AND IT’S LOSING ALL POTENCY:  Racism as all-purpose accusation by black politicians was normed by Obama.

UM. I’M STILL ON TEAM #ABOLISHANDSALTTHERUINS:  Report: FBI Was Against Mar-a-Lago Raid, Argued With DOJ Prosecutors.

THEY CAN WORK ON HIGH, THEY CAN WORK ON LOW, BUT THEY HATE THE BOURGEOISIE. ALWAYS HAVE:  Yet another way the government screws over the middle class.

WITH HER AND FETTERMAN HOSPITALIZED, DO THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A WORKING MAJORITY IN THE SENATE? Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, hospitalized in San Francisco for treatment of shingles.

Also, do you usually hospitalize people for shingles?

NOW OUT FROM CHRIS DURBIN: Cousins At Arms: The Thirteenth Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventure.

Having finished the new Andrew Wareham book, I was in the mood for more nautical reading, so I’ve started this one. It’s good so far.

MARK JUDGE: Want to cure American amnesia? Teach history backward.

OPEN THREAD: Hey, so glad you could make it now. Hey, there’s only us left now.

DELAWARE DUMBS IT DOWN: “Delaware Lowers Passing Score on Bar Exam in Push for Racial Diversity:  ‘Not Supposed to be a Barrier.'”  (Actually, not knowing enough about law is supposed to be a barrier, but I guess I’ll have to let that slide.)

AS AM I: DoD interested in smartphone-to-satellite communications services.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty of Murder, a Huge Win for Rule of Law in Rural S. Carolina.

I haven’t followed the case, but one of my hotshot criminal defense lawyer friends thought the best they could hope for was a hung jury.

R.I.P. ANDREW BREITBART, who died 11 years ago yesterday. I met him for the first time in 2002, in L.A. This photo is from after the Quincy Tea Party event in 2009. That’s Elbert Guillory, Jim Hoft, Andrew, me, and Dana Loesch.

I wish Andrew were still around for all sorts of reasons, but I’d certainly love to hear his take on today’s politics.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Europe’s First Hunter-Gatherer People May Not Have Vanished Like We Thought.

TIME TO ADMIT EVs ARE EVIL: Leave it to Issues & Insights to get to the bottom line of the enviro-fanatics’ accelerating crusade to force everybody else out of privately owned, fossil-fueled vehicles and into Electric Vehicles (EV):

“EVs aren’t “zero emissions” vehicles. All an EV does is shift the emissions elsewhere — namely, over to gigantic monopoly power companies that burn natural gas, coal, garbage or, horror of horrors, employ nuclear fission. Plus, making electric cars releases far more CO2 than is emitted in the production of conventional cars.”

If that’s not enough, I&I has much more, including the fact much of the material required to make EV batteries is controlled by China and mined with slave and child labor. The more is learned about the all-but-certain consequences of the EV conversion, the more clear it becomes that it will be an environmental, economic and social catastrophe.

CDR SALAMANDER: Happy Diversity Thursday!

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Ozempic shortages? Some pharmacists are choosing not to stock the drug at all. “It’s too expensive for us to stock.”

“Hux is among a group of independent pharmacists who have stopped carrying Ozempic and other drugs in the same class, in part, they say, because of the underpayments by pharmacy benefits managers, who act as middlemen between pharmacists and insurers. These drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, are relatively new and still under patent, meaning there are no generic alternatives.”

GET SCOPED: Colon cancer surges among people younger than 55. “Cancer experts are baffled, especially since numbers are declining in the overall population.”

SPACE: Rocket Lab More Than Triples its Revenue in 2022, Led by Space Systems Growth. “Notably, this total 2022 revenue of $211 million exceeds Rocket Lab’s revenue targets from when the company announced plans to go public in March 2021.”

HMM: Place Your Bets: Mercedes Suggests Level 4 Automated Driving By 2030.

REPO AI: Ford wants cars to lock out drivers who are late on car payments. “If the owner still misses payments and doesn’t reach out to the lender, autonomous vehicles would be instructed to drive to the repossession agency, an impound lot, or a junkyard depending on the market value of the vehicle.”

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): What the Fudge? Hershey’s Celebrates Man for International Women’s Day.

READER FAVORITE: Coofandy Men’s Hawaiian Floral Shirts. #CommissionEarned

FLORIDA MAN: DeSantis Book Hits No. 1 on Amazon, Expected to Outsell Trump, Obama Books in First Week, Publisher Says.

SKYNET SMILES: The best free AI tools you can try right now.

INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSES ARE AN INDICATOR OF DEMENTIA: Joe Biden Laughs While Talking About Fentanyl Deaths.

Of course, in Biden’s case, it could just be his longstanding disregard for simple human decency.

NO MORE HINDENBURGS: Scientists believe they’ve found untapped helium reserves.