(autoplay vid-Fox Biz) Illinois Pol's & Public Pensioners to Private Citizens: How's my A$$ taste now? Politicians propose taxing private 401k & IRA's to fund Gov't pensions. Other. People's. Money. They has it. [krak/t]

Found: A 50-Year-Old Scientific Message, Stuffed in a Bottle Thousands were cast into the waves in the 1960s, and one turned up in Texas decades later. [dri]

Captain Marvel Teams Up With the WNBA to Convince Men They Don't Want Nothin' to Do With All This

Al Sharpton says Smollett should be held accountable for a racial hate crime hoax.
Call the programmers, the simulation is broken again.
[ArthurK]

Captain Marvel Movie In Trouble? Drops Whopping $80M "Back in January, following the NCAA trailer, it was reported that Captain Marvel was projected to have a massive $160 million opening weekend with some estimates even offering $180 million."
Now it's $100M and may not even reach that. Go woke, go broke. Much as I love the #MCU, this could be its "Solo". Even Deadline Hollywood is shading its projections. [Fritzworth]

The Field of Life and Death: Writing About Nukes I gave a lecture last month on nuclear strategy and nuclear weapons for a local group and thought the AoS gang here might find it interesting, particularly since it counters (with actual facts and history) much of the 'popular [i.e, leftist] wisdom' on those topics. Unfortunately, the camera was positioned so that I was standing in front of the slides most of the time, so you can get the slides here. [Fritzworth]

Pat Cadell, the political pollster who helped Jimmy Carter win the presidency in 1976 and later in life became more of a conservative-leaning pundit has passed away at age 68. RIP. [J.J. Sefton]

Jim Acosta Calls Angel Moms' Dead Children Alleged Victims of Illegal Aliens; Angel Moms Confront Him
Boy, the media sure doesn't like talking about or to the Angel Moms, do they? They have that in common with Democrat politicians, who also refuse to meet with them.
They can't wait to stage Town Halls with the Parkland kids and parents, but they won't permit the Angel Moms on their channels at all.
I wonder why the media behaves the same way as Democrat politicians. It's a mystery I guess we'll never solve.

Democrat State Senator: We Keep Talking to Ilhan Omar About Her Jew-Hating Outbursts, But She Keeps on Making These "Mistakes," and This Begins to Seem Less Like "Mistakes" and More Like a Deeply Seated Attitude

Caution Flag: Justin Fairfax's Second Accuser Once Accused Another Man of Rape; Was Hit With a Restraining Order For Allegedly Stalking Her Ex-Boyfriend
This doesn't make her allegations untrue. Her previous rape claim was reported to a university dean at the time (she says she was discouraged by the school from pursuing it). But that restraining order for allegedly stalking (the details make it seem like not such a huge thing, but it's still a thing) makes one wonder.

Byron York, via Instapundit: "Has someone done a detailed analysis of why the 31 currently active states of emergency are legitimate, and the newest one concerning the US-Mexico border is not?">

Please do not post long strings in comments. Either break them up into pieces with spaces, or use tinyurl to get a smaller url, or put the url in the "website" field in your name/email signature. This causes a lot of problems on the blog -- comments become very hard to read -- and I will have to start banning people to get this to stop.

Previous Opening Weekend Projection for Captain Marvel: $140 Million. Newest Opening Weekend Projection for Captain Marvel: $100 Million.
One article had an insider saying "100 million, give or take 20 million." I'm going to pick the low side. I'm feeling a Solo kind of vibe.

I Guess It's Kind of Good for Michael Anton that Donald Trump is Endorsing His Book and telling People They Should Buy It...

Bill Kristol Seems to be Confessing the Tragic Trajectory of His Sad Career, But Accusing CPAC of It: "The approach of #CPAC2019 inevitably brings to mind Eric Hoffer's observation: 'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.'"
Motherfucker, that's a quote we've been saying about you and Jonah and the rest of (Fake) Conservatism, Inc. for three years now. (Actually, more like five or six years.) Say, we know about Pierre Omidyar, but is any George Soros money flowing into your various anti-conservative political ops?
Nick Short slams Bill Kristol. I mean, it's not hard to do, but he does it well.

Forgotten 80s 90s Mystery Click
Hint: Don't let go/You've got the music in you/One dance left/This world is gonna pull through/Don't give up/You've got a reason to live

Psych: The Movie 2 Greenlit for a Late 2019 Release
They plan to have Tim Ombudsman back for this one, though his character will have been shot and in the hospital. I guess that means he hasn't fully recovered from his stroke.

What? Jake Tapper's in everbody's DMs?!!! And I thought I was special!!!
Dear Pathetic Cucks in Jake's Harem,
I know you think you're Special and you're Best Twitter Fwiendz with Jake Tapper. You know, like all 300 of his Cucks are his Bestest Twitter Fwiendz.
But... if you're friends, you can publicly say he got something wrong or reported something in a biased way, right? I mean -- friends are allowed to criticize each other, right? Not saying blast him like I do, just note a polite criticism -- publicly.
If you're not allowed to do that, I've got bad news: You're not friends with Jake Tapper. You're not colleagues. You're not even equals. You're his pathetic Twitter Bitch groveling for attention and approval. You're his Public Relations Intern, you're a Signal-Boosting Booty Call, and you work for free, because you're a sad chump with an hungry rump having a passionately one-sided homoerotic affair with someone who barely knows who the fuck you even are.

Cory Booker, Soy-Based Cryptosexual, Talks Up the Virtues of Fake Cheese Made from Soy
Cory tries to emulate Obama by inventing a language. Obama claimed "Austrian" was a language; now Cory Booker claims "Swiss" is a language.