A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK COMMENTS, “BUSH FAMILY’S ANTI-TRUMP VENOM RESULTING IN PAYBACK AT POLLS.” Pierce Bush, late President George H.W. Bush’s grandson, loses Texas Congressional bid. Also — though this is not unrelated — I think people are tired of dynasties.

RED THROUGH AND THROUGH: Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, ‘I Don’t Know What’s So Wrong’ With Cuba.

American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Sen. Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when he came to visit him behind bars.

Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.

During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn’t understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.

“He said, quote: ‘I don’t know what’s so wrong with this country,’ ” Gross recalled.

Sanders’ campaign declined to comment about the meeting with Gross, and Tester said he did not recall the discussion.

Plus: “The first year of my captivity was akin to sensory deprivation because I saw about 20 minutes of sunlight during the first year.”

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: Ombudsmen on faculty hiring panels? Idea gains steam to bolster conservative applicants.

BREAKING: Bloomberg suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden.

He came up short.

CORONAVIRUS: Iran temporarily frees 54,000 prisoners to combat spread.

Earlier:

● Coronavirus in Canada: Travellers from Iran report no screening at Toronto’s Pearson Airport.

● Why are so many new cases of COVID- 19 in Canada linked to travel from Iran?

● Iran’s Death Toll From Coronavirus Jumps to 54, With 978 Infected.

● Coronavirus ravaging Iran at 20 times greater rate than officials admit: resistance group.

● Coronavirus Infects 23 Iranian Lawmakers As Ayatollah Orders Military to Help Fight Spread.

● Iran finds millions of hoarded gloves as coronavirus deaths hit 66.

● Coronavirus Takes Out Aide To Iran’s “Supreme Leader.”

● Qatar reports its first coronavirus in man who returned from Iran.

● Iranians Lick Door of Holy Shrine to Show Coronavirus Who’s Boss.

● Applying essential oil to anus ‘cures coronavirus’: Iranian cleric.

● Iranian mullahs reject offer of US Coronavirus aid.

YET ANOTHER REMINDER THAT TWITTER IS NOT THE REAL WORLD:

HARSH, BUT FAIR: Ignorant Boomer Shares CNN Article Thinking It’s Real.

LESSON OF THE DAY FOR PROGRESSIVES: Between Professor Susan Estrich running Dukakis’s campaign into the ground in 1988, Larry Lessig’s presidential campaign, and Warren’s embarrassing flop on Super Tuesday, including third place in Massachusetts, maybe it’s time to conclude that the faculty of Harvard Law School doesn’t have its finger on the pulse of America.

TAKING SIDES: Campus security tells Trump supporter at Sanders rally: Leave ‘my property.’

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Super Tuesday—Fauxcahontas Farewell Edition. “Super Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid for the ‘Worst Candidate of This Cycle’ title, Warren wasn’t even the favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third.”

For once, Kruiser is too kind.

IRAN’S “DEATH TO AMERICA” AYATOLLAHS IN AN EPIDEMIC BIND:

In the context of proliferating contagion and human suffering, the U.S. offer to Iran of aid and selective sanctions relief was an act of real generosity, despite the nations’ political antagonism.

Read the entire column.

LIGHTNINGS: As in a P-38 Lightning flying beside an F-35A Lightning II. The next photo is a static display shot of the P-38 and F-35 taken in 2006 at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas facility. From the history vault, a 9th Air Force P-38 “warms up” for action during the Battle of the Bulge. Last but by no means least, a “decades of air power” heritage flight photo from 2009: An F-86 Sabre, a P-38, an F-4 Phantom and an A-10 Thunderbolt II overfly Nellis AFB, Nevada.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Scary Moment as Crazed Vegans Rush the Stage During Biden Speech (Video).

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: This Is The Worst Democratic Field Since Mondale Lost To Reagan In A Landslide.

SO YOU’RE SAYING THE CLAIM WAS A HOAX? WaPo: No, Trump Didn’t Shut Down 37 of 47 Global Anti-Pandemic Programs.

2020 PRIMARY IN A NUTSHELL: “Democrats have a choice between Socialism and senility.”

OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR: Boom: FBI gun checks surge 30% amid Biden, Bloomberg gun grab threats.

TESTING THE SPACE FENCE: Upgrading orbital safety.

WHITEWASHING THE REDS: Who’s to Blame for Socialism’s Rehabilitation among Young Voters?

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Italy may close schools all over country due to coronavirus.

Coronavirus: WHO warns lack of medical supplies.

China is recording so few new coronavirus infections that South Korea looks like the new center of the epidemic.. Hmm.

White House Wants ‘Greater Cooperation’ From Airlines For Coronavirus Fight.

Louvre museum reopens after staff walkout over coronavirus fears.

The flu and the new coronavirus have similar symptoms, but the coronavirus is far more deadly — here’s how the two compare.

WHO Estimates Coronavirus Death Rate at 3.4 Percent.

Number of coronavirus cases in Washington and California rises sharply.

Airports are nearly empty amid coronavirus outbreak, photos show.

How coronavirus compares to epidemics of the past.

Democrats like Biden and Bloomberg are lying about Trump and the coronavirus.

Trump says he’s working with Congress to speed COVID-19 aid.

COVID-19 giving investors a harsh lesson in supply chains.

Blindsided on the Supply Side: The coronavirus outbreak has shown that supply-chain disruptions could wreak far greater havoc on the global economy—and national security—than most CEOs and governments realize.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Establishment-Backed Democrats Accused of Campaign Finance Violations.