MARK LEVIN ANNOUNCES THAT HE’S ENTERING THE TV WORLD WITH LEVIN TV. According to the emailed press release:

CRTV is announcing the launch of LevinTV, hosted by one of the nation’s most compelling, passionate and thoughtful Conservative voices, Mark Levin. Having just signed a contract extension to continue his nationwide radio broadcast to millions of listeners for another nine years, the six-time New York Times best-selling author is further expanding his media network, to reach an even larger audience through a dynamic, cutting edge, digital based television platform. LevinTV will be America’s new televised Town Hall meeting and is the next step in the evolution of digital conservative media.

LevinTV will be produced five days a week in a state-of-the-art studio built exclusively for the Show. It will be broadcast in HD, featuring one of the most technologically advanced television sets ever created.

Mark Levin will bring his unique perspective of pro-American and patriotic values to his new TV show that champions liberty and true conservatism.

It’s at LevinTV.com.

HUGH HEWITT: My Open Letter To Nev. Sen. Dean Heller, Who Waffled On Scalia Replacement. “I doubt very much I will be supporting your re-election in 2018. I suspect I will support a primary challenger to you or perhaps even your Democratic opponent. I know for certain that if Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, votes in any way to advance President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Scalia I will actively support his Democratic opponent. I’d rather lose the Senate majority with a fight over first principles than the Supreme Court of the United States without a fight.”

UPSIDE: IT’S GOT TO BE HIGH IN FIBER. Downside? FDA: Your Parmesan Cheese Might Be Wood Pulp.

I’D BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHERE OUR SOCIETY FITS ON THIS SCALE: Researchers find the tipping point between resilience and collapse in complex systems.

CHANGE: Virginia looks at bringing back the electric chair.

JUST CLICK: Cop Calls Out Violent Gang Members in Epic Video. “Young man, I’ll meet you on solid ground anytime, anywhere, light or heavy. Makes no difference to me. You won’t walk away. Look at you. Men like us, son, we do dumbbell presses with weights bigger than you.”

CLASS ALL THE WAY:

Shot: White House: Obama absence at Scalia funeral ‘appropriate.’

Chaser: “Obama skipping Scalia’s funeral but going to Havana. And he still can’t figure out why he wasn’t able to tame partisanship during his tenure.”

Hangover: Unbelievable: White House says President Obama won’t attend Scalia’s funeral, doesn’t rule out he’ll golf instead.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Slouching Toward World War III: Abandoning the helm and allowing Putin to have his way, Obama has turned the Cold War clock back.

ZUG-ZUG UPDATE: Humans, Neanderthals interbred thousands of years earlier than first thought, research shows

As a species we’ve been getting around for a very, very long time.

CAITLYN JENNER: I GET MORE ‘FLAK’ FOR BEING A REPUBLICAN THAN BEING A TRANSGENDER WOMAN.

Note that this article is in the New York Daily News, which in recent months has featured covers such as these:

A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND BY THE CRUZ CAMPAIGN:  Cruz staffers create image of Rubio and Obama shaking hands on “The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact,” by Photoshopping their faces onto stock photos of two male models in business suits, the sort of thing I do all the time for the PJ Media artwork, but then initially claim, “I am confident that our campaign would not use a photo that is not authentic.” Not to mention the underlying premise of the image. “Wait, a senator is never supposed to shake hands with the president now? Really? That’s where we are?”, Karol Markowicz of the New York Post snarks on Twitter.

As Jim Geraghty writes, “Now Rubio and his team can spend the final 48 hours before primary day arguing that Cruz and his campaign are liars, who use Photoshopped images, et cetera, instead of arguing about whether the vote on the trade deal or other bipartisan agreements was the right decision. Donald Trump and Ben Carson spent the last two weeks hammering Cruz, claiming his dishonest and untrustworthy; now Rubio will do the same.”

It’s particularly unfortunate since real photos exist of Rubio and Obama shaking hands.

Related: On the other hand, Neo-Neocon has a way for Cruz to borrow from other campaigns’ iconography and make it work; she provides him with the perfect response for whenever he’s asked if he’s unlikable…

MOVE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS OFF PAPER AND ONTO COMPUTERS, THEY SAID. IT’LL BE MUCH MORE EFFICIENT, THEY SAID. Hospital Forced Back to Pre-Computer Era Shows the Power of Ransomware. I think that data that are really important should be kept on paper.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST:

Shot: “Meet the Leader of the National Socialist American Workers Party.”

—Michael Walsh on Shepard Fairey’s T-shirt logo for Bernie Sanders, today.

Chaser: Creating the title sequence for Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle TV series.

—The Art of the Title, February 2nd.

“And here’s the delightful capper,” from Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton’s press secretary isn’t too happy that she didn’t get Fairey’s blessing. Again,” Treacher notes, along with some background on how Fairey “stole a photo of Obama from the Associated Press to make the [2008] ‘HOPE’ poster, then lied about it during the huge legal mess, and his own lawyers quit, and it was a whole big thing.”

UPDATE: “That’s the problem with Socialism, eventually you run out of other people’s artwork.”

And from 2008, Gerard Van der Leun on Fairey’s improbable backstory, or the secret Obama-Andre the Giant connection revealed!

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OBAMACARE’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET: Subsidies for Illegal Immigrants

Pretty sure that’s a feature and not a bug.

INTRODUCING THE Tesla Kiddie Car.

IT’S ON: Pope Francis Says Donald Trump Is ‘Not Christian’.  Trump fires back — “disgraceful” for pontiff to question his faith.

