ILHAN OMAR’S REIGN OF ERROR: Powerline’s Scott Johnson titled his post “Reign of Terror,” and she certainly tried to terrorize Somalis in Minnesota. According to the post she succeeded — up to a point. Three people –Preya Samsundar, David Steinberg, and Scott– stayed on the case. Now the Daily Mail is scorching Omar internationally and one of Scott’s Minnesota Somali sources has emerged in public. Abdi Nur is a brave man.

Scott provides this quote:

“…She (Omar)lied through her teeth to elderly people who stood in line for hours to vote for their dreams which they saw in her…[T]his country is ours and we Love America. It is our job to defend it and I will do everything to protect it from someone who despises our country. We are united in all faiths and colors to continue to live together…”

Mr. Nur is a genuine resistance fighter. Read the whole thing.

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S WEIMAR AMERICA:

The American dream, 2020. She calls her new life as a porn star “empowering,” and says that when she broke the news to her parents last weekend, they were “intrigued” but “not upset.”

Those poor people, the Spielbergs. She shames her family. My guess is that they are really upset, and doing their best not to alienate their crazy, self-destructive kid.

Still, what a parable about Weimar America: Steven Spielberg’s daughter, with every privilege in the world, turns herself into a porn star.

Read the whole thing.

Flashback: Bill Whittle on Weimar America in 2013: “First Comes the Grotesque.”

TWO AMERICAS, TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE:

CHANGE: ‘National satisfaction’ reaches 15-year high, ‘greatly increases’ Trump reelection. Don’t get cocky, kids.

MARK HEMINGWAY: FBI Raids James Biden-Tied Business.

DECOUPLING — IT’S CONTAGIOUS! Coronavirus: China’s manufacturing supply chain pummelled from all sides in efforts to restart.

FRIEND OF THE WORKINGMAN: Bloomberg Brags About Coal Plant Closures, Likely Put Thousands Out of Work.

CAN YOU HELP?: My friends at the National Association of Scholars are preparing a report on administrative bloat in higher education and the student debt crisis. As a part of their research, they’d like to interview a number of individuals about their post-high school choices and/or their experience with student loans.

Ms. Arnold, the NAS research associate working on this project, would like to interview individuals in the following broad categories:

• People who attended college in the past or who currently attend college.
• People who did not attend college.
• People who chose a non-traditional education path.
• Parents of college students or college-bound students.

(Yep, that’s everybody and then some.)

Interviews will be conducted via telephone (preferably) or via Google forms. Interviewees who don’t want their names used in the report can have their names “anonymized” for the final report.

Please contact Ms. Arnold at arnold(at)nas(dot)org if you are willing to be interviewed.

By the way, if would like to join the National Association of Scholars, that can be arranged. I am a proud member.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: China: coronavirus deaths top 2,200 as number of new cases rises again.

Turning point of coronavirus outbreak in China has not come: politburo.

New virus has infected more than 76,000 people globally.

Iran reports 2 more deaths, 13 new cases of new coronavirus.

Coronavirus: South Korea ’emergency’ measures as infections increase.

Could warmer weather help contain the coronavirus?

Coronavirus live updates: Officials letting last uninfected passengers leave Diamond Princess.

At least 11 American Diamond Princess evacuees test positive for coronavirus, another doctor in China dies.

Hundreds of Chinese inmates infected with novel coronavirus as outbreak spreads to prisons.

Coronavirus-Hit Japan Limits Large Gatherings: Graduations, speeches, business meetings and even the Tokyo Marathon have been canceled or curtailed.

Stocks head for worst week in four as coronavirus spreads.

Global central bankers scour shopping malls, manufacturers for coronavirus playbook.

Coronavirus Cripples Supply Chains for Many Small US Businesses.

Coronavirus Impact on Global Economy More Muted Than Expected: Epidemic further weakens growth, but the impact on Europe’s industrial powerhouse was less severe than feared.

HER POSITION HAS EVOLVED: Elizabeth Warren, Who Said She Wouldn’t Take ‘A Dime’ From Super PACs, Is Now Accepting Support From A Super PAC.

NOT ANTI-WAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE: What You Won’t Learn From the NYT Op-Ed by the Taliban’s Deputy Leader.

WELL-DESERVED: De Blasio booed, heckled at contentious Queens town hall.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Why Richard Grenell As Director Of National Intelligence Is A Loss For The Deep State.

