VIDEO: What Is And Isn’t Useful Kit In Ukraine.

In: Mini hot water bottles, ghillie kettles, combat tourniquets and machetes.

Out: Fancy optics and Rambo knives.

Much more at the link.

THE STEPFORD REGULATORS: The Creepy Cult Surrounding the Gas Stove Panic Gets Exposed.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Illinois Enacts Ban on Assault Weapons and High Capacity Magazines.

LAUGHINGWOLF ON That Shooting In Texas. “The first group of four shots was righteous. The second group was, for me, iffy. Given all, would be very inclined to give benefit of the doubt. The last shot was a kill shot, and probably superfluous. It is that shot that is likely to see the shooter indicted and convicted. Politically, very wise to convene a grand jury (though those are easy to rig) to do any indicting. That said, even if indicted the shooter has a fair chance given this happened in Texas.”

SCIENCE! It Looks Like Harvard Identifies as a Garbage School Now. “Harvard Medical School students are now being offered a course on providing healthcare to LGBTQIA+ infants.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Mask-less Fallon: ‘Put on a Mask’ Indoors. “Now, Fallon’s ‘Show’ trails not just Fox News’ ‘Gutfeld’ but ‘The Late Show’ with Stephen Colbert and sometimes ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.'”

That’s a long way down from Carson.

CYBER ATTACK OR INCOMPETENCE? Flights Grounded But at Least They Use the Proper Pronouns. “Flights grounded all across the USA… but why? Everybody knows the proximate cause but is there a deeper rot at the FAA and our Department of Transportation? You bet!”

BILL GERTZ: U.S. defeats China in simulated war over Taiwan, but costs are high, says new study on risks. “The cost, even in the ‘optimistic scenarios,’ according to the report: ‘The United States and Japan lose dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of service members. Such losses would damage the U.S. global position for many years. While Taiwan’s military is unbroken, it is severely degraded and left to defend a damaged economy on an island without electricity and basic services.'”

HEH: I Tried Letting a Chatbot Write My Column and All I Got Was This Lousy Defense of Harry and Meghan.

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: ‘Progressive’ Journalists Misinform Their Audiences Again With Terms Such as ‘Don’t Say Gay.’

ROBERT SPENCER: Ex-Uber Driver Who Murdered Eight People in NYC Was in the U.S. on a Diversity Visa.

CHANGE: Mellon Foundation pivots to DEI, awards millions to ‘social justice’ initiatives. “The Mellon Foundation, which awarded over $500 million in grants in 2021, recently ended two of its social science fellowships ‘as part of a broader refocusing on social justice.’”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republican House Majority Has to Fire Up the Bully Pulpit. “Republicans — especially conservative Republicans — are desperate to see some fight in our elected officials, particularly the ones in Washington. Even if it’s just a show at the moment, it’s a show we need to see.”

INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK? Biden to tackle illegal immigration by making more ‘migrants’ qualify as legal.

THOSE AREN’T WOMEN: The Number of Female Pedophiles Is Up in the UK. Or Is It?

UGH: FAA Grounds All Domestic Flights Over Outage.

The Federal Aviation Administration early Wednesday ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET, to allow the agency to restore a critical system that alerts pilots and crew to safety advisories and other information for flights.

The agency, which oversees and manages the aviation network in the U.S., said it is working to restore its so-called Notice to Air Missions System. “Operations across the National Airspace System are affected,” the FAA press office said. It said it was performing final checks to get the system back up and running.

Passengers on social media were reporting delays early Wednesday, citing the outage, but the scale of the impact wasn’t immediately clear. Some U.S.-bound flights from international destinations such as London and Tokyo were still taking off.

The FAA said in an advisory to operators that a Notam outage hotline had been activated while the problem was being addressed by technicians.

What a mess.

SHAKEOUT: Even before Monday’s launch failure, Virgin Orbit’s finances were dismal. “With such high development costs and a low cadence for a rocket that sells for $12 million per launch, how can Virgin Orbit be financially sustainable?”

Eric Berger, maybe the best space reporter right now, estimates the company might run out of cash as soon as March.

Sad if true, but the launch industry has seen such explosive growth that there are going to be a few losers as things shake out.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Promise Kept: Schiff, Swalwell, and Omar Lose Powerful Committee Assignments.

SKYNET SMILES: World’s biggest strip club hires robot suit that turns bouncers into ‘Terminator.’

STILL ALL TRUMP, ALL THE TIME: CNN: Biden Classified Docs Story ‘A Political Gift to Trump.’

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN IRAN WAS FULLY SANCTIONED AND RUSSIA DIDN’T DARE INVADE UKRAINE: U.S. says Iran may be ‘contributing’ to war crimes in Ukraine.

RIP: Diamond of ‘Diamond and Silk’ Has Passed Away.

INSURRECTION! Mark Green beats Dan Crenshaw in race to chair Homeland Security Committee. “Green, a combat veteran described by his colleagues as a rising star in the party, said that strengthening the border would be a top priority as he gears up to helm the panel.”

ATHENA THORNE: Time to Launch Rescue Operations at Children’s Gender Clinics.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: FDA Fast-Tracks New Alzheimer’s Drug in Boost to Biden’s Reelection Bid.