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DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear Casually Opens Door and Strolls into Tahoe CHP Facility. I love the picture; it’s like he’s trying to pretend he’s human by walking on his hind legs to blend in. And yeah, this isn’t a new story, but I just saw it.

SUPER BOWL LIV: Mahomes catches fire late, leads Chiefs to 31-20 comeback win.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Seen on Facebook:

FLASHBACK: KC Chiefs’ Frank Clark Wears Trump Sweater to Super Bowl Press Conference. “During a press conference about the upcoming Super Bowl, Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark wore a sweatshirt displaying a photograph of President Donald Trump and musician Kanye West. Clark said that the meeting between Trump and Kanye was ‘a very historical moment’ for the country.”

UPDATE (From Ed): This was the Super Bowl moment Andy Reid deserved.

GUN CONTROL IS ACTUALLY PEOPLE CONTROL, WHICH IS WHY THE LEFT IS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT IT: Anti-Gun States Sue to Stop First Amendment, Impose Controls on Firearms Information.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO ABUSE: Explosive Leaked Confession of Domestic Abuse of Johnny Depp Turns #MeToo Upside Down.

A leaked audio conversation between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard is blowing up Hollywood. The audio reveals Heard confessing to committing physical violence against Depp. After BuzzFeed published photos of Heard with bruises and accusations of abuse against Depp, his life fell apart. Depp was implicated in the #MeToo movement and branded as a wife-abuser. He was dropped from “Pirates of the Caribbean” in 2018 and many speculate it was because of the allegations.

On Sunday, a taped conversation between Depp and Heard was posted online. In it, Heard admits to “slapping,” “hitting,” and throwing objects at him. Her biggest frustration with Depp appears to be that he tries to get away from her when she turns violent. Depp is heard saying, “There can be no physical violence,” and Heard replies, “I can’t promise I won’t get physical again.”

She’s a real piece of work, but the sisterhood will probably still back her because patriarchy.

YOU’RE RIGHT, RAHM! RUN WITH THAT! Rahm to Bernie Backers: Democrats Can Win Without You.

OPEN THREAD: How was your weekend?

WITH A NAME LIKE THAT, A TOTAL SURPRISE: Revealed: Terrorist shot dead after stabbing two people in south London attack is named as Sudesh Amman, 20, who was freed just days ago after serving jail term for distributing extremist material. It sounds like he wasn’t rehabilitated.

CLAUDIA ROSETT: The same sickness that spread the coronavirus threatens to bring Hong Kong to ruin: the Chinese Communist Party.

EVERYTHING BRITONS KNOW ABOUT EUROPE IS WRONG: British liberals have created a Europe of their imagination, but how closely does it resemble reality?

Among the recent victims of the gleefully violent French police is a teenager who lost an eye in Strasbourg and an elderly woman in Marseilles who died from her injuries after being hit by a rubber bullet. Just this month prosecutors launched a probe after a video appeared to show a policeman firing point-blank at protestors with a riot control gun.

France is quite far down from Britain in the Freedom International rating, and treats minorities like Roma in a way that would do more than embarrass liberal Brits.

Right-wingers often complain that the horrific behaviour of the French police towards the gilets jaunes has received scant coverage in the BBC; certainly if Hungary or Poland treated their citizens like that, I’m pretty sure it would be on our news more. But then France has always been a politically violent country.

The last mass murder of protesters in England occurred in 1819, when 18 people were killed by authorities in Manchester; in France police in Paris killed up to three hundred unarmed protesters in 1961.

Had anything even vaguely comparable happened during the US Civil Rights era it would have been the subject of about 500 films and even my children in an English primary school would be learning about it now.

That’s different because shut up.

Related:

BLOOMBERG’S SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL PUSHING GUN CONTROL IS FAKE NEWS.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND BLETCHLEY PARK: Joy Reid Tells Buttigieg the Word ‘Heartland’ Sounds Like a Racist ‘Dog Whistle.’

More so than MSNBC’s previous dog whistles, such as “golf” and “Chicago?”