In staffing another crucial position in the executive branch with someone who genuinely shares his worldview, instincts, and tenacity, President Trump is signaling to the Trump-haters of the administrative state, and its Deep State apotheosis, that those who reject or actively seek to undermine his America First agenda will no longer be welcome in meaningful positions.

This is no minor statement because the establishmentarian Resistance, knowing that personnel is policy, has sought to stymie the president’s agenda by seeking to undermine if not destroy like-minded individuals the president has considered for top-level posts.

Consider that the effect, if not intent, of the still-going effort to ruin Gen. Michael Flynn. It has gone beyond punishing him for sharing the president’s views, having directly challenged the national security and foreign policy establishment, and threatening its power and privilege. Its aim was to send a message from the very start of the administration that the president’s actual supporters need not apply.

Substantively, after eight years spent during the George W. Bush administration engaging in diplomatic combat with the “jackals” of the United Nations as the longest-serving spokesman and appointee in U.S. history, Grenell has doggedly pursued the president’s agenda in the face of unrelenting defiance from the European Union’s (EU) most consequential power.

That’s nothing compared to the anti-American forces he’ll have to face down in our own intelligence community.

THE CHINESE ARE SOUNDING DESPERATE:

Related:

This is a major indicator that things are going badly at home.

IT’S COME TO THIS: California Bill Would Require Occupational Licenses for Porn Actors, Strippers, Cam Girls.

On Tuesday, Assemblymembers Lorena Gonzalez (D–San Diego) and Christina Garcia (D–Bell Gardens) introduced Assembly Bill (A.B.) 2389. The bill would require adult entertainers and video performers, including webcam performers, to obtain a business license and complete a state-mandated training course before being allowed to ply their trade.

Requirements for that training would be developed by the state’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), which would, in turn, be advised by a new 10-member, governor-appointed board composed of two adult film actors, three dancers, two medical doctors, a therapist, and a money manager….Gonzalez is also the author of the controversial A.B. 5 legislation that requires many gig economy workers to be classified as employees and not independent contractors.

Related: A California-style Brexit? Freelancers are rising up in opposition to the state’s new law regulating “gig workers.”

Gonzalez deserves much of the blame for the AB5 train wreck, but she had plenty of support from her party: nearly every assembly member who approved AB5 is a Democrat, including Governor Gavin Newsom. Those opposed: Republicans and Independents. Senator Patricia Bates, a Republican state senator representing parts of Orange and San Diego counties, has been hearing from constituents who had no idea that they were swept up in the AB5 net. “They’re asking, ‘Who did this to me?’” says Bates. “I don’t like to make it partisan, but I have to tell them the majority party that runs the show did it. There’s a new awareness about the anti-business environment and how it affects their right to work, to be free.”

Independent contractors are entering new territory. Suddenly, a more conservative approach seems more attractive. “My entire political mindset has changed drastically following the enactment of AB5,” says Cathy Hertz, a freelance copyeditor of STM (science-technology-medicine) books, from Loma Linda. Hertz campaigned for Barack Obama cross-country at her own expense in 2008; she campaigned for him locally, in Los Angeles, in 2012. “Now I feel that the rights of entrepreneurs are being stifled, trampled upon, violated,” she says. “Free enterprise is one of the main pillars of modern democracy.”

I doubt they know it by name, but a couple of million California independent contractors have just stumbled into Robert Conquest’s First Law of Politics: “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”

IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR: Somali Community Leader: Ilhan Omar Did Marry Her Brother.

CHANGE? ICE Throws Down the Gauntlet to Challenge California State Law on Arresting Illegals.

WE ALSO KNOW:  Bean: More Anti-American Propaganda Now than Blacklist Era.

REVEALED: Michael Bloomberg’s Years-Long Political Association with Harvey Weinstein.

WE KNOW:  John Bolton Admits Last-Minute Impeachment Leak Was A Publicity Stunt.

HE PAID FOR THE RIGHT TO TWEET THAT IN BLOOD:  Steve Scalise Wins Tweet of the Year.

YEAH. EVERYBODY KNOWS:  Daily Mail: Ilhan Omar married her brother.

If we’re NOT going to get heads on pikes, can we at the very least see deportations for immigration fraud?

THE WRITERS OF THE BABYLON BEE ARE HAVING A HARD TIME COMPETING WITH THE WASHINGTON POST. AND I DON’T BLAME THEM:  Washington Post Says Elites Must Choose Our President.