IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW: Pete Buttigieg Reveals He Quit Race To Form Boy Band.

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR CASE ON WHETHER OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It Was a Nice Peace While It Lasted. “Nothing illustrates the folly of our 18-year-long nation-building mission in Afghanistan better than the partial peace bought by a monthslong negotiation breaking down after just 72 hours.”

THE PRESS LOVES HIM, BUT THAT’S BECAUSE THE PRESS IS MADE UP OF UNREPRESENTATIVE IDIOTS: Trudeau tanking, majority say PM is poor leader.

CORN, POPPED: Why Biden’s South Carolina Victory Increases the Odds of a Brokered Convention.

WOW: Amazing NASA images show how pollution has CLEARED over China as coronavirus crisis has kept everyone indoors.

OKAY, BUT YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT WHO POLICE FORCES ARE REALLY THERE TO PROTECT: Harvard Law hosts discussion on abolition of police forces.

BOSTON HERALD SUPER TUESDAY ENDORSEMENTS: Republican: Donald Trump. “Another term needed of pro-America Trump.”

Democrat: Mike Bloomberg. “He is a liberal, but hasn’t taken the party’s lemming-like leap off the Left edge.”

UGH: Iranians burn clinic that may be quarantine for coronavirus patients.

A clinic in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran was torched on Friday due to suspicions that coronavirus patients from another city were quarantined in it, Al Arabiya reported Saturday.

Rumors claimed that 10 infected people were transported from Qom, a religious city that has been the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Iran, to the Towhid Clinic, according to Iranian social media posts.

The Iranian Fars news agency dismissed the claims of infected patients from Qom were being treated in the clinic as “unfounded rumors,” saying that the rumors “angered” some residents, who torched the clinic. The clinic does have a special ward for coronavirus, but the director of public relations at the University of Hormozgan Medical Sciences, Fatima Norouzian, told Fars that rumors about patients being in the clinic are “just a lie,” according to Al Arabiya.

Tragic, but not uncommon in low-trust societies.

UGH: More Antisemitism at Duke University Press.

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WELL, LOTS OF RULES WOULD HAVE ENSNARED OBAMA, IF THE RULES HAD BEEN APPLIED TO OBAMA: Victor Davis Hanson: New Impeachment Rules Would Snare Obama. But applying rules to Obama was declared per se racist, so that didn’t happen.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Coronavirus Is the New Y2K. “Does anyone remember the ZOMGWEAREALLGOINGTODIE coverage in the media during the run-up to Y2k? Remember how all the talking heads spun that “crisis” up to be the end of the world as we knew it? There was a run on generators and other survival gear, and a whole cottage industry grew up around fears of an apocalypse. We were told that not only would all our computers be rendered obsolete, but banks would collapse, the power grid would fail, the supply chain would be paralyzed, and armed citizens would be forced to roam the countryside in search of food for their families.”

Paula Bolyard is filling in for Kruiser this morning, who is still recovering from too little sleep and too much drink at CPAC. And believe me, I feel his pain.

CHINOOK ON SKIS: A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook flies over Fort Greely, Alaska during exercise Arctic Edge 2020. Photo taken Feb. 27, 2020,

RELATED: From 2013, a post on CH-47 procurement and modernization. The pull quote: “The CH-47 has proved to be a very successful design and none of the proposed replacements was dramatically better than an upgraded CH-47.” Here’s a photo of a Chinook lifting an Army Ground Mobility Vehicle.

IT CERTAINLY BRINGS HOME THE FOLLY OF RELYING ON ONE UNRELIABLE COUNTRY FOR SO MUCH PRODUCTION: Coronavirus Could Be The End Of China As Global Manufacturing Hub.

UPDATE: Related: Uyghurs for Sale: “The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.”

WELL, THAT’S THE GOAL: Bias Response Teams Silence Civic Debate.

OUR ALLIES IN ANKARA: Lesbos fears repeat of 2015 as refugees head for Greek island. “Turkish decision to open doors to Europe for migrants risks overwhelming resources.”

FEB. 2017 FLASHBACK: The Nation: Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House? Our intelligence apparatus is doing far more than stoking paranoia about the Russian bogeyman—it’s threatening democracy.

SHOCKER: An Obama Holdover in an Obscure Government Arm Helped Cause the Country’s Coronavirus Crisis. “Dr. William Walters is still on duty. In 2017, Walters was boasting of prepping more Ebola evacuations even over President Trump’s opposition to the practice. And he was once again at the wheel now. . . . Consulting President Trump was not part of the protocol even on a major national security issue.”

ARTHUR CHRENKOFF: THE GREAT TOILET PAPER PANIC OF 2020. “And so, for the second time in my lifetime, communists have f***ed up and as a result we don’t have toilet paper.”

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: ‘First Class Commie’ Sanders boards wrong private jet and used 3 to travel to campaign event.