NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: The Green New Deal Will Hit the Poor With Higher Energy Costs.

I’m pretty sure that when Rush Limbaugh was doing his “tax the poor” gags in the early 1990s, he didn’t intend for them to be a how-to guide.

21 CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA just detected the first “marsquake” on the red planet.

GOOD: Nigerian Brothers Sue Smollett’s Attorneys For Lying About Whiteface, Steroids, & Sex.

AND HERE I WAS LAUGHING AT A DISPLAY OF CBD OIL FOR DOGS AT MY PHARMACY: Study Finds CBD Oil Helped Dogs Suffering Seizures.

AT AMAZON, save in Car Care.

Plus, deals in Baby and Nursery.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Bernie Sanders is now telling supporters his average donation is too small.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: CBS Turns to Samantha Bee, Who Called Ivanka a ‘C**t’, for Civility Advice.

CBS really needs to get its own house in order before it dares lecture others.

THEY HOST BOTH KINDS OF SPEAKERS: LEFTWING AND RADICAL LEFTWING. Middlebury administrators apologize to students, pledge to try and prevent right-wing guest speakers.

WELL, GOOD NEWS FOR ME: Having Type O Blood Can Shield You From Malaria. But I’m still taking my meds when I go to Africa to visit family there. My brother spent years there, and was the only person he knew who never got it, due to sheer diligence with meds, DDT-impregnated mosquito nets, etc.

THAT’S BECAUSE IT HAS FEWER OF THE CARBS THAT MAKE PEOPLE HUNGRY: Mediterranean diet tamps down overeating, study says.

REFRESHING HONESTY…FROM ROLLING STONE? I’d imagine Matt Taibbi isn’t being invited to the “right” parties anymore after his second story about The Hoax That Was Russiagate. A remarkably clear-headed read, he calls out the clueless who are actually convinced they did a good job:

[I]t’s shocking to see national media voices after the release of Robert Mueller’s report patting each other on the back, congratulating themselves for a three-year faceplant they must know will haunt the whole business for a long time.

Then Taibbi goes on to deflate the “conventional wisdom” the MSM is selling each other in terms of what the Mueller Report actually says:

You know what was fake news? Most of the Russiagate story. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, that thing we just spent three years chasing. The Mueller Report is crystal clear on this.

He didn’t just “fail to establish” evidence of crime. His report is full of incredibly damning passages, like one about Russian officialdom’s efforts to reach the Trump campaign after the election: “They appeared not to have preexisting contacts and struggled to connect with senior officials around the President-Elect.”

As the Good Professor says, “Read The Whole Thing.”™️

WAPO: The Far Right Opposes Suicide Bombings.

I’m so old, I can remember when this was (more or less) a bipartisan issue.

(Link safe, goes to Power Line.)

IT’S ALL ABOUT “OTHERING” GUN OWNERS: Former WA Bump Stock Owners Alarmed at Effort to Reveal Identities.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What I Learned: How To Help Your Aging Parents.

THEY SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED A CLAUSE OUTLAWING UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: CBO Report: 1.4 Million Lost Health Insurance Since 2016 — And Obamacare Is To Blame.

The data in that report — which was released on the same day the Mueller report came out and largely ignored — tells an entirely different story.

All of the increase in the uninsured over the past two years — all of it — is the result of the massive rate increases Obamacare’s mandates and regulations caused. According to the Health and Human Services Dept., premiums in the individual insurance market doubled from 2013 to 2017. They shot up again in 2018.

For those eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the rate increases were meaningless. The amount they had to pay didn’t change much, and in many cases went down.

But for the millions of middle-class Americans who buy insurance coverage on the individual market and aren’t eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the result has been financially devastating.

The rich have plenty of options and the poor have nothing to take, so it’s always the middle class that pays.

Always.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC’s Chief of Staff Backs the Boston Bomber Voting Brigade, Wants Those Affected by ‘Unjust Laws’ to Vote. And goes all the way with his argument, as Jim Treacher spots:

All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they can’t even do that.™

AND THEN THERE WERE 21: Here’s the State of the 2020 Democratic Primary.

DISTILLING: Not just whiskey tasting: What it takes to be a Jack Daniel’s master distiller.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Officers at scene of Beto O’Rourke’s 1998 DWI crash say they believe he tried to flee.

Neither the investigating officer, Richard Carrera, nor his former supervisor, Gary Hargrove, specifically recalls the events of that night more than 20 years ago. But both of the former Anthony Police Department officers told The Texas Tribune they have no doubt the report they compiled and signed is accurate.

“I believe we have contradicting stories here,” said Carrera, who arrested the 26-year-old O’Rourke and took him to a police station to undergo a breath test. “I stand by my report.”

Carrera, 49, said after reading the police report, in which an unnamed witness claimed O’Rourke tried to flee in his Volvo, he has “no doubt that he tried to leave the scene.”

Looks like Bobby, runs like Ted.

BACKGROUND TO SRI LANKA’S EASTER TERROR ATROCITIES

DAVID HARSANYI: The Democratic Presidential Primary Is An Arms Race In Crazy.

HEH. YES. The Democratic Presidential Primary Is An Arms Race In Crazy.

YES: Stephen Presser: The Russia Hoax Must Be Investigated.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Newsweek Defends Ilhan Omar Attacking U.S. Troops as Killers.

Buried lede: Apparently zombie Newsweek still exists as a publication.

(Classical reference in headline.)