HMM: New Bill Would Empower Americans to Sue China for Coronavirus Outbreak.

THIS IS MUTINY… MUTINY, I SAY! The Maritime Lore Behind President Trump’s ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ Tweet.

NYC MAYOR DEBLASIO TELLS FNC’S BILL HEMMER THAT THE CITY WILL START TO REOPEN IN JULY OR AUGUST AT THE EARLIEST.

Related: NYC outdoor pools closed for summer 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic, beaches likely shut down too.

AS WITH HIGHER ED, A HIDEBOUND INDUSTRY IS BEING FORCED TO CHANGE: Coronavirus May Finally Bring Online Car Shopping into Mainstream: As dealers rush to adopt online shopping tools during the pandemic and related shutdown, that’s good news for car buyers.

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Plus, Shop Amazon Outlet – Clearance, Markdowns and Overstock Deals.

BOMBSHELL: Russian Intelligence Knew Steele Was Investigating Trump in 2016 Campaign.

NEWS OUTLET SUGGESTS GEORGIA GOV. REPEALING MASK BAN WILL LEAD TO KKK ACTIVITY: The station’s Twitter account has been suspended.

Say what you will about his recent leftist power grabs, but I’m pretty sure Ralph Northam has hands filled dealing with Virginia to bother campaigning in Georgia as well.

SHOT: Obesity linked to severe coronavirus disease, especially for younger patients.

CHASER: In first, Kim Jong Un a no-show at annual “Day of the Sun” commemorations.

THE BLASTING IS ONLY FIGURATIVE SO FAR: U.S. Space Command blasts Russia for anti-satellite missile test.

RIP: Brian Dennehy, Tommy Boy and First Blood Star, Dies at 81.

LIDBLOG: How Can We Have Two Systems of Justice in This Country?

ANDREW CUOMO EXTENDS NEW YORK CORONAVIRUS SHUTDOWN TO MID-MAY.

SPACE: Virgin Orbit completes rehearsal of rocket launch system.

A BATTLESWARM BLOG TWOFER: Wuhan Coronavirus Origins Part 2: Timelines of China’s Lies.

AND: China’s Lies Part 3: More Songs About Viral Labs And Propaganda.

JOE BIDEN’S DOUBLE STANDARD:

Biden’s rhetoric has also employed a de facto presumption of guilt. On a 2017 conference call with campus accusers’-rights activists, Biden offered a simple message to those who alleged that they had been sexually assaulted: “I believe you.” Proof for their claims, it seems, wasn’t necessary. The following year, during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearings, Biden suggested that women making high-profile allegations deserve an even greater presumption of truthfulness: “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.”

For reasons that neither paper explained, the Times and Post articles declined to address the chasm between Biden’s past proposals on how to evaluate sexual-assault allegations against college students or his political foes and his current position regarding appropriate standards when he is the accused party. Instead, both articles provided context by exploring President Donald Trump’s past record. But the validity of past sexual-misconduct allegations against Trump has no bearing on the question of Biden’s changing standards. As lawyer and blogger Scott Greenfield observed, the key issue at play here is Biden’s “hypocrisy. Either it’s due process for all or none. Biden doesn’t get a pass.”

Sure he does:

● New York Times Allowed Biden Team to Edit Story on Sexual Assault Allegation.

● CNN missing in action on Biden assault accuser Tara Reade’s story.

● Joe Biden Has Yet to Face Single Question on Sexual Assault Allegations.

As Glenn wrote on Tuesday, “So #metoo was basically bullshit, then.”

CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Beijing Using Red Tape to Slow Export of Critical Medical Supplies to the US. “So what I’m getting here is that it suddenly became much more difficult for a company to get permission to export its own infectious-disease products during a pandemic, and that when permission does finally come, the airplanes required to move them might not.”

ANY WORLD THAT I’M WELCOME TO: New Earth-size planet discovered 300 light-years away could support life.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: “My gut says that what Reade alleges did not happen. My head instructs that it is within the realm of possibility…”

“…and fairness requires acknowledging that. And there is another point to bear in mind: Double standards work in both directions. Those who disbelieved and diminished Christine Blasey Ford face the challenge of explaining why they seem so much more eager to credit Tara Reade’s account.”

Writes Ruth Marcus in “Assessing Tara Reade’s allegations” (WaPo). Marcus wrote a book about Christine Blasey Ford and concluded that she was telling the truth. This column is (or purports to be) Marcus’s effort to not be a hypocrite.

Outrage over misbehavior only by those with whom we have ideological differences is not righteous — it is hypocritical. Skepticism about accusations only when they are made against someone with whom we are ideologically aligned is not high-minded — it is intellectually dishonest.

And yet. Reflexive acceptance of any and all allegations of sexual misconduct against any man is not staunch feminism — it is dangerous credulity that risks doing terrible injustice to the accused. #BelieveAllWomen was a dumb hashtag and a dumber approach to inevitably complex, fact-bound situations.

Flashback: WaPo Concealed Kavanaugh Party Claim From Public After Coordinating With Accuser: Strassel.

WELL, PAUL KRUGMAN: Crime Spike in Charlotte, NC Shows Why Paul Krugman’s Mockery of People ‘Panic Buying’ Guns Was So Stupid.

I’VE BEEN HEARING THIS VIA DOCTOR FRIENDS: The coronavirus is particularly unkind to those who are obese.

TIME FOR THE MSM TO ADMIT THEIR HATRED OF TRUMP: Keeping up the pretense that they’re doing objective journalism is destroying the credibility of a profession to which I’ve devoted 35 years.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. How China Corrupted the World Health Organization’s Response to COVID-19.

IT’S COMPLICATED: Netanyahu rival fails to form government, 4th Israeli election in one year likely. “After three elections in one year, the deadline elapsing increases the chances that Israel will be headed to the polls once again.”

TERRY TEACHOUT ON THE 1950s TELEVISION EDITION OF JACK WEBB’S DRAGNET: In praise of drabness.