ROGER SIMON: America’s Coming Three-Party System.

FIRST LOOK AT GMC’S ELECTRIC HUMMER COMES DURING SUPER BOWL AD.

Related: A universe all its own: How AM General sold the first civilian Hummer.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: Prince Charles flew 125 miles in the Queen’s helicopter before riding in a Bentley for a speech on cutting carbon emissions.

Earlier: Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days using three private jets and one helicopter before proudly posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos.

FAST: China Constructs 1,000-Bed Emergency Coronavirus Hospital in Mere Days Amid Epidemic.

Related: Coronavirus Closes China to the World, Straining Global Economy. “A decade and a half ago, when the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak known as SARS rattled the world, China accounted for a relatively small part of the global economy. Today, it’s responsible for almost a fifth of global gross domestic product when adjusted for incomes – more than the U.S.’s 15% by the same measure, adding a morbid twist to the economic adage that when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. . . . China’s heavily-indebted economy has long been slowing. More recently, economists were rushing to boost predictions for Chinese growth this year on relief that Washington and Beijing had called a truce to their two-year trade war. Now the picture is changing rapidly as Chinese industrial activity and consumer spending slow. Ten economists surveyed on Friday by The Wall Street Journal lowered their expectations for first quarter Chinese growth by over a percentage point to a median 4.9%. Those forecast cuts were made hours before the U.S. airline announcements.”

Plus: 2nd Bay Area case of coronavirus confirmed in Santa Clara County; U.S. cases jump to 9.

Also: U.S. universities set up front-line defenses to keep coronavirus at bay. “More than 350,000 Chinese students are pursuing higher education in the United States and 10,000 American students are enrolled in academic programs in China. The sheer number of the students, many of whom have traveled to their home country in recent weeks, makes schools a potential incubator for a widespread outbreak in the United States, given the close proximity of dormitory life.”

And: Former HHS Secretary Tom Price, M.D.: Coronavirus – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Not exactly related, but China-connected: Paradise Lost Looms for German Farmers as Swine Fever Nears.

UPDATE: Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say. “Rapidly rising caseloads alarm researchers, who fear the virus may make its way across the globe. But scientists cannot yet predict how many deaths may result.”

Some possibilities: (1) The Chinese are lying (or self-deluded) and it’s more lethal than their numbers show. Very bad. (2) Their numbers are roughly accurate, and it’s about as lethal as it looks. Bad, but not Very Bad. (3) The numbers are roughly accurate, but it’s more lethal in Chinese with lungs weakened by pollution and chain-smoking than it is in most other people. Probably the best case. At present, we don’t really know enough to choose. At the moment, (3) sounds pretty plausible to me, in which case we’ve got a very contagious but not very deadly disease. But (1) remains entirely possible. [UPDATE: From the comments: “(4) The number of deaths is accurate, but the number of cases is wildly underestimated, which means the virus is both more infectious and less dangerous than it seems right now — lots more people will get it than we think, but the percentage that will come to serious harm will be much smaller than we think.” Good point, though if the number is much higher, you can get to a large number of deaths with a much lower mortality percentage.]

Key bit: “An accurate estimate of the virus’s lethality will not be possible until certain kinds of studies can be done: blood tests to see how many people have antibodies, household studies to learn how often it infects family members, and genetic sequencing to determine whether some strains are more dangerous than others.”

Plus: “’In God we trust,’ Dr. Schaffner said. ‘All others must provide data.’”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Stephen Moore: Coronavirus ‘hurt Chinese economy very substantially.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Age discrimination affects people worldwide.

HMM: Far-Reaching Effects of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Transmission.

With asymptomatic transmission of novel coronavirus confirmed outside China, plans to identify the virus by current screening measures may not be enough.

“This underlines that … trying to keep out people symptomatic with respiratory disease is not a guaranteed approach,” Julie Fischer, PhD, of Georgetown University in Washington D.C., told MedPage Today. “Screening for symptomatic people has limited utility in many settings, and it should not be the primary strategy in trying to prevent disease across borders.”

