HMM: Keto diet found to slow early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

HMM: Fed Officials Still See Three Interest-Rate Cuts This Year. “Fed Chair Jerome Powell conceded that inflation had been stickier than anticipated.”

You don’t say.

READER FAVORITE: Victorinox Classic SD Swiss Army Knife. #CommissionEarned

DEVELOPING…: Fani Willis Could Still Be Disqualified From Trump Case.

ANTI-DEI AND RACIAL PREFERENCES MEASURES GAIN STEAM IN ARIZONA. If there is one area where our education system has miserably failed the hardest and least excusably (given how much attention is given to race and racism), it’s on educating students why segregation and discrimination is a bad idea regardless of who’s doing it. All they needed to do was teach the Golden Rule, which is at least 3,600 years old, and they couldn’t even manage that.

SANCTUARY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Democratic cities that welcomed migrants are starting to roll back aid.

TRUST THE SCIENCE: AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals.

SLIP SLIDING AWAY: Americans Are Crankier Than Ever and These Numbers Prove It.

“BAD LUCK”: Cuba Runs Out Of Money. “So commies limit bank access to a business’s own cash, and they’re shocked that businesses stop depositing it in banks.”

THAT’S ABOUT A CENTURY IN INTERNET YEARS, RIGHT? DOB 2004: No Pasarán Turns 20.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Feels like more than that, to be honest.

WELL, SURE, WE’RE BLAMED FOR ALL THE WORLD’S ILLS: Too much energy spent combating stress linked to earlier death in men, study finds.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: Sophisticated ‘burglary tourists’ fly from South America to rob wealthy homes, LAPD says.

In the desert around Scottsdale, Ariz., on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an international heist ring suspected of swiping jewels and luxury goods from homes across Los Angeles. Using helicopters and drones, they eventually found him hiding under a tree.

The wanted man, it turned out, was a 17-year-old from Chile.

Authorities say the teenager and his two adult accomplices later admitted to breaking into multiple homes, part of a growing trend of “burglary tourism” from South America.

The Los Angeles Police Department said the teenage fugitive was first arrested Feb. 29 in Pacific Palisades along with three other Chileans as they cased homes in the wealthy enclave. Police tracked down the crew after a security camera captured the license plate of their 2024 Hyundai Tucson amid a series of burglaries across East Hollywood.

Increasingly over the last five years, police officials say, thieves from South American nations have entered the U.S. for the purpose of committing robberies. In the case of Chile, authorities suspect some criminals are taking advantage of the tourist visa system, which does not require a background check for travelers. Once in the country, police say, they plan heist sprees and fence the loot before dispatching their earnings back home.

LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told The Times that South American theft groups are not new in L.A., but they have become more active in recent months.

Although crime statistics show burglaries are on the decline overall, Hamilton said: “The number of crimes tied to these kind of crews are way, way up.”

Unexpectedly. Or as John Nolte asks, “Why wouldn’t these gangs target wealthy neighborhoods in Democrat-run cities? Democrat-run cities are now magnets for every terrible thing in the world: an invasion of illegal aliens, violent criminals, burglaries, drug abuse, and pervasive homelessness. The moment you tolerate this behavior, you invite more of it. FYI: we don’t have these problems out here.”

But just think of the problems you do have!

It’s that horseshoe thing again. RW and LW loons share the insane belief that the upper Midwest is disproportionately white as the result of some nazi style lebensraum, when it turns out it’s only because the appeal of beer, ice fishing, and B1G West football is limited

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 19, 2024

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY IN ALABAMA: Alabama passes sweeping bill that would prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion at public schools and universities.

AND ANOTHER ONE: Bentley Pushes Back Ambitious All-Electric Goals. “Bentley had originally planned to transition all of its vehicle sales to EVs by 2030 but announced that it would be looking to delay that change by a couple of years, continuing to offer hybrids through that time, CEO Adrian Hallmark said in a media briefing following the company’s fourth quarter results, according to CNBC. General Motors, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Honda have all backed off of previously made EV goals in the past year as low demand and high costs have stifled the commodity’s profitability compared to traditional vehicles.”

FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY: Yes, of course Donald Trump is calling coronavirus the ‘China virus’ for political reasons.

—Chris Cillizza, CNN, March 20^th, 2020.

As Stephen Kruiser wrote on December 1^st, 2020: The Morning Briefing: Whaddyaknow—Enemy of the People CNN Finally Admits China Lied About Bat Flu.

TRUMP TO LETITIA JAMES: You’ve made Manhattan real estate worthless already, so take my Trump Tower . . . please! “The 91 felony indictments helped Trump in the polls. His popularity could skyrocket if James confiscates his tower. The political value might exceed the half a billion dollars in wealth it will cost.”

Plus: “People will stop doing business in New York. No one will take the risk, and lenders are now spooked. The real estate market is already a disaster, with office buildings worth a fraction of what they were once worth, and there are metastasizing effects when a large part of the city’s budget is from real estate.”

DON SURBER: In Praise of Ties: They helped build a society that we are destroying. “The first thing I notice when I watch a black-and-white TV show on one of the rerun networks is the ties. In the 1950s, every man wore a tie. The milkman wore a tie. The mailman wore a tie. The policeman wore a tie. Even Elvis wore a tie on occasion. Chuck Berry always wore a tie. Gas station attendants wore them. You could trust your car to the man who wore the star because he had a tie on. Men wore ties to ballgames because men were civilized.”

I had some related thoughts here.

OH, SHE’S HAD PLENTY OF HELP: Letitia James Is Single-Handedly Destroying America.

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Enormous Win for Veterans 2A Rights: The VA’s underhanded “Red Flag” capability got taken away.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS…PRETTY CONSISTENT, ACTUALLY: NYT: There Is a Deep State and it Is Awesome.

You have to hand it to The New York Times. They are as slick as they are deceptive.

A paper once known for afflicting the comfortable in government, they have been on a tear lately, shilling for the overlords who want to run our lives and rig our democracy.

Don’t ever change Gray Lady, don’t ever change:

How big a “deep state” does the gray lady want? What sorts of things does she want it to do to people she doesn’t like? That big.

FIGHT THE POWER: Texas yanks $8.5B from Larry Fink’s BlackRock in ‘massive blow against the scam of ESG.’

The State of Texas is terminating a massive $8.5 billion investment with trillion-dollar asset manager BlackRock over the state’s determination that the firm is engaged in a boycott of energy companies.

In an announcement first shared with FOX Business, Texas State Board of Education Chairman Aaron Kinsey said the so-called Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) had delivered a notice to BlackRock on Tuesday, informing the New York City-based firm of the action.

According to Kinsey, the move was made in accordance with a 2021 state law that seeks to distance the state and its large public purse from financial institutions boycotting the oil and gas sector.

Why should Texas do business with its destroyers?

SPRING SALE: Levi’s Men’s and Women’s Apparel. #CommissionEarned

VIDEOS: Biden’s Reelection Campaign Is Off to a Shuffling Start.

IT’S RELIABLE AND PRICED RIGHT: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites. “Somewhat to the ESA’s embarrassment, the continent has had to purchase several launches from its direct competitor in launch, SpaceX, during the last two years. In 2023, Europe launched its Euclid space telescope on a Falcon 9 rocket, and later this year, an ESA Earth observation satellite and an ESA asteroid probe will launch on Falcon 9 missions.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Madison professor worked to cancel her conservative grad student: FOIA documents.