declared on MSNBC that America would witness two distinct eras: “You have B.B.: Before Barack and A.B.: After Barack,” a sea-change in history that was “predeortained,” the veteran writer-director-malaprop inventor added.

But whatever happened to that “Barack” fella that he spoke of?

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS. Audio from Apollo 10 reveals astronauts’ conversation about mystery sounds.

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