WELL, YES.  SORT OF A TRUISM, ISN’T IT: IF NATO NATIONS SEND NATO TROOPS TO UKRAINE, RUSSIA WILL BE AT WAR WITH NATO:  Kremlin warns of war with NATO if European members send troops to Ukraine.

WHEN THE BLOW COMES FROM BEHIND …  Former Obama aides sound alarm over ‘frail’ and ‘mumbly’ Biden — warn his age ‘is a very real issue’.

TELL ME THIS WAS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION WITHOUT SAYING THIS WAS A POLITICAL PROSECUTION:  NY AG Letitia James trolls Trump about interest he owes on $350M civil fraud judgment.

IN SENEGAL THESE ARE KNOWN AS LUXURY HOUSING:  More than 70 Senegalese migrants discovered living in cramped NYC basement where they sleep in shifts.

THE MEANINGS OF WORDS MATTER:  A message from the edge of the cliff.

YOU ONLY THINK YOU KNOW HISTORY:  First, Do Harm.

THEIR ENEMIES WANT US DESTROYED, TOO:  Why we must support our Jewish friends.

Israel is fighting for civilization.

HE’S RIGHT AND WRONG. THE RIGHT WAS BLOCKED FROM SOME FIELDS. ALSO THE LEFT IS ALREADY LOSING CONTROL:  It’s about the long game.

If you don’t feel like it, it’s because the left feels this loss and is therefore going considerably crazier in response.

SO SHE’D BE A BETTER CANDIDATE IF SHE COULD WIN SOME PRIMARIES: Donald Trump wins Michigan GOP primary, defeating Nikki Haley. So far, she’s the Kamala of the GOP — lots of press fawning but no wins.

WELL: In win for Paxton, court declares $1.7 trillion federal omnibus was passed unconstitutionally. From the Texas Public Policy Foundation: “The Court correctly concluded that the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 violated the Quorum Clause of the U.S. Constitution because a majority of House members was not physically present when the $1.7 trillion spending bill was passed. Proxy voting is unconstitutional.”

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Imagine being proud that your society’s terrorists come from all walks of life. It won’t surprise to learn that the tweet author is a Sociology professor at CUNY.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Starting a war and then losing it doesn’t make you a victim. It puts you in the same boat as Nazis. Whom the Palestinians resemble, except for competence.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Intuitive Machines’ historic moon landing builds momentum for Artemis, astronaut Tracy C. Dyson says.

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Macy’s Shutters Union Square Location in San Francisco.

CANCEL CULTURE IS HAPPENING ON A HISTORIC SCALE, PART 4: From the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids to censorship in the contemporary UK, this week’s Eternally Radical Idea has some scary news about how bad it’s gotten across the pond.

“British police track “non-crime hate incidents.” In essence, this means anyone who takes offense to someone’s speech about a protected characteristic can report the speaker to the police. Horrifyingly, guidance for police states that “the victim does not have to justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers and staff should not directly challenge this perception.”

“From 2014 to 2019, almost 120,000 such incidents were cataloged across the U.K.”

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: John Podhoretz: My Nikki Haley Theory.

But what will Republicans have to say if he goes down to defeat on November 5, 2024? Will they buy his sore-loser conspiracy theory #2 that the election was stolen from him? Or will they finally say they’ve had enough of the winning—which is to say, the losing?

And if enough of them do—and right now, judging from the three early primary contests, somewhere between nearly 4 out of 10 Republicans believe this already—won’t they finally, finally, finally have to admit that, if they don’t want Democrats running everything for all time, they will have to give up on the standard-bearer who, like the substitute baton-holder from the Delta House ranks in front of the Faber College Marching Band during the parade at the end of National Lampoon’s Animal House, has four times running led the world’s oldest political party down a blind alley into a brick wall?

The person who can say “I told you so” in that case, and simultaneously offer a new path to the future, will be Nikki Haley. Maybe she can’t be the nominee in 2028. Maybe the GOP base will decide she’s just a raven-headed Liz Cheney and demonize her and drive her out. Could happen. But if Trump is not president on January 20, 2025, the party will be in pieces and Haley will be the most famous Republican to have delivered the warning. So my theory is that this is what she’s running to be.

Or, choose your adventure! Nikki Haley Fades to Irrelevance. It’s the self-immolation of once-promising career.

‘UNHINGED:’ Time Mag Claims Christians Self-Immolated to Protest the Roman Empire Too.

This historical context exposes the absurdity of Time’s claim. In the first place, Christian doctrine on martyrdom developed very early (for obvious reasons), and one of its principles is that one cannot choose martyrdom in this manner. The Lord chooses His martyrs, not through suicide but through perseverance in the faith while being persecuted. These early martyrs were murdered by Diocletian and Nero; the only choice they made was to remain faithful to Christ, and their persecutors put them to death for it. To argue that this was in some sort of “protest” over imperial policy shifts responsibility for their grotesque and barbaric deaths from the murderers to their victims, let alone ignoring the fact that the Christians of the time were doing their best to survive Diocletian.

Of course, this attempt by the media to shift responsibility for grotesque and barbaric deaths from the murderers to the victims has parallels to their coverage of the war Hamas and the Gazans launched on Israel, too.

As one might imagine, Christians on social media are not receiving this revisionist history with much enthusiasm. Without going all Twitchy on readers, I’ll just include a few pointed criticisms that caught my eye:

Wow. Do not compare Christians who were and are given the option of denounce Christ or die as the same as a guy setting himself on fire. They were MURDERED. He committed Suicide. There is a difference. https://t.co/3IwVWCmVc5

— Force of Light Entertainment 🎙 (@ForceofLightEn1) February 27, 2024

Time founder Henry Luce, the son of Christian missionaries, left the building a long time ago.

Related:

Candace is still reading up on what happened on October 7th before offering an opinion on it, but she sure got straight to mourning the death of a commie who supported the side of the decapitating rapists. pic.twitter.com/3KqWgXCW9h

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 27, 2024

And don’t get her started on other uses for bonfires: Candace Owens: Yes, the Nazis Burned Books, but They Were Bad Books.

WELL, GOOD: Breakthrough: FDA Approves First Drug For Dangerous Food Allergies.

SPACE: Odysseus transmits first pictures after lunar landing.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL DEEP SEVENS: New Research Sheds Light on Moon’s Mysterious Seismic Activity.

MARK JUDGE: Dune: Part Two: The film conservatives have been waiting for?

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Watch: Biden Convinced Media He Was ‘Powerless’ To Fix Border Crisis. Then He Changed His Mind.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Blindness from some inherited eye diseases may be caused by gut bacteria.

GREAT PERFORMANCE, BAD VISIBILITY: 2024 Tesla Cybertruck Dual Motor First Drive: Hype Machine or the Real Deal? “All in all, it’s obvious that Tesla did its pickup-truck homework. The owner of our test truck is not an EV or Tesla enthusiast. His other cars are a heavy-duty Ram pickup and a Jeep Wrangler, and he bought a Cybertruck because it struck him as a proper pickup. Early in his ownership, he has not been disappointed.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Controlling Shotgun Recoil.