CALIFORNIA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO BRING IN COMPULSORY ETHNIC STUDIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Gov. Newsom insists kids must ‘understand our full history’ and ‘struggles  of Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans’

WATER: Perseverance rover’s images confirm flood episodes on Mars, researchers say.

COCAINE MITCH KEEPS HIS CARDS CLOSE TO HIS VEST: McConnell vows GOP won’t help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer ‘tantrum.’

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Study: Accidental burns among children up by one-third during pandemic.

WELCOME TO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, GOOD BOY! “Finley, the seven-year-old pooch from Canandaigua, New York, can hold six tennis balls in his mouth at once, beating the previous record that was held for a whopping 17 years by another golden retriever in Texas who could fit five. Finley will be featured in the 2022 edition of the Guinness Book of Records and his hoomans are beyond proud.”

HOW IT STARTED: Biden taps VP Harris to lead response to border challenges.

—AP, March 24^th.

How it’s going: Harris Skips Meeting With Mexican Officials to Go Politicking in New Jersey.

—Rick Moran, PJ Media, today.

COFFEE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? A Cup of Joe to Thwart Liver Fibrosis? How About Four — Study finds protective benefit with high consumption, though not for fatty liver disease.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Brandon for Veep Edition.

#1 IN IRAQ HISTORY: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.

YOU MUST PARROT THE PARTY LINE, COMRADE, THAT’S PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM: Student journalist fired from newspaper after column criticizing mask mandates.

THINK OF HIGHER ED AS JUST ANOTHER BIG INDUSTRY THAT PRODUCES TOXIC WASTE: WATCH: Students love socialism, want to abolish private property.

THEY DON’T WANT WORD OF THEIR ORION PROJECT TO LEAK OUT: Russia tells its space reporters to stop reporting on the space program. Well, sadly, it’s nothing that interesting:

The reality is that the Russian space corporation is run by a political figure and friend of Putin’s, Dmitry Rogozin, who appears to be using it to enrich himself.

Roscosmos pays its employees very poorly, and as a result overall quality appears to be decreasing, with several recent launch and spacecraft failures (with horrific attempts at deflection). Overall, a once great space nation has seen its status fall from an undisputed leader to an also-ran behind the United States, China, and even some US companies.

Perhaps it is not difficult, after all, to understand why Putin and Rogozin would not welcome domestic coverage.

Corruption and coverups are less exciting, but par for the course in crony-state dictatorships.

MICHAEL BARONE: Both parties’ ignorance of electoral reality has led to our present political discontents.

BECAUSE LEFTISTS ARE, AT CORE, LOSERS, THEY HATE THE TALENTED: De Blasio to Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted and Talented Program.

The Times calls a merit-based program a “glaring symbol of segregation.” Proving that they’re not talented. Then again, we already knew that:

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Truth: The New Hate Speech Political Correctness T-Shirt. (Bumped)

KEEP MOVING UP, GREG! Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld edges out Fallon and Kimmel in late-night ratings wars.

Well, he’s actually funny, and he’s not PC.

FLASHBACK, NOV. 2, 2020: Will your ballot be safe? Computer experts sound warnings on America’s voting machines.

Millions of voters going to the polls Tuesday will cast their ballots on machines blasted as unreliable and inaccurate for two decades by computer scientists from Princeton University to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Toyed with by white-hat hackers and targeted for scathing reviews from secretaries of state in California and Ohio, Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, or DREs, have startled Illinois voters by flashing the word “Republican” at the top of a ballot and forgotten what day it was in South Carolina. They were questioned in the disappearance of 12,000 votes in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in 2002 and 18,000 votes in Sarasota County, Florida, in 2006. . . .

All election systems are for the most part black boxes: proprietary software and hardware jealously guarded by the handful of companies selling them. But state reviews and court cases opening up DRE systems of all makes and models for examination have for years flagged problems.

In New Jersey in 2008, Princeton computer scientist Andrew Appel and a five-member team got a rare look under the hood of an AVC Advantage DRE, part of a lawsuit alleging DREs could not reliably count votes

Among the findings: The system sometimes only seemed to record a vote. It sometimes did record a vote but seemed not to. It would take one screwdriver and seven minutes to insert a vote-stealing program. That kind of hack would probably be invisible, Appel concluded.

