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OH, THAT ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Viacom Spokesman Larry Wilmore ‘fantasizes’ about killing Donald Trump with Antonin Scalia’s pillow.

AS UNAPOLOGETICALLY UNDEMOCRATIC AS IT GETS: How the DNC Shielded Hillary From the Same Fate as Jeb Bush.

Related: Bernie Sanders raises $40 million — in February alone.

FASTER, PLEASE: A blind woman has regained sight following a controversial stem cell treatment.

MOE LANE: An update on my attempts to wean myself off of Twitter.

BOB ZUBRIN: ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ Endorses Trump.

ABUSED BY BILL, HILLARY HATES ALL OTHER MEN, AND, ACCORDING TO DAVID PLOUFFE, THAT WILL BE REFLECTED IN HER CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRUMP: “Hope and change, not so much,” said David Plouffe, who managed Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign, referring to the slogan that defined that race. “More like hate and castrate.”

It’s okay to characterize your campaign in terms of sexual mutilation when you’re a Democrat, though. It’s not like you’re Sarah Palin using printer-registration marks on a map.

FRONTIERS IN SOCIAL JUSTICE: Activists Demand Free Tampons.

CLINTON AIDES IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN’T QUESTION OTHERS’ ETHICS: John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s national campaign manager, questions the ethics and independence of Steve Linick, the Inspector General President Obama appointed at the State Department and one of the major players in the investigation of Clinton’s use of a home-brew email server. But Podesta might not be the ideal choice to feature in the Clinton campaign’s gathering campaign to discredit Linick. There are at least three ethics issues concerning Podesta, each helpfully outlined here by yours truly.

A NEW BOOK FROM MICHAEL TOTTEN: Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other Hellholes.

THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS APPARENTLY SUSPENDED THE “OFF THE RECORD” RULE: “I don’t know who the person is at the New York Times who was talking out of school, but somebody over there broke the rules. The other candidates (and everyone else in any position to ever be of interest to the media) should be aware that the Times is no longer playing by the rules and monitor what they say to their editorial board or reporters accordingly.”

As they say in broadcast media whenever someone slips up and a curse word airs during a news broadcast, or something untoward is said as the credits are rolling, “assume all mics are hot.”

Related: “Morning Joe: Kick NYT Off Trump Campaign Till OTR Breach Explained.”

INCLUDE ME OUT: ‘We’re All Muslims Deep Down,’ Says … Boston Police Commissioner. Commissioner William B. Evans said this at a mosque that has produced at least six people jailed or killed for terror activity.

Related: “Trump is way ahead — for many reasons, but the most important is obvious and virtually ignored,” David Gelernter recently wrote. “Political correctness. Trump hasn’t made it a campaign theme exactly, but he mentions it often with angry disgust. Reporters, pundits, and the other candidates treat it as a sideshow, a handy way for Trump (King Kong Jr.) to smack down the pitiful airplanes that attack him as he bestrides his mighty tower, roaring. But the analysts have it exactly backward. Political correctness is the biggest issue facing America today.”

APPLE VS. THE FBI: Apple Has Already Won. Now It Should Crack the San Bernadino iPhone.

IN FLORIDA STATE HOUSE, RUBIO PRODUCED REAL CONSERVATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

MORE FROM DAN MITCHELL on the War Against Cash. “In general, they don’t talk about taxing our savings with government-imposed negative interest rates. Instead, they make it seem like their goal is to fight crime. . . . Banning cash is a scheme concocted by politicians and bureaucrats who already have demonstrated that they are incapable of competently administering the bloated public sector that already exists. The idea that they should be given added power to extract more of our money and manipulate our spending is absurd.”

THE DELTA-V IS MUCH MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE THINK: We Can’t Just Throw Our Garbage Into The Sun.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Don’t Surrender To The Government War On Cash: Cash Is The Currency Of Freedom!

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Everything you need to know about Super Tuesday.

Tyler O’Neil will be liveblogging the returns as they come in at PJM; watch for the link later today.

GO ON AND BURY IT ALREADY: Laura Ingraham on “The Suicide of the GOP Establishment.”

