OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA’s ‘1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft’ will send Skyfall helicopters to Mars in 2028.

FLASHBACK: RANDY BARNETT ON LIBERTARIANISM’S FAILURES:

I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.

First, the need for natural law ethics in addition to natural rights; second, the need to distinguish between libertarian ideal theory and second-best libertarianism in a world of governments and competing nations; third, the need for a libertarian theory of citizenship and civil rights; fourth, the need to separate the public-private binary from the government-nongovernment binary; and fifth, the need for a more refined theory of corporate power and corporate rights.

Let me offer a few words about each.

Read the whole thing.

DON SURBER: Ice Deports Crime.

METFORMIN UPDATE: After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Revealed to Unexpectedly Affect The Brain. In a good way.

NUKE THE FILIBUSTER, PASS A BUDGET AND THE SAVE ACT:

I salute them! Doubling down on stupid. Sooner or later, when they show consistency, you have to respect that. https://t.co/gQXLIBHy8h

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) March 26, 2026

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Ancient DNA Reveals Medieval Secret Hidden Inside a 5,000-Year-Old Spanish Monument.

PLACEBOS ARE YOUR FRIEND: Sharper mind and body achieved in older adults with a fake supplement in just 3 weeks.

LIST: Most Reliable Cars Of All Time: These 5 Just Won’t Die.

THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE: Reality Check: The Latest Attack on Lead Ammunition Isn’t Really About Ammunition at All.

WELL, GOOD: Common blood pressure drug can boost cancer treatment.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA plans moon base, nuclear spacecraft in multibillion-dollar moon program expansion.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Skeleton of famed musketeer possibly found in Dutch church.

“BODY POSITIVITY” KILLS: Jillian Michaels put me at the center of a body positivity debate. She’s not entirely wrong about obesity.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Loyola newspaper apologizes for calling suspected murderer an ‘illegal immigrant.’

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Princeton professors discuss resisting Trump administration’s anti-DEI policies at panel.

MINNESOTA IS A MONEY LAUNDRY FOR FOREIGNERS:

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Minnesota Rep Krista Knudsen says they just found out the state TURNED OFF tracking for money being sent overseas

They turned it on for 2 weeks. Saw all the money leaving, and Democrats quickly SHUT OFF TRACKING to allow it to keep happening

READ THAT AGAIN

“Today… pic.twitter.com/1V4zG7qa2Y

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 26, 2026

And its Democratic Party rulers are entirely complicit.

WHEN NPR IS SAYING IT… NPR: Iranians Really DO Support the War.

THE LEFT TAKES CARE OF ITS OWN: UCLA Taps Director of Harvard Center Accused of Anti-Semitism As Next Public Health Dean.

Flashback: U.S. Justice Department joins lawsuit against UCLA medical school over use of race-based admissions.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

🚨#BREAKING: The ONLY Republican running for Mecklenburg County (Charlotte NC) District 1 has just dropped out of the race…

…AFTER NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS AT HIS HOME WHILE HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE INSIDE!!!!!

Local police CONFIRMED the attack was… pic.twitter.com/zRFFHxf8mK

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 25, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

I can’t believe my eyes. Applause line at a protest of leftist lunatics and pro-Hamas Muslims in Philly:

“For every US soldier who comes back in a casket, we cheer!”

Those are literally terrorists in America.

pic.twitter.com/4gv2TkjJdc

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) March 25, 2026

MUELLER WAS INDEED DIRTY, AS THE WHITEY BULGER AFFAIR INDICATES:

Howie Carr | Robert Mueller was a dirty cop, period. That’s why he got the assignment of trying to frame Trump – because he knew how to railroad men who had committed no crimes. https://t.co/E3dvNz7NkX

— Boston Herald (@bostonherald) March 25, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

SINCE IT’S COLD, IT’S JUST WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE: Vostok, Antarctica: The coldest March temperature ever recorded globally was set on this continent on Tuesday, March 24–and it was downright chilly. “Vostok, Antarctica, recorded -76.3°C on March 24, 2026. That has beat out the previous March record, which was -75.7°C in Dome Fuji, Antarctica, in 2013.”

But wait, it’s a cross-hemispheric phenomenon: “Three of the coldest locations in the Northern Hemisphere pushed it to a new level this winter, with one spot in Greenland dropping to about as cold as it gets. Here in Canada, the community of Braeburn, Yukon, saw readings fall to -55.7°C on Dec. 23, 2025, marking the country’s coldest temperature since 1999.”

GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME: SpaceX Prepares to Increase Upload Speeds on Starlink Dishes.