MEMO TO WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS: Think twice before savaging Kayleigh McEnany, who has quickly demonstrated that there is a new sheriff in town for the daily press briefings. And you especially don’t want to mistake her tears for Ravi Zacharias’ passing for weakness as they are anything but.

INFLATION AHEAD BUT BIGGER PROBLEM WILL BE MONSTER FED: Yes, Washington’s coronavirus relief spending explosion is likely to cause inflation, but people ought to be more concerned about what the Fed is becoming.

BAR MILLIONAIRES FROM GETTING EXTRA $600 A WEEK: Want to make coastal elites squeal? Support Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) bill making anybody with $1 million or more in annual income ineligible for that extra $600 a week from the feds for the unemployed.

LOCKDOWN LOOKS LIKE A BOON TO HOMESCHOOLING: Real Clear Opinion Research Poll finds 40 percent of respondents are more likely to continue homeschooling their kids after the lockdown is behind us, and another 64 percent say they support protecting the right of parents to choose either public or private schooling for their kids.

DATA ANALYSIS FINDS COUNTIES WITH HIGHER SOCIAL CAPITAL HAVE FEWER CORONAVIRUS CASES: Remember, correlation is not causation, but there is a distinct relationship in the study reported by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS).

SIDEWALK ART AND MUSIC BRING NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: There are so many creative ways folks can overcome barriers to stronger local communities. This Dallas businessman did it from his front yard.

ANYBODY HAVE A CLUE WHAT EACH CORONAVIRUS CRISIS LIFE SAVED COSTS? Issues & Insights surveys the estimates and concludes: “The massively intrusive and costly government lockdowns are looking more and more like the most expensive and least effective regulations ever imposed in this nation’s history.”

UPDATE: Link was missing — fixed now. Sorry!

MAIL-IN VOTING AND BALLOT-HARVESTING ARE DEMS’ CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS: There it is on page 1,469 of Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion coronavirus relief proposal that will almost certainly pass the House on a straight-party line vote.

SURPRISED? STATES WITH MOST PUBLIC-EMPLOYEE UNIONS OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRATIC: No, me neither, but the Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci’s spreadsheet makes it so totally clear.

“The states with the higher percentages of public-sector union members are overwhelmingly Democratic, and those with the lower percentages are overwhelmingly Republican,” Antonucci said. Just remember, correlation is not causation.

CUOMO SIGNED, OLD PEOPLE DIED: New York’s chief executive signed a coronavirus response order sending coronavirus-positive people to nursing homes that weren’t prepared to care for them. The result has been catastrophic. Issues & Insights digs into the how & why.

HERE’S THE TWO KEY GOOFS THAT PRODUCED A NATIONAL LOCKDOWN: You may not agree with the conclusion, but the two mistakes are hard to ignore.

THIS IS WHY THE CCP IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE USSR: The Epoch Times’ documentary unit is out with an excellent production entitled “The CCP Method: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Agenda.” Hong Kong is the canary in the coal mine. The videos of police and thug attacks on innocent Hong Kongers are truly scary.

CORONAVIRUS ISN’T WUHAN’S ONLY EXPORT TO THE U.S.: It’s also fentanyl, the chemical compound so powerful “that just two milligrams — enough to cover Lincoln’s beard on a penny — can prove fatal,” according to City Journal.

AND THE CRITICS WHO SLANDERED SAMARITAN’S PURSE WILL APOLOGIZE WHEN? No, I’m not holding my breath, either.

‘THE EQUIVALENT OF SPEAKING AT A KGB SIGNALS DIRECTORATE EVENT DURING THE COLD WAR:’ That’s how Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) described the planned webinar hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), with sponsorship from Huawei. For once, common sense prevailed and NABJ cancelled the event. Will they now try to sneak Huawei in the back door?

CALIFORNIA PROTESTOR SAYS ‘ALL JOBS ARE ESSENTIAL:’ So much common sense, so little honest media coverage. But then there’s The Epoch Times, which gave the protestors their turn. Am I biased? You bet I am, in favor of real journalism.

NO, ABSENTEE BALLOTS AREN’T THE SAME THING AS VOTE-BY-MAIL: There are huge differences, as a group of House Republicans, led by Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois of the House Committee on Administration, explains.

CAN ATHEISTS DO GOOD? Of course they can, but that question leads down a rabbit hole. At least according to this from philosopher William Lane Craig’s video shop. Better question: If atheists are right about God, what can be objectively good?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): On that last question, read Arthur Allen Leff’s classic, Memorandum from the Devil. “I am something of a connoisseur of these attempts by scholarly humans to find and describe some meaning in their personal and species existence, and when nonironic divine address comes out of Langdell Hall these days, attention must be paid.”

YES, GOVERNMENT MADE THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS WORSE: Christopher Jacobs of The Federalist counts the many ways.

SOME VIP QUESTIONS FOR YOU, MR. OBAMA: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) addressed the Senate yesterday and, among much else, offered this observation about Barack Obama:

“I’ve heard no comment from Mr. Obama about independent Inspector General findings that Andrew McCabe lied under oath to federal investigators multiple times. Or about how DOJ prosecutors falsely told the court that they had produced all Brady material to Flynn. Or when the federal government surveilled an American citizen connected to the Trump campaign without probable cause and based on intelligence the FBI knew was questionable at best.”

One thing Obama need not worry about: Nobody in the MSM will dare to ask him for a response to Grassley. The speech link above includes one to video of Grassley’s presentation.

IS IT TIME FOR A NEW PANDEMIC APPROACH? Karl Dierenbach, writing for the Independence Institute’s Complete Colorado, makes a compelling case. Here’s a sample:

“But ‘flatten the curve’ morphed into ‘hide until solution;’ the solution being a possible vaccine or effective treatment at some undeterminable point in the future. States that never saw a surge went into lockdown and remain there today.

“New York City, which is well past their peak medical usage, remains on lockdown. Many states that are ostensibly opening up are doing so at an extremely slow pace. Colorado, which is supposedly opening up (but not really), is attempting to keep the coronavirus cases at a level that is so low, herd immunity might not be reached for years.

Dierenbach is an attorney and a former engineer. He’s also quite a good writer, which is rarely found among engineers, especially when they also become lawyers (Just kidding, Glenn!).

INSUFFERABLY ARROGANT GOVERNOR, MEET PRINCIPLED SHERIFF: Gov. Megan Whitmer (D-MI), Shiawassee County Sheriff Brian BeGole has a message for you. 

CHINA USES TWITTER BOTS TO SPREAD DISINFORMATION QUICKLY: The Epoch Times’ Cathy He lays it out, as described by the State Department’s Global Engagement Center.

A SATURDAY MEDITATION ON ‘AMAZING GRACE:’ Ironic, perhaps, that one of the best-known versions of the classic hymn was done by a radical lefty from the 1960s. If you are of a certain age, you will instantly recognize the artist. And feel free to laugh at the hair and sideburns from 1978 because that’s how we all looked in those days.

UPDATE: Thanks to all who posted other versions of the hymn in the comments. You’ve made my Saturday.

THE ‘DIRTY DOZEN’ FACTS THAT KILLED MUELLER’S CASE AGAINST FLYNN; John Solomon lays it all out in fascinating detail. I’ve been honored to know and work with Solomon and several of his sidekicks in this endeavor over the years, including Sara Carter, Byron York and Mollie Hemingway. Real journalism will survive in America because of journalists like these four.