The CDC recently increased its airport screening measures for travelers returning from China, expanding them to 20 U.S. airports.

Fischer cited the reproductive number of around 2 recently reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, saying that based on that number, the virus appears to have a relatively high transmission rate.

“If we assume that transmission is ongoing [there are] going to be many more imported cases and there will be local human-to-human transmission,” she said, adding that this is not the same thing as community-wide transmission.

Fischer said that one of the main questions remains whether we can take action to prevent this virus from spreading outside China, noting that we could see a “shift in strategies in the U.S. and other countries from preventing imported disease to trying to recognize transmission where it happens.”

The outbreak in China continues to rage, with the latest data indicating a total of 9,776 global cases, and 213 deaths, all in China. CDC officials on Friday said the number of cases in China has jumped 26% since Thursday, with over 7,000 cases reported in the last week.

But data published in The Lancet on Friday suggested the real total is much higher — around 76,000 cases in the city of Wuhan alone. The researchers also estimated a higher basic reproductive number of around 2.7.

Fischer noted that confirmed cases are likely only those with severe enough disease to be reported in the formal healthcare system.

“The models are based on best available data [and they] may be trying to point to the iceberg below of asymptomatic disease or mild disease … that would be hard to pick up by health systems,” she said.

On the one hand, it’s good that most cases seem to be mild. On the other hand, it means much more transmission by people who feel well enough to be out and about, instead of sick enough to stay home.

#RIGGED: An oligarch has bought his way into the 2020 race. Why is no one talking about this?

Although some people are:

Just as in 2016, the Democrats’ insiders are doing everything they can to stop Bernie. On the one hand, that’s fine with me, since I think Bernie would be a catastrophically bad president. On the other hand, they’re so blatant about it, even as they moralize about “democracy” while criticizing the electoral college, that they deserve to be called on it.

OLD AND BUSTED? Radical Chic.

The New Hotness? The rise of cancel chic. Liberal journalists are so desperate to be canceled they’ve begun to form secret societies around the theme:

I’d stumbled upon something I hadn’t realized existed: canceled chic. Being canceled — or at least having flirted with a transgression against militantly progressive opinion — gives a media person a certain edge, which leads to another phenomenon: cancel envy. Liberal journalists are so desperate to be canceled they’ve begun to form secret societies around the theme. At these meetings, they compete over who came closest to the ostracization abyss. Nobody wants to fall in, though.

I soon figured out that the other diners also retained cushy bylines in glossy publications despite having sinned. The dinner wasn’t a meeting of minds, more a support group for journalists who’d had a thrilling brush with the thought police.

Each seemed to have arrived at a new identity. They now called themselves ‘centrists’. They’d become Open Minded, Buddha-like, no longer ashamed to plop down a Sam Harris book on the coffee table before guests arrive or admit to having watched a Jordan Peterson video once.

Read the whole thing.

ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE: Rocket Lab successfully launches U.S. spy satellite.

PANIC MODE:

Plus:

Anything for the good of the country, except give up a cushy gig.

UPDATE (From Ed): LOL! NBC analyst overheard John Kerry talking about how he could run for POTUS and save Dems from Bernie Sanders. The ol’ Winter Soldier denied it with an epic, but quickly deleted tweet:

(Kerry then retweeted the same statement, minus the F-bomb.)

HE’S TRYING TO PEEL MINORITY VOTERS AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRATS: Donald Trump to make ‘school choice’ a major topic at State of the Union address.

UNLIKE VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY SETS A CIVILIZED EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE NONVIOLENTLY EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS: Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky’s Capitol Building With Zero Resistance.

IT’S PROBABLY REALLY ABOUT TRYING TO GET POLITICAL COVER WHEN HIS FAMILY BUSINESS IS INVESTIGATED: John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of ‘Sanders taking down the Democratic Party.’ Step One: Launch no-hope last-minute bid. Step Two: “Look, Trump’s investigating a political opponent!”

