WELL, GOOD: Bangladesh beat diarrhea by making latrines for the poorest and shamed the rest to make their own.

UNEXPECTEDLY: ‘March for Our Lives’ crowd smaller than expected.

Related: I Went to the March for Our Lives Protest. Here Are My 7 Takeaways.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Should we be doing more to expose paternity fraud? “Genetic counsellors are the professionals who advise on the results of tests for hereditary conditions, often after samples have been taken from foetuses in the womb as well as from the parents. Consequently they are often the first to know that the father isn’t the father. A study in America found that more than 95 per cent of them would not tell a man that the child wasn’t his. (Around 95 per cent of genetic counsellors are female, and you have to wonder if more men would be informed if more counsellors were male.)”

MARK STEYN ON DEATH WISH, THEN AND NOW.

I haven’t seen Bruce Willis’ remake yet, but I’m not sure if it can top this earlier Bronson revenge pic:

I also know that no film can top Bronson’s greatest role ever: Mandom pitchman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEqA84R0lYU

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS. NASA Couldn’t Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars.

UNREQUITED LOVE:  Libertarians love free immigration, but immigrants don’t love libertarianism.

THIS WEEK IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY: At the Mount Vernon Conference (March 21-28, 1785), George Washington hosted delegates from Virginia and Maryland to reach an agreement on developing the Potomac River.   It set a precedent for states acting together outside the framework of the Continental Congress. It also caused delegates to think seriously about the advantages of a stronger national government. Two years later, some of the same individuals met in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention.

CLAUDIA ROSETT ON JOHN BOLTON: ‘A Reagan Realist’ and a Brilliant Choice.

HOW ABOUT NO? Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why John Bolton Is No Warmonger.

FORMER AL GORE ADVISOR NAOMI WOLF BLOWS THE DOORS OFF THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONSPIRACY: Big Chocolate Controls the Weather!

Wait, when did the Rothschilds get out of the weather control business?

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Controlling the Web Is the Dream (and the Nightmare): Authoritarian governments regulate what their citizens can see online. The U.S. lets tech companies make similar decisions.

In the U.S., we like to pretend we’re better than all that. But of course we’re not. True, we don’t shut down the entire internet. We just restrict access to sites with the wrong politics — sort of like China. The only difference is that we leave the decision about what information should be available to private corporations rather than government bureaucrats. Internet companies are (on this issue anyway) liberal heroes. In contemporary entertainment, an entire genre — the New York Times memorably calls it “Yay, rich jerks!” — is devoted to the idea that billionaire techies really ought to be making behind-the-scenes decisions.

If we had genuine competition in search or social networking, this state of affairs might constitute an improvement. As a practical matter, however, ideologically driven choices by dominant internet corporations offer little improvement on ideologically driven choices by government agencies. That internet companies suffer no significant market costs for their decisions about whom to serve and whom not to suggests that the public nowadays has little taste for free speech. But that’s exactly when protecting speech assiduously is most important.

We need to break up these “data-opolies.”

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

Fascinating to see a book that explores biblical archetypes as being dubbed “fascist,” though.

Related: Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is still #1 most read at Amazon.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT EDITION: A Resident Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh recently put up a display warning students about “toxic masculinity” and the “social reproduction of patriarchy.” This sort of thing serves to marginalize and discourage male students, and encourage bullying and micro aggressions against them. I think the Department of Education should investigate.

HAPPY 104^TH BIRTHDAY, NORMAN BORLAUG: If you don’t know who Norman Borlaug was, it’s high time you learned. His claim to fame: Saving over a billion people from starvation. Yes, that’s a “b” for “billion,” but even if it were an “m” for “million,” it would be a staggering achievement. When others are teaching their children and grandchildren to act like a ruthless killer (“Be like Che”), teach yours to “Be like Norman.”   Make his memory eternal.

YOU SPELLED “HOPES” WRONG: Flashback: Fears grow that Trump could ignore Congress on spending: Lawmakers and activists see warning signs that Trump officials could cut budgets by leaving federal money unspent.

REMINDER: There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings.’

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MIKE STOPA: The Key Job For Republicans Is Maintaining Control Of Congress.

He’s right, though Messrs. Paul & McConnell don’t make it easy to be excited about that. But people said “there’s no difference” in 2006, the Dems took Congress, and it turned out that there really was a difference.

In particular, I think we can expect heavy gun-control stuff to move in a Dem Congress. Would Trump veto those bills? Maybe, but maybe not. Best not to leave it to that last-ditch remedy.

And as the Dems showed with Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, House races in particular are mostly local.

CHANGE: Saudi women do not need to wear black abayas, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Who Runs March for Our Lives? “It’s a strange political fact, but nearly every major anti-gun group has been a front group. The NRA is maligned 24/7 and yet it’s completely obvious whom it represents. Despite the efforts to tie it to everyone from firearms manufacturers to the Russians (if you can’t tie any random Republican thing to the Russians these days, you won’t be working at the Washington Post or CNN for very long), it represents its five million members. Anti-gun groups tend to represent shadowy networks.”

USA TODAY HARSHES THE NARRATIVE: Despite The Protests, Many High Schoolers Are Pro-Gun:

They’re young, fierce and — at least for the moment — the most prominent voices in America’s debate over guns.

But not all members of “Generation Columbine” cling to the rhetoric making household names out of some of their peers, those students calling for tighter gun control after the deadly Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Many American high schoolers do not blame school shootings on guns and don’t argue the answer is tighter restrictions on firearms. It’s a view at odds with many of their classmates, yet born from the same safety concerns.

“There’s many things that go into a solution for this, and it’s not guns,” said Melanie Clark, an 18-year-old high school senior from Tallahassee. “We’re definitely in the minority for believing that it’s not guns.”

As gun-control advocates their age gain popularity and others cast their generation as anti-firearm, pro-gun students feel at times overlooked. But polling suggests young people aren’t overwhelmingly for gun control.

Weird, because that’s all they show on CNN.