OK, LET’S GET THIS ONE OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE PALM SUNDAY: Easter is coming, so expect to hear in the mainstream media and cable entertainment channels objections to the Resurrection among the intellectualoids, one of the most common being that Jesus didn’t really die on the cross. He escaped and fled to India or Japan (and no, that’s not an April Fools Day joke, there are people who actually believe it).

One of three big reasons that’s beyond far-fetched, according to retired LA detective and cold-case expert J. Warner Wallace, is that Roman executioners knew dead bodies when they saw them. Something to think about as Americans mark the holiday for the first time ever while staying at home.

ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS THE NARRATIVE: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) explains the lengths to which The New York Times will go to deny President Donald Trump was illegally targeted by elements of the Obama administration using the intelligence community, the Department of Justice and the FBI.

THE HISTORY OF SOAP: Now that we’re all washing our hands repeatedly throughout the day, check out The History Guy’s account of how we got soap. Did you know archeologists discovered a recipe for soap in the ruins of ancient Babylon, circa 2200 BC? BTW, is The History Guy Tucker Carlson’s older brother?

SOME MUCH-NEEDED CORONAVIRUS CONTEXT: I meant to post this earlier today but just realized I didn’t. It’s a big dose of context about where America is in the coronavirus pandemic, courtesy of the crew at Issues & Insights. These guys know their stuff.

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? John Krasinski of “The Office” has got you covered. This might be the start of something really positive amid the coronavirus pandemic.

IRANIANS DYING IN DROVES FROM COVID-19 BUT AYATOLLAH PROSPERS: What’s wrong with this picture?

GEORGE CREEL IS ALIVE AND WELL IN TODAY’S MEDIA: Never heard of Creel? James Carville has and he loves Woodrow Wilson’s fascistic Committee on Public Information, which progressive journalist Creel ran. Nothing good can come of this.

COMRADE DEBLASIO TEARS UP FIRST AMENDMENT IN NYC: Religious congregations are warned that failing to heed his orders could result in their buildings being permanently shuttered:

https://youtu.be/Qpt2OBqQVns

TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN AMERICA WILL MISS: I covered Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) for years and I grieve his passing. 

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY TAKES JOE SCARBOROUGH (AND OTHER ‘JOURNALISTS’) APART: This is like the unstoppable meeting the unmovable (or at least he thought he was until Mollie showed up).

NO, THE ‘DEPLORABLES’ RELIGION IS NOT AT WAR WITH SCIENCE: It’s a common accusation from liberals, secular and otherwise, against conservative evangelicals, especially those in the South, that they “are opposed to science.” It’s not true now and in fact, as historian Michael Keas demonstrates, it wasn’t true at the outset of the Scientific Revolution.

$400 MILLION BONANZA FOR ‘DEMOCRACY REFORM’ MOVEMENT: A small piece of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill but potentially a huge step toward nationalizing elections.

CORONAVIRUS BILL TEXT AND TITLE-BY-TITLE SUMMARY: Go here for the complete bill text. Go here for the title-by-title summary. Prediction: Lots of “gems” buried in this bill won’t be discovered for months.

AMERICA NEEDS THESE FIVE PARADIGM SHIFTS ASAP: See especially points four and five. If Republican leaders don’t figure this out soon …

SOME MUCH-NEEDED COMMON SENSE ON REMOTE VOTING BY CONGRESS: Here’s why a virtual Congress creates more problems than it solves.

TOOMEY DETAILS NEW CORONAVIRUS RELIEF PACKAGE: It’s still nearly $2 trillion, but the Pennsylvania GOPer says it provides much more in terms of loan leverage to aid small and big business, plus $1,200 checks for individuals, more for married families.

GALLUP SAYS 60 PERCENT APPROVE OF TRUMP CORONAVIRUS ACTIONS: Surely, there is no connection between that and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s waving the white flag on her alternative coronavirus relief package.