SAN FRANCISCO HARDEST HIT: Coronavirus: scientists identify possible new mode of transmission in human faeces. Well, that’s a plentiful vector in China that’s much less so — outside a few progressive Blue Rule cities — elsewhere, so I hope it turns out to be the most significant.

HMM: Uber Mexico suspends user accounts of 240 Mexicans after drivers possibly exposed to coronavirus.

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NYT REPORTER LEAKS DM HE RECEIVED FROM COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH WHO CALLED OUT HIS CREDIBILITY, SAID HE SHOULD INVESTIGATE BIDEN.

[Coach Vinny] Marino’s Twitter is now locked.

Really nasty and vile move by [Times reporter Michael] Schmidt, and it pretty much proves Marino’s point that some in media are not to be trusted. Hope no one ever trusts giving this guy a tip ever again as it’s clear he doesn’t respect anyone’s privacy, has no ethics and is truly a petty human being, in addition to pushing propaganda.

But fortunately, most people are sane and blasted Schmidt.

Earlier: Twitter At Its Worst: Wapo Journalist Cancels Kobe Bryant.

Somebody really needs to write a book about the virus-like nature of social media.

WHEW: U.S. evacuees ‘relieved’ about quarantine on military base.

“Everybody was very relieved” about the quarantine order, McCoy said by telephone. “We wanted to make sure all the tests were done first.”

At the military base about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, the evacuees are staying in hotel-style housing and have spent time walking and exercising, some wearing masks, said Jose Arballo Jr., a spokesman for the county’s public health agency.

As of Friday, none of the evacuees had shown signs of illness, he said.

Good.

ICYMI: Gallup Reports Americans’ Satisfaction with Race Relations Has Increased 14 Percent Since Trump’s Inauguration. Well, to be fair, Trump doesn’t traffic in open racism the way Obama did.

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RICHARD FERNANDEZ: A Thousand Ways to Get Sold Out.

Whatever the legal relevance of excluding Hunter Biden’s connection to Burisma Holdings from Donald Trump’s impeachment may be, the saga of a political scion getting a cushy foreign job on the strength of his name plays to the populist narrative of elite betrayal almost as if it had been written by a Hollywood scriptwriter. The 2019-nCoV outbreak poses a potential political threat not just to the Chinese Communist Party but the entire One World project. If virus spreads unchecked, the public will be looking for someone to blame and it won’t just be the Chinese apparatchiks.

Read the whole thing.

THE CONFLATING OF OLD-FASHIONED HOOKING WITH “SEX TRAFFICKING” IS MOSTLY A TOOL FOR NGOS AND COPS TO RAISE MONEY FROM SUCKERS: How the War on Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “Western elites are perpetually aggrieved. But the next time they direct their lectures at a particular target, consider the source and motivation of their outrage.”

Read the whole thing.

WHAT HAVE THE BRITISH EVER DONE FOR US? They Invented The Modern World.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Michael Moore Versus the Democrats. Or Is It Vice-Versa?

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GOOD: Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment.

DON SURBER: Media Frankensteins hate their creation.

The media wanted President Donald John Trump impeached. The House impeached him. Now as his acquittal nears — painstakingly slow-walked at a turtle’s pace by Mitch McConnell — the media valedictorians ask themselves what have we done?

Choose the form of your destructor.

NICK GILLESPIE: Mike Bloomberg Just Lost My Vote With His Super Bowl Ad. “The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York panders to Democratic loyalists rather than laying out a vision for a prosperous, tolerant America.”

His ads are awful on both substance and style. They’re mostly low-information anti-Trump, and when Bloomberg speaks he has zero charisma. Hard to believe a titan of industry — in media no less — can be so unappealing even when groomed and set up for the camera. They come across like the morale-boosting videos a CEO might do for employees after cutting their vacation time.

SURE, THAT MAKES SENSE. A new Russian-built research station that operates without oil or natural gas will be located in the heart of Moscow’s greatest concentration of natural gas in the Arctic, officials said.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Bloomberg Just Gave Gun Owners 60 Million Reasons To Get Involved This Year.

