DAVID SOLWAY PROFFERS A STRATEGY FOR TRUMP’S POLITICAL SUCCESS.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: North Dakota Law School Eliminates Its Only Clinic In Face Of Possible 15% Budget Cut; Faculty, Staff Offer Voluntary Pay Cuts To Stem 11% Tuition Increase.

JUST NBC THE WAR ON WOMEN! Betsy DeVos Portrayed as Disobedient Dog in Tonight Show Skit.

Flashback: Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon sandbags Michele Bachmann with “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” intro music.

AT THE NINTH CIRCUIT, a sua sponte motion for en banc rehearing of the immigration decision. Note that even if the court doesn’t go for rehearing, this opens it up for unhappy judges on the 9th who weren’t on the original 3-judge panel to file blistering dissents. Which will be there for the Supreme Court to read if it reviews the panel decision.

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IF THE TEA PARTY HAD DONE STUFF LIKE THIS TO DEMS IN 2009, THE MEDIA WOULD HAVE CALLED FOR MASS IMPRISONMENT IN FEMA CAMPS: Breaking: Mob Gathering Outside Mitch McConnell’s Home in Kentucky. Just remember, lefties: Every time you do stuff like this, you open up the possibilities. The days of hiding behind double standards are gone.

HISTORY COMES ALIVE — WITH YEAST! How beer brewed 5,000 years ago in China tastes today.

Stanford University students have recreated a Chinese beer using a recipe that dates back 5,000 years.

The beer “looked like porridge and tasted sweeter and fruitier than the clear, bitter beers of today”, said Li Liu, a professor in Chinese archaeology, was quoted by the university as saying.

Last spring, Liu and her team of researchers were carrying out excavation work at the Mijiaya site in Shaanxi province and found two pits containing remnants of pottery used to make beer, including funnels, pots and amphorae. The pits dated to between 3400BC and 2900BC, in the late Yangshao era.

They found a yellowish residue on the remains of the items, including traces of yam, lily root and barley.

The finding suggests that the Mijiaya site was home to China’s earliest brewery.

I’d be interested in trying it.

MIKE PENCE’S WIFE INTERESTED IN ART THERAPY, Art Therapists unhappy because she’s an Icky Republican.

NEW RESPECT: Trump is surprising me in a good way: I had many misgivings and I didn’t vote for him. But as a Republican, what’s not to like?

YOU WANT MORE TRUMP? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE TRUMP:

GOOD: Doctors See Gains Against ‘an Urgent Threat,’ C. Diff. Infection rates seem to be dropping, as hospitals take infection-control more seriously. Plus:

As for new treatments, experts see encouraging prospects:

• In the next few weeks, the drug maker Merck will begin marketing bezlotoxumab (brand name: Zinplava), shown to reduce C. diff recurrences.

A study in The New England Journal of Medicine last month reported that the drug, which uses an antibody against a C. diff toxin, reduced recurrences to 16 to 17 percent. With a placebo, the infection recurred in 26 to 28 percent of patients.

The drug is expensive, at $3,800 for a one-time intravenous infusion, but Merck has said its patient-assistance program will cover Zinplava for those unable to pay.

• Dr. Gerding and his team have conducted trials of an orally administered liquid containing spores of a C. diff strain that does not produce toxins or cause illness, but supplants the toxic strains.

His small study of 168 patients, published in JAMA, showed that the most effective dose brought the recurrence rate down to 5 percent. (Dr. Gerding receives consulting fees from several pharmaceutical firms.)

• Several dozen studies of another promising method of reducing recurrence, the gross-sounding fecal transplant, are underway at research centers.

I don’t know why people are so grossed out about fecal transplants. And honestly, that looks the most promising.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A man detailed his escape from a burning house. His pacemaker told police a different story.

IT DOESN’T TAKE AN ENGLISH VILLAGE: Universal Free Childcare an Abject Failure in U.K.

21ST CENTURY LUST: Intel has a chip with 24 cores that costs $8,898.

Adjusted for inflation, it costs a little less than my first new car — but goes much, much faster.

IT’S EASY TO SEE WHY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FOLKS REGRET INTRODUCING THE TERM “FAKE NEWS:” Charlie Martin: Relax, That Scary Fukushima Headline Was Fake News. “I blame 1950s B-movies: sixty years later, it appears that most of what journalists know about radioactivity came from watching Godzilla.”

ANDREW SULLIVAN IS BACK: “We’ve seen this Trump-is-crazy trope many times, but I’ll give Sullivan credit for pushing it so hard he seems to want us to say he’s the one who sounds crazy. But what I really hate about this trope is the disrespect for the real people who live with mental disorders. If you value our culture of inclusiveness and diversity, why would you express your criticism of Trump by inviting us to think about how we should rightfully and justifiably insult and shun a person with mental illness?”

UPDATE: From the comments: “Not sure if one should take seriously Mr Sullivan’s opinion about medical matters, considering his previous deranged obsession with Sarah Palin’s pregnancy.”

FAILURE TO LAUNCH: Nearly Half Of Early-20s Millennials Still Get A Monthly Housing Allowance From Mom And Dad.

I didn’t know anyone in my early 20s getting any kind of allowance, and almost all of us had the low-paying jobs typical of young people still in school or just starting out. Was my circle of friends the exception even back then, or are Millennials unusually dependent?

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Elizabeth Warren supported school vouchers in her 2003 book.

It’s as if the paleface speaks with a forked tongue or something.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Iran’s Bluster Is Just Fear of Trump — and Revolution.

SECURITY: You can open the trunk on a Tesla Model X with just a screwdriver.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanorods Emit and Detect Light, Could Lead to Displays That Communicate via Li-Fi.

CHOLESTEROL WARS: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away? Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills – but the evidence is not so clear-cut.

Related: Statins may prevent or delay Alzheimer’s.

LIVING HISTORY: Dog tags make final journey home to WWII veteran.

A gathering of friends, family and Mighty Eighth Airmen made way as the guest of honor slowly approached the front of the stage. Raymond Odom, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, sat patiently in a large chair as he waited for the unveiling of a memento he lost while serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in England more than 70 years ago.

The dog tags of the former 388th Bomb Group member were discovered in May 2016 during a metal detection hunt around the once designated property of RAF Knettishall. The tags made their journey across the pond over to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to be presented properly to the WWII and former “Mighty Eighth” veteran.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, 8th Air Force commander, unveiled the dog tags at Arbor Rose Assisted Living Facility in Farmerville, La., Feb. 2. Odom and his wife of more than 60 years have resided at the facility for the past three-and-a-half years.

“I can’t tell you how proud we are that we are here today to present Raymond’s dog tags,” Bussiere said. “It’s a small token of appreciation for his service. We in the Eighth Air Force stand on the shoulders of giants that served before us in WWII, and I can’t tell you how much our young Airmen today appreciate what you did for our nation.”

Read the whole thing, Kleenex in hand.

IS THIS ABOUT FAKE NEWS? BECAUSE CHRIS CUOMO IS LOOKING UPSET: Here’s how parasites could be influencing the way you think.

MICHAEL WALSH: More U.S. Troops for Afghanistan? Say It Isn’t So.