HOLDING STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR CAMPUS FASCISM: Claremont McKenna statement on the shutting down of Heather Mac Donald’s talk.

My letter would have been a bit more blunt, along these lines: “You know the three years you spent as statistician for the Chess Club so that you could get into a good school? You know all the sweating over your personal essay? Remember all the hours in the test-prep class? Block a speaker from speaking on campus and you can flush all of that, because you’ll be expelled faster than you can say ‘but I was wait-listed at Harvard!'”

FRESH UPDATES ON the Coptic Church bombings in Egypt.

“SHE’S FAREEKING OUT:” “Too Many of Trump’s Liberal Critics Are Praising His Strike on Syria.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: What Fresh Hell Is This? Kitchen Gadgets You Don’t Know You Need.

I don’t think of myself as having Luddite tendencies, but I confess that when I see refrigerators with screens set into their doors, my first thought is: “Why?”

No, don’t tell me that you can stream music or look inside the refrigerator. I already have technology for that — respectively, my Amazon Echo and this app called “opening the door.” Neither costs the thousands of extra dollars I would have to pay to get my hands on a Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator. And if my music streamer breaks, I can replace it without calling an appliance repair company and spending a fortune on parts.

I have similar sensations about many of the technologies on offer in today’s appliances. Every major appliance manufacturer seems to be looking for a way to stick wi-fi into their products, for example. And I confess, I have occasionally fantasized about starting a pie cooking in my oven, sauntering to the other side of my 5,400-square-foot home for a dip in the pool, and being able to use my phone to turn down the heat on the pie after 10 minutes. Alas, in the trim 1,700-square-foot rowhouse I actually live in, I am never far enough from my kitchen to actually justify resorting to my smartphone rather than my feet.

We are at a curious moment in cooking technology. The last decade or so has probably introduced more technology potential into the kitchen than any previous decade except the 1930s. Sous vide, electric pressure cookers, fuzzy logic rice machines, induction cooktops, food processors that also cook, wi-fi controls, web connections … these things are now common enough for ordinary cooking enthusiasts to have at least heard of them, if not tried them. It is an era of enormous potential. And yet, that potential is frequently not realized, because we can’t actually figure out what to do with all our new toys.

I don’t trust the Internet Of Things.

WELL, AL SHARPTON’S BEEN PEDDLING RACE HATE FOR DECADES, SO THIS IS NO SURPRISE: Activist from Al Sharpton’s Group Calls Arab Store Owners ‘Rapists’ Who Should Leave the Country.

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GENOCIDE: Bombings at Egyptian Coptic churches kill 36, injure more than 100.

UPDATE: Much more here. The death toll keeps rising.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: February 2017 MBE bar scores collapse to all-time record low in test history. Are the takers getting worse, or is the test getting harder? Answer: “And it’s not because the MBE was ‘harder’ than usual. Instead, it primarily reflects continued fall-out from law schools accepting more students of lower ability, then graduating those students who go on to take the bar exam.”

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Arrests of illegal alien criminals jump 250% in one week.

As promised, immigration police have expanded their campaign to deport illegals with criminal records, announcing the seizure of 368 illegals in seven states and Washington, D.C.

That nearly a 250 percent increase over the 106 announced a week earlier.

The biggest seizures by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in Texas, but they made arrests as far north as Wyoming.

What’s more, they targeted members of the violent MS-13 gang and illegals charged with sex crimes against kids.

It’s going to be hard for the Dems to make campaign ads around that.

THE HILL: Supreme Court enters new era, raising conservative hopes.

The ascension of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is expected to usher in a new conservative majority that could become part of President Trump’s legacy.

Gorsuch, who was confirmed by the Senate on Friday, is widely expected to shift the ideological balance of the court to the right, with his views seen as mostly in line with the man he is replacing: the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

But some court watchers say Gorsuch may be even more conservative than Scalia, his mentor and a fellow adherent to the originalist view of the Constitution.

“I think it’s interesting he’s cast as either a follower of Scalia or a more temperate version of Scalia, but in fact it seems that he may be quite to the right of Scalia in certain areas,” said Caroline Fredrickson, president of the left-leaning American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Like Scalia, Gorsuch was part of a majority ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby stores. His 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that that the Affordable Care Act could not compel certain companies to provide health coverage for contraception if it violated their religious beliefs.

The Supreme Court upheld that ruling in 2014.

While Gorsuch ducked questions at his confirmation hearings about his views on equal protections for LGBTQ Americans, liberal groups expect him to give heavy weight to religious freedom in decisions about civil rights.

Don’t get too excited, guys, until Trump has replaced at least one left-leaning judge with a conservative. This was fundamentally just a holding action.

YEAH, I’M OKAY WITH THAT. FASTER, PLEASE! Don Surber: Trump is plowing and salting the fields of a bureaucratic oligarchy.

2015 FLASHBACK: World Begs U.S. To Use Military Force in Syria So They Can Bitch About It Later.

MEXICO IS A NEAR-FAILED STATE THAT DOESN’T FULLY CONTROL THE TERRITORY IT HAS NOW: Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?

CHANGE: Using The Tax Law To Punish Sanctuary Cities And States.

SELF-MARGINALIZATION: Clarksville NAACP Opposes U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Visit To Austin Peay. This is self-marginalization both because it’s stupid (and it is) and because people on the right are no longer quite so willing to forgive and forget this sort of partisan game-playing. As a famous man once said, don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.

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WELL, WELL: Susan Rice Cancels Public Appearance. “There was fallout this weekend from the pending criminal investigation of Susan Rice for her role in Barack Obama’s illegal espionage of President Trump. Just a few hours before her scheduled appearance on Saturday before the Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women, Rice canceled her speech.”

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The Fake Butt Phenomenon.

THIS IS TRUE:

Our cultural portrayal of young men is interesting, because we objectify them to be — essentially — perfect pleasure receivers. We assume they are so ugly, so inexperienced, and so gross that they’re unable of giving anyone else pleasure, and that they’re so horny and undersexed that even the lightest of sexual touches will send them off into a world of inarticulable delights.

But, I’ve been there and done that (done them) and the reality is a lot more nuanced. As it always is.

Perhaps I’m blessed with an unusually good memory (well, actually, yes, I am blessed with an unusually good memory) but this seems less surprising to me than it may to many.

HMM: How I Doubled My Testosterone Levels Naturally and You Can Too. I’m sure these techniques are of some benefit, but I suspect that starting out with levels artificially depressed due to stress is the key to such dramatic improvement.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that! I can honestly say that I’m in much better shape than I was when I was half my current age — because when I was half my current age I was in terrible shape. . . .

I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE WORSE THAN SUGAR, AND I THINK SUGAR’S TERRIBLE: New Research Breaks Down Why Artificial Sweeteners May Be Bad For You.

CNN NARRATIVE FAIL: Syrian Refugee Slams Clinton, Obama; Praises Trump.

The look on CNN host Brooke Baldwin’s face is priceless. (Bumped, by Glenn).

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor: ‘Trump Must Hang,’ Republicans Should Be Executed For Each Immigrant Deported.

CHANGE: Syphilis rates are up in gay and bisexual men; here’s why. Funny, when I was a kid syphilis had been almost eradicated.