WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Piers Morgan says transgender weightlifter’s push for place in 2020 Tokyo Olympics is ‘insane.’

MY CONGRESSMAN, TIM BURCHETT, HAS ALWAYS PREFERRED FIST-BUMPS: Coronavirus ‘no-contact, no-handshake policy’ at Seafood Expo in Boston. “The expo will have significantly fewer visitors from Asia.”

SHOCKER: AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness.

Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.

He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.

Also, you could cut the budget for a lot of CDC activities and not affect disease-fighting readiness at all, except maybe to improve it, because a lot of CDC activities are worthless mission creep.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Joe Biden Claims He Is Only Human Left On Earth Not Killed By Gun Violence.

ROLLS EYES SO HARD THEY GO UNDER THE SOFA AND BECOME COATED IN CAT HAIR:  Indie Shocker Shows White Couple Torturing Illegal Immigrants.

ALL COLLEGES DO. WE LET BEARDO THE WEIRDO TAKE THEM OVER:  It’s unsurprising that Ivy League colleges churn out dangerous leftists.

SO LONG AS SHE’S USEFUL FOR SOMETHING:  In an often crazy world, Meghan Markle provides much needed comic relief.

LIKE… THE FACT HE DOESN’T HAVE ONE OR THAT HE HAS THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO IN ITS PLACE?  Bernie Sanders is hiding critical heart health information.

CNN’S WAR ON REALITY:  CNN Anchor Claims Coronavirus Part Of Trump’s War On Truth.

SERIOUSLY, CALIFORNIA?  CA Nannies: Thou Shalt Have No Boys Nor Girls Depts.

DEMOCRATS WISH ALL OF US WILL DIE, IF ONLY IT WILL MAKE TRUMP LOOK BAD. STILL NO VACCINE FOR TDS:  Democrats (and media) react to Trump’s Coronavirus response.

I’M SORRY…. THEY WANT WHAT ON CAMPUS?  ARE THESE REAL BLACK STUDENTS, OR A “FRIENDS OF RALPH NORTHROP” GROUP?  U. Oklahoma: Anti-racism Protesters Demand Provost Resign and University Bring Popeyes to Campus.

IT’S A DANGEROUS GAME:  SC Republicans organize to vote for Bernie in open Democrat Primary to give Trump “an avowed socialist to face in November”

WARREN PROPOSES BILL TO TAKE ALL MONEY FROM TRUMP’S ‘RACIST WALL,’ GIVE TO HHS TO FIGHT CORONAVIRUS.

As Ted Cruz asks, “How exactly would open borders protect us from the potential spread of a worldwide pandemic?”

UPDATE: California sees surge in Chinese illegally crossing border from Mexico, the L.A. Times reported in 2016.

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THEY ARE AFRAID THAT HE EXPOSES THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE:  Here’s a question.

SERIOUSLY? NO, HIS BOSSES AREN’T MAD AT WHAT HE SAID, JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRATS AREN’T MAD AT WHAT BERNIE BELIEVES. THEY’RE MAD AT HIS RIPPING THE MASK OFF:  Wright, ABC News, have you no shame?

MEDIA DISHONESTY:

MORE ON THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, from Trent Telenko. “In hindsight the gloom and doom CDC newsconference Tuesday by Doctor Nancy Messonnier, the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease in the CDC seems to be an attempt to distract the public from the CDC’s role in delaying this identification of community spread in California with the uber-flawed CDC testing program and guidelines.”

SHOCKER: Huge U.S. money-laundering probe targets widening circle of Venezuelan elites.

WE CALL IT “PYONGYANG QUARANTINE.” North Korea’s first confirmed Coronavirus COVID 19 patient shot dead.

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WELL, OKAY THEN: Doctors are warning people not to put frozen potatoes in their anus.

But don’t give up on anal cures just yet: Applying essential oil to anus ‘cures coronavirus’: Iranian cleric.

THE PRESS AND DEMOCRATIC POLS ARE CERTAINLY DOING THEIR BEST TO MAKE IT SO: Coronavirus could cost Trump the election, Goldman Sachs warns. Won’t work for them, though, unless Trump lets it.

MIKE WILL GET IT DONE — OR AT LEAST TAKE CREDIT, AFTER SOMEONE ELSE DOES IT: Bloomberg takes credit for leading NYC through 9/11 — when Giuliani was mayor.

CHINA SYNDROME: Justice Dept. charges professor with hiding ties to China. “A professor at the University of Tennessee has been arrested on charges that he hid his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government, the Justice Department said Thursday. Anming Hu, an associate professor in the department of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the university’s flagship Knoxville campus, was charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.”