Plus: Democrats question election results: ‘We just trust the machines, and we shouldn’t.’

Matt Luceen didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020, but he came to Washington last week to protest President Biden’s inauguration, saying the election was flawed.

Mr. Luceen, a supporter of Sen. Bernard Sanders, said he toted signs that read “COUNT OUR VOTES BY HAND,” and “End the charade.”

“We don’t ever really put the paper into piles and count them by hand anymore,” the 34-year-old computer programmer said. “We just trust the machines, and we shouldn’t because we have documented proof that these machines are vulnerable.”

While Mr. Trump and his supporters have been explosively vocal about their distrust of the election system, discontent runs through a broad swath of voters from across the political spectrum.

In 2016, it was Democrats complaining that the election had been tainted by Russian interference. Two years later, the party complained that Stacey Abrams had been denied the Georgia governorship because of shenanigans with voting rolls.

Ms. Abrams never conceded, and Democrats — who took control of the U.S. House in those 2018 elections — made her cause a rallying cry, vowing to repair elections.

In 2020, it was Mr. Trump sowing complaints early and often.

And remember this? Democratic senators warned of potential ‘vote switching’ by Dominion voting machines prior to 2020 election.

In a December 2019 letter to Dominion Voting Systems, which has been mired in controversy after a human error involving its machines in Antrim County, Michigan, resulted in incorrect counts, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Amy Klobuchar and congressman Mark Pocan warned about reports of machines “switching votes,” “undisclosed vulnerabilities,” and “improbable” results that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”

“In 2018 alone, ‘voters in South Carolina [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they’d inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in Indiana,’” the letter reads. “In addition, researchers recently uncovered previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in “nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states.” And, just this year, after the Democratic candidate’s electronic tally showed he received 164 votes out of 55,000 cast in a Pennsylvania state judicial election in 2019, the county’s Republican chairwoman said, “nothing went right on Election Day. Everything went wrong. That’s a problem.”

The letter continued: “These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.”

Dominion’s suing Rudy Giuliani, but not these Democrats. But an “unbiased” voting machine company that only sues Republicans has kind of blown its credibility already.

WHY SHOULD WE LET A PUBLICATION LONG RUN BY ENEMIES OF AMERICA REDESIGN OUR FLAG?   The New York Times wants to redesign Old Glory and just… no.

Could it be because all leftists react to the flag like vampires to the cross?*

*Don’t believe me, try it yourself. Start wearing a flag lapel pin. Sooner or later a leftist “friend” will go unhinged, with spittle flying, screaming for you to take it off.**

** At which point you should remove it, and push it close to their faces, and make them back up. Bonus points if they start hissing and screaming “it burns!” Hasn’t happened yet, but hope surges eternal. So far they just call me names and run.

CAN THIS BE ANY WORSE THAN THE AVERAGE PUBLIC SCHOOL?  What is ‘roam schooling’? ‘Skoolie’ families teach their kids on the road.

Is it possible to be worse than the average public school? Abstain from answering, please, if you haven’t had kids in school the last 20 years. Trust me on this.

WHAT SHE SAID!  Candace Cameron Bure: I’m not anti-vax, I’m just pro-medical freedom.

GEE, I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY THEY WOULD DO THAT:  Teachers union chief says NYC is ‘hiding’ student in-person attendance.

I’m going to bet you that they’re not alone, either.

WELL, TEH GRAUNIAD, YOU WANTED IT:  Guardian: UK Industry Facing Climate Policy Winter Shutdown.

YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A PSYCHIATRIST TO SEE IT:  World Renowned Psychiatrist: ‘Global Predators’ Fauci, Gates, and Schwab Behind the COVID ‘Reign of Terror’.

I’D SAY HE LOST HIS MIND, BUT THIS IS JOE BIDEN: Biden falsely claims vaccinated people can’t spread Covid in Illinois speech promoting vax mandates.

He’s never had a mind. Inside his head is a rabid weasel full of greed and malice.

Also, Let’s go, Brandon.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IN AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY?  Bail for a school shooter? While Jan. 6 defendants languish in prison as danger to the republic?