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THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE:

Related: Neera Tanden: Rashida Tlaib’s booing of Hillary at Sanders rally just another example of ‘white male rage and misogyny.’ 

Somebody set up us the bomb!

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to Watch For in the Super Bowl.

Related: CNN examines how the Kansas City Chiefs came to have such a loaded name.

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TO BE FAIR, WE KNOW THAT WORLD WAR III BEGAN WHEN A MAN NAMED ALBERT SHANKER GOT HOLD OF A NUCLEAR WARHEAD: The City Council’s mad meltdown over…keeping nuclear weapons out of NYC.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student op-ed urges tampons in men’s campus restrooms.

CAN I GET ME A HUNTING LICENSE HERE? Open Mouth, Insert Foot: John Kerry Rails Against the Horrible ‘AR-16 With a Long Clip.’

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: PETA’s Kaepernick-inspired commercial backfires spectacularly.

BECAUSE GOING WOKE WORKED OUT SO WELL FOR THE NFL: Every XFL officiating crew will have at least one female member.

HEH: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Students slam Trump for profiting from presidency…then find out that was Obama.

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ROOSEVELT IN TRANSIT: The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean. Photo taken Jan. 25, 2020. The Roosevelt is a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. It entered service in 1986 so it’s not a new warship. But you can’t judge a carrier on age alone. The Roosevelt has undergone “upgrades and refurbishments.” From 2010 to early 2013 the ship underwent Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH). This post from 2012 discusses the process and the price of U.S. Navy nuclear carrier upgrades and operations.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus infections predicted to grow exponentially; first death outside China; outbreak becomes political.

First Wuhan coronavirus death reported outside China.

Cocktail of flu, HIV drugs appears to help fight coronavirus: Thai doctors.

China bans funerals for coronavirus victims.

Coronavirus: German evacuation flight from China carried two infected people.

The coronavirus is hitting the tourism and travel sector hard.

One of my friends shared photos from the Shanghai airport, taken by a friend who was being evacuated to New Zealand. The place was deserted, with all the shops closed.

UPDATE: China Silenced Doctors, Focused on Secrecy as New Virus Spread.

Also, the first link isn’t working. Nothing wrong with the link, the story appears to have been removed. It still shows up in search, but the story isn’t there.

Don’t know why.

ROGER KIMBALL: ‘Walls Are Closing In’ on the Democrats.

BILL FINALLY MAKES IT OFFICIAL: Bill Kristol says ‘we are all Democrats now’ (and people have thoughts).

PAUL BEDARD: Weekly Trump Report Card: Democrats crushed on impeachment, solid ‘A.’ I wouldn’t award the grade until the final vote was taken, but yeah. “Trump signed a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, which was achieved with bipartisan support. The national economy grew at a rate of 2.3% last year, and Trump wisely called the creeping coronavirus a national emergency. But that is how this past week will be remembered. This was the week that Trump once and for all captured the Republican Party —so much so that leading senators of the GOP were afraid to defy him or the solid base he owns.”

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HEADLINES FROM 1789: The French government is at war with the people.

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STEPHEN GUTOWSKI: How Virginia Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Guns.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Arizona’s education chief may not like vouchers, but she must follow the law.

School Choice Week started off with a bang this year. In Arizona, it was more like an explosion.

This week, reporters revealed that the state Department of Education released the personal information of nearly 7,000 families who use Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. Worse still, they sent it to Save Our Schools, staunch opponents of the program and educational choice in general.

ESAs enable parents, mostly those who have children with special needs, to direct their taxpayer dollars for specialized educational therapies or curriculum. The accounts help bridge the huge financial gap for families requiring customized assistance in the classroom.

The department released a spreadsheet that included the account balances of every ESA account in the state, along with names, email addresses and the grade in which the student is enrolled. Special needs students even had their disability listed.

As Jon Gabriel writes, “This isn’t just a blunder. It’s likely illegal.” Read the whole thing.

