THE BEST IN US:  Trump Rally In Arizona Honors WWII Veteran.

THE GOSPEL OF ENVY:  Blame Billionaires: The World According to AOC.

GREEN DEAD DEAL:  Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter.

TOTALITARIANS SUCK AT EVERYTHING. EVEN DISEASE CONTAINMENT:  Wuhan Virus Watch: Five Coronavirus Patients to be Transferred to Spokane Hospital’s Isolation Ward.

And the rest of us are stupid if we believe anything they say.

ABOUT TIME:  Trump signs memorandum diverting water to California’s Central Valley farms.

THOSE WHO CAN GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT, CAN TAKE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND DESTROY YOUR WILL TO LIVE: I Have Reservations.

THE TRUTH IS OUT AT LAST:

But to be fair, doesn’t Tom Perez look like someone the Russians would have installed?

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I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT HE KEPT FLYING AFTER THE WAR: This Day in Aviation History: Brig. Gen. James Stewart Flies Last Combat Mission Over Vietnam, February 20, 1966. I love that he owned a Stinson Voyager — my stepmother owned and flew one of those for many years.

I REMEMBER WHEN BILLIONAIRES BUYING ELECTIONS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AWFUL: Bloomberg quietly plotting brokered convention strategy.

Has he bought off Obama? Because this goes nowhere unless he’s got either Barack or Hillary in his camp, and the Clintons are awfully expensive.

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MOTES AND BEAMS. IT’S A THING. Pete Buttigieg Keeps Lecturing Christians About Sin While Ignoring His Own. He’s a smarmy hypocrite.

CHANGE: Highest number of independents to date approve of Trump.

Plus: “According to Gallup, voters are also more confident about the state of the nation than at any other point in the last 15 years.”

EVERYONE IN THE MEDIA IS HOPING: Bet on Mike Bloomberg to spend even more to recover from debate disaster.

JIM TREACHER: George Stephanopoulos Helps Katie Hill Declare Victimhood After ‘Throuple’ Scandal. “Remember when using your power to abuse women was a bad thing?…Never let it be said that Democrats don’t have standards. They’ve got two whole sets, one for themselves and another for everybody else.”

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I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN JOE WAS DESCRIBED AS THE “MODERATE CANDIDATE:” Joe Biden Essentially Calls For Banning Nearly All Firearms.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: South Korea reports 52 new coronavirus cases, brings total to 156.

South Korea coronavirus cases spike as infection spreads in sect.

Coronavirus Fears Create Ghost Town in South Korea After Church ‘Super-Spreader.’

Coronavirus cases outside China remain low, but WHO chief warns ‘that may not stay the same for long.’

Coronavirus May Be Spreading So Quickly Due to Fecal Transmission, Says New Research.

Inspectors in Wuhan, China, go door-to-door searching for every coronavirus case.

Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women; Women mount stronger immune responses to infection, scientists say. And in China, men smoke in much greater numbers.

Coronavirus patient from Travis Air Force Base now being treated at San Francisco hospital.

2 Passengers Who Were Aboard Quarantined Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Die from Coronavirus.

Australia Says Two Evacuees From Japan Cruise Vessel Have Coronavirus.

Dollar dominates as investors dump yen, Asia currencies on coronavirus spread.

Coronavirus is starting to hit Big Tech’s bottom line.

Coronavirus vaccine research lead touts breakthrough.

Specialized respirators are key to stopping spread of coronavirus to medical staff.

‘Distasteful and hurtful’: Coronavirus-themed party condemned at University of Albany.

Coronavirus: Ukraine protesters attack buses carrying China evacuees.

OLD AGE HAVING A GO AT YOUTH: Are Teenagers Really the People We Want Deciding the 2020 Election?

THE WORDS OF THE MARTIANS ARE WRITTEN ON THE SUBWAY WALLS: Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life.

WUHAN VIRUS WATCH: Five Coronavirus Patients to be Transferred to Spokane Hospital’s Isolation Ward.

LIFE IN THE BLUE PARADISE: California homeless flocking to Malibu beaches, dumping sewage.

HEH: Democrats Take Gamble That America Is Finally Ready For A Rich, White President.

SUZANNE VENKER: Sheryl Sandberg gives terrible advice to women. Follow it at your peril. “Not only is the equality meme false on its face—men and women are as different as night and day—the message is entirely self-serving. Sheryl Sandberg couldn’t care less about women’s happiness and well-being. She has an agenda, and that agenda demands women live their lives the way Sandberg lives hers.”

IS BERNIE SANDERS REALLY A “DEMOCRATIC” SOCIALIST?: In 1980, Sanders could have endorsed one of 2 far-left democratic socialists running, Barry Commoner or David McReynolds. Instead he endorsed the Communist/Trotskyite Socialist Workers’ Party ticket, Pulley-Zimmerman. Here is an excerpt of an article from the SWP’s newspaper, The Militant, October 24, 1980, courtesy of historian David Beito.