BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: The U.S. Navy Is Shrinking the Size of Its Gargantuan 70s-Era Computers.

The hardware used to run Aegis was large and took up a significant portion of the ship. According to C4ISRNET, the military-grade computer, servers, consoles, and displays were so large that the Navy needed to cut holes in the hulls of ships when it needed to replace them. These systems also had a considerable electrical draw on the ship’s power supply, and required air conditioning—and more power—to keep them cool. Built to be large and rugged, these computers have also in many cases not been replaced for decades.

For March’s missile test USS Hudner ran its Aegis hardware from what the Navy calls a “virtual twin,” a handful of modern computers in ruggedized boxes. Just as your iMac running the Mac operating system computer can run virtualization software to emulate a Linux computer, the virtual twin completely emulates Aegis’ computer system and software but in a much smaller package. Moore’s Law allows these computers to replicate the physically much larger set of Aegis computers originally fitted to Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers built in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

“Much larger” is putting it lightly. Infographic of the original hardware at the link.

WORST. NAZI. PRESIDENT. EVER. Injured California rabbi gets a call from President Donald Trump: ‘He was just so comforting.’

DUKE NUKEM STRIKES AGAIN: Gun-Grabber Eric Swalwell Suggests Trump to Blame for California Synagogue Attack.

Earlier: This Eric Swalwell guy is useful for no other reason than to give us a glimpse of what goes on in the minds of hardcore leftists.

HEAVY LIFT: A USMC CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter carries an M777 towed 155mm howitzer during an exercise at Fire Base Burt, Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California.

HE FIGHTS: Trump campaign manager names blue states ‘in play’ for 2020.

In addition to the campaign’s work in states that were key to Trump’s 2016 victory – including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – the campaign is setting its sights on Minnesota, New Mexico and New Hampshire, campaign manager Brad Parscale told CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

“I think Nevada, you know even Colorado” are winnable for the campaign, Parscale added. “And so those are states we did not win in 2016 that I think are open for 2020.”

You don’t win by racking up the totals in safe states. You win by taking states away from the other guy.

HOW NORTH KOREAN COAL ELUDES SANCTIONS:

From VOA:

The North Korean vessel Wise Honest, owned by Korea Songi Shipping Co. of Pyongyang, set sail toward Indonesia after loading about $3 million worth of coal from North Korean Nampo Port in March 2018.

Then the voyage got complicated.

BERKELEY HATEWATCH UPDATE: Students reportedly said “f*ck Zionists” and claimed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) teaches American police to murder black people at a student government meeting.

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DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Dan Markel’s Parents Want Justice As Suspects Finally Head To Trial In Murder-For-Hire Case.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Toxic Masculinity Deterred Synagogue Shooter. “Anti-Semitism is excused and normalized by the media and the Democrats when they fail to critically cover people like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and groups like the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter who are aligned with the anti-Semitic BDS movement. The Democrats in congress were unable to pass one of their stupid resolutions that would condemn anti-Semitism. These are not serious folks. Sadly, the Poway synagogue shooting will disappear as fast as the Sri Lanka “Easter worship” slaughter because it’s inconvenient to the left’s narrative: the Poway gun man was a Trump-hater.”

UPDATE: Link was originally incorrect. Now fixed.

SO WOKE, SI: Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

ROGER KIMBALL: It doesn’t matter who Trump runs with: he’ll still win in 2020.

I realize we’re talking about Trump here, but still, as Glenn says, don’t get cocky.

WILLING DUPES: California Embraces Communist China’s ‘Belt and Road.’

OUT SOON FROM MARK LEVIN: Unfreedom of the Press.

BECAUSE SHE’S A DELUSIONAL GRIFTER? Why Stacy Abrams Is Still Saying She Won.

A VIRGINIA FRIEND WHO’S A HARDCORE TRUMP SUPPORTER LIKES THIS CANDIDACY A LOT: Tina Ramirez for Congress. She’s not from the traditional GOP apparatus in Virginia, but given that the traditional apparatus wasn’t even smart enough to check Ralph Northam’s yearbooks, that’s probably a plus.

BYRON YORK: When did Mueller know there was no collusion?

Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. Twenty-two months later, on March 22, 2019, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department.

Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?

He didn’t, it appears. In the wake of the release of Mueller’s report, there are indications that special counsel prosecutors mostly knew by the end of 2017, and certainly by a few months later, that the evidence would not establish that conspiracy or coordination — or collusion, to use the popular term — had taken place. Mueller clearly spent a lot of time on the other half of his report — trying to establish that Trump obstructed justice — but on the most explosive and consequential allegation of the Trump-Russia affair, the conspiracy allegation, the Mueller investigation was essentially over long before it officially ended.

I’m shocked, shocked to hear this.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Adolescent Progressive Mind.

DON’T GET COCKY, KID: Roger Kimball: It doesn’t matter who Trump runs with: he’ll still win in 2020. Mike Pence, Nikki Haley…he could win with anyone on the ticket.

Related: A strong economy and dubious Democrats may re-elect Trump.

Like I said, don’t get cocky, kids.

WORST SEXIST PRESIDENT EVER: Trump has more female senior advisers than last three administrations. When you think about it, all those people who say Trump is a bumbling incompetent have a point. He’s the worst Nazi president ever, he’s a total failure at being a racist president, and now he can’t even bring off the sexism thing. A complete failure. Sad!

UGH: Southwest and FAA officials never knew Boeing turned off a safety feature on its 737 Max jets, and dismissed ideas about grounding them.

UNEXPECTEDLY! “Handsome Her, the lesbian vegan cafe that charged men 18% extra because men earn more than women, shut down after two years.”

SOME SENSIBLE WORDS FROM . . . THE NATION? The Mueller Report Indicts the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory: The real Russiagate scandal is the damage it has done to our democratic system and media.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT OR WHATEVS: ‘Outrageous’ bill may release murderers, rapists back on city streets.

The “elder parole” bill, which would grant parole eligibility to all inmates ages 55 and up who have been in prison at least 15 years, is “outrageous and idiotic,” said Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon.

The legislation would even extend to those serving life without parole, a group which includes famed criminals such as ‘90s serial killer Joel Rifkin, the Queens Wendy’s massacre mastermind John Taylor, and Bronx child rapist Clarence Moss.

The legislation has quietly flown under the radar since being introduced in the Assembly in February by Queens Democrat David Weprin.

The release of Weather Underground terrorist Judith Clark, paroled earlier this month after serving more than 37 years in prison, gave the bill’s backers a new talking point.

Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), who introduced the accompanying Senate bill about a week before Clark’s release, praised her parole, saying “there are so many more Judith Clarks out there” and “we must work to fight for their freedom.”

Good lord.