Here is something to think about as we approach Super Tuesday.

If Marco Rubio becomes president, we can expect:

1.) That he will work with Democrats and the GOP leadership in Congress to pass something that looks like the Gang of Eight amnesty bill.

2.) That he will urge Congress to pass any trade agreements that Obama has signed.

3.) That he will send significant numbers of U.S. troops to the Middle East.

4.) That his foreign policy will be developed by many of the same people who advised George W. Bush.

5.) That his economic policy will reflect the views of those who were in power when the United States was hit by the economic crisis of 2008.

Now, I don’t think any of these points are truly controversial. Somewhere, there may be naïve people who actually believe that Rubio will put border enforcement first. But all sophisticated analysts of politics — including the folks at National Review — certainly expect that a President Rubio will support the same type of amnesty that was supported by Sen. Rubio. And on the other issues, Rubio has not even pretended that he will break with the Obama/Bush trade policy, the Bush foreign policy, or the Bush economic policy.

For almost eight years, it has been increasingly clear that many, many Republicans — probably a majority of the party — do not agree with any of the five principles outlined above. . . .

These voters have tried, through every means available, to make their opposition felt. They are the reason that Eric Cantor is no longer in the House. They are the reason that the Gang of Eight bill didn’t pass. They are the reason that John Boehner is no longer speaker. And they are the reason that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have dominated the polls for months. . . .

As a committed conservative for more than three decades, I am not happy about the potential break-up of the GOP. I have supported the Republican Party for almost 40 years, and I fully intended to support it for the rest of my life. I have great respect and admiration for many of the people in the Rubio camp, and I know we have won important victories together.

But I do not see how things can go on as they are now. I do not see how you can ask the working-class people of this country to support a collection of policies that have failed them over and over and over.

I couldn’t agree more. Rubio would be a far better President than Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders), but he wouldn’t exactly shake up D.C. or the GOP establishment. I would certainly vote for him if he became the GOP’s nominee, much the same as I have for several prior GOP nominees–without enthusiasm. But I wouldn’t expect anything to really change.

It would be business as usual: The same, tired faces populating the cabinet and political appointments within the agencies. The same, tired policies. The same, tired political gridlock and finger-pointing, but no real changes to the lives of ordinary Americans. The GOP establishment in D.C. would be thrilled: They would have full employment, be appointed to high-ranking government positions, obtain lucrative consulting, lobbying and other government contracts, and generally have a sense of well-being because they are “back in power” (which is the most important thing to the D.C. elite). But for the rest of us, the oppressive sense of Republican stagnation (both intellectual and economic) would continue unabated.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1027.

WASHINGTON POST: “Many readers would probably be stunned by some of the people who are secretly supporting Trump and don’t want to admit it on the record.”

Huh. If only there were terms for when people hide their political views, and then suddenly reveal them when they feel it’s safe.

BERNIE SANDERS’ BIG MONEY.

IT’S LIKE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARE ABOUT HYPOCRISY: Spying for Me, But Not for Thee:

While Germany was publicly fuming about the revelation in 2013 that the NSA was listening in on Angela Merkel’s cell phone conversations, it was secretly tapping those of top-level U.S. and U.K. diplomats. . . .

t the time of the 2013 NSA scandal, Merkel was adamant that “spying on friends is not acceptable” and was said to be “livid.” Her spokesman pulled no punches. . . . And the rest of the German commentariat erupted in a furor that lasted for months and seriously affected transatlantic relations. Meanwhile, in the same year (though the timing is unclear from initial reports), the BND was quietly asked to wind down the surveillance of Ashton—but won’t comment on the rest of the program.

There’s definitely a chuckle to be had here—perhaps with a side of schadenfreude aimed at whoever has to address these revelations on behalf of the Chancellor. But its a dark world out there—for which reason, spying, even on allies, is the order of things. Angela Merkel seems to understand that, it turns out. Perhaps she would be good enough to explain it to her public.

She already has a lot of things to explain to her public.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT SUCKS: Americans Don’t Know What ‘Single Payer’ Means: And when they find out, they don’t like it.