VOTE FOR BRAD SCHIMEL: Heads Up: Conservative Candidate Is w/i ‘Striking Distance’ Of Liberal Opponent In Swing State Judicial Contest.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Cori Bush’s Husband Indicted for Wire Fraud, Allegedly Submitted False Applications To Obtain COVID Relief Funds.

HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE: THERE ISN’T ANY SAUSAGE, ACTUALLY.

MORE – DOGE Staffer Drops Bombshell After Bombshell About Inner Workings of IRS/Treasury Dept.

DOGE insider Sam Corcos, special adviser to the U.S. Treasury Department, just unloaded a jaw-dropping exposé on the IRS and Treasury’s chaotic operations.

He’s pulling the mask off,… pic.twitter.com/GEG0jmtlQO

— Overton (@overton_news) March 21, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice.

DEMOCRATS WANT TO SHUT UP REPUBLICANS. REPUBLICANS WANT DEMOCRATS TO JUST . . . KEEP TALKING:

Our secret plan for dealing with the Democrats is called, “Operation: Let them speak.” pic.twitter.com/If5D1meezW

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) March 20, 2025

That said, it would be nice if the Congressional GOP started to, you know, pass some legislation.

WELL, YES: Karol Markowicz: Democrats’ silence is damning as leftist violence explodes.

They like it.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL: US declares administrative law judge removal rules unconstitutional. It’s a few weeks old, but still.

GOOD IDEA. THAT’LL SHOW TRUMP. Europe Hatches Plans for Ukraine Peacekeepers Without U.S.: Defense chiefs from the ‘coalition of the willing’ discuss how best to put boots on the ground in Ukraine if there is peace. Well, maybe. It’s typical EU BS when you look past the headlines:

Western allies are trying to hash out a bold European idea: sending 10,000 to 30,000 troops to Ukraine to help enforce any eventual peace deal with Russia.

With cease-fire talks continuing with the Kremlin, defense officials from dozens of Western nations met in the U.K. on Thursday to hammer out details of how the so-called “coalition of the willing” led by the U.K. and France could help Ukraine deter Russia from attacking in the future. No U.S. troops would be involved.

The unusual talks—Western military allies getting together without the Americans—are the latest sign of the world’s shifting geopolitics. The pivot in U.S. diplomacy to accommodate Russia has left Western allies struggling with how to help Ukraine find a lasting peace, especially since they lack the military capacity that only the U.S. can bring.

Already, however, discussions among these allies are proving arduous. A major concern is that coalition troops could get sucked into a hot war with Russia without substantial U.S. support to back them up. There is also a debate over whether the Western troops in Ukraine would even be permitted to fire at Russians if there were an incursion.

Peacekeepers who can’t shoot are hostages. You want peacekeepers who can –and will — shoot if you want to actually keep peace. In the words of Keith Laumer, there’s noting so peaceful as a dead troublemaker.

OPEN THREAD: Entertain us with your trenchant, witty observations.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese company targets crewed orbital spaceflight.

THREAD:

🧵🧵Indivisible is definitely the ring leader of the Tesla Takedown domestic terrorism movement. They are the main organizers, they host the weekly calls to lay out their plans.

Today was one of them. The call was one hour and ten mins and had some very interesting moments.

I…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) March 20, 2025

SCIENCE: Your Poop Schedule Says a Lot About Your Overall Health, Study Discovers.

JOHN LUCAS: Domestic Terrorism Alert: Take this seriously please. “In what I believe is an unprecedented action, the U. S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) has issued a nationwide ‘Threat Advisory’ to all of its personnel who are Tesla owners. Below is a series of screenshots that comprise the complete Threat Advisory. . . . I and other military veterans have never seen anything like this in the U.S. It is more like something that we would see in a foreign country such as Libya, Syria or Afghanistan, warning civilians either to leave or take extreme precautions because of terrorist threats.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Uncover Lyme Disease’s Hidden Achilles’ Heel – And How to Exploit It.

THIS DOES SEEM TO BE THE PLATFORM. Weirdly, it’s exactly what you’d inculcate if you were trying to program a society for self-destruction.

This seem to be the European ideology also. https://t.co/0B5p2QzcnI

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) March 19, 2025

WELL, GOOD: Lower dose of common antibiotic can treat rare hair loss condition. Doxycycline is really getting a moment in the sun lately on several fronts.

LIFE IN 2025: Every New Manual Transmission Car (and Truck) You Can Still Buy in 2025: Manual transmissions are now almost exclusively for enthusiast vehicles and in many cases require an upcharge.

REVIEW: Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0: Smith & Wesson revamped its Bodyguard 380 and may have created the best handgun in that caliber.

Here’s my experience.

HMM: Statins linked to reduced liver cancer risk in major cohort study.

DO TELL: Making food from our organic waste may not be as good an idea as first thought.

CHANGE: ESA’s Euclid spacecraft unveils ‘gold mine’ of new scientific data.

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME IT WAS HARMLESS: Marijuana users at greater risk for heart attack, stroke.

HE’S VERY POLITICAL, BUT WITH TERRIBLE POLITICAL INSTINCTS: Chief Justice Roberts’ Impeachment Rebuke Delegitimizes the Court in a Bid to Save it.

IT’S SELDOM SMART TO BET AGAINST ELON:

From the moment he took over we kept hearing, "Twitter is dying." https://t.co/U3iEpNkp5h

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) March 19, 2025

BEYOND IMPEACHMENT. MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS UP: Trump and the Lower Courts: Some thoughts about what he’s doing and what he might do.

UPDATE: Thanks, Randy, for the plug and the kind words.

A must read Substack by @instapundit on possible reforms of the lower federal courts that, unlike impeachment theater, would require simple majorities and make a real difference. https://t.co/vjkh5F0nuY

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 20, 2025