COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Penn Lecturer Is Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoons.

HMM: Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer’s? “You might think age-related dementia has been with us all along, stretching back to the ancient world. But a new analysis of classical Greek and Roman medical texts suggests that severe memory loss—occurring at epidemic levels today—was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of Aristotle, Galen and Pliny the Elder.”

IT ONLY SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE: Fake News Is Getting Even Faker.

HMM: Study links radon to increased risk of stroke.

SHOT: Red Sea supply chain inflation may be peaking already, new trade data suggests.

Chaser: White House says first response to Jordan drone attack WON’T be the last as it prepares for ‘weeks’ of strikes and blames Islamic Resistance in Iraq for ‘facilitating’ killing of three U.S. troops.

We might not have seen nothin’ yet.

BOB GRABOYES: The Minds of Economists: How We Think, What We Think, What We Do, How We Act.

CATHERINE SALGADO: Exclusive: J6 Prisoner Details Abusive Prison Conditions.

THIS COULD BE BIG: New pain medicine may be safer alternative to opioids.

For now, the drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is called VX-548. But in trials of patients undergoing abdominoplasties (tummy tucks) and foot bunion surgeries, VX-548 performed better than placebo at easing post-op pain, with no major safety issues seen.

It didn’t bring superior pain relief compared with the opioid Vicodin (hydrocodone bitartrate/acetaminophen), the trial found, but it scored similarly to Vicodin on a standard measure called the Numeric Pain Rating Scale.

Non-addictive but as effective as Vicodin could be a game-changer — unless and until the FDA finds an excuse to slap as many controls on it as they have opioids.

SCENES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Montana Parents Lose Custody of Daughter for Opposing Her Gender Transition.

REAGAN’S NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST GOURMET COOK ANECDOTE: The 2024 edition of the National Prayer Breakfast convened earlier today in Washington, D.C. and that makes it a great day to remember on HillFaith a vintage joke by President Ronald Reagan that both prompted laughs and made a serious point about the Creation.

And as author Dr. John G. West explains in impressive detail, Reagan’s faith was not merely an occasional thing. West does a superb job of explicating the little-reported links between the former president’s faith and his Berlin Wall declaration “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

There are also important background links to a crucial conversation between Reagan and Gorbachev at the Moscow Summit in 1988 that prompted a great opening of religious freedom in Russia.

ET TU, CALIFORNIA? California EV Sales Dropped Two Quarters in a Row Last Year.

Automakers have seen wavering demand for EVs across the country, but California has always been the stronghold for electric adoption and infrastructure. Even so, the tides turned late last year, which could signal slower times ahead for the industry.

EV sales fell for two consecutive quarters last year, down ten percent between Q3 and Q4, to 89,993 registrations. As Automotive News pointed out, the state still registers a substantial number of EVs, and they accounted for 21.4 percent of auto sales last year. California regulators want all vehicle sales to be for zero-emissions models by 2035, so any downturn is cause for concern.

The mandates will continue until morale improves.

BIDEN’S HANDLERS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE GETTING HIM INTO: When the Texas National Guard issues a warning, it should be believed.

WHEN YOU HATE PEOPLE LONG AND LOUDLY ENOUGH, THEY REJECT YOU: Young men continue to reject college: Pew study.

POLLS BASED ON HYPOTHETICALS AREN’T THE MOST RELIABLE: If Trump Is Convicted of a Crime, How Much, If Any, Support Would He Lose?

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY? Binghamton University facing federal civil rights investigation over anti-Semitism complaint.

Related: Florida student arrested, threatened to shoot and kill three Jewish students during Pro-Israel event.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese stocks have lost $6 trillion in 3 years. Here’s what you need to know. “The world’s second largest economy is plagued by a myriad of problems. They include a record downturn in real estate, deflation, debt, a falling birthrate and shrinking work force, as well as a shift towards ideology-driven policies that has rattled the private sector and scared away foreign firms.”

