PEOPLE GET READY: Are You Ready for Congressman Darrell Issa Again? Californians Appear to Say Yes.

NONSENSE, IT’S JUST PINING FOR THE FJORDS: Elon Musk Says the Fighter Jet Is Dead.

I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS: Hasbro confirms coronavirus could stall Baby Yoda toy production.

BREAKING: Los Angeles County declares coronavirus emergency with 6 new cases.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Variety ‘Debunks’ Get Woke, Go Broke. Not So Fast. “Liberal critic hails box office might of feminist ‘Invisible’ reboot but can’t see the bigger problem with social justice stories.”

MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE CAN DO, HONESTLY: Parrots Are Only The Second Kind of Animal We’ve Found That Can Grasp Probabilities.

THIS RINGS TRUE:

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, CESSPIT OF SEXUAL ABUSE.

SO WHERE WAS THE SECRET SERVICE? Jill Biden And Symone Sanders Fought Off Two Protesters Who Stormed Joe Biden’s Victory Speech. Sure, they turned out to be harmless wackos, but there was no way to know that up front. The story says Biden doesn’t have Secret Service protection, but why?

HOWIE CARR: WARREN’S LAST STAND. “A real big loser: the Boston Globe. Could the bow-tied bum kissers have possibly written any more puff pieces? About her ‘path to victory’? What’s the Globe follow up today — her path to the Trail of Tears?”

CONTAGION: Wife, children, neighbor of Westchester coronavirus victim also test positive.

TWITTER IS A PAPER TIGER (CONT’D): Candidates endorsed by AOC flounder in Texas primary races.

OUR MEDIA CLASS: DUMB AS ROCKS.

ONE GOOD THING BERNIE’S CAMPAIGNS HAVE DONE FOR AMERICA: Just think of all the closet authoritarians the Vermont senator’s presidential campaigns have emboldened to come forward and show their true colors. As the Issues & Insights guys point out:

“The inescapable fact is that socialism cannot be implemented without authoritarian action, even if it’s supposedly a ‘democratic socialism,’ in which majorities decide how life is to be arranged. Even a ‘soft’ authoritarianism, a ‘democratic’ mob rule that rejects the views of his ‘revolutionary’ staffers, will grow into a malignancy.”

TAKE ‘EM TO THE CLEANERS: Libel Lawyer Lin Wood Settles Second Defamation Suit With CNN.

Related: Sandmann files 5 more defamation lawsuits against media outlets.

COMMIES GOTTA COMMIE: Maybe Bernie Sanders Shouldn’t Have Doubled Down on Cuba the Week Before Super Tuesday.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE CONGO, EBOLA FADES AND LOCUSTS ARRIVE: It’s StrategyPage’s latest Congo and Central Africa update. I wrote some of it. Some good news about the Ebola virus epidemic: “The number of new Ebola “cases per day” has dropped. From February 18 to 23, there was only one new confirmed case in North Kivu Province.”

But yet another plague:

The huge desert locust swarm sweeping across eastern Africa reached Congo’s Lake Albert region in late February. This is the first major locust swarm to strike Congo since 1944. Locust swarms are already ravaging neighboring Uganda. On February 11 the Ugandan government deployed around 2,000 Ugandan Army soldiers to fight the locusts.

Read the post to find out how a Ugandan Army counter-locust operation works.

DON’T GET TOO OPTIMISTIC: Coronavirus: Is Covid-19 the end of the anti-vaxxers?

LIZ WARREN’S WATCHFUL WAITING: A friend texts:

If Liz doesn’t bail today, it’s because she still sees a clear path to the nomination.

Coronavirus.

She self-isolates, scales back public events. The two geezers keep glad-handing. Coronavirus takes out the geezers.

It’s the COVID-19 candidacy.

You heard it here first.

So there you are.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Writing with Tomatoes and Supertomatoes

I’d probably have been diagnosed with ADHD if it had been invented when I was a kid. This is about one way I work around it to get writing done.

BUH-BYE: Sorry, Barack Obama, Democrats Just Aren’t That Into You Anymore, According to Exit Polls.

I MEAN, THEY COULD TRY. IT ISN’T LIKE THEY HAVEN’T BEFORE: Trump Just Donated His Latest Paycheck and the Media Can’t Call This a “Hoax.”

ROGER SIMON: Sleepless in Nashville.

I went back to the bed and lay there, my mind racing. Should we go to the safe room? How bad was the Coronavirus? Who was going to win Super Tuesday? Would there be an Olympics in Tokyo? Could Sanders beat Trump? On and on and back again.

Sometimes I slept, mostly I didn’t. Sleepless in Seattle, I thought? No, sleepless in Nashville. And then I fell asleep.

I awoke with dim light filtering through the window, my hand still clutching the iPhone. I looked down at it. The screen was dominated by an image that looked like a battlefield in World War I.

But it wasn’t a war. It was Nashville. The tornado had hit.

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