MODERATOR TO KAMALA HARRIS: What will you do if Trump refuses to leave (after losing)? Harris: "Vote early and often."

INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE POLICY REPORT: Is it time for a "490 B.C. Project"?

It's a long (very long -- a 30-page pdf), detailed, defense of classic education. But Victor Davis Hanson is a co-author, so download it and when you have the time, sit down and read.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HANDLING OF HIS CORONAVIRUS DIAGNOSIS models positive masculinity.

Random thought: CNN'S Brian Stelter is the reason the Left invented gender; he certainly isn't a man.

THE DIPLOMAD: When a bomb explodes in the forest, does the mainstream media hear it?

Answer: No.

EVEN THE CORONAVIRUS has chosen sides.

Heh.

IS IT TIME to 'resist' Joe Biden? I don't know about 'resist' but I sure as hell wouldn't believe him....

ARE DEMOCRATS TESTING THE WATERS?

Postal Service investigating stolen mail at multiple central Virginia locations.

Vote-by-mail scheme just took another hit.

Was it voter fraud or a case of 'testing the system'?

I'm a believer of the "don't assume malice for that which can be explained by stupidity" theory but this stuff is testing that belief.

A TIMELESS GOOD NEWS STORY: the candy bomber.

ANTIFA MILITANTS GANG UP ON WOMAN but she prevails.

A PULITZER PRIZE that should be revoked.

HOW MUCH does the government know about you?

According to the NSA, they’re already tracking/plan to track information like internet searches, emails sent and received, websites visited, blogging activity (including posts you read and comment on), social media activity, photos viewed online, videos watched, phone call records, video calls, online purchases, legal documents, financial information, travel documents, educational records, DNA, facial recognition, cable TV shows watched and recorded, health records, and more.

Perhaps a little more than Google, Facebook, and most commercial businesses. Who learned from whom?

SOPHIE'S CHOICE: From Real Clear Defense, preserving America's air superiority.

TRUMP: Even in California.

It's almost enough for me to want to fly back to LAX, take a short ride up the 405, return to the airport, and fly back home....

YOU WON'T SEE THIS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: the Great Barrington Declaration:

As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent PCR testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

In short: Grow up. Take the usual precautions (avoid crowds; stay home if you're sick; wash your hands). Open up.

BIDEN VOICES DEMOCRAT DOGMA: Christians with certain traditional views are 'dregs of society'.

Nice of Biden to recruit more voters for the Republicans....

TOWN HALL 'PLANTS' — they’re not just for CNN anymore.

DO MASKS REALLY WORK? If they do, it appears the coronavirus isn't paying attention.

The full set of charts is here.

I HOPE HE WINS BIGLY: 4th grader sues school system over BB gun suspension.

REAL CLEAR POLITICS declares CNN the winner in a stiff competition for media bias. Personally, I think MSNBC should have been the winner.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: It's never temporary.

If we have to have 60% of 'office-based employees' work at home, why don't we try it with government employees first? Or better yet, just reduce government by 40%?

THIS SHOULD GET INTERESTING: Trump authorizes full declassification of all Russia collusion, Hillary Clinton email probe documents.