YUM: The 12 Sexiest Warplanes of All Time.

Good list, but no love for any enemy aircraft? Nasty regimes, but the Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the Sukhoi Su-27 are hot rides.

CUT HARD, CUT DEEP: EPA braces for Trump budget.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Woman Claims She Knows Exactly What Men Like… Since She’s Slept With 10,000 Of Them.

There’s a Malcolm Gladwell angle here somewhere.

SPLITTING HAIRS: Girl in Weiner sexting case lied to damage Clinton.

In a report published Monday, the website said the girl who exchanged the messages with Weiner was closer to 17 and not 15, as initial reports said. That also puts her above the age of consent in North Carolina, which is 16.

In addition, she and her family were also not Clinton supporters, as the girl claimed in a letter published by BuzzFeed, according to social media posts unearthed by the website. The report also says the girl initiated the contact with Weiner and then sought advice from a GOP figure behind “prior efforts to harm Weiner and other Democrats.”

The website suggests this could mean that Weiner was the target of a politically motivated plot.

Perhaps. But the fact remains that he was sexting with a 16-year-old girl.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Reanimating cells and animals that are centuries or millennia old can offer surprising insights into what it takes to be alive.

REINFORCING FAILURE: Citing Disparities, Dem Wants to Sink $100B Into Dilapidated Public Schools.

AT AMAZON, New and Interesting Finds, updated daily.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Venezuela holds 5,000 Russian surface-to-air MANPADS missiles.

CHANGE: Historically Black College Leader: So Far, Trump a Step UP From Obama.

MINING THE MOON for rocket fuel to get us to Mars.

YEAH, BUT HACKING FROM THE OBAMA ERA ISN’T NEWSWORTHY BECAUSE SHUT UP: House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are Blackmailing Members With Their Own Data.

Congressional technology aides are baffled that data-theft allegations against four former House IT workers — who were banned from the congressional network — have largely been ignored, and they fear the integrity of sensitive high-level information.

Imran Awan and three relatives were colleagues until police banned them from computer networks at the House of Representatives after suspicion the brothers accessed congressional computers without permission.

Five Capitol Hill technology aides told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group that members of Congress have displayed an inexplicable and intense loyalty towards the suspects who police say victimized them. The baffled aides wonder if the suspects are blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, to which they had full access.

Well, these guys pretty much only display “intense loyalty” to someone who’s got them by the balls, so it’s a fair inference.

Plus: “The investigation goes far beyond the theft of millions of dollars. The employees could read all emails dozens of members of Congress sent and received, as well as access any files members and their staff stored. Court records show the brothers ran a side business that owed $100,000 to an Iranian fugitive who has been tied to Hezbollah, and their stepmother says they often send money to Pakistan.”

BEEF EDITOR GETS TRUMPED:

Well, I was wrong. Several weeks ago in this blog, I expressed my skepticism that China would act anytime soon on its promise to open its borders to direct import of U.S. beef. I based my skepticism on the past 13, now nearly 14, years of hollow promises by the Chinese government that it would relent.

And I based my skepticism on the fact that China has stringent import requirements that serve as non-tariff trade barriers. The main hurdles are no use of ractopamine and a national animal ID system. While the U.S. has infrastructure in place to deal with both those, I was sure that China would hold the line on animal ID. Since the U.S. can’t meet the nationwide animal ID requirement, I was sure the deal would fall apart once again.

I got Trumped.

It happens. What’s unusual is a journalist who outright admits it.

REVENGE OF THE PATRIARCHY: Professors Pull Off Clever Hoax With ‘Penis Paper’, Expose Liberal Academia as a Sham.

SPACE: Moon Express chairman believes his team’s “ready to go for the end of this year.”

TOLERANCE: Notre Dame Students Walk Out of Mike Pence Graduation Speech.

How will these young adults cope with the real world?

WHAT’S “CHUTZPAH” IN TURKISH? Turkey summons U.S. ambassador, demands to know why Erdogan’s thugs weren’t allowed to beat Americans with impunity in D.C.

To be fair, he probably saw what happened with Antifa in Berkeley.

HILLARY 2020: Because white women are the worst! Left zeroes in on white women as the new enemy because they elected Trump.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The median grade at Harvard College is an A-, and the most frequently awarded mark is an A.

BRIAN BEUTLER: Democrats Should Proudly Call for Trump’s Impeachment.

Hillary should make it the focus of her Comeback II 2020: The Glass Ceiling Tour III campaign.

MAKE DIRECT FLIGHTS GREAT AGAIN: Nobody Flies From Saudi Arabia to Israel. Nobody. Trump Just Did.

The two nations have no diplomatic relations. Travelers can’t fly from one country to the other. Planes can’t even fly through the other’s airspace.

In order to travel from one nation to the other requires travelers to take what many call a “cleansing stop.” Often, flyers go to Amman, Jordan, or Cairo, Egypt, before heading on. And travelers who stop in Israel before heading to Saudi Arabia often ask Israeli officials not to stamp their passports (Saudis authorities get visibly unhappy when they see the stamp). Some frequent fliers even have an extra passport so they can keep one clear of the Israeli stamp.

That’s what makes President Trump’s itinerary so interesting. He made Saudi Arabia his first stop, which no doubt greatly pleased the Saudi royal family. Then he flew from Riyadh directly to Tel Aviv, which no doubt made them furious.

In fact, the flight may well have been the first in history from Saudi Arabia to Israel, the Associated Press reported.

Despite what Joseph Curl says here, Saudi Arabia and Israel get along better than their diplomatic status and lack of niceties would indicate, albeit behind the scenes:

“The biggest enemy for both countries is Iran, and there are also the radical terrorist groups like ISIS [Islamic State] that threaten the regional order in the Middle East,” Yaari said. “It is this overall framework that has created the conditions for cooperation between Jerusalem and Riyadh.”

Despite this convergence of interests, Israeli-Saudi cooperation will likely remain hush-hush as long as the Zionist-Arab conflict remains unresolved , Yaari said.

“We need to remember that even if there are ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, it’s only behind the scenes, behind closed doors, since Saudi Arabia can never launch a bilateral peace process with Israel,” she said.

And as recently as February, “Iran blasts cooperation between Israel, Saudi Arabia.”

It seems more likely then that Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Washington orchestrated Trump’s direct flight in order to send a message to Tehran.

TRUMP THE ASTEROID: There’s a theory that it would take an event as impossibly unlikely, as humanly uncontrollable, as potentially cataclysmic as an asteroid striking the earth, for Israelis and Palestinians to be able to make peace. A lot of people who voted for Trump were — often pretty consciously — voting for an asteroid.

IF TRUMP WERE IN PUTIN’S POCKET, WHAT WOULD HE BE DOING DIFFERENTLY? Pretty much everything.

HEY, SOMEBODY NUDGE THE GUARDIAN — IT’S TRAPPED IN A MOBIUS LOOP.

Shot: What would happen if Donald Trump were impeached? 

—The London Guardian, this past Tuesday.

Chaser: ‘Can we talk of [President Bush’s] impeachment?’ 

—The London Guardian, January 27, 2004.

If he has (R) after his name, what else would you be discussing about him?

(Oh right — it could always be worse.)

CHRISTIAN TOTO: How the Media Bullied Jimmy Fallon into Hating Trump.

Standing up to bullies usually puts an end to bullying, Jimmy.