SANDERS DOESN’T THINK BLOOMBERG SHOULD BE IN NEXT DEBATES: “I guess if you’re worth $60 billion, you can change the rules.”

Why would a socialist complain about arbitrary rule changes?

THIS SEEMS PLAUSIBLE: The Joe Biden Theory and the Ukrainian macguffin. “At first Biden is reluctant to run. But in the spring of 2019 he gets wind of Trump investigating his corruption in Ukraine – and he immediately enters the race on 4/25/19. On the trail he looks old, tired, and his heart just isn’t in it. Why do it then? Because it’s about a lot more things than simply running for president. If Trump isn’t stopped, the entire Biden family’s dirt will come out. At this point, the only way to avoid or at least to delay it is Biden being in the race: the news of his corruption can then be discredited as usual electioneering and Trump’s dirty tricks. . . . What are the Dems covering up in Ukraine? It must be big if they staged an impeachment and risked their entire political capital over it.”

UPDATE: Flashback: Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?

GOOD: Team Trump just called a halt to the Obama-era war on American suburbs.

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: China’s Leader, Under Fire, Says He Led Coronavirus Fight Early On.

Facebook cancels San Francisco conference over coronavirus fears.

As U.S. plans evacuations for American travelers on cruise ship in Japan, a passenger from another ship turns up with coronavirus. “U.S. officials on Saturday set in motion plans to evacuate Americans under lockdown aboard the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama. But some passengers greeted the news with outrage after learning that they will face a 14-day quarantine upon their return to the United States. Meanwhile, an 83-year-old American woman aboard another cruise ship, which docked in Cambodia on Friday after being refused by five other ports, tested positive for coronavirus. Cambodia had cleared her and others on the ship to travel, but she was tested again in Malaysia after flying there and showing symptoms, according to Malaysian health officials.”

Coronavirus fears shouldn’t prevent Chinese restaurant patronage, says NYC mayor. Given De Blasio’s credibility of late this will probably do more harm than good.

China’s Hubei reports 139 new coronavirus deaths on Feb. 15.

China is disinfecting banknotes to stop spread of coronavirus.

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‘Wholly inappropriate’ quarantine practices may have helped spread coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, experts say.

Chinese gymnastics team withdraws from World Cup due to coronavirus outbreak.

To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China: Despite their high-tech tools, the authorities are mainly relying on a flood of workers to keep hundreds of millions of people from coming in contact with outsiders.

LIKE BETO O’ROURKE, SHE’LL DISCOVER JUST HOW QUICKLY THE DEMOCRATS CAN TIRE OF A HERO ONCE THEIR USEFULNESS IS PAST: The Sidelining of Elizabeth Warren.

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WOMAN IN SEAT RECLINE CONTROVERSY WANTS FLIGHT ATTENDANT FIRED, DEMANDS NAME OF SEAT-PUNCHER.

Somebody’s angling for a sweet gig at CNN or HBO.

BILL DE BLASIO SEEMS DETERMINED TO RETURN NEW YORK TO THE DEATH WISH ERA: Tessa Majors Case: Teenager, 14, arrested in the murder of Barnard College student, NYPD announces.

DISPATCHES FROM THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS: Sam Donaldson Endorses Mike Bloomberg on CNN to Defeat ‘Sick, Ignorant…Corrupt’ Trump. “We’re just amused by the idea that Donaldson was this objective journalist with bipartisan aggression. Let’s take just a few old examples.”

Related: “Why was Donaldson not asked if he agreed with Bloomberg banning his own 2700 Bloomberg News journalists from investigating him during his presidential campaign – but still allowing them to investigate Trump? Staggering how US media is just accepting this,” Piers Morgan tweets.

SO IF DEMOCRATS LOSE THE HOUSE OR STATE LEGISLATURES, THEY CAN BLAME MIKE: MIKE BLOOMBERG IS HIRING SO MANY OPERATIVES, LOCAL AND STATE CAMPAIGNS ARE STARVING FOR HELP.

CORONAVIRUS: Are coronavirus tests flawed?

Related: NYC cabbies avoiding Chinese neighborhoods over coronavirus fears.

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY, OR WHAT? President Trump is planning on taking the presidential limo, known as “The Beast,” for a ride at the Daytona 500.

FIGHT THE POWER: Noncompliance With New Gun Laws Follows Historical Precedent.

THIS ISN’T A POSITIVE: U.S. Fertility Reaches All-Time Low as People Choose Things Other Than Children.

DON’T GET COCKY: Voters need a lot more than Trump’s tweets to replace him with these Democrats.

From Jon Gabriel in the Arizona Central.

WOAH: FiveThirtyEight Predicts ‘No One’ Will Win a Majority of Democrat Delegates.

THE SMOKER YOU DRINK, THE PLAYER YOU GET: Austin man arrested for DWI, admits to smoking embalming fluid.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DEPLOY ELITE TACTICAL UNITS TO SANCTUARY CITIES.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE NEGATIVE CLAIMS ABOUT FRACKING ARE JUST PUTIN PROPAGANDA: Study funded in part by PA DEP finds no evidence fracking waste harming Pennsylvania streams.

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THE PROUD SONS AND DAUGHTERS THAT IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAND SPOKE TO ME IN SWEET ACCUSTOMED WAYS: Space Force wants ideas ‘in good taste’ on what it should call its members.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I was not prepared for the phone call from my father’s skilled nursing facility asking for permission to provide him contraceptives.

WHY ARE ONE-PARTY BLUE CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF CORRUPTION? Prosecutors Seek Five Years in Prison for Corrupt Former Baltimore Mayor Who Scammed the Medical/Hospital System and Diverted Hundreds of Thousands of Taxpayer Dollars into Buying Her Stupid “Healthy Holly” Books.

Baltimore’s last Republican mayor left office over a half century ago.