THEY'RE DAMN GOOD AT HECTORING, THOUGH: The party that can't govern.

Crybullies all....

IS IT SATIRE, OR IS IT MSNBC? Democratic candidates clash over most effective plan to destroy the economy.

It's satire; the Democrats didn't discuss the economy.

REPUBLICANS are on the rebound warpath.

THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE: Trump charges the liberal hacks’ latest ambush.

POWERLINE'S CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK: Bloomberg is investing heavily in popcorn futures....

A LEFTIST comments on the Democrat debate in Las Vegas:

Last night was the first Dem debate I tuned into, and it was horrifying. Bernie was an angry uncle. Bloomberg was an arrogant asshole. Warren was a ballbusting bluestocking. Pete was a glib greenhorn. Biden was barely alive. And Klobuchar was a smirking SNL character. . . It’s a f—— catastrophe!

But other than that, everything went along swimmingly....

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: The latest numbers I've seen indicate that globally more than 76,000 people have been infected in 27 countries, and more than 2,200 have died.

The latest update from the Centers for Disease Control show that for the 2019-2020 flu season, there have been 29 million cases, 280,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths in the U.S. alone.

Those numbers suggest to me that the coronavirus outbreak is - shall we say - overhyped? I'm reminded of Rahm Emanuel's "never let a serious crisis go to waste" comment.

Even if you have to create one....

AGREED: Paul Krugman is a self-righteous moron.

CHANNELING GROUCHO MARX^*: Elizabeth Warren welcomes Super PAC help she once shunned.

^*Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others.

AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Joe Biden's my guy.

What political party does the Democratic Party put you in mind of? Their leader until they settle on a presidential candidate is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. She is 80 years of age and consults a plastic surgeon as frequently as she consults her hairdresser, according to my sources. Critics remarked on how infrequently during the State of the Union she smiled. Actually, with her skin stretched across her face so tautly, she cannot smile. She can hardly blink. Have a heart, fellows and fellowesses. She would smile and blink more if she could. I am told she has a very good sense of humor.

Other leading Democrats are not much younger. There is Crazy Bernie Sanders, who is 78. Incidentally he recently had a heart attack while on the campaign trail. According to my vast research staff, Bernie is the first presidential candidate ever to have a heart attack while campaigning for president. So it should be no surprise that he favors health care for all, even for household pets. Yet is this not a conflict of interest or self-dealing or a breach of the emoluments statute? If it is, you can be sure our president will have his aides on Bernie’s trail. Would it not be a hoot to have a horde of the president’s accountants falling on Bernie for favoring “Medicare for All” given his bum ticker?

Then there is the sprightly Elizabeth Warren, who is 70 and eats nuts and fruits in keeping with her Native American heritage. And forget not Hillary Clinton, the perennial candidate. She is not running right now. She is 72 and has a cough that kicks in whenever she contemplates a run for the White House. Listen for that cough. I would not count her out.

Of course, my favorite Democratic candidate is Joe Biden. He is 77 and consults a plastic surgeon almost as frequently as Speaker Pelosi. Rush Limbaugh calls him “Plugs” because of his hair treatments. Now cut that out, Rush. Pick on someone who can protect himself, like Joe’s son Hunter. Hunter is a gifted polemicist, and now that he has settled his paternity suit and has his crack pipe back from that rental car he left it in, he will be a real asset for you on the stump.

Mike Bloomberg is not included, but still - think of the Soviet Union before it collapsed.....

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It's called truth in advertising....

ANDREW MCCARTHY: Why wasn’t Andrew McCabe charged?

A 'deep state' victory? Maybe not, as the Durham probe is not centered in Washington, D.C.

I think we're seeing some very good reasons for disassembling Washington, D.C., and moving significant elements of it to other locations in the U.S., primarily in flyover country.

WORKS FOR WHOM? California is proof that progressive values work.

California sucks, but California's Assembly Bill 5 infection sucks worse. More on that in a future post.

THIS APP automatically cancels and sues robocallers.

'Cancel and sue' isn't enough; I want a plague of electronic locusts to infect every robocaller to forever and beyond....

'MAYOR PETE' BUTTIGIEG, the evasive chameleon.