NOT THE ORION, THOUGH. The Pentagon Is Working on a Nuclear Thermal Rocket. But so is China. Welcome to the next space race.

Well, the Chinese might still build Orion. If they do, don’t say you weren’t warned.

BOEING REALLY FOCUSED ON GETTING BACK ON TRACK: Boeing Company Funds Al Sharpton Event; Executives Refuse Comment.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D During Pregnancy May Benefit Children’s Bones: Women who took high doses of vitamin D during pregnancy had children with stronger bones.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Billy Idol teams up with NYC on anti-car and truck idling campaign that pays citizens to snitch. Complete with the slogan “‘Billy Idol never idles and neither should you’—Mayor Bill de Blasio.”

AT AMAZON, save on Bras for Women.

CPAC SPEAKER: Socialized Medicine Killed Princess Diana.

WELL, GOOD: Adult boosters for tetanus, diphtheria may be unnecessary.

MEGAN FOX ON THE RADIO: Megan (our Megan, not Transformers Megan) will be on the Mark Griffiths show KLZ 560 AM in the Denver area, at 3PM Eastern Time today, 1PM Mountain Time.

You can listen on the web at https://www.klzradio.com/

WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE BULWARK…Sierra Blanca Is How Trump Crushes Bernie.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: I Regret to Inform You Expensive Vacuums Are Worth It. I bought a not-too-expensive but not cheap Simplicity. I went to the vacuum cleaner store — yes, Knoxville still has a vacuum cleaner store, and they’re great — and asked the guy for the lightest, easiest-to-use HEPA upright he had. It works great, and Helen can use it comfortably.

UPDATE: People are asking what model Simplicity? The Freedom, of course.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: What Will the Left Do When A Billion-Jillion Americans Don’t Die of Coronavirus?

ROGER SIMON: For Democrats, Coronavirus Is the New Russia… Or, Is It Ukraine?

#FEELTHEBERN: 20 Years After Socialist Takeover, 1 In 3 Venezuelans Are Starving.

FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION: The Coronavirus Outbreak: How Democratic Taiwan Outperformed Authoritarian China.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: BREAKING: EUROPE’S IWA OUTDOOR TRADE SHOW POSTPONED OVER CORONAVIRUS FEARS.

“FASCISM IS REMEMBERED AS A CRIME. COMMUNISM IS TREATED LIKE A MISTAKE:” How Can Bernie Sanders Happen in America?

#JOURNALISM:

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Across the country, rural communities want to secede from their states. Here’s why.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Notes From #CPAC2020 Day One. “I’m here at CPAC, which is the largest annual gathering of conservatives. It’s my first time back at the conference since President Trump was inaugurated in 2017. I don’t know what the last couple of years have been like but I can honestly report that the feeling here now is positively electric.”

It really is.

BILL BARR – MAINSTREAM CONSERVATIVE: Mario Loyola points out in The Atlantic that the President and Bill Barr both echo the mainstream conservative position on executive power. It was Obama and co that were abusing that power. I’ll just add that it’s astonishing this has to be said.

HE’S NOT WRONG: Attorney General William Barr Skewers ‘Remarkably Monolithic’ Liberal Press. Think of them as Democratic Party operatives with bylines and you won’t go far wrong.

A HERO OF THE REAL RESISTANCE: Powerline’s Scott Johnson stays on the Ilhan Omar case with A Message from Abdi Nur.

From Powerline:

“My name is Abdihakin Osman Nur and I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. I am an American citizen. I am the person who spoke to the media and said that Ilhan Omar married her brother and made legal papers for him to stay in America. I confirmed that the marriage was fraudulent and that I was personally aware since I was a close friend and neighbor to both Ahmed Hirsi and Ilhan Omar. It is also an open secret in the Minnesota Somali community but everyone is afraid of problems from supporters of Ilhan Omar, at least one of whom has a felony criminal record.”

More:

“I would like to inform the public and the government of the USA. If anything were to happen to me and my safety that Ilhan Omar and her team will be responsible. I also ask for the support of the American people in case I’m set up or something happens to me because I have talked.”

Read the entire post. Be proud that there are brave Americans like Mr. Nur.

WELL, I GUESS I’M OKAY WITH THAT, PERSONALLY: Sierra Blanca Is How Trump Crushes Bernie: There’s an avalanche of opposition research coming for Bernie Sanders. The story of Sierra Blanca is just the start. “It’s especially damning because it’s pretty much true. And, as an added bonus, it doesn’t help that this isn’t Jane Sanders’ first brush with scandal.”