ANALYSIS: TRUE. Panic About Peaceful Protest Reveals Gun Controllers’ Bigotry: Erroneous predictions of violence at the Richmond rally conflated civil libertarians with militant racists.

The left likes to pretend that its ideas are so good that only nasty racists could oppose them. In fact they’re so bad that it can only defend them by calling people who disagree nasty racists.

Related: Were White Nationalists Really Planning To Attack The Virginia Gun Rights Rally? According To Police Records, Not Exactly. “Firstly, the group decided not to actually go to a rally. They also decided not to start any violence. They planned to wait for a race war to start, as voice recordings show, and then join in.” So basically their take was the same as the media’s.

SEEMS WISE: U.S. reroutes coronavirus evacuees to California military base.

Also: Global Corporate Giants Limit China Travel in Response to Coronavirus.

Multinational companies such as JPMorgan Chase JPM +0.70% & Co., Apple Inc. AAPL +3.15% and Kraft Heinz Co. KHC -0.30% are suspending business trips to China amid concerns about an outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus.

JPMorgan JPM 0.68% banned travel into and out of mainland China and imposed a two-week, work-from-home quarantine on anyone who had been there in recent weeks.

Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP cancelled employee and partner travel to mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for its workers in the U.S. and Mexico. U.S. and Mexico workers who have returned from China within the past two weeks are being asked to work remotely for three weeks as a precaution. Globally, workers have been advised to defer travel to China’s Hubei province and non essential travel to other areas in China, Hong Kong and Macau until further notice, a spokesman said.

Kraft Heinz, the consumer-goods giant, has introduced a global employee travel ban to and from China, according to spokesman Michael Mullen. “This will help reduce the unnecessary risk of virus exposure or transmission and is the most prudent measure to take while we continue to closely monitor the situation in China,” he said.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said Tuesday the company was limiting travel to China in the wake of the viral outbreak and has reduced store operating hours in the country. Apple, which has suppliers for the manufacture of its products in the affected region, has alternative sources, Mr. Cook said. Factories outside of Wuhan—the epicenter of the outbreak—have pushed back plans to reopen after the Lunar New Year to Feb. 10 from the end of January.

Also seems wise.

HE HATES YOU. HE REALLY HATES YOU: Don Lemon Digs a Deeper Hole with His Terrible Apology, Denying Obvious Bigotry.

Related (From Ed): Name another industry that demonstrates that much open contempt for its potential customers Or as they say at the Washington Post, “Yeah, I’m in the media, screw you.”

Ed Morrissey adds that, not surprisingly, RNC quickly drops new campaign ad off CNN elitist faceplant. “Get ready for more iterations on this theme, because these claims will only get more and more prevalent as we get closer to November. The Democratic convention in July will likely have their video editors busy for weeks cutting new versions of this ad. By that time, the fact that both Democrats and the media haven’t learned that calling people idiots and racists isn’t an effective selling point will be revealing enough about the true issues of mental capacity in this market.”

OOPS: Democrat Just Accidentally Admitted House Impeachment Case Is Evidence-Free.

ROGER SIMON: Why America Needs a Trump vs. Sanders Election.

BONANZA: Paris Museums Put 60,000+ Historic Photos Online, Copyright-Free.

Here’s the portal, but I have to warn you it’s a serious time-suck.

WHY WOULD A MALE STUDENT GO THERE? At Indiana Wesleyan University, female students can freely break campus rules on sexual activity, coed dorm visits and even climbing through windows – as long as they accuse a male student of sexual assault.

BRYAN PRESTON: Bellwether to Blowout: Texas House District Gets Redder to Lead Off 2020 Elections.

BARK WITH BITE FROM A MARK 45: The guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy fires its forward Mark 45 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise in the Arabian Sea. In June 2005 I spent a day and a half aboard the USS Normandy. The ship was operating in the Arabian Gulf (what the Pentagon now calls the Persian Gulf).

TEMPER TANTRUM: Bernie Sanders Fans Leave Iowa College’s Mock Caucus in Protest As he Gets Trounced by Elizabeth Warren.

XI JINGPING’S VIRUS DEMON BEDEVILS HIS DICTATORSHIP:

Yes, “demon” is a metaphor for a pathogen capable of killing millions. However, it is a demon the dictatorship’s repressive policies animate and tolerate in lieu of free communication.

Read the entire column.

S.G. CHEAH: Jeffree Star’s Success Proves the American Dream is Alive and Well for Minorities.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE; Minnesota college helps ‘white students only’ deal with ‘the nasty little racist inside them.’

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IT’S SET FOR 9:06 AM: Watch live: SpaceX aims for Wednesday morning Starlink launch.

UPDATE: Liftoff was “nominal.” Everything looks good so far.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Stage One stuck the landing on the drone. So cool. Spacecraft orbit looks good.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: California Freelancers Rally to Overturn Job-Killing AB5. “AB5 is a union-backed effort that has no other aim than to generate more union dues. It masquerades as pro-worker but it’s ultimately a job-killer. Freelance workers deliberately trade certain corporate comforts for flexibility and freedom, which the union ghouls behind AB5 seek to destroy. It’s more nanny-state control freak garbage from people who are envious.”

HOWIE CARR: Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren is whistling past the Happy Hunting Ground.

HAVE YOU HUGGED A FRACKER TODAY? OPEC’s waning influence laid bare as coronavirus outbreak hammers oil prices, analysts say.

METAPHOR ALERT: The FBI arrested the guy responsible for keeping poop off of San Francisco’s streets. “Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco’s Public Works Director (you know, the guy whose job it is to keep the streets free of poop), was arrested by the FBI this morning on suspicion of public corruption.”

CHANGE: British Airways Cancels Flights to China over Coronavirus.

Related: Wuhan Coronavirus Exceeds SARS Toll; U.S., Other Countries Begin Evacuations.

UPDATE: China coronavirus: major airlines pull plug on services to Hong Kong and mainland as US considers stopping all flights.

Plus: Novartis CEO: It will take over a year to find vaccine for coronavirus. Too slow. As Bill Frist and I were saying over a decade ago, we need to learn how to produce vaccines much, much faster in the face of an outbreak.

IN THEIR DEFENSE, THEY’RE NOT CARRYING IT FOR FREE: As China Carries Disease, Elites Carry Their Water.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO LEAD STANFORD’S HOOVER INSTITUTION.