I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT TO BUY MEDIA. What The Onion Looks Like Now That It’s Owned By A Hillary Backer.

HEALTH: Testosterone Gel Has Modest Benefits for Men, Study Says. “Testosterone levels normally fall as men age, but these men had levels on the low end — below 275 nanograms per deciliter of blood. Some of the men said they had lost their sexual drive, others said they were walking much slower than they used to, and others said they just felt blah, as if they had lost their zest for life. The men were randomly assigned to use AndroGel or a placebo for a year.”

THIS IS INDICATIVE OF A DIVERSITY PROBLEM ON THE GEORGETOWN FACULTY: ‘Scaliagate’ At Georgetown Law: The Conservatives Strike Back.

For one’s colleagues to write, within hours of the death of someone one knows, likes, and admires, that he was a “defender of privilege, oppression and bigotry, one whose intellectual positions were not brilliant but simplistic and formalistic,” is startlingly callous and insulting, not only to his memory but to those of us who admired him. To hear from one’s colleagues, within hours of the death of a hero, mentor, and friend, that they resent any implication that they might mourn his death — that, in effect, they are glad he is dead – is simply cruel beyond words. But, though the insult and cruelty of our colleagues was grievous, at least only two of us had to bear it.

Unfortunately, the next day, recognizing full well that he would “cause … hurt [to] those with affection for J. Scalia,” and in violation of Georgetown email policy, Prof. Peller forwarded his email and Prof. Seidman’s to the entire student body at Georgetown Law, some 2000 students. Of those, at least a few hundred are conservative or libertarian. These students received an email yesterday, from a Georgetown Law professor, just three days after the death of Justice Scalia, which said, in effect, your hero was a stupid bigot and we are not sad that he is dead. . . .

Sadly, as just two professors on a faculty of 125, we are in no position to offer much reassurance to our students, beyond reporting that we have heard on the faculty email list, and privately, from a few of our Georgetown colleagues who objected to these messages. All we can do, really, is convey our solidarity with our wonderful students. We share your pain. We share your anger. We stand with you. You are not alone. Be strong as Justice Scalia was strong. Remember, he heard far worse about himself than we have, and yet never wavered in both his convictions and his joy for life.

Lefties preach about tolerance, but what they practice is control. But not, you know, self-control. Plus, David Lat comments:

I noticed the SJW-ish tone too, but thought to myself: that’s not a bug, it’s a feature. To the extent that the left is often about playing the victim, it seems to me that Barnett and Rosenkranz are saying, “Two can play at this game.” The conservatives are taking the “talk of micro-aggressions and trauma,” typically deployed so effectively by liberals, and turning it around on them.

Is it sincere, or trolling, or a little bit of both? To be honest, I find it hard to tell (but perhaps that’s a sign of how exquisitely calibrated the Barnett/Rosenkranz message is).

With two right-leaning professors out of 125, Professors Barnett and Rosenkranz are possibly Georgetown’s smallest minority group. But you know what they say: Always outnumbered, never outgunned.

ACCORDING TO AMAZON, this is their #3 selling item in clothing. I predict, however, that it won’t make you look like the picture unless you look like the model before you put it on. . . .

IT’S A MYSTERY: Where Did China Get This F-22 Raptor? Why is something that looks just like America’s premiere fighter hanging out at a Chinese airport?​

SIX PROMINENT DEMOCRATS & 3 BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: These are the high profile funerals Obama has attended since becoming President, according to the Washington Post.

Anyone see a pattern here? But hey, I’m sure Obama’s decision not to attend the funeral of one of the most prominent Supreme Court Justices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries isn’t political or anything.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Roles of materials research and polymer chemistry in developing nanotechnology.

STOP IN NEVADA: Will Hillary’s campaign ever get off the ground? The Hill‘s Amie Parnes has the latest numbers, and dishes with a former Clinton aide:

A new CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday found Clinton with a 1-point lead in Nevada, which hosts its caucuses on Saturday. That’s a huge change from the 23-point lead Clinton enjoyed in a late December poll by Gravis.

In South Carolina, which hosts its primary election on Feb. 27, Clinton has a more comfortable 18-point lead according to a CNN/ORC poll. But even that edge has narrowed since Sanders crushed her in New Hampshire’s primary last week.

As recently as mid-January, a poll from NBC, The Wall Street Journal and Marist found Clinton with a 33-point lead in South Carolina.

“I don’t get it. I don’t think anyone expected this race to look like this,” said one former Clinton aide who maintains ties with the campaign. “A big loss in New Hampshire, basically a tie going into Nevada. You have to ask yourself, ‘What’s next?’ ”

Team Clinton maintains confidence that its lead in South Carolina will hold, but the potential loss in Nevada has put people on edge about a “domino effect” in which states could fall one by one to Sanders as he gains momentum.

“It’s hard to feel confident about South Carolina if you lose Nevada,” the former aide said.

Clinton’s lead in Nevada is statistically gone, her advantage in South Carolina has been cut nearly in half, and Sanders has the hip, young voters building a digital grassroots effort to counter Clinton’s edge in money and muscle.

Among the other signs of worry on ClintonWorld might be the campaign’s new one-minute spot called “Brave,” which CNN says shows “a 10-year-old girl who starts crying while telling Clinton at a campaign event that she’s afraid of her parents being deported.”

While the spot might appear ham-fisted to some, it ought to at least generate lots of feelz among Hillary supporters — if, at this writing, it had received something substantially more than 218 YouTube views. And that’s hours after having gotten a nice write-up and link from CNN.com.

“Flailing” might not be too strong a word to describe the Clinton campaign’s efforts so far this week.