DOWN TO SEEDS AND STEMS AGAIN: Democrats reduced to claiming impeachment will be “Permanent Asterisk” for Trump.” Well, it’s an asterisk for somebody.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Uh-Oh: Sanders Campaign Texting ‘Gulag For You’ To People Who Aren’t Voting For Bernie.

Related: Seen on Facebook:

SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES: ‘Our own people are out of work:’ Bernie Sanders railed against US guest workers from Jamaica.

Related: Joe Rogan Likes Bernie Sanders’ ‘Consistency,’ But That’s Exactly What Should Scare People.

CHAMPION OF THE WORKING MAN: Bernie Leads 2020 Field in Private Jet Spending.

WELL, YES: Second Trump term would be ‘positive’ for economy and financial markets: report. And that goes double when compared to what the Democrats have planned.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Europeans Need To Grow Up.

One of the fun parts of the Trump administration is that it teased out already existing European – and especially German – antipathy towards the USA, especially in their political/media class, that we had not seen since Bush43 was in office. Yes, there are great friends of the USA in Germany … but as I learned living amongst them, just below the surface with a plurality of them – they have “issues.”

They hate us, but they are dependent on us. The two are in a way probably connected, but enough of that.

Plus:

European NATO, starting with Germany, needs to invest its fair share.

Europeans need to focus on the legitimate concerns of their citizens, not what the strap-hangers in Davos and Brussels feel would make them feel better.

Europeans need to give their people security, not let their governing elites line their pockets with Russian and Chinese graft.

If Europe can stop from importing its own destruction, it will be fine. If its politicians will stop focusing on each other’s virtue signaling, and instead focus on the standard of living and quality of life of its working citizens, they will be even better.

That would be pretty good advice for the USA as well.

Indeed.

OH, SURE YOU CAN LAUGH. BUT WWIII LEFT ME WITH A PERMANENT INJURY. NOW I GET NAUSEOUS WHENEVER I READ A MAINSTREAM NEWS SITE:  Remembering World War III — 30 Days Later.

PSSSST, HOLLYWOOD! THERE IS A BETTER WAY. DITCH THE POLITICAL COLOR BAR, AND CONSIDERING HIRING PEOPLE WHO CAN THINK:  ‘Rhythm Section’ – You Can’t Suspend Disbelief Forever.

(Sure you can. By the neck. Until it’s dead, dead, dead.)

THE PROBLEM IS NOT PRECISELY WITH BERNIE, BUT WITH AN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT THAT HAS CREATED TWO GENERATIONS WHO THINK COMMUNISM IS A BEAUTIFUL THING, AND TO BE ASPIRED TO. THAT EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND THE HORDES OF MALEDUCATED ZOMBIES IT CREATED WILL BE THE DEATH OF US:  The Problem with Bernie.

MICHAEL MOORE, THE MAN WHO LACKS A MIRROR. OR AT LEAST ONE LARGE ENOUGH TO REFLECT ALL OF HIM:  Michael Moore Blasts “All White” Dem Debate at Rally to Support White Man Bernie Sanders.

COME FOR THE HAIR SNIFFING, STAY FOR THE CHARM:  Joe Biden Tells Recently Divorced Iowa Voter He Can “See Why His Wife Left” Him.

THE LEFT IS ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN. BUT WHERE I’M STANDING #METOO HAS BECOME BOTH A JOKE AND A HORROR, AS THE MOVEMENT WENT FROM PLAUSIBLE TO INSANE IN ABOUT A MONTH. IT WON’T WORK. OR RATHER, IT WILL WORK AS WELL AS OWS WORKED AT SPARKING A POPULAR UPRISING:  Prosecute, Smear, Acquit.

ANTIFA, BERNIE SUPPORTERS, IOW VIOLENT MORONS:  Antifa Protests; Things Still Aren’t Free.

