THE SILVER LINING IN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: It may represent a tipping point toward much wider adoption of telecommuting, which could be a huge paradigm shift in transportation, housing, personnel and project management, urban/suburban migration patterns, family dynamics, and much more, according to Mark Mills, writing in City Journal. Speaking as one who has mostly telecommuted for nearly two years, I say bring it on.

NEW FLYNN DOCS ARE ‘CLEARER MAP’ OF FBI CORRUPTION: That’s the word from investigative journalist Lee Smith. This guy deserves much more attention. Next question: Why did the government hide those documents for so long?

WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THAT TESLA IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT? Here’s why it’s significant that two people never independently have the same dream. (BTW, it was red.)

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LAND OF THE FREE? Great question. Writing for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), attorney and law professor David S. D’Amato does not shy away from the blunt truth.

DONCHA JUST LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS: Two guys break into a house and guess what greets them?

STRZOK EDITED THE FLYNN 302 BIG-TIME: So concludes The Epoch Times’ Peter Svab, who notes this from Michael Flynn lawyer Sydney Powell:

“I’ve now found a witness who says the original 302 did in fact say that Flynn was honest with the agents and did not lie,” she told Larry O’Connor on his WMAL radio show. “So for somebody to delete that from the 302 is just beyond outrageous.”

The FBI has claimed for years that the original 302 (report of the interview with Flynn) could not be located. My money is on somebody wiped it with a rag, you know, to bleach it. And then it just disappeared! Like in NASCAR with the “that’s just racin'” excuse.

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE 531 “JOURNALISM” PROFS WHO ENDORSED CENSORSHIP? I did and I ain’t happy about it.

ANOTHER QUESTION, HOW DID THAT $15 MINIMUM WAGE GET IN THE CARES ACT? Actually it didn’t but, as Issues & Insights explains, with that extra $600 a month in coronavirus relief unemployment cash,  the CARES Act might as well have explicitly made it so.

WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING? As this neat video explains, Leibniz came up with his “Contingency Argument” to answer that question. I’m not quite convinced about Leibniz’ argument, but I sure am glad there is.

WHY ‘MAY DAY’ SHOULD BE RENAMED ‘VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY:’ Check out these 10 flicks and you will know why.

WHY IS THIS SUCH A MYSTERY TO THE ‘EXPERTS’ ON CORONAVIRUS? Washington, D.C. attorney Hans Bader offers this commonsense assessment on one of the least discussed effects of the lockdown:

“By banning elective surgery, states not only deprive suffering people of healthcare, but also cause layoffs of healthcare workers. Meanwhile, most hospitals have beds to spare and enough personal protective equipment (PPE) to handle coronavirus patients. Banning elective surgery doesn’t conserve PPE for coronavirus patients because the personal protective equipment used to treat coronavirus patients is not the same as the equipment used in elective surgery.”

I don’t know, maybe Hans just doesn’t drink the local water?

PEEK AT 2024 GOP PREZ PRIMARY? Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on the most basic point about the Flynn Frameup — “People need to pay for this.”

$8 TRILLION AND COUNTING: Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl’s latest deficit projections in accounting for coronavirus recovery spending.

HERE’S CORONAVIRUS SITUATION FOR EACH OF THE 50 STATES: What’s closed, what’s open, what’s coming, and much more.

SEN. BEN SASSE IS ABOUT TO GET INTO A BIG FIGHT: With the trial lawyers, that is. Sasse wants to protect health care providers treating coronavirus patients. The Democrats’ second biggest source of campaign support sees those patients differently.

THE PHOTO ALONE IS PRICELESS: Issues & Insights assesses Tara Reade’s accusation that former Vice President Joe Biden, during his days in the U.S. Senate, sexually assaulted her in the early 199os.

SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO MANY ANSWERS THE MEDIA IGNORES: Frequently posing the most relevant questions are the scribes at Issues & Insights. Today, they note that CDC data shows “the current average U.S. overall death rate, even amid the coronavirus pandemic, is actually lower than it has been for much of the past seven years and well below the long-term average.” Don’t expect to see that in the New York Times or Washington Post any time soon.

DON’T SEE THIS MUCH ANYMORE: The National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Foundation (USPIRGF) issued a joint report recommending nearly $800 billion in federal spending cuts.  Who knows, it might be the start of something positive.

IT’S A LONG, LONG WAY FROM WSJ’S NEWS SIDE TO THE EDITORIAL PAGE: David Marcus, one of many outstanding talents working for The Federalist these days, performs a systematic dissection of the Journal’s recent hit piece on HHS Secretary Alex Azar and finds a terminal disease – malicious liberal bias.

SCIENCE VS SCIENTISM: As Mark Twain said of lightning and lightning bugs, they sound a lot alike, yet they are anything but.

CORONAVIRUS KILLS SENIORS WHILE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN KILLS KIDS: Issues & Insights finds multiple unintended consequences with lethal effects on children. Somehow, I doubt such consequences were in the mix of assumptions for those coronavirus models.

THOSE EPIDEMIC MODELS WERE WAY OFF: So Issues & Insights says it’s time to stop paying attention to them.

HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO THIS? We get fan mail.

NANCY PELOSI – LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM: The only element here more sickening than the Speaker’s tone deafness is James Corden’s bootlicking. Time for a revival of public shaming.

PROMISING ISRAELI CORONAVIRUS TREATMENT TESTED ON 1ST U.S. PATIENT: Please, more testing quickly.