SO THAT’S WHY THEY’RE IMPORTING SO MANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO DO HOUSEWORK: Household chemicals post threat to brain health, study indicates.

SPOILER: THE DATA SO FAR SAY “GOOD QUESTION.” Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet.

GREEN FAIL: Offshore Wind Now Costs More Than Double the Original Estimates in New York.

GRIFTING IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD: ASU paid Ibram Kendi $35,000 for 60-minute speech.

CONGRATULATIONS TO PROF. SETH BARRETT TILLMAN, winner of the John Locke Liberty Award from the Landmark Legal Foundation.

IT’S CALLED “CHESTFEEDING,” YOU BIGOT: University of Dayton professor suggests Bible says men breastfed and gender is a ‘colorful spectrum.’

WELL, YES: Biden’s Border Policy Is A Political Ad For President Trump.

JOHN LUCAS: The Russian Canary in the Coal Mine: A child could connect these dots. Can Biden?

CDR SALAMANDER: LCS – The Heavy Rotation Nightmare. “On yesterday’s Midrats, my co-host mentioned that recently in the Red Sea our Navy has seen the most littoral combat it has in a very long time, but our Littoral Combat Ships are not to be seen. Why? Simple. They cannot conduct combat on the littorals.”

But our pronouns are flawless. Plus:

LCS was not a problem with our shipbuilding industry or even our design people – though there are areas to critique there. No, this was a people problem, a mindset problem, a culture problem.

It needs to be dragged up regularly. I last did a dedicated post on it back in August 2023. It is time.

As we dive into the details remember this; since the disaster of LCS no senior personnel have yet been held to public account. We have the same acquisition system. We have the same incentives and disincentives as before. Critics of LCS were pushed over to the off-ramp; its most NORK-like advocates promoted.

There is no guarantee this won’t happen again.

Nobody ever gets held to public account, and systems never get fixed, because that threatens too many people’s rice bowls. This is what a dysfunctional organization — or civilization — looks like.

Plus: “This is Soviet level dysfunction.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why our institutions keep going woke and going broke.

BRYAN CAPLAN: With so many foreigners wanting to come to America, why would an American ever marry an American? He has answers. Plus this: “When I ask, ‘Why do Americans ever marry Americans?,’ I suspect that many non-economists will object, ‘What if everyone thought that way?’ An intriguing hypothetical. If 50% of Americans started marrying foreigners, I suspect that nationalists would soon tighten restrictions on marriage visas. If 90% of the 50% of Americans marrying foreigners were male, I suspect that domestic feminists would join forces with nationalists to ‘ensure fairness to women.'”

LAWFARE: Prof. Jacobson: “What’s going on in New York State with the weaponization of prosecutors’ offices both criminally and civilly is really troubling.”

DON SURBER: Carville complains about the world he made: America now is No Country for Old White Men. Its architect sobs about it to Mo Dowd.

MOST, IF NOT ALL, OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING SHOULD BE ABOLISHED: RealClearInvestigations: How Workplace Licensing Holds Back Ex-Convicts.

UGH: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after ship struck it, sending vehicles into water.

THIS DOES SEEM RIGHT: America Is Going to Be Targeted for a Massive Terrorist Attack…Will You Be Ready?

I recommend reading Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack if you haven’t already. A friend — my old TechCentralStation editor — wrote me just today: “Glenn I wanted to say thank you for turning me on to KurtSchlicter’s novel The Attack. The kind of book that makes you wake up and lock your doors at night. In one sense it’s preaching to the choir as I am aware of the threats detailed. but I still feel it’s observing and making important comment upon the failures of the federal government to respond well to a crisis (a feeling we saw in its antecedent popular zombie fiction and in practice with the clumsy Covid response). While being riveted by my digital copy I ordered two print copies without any plan about who to send them to but knowing I should. My gut tells me that it should be someone who might see themselves in some of the characters who were ( worse than) mugged by reality. The books central conceit though is that awareness of a threat wont be enough for many people sadly. powerful, terrifying work of I hope fiction. Thanks again.”

THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION. Proof eco-extremists don’t want to fix the problem, they want to tear down society.

This week, Harvard University has shut down a Bill Gates-funded geoengineering experiment. The controversial Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, or SCoPEx, run by professors David Keith and Frank Keutsch, aimed to study the potential future implementation of geoengineering by crop dusting sulphuric acid into our stratosphere. Nice.

Even if you put aside the almost instant validity such an experiment would give to conspiracy theories like chemtrails and HAARP, it still sounds a bit too much, playing with our thin air like that — in an unprecedented, and potentially catastrophic, manner, too.

But let’s not kid ourselves. The plug wasn’t pulled over fears of playing fast and loose with the venusformation of Earth’s atmosphere.

Nor was it due to the Harvard faculty’s occasional (yet frequent) dalliance with plagiarism or concerns over the lack of diversity within the ivory tower.

No, according to the MIT Technology Review, it was something else entirely: “Even studying the possibility of solar geoengineering eases the societal pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions,” it clarified.

Not only are you not supposed to solve the problem. You’re not supposed to think about solving the problem. Because the problem is the source of their power.

OPEN THREAD: On schedule this time.

SOMETIMES THE 21ST CENTURY DOES LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS: Starship’s Orbital Feat.

RECRUITING CRISIS UPDATE: Army Seeks Retirees to Come Back to Work Amid Manpower Crisis.

GIVING YOU BOTH GOOD MEMORY, AND GOOD MEMORIES! Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer’s Risk by Over 50%. “Studies have repeatedly demonstrated enzyme blockers called phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors not only have an ability to promote blood flow in the penis, but could prevent the neurodegeneration responsible for dementia.”

I say get a prescription. Why take chances on your health!

AND WITH MORE CO2, PLANTS SHOULD BE GROWING BETTER: Challenging Long-Standing Climate Assumptions: Earth Is Getting Hotter, but Soil Is Getting Wetter. “Why did soil get wetter even as the planet got hotter? A recent paper from Harvard University researchers found that precipitation, rather than temperature, overwhelmingly explains soil moisture trends. While it’s not surprising that more rain means wetter soil, the research challenges a long-standing assumption that increases in global temperatures will lead to drier soils.”

This seems like pretty basic stuff.

HAHA, NOW THAT WOULD BE JUSTICE:

Letitia James Prosecuted For Grossly Overvaluing Trump's Fine https://t.co/MSW7HjAzIz pic.twitter.com/gNMBKkLOqV

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 25, 2024

JOHN HINDERAKER ON THE MOSCOW ATTACK: Disinformation, Theirs and Ours. “Finally, I can’t help contrasting Russia’s attitude toward terrorism committed in its country with its attitude toward the vastly greater and more horrific terrorist episode that Gazans inflicted in Israel on October 7.”