I HAVE TROUBLE PREFERRING ONE OF THESE INMATES OF A COMMUNIST CLOWN CAR. THEY ALL HATE US, THEY ALL WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA AND THE CONSTITUTION. AND ALL I CAN SAY IS NEITHER US NOR AMERICA CAN AFFORD FOR THE LEFT PARTY TO GET ANY POWER WHILE IMBIBING MARXISM FERMENTED IN STALIN WITH SHADES OF MAO. IF THEY FRAUD THEMSELVES INTO POWER… THERE’S GOING TO BE A DISAGREEMENT:  Is Nanny Bloomberg the Latest “Not Bernie” DNC Fave? DNC Changes Debate Threshold, Opening the Door to Bloomberg.

NAH…. THIS THE PARTY OF MAXINE WATERS AND HANK JOHNSON, AFTER ALL. BEING “PROGRESSIVE” MEANS NEVER HAVING TO WEAR THE DUNCE CAP:  Joe Biden’s Achilles’ Heel: “Too Dumb To Be President”.

LET’S ADMIT HE’S NOT BEEN BAD:  In Praise of Mitch McConnell.

Also, anyone who is that hated by the left can’t be that bad.

IN A WAY THE STORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY:  Doris Lessing, changer.

BREXIT: BRITONS NEVER, NEVER, NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES: I am about as pleased as a foreigner can be about Brexit. Sic Semper Bureaucratis.

YEH  GODS AND FISHES. SURE. WHATEVER. WE NEED THAT:  Guns vs Abortion in Super Bowl Ads Game.

I’m sure the anti-gunner propaganda will convince as many people as the idiotic anti-border-wall add years ago. None.

LOOK, IT’S FUNNY. BUT WHEN SOMEONE DIDN’T COMMIT A CRIME, YOU DON’T NEED A TRIAL TO SAY HE’S NOT GUILTY. BUT SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMONDS, AS YOU TILT FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY FROM REALITY:  “It wasn’t a real trial so it’s illegitimate and Trump is still guilty”…

THIS NEW WAVE OF FRENCH PROTESTS IS LIT: French firefighters set themselves alight and start fighting against police.

FOCUSING LIKE A LASER ON THE WRONG THING:  Taskforce For Coronavirus Too White, Says CNN Analyst.
Also, Mr. CNN Analyst, I hope my middle fingers are tan enough for you, because I am hoisting them up. People are not measured by external characteristics. Who was it who said something about the content of their character? Remember him?

THEY’RE NOT SO MUCH RHETORICAL TRICKS AS INCANTATIONS WITH WHICH THEY TRY TO AVERT ANY DANGER OF DIVERGENT THOUGHTS THAT MIGHT SEPARATE THEM FROM THE HERD. THEY’RE NOT MORE RATIONAL OR MEANINGFUL THAN CLUTCHING AN AMULET OR MAKING A SIGN AGAINST EVIL:  Boring Rhetorical Tics the Left Needs to Retire.

ADMINISTRATION ISSUES FRIGHTENING THREAT TO EXPEDITE REVIEW: Did the Trump Administration Really Issue Bolton a ‘Formal Threat’?

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#RIGGED: Des Moines Register, partners cancel release of Iowa Poll over respondent concerns.

PROF. JACOBSON: In Praise of Mitch McConnell. “Certainly, McConnell has been viewed by Republican insurgents as the embodiment of establishment Republicanism, and during the heyday of the Tea Party movement, McConnell was a frequent target. But you have to hand it to the guy, he is a proven master tactician in the Senate, both in and out of power.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR: Cruz Says Flailing Fauxcahontas’s Question to Roberts Killed Any Hope of Impeachment Trial Witnesses. “‘That stunt helped deliver the votes of Lisa and Lamar,’ he added, referring to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican.”

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I’D ADD ANOTHER ZERO JUST IN CASE: The Pentagon is preparing to house up to 1,000 people at military sites who may need to be quarantined due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

REST IN PEACE: On This Day in Space: Feb. 1, 2003: Space shuttle Columbia disaster.

Lots of InstaPundit coverage from that day here.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:

He’s not wrong.

“DESPITE.” Wisconsin voters are warming to Trump, despite impeachment.