INNOVATION: Apple is launching its own medical clinics for its employees.

“AC Wellness Network, LLC. is a subsidiary of Apple, Inc. and is the dedicated management services organization (MSO) for AC Wellness Network, a dedicated independent medical group that serves Apple Wellness Centers in Santa Clara Valley,” you can read in job ads on Indeed.com. “Our mission is to deliver the world’s best healthcare experiences for Apple employees.”

CNBC found two clinics in Santa Clara County, not far from Apple’s offices in Cupertino. In addition to making sure that your employees have everything they need to remain healthy, Apple could use this subsidiary to test new devices and services.

This isn’t the first time private companies form healthcare companies for their own employees. Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire are teaming up to form their own healthcare company.

They’re trying to fix what Washington has broken.

ROGER SIMON: The Trumpian Rorschach Test Never Ends.

GOOD LORD: Sec. Shulkin Backtracks on Veteran Admin’s Medical Experiments on Puppies.

POST-REELECTION FLEXIBILITY OR MERELY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL? Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election.

Tell me again whose amazingly scandal-free administration was supposed to be in charge of preventing this kind of thing.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Mavericks Interim CEO: “We Will Be The Standard Of Inclusion & Diversity.”

BALDILOCKS: We’re Not Disarming Fast Enough for the Left. “They’ve been trying to get ‘er done for some time. Everything we see in the media right now are just the new tactics. The attacks on the NRA seem pointless, but I don’t think the Organized Left cares about taking down the NRA. Not really. A mindset is being planted.”

Read the whole thing.

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST AIRPLANE: Meet the Stratolaunch. Twin fuselages and a 385-foot wingspan.

MICHAEL WALSH: The death throes of the legacy media are not a pretty sight.

It might not be much to look at, but it’s schadenfreudelicious!

EMPEROR XI JINPING RIDES THE TIANANMEN TIGER.

TET OFFENSIVE, VIETNAM 1968: A North Vietnamese home-made “big bore” pistol captured by Marines near the town of Dong Ha. The pistol barrel was made from a U.S.-made M-79 grenade launcher. Marines also captured a quick draw holster made for the weapon.

CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: Liberal UCLA student stabs free speech ball, runs away. “In the latest example of what has now become a national trend, an unidentified UCLA student was so triggered by a free speech ball event that he plunged a knife into the inflatable ball and then fled the scene.”

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Gun Control Legislation Push, Mueller Expands Probe and Much, Much More. “I had no doubt he was going to do this. My husband and I both knew that we would eventually see him one day on the news, wearing an orange jumpsuit being charged with murder.”

MEGAN BARRY UPDATE: Will The Metro Council Ask Mayor Megan Barry To Resign? WKRN reports that a resolution asking the mayor to resign was being drafted, while another bill expands the ethics board’s ambit. A male politician would already be gone; a male Republican would have been ridden out on a rail.

#METOO IS RACIST? Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison. Sadly, it’s newsworthy when women get prison time for lying about rape in any circumstances.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My new paper, Splitsylvania: State Secession and What to Do About It, looks at internal state secession movements (e.g., the move to separate the rural eastern counties of California into “New California”) and offers some suggestions.

You may find the opening, in which rural California takes advantage of a financial crisis to secede and form its own state a la West Virginia, particularly interesting. Download it early and often!

IT’S TIME FOR COMMON-SENSE GUN LAWS: Kentucky Congressman Proposes to Repeal ‘Gun-Free Zones Act.’ “Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he made the case that since the majority of mass public shootings take place in gun-free zones like schools, the Gun-Free School Zone Act on 1990 – which makes it a crime to bring a gun on school grounds – should be repealed.”

Related: People Don’t Stop Killers. People With Guns Do.

HMM: Senate Key Race alert: Texas is no longer Solid Republican.

Beto O’Rourke versus Ted Cruz:

The Democratic underdog from El Paso outraised the first-term Republican senator and former presidential candidate by $1.5 million — $2.3 million to $800,000 — from the beginning of 2018 through mid-February. That impressive fundraising haul comes after O’Rourke also outpaced Cruz in the closing quarter of 2017, $2.4 million to $1.8 million.

Cruz still holds a clear advantage in the race. When it comes to cash on hand, Cruz leads O’Rourke by a little more than $1 million.

The Republican also has recent Texas electoral history on his side. Democrats haven’t won a statewide election there since Bob Bullock’s re-election as lieutenant governor in 1994. The last Democrat elected to the US Senate from Texas? Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.

O’Rourke is hoping to end the Democratic skid by running a different kind of campaign, embracing his punk rock roots. He’s been traveling from one event to another in a car with aides, listening to Spotify and sharing it all with the world via Facebook and Twitter. O’Rourke has already visited 223 of the state’s 254 counties, including some deep red turf.

Remember Wendy Davis and her “iconic” tennis shoes — and her huge loss to Greg Abbott anyway? O’Rourke seems to be running a hip campaign, but I’m not sure there’s as much to this story as CNN’s headline implies.

THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG, IGNORANT, AND BEING USED: Parkland teens David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are squandering their moment.

CHANGE: Dick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles.

Given the hypercompetitive retail environment, I’m not sure annoying a key demo is CEO Edward Stack’s smartest move.

ANGELA MERKEL: SECOND-WORST GERMAN CHANCELLOR IN THE PAST 100 YEARS. What The Heck Happened To Germany’s Military? “One of the more controversial platform items in Donald Trump’s foreign policy stance on the campaign trail had been an insistence that our Europen allies start investing more in their own military forces and carrying a bit more of the defense load. One country in particular was called out on this and that was Germany. Many in the media scoffed at the idea and even termed it insulting to our German allies. But how real was the need for improvement? Recently it’s been revealed that Germany’s military isn’t just behind the curve on investment and improvements. It’s practically dysfunctional.”

I THOUGHT THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE TRAINED FOR, POST-COLUMBINE: Denton County Sheriff: We don’t wait, we engage active shooters.

“We do not stage and wait for SWAT, we do not take cover in a parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency. We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives,” Sheriff Tracy Murphree wrote.

Murphree said the memo was designed to make his policy clear on what to do in situations like a school shooting.

“If for any reason you cannot follow this directive please inform your supervisor and we will work to get you re-assigned,” Murphree wrote.

That seems both fair and responsible.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Newsweek Couldn’t Pay Its Rent on Time and Faced Eviction.

Well, it was inevitable, as this stuff always ends the same way:

REPORT: Rick Perry planning nuclear energy talks with Saudi Arabia.

The administration is reportedly considering a deal that would allow Saudi Arabia to enrich and reprocess uranium while setting up American companies including Westinghouse Electric Co. to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.

Perry’s meeting with Saudi Arabian Minister of Energy and Industry Khalid Bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih is seen as a crucial stage in the negotiations, which have reportedly been ongoing for months.

Saudi Arabia plans to build 16 nuclear reactors over the next 20 to 25 years, according to the report. The Trump administration is reportedly considering whether to ease restrictions on the sharing of nuclear technology in order to help U.S. companies compete for bids to build those reactors.

Even the oil-soaked Saudis are getting serious about reducing greenhouse gasses — what’s wrong with our homegrown “environmentalists?”