JEFFREY CARTER ON THE MARKETS: Don’t Be Fooled: All Time Highs Aren’t What They Seem to Be. “Trump beats Biden in virtually every economic category that matters to the average American. It’s not even close. Even if you hate Trump, you shouldn’t stay home and enable mediocrity and failure. Voting for a third party is silly too since that never works out. Perot put Clinton over the top in 1992 and left us with Hillary.”

BABYLON BEE GUIDE TO WHICH STATUES YOU CAN AND CAN’T TEAR DOWN. Timely guidance, with Iowa charging the guy who knocked over the statue (idol?) of Satan with a hate crime. (Imagine his jailhouse “what are you in for?” conversations…)

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden’s America — Jail Time for Praying, but It’s OK to Beat Up a Cop. “It has never been more obvious that Garland’s goon squad is focused on ruining the lives of any American who might vote Republican. Sure, they were motivated by hatred for Trump in the beginning and targeted his supporters, but I truly believe that they want to eliminate all political opposition now. Libertarians might want to start being more vigilant.”

SOCIALISM IS BAD FOR BIRTH RATES: Canada’s fertility rate has hit its lowest level in recorded history.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: 1,000 days in space! Core module of China’s Tiangong space station hits milestone.

The landmark highlights the technological and engineering capabilities of China’s space industry, which has greatly expanded its activities in recent years.

China aims to keep Tiangong operating for at least a decade. Starting with Shenzhou 12 in 2021, six crewed missions have visited Tianhe and been kept comfortable by its life support systems and sleeping quarters. The current occupants are the Shenzhou 17 crew, who are just over halfway through their six-month-long mission aboard Tiangong.

A video released by China’s human spaceflight agency to mark the milestone shows clips of the launch, views of Earth from orbit, the interior of Tianhe, including working and personal areas, various Shenzhou mission astronauts at work, and a microgravity science laboratory cabinet.

Tiangong is just 20% as massive as the 460-ton International Space Station (ISS), but its presence provides another human outpost for science in orbit. Tiangong also contributed to a new record of 17 people in orbit at one time, set in May 2023.

China is, however, planning to expand Tiangong beyond its basic, three-module configuration with further modules.

NASA doesn’t have much of a plan for what will replace the ISS, set to be “deorbited in a controlled manner” around 2030.

WINNERS: ILLEGAL ALIENS. Taxpayers funding immigrant trips north, envelopes of cash ‘for whatever they want.’

Losers: Actual Americans. Six in 10 live ‘paycheck to paycheck,’ 24% have $0 in bank.

TRUST THE SCIENCE! IT’S PUBLISHED RESEARCH! Paper Trail: In the latest twist of the publishing arms race, firms churning out fake papers have taken to bribing journal editors. “Rather than targeting potential authors and reviewers, someone who called himself Jack Ben, of a firm whose Chinese name translates to Olive Academic, was going for journal editors—offering large sums of cash to these gatekeepers in return for accepting papers for publication. . . . So cash-rich paper mills have evidently adopted a new tactic: bribing editors and planting their own agents on editorial boards to ensure publication of their manuscripts. An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch, in partnership with Wise and other industry experts, identified several paper mills and more than 30 editors of reputable journals who appear to be involved in this type of activity. Many were guest editors of special issues, which have been flagged in the past as particularly vulnerable to abuse because they are edited separately from the regular journal. But several were regular editors or members of journal editorial boards. And this is likely just the tip of the iceberg.”

“AFFINITY GROUPS” ARE JUST segregation by another name. “In violation of the U.S. Constitution, affinity groupings are reintroducing segregation in K-12 classrooms.”

“FUNCTIONAL” WAS NEVER IN THE CARDS: New James O’Keefe Undercover Video Exposes Dysfunctional Biden White House. “Within hours of O’Keefe sharing this video on social media, Charlie Kraiger deleted his social media accounts.”