PROF. STEVEN CALABRESI: President Trump’s Kafkaesque Civil Trial in New York State: A Stalinist nightmare in New York State.

THE MODELS WERE WRONG THEN, BUT SURELY THEY’RE NOT WRONG NOW:

Shot: Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet: Three geoengineering projects seek to alter the chemistry of the atmosphere and the ocean. “Dumping chemicals in the ocean? Spraying saltwater into clouds? Injecting reflective particles into the sky? Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing. These geoengineering approaches were once considered taboo by scientists and regulators who feared that tinkering with the environment could have unintended consequences, but now researchers are receiving taxpayer funds and private investments to get out of the lab and test these methods outdoors. . . . ‘There’s a huge political hesitancy to do outdoor perturbative experiments,’ said Jessica Seddon, a senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. ‘It’s going to take some extraordinary bravery to acknowledge that in certain circumstances those experiments will be needed, have informational value and should be constrained but not banned.'”

Chaser: How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust: A missile scientist used mathematical models to push the nation’s one-child policy. Its legacy is proving hard to shake. “The rapid shift under way today wasn’t projected by the architects of China’s one-child policy—one of the biggest social experiments in history, instituted in 1980. At the time, governments around the world feared overpopulation would hold back economic growth. A Moscow-trained missile scientist led the push for China’s policy, based on tables of calculations that applied mathematical models used to calculate rocket trajectories to population growth.”

FLASHBACK: Bears, Boston and the Gods of the Copybook Headings.

OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo that you do so well.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Private Odysseus moon lander beams home 1st photos from space.

FRED HOYLE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Life Spreads Across Space on Tiny Invisible Particles, Study Suggests.

BECAUSE IT MIGHT MAKE WOMEN FEEL BAD ABOUT THEIR CHOICES AND THAT’S NOT ALLOWED: Karol Markowicz: Why is noting married people are happier and kids do better with married parents so controversial?

FLASHBACK: Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone: Thoughts on education, age segregation, and politics.

FASTER, PLEASE: New research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistance.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Drive in Ice and Snow.

THE TRUTH SOMETIMES WINS OUT: Even The Washington Post Concedes the Biden Administration’s Favorite Gun Control Lie Is, In Fact, a Lie.

It’s only true if you count adults as children, but hey, anything for the cause.

SHE’S AN INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR, BUT SHE’S ALSO A WEAK ONE: Gov. Hochul was right about Israel — until the left forced her to apologize.

Gov. Hochul last week committed candor in public – a rare event indeed – but just 24 hours later she was groveling before one of the most noxious movements in Empire State history.

There she was Friday night, all-but begging forgiveness for having included an “inappropriate analogy” in a “poor choice of words” while addressing a fundraising dinner the previous evening.

Speaking to the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York at Gotham’s venerable Pierre Hotel Thursday, Hochul had sharply called out Iranian cat’s-paw Hamas while underscoring her support for Israel post-10/7.

The bloody-fisted terrorist organization “must be stopped” she said. And Israelis couldn’t be expected to live with “that threat, that specter, over them.”

Anodyne words, to be sure – but so far, so good.

Then she told the truth, which so many New Yorkers can’t handle.

“If Canada ever attacked Buffalo,” she projected, “I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day. You have a right to defend yourself, and to make sure that it never happens again. And that is Israel’s right.”

No equivocation there. Nor should there have been.

But the comment was on video, which went viral, with entirely predictable impact – and then there was Hochul, tendering an apologetic back-track to the New York Times.

Why kowtow to the yammering activists? They represent a minority, and they’re quite visibly horrible people.

WELL, GOOD: UTI drug gepotidacin performs well in clinical trials compared to nitrofurantoin.

AND DADS’ USE OF LIQUOR: Support from grandparents may reduce moms’ use of antidepressants.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A SENSIBLE OUTCOME: ADA Doesn’t Require Employer to Keep Customer-Facing Employee Whose Tourette’s Leads Him to Use Slurs.

IT’S FINE TO MOCK RELIGIONS, AS LONG AS THEY’RE NOT ISLAM: University defends Glitter+Ash ‘queer’ Lent observance amid backlash.

WELL, YES: PROF GIORDANO: Leftist ideology erodes real scholarship.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS: Another nail: 58% call Biden presidency a ‘failure.’

ROGER KIMBALL: Donald Trump is facing a wall of legal trouble. It’s possible that with all these darts being thrown, one will stick and he will be brought down. More likely, I think, is that he will prevail.

Worth noting, too, that the courts of New York (and Delaware, in going after Elon Musk) are sending a signal to businesses that they’re no longer trustworthy legal environments. And the politics of the moment aren’t important, because anyone can wind up targeted by the blob in the future. I suspect we’ll see a gradual move to other jurisdictions by many.

ECONOMIC ILLITERACY REIGNS:

WATCH: At a California Senate candidate forum, Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee said she wants to increase the federal minimum wage to $50 per hour.

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about economics.
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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 13, 2024

HAHA: FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Claims There Is ‘No Question’ About Her Ability To Lead (When Biden’s Brain Fails): Historically unpopular vice president tells Wall Street Journal: ‘I am ready to serve.’

FLASHBACK: Live Long and Prosper, If They Will Let You.

MICHAEL BARONE: America’s Dysfunctional Overclass. “What does America’s overclass think of the rest of us? The short answer is ‘not much.’ They think ordinary people’s splurging on natural resources is destroying the planet and needs to be cut back forcefully. And that the government needs to stamp down on ordinary people enjoying luxuries that, in their view, should be reserved for the top elites.”

And that’s not speculation. That’s what they said themselves when asked by Scott Rasmussen.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

SOLAR ECLIPSE JAM: Solar eclipse jam: How to avoid getting stuck in traffic on April 8, 2024.