SHOT: Attorney General Loretta Lynch: Sure, we’ve “discussed” taking legal action against climate deniers.

Chaser: Obama’s Carbon Admission: ‘I Have the World’s Largest Carbon Footprint’

Hangover: Obama on the campaign stump in 2008: “‘We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,’ Obama said. ‘That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,’ he added.” As Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that year, “Under my plan. . . electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.”

Which brings us to…

The DTs:

“I leave my Christmas lights on for two hours—tops,” said the waitress, flitting between regulars with a pot of off-brand coffee.

“An hour for me,” said the local cop. The farmer at the next table nodded his head, “That’s about all I can afford, too.”

In Washington and New York, people celebrate economic numbers. In Michigan, people number the minutes they can afford Christmas lights.

To coin an Insta-phrase, I don’t want to hear another goddamned word about my carbon footprint.

Related: “Loretta Lynch: Well, We Wouldn’t Have to Charge Clinton Just Because the FBI Made a Criminal Referral…”

THE INSTA-WIFE: Is True Greatness Becoming Extinct?

PREFERENCE CASCADE? I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too).

FROM MY COLLEAGUE BRIANA ROSENBAUM: The Rico Trend in Class Action Warfare. Very interesting.

FASTER, PLEASE: Childhood cataracts repaired using patients’ own stem cells: Cells already present in the eye are able to generate a new lens—if we let them.

IN SAN FRANCISCO, BART TRAINS DOUBLE AS MOBILE HOMELESS SHELTERS: “Once you pay the minimum fare, you can ride all day; some charities give BART tickets to homeless people, ostensibly to help them travel for job interviews or social services. They mean well, but everyone would be better-served if their charitable dollars went to shelters period, not to turn BART into a shelter.”

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS, BUT IT’S ALIENS: Mysterious ‘Area 6’ landing strip in Nevada desert baffles experts.

BIAS BY OMISSION: Carl’s Jr. HQ Moving From Calif. to Nashville; Press Avoids Saying Why.

“Why did management clearly choose to go elsewhere? Among other things, [Andrew F. Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains] told the Journal in 2013 that the Golden State’s labor laws are intolerable.”

To borrow one of Glenn’s leitmotifs, just think of old media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and their omission of why Carl’s Jr. is leaving California makes perfect sense.

MUSIC: 110-Year-Old Fairground Organ Plays Impeccable Version Of Bohemian Rhapsody.

MARK RIPPETOE: Your Kids’ Health, or Lefty Agenda? New York Times Says Boys Eat Too Much Protein.

Is that pre- or post-the rules of the Sleeper diet?

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BRINGING SEXY BACK, FROM PRISON: ‘Hot convict’ Jeremy Meeks released from prison, embarks on modeling career. Chicks dig bad boys.

HMM: Why You Should Drop Your iPhone For A Samsung S7. The waterproof feature is good, and this story doesn’t even mention the increased battery life, which is a real selling point that Apple, for some reason, ignores.

LUCKILY, NOTHING LIKE THIS COULD HAPPEN IN AMERICA: Seeking to win funds, researchers in Australia and Britain regularly exaggerate and lie about impact of their projects, study finds. “If you can find me a single academic who hasn’t had to bullshit or bluff or lie or embellish in order to get grants, then I will find you an academic who is in trouble with [their] head of department.”

BENDING THE COST CURVE: Montana Underestimated Medicaid Expansion “Woodwork Effect.”

Brent Mead, the executive director of the Montana Policy Institute, says the greater-than-expected enrollment numbers will significantly increase the cost of the state’s Medicaid expansion.

“The total number of projected enrollees [was] around 22,700 for expansion and 800 ‘woodwork’ enrollees,” Mead said.

The “woodwork effect” refers to the enrollment of individuals who were previously eligible for Medicaid but signed up after the program’s expansion. Montana must pay for woodwork enrollees at the pre-Medicaid expansion rate, which the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2014 listed as 32 percent for Montana.

“The state badly missed the ball on the woodwork clients,” Mead said. “The latest numbers we have are for November 2015, but applications spiked compared to the year before. The Montana Policy Institute has heard numbers are significantly higher than what the November application data shows, but we will not know for a few more months.”

Mead says the inaccurate estimate of the woodwork effect will soon force Montana to choose between spending more tax dollars on Medicaid or funding non-entitlement programs at the desired levels.

“The state will face a choice in 2017,” Mead said. “This is going to ramp up mandatory spending at the same time that commodity prices like oil, coal, and cattle are low. Something will have to give, but if I were to wager, it would be other state programs like higher education or infrastructure spending that suffer, rather than restraining a new entitlement program.”

Creating new dependents isn’t cheap.

ALLAN MELTZER: The Federal Reserve’s Failures. “Recently, Stanford economist John Taylor and I circulated a statement calling on Congress to require the Federal Reserve to choose and adopt a rule—a clearly stated way to make its decisions—that would permit anyone to predict its future actions. Several Nobel Laureates with longstanding interest in and contributions to economic policy have signed the statement. A number of former Fed policymakers and senior staff signed the statement too. The House of Representatives has adopted the proposal. It could become law.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1036.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U of Wisconsin Regents Consider New Tenure Policies.

And the second comment on the story calls Scott Walker “an under-educated troll.” Um. . . .

ANN ALTHOUSE POINTS OUT David Brooks’ racist anti-Hispanic “dog whistle.”

YEAH, “IT’S MY TURN, DAMMIT!” AND “LOOK, I HAVE A VAGINA!” AREN’T GREAT ONES: Clinton’s shaky campaign has the math, but lacks the message.

Related: Four reasons Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic debate. “During their two-hour debate in Miami last night, Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders for siding with both the Castro brothers and the Koch brothers.”

IMPORTED RAPE CULTURE: German Report: More Violence, Rape, Theft, Radicalization Likely Due to Migrant Influx.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was furiously spinning yesterday’s proposed deal with Turkey over migrants as a “breakthrough”, while her colleague in the negotiations, Dutch PM Mark Rutte, more comically said that Turkey had “moved the goalposts, but in a positive sense.”

Some of the press led with words like “breakthrough” and “game changer” in the titles of their pieces and suggested that European unity on the matter, while not guaranteed, was at least holding up admirably. (We, for the record, were a bit more skeptical.)

But back in Germany, right ahead of key regional elections this weekend, a bombshell of a story—a leaked police report on the impact of the already-admitted migrants and refugees—was dominating discussion:

The report says ‘immigration will lead to more crime and increased police usage’ to combat it.

The number of crimes – of violence, sexual, property theft and narcotic offences – will rise, says the paper of the North Rhine-Westphalian department of the interior whose ‘Immigration’ project involves both individual states and central government.

The document, entitled ‘Challenges To And Impact On The Police’, was leaked to news magazine Spiegel. […]

The report warns that as well as rising crime in the future, Islamists are ‘agitating’ in asylum homes, increasing the risk of radicalisation among disaffected refugees.

It said there have been ‘hundreds’ of incidents in the past few months where Salafists ‘have sought contact with refugees’. . . .

Meanwhile, Merkel’s coalition was already set to take a drubbing in the upcoming regional vote according to polls.

I can’t imagine why.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Ides of March Have Come, But Not Gone. “I believe that the situation is far more fizzy than most observers allow.” Well, that’s a good short description of this entire season.

ED MORRISSEY: Clinton Plays the Wrong Outrage Card and Sanders Makes Her Pay.

THIS IS HUGE AND AWESOME IF IT HOLDS UP: New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants From Any Donor.