IRAN FINDS SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS THE CORONAVIRUS IS PART OF AN AMERICAN INFO OP: And if you read what the guy says, he thinks it’s a covert operation. MSN News sources this to the Iran Daily. Who is Scott Bennett? You tell me.

Scott Bennett said that “this is a fabricated psychological operation that has been coordinated with an actual physical sickness to spread fear, panic and intimidation in the Chinese economic markets with the purpose of isolating China and disrupting the Chinese-Russian-Iranian economic, military alliance that we’ve seen in their patrols in the Persian Gulf, and their solidarity in the defense of Syria from the… regimes of Recep Erdogan and Turkey, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Zionist state, and the purpose was to create a disruption that would fracture this alliance for Western exploitation.”

What rhetoric. He doesn’t stop there, he even implicates Big Pharma. Everybody and the kitchen sink!

VERY RELATED: Iran’s ‘Death to America’ Ayatollahs in an Epidemic Bind. In Iran “Senior leaders themselves may be responsible for spreading the disease.” It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: 10 Things We’ll Miss About ‘Gifted Storyteller’ Elizabeth Warren.

THE NEW WAR ON MODERATE DRINKING.

THE TRUTH HURTS: Uh Oh, Trump Says What We’re All Thinking: There’s Something Wrong With Joe Biden.

PICK A SIDE, MITT: Romney Claims Senate Probe into Hunter Biden ‘Appears Political.’

TITLE IX UPDATE: Williams College suspended male student for not dating girl after kissing her: ‘Culturally insensitive’ behavior rebranded as lack of consent.

Cost of sending your son to Williams College: $75,520 per year.

IN THAT NOTED BASTION OF CIVILIZATION, CROWN HEIGHTS: Shocking Video: Group Stomps 15-Year-Old Girl On Brooklyn Sidewalk. Life in DeBlasio’s New York City.

IN MY PERFECT WORLD, JOURNALISTS WOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND BEFORE SETTING A MATCH TO THEIR HAIR GEL: COVID-19 and Mortality: Trump and WHO Are Both Right.

Oh, and everyone going “durr, Trump’s an idiot!” note that exactly the same point is being made in The Hill today:

Experts warn that the figure from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus comes full of caveats and is likely to change as more people get tested and undergo treatment for the virus.

“I think it’s lower because we are missing mild cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

OLD AND COLD: But Hillary won the popular vote!

THE NEW HOTNESS: Stop Lying, America: You Were Never Gonna Vote for a Woman President.

MAYBE SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING IN LA-LA LAND FOR A CHANGE: Actor Ben Affleck says his new movie, “The Way Back,” is very much biographical. From my own experience before being blessed with sobriety in 1991, I can attest to the accuracy of Affleck’s portrayal of the agony of alcohol addiction. First it was Kanye West, then Justin Bieber and now Affleck “coming out.” Let’s hope it endures.

TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN HE: VIDEO: Students bored by Joe Biden, can’t name his accomplishments.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: America Isn’t Sexist—Female Democratic Candidates Are Just Awful People. “My favorite of all the ridiculous attempts to explain away Warren’s failure was this piece in The Atlantic titled ‘America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence’.”

To believe that about Liz Warren, you’d have to be as tone-deaf as, well, Liz Warren.

NEW YORK’S BEST ARE NOT IN CHARGE: Albany’s Dead-Of-Night Coronavirus Vote Gives Cuomo Sweeping New Emergency Powers.

THEY DON’T CALL TENNESSEE “THE VOLUNTEER STATE” FOR NOTHING: Putnam County And Mount Juliet Have More Volunteers Than They Can Handle.

ON THE GROUND: An Army paratrooper lands after jumping out of a C-160 over Alzey, Germany. The C-160 is a twin-engine transport built by Transall. The French and German air forces fly the C-160.

DEMOCRATS’ HOPES OF A TRUMP-DESTROYING RECESSION SO FAR NOT MATERIALIZING: U.S. added 273,000 jobs in February, smashing expectations.

HMM: CA Primary Reveals Bad News For Pelosi. GOP Could Win House Back.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Republicans took a strong first step in the primary election toward grabbing back at least some of the seven California congressional districts that Democrats flipped in 2018. With millions of late-arriving mail ballots still uncounted from Tuesday’s election, Republicans have so far combined for a majority of the votes in six of those seven districts. GOP candidates have solid leads in two of them.”

The Chronicle noted, “In Orange County, GOP candidates were winning a majority of the votes in three of the four targeted districts.” Fred Whitaker, chairman of the Orange County GOP, stated, “On Tuesday night, the waters of the blue wave began to recede … and Republicans showed that we will take back Orange County. The pathway to restoring the House of Representatives is through Orange County.”

It’s good to see the California GOP is only mostly dead.

WINNERS ALL! VP odds: Kamala Harris 5-2, Stacey Abrams 4-1, Amy Klobuchar 5-1. Well, except for, you know, the relevant elections.

ANTONIA OKAFOR: I’m a proud gun-owning Republican because of my feminist beliefs. And I think Bernie Sanders is dangerous. (Bumped).

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus Cases Surge in U.S.

Coronavirus Cases Near 100,000 as Countries Struggle to Contain Spread: In the U.S., there have been 233 confirmed cases and 12 deaths, mostly in the state of Washington.

Testing Kits Rushed to Quarantined Cruise Ship.

Microsoft says two employees in Washington state have tested positive for coronavirus.

N.J. private high school closes after fears students were exposed to coronavirus at N.Y. event.

Coronavirus Update: 5 New Territories, 2,200 New Cases, 2,800 Recoveries.

Denmark to hold Eurovision selection party in empty arena due to coronavirus fears.

Coronavirus Test Kits Are In Shortly Supply, Vice President Pence Says.

‘The demand’s been crazy,’ says Rocklin survivalist food company in coronavirus era.

South Korea, Japan in row over coronavirus restrictions: Seoul expresses displeasure over Tokyo’s move to put its citizens in 2-week quarantine.

South Korea Grapples With Mask Shortage Amid COVID-19 Outbreak.

It’s ‘unreal’ in Italy as government doubles aid for coronavirus; France cases rise sharply.

Coronavirus in Italy Fills Hospital Beds and Turns Doctors into Patients.

Coronavirus adds uncertainty and cost to tech company supply chains.

Is 2020 The Year Of Supply Chain Risk?

Tim Hortons suspends cup giveaway, won’t use refillable containers amid coronavirus concerns.

‘Can everyone mute?’ Coronavirus means we must telecommute. We’re not ready.

DON’T GET COCKY: Joe Biden is ‘completely unelectable,’ says ‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach.

WHATEVER THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ON MITT ROMNEY, IT MUST BE AWFULLY GOOD. Romney could block subpoena in Hunter Biden probe.