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RAND PAUL SCHOOLS A DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE WITH A BYLINE:

MYRON MAGNET REVIEWS CREATED EQUAL, the Clarence Thomas biographic film.

WHY BREXIT MATTERS. “Britain is reclaiming its agency as a self-governing nation. Its example will reverberate throughout Europe.”

OPEN THREAD: Roll us into the weekend.

I’M SURE THERE ARE GOOD HIGH SCHOOL COACHES, but coaches like this are depressingly common.

BREAKING: Twitter suspends independent news outlet Zero Hedge. “The publication, which enjoyed a following of over 673,000 followers on Twitter, was unceremoniously nuked from the social media platform following its report that the origins of the deadly coronavirus (2019-nCoV) may have a man-made origin, in addition to reports that the Chinese government may be suppressing the total number of people infected by the deadly illness that is sweeping throughout Wuhan.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You’d think Twitter would have heard of the Streisand Effect. The article discusses, and links to, a preprint of a paper apparently by a group of Indian researchers. They may be wrong, but censoring discussion isn’t the way to find out. If the paper is wrong, or bogus, people will figure it out — if they can see the paper. If the paper’s censored, people can only share sensationalist items that may or may not have come from the paper to begin with. Color me skeptical about this, but what do I know?

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Zero Hedge responds.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Stanford Prof says paper is wrong.

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BREXIT DAY: UK formally leaves the European Union and begins Brexit transition period.

Related: A glorious victory for democracy –Brexit is the most stirring political achievement of the postwar period. From Brendan O’Neill at Spiked Online.

More: Boris Johnson’s Brexit Address to the Nation — This is not an end, but a beginning (video):

UPDATE: Sadiq Khan declares ‘London will always be European’ as #Brexit becomes official. “You know, it’s attitudes like this that pushed #Brexit through in the first place.”

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES MANDATORY QUARANTINES FOR CORONAVIRUS, declares public health emergency. “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said it was the first quarantine order issued by the federal government in over 50 years. Marty Cetron, director of CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, said the last time a quarantine was used was in the 1960s for smallpox.” Seems like they’re taking it seriously.

DON’T MESS WITH COCAINE MITCH.

UPDATE (from Steve): Don’t forget that Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday, in front of a crowd half-consisting of fully humiliated Democrats. Presumably, that’ll be one night before Cocaine Mitch has his chamber vote to acquit, but it’s SOTU so all the Democrats present will have to feign civility.

Savage, indeed.

LIFE IN DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Far-left activists, Antifa swarm NYC—multiple arrests made. “Multiple people were arrested on Friday night as antifa and far-left ‘decolonization’ activists converged on Grand Central Station in New York City as part of their ‘F*ck the Police’ protest.”