CHANGE: Coronavirus cases top 9 million worldwide as daily death toll trends down.

LARRY ELDER: The Ferguson Lie. New video at PragerU.

HAS CORONAVIRUS GONE FROM ‘AGGRESSIVE TIGER’ TO ‘WILD CAT?’ I’m skeptical, but the guy FAITHWIRE quotes is an Italian doctor, where I am just a simple-minded American journalist. My question is this: Can one country develop herd immunity while another doesn’t?

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. UN: Calling Antifa ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Undermines ‘Peaceful Assembly.’ 

No problem — we’ll go with international terrorists, then.

JOHN O’SULLIVAN: Les Miserables.

It’s a two-stage process: first, we liberate ourselves from the old laws that confine our imaginations to what science and experience tell us is true and practicable; second, we replace them with rules that reflect the wishes and interests of the powerful—who are not always politicians and ministers but sometimes in periods of decaying political authority, the mob or its allies. The political mob made its first appearance in Paris during the French revolution, but it has come and gone many times since then, and it’s presently most powerful in Seattle and Portland.

Taken together these two stages produce the replacement of professional rules and ethics by political values and authority in all fields. It can be a slow process, especially in science, and it begins modestly, but the final stages often have seasoned professionals accepting new rules they would once have denounced or regarded as simply too absurd to bother denouncing. The old professional rules of American journalism that you followed the truth where it led by examining fairly the claims of all sides in a dispute have collapsed entirely—and that collapse began long before Donald Trump was elected President. It has reached its apogee in the recent decision of the New York Times to publish the deceptive and false 1619 Project not as one account of many historical accounts of the birth of America but as the sole acceptable truth (though it comes to us less from history than from critical race theory which is constructed so as to negate any criticism of its own criteria.) Its principal author has just welcomed the spreading anarchy as a vindication of the Times project, which is now to be taught in American high schools.

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HMM: Bipartisan bill introduced to provide $120B in relief for restaurants.

TAXPAYERS STILL ON THE HOOK FOR STADIUM DEBTS, EVEN THOUGH CORONAVIRUS CANCELED SPORTS: But then, those stadiums weren’t likely to bring the growth the cities wanted in the first place.

RIP: Joel Schumacher, Director of Batman Films and Lost Boys, Dies at 80.

SIGNS OF SANITY IN OLD BLIGHTY? How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists.

HMM: The Next Jussie Smollett? Black NASCAR Driver Finds Noose in Garage Stall.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Expect the Unexpected.

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OBSESSED: California Democrats Want Another $20 Million to Enforce Job-Killer AB5. “What California workers and employers need more than ever right now is increased flexibility in order to reignite the state’s job-creation engine. What they’re getting instead is another $20 million in debt so that unelected bureaucrats can wage war on the type of work preferred by nearly 25% of the workforce.”

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Exalting Race Rejects American Civil Rights Gospel.

ROGER SIMON: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Black Lives Matter.

TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME: Russia Sent Three Types Of Fighters To Intercept B-52s Flying Rare Mission Into Sea Of Okhotsk. “The Russian military sent Su-30 Flanker and Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors to monitor two U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers that flew over the Sea of Okhotsk yesterday. This the first time B-52Hs have flown into this body water, which is surrounded on three sides by Russian territory and where American combat aircraft typically have not ventured in the past, in recent memory.”

Last week: US fighters have rushed to intercept 8 Russian bombers approaching Alaska in the past week.

CAN WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TO HACK THEM? Viruses steal human DNA to forge new human-virus genes.

FLASHBACK: Dropping the A-Bomb on History. When the Smithsonian decided in the mid-1990s to PC America’s victory in WWII.

SHOCK CLAIM: Chinese Troops in ‘Panic Mode’ After Border Clash with India.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A JOHN RINGO NOVEL: Zombie Satellites Return From the Graveyard.

HOW CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE NYPD SHAKE SHACK ‘POISONING’ BLEW UP.

SHOCKED? CPAC Leader Warns ‘Statues of Jesus Are Next.’ Leftists Immediately Confirm His Concerns.