ON NANCY PELOSI’S JOURNEY TO AND BEYOND SURREALVILLE ON CORONAVIRUS: Lots of folks on the Right are weighing in on the House Speaker’s Christmas Tree for the Left rewrite of the Senate’s bipartisan coronavirus relief package. Monica Showalter at American Thinker captures it perfectly and in great detail. Here’s a sample:

“Moscow Mitch’s slush fund?  There’s no slush fund; everything here is pinned to specific items, such as checks for workers, and masks and gowns for hospitals.  Slush funds were what were used to reward Democrat groups such as ACORN during the 2009 stimulus package.  We have quite a bit of projecting going on here, for starters.

“More important, take a look at that Moscow Mitch designator — something McConnell reportedly does not like, so she uses it.  There’s no bipartisan spirit there to start, not even any hope of it with this kind of talk, just a desire for political slug-festing.

“More important, the Moscow Mitch thing is a reference to the Democrats’ continuous hobbyhorse: finding some way to overturn the results of the 2016 election.  This is pure partisanship at its most disgusting, business as usual for the rabid and embittered Democrats.”

And you know what Glenn says about scrolling.

CORONAVIRUS MIGHT NOT HAVE JUMPED FROM BATS TO HUMANS IF CHINA WEREN’T PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS: That may sound far-fetched, but it’s anything but because the Old Testament warned more than three millennia ago that bats are “unclean.” More people in China would know that if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime in China would stop jailing Christians, tearing down churches and suppressing Christianity.

UPDATE: Geez, folks, did nobody see the “might not have” in the title? Man, this is a tough room!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? That’s the most emotional Mitch McConnell has been in a long time.

REMOTE VOTING MAY BE COMING, FOR BETTER OR WORSE: Five senators and nearly two dozen representatives are self-quarantining, so the pressure grows.

WHEN WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORT GOOD NEWS ON CORONAVIRUS? There are significant signs of hope amid the endless gloomery.

STONEHENGE HAS NOTHING ON SCOTLAND’S CRANNOGS: Since we’ve all got more reading time during the coronavirus crisis, now is perhaps a good time to expand our range a bit and maybe even discover new interests.  Here’s a start, courtesy of National Geographic:

You’ve heard of the mystery of Stonehenge in England. But archeologists recently discovered that Scotland’s crannogs are even older and more mysterious. I mean, why did those who lived there more than 3,000 years ago build islands of no obvious purpose in the middle of a Loch? Careful what you say by way of answering that question. I’m a McFarland on my mother’s side of the family.

FROM THE SAME INTEL CLOWNS WHO CLAIMED RUSSIA STOLE THE 2016 ELECTION: Today’s Washington Post front page features a sensational story claiming the intelligence community was warning President Trump and Congress way back in January that coronavirus was going to be a worldwide pandemic.

But closely reading the key graph shows it to be based on one anonymous source, plus the opinions of anonymous “others:”

“Intelligence agencies ‘have been warning on this since January,’ said a U.S. official who had access to intelligence reporting that was disseminated to members of Congress and their staffs as well as to officials in the Trump administration, and who, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.”

And. on the opinion page (or do I repeat myself?), what is this but “nine former intelligence chiefs” warning that:

“We cannot let the covid-19 pandemic be a cover for the deeply destructive path being pursued by the Trump administration. The most recent illustration of this unprecedented attack is the continuing dismissal of career intelligence professionals — officers who have ably served both Republican and Democratic administrations regardless of their personal political stripe.”

Translation: Trump is remaking the leadership of the intelligence community, displacing the entrenched bureaucrats – careerists and career political operators – who tried to sell us the Russia hoax, the Mueller probe and the quid pro quo. So in response, they are weaponizing the coronavirus.

MY ILL-FATED FORAY INTO HOME-SCHOOLING: Not mine, actually, but that of Bill McMorris, one of my favorite writers. The sub-head is a foretaste – “Those who cannot teach, reach (for a pistol).”