FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists ‘Clear’ Alzheimer’s Plaque From Mice Using Only Light And Sound.

WOW: Iconic news anchor Ted Koppel says President Trump is ‘not mistaken’ that the ‘liberal media’ is ‘out to get him.’

DISQUALIFIED! O’Rourke Rocked By Major Scandal: He Once Supported Basic Fiscal Responsibility.

HMM: Depression, heart disease linked by inflammation.

KIRA DAVIS: 8 Alternatives to College Financially Strapped Families Should Consider.

WHOSE ROUTER IS IT, ANYWAY? Another Malware Threat to Your Home Network.

Plus, what you can do about it.

JOE PAPPALARDO: America’s New Energy Coast: In the coastal bend of South Texas, the future of the global energy market is being constructed one epic infrastructure project at time.

I remember when a failed President warned us that we couldn’t drill our way out of our energy problems.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Will the Left Melt Down Over ‘Best of Enemies?’ “The fact-based drama shows the ultimate racial healing, a message some on the far Left don’t want to see.”

Meltdown dead ahead.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: NYU Journalism School Hires Ex-New Yorker Fact Checker Who Falsely Said ICE Agent Had Nazi Tattoo. Talia Lavin’s undergraduate course “Reporting on the Far Right” will kick off in the fall semester of 2019.

CAN WE ALLOW INFORMATION MONOPOLIES IF THEY’RE GOING TO CATER TO WOKE MOBS AMONG THEIR EMPLOYEES? “Google banned a video explaining Christian teaching on same-sex marriage from advertising on YouTube after backlash from upset employees, according to internal Google communications reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.”

HEH: NCAA Launches Investigation Into Why It Wasn’t Making Millions Off Recent College Admissions Scandal.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Research Shows Gun Control Laws Do Not Reduce Violent Crime or Suicides.

“California’s comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies and firearm mortality” by Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, et al, in February’s Annals of Epidemiology.

We love this one, because it is one of the few from either the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Webster) or UC-Davis (Wintemute) that is reasonably well designed, following changes in the same location over time (trend analysis) rather than comparing different locations at the same time (cross-sectional analysis).

They found that neither California’s comprehensive background checks (UBCs) nor it’s prohibition of misdemeanor violence conviction status for firearm purchases made any difference in the incidence of firearm homicides or suicides—i.e., in “gun violence”. They were left advocating for “permit to purchase”, naturally, an escalation of infringement rather than admitting that their “gun violence” solutions are not.

You don’t want to be a science denier, do you?

THIS SEEMS LIKE POOR MESSAGING: Tennessee Democratic Party chair apologizes after calling state racist.

“We have to disregard that old trope that Tennessee Democrats have been living under, which is that we have to find a candidate that looks like the community,” she said.

In an audio recording of a second recent county party meeting with Mancini, she can also be heard calling Tennessee “a very racist state.”

So they ran white males for Governor and Senator and lost because of . . . racism? Um.

Also, Vote for us, we have contempt for you! is a great slogan.

LIBERTY: Middle finger protected by the constitution.

A federal appeals court says a Michigan woman’s constitutional rights were violated when she was handed a speeding ticket after giving the finger to a suburban Detroit officer in 2017. The decision means a lawsuit by Debra Cruise-Gulyas can proceed.

In a 3-0 decision Wednesday, the court said Taylor Officer Matthew Minard “should have known better,” even if the driver was rude.

Minard stopped Cruise-Gulyas and wrote her a ticket for a lesser violation. But when that stop was over, Cruise-Gulyas raised her middle finger.

Minard pulled her over again and changed the ticket to a more serious speeding offense.

Cruise-Gulyas sued, saying her free-speech rights and her rights against unreasonable seizure were violated.

The court had it exactly right, saying that Minard “should have known better.” But it seems that many police aren’t often taught much more about civics than, well, anyone else is these days.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Fremont Destroyed Decades of Police Misconduct Records Shortly Before Transparency Law Took Effect.

REVOLT OF THE ELITES: Brexit’s in trouble because Britain’s political class never wanted it.

BREAKING: Rubio to introduce legislation to keep Supreme Court at 9 seats.

Get the Democrats on record as being against court-stacking.

And as Eugene Volokh notes, despite The Hill’s headline, this is a Constitutional amendment, not mere legislation.

JAZZ SHAW: Patriots’ owner may see happy ending in prostitution bust. “First of all, as far as the headline goes, I apologize for nothing. . . . The question of whether anyone should be going to trial at all for this is another matter entirely. Personally, I still fail to see prostitution as much of a crime, though I know that reflects one of my more libertarian-leaning positions as opposed to how many social conservatives see it.”

OH: Clinton, Obama Attorney Greg Craig Snagged in Mueller Probe. “Is karma finally catching up to this nefarious Democrat?”

TYLER O’NEIL: Iraqi Navy SEAL Interpreter ‘Code Name Johnny Walker’ to Gain Citizenship, Reveal His Real Name. “He also supports Trump’s wall.”

What a country.

FUELING THE FRENCH: A USAF KC-10 refuels a French Rafale strike fighter. The photo was taken March 14, 2019. The caption says the aircraft are participating in Operation Inherent Resolve, which counters the Islamic State. The caption doesn’t tell us where the refueling took place. Possibly in air space over Iraq, Turkey or Jordan, or over the Mediterranean Sea.

LONG TERM IMPACT: Russia’s Crimea invasion, five years on.

IF ONE BAR BRAWL A WEEK IS GOOD, WOULDN’T TWO BE EVEN BETTER? My link here yesterday to HillFaith’s video of Oxford mathematician John Lennox prompted a delightful comment from reader DUCKOFD3ATH about such posts invariably prompting “bar brawls” over “intellectually challenging” materials.

Well, Lennox is back this morning and addressing that perennial question of “who created God” by way of answering Richard Dawkins. The way I figure it, one bar brawl a week about God is fine but an occasional second one could double our fun. Just watch out for those mean left jabs!