R.I.P. TO MY YOUNG COLLEAGUE JONATHAN ROHR, who died at his home suddenly yesterday. He was a wonderful colleague and person. He leaves behind his lovely wife, Jing, and much-loved dog Theo. All of us at the law school are devastated. This short video may give you some idea of why.

FAKE NEWS: Nikki Haley compels Washington Post reporter to take down tweets, add correction.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misattributed a statement to Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, that no more than 250,000 Americans are in “extreme poverty.” The statement was made by the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva.

“But as so many have pointed out,” Twitchy adds, “isn’t it strange that when a reporter gets something wrong, it’s always something intended to make the Trump administration look bad, uninformed, or uncaring? Why is it that mistakes in reporting never go the other direction?”

Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.™

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IT’S COME TO THIS: Alt-Left Insanity — Crisis at Border; Trans Women Hardest Hit.

The 21st is not working out as I had hoped, to coin an Insta-phrase.

WHY DIDN’T SENATOR BLUTARSKY CALL HIM ON IT? Strzok mounts the Otter defense.

A PROPER SKEPTICISM ON THE OVERBROAD USE OF THE FALSE STATEMENTS ACT: Judge Kavanaugh on Lying To Federal Agents.

CHOOSE THE FORM OF YOUR DESTRUCTOR: The Democrats’ Phony ‘War on Women’ Has Come Home to Roost.

FUNNY HOW THIS TENDS TO HAPPEN WHEN THE DNC-MSM IS OUT OF POWER: The Power-Hungry Left Loses Its Cool.

WAIT, WHAT? New York Times editorial: Trump Got From NATO Everything Obama Ever Asked For. So does this mean that Obama was a Putin puppet too?

FASTER, PLEASE: Mining Moon Ice: Prospecting Plans Starting to Take Shape.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why do American houses have dining rooms, given that we hardly use them?

GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT: Kepler Telescope Has Entered Hibernation Mode to Download Data Before Its Final Mission.

TYLER O’NEIL: Southern Poverty Law Center Tries to Save Credibility By Defending False ‘Anti-LGBT Hate Group’ Label That Inspired a Terrorist Attack.

IT’S 90% EFFECTIVE IN ANIMALS: FDA OKs 1st drug to treat smallpox, in case of terror attack. I should note that the danger doesn’t only come from existing known stocks, but from unaccounted-for stocks left over from the old Soviet biowar apparatus, and also newly-created smallpox produced using genetic engineering.

OUT ON A LIMB: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Won’t Make Abortion or Gay Marriage Illegal.

SO IN THE COMMENTS TO MY REVIEW OF STEVE STIRLING’S NEW BOOK, BLACK CHAMBER, someone expressed surprise that I have time to read fiction. Actually, pretty much every night except when I’m crushing on a deadline I stop work at about 9:30 or 10 and read a book until bedtime. When I don’t do that, I find that after a while my productivity actually drops. At present, I’m rereading Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International books — I’m actually on #5, which I hadn’t read before — and thinking that what we really need is a Laundry Files / Harry Dresden / Monster Hunter crossover. I imagine Charlie Stross’s Bob would be trying unhappily to work within the bureaucracy, while Dresden and the Earl Harbinger . . . would not.

IT’S SOMETHING YOU REALLY DON’T WANT: What is bacterial meningitis? Signs, symptoms and treatment for the infection.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Three Reasons the Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018 Is a Bad Idea — “It will hinder the much-needed crimefighting activities of Batman,” and much, much more.

GOOD NEWS FOR PHARMA STOCKS: New guidelines mean 795,000 more U.S. kids have high blood pressure. It’s different for each individual kid, of course, but bringing back significant amounts of physical activity would probably cut that number sharply.

DON’T KNOW MUCH BIOLOGY: Trans activism is now just misogyny in drag.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: The London Telegraph asks: ‘Did Trump forget to bow to the Queen?’ Here are some GREAT answers.

THESE ARE MY PRINCIPLES — AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM, I HAVE OTHERS: Dems Who Introduced ‘Abolish ICE’ Bill Now Say They’ll Vote Against It.

EVEN HIS QUOTATIONS ARE DISINFORMATION: 24,000 RETWEETS AND COUNTING: John Brennan uses bogus Abe Lincoln quote to bash Congress over Peter Strzok hearing. I knew we had the worst political class in our history, but the over-the-top quantity of falsehoods, self-pity, and sanctimony coming from our ruling class via Twitter makes it absurdly obvious. These people shouldn’t be trusted to run a shoe store.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot: “why protest against Trump but not Obama? It’s the question none of the leaders of today’s London protest against Trump can answer.”

—Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked, yesterday.

● Chaser:

Comedienne-turned-peace-activist Janeane Garofalo offered a stunning admission on Sunday, explaining that she and her fellow anti-war protesters didn’t stage huge demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan because “it wasn’t very hip” to protest the former president.

—Newsmax, February 23, 2003.